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": ["EU told to prepare for Russian gas shut-off - BBC News", "Ukraine war: G7 agrees to impose price cap on Russian oil - BBC News", "WWE SmackDown: Cardiff transport plan for wrestling - BBC News", "What I'll be asking Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak on Sunday - BBC News", "Trump investigation: Empty folders marked classified found at Mar-a-Lago - BBC News", "Scotland's Covid contact tracing staff lacked training - watchdog - BBC News", "Calais: Ferry companies apologise for long waits - BBC News", "Jackson water crisis: Troops hand out 1.1m bottles of water in a day - BBC News", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Tribute at Everton v Liverpool game - BBC News", "Family of Sikh priest attacked in Manchester appeal for help - BBC News", "US Open: Andy Murray loses to Matteo Berrettini & Jack Draper retires injured - BBC Sport", "EuroMillions: UK ticket-holder wins £110m jackpot - BBC News", "Entrance to forgotten square revealed by huge fire in Edinburgh - BBC News", "US man charged after threat to fly plane into Walmart - BBC News", "Ukraine war: The war is static, but ousting Russia is a seismic task - BBC News", "Tory leadership: Voting closes in race to decide next PM - BBC News", "Cressida Dick: Sadiq Khan intimidated Met chief into quitting- report - BBC News", "Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert: Foo Fighters give drummer a loving send-off - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia to keep key gas pipeline to EU closed - BBC News", "Mikhail Gorbachev: Thousands pay respects to last Soviet leader - BBC News", "Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Argentines rally after botched assassination attempt - BBC News", "US approves $1.1bn Taiwan arms sale, angering China - BBC News", "Search around Isle of Rum for man missing in dinghy - BBC News", "Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City: Champions miss chance to go top of table - BBC Sport", "Bus fare cap: England charges to be held at £2 for three months - BBC News", "The Crown cast: Prince William and Kate Middleton actors revealed for season 6 - BBC News", "Ukraine war: As UK counts pennies, we count casualties - Olena Zelenska - BBC News", "Molly Russell: Meta and Pinterest executives must appear at inquest - BBC News", "South Wales Police apology 70 years after hanging injustice - BBC News", "Jane Fonda: Hollywood star having chemotherapy for cancer - BBC News", "Avanti West Coast boss quits after train timetable cuts - BBC News", "Covid: Millions invited for booster jabs from Monday - BBC News", "Artemis: Nasa's Moon rocket will need leak repair - BBC News", "US Open: Serena Williams' career over after Ajla Tomljanovic defeat - BBC Sport", "Queen's funeral: A small sacrifice to pay, say mourners queuing up - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Inside the recaptured city of Izyum - BBC News", "Chris Kaba: Police watchdog to examine race as factor - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Mass exhumations at Izyum forest graves site - BBC News", "Japan storm: Millions told to evacuate as Typhoon Nanmadol makes landfall - BBC News", "Mahsa Amini: Women take headscarves off in protest at funeral - BBC News", "Davis Cup: Great Britain lose 2-1 against Netherlands and fail to qualify for knockout stage - BBC Sport", "Telford taxi driver who murdered family in fire refused parole again - BBC News", "Fireball spotted shooting across Northern Ireland sky - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II's special connection with Windsor Great Park - BBC News", "Bill Turnbull: Tributes paid to broadcaster at funeral - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 6-2 Leicester City: Son Heung-min ends barren start with 13-minute hat-trick - BBC Sport", "Queen's funeral will be a 'deeply personal event' - Dean of Westminster - BBC News", "Infected blood transfusions killed 1,820 in UK, study estimates - BBC News", "Truss-Biden meeting postponed until after funeral - BBC News", "French police nab first-class wig gang suspects - BBC News", "Queen’s funeral: Community volunteers get ‘surprise’ invitations - BBC News", "Man charged with lying-in-state queue sex assaults - BBC News", "Mohammed Bin Salman: Saudi prince's controversial invitation to the Queen's funeral - BBC News", "King Charles's tour shows desire to hug UK nations close, says Allan Little - BBC News", "King Charles III in Cardiff for first Wales visit as monarch - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Biden warns Putin not to use tactical nuclear weapons - BBC News", "I hope King Charles will push for action on climate change, says John Kerry - BBC News", "Queen's lying-in-state: Controversy over MPs being allowed to skip queue - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russian retreat exposes military weaknesses - BBC News", "Queen's children hold sombre watch over Queen's coffin - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: A day-by-day guide from now to the funeral - BBC News", "Transport bosses warn mourners of London queues - BBC News", "King Charles and Prince William meet people in lying-in-state queue - BBC News", "Ukraine war: What will Russia's losses mean for Putin? - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II's personal touches in plans for funeral day - BBC News", "Ukraine counter-offensive won't change Russia's plans – Putin - BBC News", "Man arrested after approaching Queen's coffin - BBC News", "Northern Ireland Protocol: UK defies EU legal action over checks - BBC News", "Chris Kaba: Rally for man shot by police held at Met headquarters - BBC News", "'We got married after being mixed up as babies' - BBC News", "Large-scale disorder breaks out in Leicester - BBC News", "Colourful songbirds could be traded to extinction - BBC News", "Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest - BBC News", "Camilla: I will always remember Queen's smile - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: The Queue and the Cumbria expert who helped plan it - BBC News", "IHG hack: 'Vindictive' couple deleted hotel chain data for fun - BBC News", "Queen's funeral: China allowed to attend lying-in-state - BBC News", "Queue for Queen's lying-in-state reopens after seven hours - BBC News", "Pakistan flood volunteer: 'It was like there was no happiness in the village' - BBC News", "Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border: Almost 30 reported dead in clashes - BBC News", "William and Harry lead historic coffin vigil - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: The evolution of Sinn Féin's royal relationship - BBC News", "Queen's lying-in-state: The symbolism and ceremony explained - BBC News", "The monarchy's delicate Scottish balancing act - BBC News", "Charles will not cool on climate action, say friends - BBC News", "Queen 'helped to change attitudes' in Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Twitter shareholders approve $44bn Musk deal - BBC News", "Google faces €25bn legal action in UK and the EU - BBC News", "The Queen's funeral: Which businesses are open and closed? - BBC News", "PnB Rock: Rapper shot dead in LA waffle house in suspected robbery - BBC News", "Queen's children perform Vigil of the Princes - BBC News", "Queen's final Scottish journey charts a life of service - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Poet laureate Simon Armitage marks death of monarch - BBC News", "King Charles III: A condolence speech laced with political undertones - BBC News", "Rich to get twice as much cost-of-living support, says think tank - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Accounts of Russian torture emerge in liberated areas - BBC News", "Emmy Awards: Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae is first Asian to win best drama actor - BBC News", "Thousands line Edinburgh's streets to see Queen's coffin - BBC News", "Jean-Luc Godard: Legendary film director dies at 91 by assisted suicide - BBC News", "Queen's coffin vigil in Edinburgh witnessed by 33,000 people - BBC News", "Clarence House staff told jobs are at risk - BBC News", "Streatham Hill: Man shot dead by police after pursuit - BBC News", "Anthony Joshua 'accepts Tyson Fury's terms' for all-British December fight - BBC Sport", "Benjamin Mendy found not guilty of one count of rape - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Queen's coffin arrives at Buckingham Palace - BBC News", "Queen was bright and focused in last audience, Boris Johnson says - BBC News", "Chris Kaba family says officer suspension too slow after shooting - BBC News", "Switching to renewable energy could save trillions - study - BBC News", "William and Harry to walk behind Queen's coffin to Westminster Hall - BBC News", "Center Parcs backtracks on Queen's funeral closure plans - BBC News", "Tributes to Queen Elizabeth II observed as professional football resumes - BBC Sport", "Man charged over heckling of Prince Andrew as he followed coffin - BBC News", "Crowds line streets as Queen's coffin makes final Scottish journey - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II's children in poignant reunion walk - BBC News", "The quiet symbolism of the Queen's farewell to Scotland - BBC News", "Prince Harry remembers Queen Elizabeth II's infectious smile - BBC News", "The Queen's journey to lying-in-state - BBC News", "In pictures: Charles III on first visit to Northern Ireland as King - BBC News", "Archie Battersbee: Tributes paid at Southend funeral - BBC News", "Warning that post-lockdown jobs boom is ending - BBC News", "Chris Kaba's mother: 'My heart is broken' - BBC News", "King Charles III promises to follow Queen's selfless duty - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Tributes at special sitting of Northern Ireland Assembly - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: A day-by-day guide from now to the funeral - BBC News", "King Charles III says Queen prayed for Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Mourners queue all night to see Queen's coffin in Edinburgh - BBC News", "Kenya election 2022: William Ruto sworn in as president - BBC News", "Balmoral Castle: The Scottish home loved by the Queen - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Assembly hails 'courageous leader' - BBC News", "Kenneth Starr: Clinton investigator dead at 76 - BBC News", "Channel migrants: Crossings in 2022 now exceed whole of 2021 - BBC News", "Ukraine war: What will Russia's losses mean for Putin? - BBC News", "Arrests of protesters prompt free-speech concerns - BBC News", "Sam Fender cancels shows to focus on mental health - BBC News", "Ukraine war: We've retaken 6,000 sq km from Russia, says Zelensky - BBC News", "Aldi becomes Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket - BBC News", "King Charles III leads procession behind Queen's coffin - BBC News", "Margaret Ferrier: MP who exposed public to Covid must do unpaid work - BBC News", "Princess Anne: The can-do will-do royal - BBC News", "Ukraine war: A successful surprise attack - but danger still looms - BBC News", "WATCH: Russian tanks abandoned on retaken Ukrainian territory - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Night trains planned for mourners headed to London - BBC News", "Thailand lèse-majesté: Activist jailed for dressing like Thai queen at protest - BBC News", "Taoiseach: Queen's death 'reminder to nurture UK-Ireland relations' - BBC News", "Royal Family greet Queen Elizabeth II's coffin at Buckingham Palace - BBC News", "Strictly Come Dancing: Premiere delayed following Queen's death - BBC News", "The Queen and Martin McGuinness' four-second handshake - BBC News", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel's killer must own up, says mum - BBC News", "Ryan Giggs faces retrial after previous jury discharged - BBC News", "Typhoon Hinnamnor: Seven drown in flooded South Korean car park - BBC News", "Liz Truss: What sort of prime minister will she be? - BBC News", "Venezuelans on spiritual mountain retreat reported missing - BBC News", "EU plans Russian gas price cap despite Putin threat - BBC News", "Liz Truss set to unveil plans to limit energy bill rises - BBC News", "Peppa Pig: First same-sex couple for children's show - BBC News", "Liz Truss: New prime minister installs allies in key cabinet roles - BBC News", "Canada stabbings suspect has 59 prior convictions, documents show - BBC News", "Period dignity officer takes legal action after losing job - BBC News", "In pictures: Liz Truss becomes UK's 56th PM - BBC News", "School meals: Some NI schools offering more free meals to pupils - BBC News", "UK can ride out economic storm, says new PM Liz Truss - BBC News", "Therese Coffey's views on abortion concerning, charity says - BBC News", "Pret A Manger 'failed to check on dairy-free suppliers', inquest hears - BBC News", "Queen postpones senior ministers meeting to rest - BBC News", "Beavertown Brewery bought out by Heineken - BBC News", "Apple reveals iPhone 14 Pro and Watch Ultra - BBC News", "Energy bills: Tens of thousands of firms 'face collapse' without help - BBC News", "As it happened: Liz Truss appoints more ministers on first full day as PM - BBC News", "Shark attack kills US cruise passenger in Bahamas - BBC News", "Can Therese Coffey deliver her NHS A, B, C and D? - BBC News", "Chris Kaba: Met Police acknowledges 'lasting impact' of fatal shooting - BBC News", "Zaporizhzhia: UN nuclear agency calls for Ukraine plant safety zone - BBC News", "Parkinson’s test: Woman who smelled disease on husband helps scientists - BBC News", "Canada stabbings: Town 'shattered' amid stabbings manhunt - BBC News", "Chimps show off their 'signature' drum beats - BBC News", "Royal Mail staff announce fresh strikes over pay - BBC News", "Rwanda migrant flights plan legally viable, government lawyers say - BBC News", "Liz Truss: New cabinet a near-total purge of Sunak backers - BBC News", "Fresh wave of sewage pollution hits Britain's beaches - BBC News", "Rent freeze plan to tackle cost-of-living crisis in Scotland - BBC News", "New cabinet: Who is in Liz Truss's top team? - BBC News", "Therese Coffey: Karaoke-loving Truss ally tasked with sorting out NHS - BBC News", "Earliest evidence of amputation found in Indonesia cave - BBC News", "George, Charlotte and Louis have first day at Lambrook School - BBC News", "Zelensky hails 'good news' as settlements recaptured from Russia - BBC News", "Liz Truss: The teenage Lib Dem who lasted just 45 days as PM - BBC News", "Harry Styles jokes on stage about Chris Pine 'spit' story - BBC News", "Teacher Enoch Burke to remain in jail for breaching injunction - BBC News", "Pound falls to lowest level against dollar since 1985 - BBC News", "Noel Clarke: Actor drops legal action against Bafta - BBC News", "Baby sticky tape skin test can predict eczema risk - BBC News", "Liz Truss cabinet: Key ministers raise climate targets doubts - BBC News", "Euromillions: £110m jackpot claimed by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "How the ‘man in black’ was exposed by the Russian women he terrorised - BBC News", "Canada stabbings suspect Myles Sanderson dies after arrest - BBC News", "Veteran MP Nick Brown suspended from Labour Party - BBC News", "Chris Kaba's mother: 'My heart is broken' - BBC News", "Qatar World Cup 2022: Alcohol to be served 'in select areas' of stadiums - BBC Sport", "Causeway and Glens council Unite union members to strike - BBC News", "Canada stabbings: Police identify the 10 victims killed in Saskatchewan - BBC News", "Bill of Rights: Liz Truss shelves plans to reform human rights law - BBC News", "Canada mass stabbing: Suspect dead after arrest, police confirm - BBC News", "Lewis Capaldi tells fans about Tourette's diagnosis - BBC News", "Napoli 4-1 Liverpool: Reds suffer heavy opening Champions League defeat in Naples - BBC Sport", "Keira Walsh: England midfielder completes world-record move to Barcelona from Manchester City - BBC Sport", "Liz Truss's first Downing Street speech as prime minister - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russians to pay €45 more to enter EU under new rules - BBC News", "Chris Kaba: No firearm found at scene of fatal police shooting - BBC News", "Chris Kaba: Man shot dead by police in Streatham named - BBC News", "Ukraine backs UN call for nuclear plant safe zone - BBC News", "Liz Truss' energy policy: Will it help people pay their bills? - BBC News", "Belfast: Police investigate reports of man with a crossbow - BBC News", "Which countries are doing the most to tackle energy bills? - BBC News", "Liz Truss set to cut energy bills for millions - BBC News", "Paul Urey: Captured Briton possibly suffered 'unspeakable' torture, says Ukraine - BBC News", "Ashley Wadsworth: Man admits murdering Canadian girlfriend - BBC News", "Pakistan floods: Biggest lake subsides amid race to help victims - BBC News", "Who is Kwasi Kwarteng? The chancellor out after 38 days - BBC News", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Man held on suspicion of murder bailed - BBC News", "Holiday Inn hotels hit by cyber-attack - BBC News", "Thomas Tuchel: Chelsea sack manager following Champions League defeat - BBC Sport", "Ukraine war: Putin says West's sanctions fever wrecks European lives - BBC News", "Eliza Fletcher: Police identify body found in search for heiress - BBC News", "Vietnam karaoke bar fire kills at least 32 people - BBC News", "Liz Truss: Who is the prime minister married to? - BBC News", "Brighton v Crystal Palace: Premier League fixture postponed because of rail strike - BBC Sport", "New York returns $19m worth of stolen art to Italy - BBC News", "William and Harry side by side behind Queen's coffin - BBC News", "Ukraine war: EU moves to cut peak electricity use by 5% - BBC News", "Iowa teen who killed alleged rapist sentenced and fined - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Queen's coffin arrives at Buckingham Palace - BBC News", "Chris Kaba family says officer suspension too slow after shooting - BBC News", "Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral - BBC News", "The procession to Westminster Hall for the Queen's lying-in-state - BBC News", "Claire Foy: The Crown actress 'honoured' to have played the Queen - BBC News", "Christopher Atherton: Glenavon teenager breaks record as UK's youngest senior footballer - BBC Sport", "In pictures: Charles III on first visit to Northern Ireland as King - BBC News", "King Charles III promises to follow Queen's selfless duty - BBC News", "Hollie Thomson: Man accused of murder appears in court - BBC News", "Royals follow Queen's coffin on sombre journey - in pictures - BBC News", "London Marathon allows mass-participation runners to define as non-binary - BBC Sport", "'I had to come and pay my last respects' - BBC News", "The Queen and Martin McGuinness' four-second handshake - BBC News", "Asda limits sales of Just Essentials budget range - BBC News", "Queen's lying-in-state: The symbolism and ceremony explained - BBC News", "Ashley Dale: Murder arrests over woman shot in back garden - BBC News", "Google loses appeal over record EU anti-trust Android fine - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Woolly postbox topper tributes appear across England - BBC News", "King Charles III: A condolence speech laced with political undertones - BBC News", "Clarence House staff told jobs are at risk - BBC News", "France must reconsider ban on IS members' return - BBC News", "WATCH: Leaking pen bothers King Charles III at signing - BBC News", "Tributes to Queen Elizabeth II observed as professional football resumes - BBC Sport", "Detail on promised energy help for firms delayed - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Walking behind coffin brought back memories of Diana's funeral, says William - BBC News", "The Queen's journey to lying-in-state - BBC News", "Ukraine war: President Zelensky visits city recaptured in rapid counter-offensive - BBC News", "King Charles III says Queen prayed for Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Kenneth Starr: Clinton investigator dead at 76 - BBC News", "Kwasi Kwarteng considers scrapping bankers’ bonus cap to boost City - BBC News", "William, Harry, Meghan and Kate on walkabout outside Windsor - BBC News", "Queen's final Scottish journey charts a life of service - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: First night trains for mourners set to depart - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Accounts of Russian torture emerge in liberated areas - BBC News", "Overwhelmed mourners in tears at sight of Queen's coffin - BBC News", "Jean-Luc Godard: Legendary film director dies at 91 by assisted suicide - BBC News", "Anti-obesity strategy to be reviewed due to cost-of-living crisis - BBC News", "Westminster Hall: Trials, speeches and lying-in-state - BBC News", "McDonald's to close for Queen's funeral on Monday - BBC News", "Lyra McKee: Niall Sheerin jailed for having gun used to kill journalist - BBC News", "Armenia-Azerbaijan: Almost 100 killed in overnight clashes - BBC News", "Chris Kaba's mother: 'My heart is broken' - BBC News", "Center Parcs: Further backlash against closure plan - BBC News", "Magdalena Andersson: Swedish PM resigns as right-wing parties win vote - BBC News", "Ukraine war: A successful surprise attack - but danger still looms - BBC News", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Reward of £50k offered in hunt for girl's killer - BBC News", "Princess Anne: The can-do will-do royal - BBC News", "Royal Family greet Queen Elizabeth II's coffin at Buckingham Palace - BBC News", "Queen's favourite brands hope to keep Royal Warrants - BBC News", "Who was at the Queen's funeral service - and who was not? - BBC News", "King, siblings and sons walk behind Queen's coffin - BBC News", "Twitter shareholders approve $44bn Musk deal - BBC News", "UK inflation: Milk, cheese and eggs push food price rises to 14-year high - BBC News", "Citi offers junior bankers sun with Malaga office - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Flight carrying coffin most tracked plane in history - BBC News", "Switching to renewable energy could save trillions - study - BBC News", "William and Harry to walk behind Queen's coffin to Westminster Hall - BBC News", "Center Parcs backtracks on Queen's funeral closure plans - BBC News", "Manchester City 2-1 Borussia Dortmund: Erling Haaland scores winner as hosts come from behind - BBC Sport", "YouTuber guilty of Oval pitch invasion during England game - BBC News", "Russia covertly spent $300m to meddle abroad - US - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace for the final time - BBC News", "BBC streaming Queen Elizabeth II lying in state - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: A day-by-day guide from now to the funeral - BBC News", "Armenia says 105 troops killed in Azerbaijan border clashes - BBC News", "Camping overnight to see Queen's lying-in-state - BBC News", "The dazzling crown which sat on the Queen’s coffin - BBC News", "As it happened: Northern Ireland reaction to death of Queen Elizabeth II - BBC News", "Charles III greets crowds after proclamation ceremony - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II 'charmed entire country' on her Irish visit - BBC News", "Six times the Queen made us laugh - BBC News", "King Charles's address in full at proclamation ceremony - BBC News", "Ex-PMs on taking Queen's advice and King's 'long apprenticeship' - BBC News", "Send us your tributes to Queen Elizabeth - BBC News", "In pictures: Sydney darkens opera house as world mourns Queen's death - BBC News", "The Queen's delight at many visits to Northern Ireland and the Republic - BBC News", "The Queen at Windsor: A place of work and rest - BBC News", "King Charles' emotional thanks to 'darling mama' Queen Elizabeth II - BBC News", "Football stops across UK 'to honour Queen's extraordinary life' - BBC Sport", "The Queen: Shamrock Rovers and the FAI condemn 'callous' chants - BBC News", "Ukraine counter-offensive: Russian forces retreat as Ukraine takes key towns - BBC News", "Ukraine has retaken 1,000 square kilometres in a week - Zelensky - BBC News", "Manchester IRA 1996 bomb: Man arrested at Birmingham Airport - BBC News", "Queen to lie in state for four full days before state funeral - BBC News", "Queen was with me at happiest and saddest times - William - BBC News", "Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral - BBC News", "'After a week of profound change, our unsettled kingdom seeks a steady hand' - BBC News", "Charles praises Queen's reign as he is formally confirmed as king - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: A constant presence in a changing world - BBC News", "King Charles III: Hillsborough gun salute marks King Charles's proclamation - BBC News", "William and Harry united in grief - BBC News", "Bank holiday approved for day of Queen's funeral - BBC News", "Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The moment history stops - BBC News", "William and Kate named Prince and Princess of Wales by the King - BBC News", "Edinburgh roads close as city prepares for Queen mourners - BBC News", "What kind of king will Charles be? - BBC News", "In pictures: King Charles' first full day on the throne - BBC News", "In pictures: Royals view tributes as Charles proclaimed King - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: A day-by-day guide from now to the funeral - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II and Africa: In pictures - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: Your tributes to UK's longest-reigning monarch - BBC News", "Crown and parliament interact and introduce - BBC News", "Royal Family view floral tributes at Balmoral Castle gates - BBC News", "Senior MPs take oath of allegiance to King Charles - BBC News", "William, Kate, Meghan and Harry pay respects at Windsor - BBC News", "King Charles III's address to the nation and Commonwealth in full - BBC News", "Bank of England delays interest rate decision after Queen's death - BBC News", "William, Harry, Meghan and Kate on walkabout outside Windsor - BBC News", "The Queen and Martin McGuinness' four-second handshake - BBC News", "England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland call off weekend's football following death of Queen Elizabeth II - BBC Sport", "Queen Elizabeth II: MPs share funny and moving memories of Queen - BBC News", "WATCH: Inside King Charles's first audience with PM Liz Truss - BBC News", "Queen’s funeral date set as William, Kate, Harry and Meghan meet crowds - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II: A life in pictures - BBC News", "In pictures: The Queen on the island of Ireland - BBC News", "'She was a neighbour, more than just the Queen' - BBC News", "Hamas executes two 'Israel collaborators' in Gaza - BBC News", "US Open: Cameron Norrie through in New York, Dan Evans out - BBC Sport", "Sturgeon to set emergency budget two weeks after new PM's plan - BBC News", "British army trains with Swedish and Finnish forces - BBC News", "Dr Andrew Samuel: Colleagues pay tribute to 'important figure' - BBC News", "Austria 0-2 England: Alessia Russo and Nikita Parris send Lionesses to World Cup - BBC Sport", "Deadly attack targets Somalia food convoy - BBC News", "As it happened: Tory race sees Truss promise action on bills within the week if elected - BBC News", "Barack Obama: Emmy win for narrating Netflix documentary - BBC News", "Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: Link lost to main power line - BBC News", "Strictly Come Dancing: New dancers to perform with full cast - BBC News", "Nirvana win lawsuit over 1991 Nevermind album cover - BBC News", "33-day 'Smiling Pope' John Paul I beatified at the Vatican - BBC News", "What I'll be asking Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak on Sunday - BBC News", "Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to face questions over cost of living policies - BBC News", "Calais: Ferry companies apologise for long waits - BBC News", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Tribute at Everton v Liverpool game - BBC News", "Family of Sikh priest attacked in Manchester appeal for help - BBC News", "Canada stabbings: Police hunt suspects after killing spree in Saskatchewan - BBC News", "The Shard: Climber reported and three men arrested - BBC News", "Tallaght, Dublin: Three siblings killed in 'violent incident' - BBC News", "US man charged after threat to fly plane into Walmart - BBC News", "Ukraine war: The war is static, but ousting Russia is a seismic task - BBC News", "Ukrainian refugee minister Lord Harrington quits before PM change - BBC News", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Arrests over nine-year-old's death - BBC News", "Gareth Thomas says ex-partner never asked about his HIV status - BBC News", "Officers investigating death of ex-Fettes College teacher find body - BBC News", "Tory leadership: Rishi Sunak says he will support next Conservative government - BBC News", "Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert: Foo Fighters give drummer a loving send-off - BBC News", "Mikhail Gorbachev: Thousands pay respects to last Soviet leader - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia to keep key gas pipeline to EU closed - BBC News", "Liz Truss: It's fair to give wealthiest more money back - BBC News", "Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City: Champions miss chance to go top of table - BBC Sport", "New prime minister: Winner needs to unify divided Conservative MPs - BBC News", "Baltic crash: Latvia searches for mystery Cessna plane - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia wants to destroy Europeans' normal life, Zelensky warns - BBC News", "Ukraine war: As UK counts pennies, we count casualties - Olena Zelenska - BBC News", "As it happened: Police hunt suspects after Saskatchewan attacks - BBC News", "Metropolitan Police must learn from appalling mistakes - Patel - BBC News", "Avanti West Coast boss quits after train timetable cuts - BBC News", "Legionnaire's suspected cause of Argentina pneumonia deaths - BBC News", "Kensington High Street: Murder arrest after man shot dead - BBC News", "Liz Truss pledges energy plan in a week if she becomes PM - BBC News", "Covid: Millions invited for booster jabs from Monday - BBC News", "Artemis: Nasa's Moon rocket will need leak repair - BBC News", "Germany announces €65bn package to curb soaring energy costs - BBC News", "Klyuchevskaya Sopka: Climbers killed during a fall on Russian volcano - BBC News", "Dutch Grand Prix: Max Verstappen wins home race to extend title lead - BBC Sport", "Today, the door swings shut on the Elizabethan era - BBC News", "Queen's funeral: A small sacrifice to pay, say mourners queuing up - BBC News", "Paul Pogba: Juventus midfielder's brother Mathias detained over alleged extortion plot - BBC Sport", "Ukraine war: Mass exhumations at Izyum forest graves site - BBC News", "Mahsa Amini: Women take headscarves off in protest at funeral - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 6-2 Leicester City: Son Heung-min ends barren start with 13-minute hat-trick - BBC Sport", "Technology of Business | Latest News & Updates | BBC News", "Ukraine war: Grave sites prompt calls for tribunal over Russian killings - BBC News", "Queen's funeral will be a 'deeply personal event' - Dean of Westminster - BBC News", "Truss-Biden meeting postponed until after funeral - BBC News", "UK marks one-minute silence for Queen Elizabeth II - BBC News", "Joe Biden arrives in London for Queen's funeral - BBC News", "King Charles's tour shows desire to hug UK nations close, says Allan Little - BBC News", "Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral - BBC News", "French 'Spider-Man' scales skyscraper aged 60 - BBC News", "King Charles's tour shows desire to hug UK nations close, says Allan Little - BBC News", "Everton 1-0 West Ham: Neal Maupay scores first Toffees goal - BBC Sport", "George and Charlotte to join Westminster Abbey mourners - BBC News", "Man charged over Queen coffin incident - BBC News", "I hope King Charles will push for action on climate change, says John Kerry - 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King was joined Royals including Princes William and Harry and their wives to witness the arrival.", "When Queen Elizabeth II passed away, more than 600 Royal Warrants passed with her.", "Here's what we know so far about who did and did not attend this historic event.", "Royal Family members walk behind Queen Elizabeth's coffin as she heads to Westminster Hall.", "Twitter shareholders have approved a $44bn deal for the world's richest man to buy the company.", "Food prices rose at their quickest pace since 2008, as overall inflation remains near a 40-year high.", "The US investment bank has opened a new office on the Costa del Sol to help recruit junior staff.", "Nearly six million people tried to follow the plane's route, causing the Flightradar24 site to crash.", "New report says falling cost of renewable energy makes switch from fossil fuels cheapest option.", "The brothers, with the King, will follow the coffin in a procession through central London.", "Holidaymakers had previously been told to leave Center Parcs sites for a day or go home early.", "Erling Haaland scores winner as Man City come from behind to beat Borussia Dortmund in Champions League.", "Daniel Jarvis ran into England batter Jonny Bairstow after entering the field during a Test.", "The US alleges that Moscow has sought to buy political influence in more than 24 countries since 2014.", "Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace for the final time as her coffin makes its way to Westminster Hall.", "The global stream is for those wanting to pay their respects but who are unable to travel to London.", "The Queen's coffin is lying in state for a fourth and final day ahead of her state funeral tomorrow.", "World leaders are intensifying diplomatic efforts to stop a full-blown war.", "Hundreds of people braved wet weather to be among the first people to see the Queen's coffin.", "What’s the story behind the most iconic item in the Crown Jewels?", "Coverage as it happened as people across NI paid tribute to flowers and tributes at focal points as Northern Ireland marks the Queen's death.", "The new monarch speaks to well-wishers after leaving Buckingham Palace.", "Tributes continue to pour in for Queen Elizabeth, as events are cancelled as a mark of respect.", "The Queen's role in public life was a serious one, but she sometimes showed us her funny side.", "The King says he is \"deeply aware\" of the duties and responsibilities he has inherited as sovereign.", "Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May share memories of the Queen with Laura Kuenssberg.", "The BBC wants to hear your memories and reflections on the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth II.", "Condolences pour in from around the globe following news of the British monarch's death.", "The monarch visited Belfast more than 20 times, but also made a historic visit to Dublin.", "Windsor held a special place in the monarch's heart, it was also a place of work right to the end.", "King Charles III said \"may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest\" in his emotional message.", "Domestic football, from the Premier League to grassroots, will not take place in most of the UK this weekend after Queen Elizabeth II died aged 96.", "Some fans sang \"callous\" chants during the club's match against Djurgardens on Thursday.", "The Ukrainian advances - if held - would be the most significant since Russia withdrew from near Kyiv in April.", "Kyiv says a lightning counter-offensive has recaptured vast swathes of territory in its south and east.", "The suspect was detained at Birmingham Airport on Thursday evening, police say.", "People will be able to view the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall and pay respects in Edinburgh.", "The Prince of Wales says the world \"lost an extraordinary leader\" while he lost his \"Grannie\".", "Here's how the day's events unfolded.", "The immediate challenge for King Charles is to do what his mother was so good at - reassuring an anxious nation.", "King Charles III speaks of the Queen's \"selfless service\" as he is formally made king.", "The Queen's long reign saw the world change dramatically.", "King Charles will travel to Northern Ireland, with Camilla, the new Queen Consort, on Tuesday.", "What messages were sent by Prince William and Catherine, Prince Harry and Meghan, appearing together?", "The UK will have a bank holiday on Monday 19 September after King Charles III approved an official order.", "It was the Queen’s life and work to be the best of Britain - this is the service she gave, writes the BBC’s Jonny Dymond.", "King Charles III names William and his wife Catherine as the Prince and Princess of Wales.", "Major routes are closed as the city prepares to become a focal point for people mourning the Queen.", "How will a former prince used to speaking out on issues he cared deeply about adapt to the neutrality of a monarch?", "King Charles III looked thoughtful leaving Balmoral, before crowds greeted him at Buckingham Palace.", "Images from the day as King Charles III is proclaimed monarch.", "The Queen's coffin is lying in state for a fourth and final day ahead of her state funeral tomorrow.", "Queen Elizabeth visited more than 20 African countries during her reign, as independence swept the continent.", "The BBC has been collecting your stories after the death of the UK's longest-reigning monarch, a Queen who meant so much to so many.", "In the coming days, the new head of state, the King, and the PM will visit Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.", "The Queen's three younger children, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward were among those viewing floral tributes.", "In a rare Saturday sitting, a group of senior MPs were given the chance to formally pledge their loyalty to the king.", "All four of the royals are seen together to view tributes to the Queen.", "King Charles III delivers his first public broadcast as monarch following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.", "The UK's central bank postpones its meeting by a week \"in light of the period of national mourning\".", "Thousands of people had gathered throughout the day outside the castle before the four arrived.", "How the eyes of the world watched the Queen and former IRA leader Martin McGuinness shake hands.", "All English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football is postponed this weekend as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.", "The Commons and Lords will sit for two days, as MPs and peers mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.", "Footage from inside the first audience with the British head of state and prime minister is rare.", "Princes William and Harry, along with their wives, united in Windsor to greet mourners for the Queen.", "Key photographs from her birth through the coronation to becoming Britain's longest-reigning monarch.", "That historic handshake and other key moments from Queen Elizabeth II's visits during her long reign.", "Villagers in Ballater, near Balmoral, regarded the Queen as a friendly member of their community.", "The men had given Israel information which had led to the killing of Palestinians, a statement says.", "Cameron Norrie reaches the US Open last 16 for the first time with a composed win over Denmark's Holger Rune, but fellow Briton Dan Evans is out.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she expects the incoming prime minister to set out a plan by the end of September.", "The UK has agreed a pact with the two Nordic nations to help each other if they were attacked.", "Dr Andrew Samuel went missing after leaving his yacht in a dinghy near the Isle of Rum.", "England book their place at the 2023 World Cup with one game to spare as they defeat Austria in their first match since winning Euro 2022.", "Al-Shabab militants claim to have carried out the attack in the country's central region.", "The Tory frontrunner refuses to detail plans, as she and leadership rival Rishi Sunak are quizzed on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.", "The five-part series on national parks takes in locations including Chilean Patagonia and Indonesia.", "The UN nuclear watchdog says the Zaporizhzhia plant is now relying on a reserve line to supply power.", "The new dancers will perform a cinematic routine alongside returning professionals in the launch show.", "A judge's ruling prevents Spencer Elden from re-filing a case over the Nevermind sleeve", "John Paul I led the Catholic Church for 33 days in 1978, with his death causing controversy.", "Do the guests on my first Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show have the answers to the UK's problems?", "The two contenders to become PM are set be asked about their proposals for office on BBC One.", "Travellers returning home from their summer breaks in Europe report lengthy queues at the French port.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman chased a man into her home in Liverpool in August.", "CCTV showed the victim was assaulted by an unknown male and \"left in a pool of blood\", his family say.", "Police hunt two men after at least 10 people are killed in a wave of attacks that have shocked Canada.", "A 21-year-old man is detained on suspicion of scaling the 310m tall skyscraper in central London.", "A man was arrested after the death of twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley and their sister Lisa Cash.", "The Mississippi shop was evacuated as police spoke to the pilot, who went on to land in a field.", "Six months on from the start of Russia's invasion, the threat will test Ukraine's spirit.", "Lord Harrington said the role was no longer required because a system was now in place for arrivals.", "Three men are detained in connection with the killing of the nine-year-old, who was shot in her home.", "The ex-Wales rugby captain admits not telling his ex-partner, who is suing him, that he had HIV.", "Two men have been charged with the death of the 75-year-old former biology teacher.", "The former chancellor signals he believes he has lost the race to become the next prime minister.", "Paul McCartney, Queen and AC/DC also take the stage at Wembley to pay tribute to the rock drummer.", "President Vladimir Putin stays away from the funeral of the man who oversaw the breakup of the Soviet Union.", "Russia says it has found a leak on Nord Stream 1, but the EU accuses Moscow of using gas as a weapon.", "The Tory leadership hopeful says Tory policy on distribution of income has failed to grow the economy.", "Champions Manchester City miss chance to move top of the Premier League after Aston Villa fight back for draw.", "Will the Conservatives be able to come together after a long summer of public wrangling?", "Debris and oil are found in the sea after the erratic last flight of a much-loved German businessman.", "Russia is trying to attack Europe with \"poverty and political chaos\", President Zelensky says.", "Ukraine's first lady says it's important to keep highlighting the human cost of the war in her country.", "Myles and Damien Sanderson are charged with first degree murder after 10 people were killed.", "The home secretary calls for \"extensive reform\" in a letter to the incoming Met Police chief.", "Train firm boss Phil Whittingham will leave his role following timetabling issues at the train firm.", "Health officials believe the infectious pneumonia which killed four was caused by the rare lung disease.", "The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to Kensington High Street at about 02:00 BST.", "The Tory leadership favourite says she would act immediately on bills - but gives no further details.", "Health bosses predict a resurgence of the virus and flu during the autumn and winter.", "The launch of the American space agency's big new Moon rocket is facing a potentially lengthy delay.", "The move to shield citizens and businesses comes as Europe struggles to wean itself off Russian energy.", "Nine climbers died on an active volcano in Kamchatka - now rescuers are trying to reach three.", "Max Verstappen's serene march to a second title continues with a comfortable victory in an eventful Dutch Grand Prix.", "That profile on the stamps, that voice at Christmas - the Elizabethan Era truly ends on Monday.", "People have come from around the UK and further afield to pay their final respects to the Queen.", "The brother of Juventus and France midfielder Paul Pogba is placed under formal investigation and detained over an alleged plot to extort money from the former Manchester United player.", "The BBC's Orla Guerin reports from Izyum as Ukraine looks for answers at the site of hundreds of graves.", "Police fire tear gas after Mahsa Amini's funeral as mourners chant anti-government slogans.", "Son Heung-min comes off bench and ends his goal drought with a 13-minute hat-trick as Tottenham punish Leicester's latest defensive horror show.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about Technology of Business from across the BBC.", "The call comes as bodies are exhumed from hundreds of graves in areas recently liberated by Ukraine.", "The Dean of Westminster said the scale of the service in front of 2,000 guests was almost unprecedented.", "The UK and US leaders will instead hold talks at the UN in New York later this week.", "People across the UK pause in a moment of reflection ahead of the late monarch's funeral.", "The US president is among some 500 world leaders and foreign dignitaries coming to London.", "The King will be alert to the possibility his reign could be defined by the loosening of ties that held the union together.", "Here's how the day's events unfolded.", "Alain Robert says he climbed the 48-storey skyscraper without safety gear to mark his 60th birthday.", "The King will be alert to the possibility his reign could be defined by the loosening of ties that held the union together.", "Summer signing Neal Maupay scores the only goal as Everton earn their first Premier League victory of the season.", "The young prince and princess will join more than 2,000 mourners in the congregation.", "A 28-year-old has been charged with a public order offence for allegedly approaching the Queen's coffin.", "The US presidential envoy says the King can \"leverage\" the action needed to tackle global warming.", "Charles says the response has been a \"comfort to my family and myself\".", "The Queen Consort recalls her late mother-in-law's 'wonderful blue eyes' on the eve of the monarch's funeral.", "King Charles was joined by his three siblings for a vigil as the Queen lies in state at Westminster Hall.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about CEO secrets from across the BBC.", "It comes after a further protest took place in the city on Sunday, following large-scale disorder on Saturday.", "Electricity from the national grid is being directly received at the embattled Zaporizhzhia site.", "The Duke of York praises Queen's compassion and \"love for a son\", saying serving her was an honour.", "Different coloured bands which mark mourners' place in the queue were being offered as memorabilia.", "The Queen's coffin is lying in state for a fourth and final day ahead of her state funeral tomorrow.", "A million people are expected to head to London on Monday for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.", "He made a surprise appearance with the King to speak to those waiting to enter Westminster Hall.", "The star was performing the last night of her Chromatica Ball tour in Miami when a storm descended.", "A national two-minute silence is announced for the end of the state funeral service on Monday.", "Mohammed Rahman has been charged with attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.", "Nation prepares for Queen's funeral as mourners queue to see Her Majesty's coffin at Westminster Hall.", "The police watchdog has opened a homicide investigation into the death of Chris Kaba.", "Former Archbishop of York also reveals the monarch did not favour a \"long, boring\" funeral service.", "Officers tried to hold back crowds amid tensions involving young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities.", "Human rights groups had criticised the decision to invite Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler.", "She tells the BBC that the Queen \"carved her own role\" in a world dominated by men.", "Alla Pugacheva says the Kremlin's \"illusory aims\" in Ukraine are making a pariah of Russia.", "Thousands of people have lined up for miles to pay their respects to the Queen as she lies in state.", "New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern asked the Queen for advice about being a leader and a new mother.", "Olena Zelenska says she has come to pay her respects to the Queen on behalf of all Ukrainians.", "Prince Harry, joining his brother and cousins, wore military uniform for the ceremony.", "The troops are needed at home but the pull-out may leave the UN mission short of vital helicopters.", "The service pays tribute to the Queen's \"remarkable reign\", Buckingham Palace says.", "Here's what we know so far about who did and did not attend this historic event.", "It will still be a difficult winter for low income and vulnerable households, warns Citizens Advice Cymru.", "Sport and sportspeople lead tributes to the Queen following her death at the age of 96.", "Heatwaves and drought drove record heat across Europe this summer, according to satellite data.", "As word spreads of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, people lay flowers and pay tribute.", "Mourners assemble outside Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.", "Here's how the day's events unfolded.", "Numbers waiting for treatments, such as knee and hip surgery, reaches 6.84 million in England.", "The Queen's long reign saw the world change dramatically.", "The government could borrow £100bn to cap the typical household energy bill at around £2,500 a year.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "Key photographs from her birth through the coronation to becoming Britain's longest-reigning monarch.", "The online meeting of the Privy Council will be rearranged after the monarch was advised to rest.", "New Prime Minister Liz Truss says the monarch was \"the rock on which modern Britain was built\".", "News about the Queen's health came as MPs were debating the new prime minister's energy bills plan.", "Nicola Sturgeon says oil and gas firms should also help meet the huge cost of the proposals.", "More than 25,000 businesses could collapse or cut jobs without bill support, experts warn.", "The tech company presented a range of new devices at an event held at its California headquarters.", "Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin announces military support at a meeting with other ministers in Germany.", "Molly McKibben is the first person from Northern Ireland to compete in the SUP World Championships.", "The UN's Human Development Index, a measure of global well-being, drops for the second year in a row.", "The action has been taken for failure to respond to Freedom of Information requests on time.", "Postal workers and train staff have postponed walkouts, while some shops have said they will close.", "Chelsea appoint Graham Potter as their new manager following the sacking of Thomas Tuchel.", "Further dates for walkouts are announced by staff in the Communication Workers Union.", "The union jack was lowered to half-mast at Buckingham Palace, Holyroodhouse and No 10 Downing Street.", "A guide to the people in Prime Minister Liz Truss's cabinet, with the new faces, as well as those who have changed roles.", "A fan of cigars and football, Therese Coffey has one of the most challenging briefs in government.", "Princes William and Harry, along with their wives, united in Windsor to greet mourners for the Queen.", "Renewable and nuclear generators will be asked to take up new contracts at prices lower than those offered for gas.", "Sunshine and smiles as the Cambridges all start at a new school after the family's move to Windsor.", "Ukraine's president says his troops have recaptured several settlements from Russian forces.", "Could relations between their governments improve now Boris Johnson has left the stage?", "It comes after the Bank of England warned that little could be done to stop a recession in the UK.", "Myles Sanderson experienced \"medical distress\" and died after a high-speed chase, police say.", "A Russian policeman’s takeaway order helped the group expose his identity, after he threatened and hit them.", "Estradiol tablets help treat the cause of vaginal dryness in women experiencing menopause.", "It was the Queen’s life and work to be the best of Britain - this is the service she gave, writes the BBC’s Jonny Dymond.", "EU leaders look at solutions to the energy crisis amid a surge in the number of households facing poverty.", "Former chief whip Nick Brown says he is co-operating with the investigation.", "The parents of 24-year-old Chris Kaba accuse the Metropolitan Police of racism.", "Family of Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns say the 48-year-old died protecting her son, who was also killed", "The new prime minister unveils a multi-billion pound plan to limit energy bill rises from October.", "Myles Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries after he was captured, local media report.", "Tributes are pouring in from around the world as leaders honour the monarch who \"defined an era\".", "The jab could be used on a mass scale next year with the aim of ending deaths from the disease.", "Her son King Charles III pays tribute to his \"beloved mother\" who has died peacefully at Balmoral.", "Graham Potter is set to be appointed Chelsea manager in the next 24 hours, ending his three-year spell with Brighton.", "Liverpool are thrashed by Napoli in their first Champions League group game on a night to forget in Italy.", "A 29-year-old man is held following raids on three properties in Liverpool earlier.", "The Queen's four children and Prince William are now in Scotland to be with her - Prince Harry is also on his way.", "Chris Kaba was shot dead following a police pursuit which ended in south London on Monday night.", "The young Princess Elizabeth spent her childhood in the spotlight.", "The UK press reflect on the end of an era, in their first editions after the Queen's death.", "The new plans will be in place until 2024 and save the typical household about £1,000 a year, Truss says, compared to rises that had been due.", "The incoming prime minister is treading a tightrope between inflation and recession.", "European countries are helping consumers facing surging energy prices.", "Aid worker Paul Urey's body has \"signs of possible unspeakable torture\", says Ukraine.", "The suspected gunman and his girlfriend are charged with trying to kill Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.", "He had been seen as Liz Truss's political soulmate when he was appointed to the role.", "Prince Charles is there with his son Prince William and other senior royals.", "The former minister says he takes his share of responsibility for the failure to deliver two new ferries.", "Michelle O'Neill says the government needs to stop \"pandering\" to the DUP.", "The Queen spent most summers at Balmoral, the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire.", "Police say the suspect in a stabbing that left 10 dead and 18 others injured died after he was captured.", "US prosecutors say the couple bribed Marshall Island MPs to try to create a \"semi-autonomous region\".", "Losing candidate Raila Odinga did not provide evidence of his allegations of fraud, the judges said.", "The defeated Tory leadership contender also tells the BBC Liz Truss has his \"full support\".", "Andy Cash is accused of killing eight-year-old twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley and Lisa Cash, 18.", "A judge's ruling prevents Spencer Elden from re-filing a case over the Nevermind sleeve", "Campaigners are challenging the Home Office's plan for some cross-Channel migrants.", "Tory voters choose Liz Truss as their new leader and she will become prime minister on Tuesday.", "Will Liz Truss be a pragmatist in Downing Street, or will she govern as a lady not for turning", "A 21-year-old man is detained on suspicion of scaling the 310m tall skyscraper in central London.", "The warning on 24 beaches comes from the Environment Agency, which says pollution is \"short term\".", "The walkout by members of the Criminal Bar Association is expected to worsen existing court delays.", "Three men are detained in connection with the killing of the nine-year-old, who was shot in her home.", "Eight suspects are on trial over deadly lorry attack which left 86 dead and more than 400 injured.", "The winner of the Tory leadership contest is revealed later - before becoming PM on Tuesday.", "Debris and oil are found in the sea after the erratic last flight of a much-loved German businessman.", "Myles and Damien Sanderson are charged with first degree murder after 10 people were killed.", "From the cost of living to the NHS, BBC correspondents examine the issues awaiting in Downing Street.", "The move to shield citizens and businesses comes as Europe struggles to wean itself off Russian energy.", "Inhaled as a fine mist, Convidecia Air can provide good protection after just one breath, its maker says.", "Gas prices have soared after Russia said it would not reopen a major gas pipeline to Europe.", "A former finance analyst, Rishi Sunak has won the premiership second-time round.", "The dispute involves about 300 of its members and will last for four weeks, the union says.", "John Paul I led the Catholic Church for 33 days in 1978, with his death causing controversy.", "The duchess addressed a global youth event in Manchester as the Sussexes return to the UK.", "The AA is urging motorists to read the rule changes brought in earlier this year as soon as possible.", "Energy industry sources tell the BBC they expect an overall freeze in bills to be announced this week.", "Police hunt two men after at least 10 people are killed in a wave of attacks that have shocked Canada.", "The star now has an Emmy, Grammy and Oscar - after scooping an award for her TV show One Night Only.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel goes as new PM Liz Truss prepares to appoint her team after winning the Tory leadership race.", "Staff claim a new IT system being rolled out in courts in England and Wales is beset with faults.", "Political survivor Liz Truss has triumphed, but in Downing Street she will be confronted by multiple problems.", "Health officials believe the infectious pneumonia which killed four was caused by the rare lung disease.", "The Tory leadership favourite says she would act immediately on bills - but gives no further details.", "The regulator found some children's business accounts had been set to public by default.", "Students welcome opportunity to learn closer to home in move to boost Welsh language in health care.", "Myles and Damien Sanderson are charged with first degree murder after 10 people were killed.", "Frances Tiafoe stuns second seed Rafael Nadal in the US Open fourth round to end the Spaniard's bid for a record-extending 23rd major singles title.", "The tone of EU leaders' messages to the UK's incoming prime minister reveals much more than a superficial \"well done\".", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street.", "Draft rules requiring foreign visitors to report relationships with Palestinians are dropped.", "Edward Vines has repeatedly breached a restraining order originally made 20 years ago.", "A man was arrested after the death of twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley and their sister Lisa Cash.", "Temporary legislation to allow electronic certification for deaths is due to expire this month.", "Two men have been charged with the death of the 75-year-old former biology teacher.", "The incoming prime minister will enter No 10 on Tuesday after defeating Rishi Sunak to become Tory leader.", "The force says officers initially went to the wrong address when responding to a disturbance.", "A police chief says the community could hold to the key to finding Olivia Pratt-Korbel's killers.", "Donald Trump wins the right to an independent overseer in the investigation into classified records.", "The woman told detectives she woke up to find the footballer on top of her, his trial hears.", "The charity running Sparks in the Park in Cardiff says it has become unviable for its volunteers.", "Damien Sanderson had injuries that did not appear self-inflicted, police say, as they hunt for his brother.", "It is understood that a typical household energy bill could be capped at around £2,500.", "Charlotte believes thieves got her debit card PIN via a banking app and used it on a shopping spree.", "MrBeast fans flock to the grand opening of his first burger restaurant, in the US.", "Anyone lighting up within 15m of a hospital building could incur a fine of up to £1,000.", "A suicide bomber was shot dead by guards as he approached the embassy gates, officials say.", "The ex-Wales rugby captain admits not telling his ex-partner, who is suing him, that he had HIV.", "Nandi Bushell says taking the place of the late Foo Fighters drummer was \"amazing... but sad\".", "The former chancellor signals he believes he has lost the race to become the next prime minister.", "Provides an overview of Canada, including key dates and facts about this North American country.", "Will the Conservatives be able to come together after a long summer of public wrangling?", "Kate Copstick said she was put in a choke hold by two men in balaclavas who took £8,500 from her bag.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries will leave the cabinet.", "Orthopaedic surgeon Shyam Kumar worked as a special adviser on hospital inspections.", "The killing of young twins and their teen sister was traumatic, says Ireland's top police officer.", "The new monarch speaks to well-wishers after leaving Buckingham Palace.", "Her cortege from Balmoral to Edinburgh wended its way past the villages, towns and cities she knew so well.", "Power cuts have affected nine million people in revenge for a successful counter-attack, Ukraine says.", "The public can pay their respects as the coffin lies at rest at St Giles Cathedral in Scotland's capital.", "Travel in the mourning period for the Queen is likely to be \"extremely busy\", the rail operator warns.", "Tributes are paid to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Great North Run before Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo and Kenya's Hellen Obiri win the elite men's and women's races.", "Mourners line the streets as the Queen's cortege takes her coffin from Balmoral to Edinburgh.", "The Queen's role in public life was a serious one, but she sometimes showed us her funny side.", "The King says he is \"deeply aware\" of the duties and responsibilities he has inherited as sovereign.", "Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May share memories of the Queen with Laura Kuenssberg.", "After being kept for a night at the palace, the Queen's coffin will move to Westminster Hall to lie in state - with hundreds of thousands expected to file past.", "Eldar Eldarov wins the rescheduled St Leger as British horse racing resumes at Doncaster and pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.", "Kyiv says a lightning counter-offensive has recaptured vast swathes of territory in its south and east.", "The Ukrainian advances - if held - would be the most significant since Russia withdrew from near Kyiv in April.", "People will be able to view the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall and pay respects in Edinburgh.", "The Queen's hearse travels to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.", "Here's how the day's events unfolded.", "The Prince of Wales says the world \"lost an extraordinary leader\" while he lost his \"Grannie\".", "The immediate challenge for King Charles is to do what his mother was so good at - reassuring an anxious nation.", "King Charles III speaks of the Queen's \"selfless service\" as he is formally made king.", "If you wish to pay tribute to the Queen, here are some of the options.", "Thousands came to pay their respects as the Queen's coffin travelled from Balmoral to Edinburgh.", "Prince William speaks of his \"honour\" in being named Prince of Wales by King Charles III.", "What messages were sent by Prince William and Catherine, Prince Harry and Meghan, appearing together?", "Sarah Rainsford meets the underground partisans resisting Russian occupation in southern Ukraine.", "The UK will have a bank holiday on Monday 19 September after King Charles III approved an official order.", "The Queen's second son and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York will now look after her iconic dogs.", "The decision for the future King Charles to be educated at Gordonstoun was a departure from the royal norm.", "Images from the day as King Charles III is proclaimed monarch.", "The Queen's children, led by King Charles III, walked behind the coffin on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.", "The president pays tribute to the thousands of people who died 21 years after the attacks on US soil.", "Theresa May, David Cameron and Gordon Brown talk about HM the Queen.", "The Queen spent most summers at Balmoral, the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire.", "How a young princess's love for her dog turned into a life's passion.", "Laura Kuenssberg interviews Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska", "The BBC has been collecting your stories after the death of the UK's longest-reigning monarch, a Queen who meant so much to so many.", "In the coming days, the new head of state, the King, and the PM will visit Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.", "The Queen's three younger children, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward were among those viewing floral tributes.", "On Saturday, Ukraine captured key eastern towns, as Russian forces withdrew to \"regroup\".", "In a rare Saturday sitting, a group of senior MPs were given the chance to formally pledge their loyalty to the king.", "Thousands of people had gathered throughout the day outside the castle before the four arrived.", "Thousands pay their respects as the late monarch's coffin makes a six-hour journey from Balmoral.", "The Queen's coffin travels from Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh before flying to London on Tuesday.", "How the eyes of the world watched the Queen and former IRA leader Martin McGuinness shake hands.", "Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway are with Ukrainian forces fighting to stop the Russian advance on the country's second city.", "Princes William and Harry, along with their wives, united in Windsor to greet mourners for the Queen.", "Key photographs from her birth through the coronation to becoming Britain's longest-reigning monarch.", "King Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry walk in procession together in a symbol of family unity.", "Meltwater used to befuddle satellites trying to measure sea-ice thickness in summer. Not anymore.", "The defence secretary and Scottish secretary take part in the vigil as the monarch lies in state.", "Senior Tories say it is extraordinary the \"architects\" of genocide against the Uyghurs are invited.", "Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons will shut forecourts before some reopen in the evening.", "Roger Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, will retire from top-level tennis after the Laver Cup in London this month.", "Here's how the day's events unfolded.", "The Queen's coffin was carried by gun carriage from Buckingham Palace, accompanied by the King.", "The \"shooting star\" was reported by hundred of people across Scotland and Northern Ireland.", "King Charles III greets crowds in Royal Hillsborough and in Belfast as part of his tour of the UK.", "The star says she was sexually assaulted in her hotel room on the eve of the band's first ever show.", "Ms Thomson was from the Greenan area of West Belfast and was found dead on Sunday.", "Questions are being asked as even state media reported the \"tough\" week, says the BBC's Russia editor.", "A national two-minute silence is announced for the end of the state funeral service on Monday.", "Playing tennis matches late at night does not look very \"professional\" and the sport needs to look at the issue, Andy Murray says.", "The BBC has been collecting your stories after the death of the UK's longest-reigning monarch, a Queen who meant so much to so many.", "The UK says it will continue to delay full post-Brexit checks on goods moving from Great Britain.", "Royals follow in procession as Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace for the last time.", "The supermarket temporarily limits purchases in its Just Essentials range, blaming soaring demand.", "A look at the ceremonial events surrounding the Queen's lying-in-state, ahead of her state funeral on Monday.", "Rafael Nadal pays tribute to Roger Federer after the 20-time Grand Slam champion announces his retirement.", "NI Assembly Speaker delivers a message with a veiled swipe at those behind Stormont's stalemate.", "The \"shooting star\" seen by hundreds of people could have been a meteor or space junk.", "Queen Elizabeth's coffin is brought to Parliament to lie in state, so the public can pay their respects.", "A Baltimore prosecutor says an investigation of the case now points to two other possible suspects.", "Former Wales rugby union captain and legendary broadcaster and commentator Eddie Butler has died at the age of 65.", "Scientists say the 'jaw-dropping' discovery gives an insight into the evolution of human hearts.", "As emperors, kings, queens and presidents descend on London, police have embarked on a huge operation.", "Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury lose a late-night doubles decider as Great Britain are beaten 2-1 by the United States in their Davis Cup group opener.", "The banners were displayed by a section of Celtic fans at the club's Champions League match in Warsaw.", "Princess Elizabeth began her long period of public service during the dark days of World War Two.", "Prince William says walking behind the Queen's coffin brought back memories of his mother's funeral.", "Kyiv's troops are targeting towns in the Donbas region, the main focus of Russia's invasion.", "The new chancellor believes removing a cap on bankers' bonuses could boost growth in the City.", "The BBC's Orla Guerin finds Russian tanks and relieved residents in the freed city.", "Claims of historical sexual and violent abuse at Edinburgh Academy are being investigated by Police Scotland.", "Night services will start on Wednesday after a busy day on London's trains and tubes.", "The BBC hears accusations that Russian forces electrocuted prisoners and shot civilians in the Kharkiv region.", "New Zealand police say they are extraditing the woman from South Korea on murder charges.", "A father who queued for 11 hours says the dignity of it made hairs stand up on the back of his neck.", "Health officials warn of a looming crisis as deaths from dengue and other diseases rise by the day.", "Yevgeniy Prigozhin offered prisoners their freedom in exchange for six months service in Ukraine.", "When Nadia Monaco adopted \"cutest pup ever\" Wilbur, she had no idea that he had a famous relative.", "Ukraine says the attack is revenge after it retook occupied territory from Russia in the east.", "Guests already on holiday can now stay on site but will not be able to use facilities.", "The suspect is understood to be Johnny Morrissey, a 62-year-old Irish passport holder.", "Celia Marsh, who had a severe dairy allergy, died after eating a wrap from Pret A Manger.", "The UK's biggest airport said it is altering its schedule to ensure the skies over London fall quiet during the proceedings.", "Questions had been raised over when the \"fiscal event\" would take place after the death of the Queen.", "The nation's first elected female leader is narrowly defeated in a major shift for Sweden.", "Robin Jacobs shouted from the Old Bailey dock after being found guilty of raping his Tinder date.", "The BBC's defence correspondent looks at what's behind Ukraine's potential breakthrough in the east.", "The only sound our correspondent could discern in the historic space was the changing of the guard.", "Here's what we know so far about who did and did not attend this historic event.", "Royal Family members walk behind Queen Elizabeth's coffin as she heads to Westminster Hall.", "Here's an at-a-glance guide to what was open and closed on the bank holiday to mark the Queen's funeral.", "But he also thanked President Xi for his \"balanced position\" on Russia's invasion.", "The US investment bank has opened a new office on the Costa del Sol to help recruit junior staff.", "Retailers John Lewis and DFS say shoppers are spending less as the cost of living rises.", "The head of the Russian mercenary group defends sending convicts to the Ukraine front line.", "Republican governors are escalating a tactic that has seen migrants relocated to Democratic areas.", "The queue to see Queen Elizabeth lying-in-state stretches along the south bank of the River Thames.", "The Queen's coffin is lying in state for a fourth and final day ahead of her state funeral tomorrow.", "World leaders are intensifying diplomatic efforts to stop a full-blown war.", "Shooting victim Olivia Pratt-Korbel \"touched so many people's hearts\", says Cheryl Korbel.", "What’s the story behind the most iconic item in the Crown Jewels?", "Hundreds of villages are submerged in Sindh province as authorities race to evacuate families.", "The tickets, aimed at helping the public with increasing prices, have been hailed a major success.", "The Kremlin says the Russian leader is too busy to attend the Soviet ex-leader's funeral on Saturday.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died outside the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown in 2019.", "China urged the UN not to release the report - Beijing called it a \"farce\" arranged by the West.", "The 76-year-old was hit by a van as he cycled to the park to meet his grandchildren last September.", "British Vogue's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful has had poor vision for much of his life.", "Despite living in the UK for 15 years, Ali Abunejmeh was not allowed to board his flight home.", "In new testimony, former detainees of China's detention camps describe systematic rape and torture.", "The rappers are up for album of the year and video of the year in this year's GRM Daily awards.", "Nick Kyrgios puts in a characteristically vocal performance, including complaining to the umpire that a fan was smoking marijuana, en route to the US Open third round.", "The country is sticking to a \"zero Covid\" policy, requiring lockdowns over a handful of cases.", "A medical charity says many migrants selected to be sent from the UK to Rwanda suffered traumas.", "Kinder Scout, where walkers famously staked their claim to the countryside, grows by over 500 acres.", "Thomas Webster, 56, attacked officers with a metal flagpole during the riots in January 2021.", "The boy, 18 months old, was shot and killed during an interaction between his father and police in 2020.", "Joshua Cox was aged six when he took the photo in a London park during lockdown.", "The US will soon send the first of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but Poland has stopped sending weapons.", "The presenter hosted BBC Breakfast for 15 years and more recently hosted programmes on Classic FM.", "Mums - whose children have been attacked by teenagers - are on patrol saying police are not doing enough.", "Quentin Sommerville reports from the Donbas front line as Ukraine tries to seize the initiative from Russia.", "Both sides have warned of the risks of an accident at the plant, which is Europe's largest.", "The bloc remains divided on whether to issue a total ban on entry for Russian travellers.", "The arrests come a week after the fatal shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Dovecot.", "RMT union members will walk out on 15 and 17 September, in a long-running dispute over pay and jobs.", "Rising mortgage rates mean price growth is likely to ease, according to the Nationwide.", "BBC News has uncovered footage showing young people being subjected to violence by a group of teens.", "Democrat Mary Peltola beats the former vice-presidential candidate to take a seat in Congress.", "The team are there to make sure fighting doesn't lead to a catastrophe at Europe's biggest nuclear power station.", "Six months on from the start of Russia's invasion, the threat will test Ukraine's spirit.", "The foreign secretary also hints she would look to provide support to help with energy bills.", "The pop-rock band were reportedly of interest to the FBI for \"subliminal anti-US messaging\".", "International leaders warn of potential disaster at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant.", "The ex-Paralympian is serving a 13-year sentence for the murder of his girlfriend nine years ago.", "The singer was supporting Arcade Fire on tour when frontman Win Butler was accused of misconduct.", "The former Soviet leader's appearance in a 1998 pizza commercial played on his conflicted reputation.", "Mums - whose children have been attacked by teenagers - are on patrol saying police are not doing enough.", "Fatally-injured Olivia Pratt-Korbel was rushed to hospital in the back of a police car, an inquest hears.", "Police reveal two guns were used in the shooting that killed nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel.", "Judge tells Marcus Pasley, 26, to expect jail for causing the death of teenager Abby Hill.", "\"Where does one even buy a floppy disk?\" asks Taro Kono, as Japan finally phases out the old tech.", "Temperatures this summer tied with 2018, according to data stretching back to 1884.", "The first minister met council leaders and unions in a bid to end the ongoing pay dispute.", "Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and Dominic Cummings are likely to appear in hearings next summer.", "Thousands of people have gathered in the town of Buñol to splatter each other with tomatoes.", "Serena Williams shows she has no intention of ending her singles career without a fight after beating second seed Anett Kontaveit at the US Open.", "PM Justin Trudeau will examine accusations that Shamima Begum was smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy.", "Families are urged to take part in the review being conducted by influential midwife Donna Ockenden.", "Rev Peter Smith says residents in Dovecot remain \"devastated\" after Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot.", "Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, shares an image of the family home 25 years after her death.", "Nottingham Forest set a new British record for the most players signed during one transfer window but fail to land Michy Batshuayi", "Quentin Sommerville reports from the Donbas front line as Ukraine tries to seize the initiative from Russia.", "Pundit Gary Neville is to be referred to the Attorney General for a social media post he uploaded during the trial of ex-Manchester United team-mate Ryan Giggs.", "Boris Johnson pledges £700m for the project in Suffolk, adding a decision is likely within weeks.", "Lukoil boss Ravil Maganov is the latest Russian businessman to die in mysterious circumstances.", "The last time the pound fell so much against the dollar was in the aftermath of the UK's Brexit vote.", "Military experts tell the BBC the battle for the southern region could go on for months.", "A seafront water feature, whose fish have always been donated by the public, falls victim to vandals.", "His lawyers argue the FBI search last month was \"unprecedented, unnecessary, and legally unsupported\".", "Queens University Belfast researchers are the first to examine patients' genes to determine treatment.", "The platform, which is known for hosting adult content, has seen users increase since the pandemic.", "Coverage as it happened as people across NI paid tribute to flowers and tributes at focal points as Northern Ireland marks the Queen's death.", "Tributes continue to pour in for Queen Elizabeth, as events are cancelled as a mark of respect.", "New Prime Minister Liz Truss says the monarch was \"the rock on which modern Britain was built\".", "Sport and sportspeople lead tributes to the Queen following her death at the age of 96.", "The Queen's role in public life was a serious one, but she sometimes showed us her funny side.", "As word spreads of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, people lay flowers and pay tribute.", "The BBC wants to hear your memories and reflections on the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth II.", "Condolences pour in from around the globe following news of the British monarch's death.", "The monarch visited Belfast more than 20 times, but also made a historic visit to Dublin.", "The young Princess Elizabeth spent her childhood in the spotlight.", "King Charles III said \"may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest\" in his emotional message.", "The UK press reflect on the end of an era, in their first editions after the Queen's death.", "The suspect was detained at Birmingham Airport on Thursday evening, police say.", "Mourners assemble outside Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.", "Here's how the day's events unfolded.", "Molly McKibben is the first person from Northern Ireland to compete in the SUP World Championships.", "Huge crowds awaited the new King as he arrived with the Queen Consort.", "We're used to seeing Queen Elizabeth II's portrait and coat of arms in our change and on cereal boxes.", "The Queen's long reign saw the world change dramatically.", "The new monarch gets a warm reception from crowds as he arrives at Buckingham Palace as King.", "News outlets around the world reflect on Queen Elizabeth's influence and the impact of her death.", "Postal workers and train staff have postponed walkouts, while some shops have said they will close.", "King Charles III names William and his wife Catherine as the Prince and Princess of Wales.", "It was the Queen’s life and work to be the best of Britain - this is the service she gave, writes the BBC’s Jonny Dymond.", "Paddington Bear, \"Queen Kong\" and other messages for Queen Elizabeth II left at Buckingham Palace.", "King Charles III looked thoughtful leaving Balmoral, before crowds greeted him at Buckingham Palace.", "How will a former prince used to speaking out on issues he cared deeply about adapt to the neutrality of a monarch?", "Michelle O'Neill says the government needs to stop \"pandering\" to the DUP.", "The Queen spent most summers at Balmoral, the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire.", "The flag was lowered, and shock spread among the crowd that gathered outside.", "Queen Elizabeth visited more than 20 African countries during her reign, as independence swept the continent.", "The BBC has been collecting your stories after the death of the UK's longest-reigning monarch, a Queen who meant so much to so many.", "King Charles III delivers his first public broadcast as monarch following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.", "The girl who would be Queen lived in three homes before she was a monarch - what were they like?", "The UK's central bank postpones its meeting by a week \"in light of the period of national mourning\".", "Tributes are pouring in from around the world as leaders honour the monarch who \"defined an era\".", "All English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football is postponed this weekend as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "Her son King Charles III pays tribute to his \"beloved mother\" who has died peacefully at Balmoral.", "The Commons and Lords will sit for two days, as MPs and peers mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.", "Footage from inside the first audience with the British head of state and prime minister is rare.", "Princes William and Harry, along with their wives, united in Windsor to greet mourners for the Queen.", "Key photographs from her birth through the coronation to becoming Britain's longest-reigning monarch.", "That historic handshake and other key moments from Queen Elizabeth II's visits during her long reign.", "Villagers in Ballater, near Balmoral, regarded the Queen as a friendly member of their community.", "That profile on the stamps, that voice at Christmas - the Elizabethan Era truly ends on Monday.", "A look at the ceremonial events surrounding the Queen's lying-in-state, ahead of her state funeral on Monday.", "Full details of all those involved in the Queen's main funeral procession.", "An era was ending right before our eyes, writes Sean Coughlan, who was inside Westminster Abbey.", "In an interview with the BBC, Justin Trudeau said Canada's system offers 'extraordinary stability'.", "David Beckham and Tyson Fury pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her state funeral.", "The US president says troops would defend the island, but the White House downplays the comments.", "The Perseverance robot is close to completing its first set of objectives on Mars.", "The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Mexico as the country marked previous shocks that left thousands dead.", "Adnan Syed was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999.", "The meaning and symbolism behind the Queen's carefully chosen funeral flowers.", "Sherri Papini went missing in 2016. She pleaded guilty to staging her kidnapping earlier this year.", "Mark Frerichs, a US navy veteran working as an engineer, was taken in Afghanistan in 2020.", "Photos of the Queen's state funeral, the service at Westminster Abbey to her final journey to Windsor.", "King Charles led other royals in a sombre procession behind his mother's coffin to its final resting place.", "People across the UK pause in a moment of reflection ahead of the late monarch's funeral.", "The Queen's funeral was steeped in tradition, but there were some personal touches too.", "The country says goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II for the final time, in an emotional day full of pomp and ceremony. ", "The committal service at St George's Chapel came four hours after the state funeral at Westminster Abbey.", "Here's how the day's events unfolded.", "Inside Westminster Abbey as guests arrive for the Queen's funeral.", "More than 90 images and videos were leaked from the franchise's next instalment, developer Rockstar confirms.", "Sixteen police officers and a police dog were hurt as they faced \"significant aggression\".", "The young prince and princess will join more than 2,000 mourners in the congregation.", "The Queen's long reign saw the world change dramatically.", "After almost five days, the Queen's lying-in-state ended on the morning of Monday 19 September.", "Liz Truss and former British prime ministers arrive.", "Charles says the response has been a \"comfort to my family and myself\".", "The Archbishop of Canterbury pays tribute to her life and service to the UK and Commonwealth.", "Mahsa Amini, 22, collapsed after being held by morality police for allegedly breaking hijab rules.", "The Russia-backed mayor of the eastern city of Donetsk blames Ukrainians for the blasts that killed 13.", "The service pays tribute to the Queen's \"remarkable reign\", Buckingham Palace says.", "The Queen will continue to lie in state until early on Monday, ahead of her funeral service at Westminster Abbey.", "Muick, Sandy and Emma were pictured as their mistress's coffin approached.", "Taken before the Platinum Jubilee, it shows the late monarch smiling brightly in Windsor Castle.", "It comes after a further protest took place in the city on Sunday, following large-scale disorder on Saturday.", "Huge crowds lined the Long Walk as the procession headed to St George's Chapel.", "The Queen's children and grandchildren followed the state gun carriage of the Royal Navy.", "Different coloured bands which mark mourners' place in the queue were being offered as memorabilia.", "Mourners returning home face disruption due to no trains heading in or out of a main London station.", "Crowds of people gathered to see the coffin of the Queen travel to St George's Chapel.", "A national two-minute silence is announced for the end of the state funeral service on Monday.", "The BBC has been collecting your stories after the death of the UK's longest-reigning monarch, a Queen who meant so much to so many.", "Most of the US island's power will take days to restore after flooding and landslides hit.", "A private burial ceremony took place this evening after public funeral events in London and Windsor.", "What’s the story behind the most iconic item in the Crown Jewels?", "Former Archbishop of York also reveals the monarch did not favour a \"long, boring\" funeral service.", "The service at Westminster Abbey saw Liz Truss joined by predecessors including Boris Johnson and Tony Blair.", "The president says there is still \"a lot of work\" being done to control the virus in the US.", "Alla Pugacheva says the Kremlin's \"illusory aims\" in Ukraine are making a pariah of Russia.", "She tells the BBC that the Queen \"carved her own role\" in a world dominated by men.", "The Bidens arrive at Westminster Abbey.", "Olena Zelenska says she has come to pay her respects to the Queen on behalf of all Ukrainians.", "Thousands of people have lined up for miles to pay their respects to the Queen as she lies in state.", "New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern asked the Queen for advice about being a leader and a new mother.", "Nanmadol is one of the worst typhoons to strike Japan, with flooding and landslides expected.", "Politicians enter Westminster Abbey.", "Here's what we know so far about who did and did not attend this historic event.", "Celia Marsh, who had a severe dairy allergy, collapsed while on a shopping trip with her family.", "Prince Charles says leaders should work with indigenous communities to \"restore harmony with nature\".", "The defeated Tory leadership contender also tells the BBC Liz Truss has his \"full support\".", "Andy Cash is accused of killing eight-year-old twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley and Lisa Cash, 18.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel is described by her mother as \"her little shadow\" in an emotional tribute.", "Clients of any bank will be able to withdraw and deposit cash, but the hubs will not open immediately.", "The outgoing PM warns of \"tough\" times ahead, as he prepares to hand over power to Liz Truss.", "Bullitt, which makes rugged smartphones, is due to launch a satellite-connected handset in February.", "Campaigners are challenging the Home Office's plan for some cross-Channel migrants.", "Tory voters choose Liz Truss as their new leader and she will become prime minister on Tuesday.", "Kwasi Kwarteng, James Cleverly and Suella Braverman get the \"great offices of state\" as new PM Liz Truss appoints her cabinet.", "Will Liz Truss be a pragmatist in Downing Street, or will she govern as a lady not for turning", "The warning on 24 beaches comes from the Environment Agency, which says pollution is \"short term\".", "The senior ministers leaving government and some of the likely new figures around the Cabinet table.", "Eight suspects are on trial over deadly lorry attack which left 86 dead and more than 400 injured.", "Tributes have been paid to Alexander Sutherland, Lord Strathnaver, who died near Thurso on Saturday night.", "Kwasi Kwarteng is made chancellor and Therese Coffey deputy PM, as Liz Truss unveils her top team.", "Union leaders say the move follows a 2% pay offer which has not risen despite rising inflation.", "A selection of images capture the day Ms Truss officially became the country's third-ever female PM.", "The new prime minister says her priorities will be the economy, energy and the health service.", "The new health secretary has opposed extending abortion rights but has said the law would not change.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel is described by her father as a \"real bright spark who loved to laugh\".", "Gas prices have soared after Russia said it would not reopen a major gas pipeline to Europe.", "Former Scotland international Kenny Logan reveals his \"huge shock\" at being diagnosed with prostate cancer.", "The dispute involves about 300 of its members and will last for four weeks, the union says.", "Police say the man, believed to be in his 20s, was shot after they followed a \"suspect vehicle\".", "The duchess addressed a global youth event in Manchester as the Sussexes return to the UK.", "Energy industry sources tell the BBC they expect an overall freeze in bills to be announced this week.", "After visiting the Zaporizhzhia plant, the UN agency says Russian military equipment risks safety.", "Police hunt two men after at least 10 people are killed in a wave of attacks that have shocked Canada.", "People in Saskatchewan grapple with grief and anger two days after 10 people are stabbed to death.", "John Barlow used his car to ease the Audi to a halt on the M62 after seeing its driver was unwell.", "Russia is in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea.", "Moscow's \"stop list\" includes more than 1,000 names, including celebrities who have backed Ukraine.", "Rafael Nadal says he does not know when he will play again after losing in the US Open fourth round.", "Leonard Francis is at the heart of the worst corruption scandal to hit the US Navy in modern times.", "The dominance of Truss campaign supporters in cabinet is already prompting grumbling among some Tory MPs.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says rising bills are threatening to become a \"humanitarian emergency\".", "Untreated sewage triggers pollution warnings at almost 100 UK beaches after heavy rainfall.", "A guide to the people in Prime Minister Liz Truss's cabinet, with the new faces, as well as those who have changed roles.", "Political survivor Liz Truss has triumphed, but in Downing Street she will be confronted by multiple problems.", "Wales reach the World Cup play-offs for the first time thanks to a 0-0 draw on a nerve-shredding night in the Welsh capital.", "The regulator found some children's business accounts had been set to public by default.", "Among 11-15-year-olds in England, 9% say they use e-cigarettes - up from 6% in 2018, a survey suggests.", "The duke spoke in Germany ahead of the Invictus Games being staged in Dusseldorf next year.", "Gareth Thomas says he has faced abuse after claims he hid his HIV status from his partner.", "Frances Tiafoe stuns second seed Rafael Nadal in the US Open fourth round to end the Spaniard's bid for a record-extending 23rd major singles title.", "The tone of EU leaders' messages to the UK's incoming prime minister reveals much more than a superficial \"well done\".", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street.", "Draft rules requiring foreign visitors to report relationships with Palestinians are dropped.", "The first minister makes her first key statement to Holyrood at the start of the new political term.", "Richard Sharp told a DCMS hearing he disagreed with the ex-Newsnight host about impartiality.", "Edward Vines has repeatedly breached a restraining order originally made 20 years ago.", "Some say they tried to flee during an earthquake but found their gates locked due to Covid restrictions.", "Mike Curtler, formerly of Deutsche Bank, had been prosecuted by the US Department of Justice.", "Jason Grant's hiring sparked a debate, with critics saying the job should have gone to a woman.", "Temporary legislation to allow electronic certification for deaths is due to expire this month.", "Family of Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns say the 48-year-old died protecting her son, who was also killed", "It's over 120 years since the world's first radio signal was broadcast over the sea from south Wales", "Myles Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries after he was captured, local media report.", "The incoming prime minister will enter No 10 on Tuesday after defeating Rishi Sunak to become Tory leader.", "The Queen has appointed every PM since 1955, but Liz Truss w the first invited to Balmoral.", "A police chief says the community could hold to the key to finding Olivia Pratt-Korbel's killers.", "Six books make the cut for the coveted prize, including the shortest book to ever be recognised.", "After returning from Balmoral, Liz Truss addresses the UK for the first time from Downing Street.", "A previous attempt to drain the lake failed - and flood levels are still dangerously high.", "Donald Trump wins the right to an independent overseer in the investigation into classified records.", "The woman told detectives she woke up to find the footballer on top of her, his trial hears.", "As he stands down from the top job, the outgoing PM will retain his gift for commanding attention.", "Chris Kaba was shot after police pursued what they described as a \"suspect vehicle\" in south London.", "Christophe Galtier laughs off a question about flying rather than taking the train.", "The incoming prime minister is treading a tightrope between inflation and recession.", "Damien Sanderson had injuries that did not appear self-inflicted, police say, as they hunt for his brother.", "It is understood that a typical household energy bill could be capped at around £2,500.", "He had been seen as Liz Truss's political soulmate when he was appointed to the role.", "A charity bike ride in Spain has incurred such a high tariff it is feared the cycling club could fold.", "Haarlem is to ban most adverts for meat from public spaces because of the food's impact on climate.", "The chain, run by Intercontinental Hotel Group, said its online services were facing disruptions.", "Pope Francis apologies to the church-run residential school survivors on Canadian soil.", "A man is charged with murdering the Memphis teacher who was a granddaughter of a local billionaire.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries will leave the cabinet.", "The licence for the National Lottery will now pass to new operator Allwyn.", "Ms Truss met her future husband Hugh O'Leary at the Tory party conference in Blackpool, in 1997", "The killing of young twins and their teen sister was traumatic, says Ireland's top police officer.", "George Lazenby was criticised by fans after making \"creepy\" comments about women on stage in Perth.", "National League fixtures will go ahead on Monday after football paused as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.", "Chelsea's home game with Liverpool and Leeds United's trip to Manchester United have been postponed this weekend because of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.", "After being kept for a night at the palace, the Queen's coffin will move to Westminster Hall to lie in state - with hundreds of thousands expected to file past.", "Officials say the Ukrainian military has entered Kupiansk, a vital eastern supply hub for Russian forces.", "But NHS bosses must make sure out-of-hours service is available and care home Covid boosters to continue.", "The Queen's hearse travels to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.", "Here's how the day's events unfolded.", "Thousands came to pay their respects as the Queen's coffin travelled from Balmoral to Edinburgh.", "Prince William speaks of his \"honour\" in being named Prince of Wales by King Charles III.", "The Queen's second son and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York will now look after her iconic dogs.", "The King hears condolences at Westminster before travelling to Edinburgh to mount a vigil for the Queen.", "The decision for the future King Charles to be educated at Gordonstoun was a departure from the royal norm.", "King Charles III's speech to both Houses of Parliament was a unique moment in Britain's long history.", "Questions are being asked as even state media reported the \"tough\" week, says the BBC's Russia editor.", "The BBC has been collecting your stories after the death of the UK's longest-reigning monarch, a Queen who meant so much to so many.", "A limited service will run through the night on some routes so people can pay their respects to the Queen.", "Thousands line the Royal Mile in Edinburgh to see the procession behind the Queen's coffin.", "Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway are with Ukrainian forces fighting to stop the Russian advance on the country's second city.", "How the eyes of the world watched the Queen and former IRA leader Martin McGuinness shake hands.", "A look at the ceremonial events surrounding the Queen's lying-in-state, ahead of her state funeral on Monday.", "The traditional Vigil of the Princes takes place in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.", "Tributes are paid to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Great North Run before Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo and Kenya's Hellen Obiri win the elite men's and women's races.", "Travel in the mourning period for the Queen is likely to be \"extremely busy\", the rail operator warns.", "Mourners line the streets as the Queen's cortege takes her coffin from Balmoral to Edinburgh.", "Tony Paris was wrongly jailed for the murder of Lynette White in Cardiff Bay in 1990.", "The hit South Korean drama is among the winners at the biggest award ceremony in the US TV calendar.", "Eldar Eldarov wins the rescheduled St Leger as British horse racing resumes at Doncaster and pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.", "What messages were sent by Prince William and Catherine, Prince Harry and Meghan, appearing together?", "Sarah Rainsford meets the underground partisans resisting Russian occupation in southern Ukraine.", "The Duke of Sussex thanks his late grandmother, saying \"you and grandpa are reunited now\".", "The Queen's children, led by King Charles III, walked behind the coffin on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.", "Thousands waited many hours to see Her Majesty's coffin lying at rest inside Edinburgh's St Giles' Cathedral.", "The former PM says he was moved by the Queen's \"sense of duty\" when her death was announced days later.", "He apologised to fans and said he and his band were \"burnt out\" and he needed some time to heal.", "How a young princess's love for her dog turned into a life's passion.", "Academics are seeking 20,000 people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis to take part in the research.", "The Accession Proclamation was read at noon, two days before King Charles III visits Northern Ireland.", "On Saturday, Ukraine captured key eastern towns, as Russian forces withdrew to \"regroup\".", "A \"fiscal event\" to outline funding to tackle the cost-of-living crisis is still due to take place.", "Thousands pay their respects as the late monarch's coffin makes a six-hour journey from Balmoral.", "Thousands of people had gathered throughout the day outside the castle before the four arrived.", "A transformation was triggered by the Queen on her visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011.", "Her cortege from Balmoral to Edinburgh wended its way past the villages, towns and cities she knew so well.", "Power cuts have affected nine million people in revenge for a successful counter-attack, Ukraine says.", "The actress memorably played head teacher Mrs McClusky in the BBC TV show's 1980s heyday.", "The Women's Euro Championship helped boost growth though expansion was weaker than expected.", "The Queen's coffin will lie in state in the hall, and King Charles III addressed MPs and peers there.", "Two UK energy firms say a plan to offer discounts on bills could fail if people are not offered more.", "Vulnerable people - including over-65s and pregnant women - should avoid eating it, say food safety advisers.", "The first minister says it is not the right time to discuss the future of the Prince of Wales' role.", "Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey says Queen Elizabeth II was \"no mere figurehead\".", "The King and other royals follow a procession up Edinburgh's Royal Mile to St Giles' Cathedral.", "The BBC's defence correspondent looks at what's behind Ukraine's potential breakthrough in the east.", "Ukraine's military 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"The Queen's coffin is lying in state for a fourth and final day ahead of her state funeral tomorrow.", "The president pays tribute to the thousands of people who died 21 years after the attacks on US soil.", "The Queen spent most summers at Balmoral, the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire.", "Campaigners criticise police action at events to mark King Charles III's ascension to the throne.", "Anti-immigration Sweden Democrats set to become the second largest party with vote too close to call.", "The Queen's visit to Ireland in 2011 was a \"watershed moment\", Taoiseach Micheál Martin tells the BBC.", "Ukraine's army makes significant territorial gains, while Russia hits back with missiles.", "King Charles III addresses both Houses of Parliament for the first time as monarch before heading to Scotland.", "Officials in the city of Changsha say the fire has been extinguished and reported no casualties so far.", "The BBC's Orla Guerin finds Russian tanks and relieved residents in 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Bill Turnbull, who died in August, is celebrated at his funeral in Suffolk.", "The BBC hears accusations that Russian forces electrocuted prisoners and shot civilians in the Kharkiv region.", "Alex Belfield was convicted of stalking four people, including broadcaster Jeremy Vine.", "The UK and US leaders will instead hold talks at the UN in New York later this week.", "A hacker was apparently able to gain access to the company's internal systems.", "Former Wales rugby union captain and legendary broadcaster and commentator Eddie Butler has died at the age of 65.", "PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone were killed in an ambush by Dale Cregan 10 years ago.", "The defence secretary and Scottish secretary take part in the vigil as the monarch lies in state.", "Adio Adeshine appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court after being charged on Friday.", "The warning comes ahead of monetary policy meetings by the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England.", "Cristina Fernández de Kirchner says the Pope 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London on Monday for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.", "The line closes to new joiners, as David Beckham is spotted among the thousands in the queue.", "In his first public comments on Ukraine's recent successes, Mr Putin says he is in \"no hurry\".", "The US star is sentenced to 15 days community service over a fight in a New York strip club in 2018.", "A national two-minute silence is announced for the end of the state funeral service on Monday.", "A miniature thatched cottage was given to a young Princess Elizabeth in 1932.", "The suspect has been released from hospital into police custody, Scotland Yard says.", "Drivers from 12 train companies are expected to walk out on two days in the long-running row over pay.", "The retiring Roger Federer is a sporting great who reached perfection to endear himself to fans and transcend his sport.", "Prince Harry will wear military uniform for the occasion at the request of his father, King Charles III.", "Questions are being asked as even 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What's behind the viewing figures?", "Entry to the line resumes but mourners are warned of waits of at least 19-and-a-half hours.", "MPs, peers and Parliamentary staff can avoid the queue to pay their respects to the Queen.", "Fighting regularly flares up in border disputes between the two Central Asian states.", "Here's what we know so far about who did and did not attend this historic event.", "Liz Truss is to meet US President Joe Biden for the first time as prime minister, at the UN in New York.", "David Beckham and Tyson Fury pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her state funeral.", "The Queen's committal service has taken place at St George's Chapel, Windsor.", "In an interview with the BBC, Justin Trudeau said Canada's system offers 'extraordinary stability'.", "Protests have continued for five successive nights since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.", "The late monarch was laid to rest with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, in Windsor on Monday.", "The prime minister tells the BBC lifting a cap on bonuses is part of a plan to increase growth.", "In living rooms and parks, pubs and town squares, people marked the Queen's funeral in their own way.", "As Ukraine's counter-offensive gathers pace, Russian-backed officials declare plans for an urgent vote.", "Canada's prime minister was filmed singing in a London hotel two days before the funeral.", "King Charles led other royals in a sombre procession behind his mother's coffin to its final resting place.", "More than 90 images and videos were leaked from the franchise's next instalment, developer Rockstar confirms.", "But senior royals observe a further week of mourning after burying the Queen in a private service.", "Mahsa Amini, 22, collapsed after being held by morality police for allegedly breaking hijab rules.", "Huge crowds lined the Long Walk as the procession headed to St George's Chapel.", "The BBC has been collecting your stories after the death of the UK's longest-reigning monarch, a Queen who meant so much to so many.", "Four tracks reopen but services remain subject to delays and cancellations.", "The Commons and Lords will sit for two days, as MPs and peers mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.", "The licence will pass to Allwyn in 2024 after rival Camelot dropped its legal challenge.", "The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Mexico as the country marked previous shocks that left thousands dead.", "The star was speaking at a memorial gala for the SBTV founder, who died in February aged 31.", "Mohammed Khan appeared in court on Tuesday and denied murdering the Bradford woman.", "The meaning and symbolism behind the Queen's carefully chosen funeral flowers.", "Rail workers will are set to walk out on 1 and 5 October in long-running row over pay.", "The audience peaked during the procession after her coffin had been carried out of Westminster Abbey.", "Seven Sri Lankans say Russian soldiers in Ukraine subjected them to beatings and other abuse.", "The new culture secretary says \"we're making sure that we still agree with that decision\".", "Muick, Sandy and Emma were pictured as their mistress's coffin approached.", "The billionaire will step down from Frasers Group's board and provide the firm with £100m of funding.", "Madeleine McCann's parents lose a legal challenge over handling of a row involving a detective's claims.", "The lawyers have been on an all-out strike since 5 September in England and Wales in a pay dispute.", "Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield were accused of avoiding the queue to see the lying-in-state.", "After the solemnity and silence of the Queen's funeral, UK politics comes roaring back.", "The new chancellor believes removing a cap on bankers' bonuses could boost growth in the City.", "As Ukraine reclaims more land, the Turkish leader says Russia aims to end the war as soon as possible.", "Rosie Cooper was targeted in a plot by a man who wanted to \"replicate\" the killing of MP Jo Cox.", "The UK's independent forecaster has provided an updated outlook for the economy, the BBC understands.", "The service at Westminster Abbey saw Liz Truss joined by predecessors including Boris Johnson and Tony Blair.", "Former pilot, Vyvyan Howard, helped others escape by distracting guards as the tunnels were dug.", "Nanmadol is one of the worst typhoons to strike Japan, with flooding and landslides expected.", "Many companies taking part in the scheme say productivity has been maintained or improved.", "An era was ending right before our eyes, writes Sean Coughlan, who was inside Westminster Abbey.", "In audio exclusively obtained by the BBC the pilot says he heard a \"bang\" on a previous flight.", "Adnan Syed was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999.", "The inquest hears how an armed officer shot Yassar Yaqub on the M62 near Huddersfield.", "Sherri Papini went missing in 2016. 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binding if Moscow turns off the taps this summer.\n\nThe key Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany has been offline for maintenance for 10 days and is due to be turned back on this Thursday.\n\nBut there are concerns Moscow will not follow through on its promise.\n\nAdding to the uncertainty, Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that it was not clear whether or in what condition a turbine from the pipeline would be returned in after repairs in Canada.\n\nThe Russian president said there was a risk the equipment would have to be switched off at \"some point\" and Nord Stream 1 would be shut down.\n\nRussia supplied Europe with 40% of its natural gas last year, with Germany the continent's largest importer in 2020, followed by Italy.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said a Europe-wide cut-off was now a \"likely scenario\".\n\n\"Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon,\" she said. \"Therefore, in any event, whether it's a partial, major cut-off of Russian gas or a total cut-off of Russian gas, Europe needs to be ready.\"\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine it has cut supplies to a number of countries which have rejected its demand for payment for gas in roubles, including Poland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland.\n\nIt has also been accused of reducing supplies to make it more difficult for EU countries to build up reserves ahead of winter.\n\nThe UK gets less than 5% of its gas from Russia, but its gas prices are affected by fluctuations in global markets.\n\nThe Commission said a full cut-off during winter could have a major impact on EU economies, reducing growth by up to 1.5%.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund last week warned it could plunge countries into recession, heightening an energy crisis that has sent consumer bills soaring.\n\nEuropean nations have been trying to build up gas storage ahead of winter in case Moscow further restricts supplies.\n\nThe proposed 15% reduction is compared with average consumption in the same period from 2016 to 2021.\n\nThe gas that is saved would be put into storage, Ms von der Leyen tweeted.\n\n\"This is a big ask for the whole of the EU - but it is necessary to protect us,\" she said.\n\nShe said that some member states are \"more vulnerable\" to gas supply disruption, and that EU states \"all need to be ready to share gas\".\n\nThe plan has hit resistance from Poland, which has filled its gas storage to 98% of capacity and does not feel the need to cut its use.\n\nOther countries have less stored - Hungary, for example, is at 47% of capacity.\n\nThe European Commission suggested measures governments could take to cut gas use, including compensating industries that use less and limiting heating and cooling temperatures in public buildings.\n\nGovernments should also decide the order in which they would force industries to shut down in the event of a supply emergency.\n\nHouseholds are classed as \"protected consumers\" under EU rules and would be shielded from such curbs.\n\nEU member states will vote on the Council's rationing plan at a meeting of energy ministers on 26 July.\n\nGermany has already been taking steps towards gas rationing. In June the country triggered the \"alarm\" stage of an emergency gas plan to deal with shortages.\n\nOn Monday the International Energy Agency (IEA) called on European countries to further reduce gas consumption, saying Russia's latest moves to restrict gas flows, along with other supply disruptions, are a \"red alert\" to the EU.\n\nFatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said that despite efforts to reduce reliance on Russian gas, it hasn't been enough to prevent Europe \"finding itself in an incredibly precarious position today\", adding that the next few months were \"critical\".", "Members of the G7 have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in a bid to hit Moscow's ability to finance the war in Ukraine.\n\nFinance ministers said the cap on crude oil and petroleum products would also help reduce global energy prices. The cap will be set at a level based on a range of technical inputs.\n\n\"We will continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes,\" the G7 said.\n\nRussia said it would stop selling oil to countries that imposed price caps.\n\n\"Companies that impose a price cap will not be among the recipients of Russian oil,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nThe G7 (Group of Seven) consists of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. The group is an organisation of the world's seven largest \"advanced\" economies, which dominate global trade and the international financial system.\n\nAt their virtual meeting, the finance ministers said the oil price cap plan was \"specifically designed\" to reduce Russian revenues and its ability to \"fund its war of aggression\". They also said they wanted to minimise the damaging economic fallout of the conflict, \"especially on low and middle-income countries\".\n\nThe introduction of a price cap on Russian oil means countries that sign up to the policy will only be permitted to purchase Russian oil and petroleum products transported via sea that are sold at or below the price cap.\n\nIn the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine the price of oil soared and has remained at high levels, meaning Russia has increase its revenues from the fossil fuel despite its export volumes falling.\n\nThe EU plans to impose an embargo on Russian crude oil from 5 December. It will apply to crude shipped by tanker and most piped supplies.\n\nChina and India - major trading partners for Russia - may not follow G7 policy on Russian oil, analysts say. They have not joined the Western sanctions targeting Russia.\n\nUK Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi said the G7 were \"united against this barbaric aggression\", adding the price cap would \"curtail Putin's capacity to fund his war\".\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said a cap would also help fight inflation, which is on the rise in many of the world's economies.\n\nThe price cap helps achieve \"our dual goals of putting downward pressure on global energy prices while denying Putin revenue to fund his brutal war in Ukraine\", she said.\n\nThe G7 agreement to impose a cap on the price of Russian oil is certainly symbolic. How effective it is in practice will depend on the level of the cap and how it is enforced.\n\nEnergy prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine - and the revenues from oil sales have been helping to finance Vladimir Putin's aggression.\n\nSo cut off that financial lifeline, and waging war becomes much more difficult.\n\nIn fact, oil from Russia has been a lot cheaper than crude from other sources for months, due to a combination of official sanctions and a reluctance by some to trade in it.\n\nBut refiners in places like India and China have still been happy to buy it, and Russia's coffers have been filling up as a result.\n\nSo the price cap needs to be a lot lower than the level Russian oil is already trading at - and the enforcement mechanism needs to be absolutely watertight.\n\nThe devil will be in the detail - and the detail is something we don't yet have.", "WWE SmackDown women's champion Liv Morgan will wrestle in the women's championship\n\nWrestling fans have been warned to plan ahead with 70,000 people expected at WWE's first UK stadium show in 30 years.\n\nThe Clash in the Castle is at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Saturday.\n\nThree Ed Sheeran gigs at the stadium caused travel chaos in May, including motorway tailbacks, parking pandemonium and railway station queues.\n\nTransport for Wales [TFL] said it had a \"well-established plan in place\" to avoid disruption.\n\nWWE's last major UK stadium event was the 1992 Summerslam at Wembley Stadium.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tens of thousands of wrestling fans get ready for Saturday’s Clash in the Castle\n\nScottish WWE star Drew McIntyre has said he is excited to perform in front of UK fans - \"the best in the world\".\n\nViewers from all corners of the globe are set to tune in to the event.\n\nThe wrestling organisation also announced it will fund all 12 UK Childline centres on the day of the show at a cost of £30,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wrestler Drew McIntyre: \"This was dream of mine for some time\"\n\nPeople going have been advised to leave extra time for the journey to Cardiff.\n\nRail upgrades and routine roadworks are suspended to avoid disruption.\n\nRoads in Cardiff city centre will begin to shut from 07:00 BST on Saturday, with a full closure in place from midday until midnight on \"health and safety grounds to ensure people can safely enter and leave the stadium\".\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 Traffic Wales South 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\nPark and ride to the event is available for £10 from 09:00 at Leckwith Stadium, accessed from the M4 via exit 33.\n\nRail passengers have also been told that all services around Cardiff will be busy and are being encouraged to plan their journeys carefully.\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 Trafnidiaeth Cymru Trenau Transport for Wales Rail 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 2 by Trafnidiaeth Cymru Trenau Transport for Wales Rail\n\n\"Queues are unavoidable with so many people wishing to travel,\" said Jan Chaudhry-Van der Velde, managing director of TfW.\n\n\"We have a detailed and well-established plan in place for after the event and it's vital that people familiarise themselves with the post-event queuing system,\" he added.\n\nFans queue outside Cardiff Central railway station after a Stereophonics and Tom Jones concert in Cardiff in June\n\nA queuing system will again be in place at Central Square and Great Western Railway (GWR) is putting on extra late trains to Newport, Bristol Temple Meads and Swansea.\n\n\"We're doing all we can to help customers home following the wrestling,\" said Richard Rowland of GWR. \"But Cardiff Central is going to be especially busy after the WWE and we would encourage customers to check journey times.\"\n\nAll bus services into the city centre - including Cardiff Bus, Stagecoach and NAT services - will be affected and diverted.\n\nBianca Blair Crawford says it was \"important\" for the world to see women getting top billing at a WWE event\n\nThirty years after the WWE's last UK event featured only male wrestlers, women are now top of the bill.\n\nOne of them, Bianca Blair Crawford, said to be in such a \"high profile spot\" in an event outside the United States was \"important for the world to see\".\n\n\"Walking around and seeing so many women's faces on all the posters on all the streets...\" said the wrestler whose ring name is Bianca Belair. \"It's an amazing feeling.\"\n\nFergal Devitt aka Finn Bálor has wrestled in Wales before\n\nIrish wrestler Fergal Devitt, who uses the ring name Finn Bálor, said it was not his first time competing in Cardiff.\n\n\"A long time ago I wrestled in Cathays leisure centre in front of about 55 or 60 people,\" he said. \"Tomorrow is going to be a little increase in the amount of people.\"\n\nWrestling fan Charlotte Peacock, of Cardiff, and a Welsh knitting group knitted a WWE belt and jumper with the Welsh flags.\n\nThis knitted belt was presenting to Scottish wrestler Drew McIntyre\n\n\"The reaction's been absolutely awesome,\" she said. \"There's a very small group of knitter and wrestling fans and I think I found all of the ones in Wales and together we've done this amazing project.\"\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 WWE TheOlderDog Match Card This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe card for WWE's Clash at the Castle includes six matches:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many, many politicians want to become prime minister. It's the top job, the chance to be the boss, the one politician in the country that is guaranteed a place in the history books and everyone's living rooms on the telly.\n\nOn Monday we'll learn who is the new leader of the Conservative Party - and our next PM.\n\nOn our new show, starting this Sunday on BBC One, I'll be asking the two people vying for that responsibility - Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak - why they want the job.\n\nAnd given the extreme problems whoever walks through the No 10 door will have to solve - I'll be asking whether they have the answers to the nation's questions.\n\nThe next occupant of this famous address - and Larry the No 10 cat's future colleague - face a raft of challenges\n\nFirst - how on earth will they help families and firms keep the lights on in the next few months?\n\nBills aren't just squeezing consumers, demanding we all make some different choices, but are presenting costs that are simply impossible for many of us to pay.\n\nThis is not the same as general worries about making ends meet. This is the prospect of costs that some businesses and millions of households just won't be able to cope with.\n\nWe've all seen how parts of the NHS are pressed - struggling to provide anything like the level of care the public expects.\n\nMaking the right decisions or having a controversial conversation that does not involve additional spending will require political gumption, determination and perhaps a lot of luck.\n\nThat's even before considering multiple other issues like strikes on the railways, tensions with the EU over Northern Ireland and the push for a new referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nThere's a political challenge too. Many Conservatives acknowledge privately that the party is exhausted after more than a decade in power.\n\nAfter all the psychodrama of the Johnson years and the pressures of the pandemic there is a question over the party's real identity. Can his successor keep together different groups of voters with very different wants and needs?\n\nAnd like no other recent leader they will inherit a continuing war as well. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has changed the dial. It's put boosters on energy prices and shaken Europe's sense of security.\n\nBoris Johnson relished the role of being Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's diplomatic best friend and the two Tory contenders have both promised vigorous support.\n\nYet with the economic impact of the war becoming ever more acute is there a risk that support could fade?\n\nOlena Zelenska will also be on Sunday's programme\n\nUkraine's First Lady, Olena Zelenska - who is also on the show this Sunday - fears so.\n\nShe acknowledged the cost of living was \"very tough\" but said \"the prices are going up in Ukraine as well\".\n\nUnderlining the still perilous situation her country faces, she added: \"But in addition our people get killed… when you start counting pennies on your bank account or in your pocket, we do the same and count our casualties.\"\n\nOur 56th prime minister will seek to maintain Boris Johnson's level of support for Ukraine, but managing the impact of Putin's aggression and its profound effect on energy prices is at the top of a challenging list.\n\nMrs Zelenska shied away from making a political statement on the UK's next leader. She did wish them good luck - and there is no question that's something that they will need plenty of.", "The FBI searched former President Donald Trump's home on 8 August\n\nFBI agents found dozens of empty folders marked as classified during a search of Donald Trump's Florida home last month, a court filing shows.\n\nThe document, made public by a Florida court, provides an inventory of the contents of 33 boxes recovered from the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate.\n\nIt also shows top secret files were recovered from his personal office.\n\nMr Trump, who is being investigated over his handling of classified records, denies wrongdoing.\n\nPrevious court filings have confirmed the ex-president held classified records in storage areas at Mar-a-Lago, but the document unsealed on Friday showed dozens of files were found in Mr Trump's office.\n\nAmong the files allegedly recovered from that room during the unprecedented 8 August search were:\n\nMore than 11,000 government documents in total were retrieved by the FBI from the Palm Beach estate, say investigators.\n\nUS presidents must transfer all of their documents and emails to the National Archives. The justice department is looking into whether Mr Trump improperly handled records by taking them from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office in January 2021.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Trump and his lawyers failed to provide relevant documents voluntarily, and \"likely concealed or removed\" records as part of an effort to obstruct the investigation.\n\nMr Trump has dismissed these accusations, arguing he had already declassified the documents that were in his possession. He has also argued that the files were kept securely in a storage room at Mar-a-Lago.\n\nBut the inventory unsealed on Friday showed FBI agents retrieved about 1,500 documents from his office as well as folders labelled with classified banners that were empty.\n\nThe court filing also confirms previous reports that many records were mixed with personal effects, including clothes, books and newspapers.\n\nTaylor Budowich, a spokesman for Mr Trump, said the unsealed document showed the government's actions were \"not some surgical, confined search and retrieval\" but \"a SMASH AND GRAB\".\n\nThe more detailed inventory of the classified material seized by the justice department in its Mar-a-Lago search doesn't shed much light on what exactly was in the documents.\n\nWhat it does reveal, however, is where they were located.\n\nOf the 18 Top Secret documents listed, seven were in Donald Trump's office, not in the estate's storage area, as were 17 of the 54 Secret documents.\n\nThis suggests that these highly classified items were not just gathering dust in boxes in the bowels of Mar-a-Lago, they were at the former president's fingertips - and that he may have had them accessible for a reason.\n\nThe government list does not go into further detail about where in the president's office these documents were located, although in a court filing earlier this week the justice department said three classified items were found in his office's desks.\n\nMr Trump has also publicly complained that the FBI accessed his safe, so that could be another possible location.\n\nThe inventory also shows that many classified documents, in the storage room and in Mr Trump's office, were intermixed with photographs, newspaper clippings, \"clothing/gift items\" and empty folders - underlying the apparently haphazard method of boxing and removing material in the final days the Trump presidency.\n\nSeparately, District Court Judge Aileen Cannon - who ordered the inventory to be unsealed - is expected to soon rule on a request by Mr Trump's legal team for an independent expert to review the seized documents.\n\nLawyers for the former president argue that the outside legal expert, known as a special master, is needed to determine whether the files are covered by executive privilege, which allows presidents to keep certain communications under wraps, or by attorney-client privilege.\n\nIn a filing on Wednesday, they claimed that, without neutral oversight, the justice department would \"impugn, leak, and publicise selective aspects\" of its investigation.\n\nThe department earlier opposed the move as unnecessary, claiming its review of the retrieved records was already complete. It also said the appointment could delay its investigation as the special master would likely need to obtain security clearance as well as authorisation from the intelligence agencies to view the materials.\n\nAt a hearing on Thursday, Judge Cannon indicated that she may grant Mr Trump's request.", "Contact tracing teams were facing unprecedented demand at the time of the whistleblowing complaint in June last year\n\nA public standards watchdog has upheld concerns that Scotland's contact tracers did not have enough training to give correct advice to the public.\n\nCallers to Scotland's Covid helpline faced a \"greater risk\" of getting the wrong advice, the Independent National Whistleblowing Officer has ruled.\n\nThis was partly because fewer checks for mistakes were made during surges of the virus last year.\n\nNHS Scotland said it had since made improvements to the service.\n\nConcerns about the contract tracing system were raised by a worker on the Covid advice line run by NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) last June.\n\nThe anonymous complaint claimed insufficient training and information meant contact tracing staff sometimes gave out incorrect and outdated advice, and that quality assurance measures were not up to scratch.\n\nIt came at a time when a surge in Covid infections meant Scotland's contact tracing system was \"straining\" and there was a shift to focusing on more complex, high-risk cases.\n\nA report by the Independent National Whistleblowing Officer (INWO) has upheld the complaint that staff did not have sufficient training, and access to sufficient information to provide correct information to the public.\n\nIt ruled: \"There is reason to believe there were greater risks of callers receiving incorrect information about exposure and isolation dates at the time that [the complainant] raised their concern.\"\n\nIt added that this was because of \"reduced quality control, rotation of staff, difficulties in communicating updates and some staff being unable to access relevant training\".\n\nA survey of 159 NSS call centre staff in June last year found some felt they \"did not have sufficient time and resources to manage their training and knowledge\" when on calls to the public.\n\nIn addition, it was found that moving staff between different call centre services, such as booking vaccine appointments, was adding to this pressure.\n\nThe NSS told the INWO that during surges of Covid infections \"the number of cases reviewed was limited by the availability of quality control staff\" and a \"proportionate approach had to be taken to prioritise higher risk cases\".\n\nOne witness said that one in 10 low risk cases were being checked for mistakes in June 2021.\n\nA spot check was undertaken in 40 cases where the date of exposure to Covid had been changed.\n\nIt found 91% had complied with the agreed call centre scripts but that a \"relatively high number\" (25% of all cases) had the exposure date changed after the initial call by a quality control or supervisor check.\n\nThe INWO concluded that the \"normal controls in place to minimise and rectify errors were not fully applied\".\n\nThe investigation relates to the period prior to June 2021 when concerns were first raised with NSS.\n\nThe health board said changes to working practices, information sharing, training and quality assurance have been made since then.\n\nMary Morgan, chief executive of NHS NSS, said: \"Contact centre staff were provided with a range of training and ongoing support to ensure they were able to undertake their duties safely and effectively.\n\n\"Neither NSS's internal investigation nor the investigation conducted by INWO found examples of members of the public who had received incorrect public health advice.\"\n\nShe added that at the time of the 2021 complaint, \"the national call centre was aware of the need to further develop the training at this time to meet the changing needs of the service and had a plan in place to do so\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Passengers were unable to move their cars as the queues built up\n\nTravellers heading to the UK have suffered delays of up to six hours as they queued at the Port of Calais.\n\nFerry operators DFDS and P&O Ferries apologised for the long wait times at UK border controls on Saturday.\n\nPassengers shared their \"misery\" at being stuck in cars for hours heading back from mainland Europe, especially as some had children with them.\n\nDFDS said queues could reach two and a half hours at border controls on Sunday.\n\nA spokesperson earlier told BBC News: \"Calais was affected by 'the perfect storm' of summer volumes in combination with post-Brexit border checks, causing six hours of queuing.\n\n\"We worked together with partners to reduce the queues as quickly as we could.\"\n\nJo Van Herwegen, from Surrey, said she \"felt lucky\" to have water with her while she waited for five hours in the French heat with her two children.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, she said: \"It was little to do with the amount of people but with the poor layout and no traffic control.\n\n\"We were travelling back from Belgium and expected to be delayed, so arrived early.\n\n\"There weren't many cars but an hour later we had moved just two cars. The way this terminal is designed is the problem.\"\n\nPassenger Josh Williams added he was also stuck waiting in Calais for five hours on Saturday to get a ferry back to the UK.\n\nHe shared pictures of long lines of cars filled with families trying to get back to Dover ahead of the new school year starting for many in England next week.\n\nPeople at the port reported delays lasting nearly six hours\n\nLeanne Wood, from near York, and her two children arrived home in the early hours of Sunday morning because of the queues at Calais.\n\nShe said: \"We arrived early and the queues started forming but it was taking too long because there was no space for the cars.\n\n\"The reason for the delay seemed to be British passport control - they seemed to be on a 'go slow'.\n\n\"They knew there would be British families coming back but it was as though they wanted to create misery - to make a point.\"\n\nEarlier on Saturday afternoon, DFDS warned on social media the queues could potentially last for six hours for people travelling from Calais.\n\nP&O added extra vessels were used for passengers who had missed their booked sailings, to \"help with the passengers that have been stuck at border control\", as queues continued into the evening.\n\nThe issue appeared to be improved on Sunday, when DFDS said at 12:00 BST there were 45 minute queues at border control, and no waits at check-in.\n\nIt earlier said traffic at the ports in Dunkirk, in France, and Dover, in the UK, was \"free-flowing through check-in and border controls\" throughout the day.\n\nP&O Ferries tweeted that queues were at about an hour.\n\nBut DFDS went on to post just before 18:00 BST that although there were \"no queues at check-in\", there were currently \"queues of up to 150 minutes at border controls\" in Calais.\n\nIt added the Dunkirk port was now seeing waiting times of about 45 minutes too.\n\nAt the start of the school holidays in July there were long queues of traffic in Dover as people tried to get through French border control to head to mainland Europe\n\nPassenger Craig Price, from Essex, told the BBC he spent five hours at Calais Saturday afternoon after driving through Italy and France.\n\n\"We arrived at 3pm and got through at 8pm,\" he said.\n\n\"The design of the port does not seem able to cope with the need for French and UK border control,\" he said, adding that two-thirds of UK border control booths were manned.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Home Office and Border Force for comment.\n\nThere were similar wait times in Calais just days earlier on 24 August due to extra traffic arriving from the Eurotunnel.\n\nEurotunnel Le Shuttle passengers had to leave their vehicles and walk through an emergency service tunnel when the train's alarms went off.\n\nHave you been affected by delays at Calais? Share 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.", "Long queues have formed outside water distribution centres as temperatures rise above 90F (32C)\n\nMore than a million bottles of water have been handed out in less than a day to people in Jackson, Mississippi due to a long-running water supply issue.\n\nNearly 200,000 people in the state's capital have been unable to use tap water for five days after flooding disabled a water treatment centre.\n\nOfficials say progress is being made to restore the supply as the Labor Day holiday weekend approaches.\n\nBut locals say relief is desperately needed due to the sweltering heat.\n\nBoth Mississippi National Guard troops - who have handed out 1.1m bottles of water in 24 hours - and an army of local volunteers have been helping to get water to people who are unable to drink tap water, bathe or flush toilets.\n\n\"It's been awful going without water,\" Shirley Barnes told the BBC as she queued for more bottles on Friday. \"It's been a horrific experience.\"\n\n\"Trying to do your normal routines, that's been the hardest. Trying to boil water. Washing your face, taking your bath, cooking. It's like you living back in the caveman days.\"\n\n\"I never thought I would be in this predicament, but here we are,\" she added.\n\nShirley Barnes said the problems with the city's water supply had been \"a horrific experience\"\n\nDebbie Upchurch, a local church volunteer, has been bringing bottled water to Jackson to distribute to locals.\n\nHer daughter, a teacher in the community, has not been able to hold classes in-person this week and has been teaching online instead.\n\n\"Right now they can't meet for class because there's no water to cook with or [for] the restrooms,\" she said. \"Sometimes that's the only meal they have, is what they have at breakfast and lunch at the schools.\"\n\nFirst Lieutenant Roman Ramirez from the Mississippi National Guard told the BBC that his site was staffed with 44 soldiers who had distributed around 80,000 bottles by midday on Friday.\n\n\"There's a lot of emotion for the citizens here, but our job is just to show up and help where we can - give as much water as we can,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lieutenant Roman Ramirez told the BBC his troops were giving out water as fast as they could\n\nJackson resident Ryan Bell lives opposite the state fairground, where bottled water is being distributed.\n\n\"Everyone is going through this crisis, everyone in the city of Jackson, we're all in this together,\" he said.\n\nEven before the flooding that caused the supply problem, some residents in this majority black city have not had reliable access to tap water.\n\n\"It's been an ongoing issue,\" said Mr Bell, who runs a local construction company.\n\n\"We do have an ageing infrastructure being an older city. All we ask for really is help, support, understanding and prayers for the people of Jackson.\"\n\nA state of emergency has been declared by President Joe Biden.\n\nSome residents do not even have enough water pressure to flush toilets, and are having to use portaloos that have popped up around the city including outside the statehouse building.\n\nMeanwhile, long queues have formed outside water distribution centres as temperatures rise above 90F (32C).\n\nJackson's mayor said on Friday that progress was being made to restore the plant back to normal operations, but there was still no timetable for how long the issues would likely last.\n\nHomes and businesses near to the plant have had their water pressure restored, but buildings further away still have weak or no water pressure.\n\nAs the water pressure increases, officials warn that it could cause pipes to rupture across the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where water is so dirty 'we shower with mouths shut'\n• None 'No water to drink, fight fires or flush toilets'", "A tribute was paid to Olivia Pratt-Korbel on the big screen at Goodison Park\n\nAn image of Olivia Pratt-Korbel who was shot dead in her Liverpool home has been displayed on the big screen at Goodison Park at the Merseyside derby.\n\nThe nine-year-old was shot and her mother was injured after a gunman chased a man into her home in Dovecot on 22 August.\n\nNeither men had links to her family.\n\nA minute's applause was also held nine minutes into the Everton v Liverpool game and fans sang Merseyside in tribute to the youngster.\n\nAn anti-knife and gun crime banner was unfurled in the Bullens Road stand at the Premier League game, which kicked off at 12:30 BST, stretching across Everton and Liverpool supporters.\n\nAs well as displaying Olivia's image on the big screen, it also featured an appeal by Merseyside Police for people with information on the incident to come forward, as well as two other recent fatal shootings in the city.\n\nOlivia died after being shot by a gunman chasing a man into her home\n\nSam Rimmer, 22, was shot in Dingle on 16 August while Ashley Dale, 28, was found with gunshot wounds in the back garden of her Old Swan home in the early hours of 21 August.\n\nThe Everton Fans' Forum urged both Blues and Reds \"to come together\" in unity and anyone with information to \"tell the authorities\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Keeping quiet is not an option.\"\n\nIt added: \"Enough is enough.\"\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\nIt comes after her family asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" to her funeral.\n\nThe service will take place at St Margaret Mary's in Dovecot on 15 September, according to a notice by Debbie Bennett Funeral Directors.\n\nThe notice posted on the funeral directors website said: \"Olivia will be sadly missed by all her family and friends.\n\n\"Funeral mass at St Margaret Mary's Church, Pilch Lane, Dovecot on Thursday 15th September at 11am, followed by a private burial.\"\n\n\"Family requested everyone to wear a splash of pink,\" it added.\n\nMore than £40,000 has been raised via a fundraising page for Olivia's family.\n\nShe died after she was shot in her home when a gunman chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into the property at about 22:00 BST.\n\nA post-mortem examination found her medical cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring the opening of Olivia's inquest on Tuesday, Liverpool Senior Coroner Andre Rebello said armed response officers found her with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\nHe said a police officer had \"scooped\" up Olivia and ran with her to try to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nOlivia's mother Cheryl was injured as she tried to shut the door, but the attacker fired more shots at the man he had pursued.\n\nShe is still receiving treatment for her injuries, police said.\n\nCCTV footage of the gunman fleeing the scene was released by police on Thursday as the investigation continues into her death.\n\nA 36-year-old man from Huyton and a 33-year-old from Dovecot were arrested on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder in relation to Olivia's death last week and have been released on bail.\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 CCTV image of the victim was released with permission from his family\n\nThe family of a Sikh priest \"left for dead\" in an attack more than two months ago have appealed for help to catch his attacker.\n\nThe unnamed 62-year-old man was left with life-changing injuries and has been in hospital since the attack in the centre of Manchester on 23 June.\n\nCCTV shows he was attacked on Tib Street, near to Hilton Street.\n\nThe family of the victim said the \"heinous act\" had \"left our hearts vacant\".\n\nPolice have released an image of a man they believe could help them with the investigation\n\nPolice were called to a report of a man found unconscious in the middle of the road shortly before 18:30 BST.\n\nCCTV footage of the incident has been released by police, with the backing of the victim's family.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has also released images of a man and a woman who it would like to talk to as part of its investigation.\n\nIn a statement, the victim's family said: \"Our loving and caring husband/father had his life tragically altered forever when a thug cowardly committed this heinous act, leaving him in a pool of blood with catastrophic permanent life-changing brain damage and walked away as if it was normal behaviour.\n\n\"A devoted husband and father who has lived, worked and supported a community in a city he has loved for 37 years and now cannot even leave the hospital.\"\n\nPolice also want to speak to a woman in connection with the incident\n\nThey said he was \"left for dead on the bustling streets of Manchester\".\n\nThe family said the victim \"could not say a single hateful or negative comment\" and \"taught those around him to practice kindness\".\n\n\"We have lost the life of the party, the light in amongst any darkness in our lives and the laughter and joy he brought home every day, has disappeared and left our hearts vacant,\" they said.\n\n\"We will sadly never get the man back who left for work that day and thought he would walk home to enjoy the nice weather.\n\n\"We appeal to anyone who knows anything or knows the offender to come forward.\n\n\"Please act today not out of hate but to stop this happening again to someone else and tearing another family apart, as we would not wish this anguish on anyone else.\"\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 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\nAndy Murray's hopes of reaching the last 16 of a major for the first time since 2017 were crushed by Italy's Matteo Berrettini at the US Open.\n\nMurray, 35, paid the price for a slow start as he lost 6-4 6-4 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 against the 13th seed.\n\nFellow Briton Jack Draper is also out after having to retire injured from his match against Russia's Karen Khachanov.\n\nDraper, 20, levelled at one-set all, and served for the third set, but had to stop when trailing 6-5.\n\nMurray and Draper were among the four British men to reach the third round at Flushing Meadows, setting a new record for the nation at the US Open.\n\nBritish number one Cameron Norrie, seeded seventh, and 20th seed Dan Evans make up the quartet and play their last-32 matches on Saturday.\n• None Wimbledon runner-up Jabeur into New York last 16 for first time\n\n'He served well, I didn't - that was the difference'\n\nAfter being hampered by a catalogue of niggles following major hip surgery in 2019, 35-year-old Murray won back-to-back matches at Flushing Meadows to reach the third round of a major for only the second time since his comeback.\n\nThat set up a tough test for the Scot, who feared he would not be able to play again after the career-threatening operation, against the powerful Berrettini.\n\nOn a bright New York afternoon, Murray struggled with his serve in the opening two sets - landing 42% of his first serves and losing three of five break points - and the constant pressure proved too much against someone of Berrettini's quality.\n\n\"I served pretty poorly for a large part of the match, which hurt me a lot. It's always tough down one end at that time of day [because of the sun],\" said three-time major champion Murray.\n\n\"From one end it is understandable, but I just couldn't find any rhythm on serve.\"\n\nBerrettini, who reached the 2019 semi-finals, tested Murray's movement by employing the drop shot in the first set and the tactic proved successful as the 26-year-old Italian broke for a 4-3 lead.\n\nThere had been little between the pair but a double fault on break point cost Murray dear. That gave the confidence and impetus to Berrettini to close out the set, sealing it with a hold to love completed by a unstoppable forehand winner.\n\nA second double fault came at another inopportune time for Murray, creating a break point in the first game of the second set which Berrettini took with another forehand winner after a long rally.\n\nMurray, now ranked 51st in the world, quickly fought back as Berrettini could not consolidate, but in the ninth game produced another double fault on a break point which allowed Berrettini to serve out for a commanding lead.\n\n\"He served extremely well, got loads of free points on his serve. I didn't. That was the difference,\" said Murray.\n\nMurray pleased with physical condition in New York\n\nIf anyone could fight back from two sets down, it would be former world number one Murray.\n\nMurray had done that on 10 previous occasions in his career, but a low first-serve percentage continued to cause him trouble at the start of the third set.\n\nMurray had to save five break points across his opening three service games, showing more of his trademark fight to keep the set on serve and then seeing off three more break points at 5-5.\n\nMurray's resistance was rewarded by clawing a set back with a superb tie-break, but saw what had been a tight fourth set quickly swing away from him.\n\nAfter being unable to take a break point for a 4-3 lead, a poor service next game by the Briton - starting with an ill-judged drop shot for 0-15, then followed by a volley into the net and a weak backhand from the baseline - enabled Berrettini to close out victory.\n\nThat brought an end to Murray's run, 10 years on from his breakthrough major win in New York.\n\n\"I thought physically I did well, considering coming in I wasn't feeling great,\" said Murray, who had been suffering cramps earlier in the North American hard-court swing.\n\n\"But physically I did well in all the matches, which was good.\"\n\nAt the other generational end of British men's tennis, 20-year-old Draper was aiming to further enhance his burgeoning reputation in his first appearance at this stage of a major.\n\nDraper, playing in the main draw of an overseas Grand Slam tournament for the first time, earned an impressive win over Finland's Emil Ruusuvuori in the first round and topped that by taking the scalp of Canadian sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime.\n\nHis hopes of earning another notable win, this time against former world number eight Khachanov, were cruelly ruined by a hamstring injury.\n\n\"I've had problems with it before and maybe this time it was just a lot of tennis I've played in the last seven weeks maybe just caught up a little bit on me,\" said Draper.\n\n\"I went out to a wide ball and I just felt a twinge. I feel like when you strain something, and getting worse, there is just no going back from that really.\"\n\nDraper is set to move into the world's top 50 next week after an impressive breakthrough season and again demonstrated the problems he can cause seasoned opponents.\n\nKhachanov, seeded 27th, dominated the first set with his big serving as Draper struggled with his own first-serve percentage.\n\nBut he showed his fight and mentality to win the second set from a break down and led 5-2 in the third as 26-year-old Khachanov's mood clouded.\n\nBy that point Draper had already showed signs of the leg injury, needing a medical time-out after the fifth game, before the issue worsened.\n\nNow struggling to push off on serve, Draper hit a double fault at break point when he served for the set at 5-4 and produced three more on his way to being broken for 6-5.\n\nAt the changeover he sat with his head in his hands and decided he had no option other than to quit after a brief chat with the physio.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThat was the 16th match of Jack Draper's North American tour, which has been the longest of his life.\n\nIt was also his 56th match of the year, and for all the frustration at a hamstring problem cropping up in the third round of a Grand Slam match he looked very capable of winning, he knows his conditioning has improved dramatically over the past couple of years.\n\nDraper was outside the world's top 250 at the start of the year: he will make his debut in the top 50 when the post-US Open list is published.\n\nAndy Murray is moving closer to the top 40, and also thinks he has solved his recent cramping issues.\n\nHe believes it was caused by a lack of hydration, and says he has been taking a minimum of an extra half litre of sodium solution on board every hour during this US Open.\n• None Steve Coogan chats to Nihal Arthanayake about British humour and cancel culture\n• None 'Policies we improvised became law within years' The creative force behind Alan Partridge talks about his cultural influences", "A UK ticket-holder has won Friday's £110m EuroMillions jackpot, it has been confirmed.\n\nIf the winner is a single ticket-holder, it would make them richer than Harry Styles and Gary Barlow, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nOnly 15 UK players have won a jackpot of more than £100m, making this win one of the country's biggest.\n\nFriday's winning numbers were 7, 12, 13, 20 and 45, with 3 and 12 selected for the Lucky Star numbers.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said it was a \"fabulous night\".\n\n\"Players are urged to check their tickets and to give us a call if they think they are tonight's lucky winner,\" he said.\n\nMore than £30m is generated every week from the National Lottery for causes across the UK, Mr Carter added.\n\n\"This supports everything from local projects making a difference where you live, to our nations' athletes at the recent Commonwealth Games,\" he said.\n\nIn July, a UK ticket-holder became the biggest National Lottery winner of all time with a record-breaking £195m..\n\nThe EuroMillions game is played in nine countries.\n\nJoe and Jess Thwaite scooped £184m on the EuroMillions in May", "Jamie Corstorphine showing the evidence of where a large gate was hung on the wall\n\nThe entrance to a forgotten square which was once home to upper-class society has been found inside a pub during renovation work following a huge fire.\n\nUsing old maps and directories, experts have discovered the goods entrance led through slum dwellings into an area where physicians, advocates and writers lived.\n\nBrown Square, which no longer exists, represented the most ambitious new development ever attempted when it was built in the early 1760s in Edinburgh.\n\nIt was the first development outside the old city walls and offered an exclusive setting for Edinburgh's professional classes.\n\nThe entrance passed through an old slum tenement and shop store in Candlemakers Row - where candles were stored outside of the city in case of fire.\n\nAn extension was later built onto the corner of the building when George IV Bridge was built on top of Brown Square between 1827 and 1836.\n\nIt has now been discovered that this contained an ironmongers, which sold the working classes everything from spades and shovels to turnip cutters and candles.\n\nJust a few doors up the street at number 59 was a coaching courier.\n\nExperts believe it would have used the ironmongers for tacks for the horses shoes and parts for bridles.\n\nJamie Corstorphine, a local historian who is manager of the City of the Dead Tours, said: \"It would have been like a 24-hour taxi rank but with horses and coaches.\"\n\nArchways were uncovered after layers of plaster, wood and corrugated iron were peeled off following the fire\n\nMr Corstorphine carried out weeks of research for BBC Scotland following the discovery of the old entrance inside The Oz Bar.\n\nHe said: \"We can see here that the lower classes lived right next to the upper classes, something that still happens today in Edinburgh.\n\n\"At the bottom of the street is the Cowgate which was full of street hawkers and was a low class of living.\n\n\"It's where the Irish immigrants set up a life as best they could in the 1820s - it was called Little Ireland.\"\n\nHe said the gentry would cross George IV Bridge and look down at the poor people in the Cowgate and Merchant Street.\n\nThe fire is understood to have started inside the basement of Patisserie Valerie cafe\n\nMr Corstorphine said: \"These men in their top hats, canes, pocket watches and breeches would enjoy looking down at this living zoo, it was entertainment for them.\n\n\"It was a self pick-up to remind them there was always someone worse off than you.\"\n\nRobert Louis Stevenson said in 1878 of nearby South Bridge: \"To look over the South Bridge and see the Cowgate below full of crying hawkers is to view one rank of society from another in the twinkling of an eye.\"\n\nGeorge IV Bridge was built as a route to connect the centre of Edinburgh - the Royal Mile - over the Cowgate and Merchant Street to the south side.\n\nIn August 2021 a huge blaze destroyed many businesses at one end of the 300 metre long bridge, which stretches up through two streets.\n\nThe blaze is thought to have started at Patisserie Valerie, which has a basement running under the Elephant House cafe on George IV Bridge - the name for the street at the top of the bridge.\n\nThe alarm was raised by a cleaner at the Elephant House cafe.\n\nThe Oz Bar and Merchants restaurant are at the bottom of the bridge in the street below. They were flooded with thousands of gallons of water used by firefighters to put out the blaze.\n\nThe water damage meant workers were forced to remove several layers from the pub's walls in Candlemaker Row - revealing stonework which was different to the rest of the building.\n\nThis photograph from 1900 shows 33 Candlemaker Row in the far right of the picture\n\nAfter visiting the site Mr Corstorphine said he could see that the inside wall had at one time been outside.\n\nHe said: \"This inside wall dates around 1776 and is the original frontage of the tenement.\n\n\"You can see where a big gate has been hanging in the arch, which would have been a goods entrance from Candlemaker Row leading into Brown Square.\n\n\"It is rough cast the same as the course rubble frontages in the area at the time, so it is clear the iron merchant and now Oz Bar was an extension. These were slum dwellings.\"\n\nHe was also able to discover that iron merchant Redpath, Brown and Co traded from there from 1838.\n\nBrown Square was built by architect James Brown, who also designed George Square, which still exists today in Edinburgh.\n\nArchives show that those who lived in Brown Square included physician Joseph McKenzie; advocate John McLaurin; lord justice clerk Thomas Miller; Lady Agnew; and a writer to the signet, Isaac Grant.\n\nFirefighters checking the building outside the Oz Bar during the fire last year\n\nMr Corstorphine said it was a very interesting and exciting discovery.\n\nHe said: \"The fire was a travesty and all the businesses are still closed more than a year on.\n\n\"The only good to come from it is that we would never have found all this historical evidence if it had not been for the fire.\"\n\nFraser Scott, 23, was one of the workmen who discovered the wall.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"There was a big thick layer of plaster and I had to carefully chisel it away without damaging the stone.\n\n\"It was detached from the wall because of the water damage.\n\nFraser Scott was one of the workmen who uncovered the old stonework\n\n\"It took two days just to get that final layer off before we wire brushed it and cleaned it.\n\n\"I was over the moon when I saw there was such an old wall behind the plaster and I wondered what stories were behind it. It was very exciting.\"\n\nThe workers called Iain Ponton, the owner of the Oz Bar, when they made the discovery.\n\nThe 46-year-old said: \"When I got a photograph from the contractors saying 'look what we've found' I immediately drove down to the pub.\n\n\"They had to remove layers and layers of wood and corrugated iron on top of plaster. When it all came off it exposed this arch.\n\n\"I got up on the ladder to see as I was very curious, and then over a week they revealed more and more.\"\n\nThe Oz Bar is on the corner of Candlemaker Row and Merchant Street - on the other side of the building and up a level is the top of George IV Bridge which has the Elephant House and Patisserie Valerie - where the fire is understood to have started\n\nHis father, Tom Ponton, opened the pub in 1989 on the site of a derelict Harvey's furniture store.\n\n\"I thought maybe the wall was something to do with the furniture store,\" said Mr Ponton.\n\n\"I had no idea it would actually be evidence of all this history, it's incredible.\"\n\nHe has now vowed not to cover the stonework and archway, but will instead highlight them with lights within the pub.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US man who stole a small aeroplane and threatened to fly it into a Walmart shop has been charged with grand larceny and making terroristic threats.\n\nThe man - named by police as Cory Wayne Patterson - was arrested after landing in a field, having circled near Tupelo, Mississippi, for hours.\n\nThe Walmart was evacuated while police spoke to him in mid-air.\n\nThe suspect worked at the local airport but was not believed to hold a pilot's licence, the city's police said.\n\nHowever, he is known to have received some flight instruction.\n\nMr Patterson is alleged to have stolen the Beechcraft King Air twin-engine aircraft shortly after 05:00 local time (10:00 GMT) before taking to the skies.\n\nThe small utility craft is capable of seating 10-11 people.\n\nShortly after taking control of the plane, the suspect phoned 911, saying he was planning to fly into a branch of Walmart.\n\nThe threat prompted an evacuation of the building and other nearby shops as officers warned of a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nJohn Quaka, the local chief of police, said negotiators managed to persuade Mr Patterson to safely land at the airport - a manoeuvre of which he had no experience - but that he then aborted this plan.\n\nNo details of the negotiators' conversation with the suspect, or his possible motives, have yet been made public.\n\nJust after 09:30, he posted an update on Facebook which \"in essence [...] said goodbye\", Chief Quaka added in his news conference.\n\nFlight-trackers monitored the plane as it charted an erratic course above the city and in the wider area.\n\nSoon afterwards, a live stream by a reporter of local television station WTVA showed the aircraft sitting stationary in a field.\n\nThere was confusion in the moments before the aircraft's landing, after radar contact was lost amid concerns that the vehicle was running out of fuel.\n\nMr Patterson was taken into custody soon after landing.\n\nIn addition to the charges of grand larceny and making terroristic threats, he also faces a federal-level investigation.\n\nState Governor Tate Reeves earlier tweeted his thanks to law enforcement officers for managing the situation with \"extreme professionalism\".", "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.", "Voting has closed in the Conservative leadership contest to decide who will replace Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nThe two contenders, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, will find out which of them has won the ballot of Tory members at 12.30 BST on Monday.\n\nThe winner will be formally appointed prime minister on Tuesday by the Queen.\n\nThey will then begin appointing ministers to their new cabinet.\n\nMr Johnson, who led the Tories to a landslide victory at the 2019 election, will remain in office until the transfer of power is complete.\n\nThe fractious campaign to replace him has seen the candidates regularly attack each other's policies as well as the Tories' record in government.\n\nMs Truss, the foreign secretary, is the clear favourite to win, according to polls of Tory members. She has promised to deliver billions of pounds in tax cuts in an emergency Budget if she wins power.\n\nFormer Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he would cut VAT on energy bills for a year, but permanent tax cuts should wait until inflation goes down.\n\nWith the cap on domestic energy prices set to soar in the autumn, what to do about rising living costs has dominated the contest in recent weeks.\n\nBoth candidates have come under pressure to spell out how they would protect households from the rises, as well as give help to businesses, which are not covered by the price cap.\n\nMr Johnson left big spending decisions to his successor after his resignation in July, leading opposition parties to accuse the government of paralysis.\n\nMs Truss has said she would reverse April's rise to National Insurance and cut green levies on energy bills to help households with costs. She has signalled she would provide more support on top of this, but has offered no details.\n\nMr Sunak has said he would make further payments to pensioners and the low-paid over winter, on top of the payments they are already due to receive.\n\nRishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy (c) cheered him on at a campaign hustings in London\n\nThe contest began in mid-July, when Mr Johnson was forced out by a ministerial revolt over a string of scandals.\n\nThe original field of 11 contenders was whittled down to two in a series of Tory MP ballots, with the final two going into a run-off to be decided by the membership, which stands at around 160,000.\n\nAlthough Mr Sunak had the most support among Tory MPs, opinion polls have suggested Ms Truss enjoys more support among party members.\n\nAs the campaign drew to a close, Mr Sunak thanked his supporters and said he had \"loved every second\" of his \"six weeks on the road\".\n\nMs Truss also thanked volunteers on her campaign, and said if she is elected she would \"do everything in my power to make sure our great nation succeeds\".\n\nIn a break with tradition, the winner will travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland to be appointed by the Queen, rather than at Buckingham Palace.\n\nShe has been suffering from mobility issues and it is understood the change was made to prevent the need for any last-minute rearrangements.", "Dame Cressida Dick was the first woman to hold the role of commissioner\n\nDame Cressida Dick \"felt intimidated\" into stepping down as Metropolitan Police commissioner after an ultimatum from Sadiq Khan, according to a review.\n\nShe quit in February when the mayor of London said he had lost confidence in her leadership.\n\nSir Tom Winsor's report into the handling of Dame Cressida's exit found that Mr Khan did not follow \"due process\" when he withdrew his support.\n\nThe mayor said the review was \"clearly biased\" and \"ignores the facts\".\n\nIn February, the Home Secretary Priti Patel asked Sir Tom - the then-chief inspector of constabulary - to look at the circumstances surrounding Dame Cressida's resignation.\n\nSir Tom's published findings noted that the mayor's actions were \"not in accordance with the relevant legislation\".\n\nDame Cressida said the report had found Mr Khan \"did not follow due process and at times his behaviour was oppressive, unreasonable, entirely unacceptable and unfair\".\n\nThe former commissioner previously said she had to resign after Mr Khan made it clear he had no confidence in her leadership.\n\nIt followed cases of sexism and misogyny among some Met officers.\n\nDame Cressida, the first woman to lead the UK's biggest police force, also faced criticism over the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer last year, and a series of other scandals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his 116-page report, Sir Tom said the mayor had given the commissioner \"an ultimatum\" to attend a meeting where she would have to convince him about her plans for the force, otherwise he would release a statement \"making it clear that he no longer had trust and confidence\" and would begin the \"statutory process\" to remove her.\n\n\"When the commissioner did not attend that meeting, the mayor's chief of staff reiterated the mayor's position and gave her less than one hour to decide what to do.\"\n\nHe said she was \"intimidated by this process into stepping aside\", and \"the commissioner felt that, in the interests of Londoners and the Metropolitan Police, she had to 'step aside', as a prelude to her eventual resignation\".\n\nDisturbing messages between officers, based mostly at Charing Cross, were published days before Dame Cressida Dick resigned\n\nThe report found that City Hall had given Dame Cressida 30 minutes to make a decision.\n\nSir Tom also noted that hours before Dame Cressida announced her resignation, communications between the mayor's chief of staff and the Met Police chief of corporate services were \"unjustifiably politically brutal\".\n\n\"For any public servant - least of all one so senior and long-serving - to be given under an hour to decide whether to resign or to challenge the mayor's position was entirely unacceptable.\"\n\nHe described the timetable \"imposed\" on the commissioner as \"wholly arbitrary\", adding there had been \"no explanation why the commissioner's position had to be publicly resolved in such a short space of time\", giving her little time to consult with others.\n\n\"The mayor was entirely incapable in interview of explaining why he believed he had to make a public statement on the commissioner's position on the evening of the 10 February, 2022.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Tom said in his opinion the mayor and the Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime's (Mopac) actions were \"oppressive\" and \"unreasonable\".\n\n\"The pressure to resign was considerable, and it succeeded,\" he added.\n\nIn June - months after Dame Cressida quit - the Met was placed into an advanced stage of monitoring, in what the home secretary described as \"special measures\".\n\nMs Patel said it was clear to her the Met Police was falling short in getting \"the basics right\".\n\nOn the face of it the criticisms of London's mayor Sadiq Khan in this review are devastating.\n\nSir Tom Winsor says the mayor had effectively \"constructively dismissed\" the most senior police officer in the UK.\n\nHe wrote that his staff had been \"unjustifiably politically brutal\", that they had imposed a \"wholly arbitrary\" timetable, and there could be \"no justification\" for the mayor's \"unfair\" conduct or his \"oppressive and unreasonable treatment\" of Dame Cressida Dick.\n\nSadiq Khan has sought to undermine the review's damage to him by claiming Sir Tom has a history of supporting Conservative Party politicians and policies and is \"clearly biased\"\n\nIt is worth remembering that the reputation of Dame Cressida and the force she was leading were at a very low point in February.\n\nBut what is at stake here is whether it should be possible for a politician - either in a fit of pique or for entirely justifiable reasons - to just get rid of a police chief by threatening to publicly undermine them.\n\nSir Tom has clearly concluded that Parliament has put procedures in place and these should be followed. He says that politicians should have to pay a high political price for circumventing that process as happened on 10 February.\n\nResponding to Sir Tom's report Mr Khan said: \"On the former commissioner's watch, trust in the police fell to record lows following a litany of terrible scandals.\n\n\"What happened was simple - I lost confidence in the former commissioner's ability to make the changes needed and she then chose to stand aside.\n\n\"Londoners elected me to hold the Met commissioner to account and that's exactly what I have done.\n\n\"I make absolutely no apology for demanding better for London and for putting the interests of the city I love first. I will continue working with the new commissioner to reduce crime and to rebuild trust and confidence in the police.\"\n\nThe Met's handling of a vigil following the murder of Sarah Everard was widely criticsed\n\nThe circumstances of Dame Cressida's departure were similar to one of her predecessors Sir Ian Blair - who resigned as Met commissioner in 2008 when the then-mayor, Boris Johnson, said he had lost confidence in his leadership.\n\nIn a statement Dame Cressida said: \"I regret this report was necessary but I hope it will help create a sounder foundation for my successors.\n\n\"At all times I sought to uphold the law and act ethically and with goodwill, professionalism, openness and trust.\n\n\"I fully respect the need for democratic oversight of policing. It is also important that politicians respect due process and do not break the rules.\n\n\"I hope this report is an opportunity for others to reflect on how City Hall functions and is held to account.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"He has never been afraid to speak truth to power and he upholds the highest standards of integrity when it comes to reporting the facts.\n\n\"He was hired to deliver a report on the facts surrounding the departure of the commissioner and he has done just that.\"\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.", "Grohl struggled to continue as he sang Times Like These\n\nFoo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl choked back tears as he played the band's first show since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March.\n\nThe star was singing Times Like These when he paused to collect his emotions on the lyric: \"It's times like these you learn to love again.\"\n\nEarlier, Grohl described Hawkins as his \"dear friend, bandmate and brother\".\n\nHe said of Hawkins \"no-one else could make you smile or laugh or dance or sing like he could\".\n\n\"And for those of you that admired him from afar, I'm sure you've all felt the same thing,\" Grohl added.\n\n\"So sing and dance and laugh and cry and scream and make some noise so he can hear us right now.\"\n\nHawkins had been Foo Fighters' drummer for 25 years\n\nGrohl was speaking as Foo Fighters topped the bill at an all-star concert in honour of Hawkins' life at London's Wembley Stadium.\n\nThe drummer was found dead in a hotel room in Colombia this March, shortly before Foo Fighters were due to play a festival in Bogotá. He was 50 years old.\n\nNo cause of death was announced, although a toxicology report showed traces of 10 substances in his body, including opioids, marijuana and anti-depressants.\n\nInvestigators did not say whether the mix of drugs was a factor.\n\nTaylor Hawkins was found dead in his hotel room in Colombia in March\n\nSaturday night's concert was the first of two gigs organised by the musician's wife and bandmates, with proceeds going to charities Music Support and MusiCares.\n\nSir Paul McCartney, Queen and AC/DC were among the rock royalty who showed up to pay tribute at Wembley; while Liam Gallagher opened the show with a fitting rendition of Oasis's Rock And Roll Star.\n\nSir Paul was a surprise addition to the line-up - giving a full-throttle rendition of The Beatles classic Helter Skelter, and duetting with Chrissie Hynde on Oh! Darling. \"A song I haven't performed since we recorded it 100 years ago,\" Sir Paul said.\n\nLiam Gallagher opened the concert, joined by Grohl on drums\n\nSir Paul said he was \"thrilled\" when Hawkins agreed to play on his last record\n\nBritish 12-year-old Nandi Bushell, who went viral after challenging Grohl to a drum battle during lockdown, also got to join her heroes onstage, taking Hawkins' place during Learn To Fly.\n\nGrohl introduced her as, \"one of the most badass drummers I've ever met in my life\".\n\nShe was one of several musicians to fill Hawkins' seat, including Blink-182's Travis Barker, Roger Taylor's son Rufus and Hawkins' 16-year-old son, Shane - who gave a thunderous performance of My Hero, on what can only have been an emotionally-charged night.\n\n\"If you could only see how many drum sets are back there,\" joked Grohl. \"It's like your local music store.\"\n\nIt was a family affair through and through. Dave Grohl's daughter Violet, who had known Hawkins all her life, also gave beautiful, sensitive readings of Jeff Buckley's Grace and Amy Winehouse's version of Valerie - while her dad watched proudly from the side of the stage.\n\nShane Hawkins briefly took his father's place behind the drum kit\n\nViolet Grohl, who has appeared on recent Foo Fighters albums, sang throughout the show\n\nThe concert also featured performances from some of Hawkins' favourite bands and musicians, including Metallica, Rush, Supergrass and Stewart Copeland of The Police.\n\n\"The last few days we have been asking ourselves the same question after every rehearsal: 'I wonder what Taylor would think of this - to see all of these amazing people together making music?'\" said Grohl at one point, again struggling to contain his emotions.\n\nThere can't be many drummers whose death would warrant a Stadium-sized tribute, let alone two (a second date will be played in LA next week) - but Taylor Hawkins was no ordinary drummer.\n\nHis energy and positivity and passion for life were on display every time Foo Fighters took to the stage. He wasn't just Dave Grohl's sideman, he was his equal - playing with a grin as wide as the Grand Canyon, and the power to match.\n\nSaturday night's concert was about capturing and celebrating that spirit. A gesture of love, instead of sadness. One that honoured his love of music, whether it was Jeff Buckley or George Michael.\n\n\"He was a musicologist,\" Grohl told the audience. \"He knew more about music than anyone I'd ever met in my life.\"\n\nThat focus on Hawkins' favourite songs made the concert more personal than most benefit shows, where bands only appear to promote their latest album.\n\nWembley Stadium was flooded with light - and the Hawk symbol that Hawkins had tattooed on his shoulder - as Queen played Love Of My Life.\n\nPop star Kesha tore into a sleazy version of T. Rex's Children Of The Revolution, while AC/DC's Brian Johnson lit up the stadium with muscular renditions of Back In Black and Let There Be Rock, accompanied by Grohl and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.\n\n\"Taylor I know you're watching,\" said Ulrich from the stage. \"I know you can hear this, I know you can feel this. We love you.\"\n\nThe metal legends were also joined by Justin Hawkins from The Darkness - one of the day's most unstoppable performers, who brought a cocksure swagger to songs like Van Halen's Hot For Teacher and Queen's Under Pressure.\n\nQueen - Hawkins' favourite band - also ran through a compact set of their biggest hits, including We Will Rock You and Somebody To Love, the latter ably assisted by a jump-suited Sam Ryder.\n\nGuitarist Brian May then led the crowd in an acoustic version of Love Of My Life, reflecting on the Freddie Mercury tribute concert that took place on the same stage 30 years ago.\n\n\"We said goodbye to Freddie in a style similar to this,\" he said, \"but I know Freddie would be very happy to use this song to honour Taylor\".\n\nSam Ryder, whose TikTok covers of Queen resulted in him becoming the UK's Eurovision entrant, finally got to sing with his heroes\n\nQueen were the first group Hawkins ever saw live, at the age of 10; and he would regularly step out from behind his kit to serenade Foo Fighters' fans with one of their songs.\n\nSomebody To Love was the last track he ever performed live, during a show in Argentina earlier this year.\n\nSome sections of the tribute veered into self-indulgence. Wolfgang Van Halen's finger-twisting guitar riffs left the audience unmoved, while Josh Homme should never be allowed to sing Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ever again.\n\nOhio band James Gang and Canadian prog rockers Rush laid bare the gulf between British audiences and disciples of US rock radio - although their technical skills were hard to deny.\n\nGrohl and Hawkins performing together earlier this year\n\nVideo tributes came from Elton John, Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, who told the story of how Hawkins would visit his local music shop and buy instruments for aspiring drummers.\n\n\"I love him and I miss him every day,\" he added.\n\n\"Taylor's music and his passion will be remembered for ever and ever and so should his warmth and kindness with every person who was ever lucky enough to meet him,\" said Eilish in her tribute.\n\nFans leaving the show said it had helped them heal.\n\n\"Everybody is devastated, still, that he's gone, but after that, I feel better\" said Jennifer, who flew in from California to see the show.\n\n\"There were a lot of tears, a lot of emotions, but I think the band loved it. They were rocking out for him.\"\n\n\"I think it was a release,\" agreed Sherilyn, who'd come from Norfolk with her partner, John. \"We were missing Taylor, that's for sure. I cried a lot. But everybody came together tonight. What more can you ask for?\"\n\nIt was a sentiment that Grohl echoed on stage.\n\n\"We hope that you guys felt the love from all of us and all of the performers,\" he said, before closing the show with Everlong.\n\n\"Because we felt it from you, for Taylor tonight.\"\n\nAll the performers took a bow as the show ended, shortly before 22:30 BST", "Russia's main gas pipeline to Europe will not reopen as planned on Saturday, adding to concerns about energy supplies this winter.\n\nState energy firm Gazprom said it found a leak on Nord Stream 1, meaning it could be closed indefinitely.\n\nThe pipeline, which runs to Germany, has been shut for three days for what Gazprom described as maintenance work.\n\nEurope accused Russia of using its gas supplies to blackmail Europe amid the Ukraine conflict, which Moscow denies.\n\nEnergy prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine and scarce supplies could push up costs even further.\n\nThere are growing fears families in the EU will be unable to afford the cost of heating this winter.\n\nThe UK could also be affected. Although not reliant on Nord Stream 1 for its gas, the pipeline suspension could drive the cost of wholesale gas up further, which has been behind the spiralling rise in the energy price cap.\n\nFaisal Islam, the BBC's economics editor, described the indefinite closure of Nord Stream 1 as a very serious development, noting that Russia had kept supplies into Europe flowing even at the height of the Cold War.\n\nThe stand-off with Russia has forced countries to fill their own gas supplies, with Germany's stores increasing from less than half in June to 84% full today.\n\nAs a result, international gas prices have fallen in the past week, but remain high by normal standards.\n\nEurope is attempting to wean itself off Russian energy in an effort to reduce Moscow's ability to finance the war, but the transition may not come quickly enough.\n\nEU Council President Charles Michel said Russia's move was \"sadly no surprise\".\n\n\"Use of gas as a weapon will not change the resolve of the EU. We will accelerate our path towards energy independence. Our duty is to protect our citizens and support the freedom of Ukraine,\" he tweeted.\n\nMoscow denies using energy supplies as an economic weapon against Western countries supporting Ukraine.\n\nIt has blamed the sanctions for holding up routine maintenance of Nord Stream 1, but the EU says this is a pretext.\n\nGermany's network regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, said the country was now better prepared for Russian gas supplies to cease, but it urged citizens and companies to cut consumption.\n\nGazprom's announcement came shortly after the G7 nations agreed to cap the price of Russian oil in support of Ukraine.\n\nThe G7 (Group of Seven) consists of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.\n\nTheir introduction of a price cap means countries that sign up to the policy will be permitted to purchase only Russian oil and petroleum products transported via sea that are sold at or below the price cap.\n\nHowever, Russia says it will not export to countries that participate in the cap.\n\nThe gas pipeline stretches from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany and can carry up to 170 million cubic metres of gas a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG, whose majority shareholder is Gazprom.\n\nGermany had also previously supported the construction of a parallel pipeline - Nord Stream 2 - but the project was halted after Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nGazprom said the fault had been detected at the Portovaya compressor station, with the inspection carried out alongside workers from Siemens, the German firm that maintains the turbine.\n\nIt said that fixing of oil leaks in key engines was only possible in specialised workshops, which had been hindered by Western sanctions.\n\nHowever, Siemens itself said: \"Such leaks do not normally affect the operation of a turbine and can be sealed on site. It is a routine procedure within the scope of maintenance work.\"\n\nThis is not the first time since the invasion that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been closed.\n\nIn July, Gazprom cut off supplies completely for 10 days, citing \"a maintenance break\". It restarted again 10 days later, but at a much reduced level.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the Swiss capital Bern, an economist and energy analyst, Cornelia Meyer, said the gas shutdown would have a major impact on employment and prices.\n\n\"That really has huge ramifications for gas in Europe which is about four times more expensive than it was a year ago and this cost of living crisis will really soar because it's not just gas,\" she said. \"Gas becomes fertiliser and it's used in many industrial processes, so that will affect jobs, and it will affect costs.\"\n\nThis is no coincidence. Russia's state-controlled gas giant announced an indefinite extension to a three-day maintenance halt to flows of gas through the continent's key energy artery, hours after leading western finance ministers vowed to escalate sanctions on Russian oil.\n\nGazprom's official reason is that an oil leak has been found and the pipeline cannot work without German imports of technology, which are now subject to sanctions.\n\nFew observers believe, however, that this is anything other than an attempt essentially to blackmail Europe over supplies.\n\nThis is a very serious development. Even during the height of the Cold War, Russia kept supplies of its gas flowing into Europe.\n\nThis cut-off though - and the pointed attempt by Gazprom to blame the German energy giant Siemens for the malfunction - is the culmination of decades of dysfunction in the energy relationship between Russia and Germany.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mourners lay flowers near the coffin of Mikhail Gorbachev\n\nThousands of people in Russia have paid their final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end.\n\nMany queued for hours to file past his coffin in a historic hall where previous Soviet leaders lay in state.\n\nBut the man who oversaw the breakup of the USSR was not given a state funeral.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin, who has called the end of the union the \"greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century\", did not attend.\n\nThe Kremlin's official explanation: No space in his schedule.\n\nAs people made their way inside the Columned Hall of the House of Unions, sombre music played - a huge black and white portrait of Mr Gorbachev hanging from the balcony.\n\nThe former president lay in an open coffin, flanked by a guard of honour.\n\nHis daughter and other family members sat there as people laid flowers. Soon, there was a sea of red carnations.\n\nIt was here that Mr Gorbachev's predecessors, Soviet leaders like Lenin, Stalin and Brezhnev, lay in state, too.\n\nMany Russians blame Mikhail Gorbachev for launching reforms that caused economic chaos and for letting the Soviet Union fall apart.\n\nFellow Nobel Laureate Dmitry Muratov led the coffin out on Mr Gorbachev's final journey to the cemetery\n\nBut in the streets around the Hall of Unions, long lines of Muscovites - young and old - queued up to pay their respects.\n\n\"Gorbachev gave us hope, helped us dream of liberty,\" Stanislav tells the BBC. \"I hope our society is not saying goodbye to liberty.\"\n\n\"This is a farewell to the person who has done his utmost to save the country from authoritarianism, from backwardness,\" says Olga, a pensioner and long-time Gorbachev fan.\n\nVeteran liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky was among them, saying: \"These people came to Gorbachev to say 'Thank you Mr Gorbachev. You gave us a chance, but we lost this chance'.\"\n\nAs the former leader's coffin was carried into the Novodevichy Cemetery, heading the funeral procession was his close friend and Nobel peace prize laureate Dmitry Muratov. The journalist held up a portrait of the late Soviet leader.\n\nLining the path to the grave were an assortment of wreaths - from Mr Gorbachev's family, his comrades, government departments and foreign embassies.\n\nWhen the coffin was lowered into the grave, a military band played the Russian national anthem and a gun salute rang out in his honour.\n\nHe was buried next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999.\n\nMikhail Gorbachev was widely acclaimed in the West, but reviled by many at home\n\nHe took power in 1985, introducing bold reforms and opening the USSR to the world.\n\nBut he was unable to prevent the collapse of the union in 1991, and many Russians blame him for the years of turmoil that ensued.\n\nOutside Russia, he was widely respected, with the UN Secretary General António Guterres saying he had \"changed the course of history\", and US President Joe Biden calling him a \"rare leader\".\n\nAmong those filing past the coffin on Saturday, was Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban - a close ally of Mr Putin's. No other foreign leaders were known to have attended.\n\nAnother Putin ally - his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev - showed up, later to berate the West for seeking to break up Russia.\n\nOthers included the ambassadors of the US, UK and Germany.\n\nIn fact, so many Russians were keen to pay their respects that the ceremony had to be extended.\n\nBut the fact that this was not a state funeral is a sign that the current Kremlin leadership has little interest in honouring Mr Gorbachev's legacy.\n\nIt was well known that Mr Putin and Mr Gorbachev had a strained relationship - their last meeting was reportedly in 2006.\n\nMost recently, Mr Gorbachev was said to have been unhappy with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, even though he had supported the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.\n\nHe is seen in the West as an architect of reform who created the conditions for the end of the Cold War in 1991 - a time of deep tensions between the Soviet Union and Western nations, including the US and Britain.\n\nHe was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 \"for the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West relations\".\n\nBut in the new Russia that emerged after 1991, he was on the fringes of politics, focusing on educational and humanitarian projects.\n\nGorbachev made one ill-fated attempt to return to political life in 1996, receiving just 0.5% of the vote in presidential elections.\n\nRonald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987", "Huge crowds of people gathered at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on Friday to protest against the attack\n\nThousands of supporters of Argentina's vice-president have rallied to denounce political violence, after she narrowly survived an assassination attempt.\n\n\"We are all Cristina,\" chanted crowds in the capital Buenos Aires, referring to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.\n\nThe 69-year-old escaped unharmed on Thursday evening after a gunman's weapon jammed as he aimed at her.\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner has not spoken publicly about it yet, but waved to supporters as she left home on Friday.\n\nArgentina's President Alberto Fernández declared Friday a national holiday to allow Argentines time to \"express themselves in defence of life, democracy and in solidarity with the vice-president\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of flag waving supporters descended on the capital's historic Plaza de Mayo, next to the presidential offices.\n\n\"Thank God and the Virgin that the bullet didn't come out,\" 58-year-old teacher Santiago Bianco told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"For us, the possibility that something like that could happen to Cristina is unthinkable,\" said Claudia, 37, who declined to provide her surname. \"We were saved last night from something terrible that we can't even comprehend,\" she added.\n\nA career politician and a divisive figure, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was Argentina's president from 2007 to 2015, and its first lady for four years before that. She has been the vice president since 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gun jams as it's aimed at Argentina's vice-president\n\nFootage shows the moment she found herself face-to-face with the loaded weapon.\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner was outside her home in Buenos Aires, surrounded by a mob of supporters who back her in her fight against corruption charges.\n\nAs she greets them, the gun can be seen emerging from the crowd. She initially appears confused by what is going on, ducking down to retrieve an object dropped on the floor.\n\nVideo's from other angles show people in the crowd appearing to try to block her from the suspected gunman, who came within inches of the politician.\n\nPresident Fernández has revealed the gun was loaded with five bullets, but failed to fire when triggered.\n\nPolice named the suspect as 35-year-old Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, Brazilian-born but with an Argentine mother, who has lived in Argentina since he came to the country as a child in 1993. He had previously been arrested in 2021 while carrying a 35cm knife.\n\nPictures of him taken from his social media posts and published on Argentine news websites depicted him with tattoos associated with neo-Nazi groups.\n\nAfter searching his apartment, police seized two boxes containing 100 bullets, according to investigators quoted by La Nación newspaper.\n\nAuthorities are working to establish a motive for the attack on the left-leaning politician.\n\nIt took place against a backdrop of a severe economic slump driven by sky-high inflation - it hit 71% in July - and the disintegrating value of the peso currency.\n\nCristina Fernández de Kirchner waves to supporters as she leaves her home on Friday, escorted by security agents\n\nPresident Fernández said the attempt on Ms Fernández de Kirchner's life was one of the \"most serious\" incidents since the country returned to democracy in 1983.\n\nCrowds of people have been gathering outside her home in Buenos Aires for the past few nights in a show of support, as she fights charges of defrauding the state and being involved in a scheme to divert public funds while she was president.\n\nIf convicted at trial, prosecutors have asked that she face 12 years in prison and a lifetime ban from politics.\n\nHowever, Ms Fernández de Kirchner is the Senate president and so enjoys parliamentary immunity. She would not be imprisoned unless her sentence was ratified by the country's Supreme Court, or she loses her Senate seat at the next elections at the end of 2023.\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner has faced numerous other corruption trials following her time as president. The verdict of this trial is expected to take some months.", "The US has agreed to sell $1.1bn (£955m) in weaponry to Taiwan, provoking anger from China.\n\nThe proposed deal includes a radar system to track incoming strikes and anti-ship and anti-air missiles.\n\nIt comes after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month became the most senior US official in 25 years to visit Taipei.\n\nThe Chinese embassy in Washington called on the US to revoke the deal or face \"counter-measures\".\n\nSpokesman Liu Pengyu said the deal \"severely jeopardises\" relations between Washington and Beijing.\n\n\"China will resolutely take legitimate and necessary counter-measures in light of the development of the situation,\" he added.\n\nBeijing sees the self-ruled island as a part of its territory and insists it should be unified with the mainland, by force if necessary.\n\nIt launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan last month, following the American delegation's visit.\n\nThe US arms sale agreed on Friday still needs to be voted on by the strongly pro-Taiwan US Congress.\n\nThe package includes a $655m radar warning system and $355m for 60 Harpoon missiles, which are capable of sinking ships.\n\nIt includes $85.6m for Sidewinder surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles, according to the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of State said the deal was \"essential for Taiwan's security\", and called on Beijing \"to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue\".\n\n\"These proposed sales are routine cases to support Taiwan's continuing efforts to modernise its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Pentagon last month created a task force to help streamline the sale of American weaponry to foreign allies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.\n\nUS lawmakers say that orders placed by Taiwan years ago have gone unfulfilled. Among the backlog are Harpoon and Stinger missiles, which have been sent to Ukraine instead, according to Defense News.\n\nIn another move likely to irk Beijing, the Biden administration said it would keep in place for now billions of dollars in tariffs on Chinese imports that were enacted during the Trump administration.\n\nThe US Trade Representative's office said it had received requests to maintain the 2018-19 duties from businesses and other interested parties.\n\nUS officials had been considering revoking the tariffs, citing the need to ease inflation.\n\nOn Friday, meanwhile, President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve $13.7bn in emergency funding for Ukraine, amid the ongoing war with Russia.\n\nThe Pentagon said last week that total US military aid to Ukraine had already topped $13bn.", "Andy Samuel was last seen off Kinloch on Rum\n\nRescuers have ramped up their search for a man who went missing after leaving his yacht in a dinghy in the Inner Hebrides.\n\nAndy Samuel, 59, was last seen off Kinloch on Rum, a small island south of Skye, at about midnight on Tuesday.\n\nThe alarm was raised at 22:00 on Thursday when he did not move his yacht to another location as planned.\n\nA Police Scotland helicopter joined the search on Saturday morning and the force said inquiries were ongoing.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said police and Mull's Tobermory RNLI lifeboat made searches on Friday.\n\nOn Thursday, the search effort involved the Stornoway coastguard helicopter and Mallaig's RNLI lifeboat.\n\nA dinghy thought to belong to Mr Samuel was found in the area.\n\nCoastguard rescue teams from Mallaig, Eigg, Muck, Kyle, Dunvegan and Portree were also involved.\n\nAnyone with information about Mr Samuel's whereabouts has been urged to contact police.\n\nInspector Isla Campbell said: \"Our thoughts are with Andy's family at this difficult time.\n\n\"Officers are currently conducting searches alongside partner agencies in attempts to trace him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAston Villa manager Steven Gerrard hopes his side can use their draw against champions Manchester City as a foundation to kickstart their season.\n\nCity missed a chance to go top of the Premier League as Leon Bailey's equaliser earned Aston Villa an excellent draw at Villa Park, while the point took Villa out of the bottom three.\n\n\"No-one gave us any hope or any chance before a ball was kicked,\" said Gerrard.\n\n\"I'm really pleased and proud of what the players gave us and no-one can begrudge us a point, and it's a big point.\n\n\"But the players need to take that confidence moving forwards. You hope it's a foundation but it's only a big point if you reset and back it up against Leicester and Southampton.\n\n\"The danger is if you think you're moving in the right direction but don't reset. There has been a lot of external noise and rightly so, but it's now for me to lead even more and be stronger.\n\n\"We need to stick together and keep developing.\"\n\nThe league's top goalscorer Erling Haaland got his 10th goal in six games when he was in the right place at the back post to volley in Kevin de Bruyne's superb cross.\n\nAfter scoring in the 50th minute, Haaland had another two efforts saved by Villa keeper Emiliano Martinez and De Bruyne also hit the crossbar with a 22-yard free-kick.\n\nThose missed chances proved costly as Bailey struck a sweet first-time shot into the top corner from Jacob Ramsey's square pass to make it 1-1 in the 74th minute.\n• None Relive Aston Villa v Manchester City as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n• None Go straight to all the best Aston Villa content\n\nVilla thought they had scored a winner when Philippe Coutinho put the ball in the net off the underside of the bar.\n\nHowever, the assistant referee had already put his flag up for offside - even though Coutinho was actually onside - and some of the City players stopped before the ball went into the net.\n\nGerrard revealed he had spoken to the officials about the decision after the match, and they admitted they had made an error.\n\n\"I've spoken to the officials calmly, and given them enough time after and asked for their side of it,\" said Gerrard.\n\n\"The referee blew the whistle too soon. When something is so tight it's worth an extra bit of time and we could've scored a second goal.\n\n\"Fair play to the officials, they recognised that afterwards. It was nowhere near offside.\"\n\nVilla had only won one of their first five matches of the season and had been booed off after their last game at Villa Park, a 1-0 loss to West Ham.\n\nThe pressure was mounting on the former England midfielder after a 2-1 loss at Arsenal in midweek left Villa 19th in the table, but this point was enough to take them out of the relegation zone and to 17th.\n\nBut Gerrard, who called for his side to \"surprise the footballing world\", will be delighted with the spirit and fight his team showed to come back from a goal down as City, champions four times in the past five years, looked to claim their fifth win of the season.\n\nCity had 73% possession but Bailey scored with Villa's only shot on target, while Pep Guardiola will see this as two points dropped and will wonder how his team did not claim the win.\n\nThey would have moved above Arsenal, who play at Manchester United on Sunday, with a win, but instead are second, one point behind the Gunners.\n\nThe visitors should have gone ahead in only the fourth minute but England defender Kyle Walker shot wastefully wide with only Martinez to beat.\n\nHaaland, a £51m summer signing from Borussia Dortmund, had scored back-to-back hat-tricks in City's wins over Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest and only touched the ball 10 times in the first half.\n\nHowever, he showed his class within five minutes of the restart by scoring from close range after De Bruyne's cross had looped over Martinez.\n\nHaaland became a handful for the home defence and twice was denied by Martinez and also won a free-kick, which De Bruyne hit the bar with.\n\nVilla's equaliser came against the run of play but City still had chances to win it late on but Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden both missed opportunities as Villa held on for the draw.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Phil Foden tries a through ball, but João Cancelo is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Erling Haaland tries a through ball, but Ilkay Gündogan is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Rodri (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. Ollie Watkins tries a through ball, but Philippe Coutinho is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Manchester City 1. Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jacob Ramsey.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Lucas Digne (Aston Villa) 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", "Bus journeys in England will be capped at £2 from January to March next year in a bid to ease the rising cost of living, the government has said.\n\nThe £60m plan could see some passengers save more than £3 per single bus ticket, according to the Department for Transport (DfT).\n\nTransport secretary Grant Shapps said the move will provide \"direct help\" to thousands of households.\n\nBut Labour said the plan \"fails to match the scale of the crisis\".\n\nMeanwhile, from Sunday, single bus fares will be capped at £2 in the Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire regions as part of longer-term schemes.\n\nLocal bus fares in England, for the quarter January to March 2022, increased by 3.6% when compared to the same period in 2021..\n\nAn average bus fare for a three-mile journey currently stands at around £2.80, meaning the new price cap would save passengers 30% of the price each time they travel, according to the DfT.\n\nBus operators covering more than 90% of the network in England have signed up for the scheme, the DfT said.\n\nThe government's England-wide plan for January to March comes at a time when many households are concerned about mounting energy bills.\n\nThe energy cap for a typical household will rise to £3,549 a year from October and is expected to increase further in January.\n\nMr Shapps said the bus fare cap will provide \"practical concrete help that will lower daily expenditure\".\n\nThere were 4.22 billion passenger journeys on buses in England in the year to December 2019, compared with about 1.52 passenger journeys by rail in 2018-19.\n\n\"Buses are by far and away the most used form of public transport, so ensuring that almost all bus journeys are no more than £2 will assist passengers over the winter months and provide direct help to thousands of households across the country,\" Mr Shapps said.\n\n\"This £60 million boost will mean everyone can affordably get to work, education, the shops and doctors' appointments.\"\n\nPaul Tuohy, chief executive of Campaign for Better Transport, said the £2 cap his organisation had called for was \"welcome news\" for millions of people and will \"help set buses on the road to a bright future\".\n\nAlison Edwards, policy director at the Confederation of Passenger Transport, called it an \"eye-catching initiative\" and said she was looking \"forward to understanding in detail how the proposed fare cap will work in practice to ensure it supports the long-term sustainability of bus networks\".\n\nBut Labour MP and shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh criticised the scheme, claiming they do not go far enough.\n\n\"The government's temporary 90-day reprieve after years of soaring fares fails to match the scale of the crisis.\n\n\"Passengers across the country facing a cost-of-living emergency need more than half measures.\"", "An unknown actress has landed her first professional acting role playing Kate Middleton in Netflix's The Crown.\n\nMeg Bellamy, 19, won her debut role after submitting self-taped auditions for a casting call issued on social media.\n\nAlso making professional screen debuts are Ed McVey, 21, and 16-year-old Rufus Kampa, both as Prince William.\n\nAll three actors will star in the show's sixth and final season, which begins filming this autumn.\n\nNetflix had previously announced the award-winning semi-fictional drama would end after five seasons.\n\nBut creator Peter Morgan had a change of heart after it became clear a sixth would be needed to \"do justice to the richness and complexity of the story\".\n\nThe new trio join a coveted list of stars who have played members of the Royal Family in the drama, including Oscar-winner Olivia Colman and Matt Smith.\n\nSeason six will take the story of Queen Elizabeth II's reign up to the early 2000s, and chronicle the aftermath of Princess of Wales' death.\n\nBellamy will play a young Kate Middleton, before she becomes the Duchess of Cambridge, as a student at St Andrews University in Scotland where she met her future husband in 2001.\n\nShe is believed to have found out about the role just months after leaving school in Berkshire, the Daily Telegraph reported.\n\nKampa, meanwhile, will appear as a young Prince William in episodes which show how the family coped with Princess Diana's death, while McVey plays the prince during his later teenage years.\n\nThe fifth season is set to launch on Netflix in November, with four actors playing Prince William and Prince Harry at different ages.\n\nThe Crown partly fictionalises key historical events which have taken place during Queen Elizabeth II's long reign, with different actors portraying famous royals over various stages of their lives.\n\nClaire Foy played a young Queen in seasons one and two during the early years of her reign, with Colman portraying the monarch in the third and fourth seasons.\n\nImelda Staunton will take over from Colman for the last two seasons.\n\nPrince Harry, who has made his own content deal with Netflix with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has previously described the drama as \"fictional\" but \"loosely based on the truth\".\n\n\"Of course it's not strictly accurate,\" the duke said about the show last year.\n\n\"It gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.\"\n\nThe Crown has been nominated for and won several awards, including Golden Globes, Emmys, and BAFTAs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olena Zelenska tells Laura Kuenssberg about the human cost of the war\n\nThe economic impact of the war in Ukraine is tough on its allies, the country's first lady has told the BBC, but as Britons \"count pennies\", Ukrainians \"count casualties\".\n\nOlena Zelenska told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that if support for Ukraine was strong the crisis would be shorter.\n\nIn an interview recorded in Kyiv, she also said it was important to keep highlighting the human toll of the war.\n\nAnd Mrs Zelenska said while she rarely saw her husband, they talk every day.\n\nThe first lady, who has been married to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky since 2003, spoke to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg in Kyiv.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview to be broadcast on Sunday 4 September, Mrs Zelenska was asked what message she had for British people who are facing soaring energy bills in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the impact that has had on global gas and oil prices.\n\n\"I understand the situation is very tough. But let me recall that at the time of the Covid-19 epidemic, and it's still with us, when there were price hikes, Ukraine was affected as well.\n\n\"The prices are going up in Ukraine as well. But in addition our people get killed.\n\n\"So when you start counting pennies on your bank account or in your pocket, we do the same and count our casualties,\" she said.\n\nMrs Zelenska's comments follow Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suggestion while visiting Kyiv last month that households across Europe would have to endure the cost of living crisis and \"stay the course\" with Ukraine to counter Russia's aggression.\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\nPresident Zelensky has been praised for staying with his people following the Russian invasion\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\nMrs Zelenska told the BBC that it was hard for people outside Ukraine to understand the impact of the war on its people but it was important to share human stories about the toll the conflict was taking.\n\nShe said that many parents would have been moved by the story of a Ukrainian boy who was filmed crossing the Polish border in floods of tears last March.\n\n\"I think that fathers and mothers watching this video could not but break into tears. I always place myself in their situation and I think that everyone - every human in the world should feel the same,\" Mrs Zelenska said.\n\n\"That's why we have to tell these stories, to show these stories, because these are the faces of a war. Not the number of bombs dropped, not the amount of money spent, human stories - and there are a thousand stories like that around.\"\n\nMs Zelenska and her husband attended a public event together in May\n\nThe first lady, who comes from the same town as her husband and has known him since university, said she was \"insulted\" by people who said they were surprised at his transition from TV actor to wartime leader.\n\n\"He's the man I've always known. He wouldn't do anything else,\" she said.\n\nAsked whether she hoped to come to the UK after it was chosen to host the Eurovision Song Contest because Ukraine - which won the event this year - was deemed to be too unsafe, Ms Zelenska said she would \"love to go\" .\n\nBut she added it was a \"bitter feeling\" to accept the winners would not be next year's host.", "Molly Russell saw thousands of harmful images on social media\n\nA coroner has ruled that tech giant Meta must send a senior executive from the US to give evidence at the inquest into the death of Molly Russell.\n\nThe 14-year-old killed herself in 2017 after seeing graphic images of self-harm and suicide on Instagram and Pinterest.\n\nMeta, which owns Instagram, argued at a pre-inquest review that evidence should be given via video link from America.\n\nThe inquest is due to begin at North London Coroner's Court on 19 September.\n\nCaoilfhionn Gallagher QC, counsel for Meta, said head of health and wellbeing policy Elizabeth Lagone would require \"significant travel and time in London\" to attend in person.\n\nInstead she said Ms Lagone would be prepared to start her evidence at 05:00 in the morning US time to coincide with hearings beginning at 10:00 in London.\n\nPinterest also argued one of its executives could not travel to London due to an important business meeting.\n\nGlobal head of community operations Jud Hoffman was also said to be concerned about Covid and the need to protect his elderly parents.\n\nBut Oliver Sanders QC, barrister for the Russell family, said the request to give evidence remotely was \"disrespectful to the family and disrespectful to the court\".\n\nHe continued \"what we have here is two Irish corporations who have chosen to field witnesses based in the US\".\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Walker ruled against the tech companies and ordered their witnesses appear in court in person to give evidence.\n\nMr Sanders then requested that Meta reveal more information about material the company had redacted.\n\nHe said that the names of accounts containing harmful material which had been suggested to Molly by Instagram's algorithm had not been provided by Meta.\n\nHe told the court the family, from Harrow, north-west London, found it very difficult to understand how it could send material \"unilaterally to a child but cannot send it to the family or coroner after her death\".\n\nMeta replied it had a legal duty under English and US law to protect privacy and was concerned about the \"potential identification of vulnerable Instagram users\".\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.", "Mahmood Mattan spoke very little English and could not read or write in the language\n\nThe family of a father who was wrongly convicted of murder have been given a police apology 70 years after he was executed in a British prison.\n\nMahmood Mattan, a British Somali and former seaman, was hanged in 1952 after he was convicted of killing shopkeeper Lily Volpert in her store in Cardiff.\n\nHis conviction was the first Criminal Cases Review Commission referral to be quashed at the Court of Appeal in 1998.\n\nSouth Wales Police have apologised and admitted the prosecution was \"flawed\".\n\n\"This is a case very much of its time - racism, bias and prejudice would have been prevalent throughout society, including the criminal justice system,\" said its chief constable, Jeremy Vaughan.\n\n\"There is no doubt that Mahmood Mattan was the victim of a miscarriage of justice as a result of a flawed prosecution, of which policing was clearly a part.\n\n\"It is right and proper that an apology is made on behalf of policing for what went so badly wrong in this case 70 years ago and for the terrible suffering of Mr Mattan's family and all those affected by this tragedy for many years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Mattan's wife Laura and their three sons David, Omar and Mervyn, who was also known as Eddie, campaigned for 46 years after his execution for his name to be cleared.\n\nThey have all since died and while the family welcomed an apology, one of his six grandchildren has called it \"insincere\".\n\n\"It's far too late for the people directly affected as they are no longer with us and still, we are yet to hear the words I am/we are sorry,\" said granddaughter Tanya Mattan.\n\nThe Mattan family received compensation from the Home Office in 2001 but never had an apology from the police force until now.\n\nDetectives from Cardiff City Police, which is now part of the South Wales Police force, investigated the brutal killing of Ms Volpert inside her family outfitters and haberdashery shop in the docks area of Cardiff on 6 March 1952.\n\nThe well-known 41-year-old businesswoman had her throat cut while her mother, sister and niece were in the next room of the property in Cardiff's old Tiger Bay area.\n\nLily Volpert (left) was murdered after taking over the family outfitters shop in Cardiff when father Mark (right) died\n\nThere was no forensic evidence and, despite having alibis backed by numerous witnesses, Mr Mattan, was arrested within hours of the murder, charged and convicted by an all-white jury.\n\nFeeling of prejudice towards Mr Mattan, who spoke very little English, was heightened during his three-day trial at the Glamorgan Assizes in Swansea when his own defence barrister called him a \"semi-civilised savage\".\n\nWithin six months of the murder, the 28-year-old was executed by hangman Albert Pierrepoint at the gallows at Cardiff prison on 3 September 1952.\n\nHis widow Laura only found out he had been hanged when she went to visit him in jail - a few hundred yards from their home in Davis Street - and discovered a notice of his death pinned to a door.\n\nSomali immigrant Mahmood Mattan was a former seaman who came to the UK after World War Two\n\n\"Even to this day we are still working hard to ensure that racism and prejudice are eradicated from society and policing,\" said Mr Vaughan.\n\n\"Police investigations would have been totally different then and a long way off today's excellent investigative standards.\n\n\"Even when reflecting on a case from 70 years ago, we do not forget those who have been affected by miscarriages of justice and we do not underestimate the impact this has on individuals.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said: \"The whole criminal justice system failed to ensure that justice was given to an innocent man.\"\n\nHe added it was \"bewildering\" that Mr Mattan had been found guilty at the time.\n\nMr Michael added: \"It's absolutely right that all of us who are concerned with criminal justice and policing should recognize the wrong that was done, and the damage that it did to a family.\"\n\nMattan's wife Laura, flanked by family and supporters, leave the Court of Appeal after his murder conviction was quashed in 1998\n\nRelatives say the 46-year fight to clear the name of Mr Mattan, the last innocent man in Wales to be executed, \"took its toll\" on his family.\n\n\"My sons and I have not lived. We have simply existed,\" Mrs Mattan, who died in 2008, once said.\n\nMiddle son Omar was just eight when he heard what happened to his dad and described that knowledge of being like a \"cancerous growth\" in his head. He said it changed his outlook on life and his behaviour.\n\n\"I think he struggled all his life. I know he was very angry,\" Tanya Mattan, Omar's daughter, told a new BBC Sounds podcast about the case.\n\nDaughters of both Omar and Mervyn Mattan are convinced their dads would be alive now if their own father had not been wrongly convicted of murder\n\nOmar was found dead on a remote Scottish beach in 2003, aged 53, with a half drunk bottle of whisky next to his body.\n\n\"He grew up very angry at the world, I guess because of what happened. It never should have happened, he should still be here, living his life and watching his grandsons grow up,\" added Ms Mattan.\n\n\"Whilst I am happy that an apology has finally been acknowledged, it seems it's only been prompted by the upcoming podcast and so feels insincere.\"\n\nTanya's cousin Kirsty, daughter of Mr Mattan's youngest son Mervyn, said the trauma of what happened to their father and the 46-year battle to clear his name affected them.\n\n\"It's not just one life they took, three sons went through the stigma of their father being a murderer,\" added Ms Mattan.\n\nVolpert's was a popular haberdashery store that was the heart of the Bute Street area of Cardiff\n\n\"My dad was a great man, our pillar of knowledge and strength. But they were all in dark places, they all abused alcohol and sadly died from it.\n\n\"It affected them mentally. My dad felt the loss of his father, it took its toll and they all died young.\"\n\nThe legal team that represented the Mattan family at the Court of Appeal claimed he had been the victim of institutionalised racism as vital evidence to his case was not made available at his trial.\n\nLeading human rights barrister Michael Mansfield, who represented the Mattan family at the Court of Appeal, said with the Black Lives Matter movement this case is \"very pertinent right now\".\n\nMichael Mansfield QC is sometimes referred as the king of human rights work\n\n\"Defendants who were non-white were in a worse position,\" Mr Mansfield, who was also involved in the Birmingham Six and Stephen Lawrence cases, told the Mattan: Injustice of a Hanged Man podcast.\n\n\"If anything played a part in this case, it was anti-Somali - they would have been seen as intruders in south Wales - taking our jobs, our homes, they shouldn't be here so get them off the street.\n\n\"And a jury listening to this case, looking at him thinking 'he's one of a number and if he didn't do it, one of his mates did' - it's that kind of ethos.\"\n\nMr Mattan, originally from Hargeisa in what was then known as British Somaliland, was one of thousands of seamen from overseas that made Cardiff docks their home after settling in the UK following World War Two.\n\nCardiff's docks area or Tiger Bay was a multicultural community from people from around the world\n\nA year after arriving in Wales, he married local girl Laura in 1947. But such was the prejudice and opposition towards their interracial marriage, the young couple were forced to live separately on the same street.\n\n\"People thought he was cheeky because he was British Somali and he wanted to be British and live British,\" Laura once recalled.\n\n\"He loved everybody and thought everybody loved him. He just didn't know the hostilities all around us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda said she will be undergoing six months of chemotherapy.\n\nActress Jane Fonda has revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer and is having chemotherapy.\n\nIn a post to her 1.9m Instagram followers, the 84-year-old said she has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.\n\nFonda described it as \"a very treatable cancer... so I feel very lucky\".\n\nThe Hollywood icon used her post to highlight the state of healthcare in the US and said she will continue with her climate activism.\n\nShe wrote she felt \"lucky because I have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments.\n\n\"I realize, and it's painful, that I am privileged in this.\n\n\"Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don't have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right.\"\n\nNon-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a less common cancer which develops in the lymphatic system - the vast network of vessels and glands in the body.\n\nFonda wrote that she will undergo six months of chemotherapy but \"will not let any of this interfere with my climate activism\".\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, becoming famous for starring in films including Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist. In the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Fonda has been arrested at protests - but it hasn't stopped her activism\n\nMore recently she became a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn her post Fonda said her diagnosis has highlighted the importance of community to her.\n\n\"Cancer is a teacher and I'm paying attention to the lessons it holds for me.\n\n\"One thing it's shown me already is the importance of community.\n\n\"Of growing and deepening one's community so that we are not alone. And the cancer, along with my age - almost 85 - definitely teaches the importance of adapting to new realities.\n\n\"We're living through the most consequential time in human history because what we do or don't do right now will determine what kind of future there will be and I will not allow cancer to keep me from doing all I can.\"\n\nEnding her post, Fonda highlighted November's midterm elections - in which all seats in the US House of Representatives and just over one-third of those in the Senate, are up for grabs.\n\n\"The midterms are looming, and they are beyond consequential so you can count on me to be right there together with you as we grow our army of climate champions,\" she wrote.", "The managing director of Avanti West Coast is stepping down, the company has announced, amid a backlash over timetable cuts.\n\nThe rail firm said Phil Whittingham would leave on 15 September - the same day new train strikes will take place.\n\nServices between London and Manchester have been cut to a third, with the company blaming \"staffing issues\".\n\nManchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the firm should be in the \"last chance saloon\".\n\nMr Burnham has previously called for the company's licence to be revoked if services aren't restored - a decision only the government can take.\n\n\"This is England's most important railway line, linking its biggest cities, and every day that this chaos continues is a day when our economy in Greater Manchester is damaged and another day of misery for passengers,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nLast month, Avanti West Coast cut its timetable from three services an hour to one - blaming staffing issues.\n\nExplaining the timetable change at the time, Mr Whittingham said the \"current industrial relations climate\" had resulted in \"severe staff shortages in some grades through increased sickness levels, as well as unofficial strike action by Aslef members\".\n\nThe company said it currently had more drivers than before the pandemic but relied on staff working overtime in order to run a full timetable and keep up with training.\n\nThe union said the company needed to employ more drivers - and denied any accusation of unofficial strike action.\n\nIn a statement, Avanti apologised to customers for the \"enormous frustration and inconvenience\" caused by the reduced timetable.\n\nThe cuts to the timetable have prompted widespread criticism and frustration.\n\nMr Burnham said Mr Whittingham's departure revealed a serious management failure, and urged the government to \"stop playing politics\" regarding the country's widespread strike action.\n\nHe called on the UK's new prime minister, who will be announced on Monday, to \"reset\" the debate.\n\n\"We need to start fixing problems and working together, rather than this playing the politics and trying to demonise the trade unions.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"People deserve certainty and confidence that their train will run on time, and while the change of schedule was unavoidable, it should minimise the fallout for passengers.\n\n\"This is a prime example of why we need to modernise our railways, so passengers benefit from reliable timetables that don't rely on the goodwill of drivers volunteering to work overtime in the first place.\"\n\nFirst Rail boss Steve Montgomery said: \"Having led the team through the challenges presented by the pandemic over the last two years and into the recovery period, Phil leaves with the team ready for the challenges in delivering the future service requirements.\n\n\"I would like to thank Phil and wish him well in the future.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Aslef said its members at 12 operators - including Avanti West Coast - would take industrial action on 15 September.\n\nSeparately, the RMT union has announced two more national rail strikes later this month. Workers will walk out on 15 and 17 September in a long-running dispute about pay, jobs and conditions.", "Margaret Keenan, pictured here getting a booster, was the first person outside of trials to get an approved Covid jab\n\nMillions of people will be invited for their autumn Covid booster jab in England and Scotland next week, with care home residents the first to receive them.\n\nAlthough infections are falling, health bosses are predicting a resurgence of Covid and flu this autumn and winter.\n\nThey are urging those eligible to protect themselves from serious illness by getting vaccines against both.\n\nA recently approved vaccine against the Omicron variant will be used first.\n\nHowever, there is not enough of Moderna's \"bivalent\" vaccine to protect everyone aged over 50 so health officials say people should take whichever booster they are offered. These will be the vaccines used in the spring.\n\nThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced on Saturday that it had approved a second \"bivalent\" coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech for people aged 12 and over.\n\nThe groups who qualify for an autumn booster are:\n\nThe most vulnerable will be prioritised first.\n\nWales has already started offering Covid boosters to care home residents and staff.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the rollout will begin on 19 September targeting the same groups.\n\nCare home residents in Scotland will be offered a Covid booster first from Monday, followed by health and social care workers.\n\nEngland's autumn booster campaign starts on the same day, with 1.6 million care home residents, staff and housebound people the first to receive their top-up Covid jab.\n\nAlso from Monday, another four million people at highest risk - including over-75s and those with weakened immune systems - will be invited to book a vaccine appointment, with slots on offer at GP surgeries and pharmacies from the following week.\n\nCovid infection levels in the UK have been falling since the start of the July, with the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics showing around 1.7% of the population - around 1.1 million people - had the virus in the week to 23 August.\n\nThe number testing positive would be:\n\nThe ONS says it is monitoring Covid rates closely as children return to school across the UK.\n\nCases of Covid in hospital are also falling.\n\nBut health experts have warned the virus and flu are likely to make a comeback together during the autumn and winter for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nNHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard called on people \"to get the newly approved, next generation Covid vaccine when invited to do so, as well as your annual flu jab, to ensure you have maximum protection\".\n\nCovid and flu vaccines may be offered at the same appointment and both jabs are approved to be given at the same time. However, local health systems will organise the rollout in the way that suits them best.\n\nMore than 126 million Covid vaccines have been given by NHS staff and volunteers since the start of the vaccine programme in December 2020.", "The launch of Nasa's new Artemis I Moon rocket is facing a potentially lengthy delay after a second postponement.\n\nControllers tried and failed again on Saturday to get the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle to lift off. They were thwarted by a fuel leak.\n\nEngineers now want to inspect the rocket, and any repairs may need to happen in the workshop rather than on the launch pad.\n\nThe whole process is certain to lead to a setback of several weeks.\n\nIt means we may not see a third launch attempt before mid-October at the earliest.\n\nThe SLS is the most powerful rocket ever developed by the US space agency, and is designed to send astronauts and their equipment back to the Moon after an absence of 50 years.\n\nMuch of the enormous thrust comes from burning almost three million litres of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen in four big engines on the vehicle's underside.\n\nBut when controllers sent the command early on Saturday morning to fill the rocket's hydrogen tank, an alarm went off, indicating there was a leak.\n\nThe problem was traced to the connection where the hydrogen was being pumped into the vehicle.\n\nControllers tried a number of fixes, including allowing the hardware to warm up for short periods to reset the seal, but they were not successful.\n\nThe Artemis I mission is uncrewed, but Nasa's Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said the rocket's future role in human spaceflight meant extreme care was still required in its operation.\n\n\"This is an incredibly hard business. This is an initial test flight of this vehicle. As was said: we're going to fly when we're ready. And as part of this initial test flight, we're learning the vehicle; we're learning how to operate the vehicle,\" he told reporters.\n\nHis boss, Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson, agreed: \"I look at this as a part of our space programme, of which safety is the top of the list.\"\n\nBill Nelson and his Artemis managers are adamant SLS will not launch until it is ready\n\nThe leaky seal on the SLS could conceivably be fixed on the launch pad. But there are batteries in the termination system used to destroy the rocket in the event of a wayward launch that will require recertification beyond this coming week, and this can only be done in the workshop.\n\nRolling the vehicle back to the engineering building makes a third lift-off attempt before mid-October unlikely.\n\n\"In order to test our batteries, change out the batteries, we have to roll back,\" said Jim Free, Nasa's associate administrator for exploration systems development.\n\nSaturday's attempt to despatch the SLS rocket had been scheduled for the start of a two-hour window beginning at 14:17 local time (19:17 BST; 18:17 GMT).\n\nThe 100m-tall vehicle's objective is to hurl a human-rated capsule, called Orion, in the direction of the Moon, something that hasn't happened since Project Apollo ended in 1972.\n\nNasa had first tried to launch the rocket on Monday. That attempt was waved off when controllers couldn't be sure the four big engines at the base of the core-stage were at the correct operating temperature.\n\nFrustratingly, subsequent analysis indicated that a sensor was almost certainly outputting inaccurate readings. The power units, in all probability, were in absolutely the right condition to go fly.\n\nWhen the SLS does get away, it is sure to be a spectacular sight.\n\n\"It's gonna be 'shuttle on steroids',\" said Doug Hurley, who was the pilot on the very last shuttle mission in 2011.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former astronaut Doug Hurley: \"We're building on safe, capable designs\"\n\nThe former astronaut now works for Northrop Grumman who make the big white solid boosters on the sides of the SLS.\n\n\"What I always thought was the coolest thing about shuttle launches was you saw it lift off and it was well clear of the tower before you heard anything, and then it was even a little longer before you felt it,\" he explained.\n\n\"Thrust to weight-wise, SLS is pretty close to what shuttle was. Apollo's Saturn V rocket was drastically different. I never saw it in person but it lumbered clear of the pad. For shuttle, it seemed like it was clear in an instant, almost as soon as the boosters were lit. SLS should be the same,\" he told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: The upper-stage of the rocket will put the Orion capsule on a path to the Moon", "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\nSerena Williams waved farewell to the US Open - and her illustrious career - amid emotional scenes after she lost to Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic on a thrilling night in New York.\n\nWilliams, who turns 41 this month, expects it to be her final match.\n\nIt will end a 27-year professional career that brought 23 major singles wins and sees the American widely labelled as the greatest of all time.\n\nWilliams lost 7-5 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 and had tears running down her face afterwards.\n\nThe former long-time world number one saved five match points in what proved to be the final game but was powerless to stop a sixth.\n\nAlmost everyone who could rose to their feet when she departed the court on Arthur Ashe Stadium - the scene of her first major triumph in 1999 and five more of the finest wins in her storied career - for what she intends to be the last time.\n\nAs she waved goodbye and gave a signature twirl, Tina Turner's pop classic 'Simply The Best' boomed out over the sound system.\n\nAsked if she would reconsider retiring after her performances this week, Williams said: \"I'm literally playing my way into this and getting better. I should have started sooner this year. I don't think so, but you never know.\"\n\nWilliams was overcome with emotion when she was interviewed in the middle of the court, thanking her family, team, the crowd and her fans across the world for their support over the years.\n\n\"I thank everyone that's here, that's been on my side so many years, decades. Oh my gosh, literally decades,\" said Williams, who played her first professional tournament as a 14-year-old in 1995.\n\n\"But it all started with my parents. And they deserve everything. So I'm really grateful for them.\n\n\"And I wouldn't be Serena if there wasn't [sister] Venus, so thank you, Venus. She's the only reason that Serena Williams ever existed.\"\n\nTomljanovic, who moves into the fourth round and plays Russia's Liudmila Samsonova, stepped to the side and applauded her opponent as she took the microphone.\n\nThe world number 46 produced a phenomenal performance to block out the noise and sense of occasion, illustrated by her clinical hitting in the final stages of a brutal contest which lasted three hours and five minutes.\n• None 'Greatest the world has ever seen' - Williams tributes\n\nWilliams produces one last thrilling performance for A-list crowd\n\nWilliams has long been more than a tennis player and it was a sign of her status - as an American icon and one of the world's most recognisable sport stars - that she announced her retirement in an essay for glossy fashion magazine Vogue.\n\nAlthough she did not use the word retirement itself, preferring to say she was \"evolving away\" from the sport, her plan is to end her glittering career this fortnight at her home major.\n\nLike every night she has appeared this week, Williams emerged on to court after being introduced as the 'Queen of Queen's' - the borough of New York where the tournament is held - in a specially-commissioned video montage narrated by American rap star Queen Latifah.\n\nThe A-Listers have been out in force on Ashe this week, with Vogue editor Anna Wintour and golf superstar Tiger Woods previously sitting in Williams' box.\n\nOn Friday night it was R&B singer Ciara and her husband Russell Wilson, who is one of the country's biggest NFL stars, alongside members of Williams' family.\n\nElsewhere, tennis great Billie Jean King, film director Spike Lee and actress Rebel Wilson were also watching.\n\nWilliams wore the glittery, figure skating-inspired dress she had specially created for the tournament, along with diamond-encrusted trainers, to add further pomp to the occasion.\n\nRight to the end, Williams put on a show for the almost capacity 24,000 crowd.\n\nThe 40-year-old played some of her best tennis in a long while as she fought to prolong her career, putting on one final memorable show for those lucky enough to witness it.\n\nWaiting for one of the greatest icons in the sport, as a partisan home crowd was being whipped up, would test the mettle of even the most nerveless players.\n\nWilliams breezed in with Tomljanovic already long out on the court, having arrived first after touching a bronze plaque at the players' entrance inscribed with Billie Jean King's famous 'Pressure is a privilege' quote.\n\nThe American looked the more tense and showed it in the first game, with Tomljanovic not looking fazed when she broke her opponent's serve.\n\nBut Williams settled quickly in the next game as Tomljanovic could not consolidate, going a break ahead for 5-3 and serving for the opening set.\n\nThen a poor game appeared at the worst possible time for Williams. Unforced errors from her racquet contributed to Tomljanovic breaking back for 5-4 as did, almost as crucially, a net cord trickling back to Williams' side of the court at 30-30.\n\nGrowing in confidence as a result of the break, Tomljanovic hit clean winners off both wings - either side of a double fault from Williams - to break again for 6-5 and leave her serving for the opener.\n\nShe raced into a 40-0 lead and sealed the set at the third opportunity with an inch-perfect forehand winner.\n\nSeeing Williams trailing left the crowd inside the world's biggest tennis stadium somewhat subdued.\n\nNot for long, however. The world number 605 broke for a 2-0 lead in the second set and moved 4-0 ahead, thanks to some ferocious winners and helped by two double faults from her opponent, to send Ashe back into raptures.\n\nWilliams was turning back the clock again at this point and was described by British former player Laura Robson, working for BBC Radio 5 Live as an analyst, as playing the best tennis she had seen her play \"in years\".\n\nA slip in concentration allowed Tomljanovic to claw back one of the breaks, but Williams locked in again and held from deuce for 5-2.\n\nThat sparked an impassioned celebration from Williams - a trademark roar complemented with a fist clench and foot stamp as she bent towards the court - as everyone in the place erupted once again.\n\nAnticipation hung in the air as Williams tried to level the match at the first attempt, but she missed four set points and that triggered a fightback from Tomljanovic.\n\nSensing Williams needed their help, the crowd chanted her name around the cavernous arena going into the tie-break and she responded with a composed passage of play to finally level the match after an 84-minute set.\n\nNow it was a straight one-set shootout.\n\nWilliams looked to be suffering a dip in energy - understandably after her physical efforts this week in only her fourth tournament in more than a year - as she fell 5-1 behind in the decider.\n\nThe end looked inevitable but not before she mustered one last act of resistance.\n\nIn a final game lasting 15 minutes and 22 points, she eventually succumbed by planting a forehand into the net, which led to the final - potentially loudest - ovation of her career.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Steve Coogan chats to Nihal Arthanayake about British humour and cancel culture\n• None 'Policies we improvised became law within years' The creative force behind Alan Partridge talks about his cultural influences", "Londoners Ayissa Khan and Samir Dwesar said to each other: \"Let's do it!\"\n\nPeople have been coming to London from all over the UK and much further afield to queue for hours and pay their final respects to the Queen. BBC News has been speaking to some about what motivated them.\n\nMourners were warned to brace themselves for a very lengthy wait. But that didn't deter those gathering at the rear of the miles-long queue to pay their respects on Saturday.\n\nAs the crowds filed into Southwark Park in south-east London to begin their long procession to Westminster Hall, a large LED sign left them in no doubt what they were letting themselves in for.\n\n\"WAIT TIME FROM THIS POINT MINIMUM 14 HOURS,\" it read.\n\nCompared to the previous day - when the park had been closed to new arrivals after reaching capacity and wait times had reached 24 hours - this would be, after all, a relatively brisk wait.\n\nAssiya Khan from west London and Samir Dwesar from Croydon, both 32, joined the queue just after 11:00 BST on Saturday. They had originally planned to turn up in the middle of the night when they anticipated the queue would drop - but when they checked the official tracker at 02:00 and 04:00, the predicted wait time had not fallen.\n\n\"Then BBC News flashed up saying it had dropped to 14 hours,\" says Assiya. \"So we just said, let's do it.\"\n\nBut neither mind how long they end up standing in line. \"It's all part of the experience,\" says Samir.\n\nIt was, after all, a clear, bright, dry early autumn day - perfect conditions for standing outdoors for hours.\n\nFriends Claire and Emma came from north-east England with a suitcase of body warmers and thermal leggings\n\nAnd still the mourners kept coming at a rate of 2,000 an hour. Throughout the morning, the park grew visibly fuller.\n\nThose arriving were clearly anticipating a long stay - most were in warmer clothes than would be expect for the daytime in London in mid-September, with lots of parkas, hats and big jumpers.\n\nClaire Thomas, 46, and friend Emma Hughes, 29, travelled down from Newcastle and Sunderland respectively and with them was a wheelie suitcase full of body warmers, thermal leggings and the like.\n\nClaire's rucksack was filled with provisions to keep their energy levels up - \"fruit, sweets energy bars - lots of sugar and protein,\" said Emma purposefully.\n\nBut none would have prepared to stand until the early hours unless this was a meaningful occasion for them. Behind every face in the queue was a different story of some kind of connection to the late monarch, however great or small.\n\nJacqueline Pearsons said seeing the Queen evoked memories of her late mother\n\nAs she waited to collect the wristband that would give her access to the queue, Jacqueline Pearsons, 51, from north London, brushed a tear from her eye.\n\nThis was an emotional occasion for her, she explained. Her mother, who died two-and-a-half years ago, had been a great fan of the late Queen, having attended her coronation in 1953.\n\n\"So every time I saw the Queen, she brought back memories of my mum,\" said Jacqueline. \"And now she's gone as well. So this feels like something I have really got to do.\"\n\nAs word reached the rear of the queue that the King and the Prince of Wales had made a surprise visit to mourners further down the line, those at the back were appreciative of the gesture.\n\n\"They're doing what their mum and grandmother did,\" says Sarah Mellor, 44, from Chorley, Lancashire. \"I've got so much respect for that - it must be really hard when you lose your mum at 73.\"\n\nMichael travelled overnight from Georgia in the US to pay his respects to \"the mother of this country\"\n\nAnd as they prepared to wait in line into the early hours, many of those standing in line said it was a small sacrifice to make.\n\nMichael Tropp, a self-described Anglophile from Atlanta, Georgia, had arrived from the US in the morning on a nine-hour overnight flight. The Queen's death was a moment in history that he'd felt compelled to honour.\n\n\"For 70 years she's been the mother of this country,\" he said. \"There will never be anything like this again in my lifetime.\"", "On Monday, President Zelensky raised the Ukrainian flag in the recently-liberated city of Izyum. The BBC visited soon afterwards to find a city cut off from power and water, but relieved at the arrival of Ukrainian troops.\n\nThe closer you get to Izyum, the more evidence there is of Russia's rapid retreat.\n\nUkrainian soldiers are grouped by the roadside near the city, inspecting the spoils of war with broad smiles.\n\nThere are two abandoned Russian tanks - the Ukrainian flag already planted on one of them. Troops hug in celebration as they try to use one tank to tow the other out of a ditch.\n\nJust inside the city another abandoned tank sits in the middle of the road - like a monument to Russia's defeat. A local man poses in front of it for a selfie, giving the tank a thumbs down.\n\nTwo women emerge from a minivan with a handful of small bags, including some groceries. Larissa, 61, and her friend Victoria, are returning to the city for the first time.\n\nPeople had been huddled in the centre of the building to keep warm when an airstrike hit\n\nLarissa says they left at the beginning of the war and are happy to be back. But the situation is complicated, as her home in the city centre was damaged. After speaking to us they set off on foot to stay with friends.\n\nTouring the city, we see many shelled and blackened buildings. Across the road from the damaged city council building, a few dozen people stand in a quiet queue in the afternoon rain waiting for aid, including jars of pickles, dried goods and bottled water.\n\nThe city is without running water, electricity or heat.\n\nThe dead are still being counted here but local officials saw 47 people - children among them - killed in an airstrike on a five-story block of flats back in March. The attack left a gaping hole in the middle of the building.\n\nAt the building today, we have a clear view into some of the apartments. A TV sits on a table in a top-floor flat. A few floors below, clothes still hang neatly in the wardrobe, as if their owner might wear them again. Three smiling women stare out of a photograph in a small album lying in the rubble.\n\nTatiana, 69, who lived in the building for 22 years, points out her singed balcony on the second floor.\n\nShe says the attack happened in the morning. She wasn't there because she had gone to the shelter.\n\nNeighbours who had taken shelter in the apartment block grouped together in the centre of the building for warmth, she says. The airstrike hit the centre of the building.\n\nOutside a city administration building - which was used by the Russians as their command centre - a Russian sign still hangs over the door, but a charred Russian flag has been thrown in the bin.\n\nInside boxes of files are scattered around in offices. At a nearby police station - where the Russians detained people in the cells - we find piles of Ukrainian passports. Local police say they were confiscated by the Russians during the months of occupation.\n\nTatiana, outside the building where she lived for 22 years", "Chris Kaba, who was due to become a father, died in the early hours of 6 September about two hours after he was shot\n\nThe police watchdog will examine whether race was a factor in the fatal shooting of a black man by an officer.\n\nChris Kaba, who was unarmed, was shot on 5 September after a pursuit that ended in south London. His family has accused the Met Police of racism.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is conducting an investigation into the shooting.\n\nMr Kaba's family criticised how long the investigation may take to give answers.\n\nIn a statement the family's lawyer Daniel Machover said: \"Six to nine months for this investigation is unacceptably long and lacks urgency.\n\n\"It indicates insufficient resources to do the job.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it \"will examine whether or not Mr Kaba's race influenced any actions taken by the police\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"We must explore all of the circumstances surrounding Mr Kaba's death including: how the officers came to be aware of the vehicle Mr Kaba was driving; if they had any prior knowledge of Mr Kaba; and their decision-making and actions on 5 September.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police firearms officer who shot the 24-year-old is suspended from duty.\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Amanda Pearson said: \"We continue to fully support the IOPC investigation as they work to establish the facts and try to answer the many questions Mr Kaba's family and others have around his tragic death.\n\n\"We've been spending this week speaking with local communities across London, including our Independent Advisory Groups - we know how important it is we listen to their views and concerns and explain as far as we can what is happening. We welcome more of these important conversations.\"\n\nThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the IOPC \"must go wherever the evidence takes them\".\n\nHe added: \"I fully understand the grave concerns and impact of Chris Kaba's death on black Londoners across our city and the anger, pain and fear it has caused across our communities - as well as the desire for justice and change.\n\n\"The IOPC have confirmed to me that they are fully committed to carrying out a thorough and comprehensive investigation to establish all of the facts - with all key findings made public. I'm clear that the independent investigation must be fearless and leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nThe IPOC said it had been in contact with Mr Kaba's family regarding the investigation, which is expected to take six to nine months to complete.\n\nA coroner's inquest into the death is due to open on 4 October.\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.", "In a pine forest at the edge of Izyum the stench of death filled the air as a mass exhumation got under way.\n\nThe earth is giving up its secrets. Ukrainian officials believe war crimes have been committed, which they are determined to document.\n\nAround 100 Ukrainian emergency service workers wearing blue plastic coverings dug into the earth, opening makeshift graves.\n\nThey are trying to establish the cause of death of hundreds of people buried in a forest at the edge of the city, recently liberated by advancing Ukrainian forces.\n\nIzyum, invaded in April, was used by Russia as a key military hub to supply its forces from the east.\n\nThe exhumation was conducted mostly in silence, as police and prosecutors looked on. One officer put his head in his hands. Another walked away.\n\nKharkiv regional prosecutor Olexander Ilyenkov says there is no doubt war crimes have been committed here.\n\n\"In the first grave, there is a civilian who has a rope over her neck. So we see the traces of torture,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said almost everyone died because of Russian soldiers.\n\n\"Some of them were killed, some were tortured, some were killed because of Russian Federation air and artillery strikes.\"\n\nSome graves were marked with a name, but most only had numbers\n\nUkraine was determined to show this disturbing sight to the world. Convoys of international journalists were brought to watch on.\n\nThe burial ground - beside an existing cemetery - contains row after row of graves, marked by crude wooden crosses.\n\nNames were written on a few, but most were marked only by a number. The burials here were carried out under the orders of the Russians when they were in control.\n\nUkrainian police say there are 445 new graves at the site, but some contain more than one body. It's unclear how all of them died. Many are said to be civilians, women and children among them.\n\nProsecutors say some were killed by Russian shelling and others were victims of a Russian airstrike on an apartment block in March, in which 47 people were killed.\n\nOfficials say one grave contained around 20 soldiers, some with their hands bound and one with a noose around his neck. The body of a man in military uniform was exhumed and zipped into a white body bag.\n\nAs the graves were opened there were sporadic explosions in the distance as the security forces worked to de-mine the area.\n\n72-year-old Hryhorii came to the burial site today to see the grave of his wife, Ludmilla. He told us she was killed on 7 March during heavy shelling in Izyum.\n\nHryhorii's wife is buried at the site\n\nHe first had to bury her in the yard of their home, then she was reburied in August. Now her remains will be disturbed once again.\n\nIt's only now, since the Russians have been pushed out, that Ukraine can carry out detailed investigations here, and can determine how many victims the occupiers left behind.\n\nA woman who lived opposite the forest told us Russians troops had kept locals away from the cemetery.\n\nA local man named Maxim appeared at the burial site, asking journalists to record his account of torture.\n\nHe said he was detained by the Russians in early September, and released by Ukrainian forces when they arrived in Izyum last Saturday (10 September).\n\nHe showed us the marks on his wrists caused by handcuffs, and said he had been subjected to electric shocks.\n\nA senior advisor to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC evidence of torture was found in some areas recently retaken by Ukrainian forces.\n\n\"We saw wildly frightened people who were kept without light, without food, without water, and without the right to justice,\" Mykhailo Podolyak said.\n\nKharkiv prosecutor Mr Ilyenkov said several similar burial sites had been found in areas recently retaken by Ukrainian forces.\n\nUS national security spokesman John Kirby said reports of the graves in Izyum were \"horrifying\" but \"in keeping with the kind of depravity and the brutality with which Russian forces have been prosecuting this war against Ukraine\".\n\n\"We're going to continue to actively support efforts to document war crimes and atrocities that Russian forces commit in Ukraine and to assist national and international efforts to identify and hold Russians accountable,\" he added.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron condemned \"in the strongest possible terms\" what he described as the \"atrocities\" committed in Izyum.\n\nBritish lawyer Nigel Povoas, who specialises in the prosecution and investigation of major international and transnational crime and who has just returned from Izyum, told the BBC's Newshour he would not be surprised if the exhumations revealed evidence of war crimes.\n\n\"I think that the early signs at the moment - although it's very very early - is that some of the bodies have died from shelling or malnutrition and a lack of healthcare,\" he said. \"But as normal bodies are tested and the cause of death determined, I would expect there to be also evidence of torture and executions, because it follows a pattern of what's been happening in the occupied territories.\"", "One of the biggest typhoons ever to strike Japan has made landfall on the southern island of Kyushu.\n\nTyphoon Nanmadol has brought winds of at least 180 km/h (112mph) and some areas could see 500mm (20 inches) of rainfall over Sunday and Monday.\n\nAt least four million people have been told to evacuate their homes.\n\nExtensive flooding and landslides are expected, while bullet train services, ferries, and hundreds of flights have been cancelled.\n\nThe typhoon made landfall near the city of Kagoshima, on the southern tip of Kyushu, on Sunday morning.\n\nKyushu is the southernmost of the four islands that make up the main body of Japan and has a population of more than 13 million people.\n\nAuthorities had issued a \"special alert\" for the island, the first ever put in place outside the Okinawa Prefecture, which consists of the smaller, remote Japanese islands in the East China Sea, the Japan Times reports.\n\nJapan's Meteorological Agency said Nanmadol would bring torrential rain, storm surges along the coast, and winds so powerful there was a risk that homes could collapse.\n\nAn official in the city of Izumi said conditions on Sunday afternoon were deteriorating rapidly.\n\n\"The wind has become extremely strong. Rain is falling hard too,\" he told AFP news agency. \"It's a total white-out outside. Visibility is almost zero.\"\n\nThe typhoon is now moving north across Kyushu, dropping huge amounts of rain on the mountainous centre of the island.\n\nIt is expected to travel up through central Japan towards Tokyo over the coming days and to maintain much of its strength as it moves.\n\nThe biggest threat to life and property is from the rain, which is already causing rivers to rise and could unleash land and mudslides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Typhoon Nanmadol bears down on Japan - what's the forecast?\n\nPeople across Kyushu have been told to seek refuge in shelters, but the evacuation warnings are not mandatory, and authorities have in the past struggled to convince people to move to shelter before extreme weather events.\n\nBy Sunday evening, utility companies said almost 200,000 homes were without power.\n\nIn a statement, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told people to \"evacuate without hesitation if they feel in danger in any way\".\n\n\"I urge [everyone] to avoid going near places posing potential dangers such as rivers and other waterways or places at risk of landslides,\" he said.\n\n\"It is extremely dangerous to evacuate at night. I urge the public to evacuate to a safe location before nightfall.\"\n\nNanmadol is the 14th Pacific typhoon this season, and by far the largest to hit Japan.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, an official from Japan's meteorological agency said it had the potential to be worse than both Typhoon Jebi in 2018, which left 14 people dead, and Typhoon Hagibis, which caused widespread power cuts in 2019.\n\nThe country is well-prepared for dealing with such storms, but scientists say climate change is making them bigger and more destructive.", "Protests have broken out at the funeral of a woman who died after being arrested by Iran's morality police.\n\nMahsa Amini, 22, died on Friday, days after eyewitnesses said she was beaten in a police van in Tehran - allegations denied by police.\n\nSome women at the ceremony reportedly removed their headscarves in protest at the compulsory wearing of hijabs.\n\nMourners chanted \"death to the dictator\", with videos showing police later firing on a crowd.\n\nThe funeral took place in Ms Amini's hometown, Saqez, in the western province of Kurdistan.\n\nAccording to videos published on social media, locals gathered very early in the morning to prevent Iranian security forces rushing through the burial in secret to avoid protests.\n\nReports suggested that some angry protesters marched toward the local governor's office to protest about the death. According to videos received and verified by the BBC Persian Service, the security forces opened fire on protesters.\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 Shayan Sardarizadeh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were also reports of injuries and arrests. In videos published on Twitter, security forces can be seen guarding the governor's office and arresting protesters trying to get close to the building.\n\nA picture of Ms Amini's gravestone was published on social media. It reads: \"You didn't die. Your name will be a code [rallying call].\"\n\nMs Amini was arrested on Tuesday by the morality police for allegedly not complying with the strict dress code on head coverings.\n\nAccording to eyewitnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van and slipped into a coma later.\n\nIranian police denied the allegations, saying she had \"suffered a sudden heart failure\".\n\nEbrahim Raisi, Iran's hardline president, has asked the ministry of the interior to launch an investigation into the death.\n\nKasra Hospital in Northern Tehran said in a statement that Ms Amini was admitted on 13 September showing \"no vital signs\".\n\nThe statement was later removed from the hospital's social media after hardline social media accounts accused hospital staff of being \"anti-regime agents\".\n\nIranian TV also aired CCTV footage of Ms Amini under arrest. Human rights activists accused state TV of censoring the footage to create a false story.\n\nAccording to Netblocks, a watchdog organization that monitors cybersecurity and internet governance, the internet connection has been disrupted in various locations in Iran since news of Ms Amini's death came out, including in the capital, Tehran, and Saqez.\n\nMany users said they could not upload videos on Instagram or send content over WhatsApp.\n\nIranian state-controlled Sharq newspaper reported that Tehran's very low internet speed disrupted the stock market on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by NetBlocks 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\nSince the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, women have been legally required to wear modest \"Islamic\" clothing. In practice, this means women must wear a chador, a full-body cloak, or a headscarf and a manteau (overcoat) that covers their arms.\n\nIn recent years, Iran has seen several campaigns against the compulsory hijab, but a crackdown by Iran's morality police on women accused of not complying with the dress code has caused opponents of the policy to call for action.\n\nRecently, the head of Iran's judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejeie, suggested that foreign powers are behind the campaign, instructing intelligence agencies to find the \"hands behind the naked veil\".\n\nEarlier in the summer, President Raisi also promised to crack down on the \"promotion of organized corruption in the Islamic society\", directly referring to the campaign.\n\nIn recent months, Iranian state TV has showed televised confessions of women arrested for not following the strict dress code.\n\nMany Iranians blame the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, for the crackdown. A speech by him is being shared on social media in which he praises the role of the morality police and the way it operates.", "Coverage: Live TV coverage of Great Britain's matches on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nGreat Britain failed to reach the Davis Cup Finals knockout stage after Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury lost the key doubles rubber against the Netherlands.\n\nThe Group D tie in Glasgow had been level at 1-1 after Dan Evans won in the singles before Cameron Norrie lost to set up a nail-biting finale.\n\nBut Murray and Salisbury lost a thriller 7-6 (7-0) 6-7 (6-8) 6-3 to Wesley Koolhof and Matwe Middelkoop.\n\nVictory puts the Dutch and the United States into November's next stage.\n\nLeon Smith's side take on Kazakhstan on Sunday but neither side can advance, while the Netherlands will meet the United States on Saturday to decide who goes through to the Malaga event as group winner.\n\nA minute's silence was held again before play started and the tie is being played without the usual music between games, as a mark of respect during the period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe permutations in this tie were straightforward for the hosts - win or you're out.\n\nAnd after British number one Norrie lost 6-4 6-2 to Botic van de Zandschulp in a below-par performance to cancel out number two Evans' 6-4 6-4 win against Tallon Griekspoor, it all came down to the doubles.\n\nAndy Murray has had by far the biggest cheers this week when his name has been announced, with the three-time Grand Slam champion returning to the men's team tournament for the first time since 2019.\n\nHe had spoken of his regret at the \"mistake\" of skipping the Davis Cup last year and about how he was now ready to help the team this year even if he did not end up playing.\n\nHe ended up playing twice but could not rescue the tie.\n\nHe and Salisbury broke in the first game of the match and went 3-1 up but were broken to love to allow the Dutch to make it 4-4 and eventually take it to a tie-break, where they did not drop a point.\n\nThe Britons may have started to sense things might not go their way when Middelkoop won the most unlikely point in that tie-break, where he had been sprawled across the floor midway through the point only to leap up acrobatically and volley a winner at the net.\n\nBut there were still more twists to come as a closely fought second set headed into a seemingly inevitable tie-break.\n\nA series of stunning winners from Murray triggered ovations before complete silence as a smash from Middlekoop brought up match point.\n\nSalisbury held his nerve - and his serve - in style with a booming delivery that Middelkoop could only hit long and the Britons then claimed the set when a Murray shot caught the net in a lucky spot to trigger wild celebrations from their watching team-mates, including a jubilant lap of honour from Evans.\n\nBut missed chances at 3-3 and a loose service game from Salisbury in the next game pooped the party as Murray hit wide to hand the Dutch pair a break that left them serving for the match.\n\nHaving had to wait 50 minutes since their previous match point they were not about to miss another chance and secured the victory when Murray netted.\n\n\"It just sucks, because these matches have come down to a few points and they've not gone our way,\" Murray told a news conference after what was his 50th Davis Cup rubber.\n\n\"I have been fortunate to play a lot of these matches over the years, and, you know, come through them. That hasn't happened this time around and I feel sad about that, because I think we had the possibility to have a really good run here.\"\n\n'Best' team fail to deliver on home soil\n\nGreat Britain had arrived in Scotland with what they felt was their strongest team ever in terms of depth, boasting three top-50 singles players as well as the world's top and third-ranked doubles players.\n\nThey were beaten 2-1 by the United States on Wednesday in an agonisingly close and draining encounter, with all three matches going to three sets and with play finishing at nearly 01:00 BST.\n\nThe Netherlands tie was another quality affair but questions are sure to be asked about whether Leon Smith got his team selections right and why a team that was so strong on paper is not going to be competing for the trophy in Malaga.\n\nThe fifth and unused member of the GB team was Neal Skupski, the third best doubles player in the world who was runner-up in the men's doubles final alongside one of Friday's Dutch opponents Koolhof.\n\nThe player who may be most disappointed with their performance might be Norrie, who looked out of sorts for a large part of his opening match against American Taylor Fritz and even larger parts of this defeat against Van de Zandschulp.\n\nThe Briton had beaten the Dutchman 6-1 6-2 just a few weeks ago in Canada but was outplayed by him here, with the world number 35 dominant on serve as he racked up 13 aces and also hit 18 winners to Norrie's four in a thoroughly deserved win.\n\n\"That's not a player that's of my ranking, and that's me on a really bad day,\" Norrie said.\n\n\"That's not the level that I have. That's not the level that I'm capable of. I'm disappointed with that.\"\n\nMurray said he was particularly disappointed to have lost in front of home fans, who had chanted, sung and banged their drums throughout the tie, which was being played without its usual music at changeovers out of respect for the period of national mourning.\n\n\"We had again really a great atmosphere out there again today. I've loved all of the chances I got to play here,\" the 35-year-old said.\n\n\"And obviously, when you get to sort of my age and this stage of your career, I don't know how many opportunities I'll get to still be part of this team.\"\n\n\"It sucks\" says Andy Murray, who was left rueing hitting a forehand second-serve return into the net on a break point midway through the deciding set.\n\nAfter saving two break points at 3-3, the Netherlands then won the final 10 points of the match.\n\nWhen GB won the Davis Cup in 2015, Murray (with help from brother Jamie in the doubles) contributed 11 of the team's 12 points.\n\nSo what makes this defeat even more frustrating is that British men's tennis now has genuine strength in depth.\n\nThere will be no trip to Malaga in November to contest the knockout stages, and if GB aren't awarded yet another wildcard for next year's Finals, they will need to chance their arm in a qualifying tie in February.", "Azhar Ali Mehmood was jailed in 2001 for three counts of murder and one of attempted murder\n\nA taxi driver who murdered two teenagers and their mother has for a second time been denied parole.\n\nAzhar Ali Mehmood, then 26, killed 16-year-old Lucy Lowe, the mother of his child, as well as her 17-year-old sister and mother Eileen Linda Lowe, 49.\n\nHe was jailed for life in 2001 after starting a fire at the family's home in Telford, Shropshire, in August 2000.\n\nThe Parole Board panel also refused to recommend a move to an open prison.\n\nThe application, last turned down in 2020, was denied due to the risk to the public, it said.\n\nLucy Lowe was groomed and exploited by Mehmood from the age of 12\n\nLucy was legally incapable of consent when she was targeted and groomed by Mehmood at 12 years old.\n\nShe was pregnant a second time by him when she died in the blaze.\n\nHe was jailed for murdering the three by pouring petrol inside the Leegomery house and setting it alight, but was not prosecuted for sex crimes.\n\nTasnim Lowe has previously called for an inquiry into her mother's death\n\nMehmood's daughter Tasnim, who was found wrapped in blankets after the fire, has previously criticised the justice system for not prosecuting her father for child sex offences.\n\nA recent inquiry into child sex abuse in Telford, which referenced the case, found crimes were ignored for generations, leading to more than 1,000 girls being abused.\n\nAgencies blamed children for the abuse they suffered, not the perpetrators, and exploitation was not investigated because of \"nervousness about race\", its chairman Tom Crowther KC concluded.\n\nLucy Lowe was 14 when she became pregnant with her daughter Tasnim\n\nThe inquiry heard from witnesses who recounted that Lucy's murder would often be used by perpetrators of child sexual exploitation to frighten victims.\n\nIt sought to speak to Clive Harding, who as a Det Chief Inspector at West Mercia Police at the time had assumed responsibility for the triple murder investigation.\n\nThe panel wanted to ask about evidence suggesting Lucy had been subjected to abuse prior to her murder.\n\nHowever, he declined to speak and maintained he could not add anything further to the documentation held and disclosed by the police force in relation to the investigation.\n\n\"It is now some 20 years since that tragic event and whilst a triple murder of such magnitude will forever be remembered by me, the details will have faded,\" he submitted to the inquiry.\n\nThe Parole Board said it had \"carefully examined a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of [Mehmood's] behaviour change\".\n\nIt refused his application to be released, saying \"decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released\".\n\nMehmood will be eligible for another review in due course, the Parole Board added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None The Independent Inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Telford The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The moment a fireball raced across the sky over Northern Ireland has been captured on camera.\n\nHundreds of people reported seeing the \"shooting star\" above Northern Ireland and Scotland on Wednesday night.\n\nJoe McNeill from Dunmurry in west Belfast said it was \"absolutely amazing\".\n\nThe UK Meteor Network said it began receiving reports of the fireball at 22:00 on Wednesday.\n\nScientists are using video footage captured by the public to work out whether the object travelling across the night sky was a meteor or space junk, and where it came from.\n\nMr McNeill said: \"I noticed a bit of the orange streak coming across the sky - I thought it was a firework.\n\n\"Then I realised when it started to change colour that it wasn't a firework - I couldn't hear anything from it.\n\n\"I would say I'm a sky-gazer, I'm always looking up and it's the first time I've seen anything like that, as bright and on that scale.\"", "The Queen and her children, pictured here in 1953, would watch Prince Phillip play polo at Smith's Lawn\n\nFrom the iconic tree-lined Long Walk where red deer roam freely, to the 4,800 acres of majestic trees, lakes and ornamental gardens, it is easy to see why Windsor Great Park was so special to the Queen.\n\nShe was able to relax here, find refuge.\n\nLocals would see the Queen in and around the park - sometimes driving up the Long Walk on her way to the Royal Chapel of All Saints for Sunday worship, other times driving through the park to Smith's Lawn to watch polo. But they afforded her privacy.\n\nThe Queen learned to ride in Windsor Great Park\n\nThe Queen's association with Windsor Great Park began when her family moved to Windsor in the 1930s when she was a young princess.\n\nIt was at the park where she learnt to ride horses, leading to a life-long passion.\n\n\"I think at that time there was great freedom to ride around on her horse, or her pony, exploring the great expanses of the park, the ancient trees, the parkland,\" Paul Sedgwick, deputy ranger of Windsor Great Park, said.\n\nHe added he was \"very lucky\" to have been able to spend a lot of time with the Queen.\n\nThe Queen took a great interest in the park's gardens, including The Savill Garden\n\nHe said she was \"fantastic\" at \"offering advice, guidance and support\" and took a \"huge interest\" in the park.\n\nWhen she ascended to the throne, one of the first things the Queen did was to make her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, the ranger of Windsor Great Park.\n\nTogether they worked towards protecting and preserving it.\n\nThe Queen was known to take a great interest in the park's gardens.\n\nIn 1957, the Queen watched the Household Brigade Polo matches, in which the Duke of Edinburgh played\n\nIn the spring and summer months, she would visit two of them - the Savill Garden with its beautifully designed gardens and the Valley Gardens for its charming woodland trails and seasonal displays.\n\nShe would also regularly walk her beloved corgis in Frogmore Gardens, set within Windsor Castle's private grounds, the Home Park.\n\n\"All of the gardens at different times of year afforded Her Majesty an element of privacy where she could come and walk and enjoy the gardens in her own time,\" Mr Sedgwick said.\n\nThe statue of the Queen on horseback was a Jubilee gift from the Crown Estate\n\nDuring Covid and lockdown, when the Queen was in residence at Windsor Castle, Mr Sedgwick said every Friday morning they would send her a fresh bouquet of flowers from one of the three gardens in Windsor Great Park.\n\n\"It just felt a natural thing to do,\" he said.\n\n\"The gardens team suggested it and every Friday morning flowers from either the Savill Garden, the Valley Gardens or Frogmore would go up to the castle for Her Majesty.\"\n\nAround Windsor Great Park there are reminders of the Queen, including a statue of her on horseback looking across the park to Windsor Castle.\n\nDuring lockdown the gardens team would send flowers to the Queen every Friday\n\nIt was a Golden Jubilee gift from the Crown Estate.\n\nPaul Sedgwick said the Queen's legacy was \"all around\" the park and the town.\n\n\"The legacy that you can see that both the Queen and the Duke left across the park, the avenues of trees, the reintroduction of the red deer, the expansion of the formal gardens. It's a life-long legacy that continues nearly a thousand years of royal patronage at Windsor,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Turnbull presented BBC Breakfast for 15 years, and later moved to the commercial radio station Classic FM\n\nFriends and colleagues of former BBC broadcaster Bill Turnbull have paid tribute to him at his funeral service.\n\nTurnbull, who hosted BBC Breakfast for 15 years and was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018, died on 31 August, aged 66.\n\nHis funeral service was held at the Holy Trinity Church in Blythburgh in Suffolk, where he had lived.\n\nHis BBC Breakfast co-host Sian Williams said he was \"an extraordinary man\".\n\nTurnbull's two sons and son-in-law were among the six pallbearers carrying his oak coffin into the church, which is just off the A12 near Southwold\n\nSusanna Reid (left) arrived at the church with Sian Williams, who said it was \"a day of sadness and reflection\"\n\nOther broadcasters, including Charlie Stayt, Susanna Reid and Naga Munchetty, were among those at the service.\n\nTurnbull's two sons and son-in-law were among the six pallbearers carrying his oak coffin, adorned with a red rose and purple bouquet, into the church.\n\nOther famous names who attended included Martha Kearney, Mike Bushell, Louise Minchin, Charlotte Hawkins and Nick Robinson.\n\nTurnbull (far left) presented BBC Breakfast with (left to right) Sian Williams, Susanna Reid and Charlie Stayt\n\nNaga Munchetty said Turnbull was \"passionate about the audience\"\n\nWilliams, his friend of 30 years and BBC Breakfast co-host for more than a decade, said: \"Bill was an extraordinary man and I don't think he quite ever realised the impact he had on other people.\n\n\"I met somebody just yesterday at the hospital where I work - he was a porter and he said 'I went to get checked [for prostate cancer] because Bill told me to' and that impact has been felt throughout the UK.\n\n\"He was a mate, he was a very loyal friend, and he was great to sit next to for 11 years. We trusted one another and respected one another... I'll remember him with a smile, he made me laugh.\"\n\nTurnbull hosted BBC Breakfast for 15 years and also fronted Songs of Praise and game show Think Tank.\n\nAfter leaving the BBC in 2016, he joined Classic FM and continued presenting shows on the network until recently.\n\nBill Turnbull was a regular fixture at Adams Park where he had been a fan of Wycombe Wanderers for more than 20 years\n\nA signed Wycombe Wanderers shirt with the number 60 had been placed on a bench outside the church to mark Turnbull's support for the football club.\n\nCurrent BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who shared the red sofa with Turnbull for several years, said: \"He was passionate about the job and passionate about the journalism and passionate about the audience.\n\n\"The audience was all that mattered, and all that does matter, and Bill never forgot that - he was a joy to sit beside.\"\n\nShe added that she would remember Turnbull as a \"funny, charming, cheeky guy\".\n\nBroadcasters Martha Kearney and Charlie Stayt were among the former colleagues who also attended\n\nWilliams added: \"I wish he were able to understand how much he was valued, and I think it is incredible the number of people here who just wanted to come and celebrate and pay their respects to him.\n\n\"I think the reason that so many people have turned out today to pay their respects - to think about him and share memories of him and to celebrate him - is because he was a good man.\"\n\nRobinson, presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, said he was \"going to miss him terribly\".\n\n\"People sometimes say people who present TV shows get paid a vast amount of money, they get a lot of praise and it's easy. And it is easy, but the funny thing is hardly anybody can do it well,\" he said.\n\n\"Bill Turnbull did it brilliantly because he was a seriously good journalist, but he also was a human being who could reach out, empathise and be warm with people, from presidents, kings and queens down to people talking about their pets.\"\n\nNick Robinson said people may say TV presenting is easy \"but funnily enough I do not know anybody else as good as Bill Turnbull at doing it\"\n\nDavid Kogan, one of Turnbull's former editors, said he was \"as close to me as a brother could be\".\n\n\"As a friend he was a very funny companion with whom I went on long trips, we listened to music, we went to football, he was a man who had great depth of personality and character, great depth of friendship and family. He was a great guy,\" he said.\n\n\"I've witnessed Bill for the last five years fighting this illness with incredible strength of will, and his family also fighting it with their incredible levels of support, and in the last few weeks of his life, when the battle was clearly being lost, he was a man who was not going to give up life easily.\n\n\"It was a tragic moment when we lost him; we lost him far too young; it is a very emotional day and we will miss him.\"\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 Premier League\n\nSon Heung-min ended his goal drought with a scintillating 13-minute hat-trick as Tottenham ruthlessly punished Leicester's latest defensive horror show.\n\nThe South Korea striker responded to Antonio Conte's decision to drop him to the bench after a barren start to the season by coming on to curl home two fantastic strikes and slot home a late third.\n\nSpurs trailed to Youri Tielemans' early penalty but took advantage of the Foxes' failings at set-pieces as Harry Kane and Eric Dier nodded home from corners to turn the game around.\n\nJames Maddison's fabulous first-time finish briefly drew Leicester level again, but Wilfried Ndidi's mistake allowed Rodrigo Bentancur to steer Tottenham back in front before substitute Son stole the show.\n• None Follow reaction to Spurs v Leicester and the rest of Saturday's Premier League fixtures\n• None Go straight to the best Leicester City content\n\nVictory maintained Spurs' unbeaten start to the Premier League season as they climbed to second, level on points with leaders Manchester City.\n\nLeicester, meanwhile, remain at the foot of the table, still searching for their first win, despite having led in four of their seven matches thus far.\n\nAs at all Premier League games this weekend, fans observed a minute's silence for the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and a 70th-minute round of applause in honour of her 70-year reign.\n\nSon had failed to score in eight games in all competitions for Spurs so far this season but it was still a brave decision from boss Conte to drop last season's joint-Golden Boot winner.\n\nIn fairness, he could not have asked for better opposition to open his account, given the brittleness of the Foxes' backline but the quality of his first two strikes stood out.\n\nBoth were curled into the top corner from the edge of the box - the first with his right foot, the second with his left - as the 30-year-old proved the old adage that form is temporary but class permanent.\n\nEven an erroneous offside flag could not deny him the match ball as VAR replays showed he was just onside when he strode clear to beat Danny Ward for his third goal and Spurs' sixth.\n\nWhile Son's stunning cameo will hog the headlines, there was plenty more for Conte to be pleased about after seeing his side record a seventh successive win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nFive different players provided assists, with Ivan Perisic's dead-ball delivery complementing Dejan Kulusevski's crosses from open play, while Bentancur contributed his first goal for the club.\n\nBut they will need to cut out defensive lapses such as Davinson Sanchez's needless challenge on James Justin that handed Leicester their early lead, Tielemans tucking home at the second attempt after VAR spotted Hugo Lloris had encroached off his line in saving the initial spot-kick.\n\nWhen it comes to defensive debacles, however, no top-flight team is a patch on Leicester, who have now lost 4-2, 5-2 and 6-2 on the road this season, conceding a league-high 22 goals overall.\n\nIt is not a new phenomenon either - they have kept just two clean sheets in 19 games, conceded 25 set-piece goals since the start of last season and dropped 11 points from winning positions this term alone.\n\nWhile boss Brendan Rodgers, enduring the longest losing league run of his career after six successive defeats, said earlier this week the club's hierarchy had been \"very supportive\", that patience surely has a limit after a haul of just one point from seven games.\n\nThe dithering Ndidi's error to help Bentancur put Spurs 3-2 up at a vital juncture of the game characterised their lack of confidence, while deadline-day signing Wout Faes endured a chastening debut.\n\nUntil Son's introduction and Leicester's collapse, the Foxes arguably created as many chances as the hosts in the first hour, with Lloris notably saving well from Maddison and Patson Daka with the game in the balance.\n\nBut the Foxes' talented attackers, even the again excellent Maddison, who brilliantly swept home Timothy Castagne's cross to make it 2-2, simply cannot cancel out the volume of goals shipped at the other end.\n\nIt could have been more too. A Daka own goal was ruled out for a foul by Sanchez on Ward, who also tipped a header from the Spurs defender onto the bar later in the first half.\n• None Attempt saved. James Maddison (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n• None Attempt saved. Youri Tielemans (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Maddison.\n• None Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 6, Leicester City 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg following a fast break.Goal awarded following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rodrigo Bentancur.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 5, Leicester City 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Kane tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rodrigo Bentancur (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Dean leading Queen's funeral says it will be \"deeply personal\"\n\nThe Queen's state funeral will be \"deeply personal\" and \"difficult for the family to navigate\", the Dean of Westminster has said.\n\nThe Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, who will lead Monday's ceremony, said it will be a family funeral at its heart.\n\nHe added that it will also be a celebration of the late monarch's \"extraordinary life\" and an \"opportunity for us all to mourn\".\n\nSome 500 dignitaries will attend the service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nDr Hoyle told BBC News that the Abbey is a place where Queen Elizabeth II took the promises that \"defined her life\", including her marriage to the late Prince Philip in 1947 and her coronation in 1953.\n\n\"The Abbey shaped her life, she talked about the Abbey with great affection.\" he said.\n\nSome 2,000 people will attend the service on Monday, with presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens among 500 dignitaries travelling across the world to be there, as millions watch the events unfold on television.\n\nThousands of people have travelled to London since the announcement of the Queen's death, with more expected to line the streets as her coffin is moved from Westminster Hall to the Abbey.\n\nThe Dean says the Abbey is a place \"where we try to mark the moments of celebration and sorrow\"\n\nThe Dean said that the funeral will be \"very visual\", with Westminster Abbey providing the setting to focus people's grief.\n\n\"One of the things we are trying to do is to take all that emotion, all that interest, all the care that we can see in the queue for the lying-in-state, that we can see in the parks where people are laying flowers and feel we have managed in the Abbey to provide a focus for that,\" Dr Hoyle told BBC News.\n\n\"We've given the grief somewhere to go\".\n\nIt will be the first time in more than 260 years that a sovereign's funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey. The last was King George II's in 1760 with more recent funerals tending to be at Windsor.\n\nThe Queen Mother's funeral was held at the Abbey in 2002.\n\n\"This is a gathering place for the nation and for the Commonwealth,\" the Dean added.\n\n\"This is the place where we try to mark the moments of celebration and sorrow.\"\n\nAsked whether he was nervous at leading the service, Dr Hoyle said: \"If I sit still for too long and start thinking about the significance of the moment and the eyes that are on you then yes, honestly of course I am.\n\n\"There's a huge sense of privilege - what an extraordinary place to be at a moment like this.\"\n\nHe highlighted that he had a \"wonderful\" group of people working with him to organise the historic ceremony and added: \"This place steps up on these occasions.\"\n\nHundreds of people have been involved in the preparations inside the massive place of worship, working through the night as they put in 19 and 20-hour shifts to stage the sombre ceremony.\n\nDr Hoyle was in New York when he learned the Queen had died and so \"had to come home very quickly\", said the job of planning the funeral was \"huge\".\n\nOn planning for the funeral, he said: \"There's an enormous amount to do, it's been a really busy week\".\n\nHe added that the scale of Monday's service was almost unprecedented, even for Westminster Abbey.", "An estimated 1,820 people died in the UK after being given contaminated blood transfusions between 1970 and 1991, a report has found.\n\nThe authors calculated that 26,800 people - possibly more - were probably infected with hepatitis C after being given the donated blood during childbirth or a hospital operation.\n\nThe findings were published by the public inquiry into the scandal.\n\nThe government agreed last month to pay compensation to victims.\n\nIn what has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, one group infected was given regular injections of a contaminated treatment for blood-clotting disorder haemophilia in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nAt least 3,650 patients in that group were infected with HIV, hepatitis C or both. It is thought more than 1,500 have died as a result.\n\nA second group was exposed to hepatitis C though a transfusion of donated blood in surgery or childbirth.\n\nHepatitis C primarily affects the liver and, left untreated, can lead to cirrhosis or cancer and may require a full liver transplant.\n\nIt is sometimes known as the silent killer because most people with the disease do not realise they are infected until symptoms develop decades later.\n\nBody Shop founder Anita Roddick died in 2007 of a brain haemorrhage linked to hepatitis C\n\nBody Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick died in 2007 of a brain haemorrhage - a rare complication of hepatitis C, which she said she had contracted after being given a contaminated transfusion while giving birth to her daughter in 1971.\n\nThe long period between infection and symptoms appearing makes it difficult to know how many people were infected through a transfusion in the 1970s and 1980s, before it became possible to screen blood donations for the virus.\n\nNew modelling for the public inquiry estimated that between 21,300 and 38,800 people were infected after being given a transfusion between 1970 and 1991, with a central estimate of 26,800.\n\nThe study, by a group of 10 academics commissioned by the public inquiry, calculated that 1,820 of those died as a result, although the number could be as high as 3,320.\n\nIts findings were based on the rate of hepatitis C infection in the population, the number of blood donations made over that time, the survival rate of the disease and other factors.\n\nIt found at least 79 and possibly up to 100 people also contracted HIV through donated blood, based on data provided by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), with most infections between 1985 and 1987.\n\nIt said 67 people in that group had now died, although there was no data confirming the causes of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Danielle Mullan's mother, Marie Cromie, was given a blood transfusion in the 1980s after giving birth to her son.\n\nAll blood donated in the UK is now screened for HIV and different forms of hepatitis as well as diseases such as syphilis.\n\nThe public inquiry into the infected blood scandal began taking evidence in 2019 and is expected to publish its final report in 2023.\n\nIn August the government awarded more than 3,000 surviving victims interim compensation payments of £100,000 each, to be paid urgently due to the extremely high death rate of survivors.\n• None 'I'll keep fighting until everyone is compensated'", "A planned meeting between Liz Truss and US President Joe Biden before the Queen's funeral has been cancelled, Downing Street has said.\n\nNo 10 said a \"full bilateral meeting\" between the PM and Mr Biden would instead take place at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.\n\nIt is thought holding the talks after the period of national mourning would allow more wide-ranging discussions.\n\nMs Truss met her counterparts from New Zealand and Australia on Saturday.\n\nThe prime minister held informal talks with Jacinda Ardern and Australian premier Anthony Albanese at Chevening House in Kent.\n\nAnd Number 10 confirmed Ms Truss will see Irish Taoiseach [prime minister] Micheál Martin, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, and Polish President Andrzej Duda at Downing Street on Sunday.\n\nAlthough she met Mr Biden when she was foreign secretary, next week's UN meeting with him in New York will be Ms Truss's first as UK prime minister.\n\nMonday's funeral will be one of the biggest diplomatic events of recent years, with some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries expected to attend.\n\nIt is providing Ms Truss with an opportunity to meet foreign counterparts less than two weeks after taking office.\n\nBut Downing Street had stressed that talks this weekend would not be formal bilateral meetings because of the official 10-day mourning period following the death of the Queen.\n\nIt would not be issuing summaries of the discussions as would normally happen after the PM's meetings with foreign leaders, No 10 added.\n\nAs a former foreign secretary, Liz Truss is not exactly new to rubbing shoulders with world leaders.\n\nShe'll see a lot of them over this weekend.\n\nMeeting them as prime minister, though, is different and the first meeting with the US president is always the biggest for a new PM.\n\nWhen Liz Truss and Joe Biden do sit down, it will be closely scrutinised for any indications of the health, or otherwise, of the \"special relationship\".\n\nI'm told that holding it after the official mourning period means it can be much more focused on business rather than reflecting on the Queen.\n\nThere is a lot of business to tackle.\n\nJoe Biden is no fan of Liz Truss's approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol, for a start.\n\nThe US has suggested it is \"not conducive\" to the other not-so-small matter of a trade deal.\n\nAll this will have to wait though, until later in the week.\n\nIn advance of her talks with Ms Truss, Ms Ardern said the death of the Queen would be the \"focus of conversation\", and they were also likely to discuss Ukraine and the UK's free trade agreement with New Zealand. announced last October.\n\nIt was thought the meeting between Ms Truss and Mr Albanese focused on trade, after the signing of a deal between the UK and Australia in December.\n\nMs Truss also held a phone call with the President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, on Saturday in which he expressed his condolences on the death of the Queen.\n\nThe meeting with the Irish Republic's prime minister comes at a time of strained relations with the EU over post-Brexit checks in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK is refusing to apply some of the checks it signed up to in the Brexit withdrawal deal, prompting a series of lawsuits from the EU.\n\nLiz Truss met Joe Biden in Glasgow last November, when he attended the COP 26 climate summit\n\nMr Martin has expressed concern about legislation Ms Truss introduced as foreign secretary enabling the UK to alter the legal commitments it signed up to in the exit treaty in 2019.\n\nMs Truss is expected to meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for talks at the UN meeting in New York next week.\n\nThe state funeral service in Westminster Abbey on Monday is expected to be attended by hundreds of foreign dignitaries, including politicians and royalty.\n\nSyria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Russia and Belarus have not been invited - whilst Iran, North Korea and Nicaragua have been asked to only send a senior diplomat.\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping is on the guest list for the funeral ceremony but is not thought likely to attend.\n\nA Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday that no decision had been made on whether they would be sending a delegation, although press reports have suggested China's vice-president will attend.\n\nMs Truss is expected to have a phone call with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman on Saturday evening.\n\nThe de facto ruler's invitation to the Queen's funeral has sparked protests from human rights campaigners. A declassified CIA report concluded that he had authorised the murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi - allegations denied by the crown prince.", "A suspected gang of thieves who allegedly stole items worth €300,000 (£260,000) from first-class passengers on French trains has been captured.\n\nIt is thought they stole luggage from passengers after sitting beside them on high-speed trains crossing the country.\n\nOne man, aged 57, is said to have posed as a woman, wearing a wig.\n\nHe and two other men, 47 and 40, have confessed to carrying out the thefts over five to six years, French media say.\n\nThey are believed to have stored stolen goods in a flat in the southern city of Marseille.\n\nThe alleged modus operandi was to steal items during station stops after the unsuspecting owners got off the train to stretch their legs or have a smoke.\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 Police nationale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice were first alerted in April when a passenger reported the theft of a briefcase containing jewellery worth €50,000, local media say.\n\nFour months later, police discovered a hoard of stolen goods in the Marseille flat.\n\nLocal police believe more than 100 people had items stolen and are trying to track down passengers who were targeted on trains travelling between Paris, Geneva and Nice.\n\nThe men face up to seven years in prison if convicted of robbery.", "From charity founders to choir leaders, volunteers who have supported their communities will be joining presidents and princesses at the Queen's funeral.\n\nAbout 200 people who were recognised in the Queen's birthday honours this year have received an invitation to the ceremony at Westminster Abbey on Monday.\n\nThey will be joining heads of state and royal families from around the world.\n\nBBC News spoke to four of those who got a \"surprise\" call on Saturday.\n\nEmma Lewis said the service would be a \"moment in history\"\n\nEmma Lewis still can't quite believe she's been chosen to attend the Queen's funeral. \"I was sitting in the car park of Morrisons when I received the call from the Cabinet Office. It was quite surreal,\" she says.\n\nThe 41-year-old from Swansea grew up in the care system after being neglected and sexually abused as a child. She recalls having to beg for scraps of food at her local chip shop.\n\nBut she says her life was turned around after she left care by the kindness of her community - who invited her for Sunday dinners, offered her a job in a pub and helped her find a low-cost flat.\n\nShe set up a charity, the Roots Foundation Wales, to offer something similar to young people in care today: providing support with independent living skills, therapy to help cope with traumatic experiences and the chance to build positive memories for children who may have very few of them.\n\nIn 2019, she was able to take three of the young people with her to meet the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall - as they were then - at Swansea's celebrations for 50 years of city status.\n\n\"It's memories of a lifetime,\" she says. \"I believe that those opportunities should be accessible to them.\"\n\nShe says from her own traumatic background she knows it can be hard to feel like you belong in high places.\n\n\"I knew it was a moment in history that I really couldn't turn down,\" she says of the funeral invitation. \"We often go through life thinking that we're not worthy.\"\n\nEmma says she doesn't consider herself a royalist, but respects the Queen as someone who gave 70 years of her life in service and \"didn't suffer fools gladly\".\n\nHsien Chew says he was \"incredibly surprised and honoured\"\n\nHsien Chew, from London, was awarded MBE in the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Honours for his role in Proud Voices - a network of LGBT+ choirs across the UK and Ireland.\n\nThe community groups use the power of song to bring people together and provide a safe space to explore identity, he said.\n\n\"I really recognise the power that music has in bringing people together,\" the 49-year-old said. \"In many ways, I think the Queen played that similar role of bringing communities together.\"\n\nMr Chew grew up in Singapore and Australia, both Commonwealth countries, and said the Queen had been \"that thread that has run through my life\".\n\nHe said he was \"incredibly surprised and honoured\" to be attending such a \"momentous moment\".\n\nOn Monday, he would be reflecting on how the Queen had \"helped to smooth the transition from what was once a very conservative and traditional society, to one that is much more cosmopolitan, modern and outward looking,\" he said.\n\n\"It's given me the opportunities that, had I been born 30 years earlier, I would not have had.\"\n\nPranav Bhanot at first thought the invitation was a \"hoax\"\n\nPranav Bhanot almost missed his invitation. He received a call from a withheld number on Saturday as he put his two-year-old son down for a nap.\n\n\"I'm sometimes reluctant to answer private-number calls,\" he said. Mr Bhanot said he was in \"disbelief\" when he did eventually pick up the phone. \"I thought it may have been a hoax at one point,\" he added.\n\nThe solicitor, from Chigwell in Essex, co-ordinated local support networks during the pandemic, delivering more than 12,000 meals to isolated people. The volunteers also gave free legal advice to about 4,000 people, helping chase refunds and compensation for things like cancelled holidays and weddings.\n\nThe 34-year-old, who is also a Conservative councillor with Epping Forest District Council, was awarded MBE for services to the community during the pandemic.\n\nWhile he is \"grateful\" to be attending, he expects it to be a \"bitter-sweet\" occasion.\n\n\"On one hand it will be very upsetting, but I think I'll also be reflecting on a lot of her selfless service,\" he said.\n\nThe decision to include people \"who weren't necessarily heads of states\" was a fitting reflection of the Queen's character, he said. \"She was someone who very easily built rapport with people from different backgrounds, different classes, different socio-economic backgrounds.\"\n\n\"I felt totally honoured, privileged. But why me?\" says Barbara\n\nAs a volunteer emergency responder, Barbara Crellin is used to dealing with unexpected situations. But the invitation to attend the Queen's funeral still took her by surprise.\n\n\"I was totally in shock initially,\" she says. \"I felt totally honoured, privileged. But why me?\"\n\nBarbara, 71, has spent the past 10 years responding to 999 calls for the ambulance service as part of Rutland First Responders, a volunteer group trained to give life-saving treatment to their community before anyone else can.\n\n\"You don't know what you're actually going into. We're just trained to deal with various emergencies, and we do our best that we can do,\" says Barbara, who is now chair of the group.\n\nShe and her fellow volunteers often arrive first onto the scene of heart attacks, strokes, seizures or diabetic emergencies.\n\n\"There are three people wandering around that were in cardiac arrest that I've attended,\" she says, describing getting someone breathing again as the most rewarding part of the role.\n\nSometimes the emergency has a tragic outcome. \"You might go to pieces afterwards. But on the scene, you've got to be calm and collected, to get on and do the job that you're there to do.\"\n\nBut at Monday's funeral, she expects to be emotional. \"I can hardly think what it's going to be like. I can cry watching the television,\" Barbara says.\n\nShe recalls waving at the Queen as she travelled down the road where Barbara - then aged four - lived in Sellafield, Cumbria. \"The Queen seems very personal to all of us,\" she says.", "The alleged victims were among thousands who have been lining the banks of the Thames to view the Queen's coffin\n\nTwo women were allegedly sexually assaulted in the queue to attend the Queen's lying-in-state, a court heard.\n\nAdio Adeshine is accused of exposing himself and pushing into the mourners from behind as they waited in line at Victoria Tower Gardens on Wednesday.\n\nHe is charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.\n\nThe 19-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nOutlining the allegations, prosecutor Alex Adowale, said: \"The defendant was part of the queue to see the resting in state of Queen Elizabeth II.\"\n\nHis alleged victims are said to have been among the thousands of people who have been lining the banks of the River Thames to view the Queen's coffin.\n\nThe court heard the first complainant allegedly noticed Mr Adeshine because she had not previously seen him, despite having waited in the queue with the same people for hours.\n\nShe is said to have noticed him getting closer to her before feeling something touching her back, then turned to see he had exposed himself.\n\nThe woman later allegedly saw Mr Adeshine acting in a similar way towards another woman, before security were alerted and police called.\n\nHe is said to have thrown his phone into the River Thames before entering the water himself.\n\nBut the court heard Mr Adeshine was arrested shortly after coming out of the river.\n\nDeputy Chief Magistrate refused to grant Mr Adeshine bail, remanding him in custody ahead of his next appearance at Southwark Crown Court on 14 October.\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 Queen meeting Mohammed Bin Salman in 2018, before the murder of Jamal Khashoggi\n\nThe UK's invitation to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed Bin Salman, to attend the Queen's funeral has sparked a storm of protest from human rights campaigners.\n\nA declassified CIA report concluded that the crown prince had authorised the murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018.\n\nThe Saudi crown prince and his government denied this, but he has been seen as something of a pariah in the West and has not been to Britain since. Until now.\n\nSources close to the Saudi Embassy confirmed the prince, known as \"MBS\", would be coming to London this weekend, but it was unclear if he would attend the actual funeral on Monday.\n\nHatice Gengiz, the fiancée of the murdered Saudi journalist, said the invitation was a stain on the memory of Queen Elizabeth II. She called for him to be arrested when he lands in London, although she doubted this would happen.\n\nThe pressure group Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has accused Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies of using the Queen's funeral as a way to - in their words - \"whitewash\" their human rights records.\n\nThe group estimates that since the start of the disastrous war in Yemen eight years ago, Britain has sold the Saudi-led coalition fighting there more than $23bn worth of arms.\n\nScant political freedoms have also disappeared completely since MBS became crown prince in 2017, with hefty prison sentences handed down to critics of government, even just for social media posts.\n\nAt the same time, paradoxically, the crown prince has embarked on a massive programme of social liberalisation. Cinemas and public entertainment, long banned in the Kingdom for being deemed \"un-Islamic\", have reopened.\n\nOn MBS's orders, women are now allowed to drive and the desert kingdom has played host to international sporting and music events, including a concert by the DJ David Guetta.\n\nSaudi Arabia, despite its heavily-criticised human rights record, remains a staunch ally of Britain in the Gulf, where it is seen by the West as a bulwark against Iran's aggressive expansionism.\n\nIt buys western weapons, employs thousands of expatriate workers, hosts the annual Hajj pilgrimage and helps to steady the oil price. All of which partly explain why international criticism of the crown prince is muted at most.", "The Crown of Scotland (l) on Her Majesty's coffin in Edinburgh was replaced by the Imperial State Crown in London\n\nKing Charles has done two things simultaneously this week that reveal much about what kind of reign he aspires to. First, he has led the nation in the ritualising of its sorrow - a sorrow that has been quietly expressed and subdued but it is nonetheless real. And second he has signalled to us in the clearest terms possible that this is a reign that will put the future of the Union - the integrity of the United Kingdom itself - at the heart of its concerns.\n\nIn choosing to visit Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff, as well as return to London, King Charles has demonstrated how fully the Royal Family and household have understood the nature of the United Kingdom as a Union state - a partnership of nations.\n\nEverywhere he went there were gestures of respect and, indeed, affection for the distinctiveness of each of the three devolved nations. And in that, as in much else, he is following what he called, in Northern Ireland, the \"shining example\" set by his mother.\n\nWe saw the coffin of the Queen for the first time as it slipped through the gates of Balmoral in its glass-sided hearse. She is the first reigning monarch to die in Scotland in nearly 500 years. \"I have to be seen to be believed,\" she had famously remarked in life; now she was performing the same service in death.\n\nThe cortege made its way slowly through royal Deeside, slowing down to pass through towns and villages, where the people know her not just as the Queen, but as their neighbour. She had known this landscape since she was a child: Aboyne, Ballater, Banchory, Peterculter, through Aberdeen to Bridge of Muchalls, Stonehaven and south to the Scottish capital. They stood by the side of the road as the cortege passed, in quiet contemplation.\n\nWhat was the symbolism of this measured progress through the green spaces, the little neighbourhoods, she loved, if not to say: \"I am rooted here; this has been my home.\"\n\nFor that's what Balmoral was - a private home and not a royal residence. She made no secret of the fact that she loved it more than any place in the world. It was where she found respite from the burdens of state and the unyielding gaze of the public.\n\nThe new Queen Elizabeth with a young Prince Charles at Balmoral in September 1952\n\nI have been struck all week by that gaze. It has followed the new King and those closest to him throughout. Other than a brief time at Highgrove spent in quiet contemplation, King Charles and the Queen Consort have spent almost every waking hour since the Queen died in the public eye. This, at a time when they and their family are carrying what must be an intense private sorrow. This is a family on whose grief the eyes of the world intrude. Duty calls them to sublimate their private sorrow to the imperatives and demands of public ritual\n\nThis, too, is surely the legacy of the late Queen - it is the steadfastness and constancy with which she adhered to her idea of public service, now visible in her son.\n\nCrowds gathered in the streets of Edinburgh's magnificent old town as her coffin was taken to lie in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the monarch's official residence in Scotland. You could sense the intimacy and informality of that journey from Balmoral gradually yielding to the rituals of statehood and official mourning.\n\nHistory seeps from every stone of that house. This was where the Queen's ancestor King James VI of Scotland learned, in the middle of the night, that he had inherited the throne of England on the death of the first Elizabeth, thus uniting the two kingdoms under one Crown for the first time. In that sense, the Queen was brought to lie in rest in the building that could be said to be the birthplace of the first Kingdom of Great Britain.\n\nThe Royal Household's attention to the sensibilities and distinctiveness of the three devolved nations of the UK has been striking, not just this week, but for many years. When, in 1999, the Queen opened the first Scottish Parliament in 300 years, she gave permission for the then presiding officer to refer to her by what he called her proper title - Elizabeth, Queen of Scots.\n\nMother and son sharing a laugh at the Braemar Highland Gathering in 2012\n\nShe, herself, when she was in Scotland, referred to her son and heir not as the Prince of Wales but as the Duke of Rothesay, his Scottish title. When they took the Queen's coffin to lie in rest at St Giles' Cathedral, they placed upon it the Crown of Scotland, the centrepiece of the Scottish crown jewels. It is 500 years old, the oldest surviving royal crown in Britain and Ireland, made for the Queen's ancestor King James V.\n\nConsider the symbolism - it is a gesture toward the distinctiveness of Scotland and its historic nationhood.\n\nWhat have we learned about the kind of reign that the King aspires to? This week, above all, he has sought visibility; like his mother he wants to be seen, to forge a strong link between Crown and people. It was those moments outside, in the street, among the people crowding to see him, hands stretched out to take his, that he seemed to come alive. These were the moments - moments of easy informal engagement - that seemed to energise and excite him.\n\nWe watched him at Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland, being addressed by Sinn Fein leaders who do not recognise the legitimacy of his Crown in their country. And yet they spoke to him with sympathy for his loss, and spoke with immense warmth about his late mother.\n\nIn May 2022's election, for the first time, nationalist Sinn Fein won most seats to the Northern Ireland Assembly\n\nAlex Maskey, the Sinn Fein speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a man who was twice interned without trial during the Troubles, stood in the Throne Room at Hillsborough and spoke directly to the British King of the leadership qualities of his late mother.\n\nHe also praised the role those qualities had played in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. He said she had deployed gestures that seemed small, but which had an enormous impact in promoting reconciliation. King Charles replied that he would seek to follow what he called his mother's \"shining example\" in bringing together \"those whom history has separated\".\n\nKing Charles with Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker, Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein - and the party's Vice President Michelle O'Neill\n\nThe last leg of his tour was to the country whose title, he said, he had borne with pride for more than half a century: the title Prince of Wales, one he now passes to his own heir. His relationship with Wales is intimate. As a student he learned Welsh here, and spoke Welsh at his investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969.\n\nHere, bilingualism is part of the distinctive character of the country. He and the Queen Consort attended a Service of Prayer and Reflection for the life of Queen Elizabeth, at which the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, read from the First Book of Kings in Welsh. It incudes the verse: \"And now, Oh Lord, you have made your servant King.\"\n\nLlandaff Cathedral, where, the service took place, is almost 1,000 years old. It was rebuilt after being bombed in the Cardiff blitz. It connects us - and the Royal Family - to the great shared British experience of the World War Two. Queen Elizabeth's visit here in 1960 marked its restoration, a symbol of the long recovery from war and its aftermath that characterised the early years of her reign.\n\nQueen Elizabeth, too, hugged the devolved nation close. She made multiple visits to the Scottish Parliament, and attended every opening of the Welsh Assembly and Senedd.\n\nBut among the cheers from the crowds Charles encountered in Wales, there were also boos and chants of \"Not my King\". This dissent was an echo of pockets of anti-monarchy protests in other places throughout the week.\n\n\"I think the biggest danger to the union is arrogance around its continuation,\" Laura McAllister, professor of public policy at Cardiff University told me the day before the King's visit to Cardiff. \"I suspect the monarchy has got perhaps even greater sensitivity than politicians to this because there's a real sense of understanding the cultural and political heritages of each of the nations is very different,\" she said.\n\nIn Cardiff, King Charles smiled with members of the public after a service at Llandaff Cathedral in memory of his mother\n\nThe Queen received a similar welcome when she visited the village of Treherbert on her birthday in April 1989\n\nShe said the Queen had reflected that in her remarks when she was opening the National Assembly and then the Senedd and expected King Charles to do the same.\n\nAnd he did. Here, too, he spoke of his late mother's - and his own - affection for the country. Perhaps more telling there was the gesture toward the distinctiveness of the character of the country. On the floor of the Senedd, he replied to a motion of condolence from members of the assembly in both languages.\n\n\"Through all the years of her reign,\" he said, \"the land of Wales could not have been closer to my mother's heart. I know she took immense pride in your many great achievements - even as she also felt with you deeply in time of sorrow.\n\n\"It must surely be counted the greatest privilege to belong to a land that could inspire such devotion. I am resolved to honour that selfless example, in the spirit of the words by which I have always tried to live my own life: 'Ich Dien, I Serve'.\"\n\nWhen his mother came to the throne in 1952, the integrity of the United Kingdom was a given. It is telling that King Charles has chosen, as the first act of his reign, to tour the devolved nations. For the landscape is changing.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, a party that seeks to lead Northern Ireland out of the Kingdom and into the Republic, is now the biggest single party. In Scotland, support for independence remains a little below 50 per cent, and has much higher support among the young.\n\nThe early decades of Queen Elizabeth's reign were characterised by the long, slow contraction of British imperial power overseas and, in the end, the dissolution of the Empire - an outcome that would have shocked and dismayed earlier generations.\n\nIt was her leadership that transformed the Empire into the Commonwealth. Most of its members chose to become republics. Fourteen Commonwealth realms remain, in which King Charles becomes head of state, including Jamaica, Australia and New Zealand. King Charles will be alert to the possibility that that process could resume, with the potential that some of those realms will also become republics.\n\nHe will also be alert to the possibility that his own reign could come to be defined by the loosening of the bonds that have traditionally held the Union together.\n\nQueen Elizabeth was a powerful force for unity. She came to embody much of the character of Britain itself. We looked at her and saw a set of values - though each of us would have defined those values differently - around which the country cohered. She was the last living royal link with WW2, perhaps the founding shared experience of the modern British identity.\n\nKing Charles III enters Buckingham Palace for the first time as the new monarch, accompanied by the Queen Consort\n\nWhat will happen to that legacy, to the way of being British that she reflected back to us, when this period of mourning is over and she begins to slip into the middle distance of our collective memory?\n\nThat the new king inherits a powerful legacy of public affection for his mother has been clear this week. But the enthusiasm of those who turned out in Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, London and across the country will not disguise for long the strains that the country is under.\n\nKing Charles signalled to us this week that he intends to put the future of the Union at the heart of his reign. The Royal household will not make the mistake of seeing those crowds as incontrovertible proof that the Union is secure. We can expect this to be a reign that will hug the devolved nations of the Kingdom close.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III speaks in Welsh in a historic moment for a monarch\n\nKing Charles III said Wales held a \"special place\" in the Queen's heart as he gave a speech in Welsh on his first visit as the new monarch.\n\nHe addressed members of the Welsh Parliament in a remembrance event at the Senedd as part of the King and Queen Consort's tour of the UK nations.\n\nIn a bilingual speech, King Charles gave the Senedd his \"heartfelt thanks for your kind words\".\n\nHe added that it had been a \"privilege to be Prince of Wales for so long\".\n\nThe King said Prince William, who was appointed Prince of Wales last week, had a \"deep love\" for the nation.\n\nHe said the \"ancient title\" dated to the time \"of those great Welsh rulers like Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, whose memory is still rightly honoured\".\n\nThanking Members of the Senedd for their condolences following the death of the Queen at the age of 96 last week, the King said that \"through all the years of her reign the land of Wales could not have been closer to my mother's heart\".\n\nKing Charles III meets schoolchildren and the rest of the crowds outside Llandaff Cathedral on his first visit to Wales as a monarch\n\n\"Roedd lle arbenig i Gymru yn ei chalon,\" he said, which translates as \"Wales had a special place in her heart\".\n\n\"Fel fy mam annwyl o'm blaen, rwy'n gwybod ein bod ni oll yn caru'r wlad arbennig hon,\" he added, which translates as \"like my beloved mother before me, I know we all share a love for this special land\".\n\nAs Prince of Wales, Charles often delivered passages of speeches in Welsh - including at the first official opening of what was then called the assembly, in 1999.\n\nHe told the Senedd it had been a \"privilege to be Prince of Wales for so long\"\n\nHe added in English: \"I know she took immense pride in your many great achievements, even as she also felt with you deeply in time of sorrow.\n\n\"It must surely be counted the greatest privilege to belong to a land that could inspire such devotion.\n\nKing Charles III and the Queen Consort received a posy of flowers from a five-year-old Keira Hillebert as they left Llandaff Cathedral\n\n\"Having visited the Senedd regularly since it was founded, and having heard your heartfelt words today, I know we all share the deepest commitment to the welfare of the people of this land, and that we will all continue to work together to that end.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said in his audience with the King on Friday, King Charles spoke of his concern about how people in Wales would cope in the coming months with the cost of living crisis.\n\nMr Drakeford told Talk TV: \"He is concerned as to how people will manage through what is going to be a difficult winter.\n\n\"He was interested to tell me about some of the projects that he has heard of, or become involved in dealing, for example, with food waste, making sure that we don't waste a precious resource when some people might be going without.\"\n\nHundreds of well wishers greeted the royal couple in Cardiff Bay, where they also met Welsh Youth Parliament members who told them about their work\n\nThe last reigning monarch to visit Wales was Queen Elizabeth II when she officially opened the sixth Senedd term in October 2021\n\nKing Charles had Welsh lessons at Aberystwyth University before his investiture at Caernarfon Castle in 1969. His tutor was the academic Tedi Millward, a Welsh nationalist campaigner.\n\nAfter Dr Millward's death in 2020, the then-Prince Charles paid tribute to him, but admitted he may not have been his finest pupil.\n\nElin Jones, the presiding officer of the Welsh Parliament, said the use of Welsh in the King's speech to the Senedd, was \"hugely significant\".\n\nThe Llywydd said it \"shows the world that Wales has two languages\".\n\n\"It's used by the King and used by the people on the streets as well, and that's a significant moment,\" she told BBC Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The King went to Llandaff Cathedral, the Senedd and a reception at Cardiff Castle\n\nKing Charles III's speech in the Senedd was a historic step for a British monarch.\n\nWhile his mother Elizabeth spoke small phrases in the Welsh language, the King's speech on Friday was bilingual, switched from English to Welsh throughout.\n\nIt was a mark of respect by the monarch for the culture of Wales, in the similar way that the entire visit was recognition of the place the Welsh Parliament and government have in the UK constitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III was the longest serving Prince of Wales before he became monarch\n\nBoth are important in the context of a language which activists had fought in the past to protect, and institutions that had a rocky few early years at the dawn of devolution 23 years ago.\n\nIt is unlikely to be enough to change views on the monarchy, like those held by the protesters outside Cardiff Castle on Friday.\n\nHowever, there have been few expressions of republicanism in this period of mourning from senior figures in Welsh public life.\n\nThat is despite the personal views of First Minister Mark Drakeford and Senedd Presiding Officer Elin Jones - both republicans who have taken a full part in this week's proceedings.\n\nKing Charles arrived in Cardiff via helicopter from his Gloucestershire home of Highgrove following a day of rest after a week of duties since the death of the Queen.\n\nHe and the Queen Consort were greeted by a gun salute at Cardiff Castle as they set foot on to Welsh soil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A gun salute takes place at Cardiff Castle to honour new king\n\nHundreds of people lined the streets of Llandaff to greet the King and Queen Consort with cheers and flag waving on their way to a prayer and reflection service for the Queen at the Llandaf Cathedral.\n\nA fanfare of trumpeters from the Regimental Band of the Royal Welsh greeted the King at the cathedral's west door before Mr Drakeford gave a reading from the Old Testament.\n\nKing Charles III and the Queen Consort sang a number of hymns during the service, including traditional Welsh song Cwm Rhondda\n\nArchbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Andrew John, delivered an address to the congregation - which included Prime Minister Liz Truss in her first visit to Wales as prime minister - in both English and Welsh.\n\nPaying tribute to her \"extraordinary legacy of service and devotion\", the archbishop said the Queen had transformed the monarchy and provided a reassuring constancy through the decades.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss is greeted by Dean of Llandaff Cathedral Michael Komor on her arrival\n\nThe archbishop said the late Queen's skilful use of \"soft power\" came to the fore during her visits to Aberfan after the disaster there in 1966 when the community found her presence \"deeply consoling\".\n\nThe hour-long service included hymns Pantyfedwen (Tydi A Wnaeth Y Wyrth), God is Love Let Heaven Adore Him and Cwm Rhondda and their visit to Llandaff ended with King Charles and the Queen Consort meeting schoolchildren in the crowd as they left the cathedral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grace said she felt really excited and really pleased that she got the opportunity to meet the king\n\nThe King and Queen Consort attended a condolence event for the late Queen Elizabeth II at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay before a reception at the city's castle.\n\nThe royal couple met military personnel and faith leaders there, while Aberfan Wives group were also among those invited.\n\nDenise Morgan and Gloria Davies said the Queen had made a \"bond\" with the mining village after the disaster, when 116 children and 28 adults killed where killed when a colliery spoil tip collapsed, catastrophically engulfing a primary school and surrounding houses.\n\nThe Band of the Royal Welsh, joined by military goat Lance Corporal Shenkin IV, played the national anthem\n\nMs Morgan said the Queen's visit to the village eight days after the tragedy was \"at the right time\", adding: \"I don't think she came as the Queen, I think she came as a mother too.\n\n\"Because she looked around and she could see the devastation and the look on people's faces.\"\n\nMs Morgan said she believed the King would \"continue that bond with Aberfan and the people of Aberfan\".\n\nThe Band of the Royal Welsh played the national anthem as the royal couple made their way to the front of the castle, with military goat Lance Corporal Shenkin IV stationed at the front.\n\nAfter cries of \"God save the King\", the King smiled and waved before heading into the castle for an audience with Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nBut there were also boos and chants of \"not my king\" as the King entered the castle, in the city centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This was the moment King Charles III arrived at Cardiff Castle with Camilla, the Queen Consort\n\nAbout 100 protesters were stood next to the castle gates, and another group opposite held up placards saying \"no to monarchy, no to Charles\" and \"democracy now\".\n\nThe protestors were being led by former Plaid Cymru Senedd member Bethan Sayed.\n\nProtesters were heard booing and chanting as King Charles entered Cardiff Castle\n\nThe King is a familiar face in the country, having visited regularly in his former role as the Prince of Wales.\n\nIt was his second visit to the Senedd in less than a year. In October 2021, he opened the new term of the Welsh Parliament, along with Camilla, now Queen Consort, and the Queen in her last visit to Wales.\n\nKing Charles had an audience with First Minister Mark Drakeford at Cardiff Castle", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden warns Putin not to use tactical nuclear weapons\n\nUS President Joe Biden has warned Russia not to use chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking during an interview with CBS News, Mr Biden said such action would \"change the face of war unlike anything since World War Two\".\n\nHe would not say what response the US would make to the use of such weapons.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin put the country's nuclear forces on \"special\" alert following its invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nHe told defence chiefs it was because of \"aggressive statements\" by the West.\n\nNuclear weapons have existed for almost 80 years and many countries see them as a deterrent that continues to guarantee their national security.\n\nRussia is estimated to have around 5,977 nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists.\n\nIt, however, remains unlikely that it intends to use such weapons.\n\nTactical nuclear weapons are those which can be used at relatively short distances, as opposed to \"strategic\" nuclear weapons which can be launched over much longer distances and raise the spectre of all-out nuclear war.\n\nIn an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley in the White House, President Biden was asked what he would say to President Putin if he was considering using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine.\n\nMr Biden was then asked what the consequences would be for Mr Putin if such a line was crossed.\n\n\"You think I would tell you if I knew exactly what it would be? Of course, I'm not gonna tell you. It'll be consequential,\" Mr Biden responded.\n\n\"They'll become more of a pariah in the world than they ever have been. And depending on the extent of what they do will determine what response would occur.\"\n\nThe war in Ukraine has not gone as well as the Kremlin had hoped.\n\nIn recent days, Ukraine says it has recaptured more than 8,000 sq km (3,088 sq miles) of territory in the north-eastern Kharkiv region.\n\nDespite the apparent setback, President Putin has insisted that Ukraine's successful counter-offensive will not stop Russia's plans of continuing its operations in the east of the country.", "John Kerry - seen here with the then-Prince of Wales in 2021 - says the King knows the climate issue \"inside out\"\n\nPresident Biden's climate envoy has told the BBC he hopes King Charles will continue his work on global warming.\n\nJohn Kerry told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he would welcome the King's involvement because he \"has the ability... to leverage the kind of action we need now on a global basis\".\n\nHe said the monarch had \"indicated\" he wanted to maintain his passion for the environment \"in the appropriate way\".\n\nAnd Mr Kerry said he hoped the King would visit the next UN climate summit.\n\nSpeaking from the US, the former Secretary of State told Laura Kuenssberg he had been invited to see the then-Prince of Wales in Scotland to discuss the climate crisis but the meeting was cancelled following the death of the Queen.\n\nBut Mr Kerry said he \"very much\" hopes the King will continue to push the arguments for radical action to tackle climate change \"within the constitutional process\".\n\n\"There's no question in my mind, that it is not a standard multilateral issue or bilateral issue, there is a threat to the entire planet, a threat to all of our nations and he understands it as well as anybody on the planet,\" he said.\n\n\"He's been consistent on this issue, beginning in his teenage years and carrying on in many different iterations and he's for real, believe me.\n\n\"He knows the issue inside out, backwards and forwards and he's been a leader.\"\n\nMr Kerry said the King had discussed wanting to be \"relevant and try to be engaged\" and that he hoped he would continue to be active on environmental issues.\n\n\"He is an enormously important convener and somebody who has the ability to be able to leverage the kind of action we need now on a global basis.\n\n\"This challenge is as significant as any threat we've ever faced,\" he told the BBC.\n\nJohn Kerry represented the US at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year\n\nMr Kerry was appointed President Joe Biden's special envoy for climate in January 2021 - the first time such a role has existed within the White House.\n\nHe has spoken in recent months about the impact of the war in Ukraine on efforts to limit global heating to 1.5C by 2030 - with countries facing the simultaneous challenges of sourcing alternatives to Russian gas supplies while also needing to cut their CO2 emissions.\n\nMr Kerry told Laura Kuenssberg the lesson from the conflict in Ukraine is that \"you do not want to be a prisoner of your energy source\" adding that Europe \"wants to liberate itself\" from its dependency on Russian gas.\n\nHe added it would be \"terrific\" if the King could come to the COP climate change summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh in November - adding that he thought His Majesty would like to be able to attend.\n\nMr Kerry said that he thought next gathering would see a \"raising of ambition\" by countries which had been unable to sign up at the COP26 summit in Glasgow last year to steps to limit the planet's temperature increase to 1.5C.\n\n\"We can get there but it's going to take a gigantic effort moving forward,\" he said.\n\nSunday with Laura Kuenssberg is on BBC One from 09:00 BST on Sunday 18 September or you can catch it on BBC iPlayer", "A row has broken out over who is allowed to skip the queue to pay their respects to the late Queen.\n\nMPs and members of the House of Lords do not have to queue and can take four guests each to the lying-in-state.\n\nThe majority of Parliamentary staff can also avoid the queues - but people working for MPs must stand in line.\n\nCleaners and security guards employed by contractors in Parliament must also queue - prompting claims they are being treated as \"second class citizens\".\n\nThere are hundreds of cleaners working across the Parliamentary estate. An estimated 160 of their jobs have been outsourced. Because they don't work directly for the parliamentary administration, they will not be entitled to gain access to the fast track queue.\n\nThe PCS trade union said it was \"time for them to be treated as equals\".\n\nShortly before 10:00 on Friday, the government announced the public queue was being paused for at least six hours after reaching capacity.\n\nThe official estimate for queuing time had risen to at least 14 hours.\n\nAt 17:05, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said entry to the queue in Southwark Park had reopened.\n\nBut it added in a tweet that the expected queueing time for mourners was now over 24 hours and that temperatures overnight were likely to be cold.\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner are among the MPs who have attended the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall.\n\nMembers of the public are able to attend 24-hours a day until 06:30 BST on Monday - the day of the Queen's funeral - but the queue will close before then to ensure as many people as possible can get in.\n\nMany have waited more than eight hours for the opportunity to pay their respects.\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, which represents civil and public servants as well as private sector workers on government contracts, said: \"It's symbolic that hard-working security guards, cleaners and catering staff in Parliament are treated as second-class citizens.\n\n\"As we usher in a new era, it's time for them to be treated as equals and at least given a pay rise to help them through the cost-of-living crisis and beyond.\"\n\nThose who work for MPs or peers must also queue with the public to attend the lying-in-state.\n\nOne MP staff member said many were upset by this, adding: \"We've seen in the parliamentary response to a succession of scandals involving the bullying and sexual harassment of MPs' staff that we are treated as an after-thought, and this is yet another example.''\n\nAccording to an internal House of Commons memo, leaked to The Spectator, MPs' staff have been told that \"it is not possible to open up access further without the risk of impacting access for queuing members of the public\".\n\nSome of the members of the public who had waited for several hours to pay their respects were infuriated by the fact MPs and peers were allowed to take four guests with them when they skipped the public queue.\n\n\"Personally, I think it's outrageous,\" said Christina from Balham in south London. ''I can understand that for security reasons MPs might not want to stand in the public queue but they shouldn't be able to take four guests in and neither should the peers.\"\n\nLouise, from Keston in south-east London, also said she felt this was unfair, adding: \"This day is supposed to be for the people.\"\n\nBut other people who had just emerged from Westminster Hall did not mind.\n\n\"I'm not bothered, it's one of the perks of their job,'' said Alan, from Kent. He and his wife Sue were pleased to have progressed along the queue in five hours.\n\nAlan and Sally Prince from London also said they ''weren't fussed'', in part because they had really enjoyed being in the queue. \"The atmosphere was fun. It felt like the nation was coming together,\" they said.\n\nFormer England football captain David Beckham arrived at Westminster Hall on Friday afternoon after queuing for more than 12 hours.\n\nSpeaking outside, he said: \"It is emotional for everybody involved. Her Majesty was someone special and will be missed just by everyone.\"\n\nFigures from the London Ambulance Service (LAS) show 435 members of the public were treated along the route of the queue on Wednesday and Thursday.\n\nA total of 42 were taken to hospital. The LAS said the majority of people involved had fainted or collapsed, resulting in head injuries.\n\nThe BBC is live streaming as people file past so that those unable to make it to London are able to pay their respects at home.", "This recuitment advert, pinned to the door of a GP surgery in St Petersburg, says 'To serve Russia is the real job!'\n\nRussia's retreat from Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, has exposed key weaknesses in the supplies and staffing of the nation's armed forces, Russian veterans and military bloggers say.\n\n\"You have no idea how tired I am to say hello to someone in the morning and then have to identify his remains later the same day,\" one Russian officer serving as a marine in Ukraine reportedly confided over the phone to a former colleague back home, who published it on his Telegram channel.\n\n\"Just yesterday two of my sniper groups were destroyed by a tank. Three men died instantly, the fourth one fought for his life for an hour and a half, another one in critical condition was taken to hospital. We have hardly any men left and we are holding a front line dozens of kilometres long.\"\n\nWhile Russian officials and state media are trying to play down the Russian forces' retreat from Kharkiv, individual war reporters, veterans and influential military bloggers are acknowledging numerous challenges within closed messaging channels.\n\nBlogs and Telegram channels are littered with stories of inadequate equipment and personnel, compounded by a rigid operational hierarchy.\n\nOne Telegram channel, sharing experiences of soldiers in the field in Ukraine shortly after the latest retreat, describes how even deploying a small surveillance drone needs to be approved by a senior officer or a general, considerably slowing down understanding of enemy positions.\n\nAnother channel on Telegram, reportedly run by a Russian special forces veteran, has posted a photo of a Russian soldier sporting an arm patch embroidered with the words: \"There is no opponent worse than your own commander who is a…\" using an expletive to describe him.\n\nThere is no way of knowing where and when the image was shot, but what is significant is that it has been widely shared by both veterans and forces in the field, suggesting it reflects popular opinion among the country's rank and file.\n\nDespite rumours of low morale, Russian war reporters and paramilitary soldiers serving in Ukraine are not suggesting that widespread desertion in the field contributed to the latest rout in eastern Ukraine. They say it is much more likely that units simply obeyed an order to retreat.\n\nSome Russian fighters on another channel joke bitterly that the \"special military operation\" - as the Russian government publicly terms it - \"has no goals, it only has a path\".\n\nThere are not only concerns about poor leadership. Basic equipment appears to be in such short supply that it is having to be crowdfunded. Dozens of public social media groups are collecting money for a whole range of kit - everything from drones to socks and underwear.\n\nOne of them, called \"The People's Front\", says it has raised about 1.5bn roubles (£15m, $17m) over the past three months, and has already spent it on uniforms, helmets and flak jackets, as well as first-aid kits, binoculars and thermal imagers.\n\nDespite such fundraising, hundreds of pleas have been posted online from dozens of military units - including pilots of Russia's most modern fighter jets - for specific items, such as fire-proof uniforms, torches and two-way radios.\n\nBut the issue is not just a lack of equipment, it is a lack of troops.\n\nWhile there are no signs of imminent compulsory conscription, there has been a push for recruitment - described by the government as an \"informal mobilisation\" - since soon after the country's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe Russian Ministry of Defence started posting adverts on popular job websites in early March, something which was rarely done before the war. On one website there are more than 7,000 military vacancies listed - for gunners, mortar crew and other combat-focused roles. None of the adverts mention the \"special military operation\" in Ukraine.\n\nRecruitment flyers have also been posted through doors, and displayed on public transport and outside residential apartment blocks and even psychiatric hospitals.\n\nThis advert inviting men to sign up was shared on the social media page of a nursery in St Petersburg\n\nDrafting centres have also resorted to phoning soldiers who have left or retired to ask them to re-join, some of those contacted told the BBC. One soldier who fought in Chechnya in the 1990s says he and his friends were called three or four times. The man, who asked to remain anonymous, says he finally agreed but later refused to sign the contract, put off by what appeared to be poor conditions.\n\nPossibly to make the proposition of serving more attractive, the minimum contract length has been slashed from three years to three months, and the upper age limit for a first contract raised from 40 to 60 years old.\n\nAdvertised monthly salaries range from 100,000-450,000 roubles (£1,000-£4,500, $1,139-$5,125) - a tempting proposition, despite the dangers of deployment, for those with poor job prospects in economically deprived areas of the country.\n\nRussia is believed to be sending several of these scratch units to Ukraine every 10 days, following training of just a week or less.\n\nTwo separate sources on the front line told the BBC that such units, comprising short-term military contractors and fighters from the Wagner mercenary group - the head of which has been filmed recruiting in a central Russian prison - constitute the bulk of Russia's current frontline force.\n\nThere are reports that those signing contracts may not all be doing so willingly. Russian human rights activists allege there have been cases of men in Chechnya being pressured into joining up by the authorities.\n\nRussian independent journalists have reported that up to 500 convicts have also been enlisted. One prisoner, Konstantin Tulinov, was lauded in state media after he was killed during combat in July. Tulinov had served multiple sentences, the latest one for torturing inmates in Russian prisons.\n\nWhilst these challenges are being discussed within closed groups, there has been no official acknowledgement of the retreat.\n\nOn his private Telegram channel, influential state war reporter Yevgeny Poddubny suggested that the latest rout exposed long-running issues.\n\n\"The situation is really hard for our troops. The problems which have been discussed both in the public space and during confidential meetings have become obvious.\"\n\nBut there is no evidence that this message is making its way to the top. Poddubny and several other war reporters were seen speaking briefly with President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the St Petersburg economic forum in June.\n\nWhile it is not clear exactly what they managed to explain to the president, lack of supplies remains a key issue for the Russian military.", "King Charles with head bowed at his mother's coffin\n\nKing Charles with Princess Anne and Princes Edward and Andrew have held a silent vigil around the Queen's coffin.\n\nWearing military uniform, they stood with their heads bowed for about 10 minutes as the public filed past.\n\nPrince Andrew wore his uniform for the occasion, despite being stripped of his military titles.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II will lie in state at Westminster Hall until her funeral on Monday.\n\nAfter the vigil ended, members of the public applauded them as they left Westminster Hall.\n\nOther members of the Royal Family, including the Queen Consort, Camilla, the Countess of Wessex and Michael of Kent, watched from the gallery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe King, with his brothers and sister, also observed a vigil for the Queen as she lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh earlier this week.\n\nUntil Friday, Prince Andrew had not worn military uniform at the events marking his mother's death, unlike his siblings who are working Royals with military titles.\n\nAn exception allowing Prince Andrew to wear military uniform was made for the vigil.\n\nThe 62-year-old stepped down as a working royal in 2019 after a Newsnight interview that addressed his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Duke of York was later stripped of his military titles.\n\nPrior to the vigil, Prince Edward thanked the public for their support, saying: \"We have been overwhelmed by the tide of emotion that has engulfed us and the sheer number of people who have gone out of their way to express their own love, admiration and respect to such a very special and unique person who was always there for us.\n\n\"And now, we are there for her, united in grief.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Queen's grandchildren, including the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, will also observe a vigil by the late monarch's coffin.\n\nAt King Charles' request, Prince Harry will wear a military uniform for the occasion, like his brother Prince William, in line with the exception made for his uncle Prince Andrew.\n\nIt will be the first time Prince Harry has been seen in military uniform since stepping back as a senior royal in 2020.\n\nMourners filed past the royals as they stood in silent vigil around the coffin at Westminster Hall\n\nA special exception was made to allow Prince Andrew to wear his uniform after he was stripped of his military titles earlier this year\n\nThe Queen's daughter, Princess Anne, accompanied her mother's coffin as it travelled from Scotland to London\n\nThe Queen Consort, the Countess of Wessex and the Duke of Kent were among the royals at Westminster Hall\n\nMourners wanting to see the Queen lying in state have been warned of long waits and cold temperatures overnight\n\nThe Queen's death has touched many across the globe, and thousands of mourners joined a five miles (8km) long queue across London to pay their respects.\n\nShe was the longest serving monarch in British history, and the queue to see her lying-in-state at Westminster Hall currently has a wait time of at least 24 hours, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said.\n\nBut despite the official statement, people have told the BBC they were able to get through the queue from Southwark Park to Westminster Hall in 12 hours overnight.\n\nThe Queen died aged 96 last Thursday at her Scottish estate in Balmoral.", "The Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday, after her coffin has been lying in state for the last four full days.\n\nHere is your guide to what will happen, day by day.\n\nMonday is the day of the Queen's state funeral. It is also a bank holiday in the UK.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state will end at 06:30 BST when the last people will file past her coffin. The doors to Westminster Abbey will then open at 08:00 ahead of the funeral.\n\nAt 10:44, the Queen's coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and it will be drawn by 142 sailors from the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III will walk behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nThe procession will be led by a massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force - numbering 200 musicians.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive at the Abbey at 10:52. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.\n\nAt around 11:55, the Last Post will sound, followed by a national two-minute silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12:00.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will travel in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. The King and senior royals will walk behind the coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will follow the procession by car. Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals.\n\nFrom there the coffin will be taken by a state hearse to Windsor. Shortly after 15:00, the hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nThe three-mile (5km) avenue will be lined with members of the armed forces.\n\nA committal service will then begin at 16:00. Attended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, it will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nAfter, the Queen will then be lowered into the royal vault.\n\nLater in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen will be buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "Queues are likely at London Underground and train stations on Monday as people travel to see the Queen's funeral.\n\nMonday will see one of the UK's biggest transport operations with more than a million people expected to travel to the capital, Transport for London said.\n\nMajor London train stations are staying open all night, with extra services being put on - some through the night.\n\nHowever, railway lines between Slough and Paddington have been blocked due to overhead wire damage.\n\nThe problem is affecting services run by Great Western Railway, Heathrow Express and the Elizabeth Line, and is disrupting travel from Heathrow Airport and Reading into London.\n\nNetwork Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy has warned that trains will be \"extremely busy\", particularly in London on Monday afternoon and evening following Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral.\n\n\"To help us provide the best possible experience and avoid lengthy queues at stations we're asking people not to rush home after the funeral and the processions, but to take their time and experience London on this memorable day,\" he said.\n\nTransport staff will be around to help elderly or vulnerable passengers and are advising people to keep an eye on the most up-to-date travel information.\n\nOn Sunday, footfall at London stations was up 10% from a week earlier, but some stations saw even bigger rises with Waterloo and Charing Cross up by more than 20%.\n\nAndy Byford, commissioner of Transport for London (TfL) said: \"The day of the funeral will be one of the busiest, biggest, challenges TfL has ever faced,\"\n\nHe said the capital had seen \"huge numbers of additional passengers\" since the Queen died at Balmoral on 8 September, but demand will \"reach a climax\" on Monday.\n\nHe said: \"We're ready for probably one of the busiest days Transport for London has ever faced...we're preparing for potentially a million people just within the footprint of the royal palaces and Hyde Park.\"\n\nLondon train stations including Victoria, Waterloo, Charing Cross and Euston will be open throughout the night across the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThree Tube stations - Westminster, St James's Park and Hyde Park Corner - will be closed for most of Monday morning to avoid being overcrowded.\n\nSome stations will also have stationary \"welfare trains\" so people have somewhere to shelter at all hours. Many shops, restaurants and toilets will remain open in train stations as well.\n\nLNER, which is not running \"night trains\", has already announced an Azuma train will be stationed at London King's Cross station all night, with staff on-hand to assist.\n\nAvanti is also putting on extra charter services to help ease congestion between Manchester and London. Four extra services will run on Monday.\n\nTransport for London has set up a special control centre in Southwark\n\nTfL says it will invite customers on its services to observe the two-minute silence at around 11:55 on Monday.\n\nTfL says buses will pull over for it, if it is safe and practical to do so, and switch their engines off. The Underground, Overground and other rail services in London will also invite passengers to take part but services will continue to run.\n\nAs it will be a bank holiday, peak travel restrictions have been lifted.\n\nAlthough trains and Tubes have been busy in the past few days, particularly in central London around mourning events, overall passenger usage remains below pre-Covid levels.\n\nMany commuters and business people are thought to have stayed away from the city centre.\n\nAnyone who bought Anytime, Off-Peak, or Super Off-Peak train tickets can get full refunds during the mourning period if the tickets were bought before the Queen's death was announced.\n\nRoad closures and diversions are expected to continue for several days after Monday, as event infrastructure is removed, TfL said.\n\nNational Highways is also warning people to allow extra time travelling in out of London, as motorways and major roads will be very busy.\n\nMotorists are advised to avoid central London because of road closures.\n\nMotorway service stations will remain open, although there might be reduced levels of services at some locations on Monday.\n\nHeathrow Airport has also warned people to take public transport instead of driving to the airport on Monday because of road closures around Windsor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mourners greeted by King and Prince William in queue\n\nKing Charles and the Prince of Wales have made a surprise appearance to meet people queuing to see the Queen lying in state.\n\nThey thanked those who had been waiting through the night, with Prince William telling a child: \"You're over halfway.\"\n\nHe also said how much it meant to his family that so many were queuing.\n\nOrganisers have now announced that the accessible queue has reached full capacity and has permanently closed, with all time slots allocated.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has asked people not to attempt to join that queue.\n\nAs the King and William walked up and down the queue on Saturday, there were cheers of God Save the King, God Save the Prince of Wales and hip hip hooray.\n\nThe King, referring to the cold temperatures overnight, told one person waiting in the queue: \"I hope you didn't get too frozen.\"\n\nAnyone hoping to pay their respects has until 06:30 BST on Monday when the lying-in-state will end.\n\nBut the queue will be closed well before this so that people do not join the line and fail to reach Westminster Hall in time.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said he was sorry people had had to wait for so long\n\nOne woman in the queue told the Prince of Wales she had been queuing for 13 hours already. He replied: \"Thirteen hours? You're looking very good on 13 hours.\"\n\nThose waiting in Lambeth, south London, told the pair the wait was \"worth it\" but William said he was sorry they had had to wait for so long.\n\nThe prince commented to one person waiting that their trainers were a good choice of footwear for the queue.\n\nSeveral people cried after meeting Prince William, and one woman told him: \"You'll be a brilliant king one day.\"\n\nKing Charles left around 20 minutes after arriving and was driven back to Buckingham Palace, but his son stayed longer to speak to more people.\n\nThe beginning of King Charles's reign has seen the Royal Family take part in several walkabouts and meetings with the public.\n\nThis unscheduled walkabout gave us a glimpse of a more approachable, literally hands-on style of monarchy.\n\nThe King seemed keen to show his gratitude for those who were queuing for such a long time to pay their respects for his mother.\n\nIt was sending a visible message of recognising the public mood and responding to those emotions.\n\nWhere the King met the queue wasn't far from the memorial to those who died during the Covid pandemic. And this moment has tapped into many people's own memories of bereavements.\n\nThe King's visit brought a warm reaction from the crowd who passed on their own condolences. \"Sorry for your loss,\" said one well-wisher.\n\nThe crowd queuing the along the Thames also reflected this informal style, calling out to the Prince of Wales: \"William, William.\"\n\nHe thanked them for waiting for so long. But they didn't seem to mind.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, the Earl and Countess of Wessex met crowds outside Buckingham Palace, shaking their hands and thanking them for their support.\n\nThe Queen's youngest son could be heard asking mourners where they had come from and whether they were making their way to Green Park to lay flowers.\n\nThe pair had been at a lunch held inside the palace by the King and Queen Consort for governors-general from Commonwealth countries.\n\nRepresentatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu were among those present, along with the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nPrince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, took time to speak to people outside Buckingham Palace\n\nThe Prince of Wales, his brother the Duke of Sussex and their cousins stood guard around the Queen's coffin on Saturday evening, a day after their parents held their own vigil at Westminster Hall.\n\nPrince Harry was given permission by the King to wear military uniform for the ceremony.\n\nPrince Andrew was also allowed to wear his military uniform as he stood guard on Friday. The 62-year-old stepped down as a working royal in 2019, after a Newsnight interview about his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe prince was later stripped of his military titles.\n\nDuring the vigil, Harry stood at the foot of the coffin, with William at the head. They were joined by their cousins Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn.\n\nAhead of the vigil, Beatrice and Eugenie paid tribute to their \"dear Grannie\", saying: \"It has been the honour of our lives to have been your granddaughters and we're so very proud of you.\"\n\nSaturday is the third full day the Queen's coffin will lie in state in Westminster Hall, where she will remain until the morning of the funeral, on Monday.\n\nThe funeral will then take place at Westminster Abbey at 11:00, after which she will be laid to rest alongside the Duke of Edinburgh in the Royal Vault in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe King spoke to people in the queue before returning to Buckingham Palace\n\nForeign dignitaries are travelling to London ahead of Monday's funeral, which will be one of the biggest diplomatic events of recent years, with some 500 heads of state and other dignitaries expected to attend.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese laid flowers in Green Park, central London, before meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Mr Albanese said it was a \"great honour\" to represent Australia and commemorate \"a life well-lived\".\n\nCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a book of condolences in Lancaster House and issued a statement in which he said he benefitted from the Queen's \"counsel, her thoughtfulness, her curiosity, her sense of humour, and the engagement that showed a deep, deep and abiding interest in and love for Canadians\".\n\nThe book was also signed by New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern who afterwards spoke of what she called the Queen's incredible connection to her country.\n\nThe Prince of Wales told children in the queue they were \"over halfway\"\n\nThe King also met the heads of the armed forces at Buckingham Palace on Saturday and visited the Metropolitan Police's headquarters, New Scotland Yard.\n\nA senior Metropolitan Police officer described the Queen's funeral as \"the largest single policing event [the force] has ever undertaken\".\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the \"hugely complex\" operation surpasses the London 2012 Olympics - which saw up to 10,000 police officers on duty each day.\n\nThe arrivals of the Royals provided a welcome break for those in the queue\n\nLate on Friday night, police arrested a man who left the line of mourners inside Westminster Hall and approached the coffin. He was arrested under the Public Order Act and taken into custody.\n\nPeople who wish to pay their respects virtually can watch a BBC live stream and a dedicated queue tracker has been published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nA national one-minute silence will take place at 20:00 on Sunday.", "After six months of war, it is still unknown what the Russian president will do next\n\nYou can normally expect Russian state TV's flagship weekly news programme to trumpet Kremlin successes.\n\n\"On the frontlines of the special operation [in Ukraine], this has been the toughest week so far,\" declared sombre-looking anchor Dmitry Kiselev.\n\n\"It was particularly tough along the Kharkiv front, where following an onslaught by enemy forces that outnumbered ours, [Russian] troops were forced to leave towns they had previously liberated.\"\n\nFor \"liberated\", read \"seized\". Moscow had occupied those areas months ago, but after a lightning counter-offensive by the Ukrainian army, the Russian military has lost considerable territory in north-east Ukraine.\n\nStill, Russian state media are putting a brave face on things. Officially, what happened in Kharkiv region isn't being referred to here as a \"retreat\".\n\n\"The Russian defence ministry dismissed rumours that Russian troops fled in disgrace from Balakliya, Kupiansk and Izyum,\" claimed the latest edition of the government paper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta. \"They didn't flee. This was a pre-planned regrouping.\"\n\nIn tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets, a military analyst took a different view: \"It's already clear that we underestimated the enemy. [Russian forces] took too long to react and the collapse came… As a result, we suffered a defeat and tried to minimise the loss by withdrawing our troops so they weren't surrounded.\"\n\nThis \"defeat\" has sparked anger on pro-Russian social media channels and among \"patriotic\" Russian bloggers, who have accused their military of making mistakes.\n\nSo has the powerful leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.\n\n\"If today or tomorrow no changes in strategy are made,\" Mr Kadyrov warned, \"I will be forced to speak with the leadership of the defence ministry and the leadership of the country to explain the real situation on the ground to them. It's a very interesting situation. It's astounding.\"\n\nIt's more than six months since Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the days that followed, I remember Russian politicians, commentators and analysts on TV here predicting that what the Kremlin calls its \"special military operation\" would be wrapped up within days; that the Ukrainian people would greet Russian troops as liberators, and that Ukraine's government would collapse like a pack of cards.\n\nInstead, more than six months on, the Russian army has been losing ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo, here's a key question: will this have political consequences for Vladimir Putin?\n\nAfter all, for more than 20 years, Mr Putin has, within the Russian elite, enjoyed a reputation for being a winner; for always managing to extricate himself from the tightest of spots; in short, for being invincible.\n\nI've often viewed him as the Russian version of famous escape artist Harry Houdini. Whatever knots or chains he got tied up in, Mr Putin always managed to slip free.\n\nThe last six months suggest that President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was a major miscalculation. Unable to secure a rapid victory, Russia got bogged down in a long, bloody offensive, and has suffered a series of embarrassing defeats.\n\nWhen an authoritarian leader's aura of invincibility fades, it can cause problems for the aforesaid leader. Vladimir Putin will know Russia's history. It hasn't ended well for past Russian leaders who fought wars and didn't win them.\n\nRussia's defeat by Japan led to the first Russian Revolution of 1905. Military failures in World War One sparked the 1917 Revolution and the end of the Tsar.\n\nPublicly, though, President Putin has no intention of ending up the loser.\n\nOn Monday, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists: \"[Russia's] special military operation continues and will continue until all the tasks that were initially set have been fulfilled.\"\n\nWhich brings us to the other key question: what will Mr Putin do next?\n\nYou'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who knows what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning. Much may depend on how accurate the information is that he is receiving from his military and intelligence chiefs.\n\nBut here are two things we do know: the Russian president rarely admits to making mistakes. And he rarely makes U-turns.\n\nIn Moscow, Vladimir Putin seemed relaxed as he opened a new Ferris wheel\n\nFrom what the state media is saying, we're already seeing signs that failures on the battlefield are being blamed on Western support for Ukraine.\n\nThere is one more uncomfortable question that's been in the background for months: if he cannot achieve victory via conventional weapons, would President Putin go nuclear?\n\nOnly a few days ago, Ukraine's military chief, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, warned: \"There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian armed forces.\"\n\nFor now, there are no open signs of panic in the Kremlin. Russian state TV is sounding more positive. It's been describing Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as \"a turning point in the special operation\".\n\nAs for the Kremlin leader, last Saturday - as reports were coming in from Ukraine that Russia was losing territory - back in Moscow, a relaxed looking Vladimir Putin was inaugurating a new Ferris wheel, the tallest in Europe.\n\nRussia's president still seems to believe that, like Moscow's new Big Wheel, his \"special operation\" will turn in his favour.", "A rehearsal for the state funeral was held overnight on Thursday\n\nQueen Elizabeth II made personal additions to plans for her funeral day, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nAmong the touches requested by the Queen is the playing of a lament by her piper.\n\nThe state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday is likely to be one of the biggest single ceremonial events staged in Britain since World War Two.\n\nA national two-minute silence will be held as the service draws to a close just before midday.\n\nThe order of service, with its choice of music and readings, is expected to reflect more of the Queen's personal choices for the funeral.\n\nPalace aides said the Queen had been consulted on all the arrangements.\n\nAmong those who have confirmed their attendance at the state funeral, which starts at 11:00 BST, are US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nAlongside royalty, politicians and world leaders will be 200 people who were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours, including those who helped with the response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA former police officer awarded the George Cross after being shot at 15 times is also among those due to attend the state funeral.\n\nTony Gledhill, 84, said: \"I'm incredibly moved to be involved.\"\n\nThe official organiser of Monday's events, the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, said his role was \"both humbling and daunting\".\n\nHe said the solemnity of the last few days of mourning and the constitutional process was the \"envy of the world\".\n\nThe duke, who took on the hereditary position in 2002, said Monday's service would aim to \"unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths\".\n\nEvents on Monday will begin with the funeral procession, which will see the Queen's coffin conveyed from Westminster Hall, where she is lying in state, to the nearby Abbey.\n\nPrince Harry the Duke of Sussex and his brother William, the new Prince of Wales, will once more walk side-by-side behind the Queen's coffin during the procession.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be carried on the gun carriage that was used for the funerals of Edward VII, George V, George VI and Sir Winston Churchill. It will be pulled by 142 Royal Navy sailors.\n\nTowards the end of the service, the Last Post will be played, followed by a national two-minute silence. The conclusion of the state funeral, expected at 12:00, will be marked by a lament played by the Queen's piper.\n\nAfter the Abbey service, the Queen's coffin will be carried in a further procession to Wellington Arch - led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and members of NHS staff.\n\nIt will then be conveyed to Windsor by road, before a committal service takes place at 16:00 at St George's Chapel, led by the Dean of Windsor and with a congregation including the Royal Family and some of the Queen's personal staff.\n\nAs the Queen's coffin is lowered into the royal vault, the Archbishop of Canterbury will read a blessing and the Queen's piper will play a lament.\n\nThe Crown Jeweller will be in attendance to collect the crown from the Queen's coffin and convey it back to the Tower of London.\n\nA final private burial service for close family members will be held at 19:30.\n\nThe Queen will be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, where she will rest with her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year.\n\nThe skies over London will be quiet during the two-minute silence, as Heathrow airport stops all departures and arrivals for 30 minutes from 11:40.\n\nSeparate changes to operations at the airport will ensure silence overhead during the ceremonies in Windsor.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast a special programme for Monday's funeral from 08:00 to 17:00 on BBC One and iPlayer.\n\nHow will you be watching the funeral? Do you have any specific plans? Email: yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ukraine's recent counter-offensive will not change Russia's plans, Vladimir Putin has said in his first public comments on the matter.\n\nIn a rapid counter-attack, Ukrainian forces say they captured over 8,000 sq km (3,000 sq miles) in six days in the north-eastern Kharkiv region.\n\nBut Mr Putin said he was not in a hurry, and the offensive in Ukraine's Donbas region remains on track.\n\nHe also noted that Russia had so far not deployed its full forces.\n\n\"Our offensive operation in the Donbas is not stopping. They're moving forward - not at a very fast pace - but they are gradually taking more and more territory,\" he said after a summit in Uzbekistan.\n\nThe industrial Donbas region in east Ukraine is the focus of Russia's invasion, which Mr Putin falsely claims is necessary to save Russian-speakers from genocide.\n\nParts of the Donbas have been occupied by Russian-backed separatists since 2014. The Kharkiv region, where Ukraine's recent counter-attack was launched, is not part of the Donbas.\n\nIn Friday's comments, Mr Putin threatened a \"more serious\" response if Ukrainian attacks continue.\n\n\"I remind you that the Russian army isn't fighting in its entirety... Only the professional army is fighting.\"\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\nSo far, Russia has not officially declared war on Ukraine and only refers to its invasion as a \"special military operation\".\n\nBut after Russia's recent losses, some pro-Kremlin commentators have called for more forces to be mobilised. A recent leaked video which appears to show an attempt to recruit convicts to a private military company suggests Russia is struggling to find enough men willing to fight.\n\nLater on Friday, US President Joe Biden reiterated his call on Russia to refrain from using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.\n\nSpeaking during an interview with CBS News, Mr Biden said such action would \"change the face of war unlike anything since World War Two\".\n\nPresident Putin put the country's nuclear forces on \"special\" alert following its invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nThe Russian leader has rarely left his country since then.\n\nThis week's visit to the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan - where he met the Chinese leader Xi Jinping - highlights his need to foster ties with Asian countries after being sidelined by the West.\n\nBut even there, leaders have expressed concern over the invasion.\n\n\"Today's time is not a time for war,\" Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Mr Putin.\n\nAnd on the previous day, Mr Putin hinted that Xi Jinping also disapproved.\n\n\"We understand your questions and concerns\" he told the Chinese leader in reference to the war.", "A man has been arrested after he approached Queen Elizabeth's coffin from a queue of mourners in Westminster Hall.\n\nHe was arrested under the Public Order Act and was taken into custody, Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe incident in Parliament occurred at about 22:00 BST on Friday night, the force said in a statement.\n\nThe live video feed of the Queen lying in state cut away for a brief period during the incident.\n\nA statement from Scotland Yard said: \"Around 22:00 on Friday 16 September officers from the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command detained a man in Westminster Hall following a disturbance.\"\n\nA Parliament spokesperson said: \"We're aware of an incident in Westminster Hall, in which a member of the public moved out of the queue and towards the catafalque.\n\n\"They have now been removed from the hall and the queue restarted with minimal disruption.\"\n\nEarlier in the evening, the King was joined by siblings Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, in a vigil in the hall.\n\nThe late Queen Elizabeth II will lie in state in Westminster Hall until the day of her funeral on Monday.", "The UK has told the EU it will continue delaying customs checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, despite legal action from Brussels over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe EU is considering its next steps.\n\nThe protocol keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, avoiding the need for a hard border with the Irish Republic after Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for talks next week.\n\nIt is thought they will speak when they both attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York.\n\nDespite normal politics being paused after the Queen's death last week, the UK responded to the Commission's legal action ahead of the EU's deadline of the end of Thursday.\n\nThe EU has launched a series of lawsuits over what it sees as the UK's failure to comply with checks on the movement of farm produce from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nIt has also started legal action over legislation that would allow the UK to alter the protocol, introduced by Liz Truss when she was foreign secretary.\n\nHowever, the UK government argues \"grace periods\" delaying full customs checks should remain in place.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Daniel Ferrie said: \"I can confirm we have received a reply from the UK. We will now analyse the reply before deciding on the next steps.\"\n\nThe Commission could refer the case to the European Court of Justice, but its initial reaction is expected to be muted following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nBrussels has been making plenty of overtures about restarting negotiations, previously stalled, on how to reform the post-Brexit treaty.\n\nThe new government's desires are less obvious, although Prime Minister Liz Truss is very familiar with the row.\n\nAs foreign secretary she set in train a bill that could see Britain override parts of the protocol; something the EU sees as a clear and blatant breach of a mutually agreed treaty.\n\nEU diplomats believe Ms Truss's approach to the protocol was, at least in part, designed to woo the right wing of her party when a leadership contest loomed.\n\nNow that she's prime minister, what will she decide to do?\n\nWith talk of a phone call or meeting between EU chief, Ursula von der Leyen and Ms Truss, maybe that question will be answered before long.\n\nBoth will attend Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, but a more likely opportunity for a political discussion could be next week's UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nThe protocol was part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, agreed between the UK and the EU in December 2019.\n\nSpecial trading arrangements were required for Northern Ireland because it has a land border with the Republic of Ireland, which is in the EU.\n\nThe EU has strict food regulations and demands border checks when certain goods - such as milk and eggs - arrive from non-EU countries.\n\nThe UK and the EU also agreed that protecting the Northern Ireland peace deal, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, was essential.\n\nFrom 2021, the protocol has meant some new checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nUnionist politicians have condemned what they regard as the imposition of a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nNorthern Ireland's devolved executive has been suspended since February, and the largest unionist party, the DUP, has refused to resume sharing power with nationalists until the protocol is significantly reformed.\n\nPolls have suggested overall opinion in Northern Ireland on the protocol is fairly evenly split.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol Bill would allow the UK government to override the arrangements for Northern Ireland it signed up to.\n\nIt cleared the House of Commons in July, but is expected to face stern opposition when it begins its passage through the House of Lords next month.", "Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the headquarters of New Scotland Yard on Saturday\n\nCrowds have gathered outside the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in a rally against racism and police brutality.\n\nIt followed the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old unarmed black man, Chris Kaba, by a Met officer on 5 September.\n\nMembers of Mr Kaba's family, who have accused the force of racism, joined protesters along with politicians.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating, and will look at whether race was a factor.\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke at the gathering, as did the MP for Streatham Bell Ribeiro-Addy.\n\nJeremy Corbyn was at the rally outside New Scotland Yard\n\nVideos posted from Saturday's protests show a crowd of people on London's embankment chanting: \"What do we want? Justice.\"\n\nThe protest in central London was one of many taking place in the UK, including in Brighton, Oxford, Southampton, Coventry, Leamington Spa, Manchester, Taunton, Hassockfield, and Cardiff, as part of a National Day of Action organised by the Justice for Chris Kaba campaign.\n\nChris Kaba's cousin Sheeda told the crowd: \"We know we are not alone and we are so grateful\"\n\nMr Kaba died after a single shot by a firearms officer at the Met, who has since been suspended from duty.\n\nHe had been involved in a police pursuit after the car he was driving was flagged on an automatic camera system indicating it had been involved in an offence.\n\nMr Kaba's family have accused the Met of racism.\n\nThe IOPC said it had been in contact with Mr Kaba's family regarding the investigation, which is expected to take six to nine months to complete.\n\nBut Mr Kaba's family has called for the investigation to be concluded swiftly.\n\nHis cousin, Jefferson Bosela, said: \"We won't be waiting years for this. We want justice as soon as we can.\"\n\nDaniel Machover, a lawyer speaking on behalf of the family, described the timeframe as \"unacceptably long and lacking urgency\".\n\nChris Kaba, who was due to become a father, died in the early hours of 6 September about two hours after he was shot\n\nThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the IOPC \"must go wherever the evidence takes them\".\n\nHe added: \"I fully understand the grave concerns and impact of Chris Kaba's death on black Londoners across our city, and the anger, pain and fear it has caused across our communities - as well as the desire for justice and change.\n\n\"The IOPC have confirmed to me that they are fully committed to carrying out a thorough and comprehensive investigation to establish all of the facts - with all key findings made public.\n\n\"I'm clear that the independent investigation must be fearless and leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Amanda Pearson said: \"We continue to fully support the IOPC investigation as they work to establish the facts and try to answer the many questions Mr Kaba's family and others have around his tragic death.\n\nA coroner's inquest into the death is due to open on 4 October.\n\nCrowds gathered outside the Met headquarters with placards and loudhailers\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.", "Jim and Margaret Mitchell were mixed up as babies before a chance meeting led to them getting married 20 years later\n\nSome couples believe meeting \"the one\" is written in the stars.\n\nBut Lanarkshire couple Jim and Margaret Mitchell have more reason than most to believe in fate.\n\nAn accident after birth brought them together for the first time, before a chance meeting nearly two decades later reunited them for life.\n\nThis weekend they will toast 50 years of marriage and the series of coincidences that ensured they got together.\n\nThe mothers of Jim and Margaret Mitchell should have known something was different about their newborns from the start.\n\nThey were born at Lennox Castle Hospital in Lennoxtown on 15 and 17 September 1952 - when a maternity unit mix-up saw nurses briefly hand the babies to the wrong mothers.\n\nMargaret, who turned 70 on Thursday, said: \"Both our mums were called Margaret and the names caused confusion with the midwives so we were handed to each other's mums.\"\n\nThis happened in the days before name wristbands, but the mistake was realised within a few minutes by the babies' mothers and they were returned to their proper families.\n\nMargaret and her mother, also Margaret, just weeks after her first chance meeting with her future husband\n\nJim went off with his parents to live in Arden, south of Glasgow, and Margaret was taken home to to Knightswood, in the north-west of the city where they lived with family.\n\nSoon after, Margaret's parents finally got their own house in Eastwood, Renfrewshire, only a 30 minute walk away from Jim.\n\nBy the time the pair reached 18, fate intervened again.\n\nRetired engineer Jim said: \"My friend was getting married and he had his reception back at his flat in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nJim had long hair and was \"different\" from boys Margaret had dated\n\n\"It was Margaret's friend Pat that married my friend David. That's when we met for the first time.\n\n\"We got chatting at the reception. I thought she looked fabulous in her lovely mini dress and so I summoned up the courage to ask her out.\n\n\"I was so pleased when she agreed because she was the best-looking girl in the room.\"\n\nWithin two months of seeing each other, the mums started to suspect that there was something familiar about the story.\n\nMargaret said: \"It was mainly Jim's mum. Because our birthdays were so close together and my name was Rafferty and my dad was the policeman, she just clicked after all those little things came together.\"\n\nJim and Margaret Mitchell on their wedding day exactly 50 years ago\n\nThe two mothers eventually met for the first time since they swapped their babies back in the maternity ward and marvelled at the million-to-one romance.\n\nJim and Margaret were married in 1972 and now live in East Kilbride. They are retired and have two sons and a teenage granddaughter and grandson.\n\nOn Friday, the couple were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on the day in between their birthdays.\n\nMargaret, a former sales executive, believes that if it wasn't for coincidence, she may never have chosen to go on a date with Jim.\n\n\"He was different to boys I was going out with. He had really long hair, but he was kind and thoughtful and totally different,\" she said.\n\nStarting their day with breakfast in bed, they told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme about their secrets for a long happy marriage.\n\nMargaret said: \"It's just about getting on with each other and taking each day as it is.\"\n\nJim added: \"You know, you have your ups and downs, but the best thing about falling out is falling in again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of people can be seen on the streets in footage filmed at the scene\n\nLarge-scale disorder broke out in Leicester on Saturday, with police and community leaders calling for calm.\n\nOfficers tried to hold back crowds amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities.\n\nPolice said two arrests had been made, and that the trouble flared up after \"an unplanned protest\".\n\nIt is the latest of several incidents, including violence after an India and Pakistan cricket match on 28 August.\n\nA significant police operation will remain in the area in the coming days.\n\nSuleman Nagdi, of the Leicester-based Federation of Muslim Organisations told the BBC: \"What we have seen on the streets is very alarming.\n\n\"There have been problems in the community since the India and Pakistan cricket match and while that game often sparks gatherings they have not in the past turned this ugly.\n\n\"We need calm - the disorder has to stop and it has to stop now. There are some very dissatisfied young men who have been causing havoc.\n\n\"We need to get the message out that this must end and try to do this through parents and grandparents talking to their sons.\"\n\nSanjiv Patel, who represents Hindu and Jain temples across Leicester, said he was deeply saddened and shocked by Saturday night's disorder.\n\nHe said: \"We have lived in harmony in the city for many decades but over the past few weeks it is clear there are things that need to be discussed around the table to get out what people are unhappy about.\n\n\"Resorting to violence is not the way to deal with this.\n\n\"We are horrified and deplore what was going on (yesterday) and across the last two weeks.\n\n\"Across the Hindu and Jain community and with our Muslim brothers and sisters and leaders we are consistently saying 'calm minds, calm heads'.\"\n\nHe warned people to be wary of disinformation on social media.\n\nHe added: \"Violence is not a solution to anything. This has to be a time for peace, calm and engagement.\"\n\nPolice said one man was detained on suspicion of conspiracy to commit violent disorder and another on suspicion of possession of a bladed article.\n\nLeicestershire's chief constable was among the police officers on the ground\n\nLeicester city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said: \"I don't think anyone saw the confrontation (on Saturday) as a likely outcome and police had been given reassurance things were calming down a lot.\n\n\"Things got very nasty indeed last night and I am very worried on behalf of the people who were caught up in it and I was impressed by the way police responded to it - it can't have been an easy task.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's mostly young men in their late teens and early 20s and I have heard suggestions people have come in (to the city) from outside looking for an opportunity to have a set-to.\n\n\"It's very worrying for people in the areas where this has happened.\"\n\nSir Peter said it was important community leaders continued to try to de-escalate the situation but he acknowledged it was a challenge to get through to young people.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday night, Leicestershire Police's temporary chief constable Rob Nixon said in a video: \"We've had numerous reports of an outbreak of disorder in parts of the East Leicester area of the city.\n\n\"We have got officers there, we are taking control of that situation, there are additional officers that are en route, and dispersal powers, and stop and search powers have been authorised.\n\n\"Please do not get involved, we are calling for calm.\"\n\nPolice said they were \"taking control\" of the situation\n\nCommunity leaders from East Leicester were on the ground with officers, and were calling for calm and encouraging people to go home, the force added.\n\nIn the early hours on Sunday, police said the situation was calming and \"under control\", and large number of searches had been carried out.\n\n\"Several incidents of violence and damage have been reported to the police and are being investigated,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are aware of a video circulating showing a man pulling down a flag outside a religious building on Melton Road, Leicester.\n\n\"This appears to have taken place while police officers were dealing with public disorder in the area. The incident will be investigated.\"\n\nA woman who witnessed Saturday's disturbances said there were people wearing balaclavas or with masks over their faces, and with hoods pulled up.\n\nShe told the BBC they were \"just everywhere, it was like crowds walking away from a football match\".\n\n\"There were police blocking the road; officers literally stood shoulder to shoulder blocking Uppingham Road,\" she said.\n\nFootage online showed police attempting to hold back crowds as objects including bottles were thrown.\n\nA resident from Green Lane Road said what she witnessed on Saturday evening was \"very intimidating\".\n\n\"The whole situation seemed really out of control,\" she said.\n\n\"The police were there but it didn't seem like they had a great handle on things.\n\n\"People were still feeling very scared, unsure and uncertain, and with everything else that's gone on recently, there's also a lot of tension building up in the few weeks that we've had this happen and unfold.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "White plumage is popular in the songbird trade\n\nUniquely coloured songbirds are at high risk of extinction, because they are in demand as pets, research has shown.\n\nThe pet songbird trade in Asia has already driven several species close to extinction, with birds targeted primarily for their beautiful voices.\n\nNow a study has revealed that particular colours of plumage put birds at greater risk of being taken from the wild and sold.\n\nResearchers say breeding birds in captivity for the trade could help.\n\n\"That won't work for all species,\" said lead researcher Prof Rebecca Senior, from the University of Durham. \"But there's hope that we could shift the sourcing [of some pet birds] - so they're captive-bred rather than caught in the wild.\"\n\nSupplying, rather than fighting, the songbird trade might prove controversial, but these researchers say it could be a practical way to prevent species from being lost from the wild.\n\nCaged birds are sold in their thousands in markets like this one in Jakarta\n\nThe study, published in the journal Current Biology, also showed that if the most desirable birds continued to be taken from the wild, the populations left in Asia's tropical forests would gradually become \"more drab\". The most striking, uniquely coloured birds would be the first to be lost.\n\nTo understand the threats to wild birds, Prof Senior and her colleagues carried out what was essentially a stocktake of the species - and the colours - most commonly bought and sold in the songbird markets of Asia.\n\n\"We found that species that had a more unique colour - something not similar to other birds - are more likely to be traded,\" she explained.\n\n\"And there are particular categories of colour that tend to be more common in the trade - azure (sometimes described as sky blue) and yellow. Pure white is quite common, too.\"\n\nThe scientists also simulated the impact of the trade - removing the most commonly traded species from the wild population. This showed that continued songbird trapping would result in \"more brown and less blue\" plumage in Asia's tropical forests.\n\nIn parts of Asia, Indonesia in particular, the impact of the trade has been labelled a conservation crisis. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) set up a specialist group in an effort to prevent the extinction of species that are threatened by the trade.\n\nOwning songbirds is deeply rooted in local culture in Indonesia. Bird-singing competitions are hugely popular and, at a national level, can offer prizes worth tens of thousands of pounds. Many conservationists have concluded that fighting the trade is pointless.\n\n\"Rather than go in all guns blazing and say, 'you can't take these birds that have been an important part of your culture for so long',\" said Prof Senior, \"we could identify the species that are at risk and try to shift the sourcing to captive-bred birds.\n\n\"There is definitely potential for that to fill the high demand that exists.\"", "Police denied eyewitness reports that Mahsa Amini had been beaten\n\nA 22-year-old Iranian woman has died days after being arrested by morality police for allegedly not complying with strict rules on head coverings.\n\nEyewitnesses said Mahsa Amini was beaten while inside a police van when she was picked up in Tehran on Tuesday.\n\nPolice have denied the allegations, saying Ms Amini had \"suddenly suffered a heart problem\".\n\nIt is the latest in a series of reports of brutality against women by authorities in Iran in recent weeks.\n\nMs Amini's family say that she was a healthy young woman with no medical conditions that would explain a sudden heart problem.\n\nHowever, they were informed she had been taken to hospital a few hours after her arrest and the family said she had been in a coma before she died on Friday.\n\nTehran police said Ms Amini had been arrested for \"justification and education\" about the hijab, the headscarf which is mandatory for all women to wear.\n\nHer death comes in the wake of growing reports of repressive acts against women, including those judged not to be complying with Islamic dress code being barred from entering government offices and banks.\n\nMany Iranians, including pro-government individuals, are expressing their outrage on social media platforms regarding the very existence of the morality police, also known as Guidance Patrols, and are using hashtags that translate as Murder Patrols.\n\nVideos have emerged on social media appearing to show officers detaining women, dragging them on the ground, and forcefully whisking them away.\n\nMany Iranians blame the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, directly. An old speech of his is being reshared on social media in which he justifies the role of the morality police and insists that under Islamic rule, women must be forced to observe the Islamic dress code.\n\nThe latest episode will only deepen the divide between a large part of Iran's young and vibrant society and its radical rulers, a rift that seems ever harder to mend.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II \"carved her own role\" after she came to the throne, Camilla, the Queen Consort, has said in a personal TV tribute to her.\n\nCamilla recalls the Queen's \"wonderful blue eyes\" and her \"unforgettable smile\", in the BBC programme.\n\nIt was broadcast shortly before a national minute's silence held across the UK on Sunday at 20:00 BST.\n\nShe also said the Queen \"has been part of our lives forever\".\n\nThe Queen Consort was four when Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in 1952 and she tells the documentary: \"I'm 75 now and I can't remember anybody except the Queen being there.\"\n\nRemembering the monarch, Camilla described \"those wonderful blue eyes... when she smiles they light up her whole face\".\n\n\"I will always remember that smile.\"\n\nThe Queen Consort's tribute to her late mother-in-law was shown in a special hour-long BBC One programme at 19:00 on Sunday.\n\nIn it, she told how her mother-in-law had carved out her own role for many years from the \"difficult position\" of being a \"solitary woman\" in what was a male-dominated world.\n\n\"There weren't women prime ministers or presidents. She was the only one so I think she carved her own role.\"\n\nThe Queen Consort, who had known the monarch for decades, said the Queen had a clear demarcation between her public duties and private life, highlighting her summer breaks at Balmoral in Scotland as a moment for \"her enjoyment\".\n\n\"Although she was probably working, you know with her red boxes throughout, she could have her family to stay, she could do the things she loved,\" she said.\n\nShe also spoke of how the late Queen saw the funny side of a shoe mishap on the Queen Consort's wedding day in 2005.\n\n\"I probably wasn't firing on all cylinders, quite nervous and, for some unknown reason, I put on a pair of shoes and one had an inch heel and one had a two-inch heel,\" Camilla said.\n\n\"I was halfway down in the car before I realised... she could see and laughed about it and said, 'Look, I'm terribly sorry'.\"\n\nShe added that the Queen had a \"good sense of humour\".\n\nAhead of Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark her 70 years on the throne earlier this year, Queen Elizabeth had said it was her \"sincere wish\" that the then-Duchess of Cornwall would become known as Queen Consort when Charles became King.\n\nThat ended years of debate over what she would become known as.\n\nThe Queen also called on the public to support her daughter-in-law and son when he became the new monarch.\n\nSpeaking about his wife during his first speech as monarch, King Charles said: \"I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much.\"\n\nEvents and moments of reflection have taken place across the UK on Sunday. Near Falkirk, Scotland, 96 lanterns - one for each year of Her Majesty's life - were lowered into the pool of reflection at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth II Canal at 19:30.\n\nOn the final full day of the Queen's lying-in-state, thousands have continued to queue as the government warned people not to travel to avoid disappointment if it closed before they could enter the hall.\n\nMembers of the public will be able to see the coffin at Westminster Hall until 06:30 on Monday.", "People have queued along the River Thames to pay their respects to the Queen\n\nThe queue of people patiently waiting to pay their respects to the Queen as she lies in state in Westminster Hall has become a talking point around the world. The people populating its five-mile length are willing to shuffle slowly along for between nine and 24 hours, sometimes overnight. The fact that it all works is down to a team of crowd science experts and a professor from Cumbria.\n\nIt has become known, simply, as The Queue.\n\nThose watching its calm progress towards our former monarch - and it makes for strangely compulsive viewing - marvel at both its length and the stoic patience of those in it.\n\nIt is idiosyncratically British, they say. Who else would willingly join a queue that lasts longer than the average working day? And it comes with its own ecosystem. There is a live online queue tracker, coloured wristbands, toilets.\n\nThat it works is down to, among others, Prof Keith Still, from Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria, who has been teaching and advising on crowd science for 30 years.\n\nPlanning for something like The Queue takes \"decades\", he says.\n\nThe Queue passes landmarks such as Tower Bridge\n\nHe has provided analysis and advice and reviewed plans for not only The Queue, but also the Queen's journey from Balmoral through Aberdeen, where he was born.\n\nAsked if he ever anticipated The Queue could reach five miles long, he replies, swiftly: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe Queen was so loved, and reigned for so long, it was clear to him she was bound to have more people wanting to pay their respects than the 200,000 who gathered for the Queen Mother.\n\n\"You always plan for what might arrive and then five times that, and 10 times that,\" he says.\n\nProf Keith Still has been advising on crowd science for 30 years\n\nThe Queue is remarkable for mostly being good humoured. There have been few reports of queue jumping or problems. As Prof Still puts it: \"The crowd itself is looking after people within it.\"\n\nWhile this may be due to the sombre occasion, human nature and the psychology of queuing behaviour must also be considered, he says. People need to know what is happening in advance, to have their expectations set and to be kept constantly informed and updated and, in The Queue, they have had that.\n\nPerceived fairness is also important, with VIP lanes visually separate so it does not appear someone has just turned up and walked straight through.\n\n\"So long as people know what's happening, what's expected of them, how long it's going to take, they no longer face the uncertainty,\" he says. \"And it keeps the crowd very much on your side.\"\n\nWristbands and zones make sure people feel secure in their place while queuing\n\nPeople are happy if they know what is happening, even if the update is to say the update is coming.\n\n\"It's as soon as that information flow stops that you get a degree of uncertainty and people start behaving as individuals rather than as a collective,\" he says.\n\nThe Queue's temporary closure on Friday afternoon briefly concerned him. People were already on their way to join the end. \"When they announced that the queue had stopped I thought 'you're just going to create another queue of people waiting to join the queue',\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queue even attracted former England captain David Beckham\n\nBut this was \"already in the contingency plan\" and the closure was quickly reconsidered and The Queue extended out beyond Bermondsey.\n\nThe longer the queue, the more facilities you need to provide. As well as information, the crowd needs toilets, food, drinks, shelter and medical care.\n\n\"Eight hours might be acceptable for most people but 10, 12 - where's the limit of human endurance when standing for that length of time? These are all factored in,\" Prof Still says.\n\nThis is the scene which greets people at the end - the Queen lying in state\n\nHe does not think he could have stood for that length of time himself, not with arthritic hips. \"At 63, I can walk my dog for about 4km and that's it, I'm knackered for the rest of the day,\" he says.\n\nBut he trusts The Queue and has faith in the handful of his Masters students from Manchester Metropolitan University who took over from him in the team managing its planning.\n\nThese things are \"always a significant team effort\", he says.\n\n\"It's never just one person.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Hackers have told the BBC they carried out a destructive cyber-attack against Holiday Inn owner Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) \"for fun\".\n\nDescribing themselves as a couple from Vietnam, they say they first tried a ransomware attack, then deleted large amounts of data when they were foiled.\n\nThey accessed the FTSE 100 firm's databases thanks to an easily found and weak password, Qwerty1234.\n\nAn expert says the case highlights the vindictive side of criminal hackers.\n\nUK-based IHG operates 6,000 hotels around the world, including the Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Regent brands.\n\nOn Monday last week, customers reported widespread problems with booking and check-in.\n\nFor 24 hours IHG responded to complaints on social media by saying that the company was \"undergoing system maintenance\".\n\nThen on the Tuesday afternoon it told investors that it had been hacked.\n\n\"Booking channels and other applications have been significantly disrupted since yesterday,\" it said in an official notice lodged with the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThe hackers, calling themselves TeaPea, contacted the BBC on the encrypted messaging app, Telegram, providing screenshots as evidence that they had carried out the hack.\n\nThe images, which IHG has confirmed are genuine, show they gained access to the company's internal Outlook emails, Microsoft Teams chats and server directories.\n\n\"Our attack was originally planned to be a ransomware but the company's IT team kept isolating servers before we had a chance to deploy it, so we thought to have some funny [sic]. We did a wiper attack instead,\" one of the hackers said.\n\nA wiper attack is a form of cyber-attack that irreversibly destroys data, documents and files.\n\nThe average wage in Vietnam is about $300 (£270) per month\n\nCyber-security specialist Rik Ferguson, vice-president of security at Forescout, said the incident was a cautionary tale as, even though the company's IT team initially found a way to fend them off, the hackers were still able to find a way to inflict damage.\n\n\"The hackers' change of tactic seems born out of vindictive frustration,\" he said. \"They couldn't make money so they lashed out, and that absolutely betrays the fact that we are not talking about 'professional' cybercriminals here.\"\n\nIHG says customer-facing systems are returning to normal but that services may remain intermittent.\n\nThe hackers are showing no remorse about the disruption they have caused the company and its customers.\n\n\"We don't feel guilty, really. We prefer to have a legal job here in Vietnam but the wage is average $300 per month. I'm sure our hack won't hurt the company a lot.\"\n\nThe hackers say no customer data was stolen but they do have some corporate data, including email records.\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\nTeaPea say they gained access to IHG's internal IT network by tricking an employee into downloading a malicious piece of software through a booby-trapped email attachment.\n\nThey also had to bypass an additional security prompt message sent to the worker's devices as part of a two-factor authentication system.\n\nQwerty1234 is a popular password because it comprises the first six letters and the first four numbers of an English keyboard\n\nThe criminals then say they accessed the most sensitive parts of IHG's computer system after finding login details for the company's internal password vault.\n\n\"The username and password to the vault was available to all employees, so 200,000 staff could see. And the password was extremely weak,\" they told the BBC.\n\nSurprisingly, the password was Qwerty1234, which regularly appears on lists of most commonly used passwords worldwide.\n\n\"Sensitive data should only be available to employees who need access to that data to do their job, and they should have the minimum level of access [needed] to use that data,\" said Mr Ferguson, after seeing the screenshots.\n\n\"Even a highly complex password is just as insecure as a simple one if it is left exposed.\"\n\nAn IHG spokeswoman disputed that the password vault details were not secure, saying that the attacker had to evade \"multiple layers of security\", but would not give details about the extra security.\n\n\"IHG employs a defence-in-depth strategy to information security that leverages many modern security solutions,\" she added.", "Dignitaries from around the world are travelling to London ahead of Monday's funeral\n\nChinese leaders will be invited to attend the Queen's lying-in-state, the UK Parliament has now confirmed.\n\nThis is despite some MPs saying they were assured this week by the Commons Speaker that a Chinese delegation would not be welcome in Westminster Hall, sources told the BBC.\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK is barred from Parliament over Chinese sanctions on five MPs and two peers.\n\nThat ban will stay in place but will not be extended to other officials.\n\nSome MPs sanctioned by China then indicated that they had been assured by the Commons Speaker that a Chinese delegation would not be given access to Westminster Hall.\n\nOn Friday, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, believing the ambassadorial ban had been extended to all representatives of the Chinese state, said he would like to \"applaud\" Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.\n\n\"He's standing firm, and I think the government should have stood firm as well,\" he told BBC News.\n\nSir Ian was one of five MPs placed under Chinese sanctions last year for accusing Beijing of mistreating Uyghur Muslims.\n\nSir Iain and other senior parliamentarians have been urging Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to withdraw the invitation extended to the Chinese government to attend the Queen's funeral.\n\nAsked if the Chinese delegation would in fact be banned from Westminster Hall, a Parliamentary spokesperson said: \"The head of states (or their representatives) who have been invited to attend the state funeral in Westminster Abbey are also invited to attend the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall.\"\n\nSir Lindsay has declined to comment on access to Westminster Hall, telling the BBC on Friday: \"It's better I don't comment because everything has security implications. It would be wrong of me to do so.\"\n\nControl of Westminster Hall is shared between the Lord Great Chamberlain - who is appointed by the monarch - and the speakers of both the Commons and the Lords.\n\nIt is not the sole jurisdiction of the Commons Speaker, particularly when Buckingham Palace and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office are involved, as they are during major state occasions.\n\nLast year, China imposed travel bans and asset freezes on nine Britons - including the seven parliamentarians.\n\nThat led to China's ambassador being banned from Parliament by Sir Lindsay and House of Lords Speaker Lord McFall.\n\nQueen Elizabeth will lie in state in Westminster Hall until she is buried on Monday.\n\nAccording to convention, all countries with which the UK has diplomatic relations should be invited to state funerals.\n\nSyria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Russia and Belarus have not been invited - whilst Iran, North Korea and Nicaragua have been asked to only send a senior diplomat.\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping is on the guest list for the funeral ceremony but is not thought likely to attend.\n\nA Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday that no decision had been made on whether they will be sending a delegation, although press reports have suggested China's vice president will attend.", "The queue to see the Queen lying in state at Westminster Hall has reopened after entry was officially paused for seven hours, the government has said.\n\nBut mourners have been warned to expect waiting times of at least 19-and-a-half hours and cold overnight temperatures.\n\nDespite the official statement people told the BBC they had managed to join the queue throughout the day.\n\nThe line is now about five miles (8km) long, stretching to Southwark Park in south-east London.\n\nThousands have paid their respects to the Queen, who is lying in state at Westminster until 06:30 BST on Monday.\n\nA separate queue for people with accessibility needs has been paused until midday on Saturday, the government said.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) had said entrance to the main queue had been paused around 10:00 this morning after it had grown on Thursday and overnight into Friday.\n\nHowever, people locally said the park and entrance to the line were only closed for around 30 minutes, with another queue then forming outside the park before the gates were soon reopened.\n\nAt 17:05 the government announced that entry to the queue, at Southwark Park, had been resumed.\n\nThe government has said entry could be closed again should capacity be reached once more.\n\nRegular updates are being published on Twitter, with a live queue tracker also available on YouTube.\n\nThe Met Office has said overnight temperatures were expected to be as low as 8C (46F) and the government has said warm clothing is recommended.\n\nOn Friday evening all entry slots had been allocated for the queue for people with accessibility needs, the DCMS said.\n\n\"For everyone's comfort, please do not attempt to join the accessible queue before midday tomorrow,\" the department said.\n\nEarlier, Andrea, who is disabled and joined the queue with her mother, told BBC Radio 5 Live they had been abruptly told to \"go home because we're not going to let anybody else through\".\n\n\"We tried to speak to some of the stewards, and they were very nice but they just kept repeating the mantra that we had to return home and that they weren't going to let anybody else come in to get a timed slot,\" she said - adding she thought people had joined the line for people with accessibility needs after the closure of the main queue.\n\n\"I find it a bit ironic that the main queue is allowed to go on, it's just been temporarily suspended, but we've been told to go home and come back the next day - when we're disabled,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen Elizabeth II: The six mile queue to see the Queen lying in state\n\nThe queue follows the south bank of the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster, through Lambeth, Southwark, and into Bermondsey.\n\nOne of those who did manage to make it onto it was former England footballer David Beckham who told the BBC he had waited for more than 12 hours to \"celebrate the amazing life of our Queen\".\n\nHe shared doughnuts and crisps with fellow mourners and posed for photographs while waiting in line, before bowing before the Queen's coffin once he had entered the hall.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it had treated 435 members of the public along the queue route over the past two days, with 42 of those requiring hospital treatment.\n\nThe majority of incidents were faints and collapses resulting in head injuries, the service said.\n\nMeanwhile, a man has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court after two women were allegedly sexually assaulted in the queue to attend the Queen's lying-in-state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queue for the Queen worth 'the pain and anxieties'\n\nAre you unable to join the queue to pay your respects to the Queen? 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.", "Health experts are reporting a surge in dengue, malaria and severe gastric infections\n\nRecent flooding in Pakistan \"completely crushed\" homes and left people digging for possessions buried several feet deep, an aid volunteer has said.\n\nWaqar Hussain, from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, travelled to the country with charity organisation Action For Humanity.\n\nHe visited a village in the Dera Ismail Khan district and said: \"It was like there was no happiness in the village.\"\n\nAround 33 million people have been affected by the flash flooding.\n\nIt came in the Monsoon season over the last month which has left almost 1,400 people dead and millions homeless.\n\nPakistan's National Disaster Management Agency said that included more than 400 children, with at least $10bn (£8.5bn) of damage has been caused.\n\nIt has had a devastating impact on the communities in the Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.\n\nMr Hussain, who is one of several British people to travel to Pakistan to help, said around 90% of the homes in the village he visited had been \"significantly destroyed\".\n\n\"This same area was affected by the last floods in 2010, but this one was three times as worse,\" he added.\n\nHe said people need food, water buckets, kitchen equipment and mosquito nets, plus other essentials.\n\nPakistan has declared a state of emergency as health officials warn of a looming health crisis\n\nHaris Saleem, chairman of Worcester Muslim Welfare Association, which has been raising money to help survivors, said the situation was only getting worse.\n\nThe country has declared a state of emergency as health officials warn of a looming health crisis. with cases of dengue fever and gastric infections rising.\n\n\"The situation in Pakistan is still very bad, after the floods have all gone, diseases will be present due to a lack of clean drinking water,\" Mr Saleem said.\n\n\"These people have lost absolutely everything, it's a very difficult and hard time for them.\"\n\nThe association was accepting donations online for those directly affected, he said.\n\n\"We've already raised £15,000 online in two weeks, but we're hoping people will continue donating financially until things settle down,\" Mr Saleem added.\n\nOther organisations in the local area are calling for donations of clothing and food.\n\nCharities are trying to help those affected in the country\n\nOther organisations in the local area are calling for donations of clothing and food.\n\nImran Hameed, who runs Bearded Broz, a community group running a 24-hour food emergency food bank in Smethwick, said the poorest people had been affected.\n\n\"The floods have hit the very vulnerable,\" he said.\n\n\"These are not rich people, these are poor people who have lost everything in their lives.\n\n\"I spoke to someone who has lost two goats - to them this is the bread and butter of their entire livelihoods and how they feed their family,\"\n\nMr Hameed said his organisation had already received a number of clothing donations over the past month, but people still needed food and more temporary shelter, such as tents and sleeping bags.\n\n\"People are already doing a lot, but a lot more needs to be done,\" he added.\n\n\"We need to see some long-term action,\" he said.\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.", "A still from a video released by Kyrgyz border guards, which they said showed fighting on the border\n\nAlmost 30 people have been reported killed and dozens injured in clashes on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.\n\nFighting regularly flares up between the two former Soviet states, whose border has been disputed since the collapse of the USSR.\n\nA fresh skirmish which began earlier in the week continued on Friday, despite the two countries agreeing a ceasefire.\n\nBoth sides blame the other for beginning the violence and breaching the ceasefire.\n\nSome 24 people in Kyrgyzstan have so far been killed, the Kyrgyz health ministry said on Friday.\n\nEarlier reports from Tajikistan said at least three people had been killed there.\n\nAlmost 20,000 people have fled their homes to avoid the violence, a regional branch of the Red Cross reported.\n\nThe conflict has renewed fears of an all-out war between the two countries.\n\nThe dispute flared up on Wednesday with at least two people killed in three separate incidents.\n\nKyrgyz border guards accused Tajikistan of taking positions on part of the border that has not been demarcated, while Tajikistan said Kyrgyz guards had opened fire without provocation.\n\nThe countries share a 1,000-km (600-mile) border, more than a third of which is disputed.\n\nRussia - which has close ties with both countries - has offered to mediate, calling for \"urgent\" measures to stop the violence on Friday.\n\nA ceasefire took effect from 16:00 local time (10:00 GMT), but Kyrgyzstan said two of its villages were later shelled.\n\nIt accused its neighbour of using tanks and armoured personnel carriers.\n\nIn turn, Tajikistan accused Kyrgyz forces of shelling an outpost and seven villages with \"heavy weaponry\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Queen's grandchildren take part in the historic vigil\n\nThe Queen's eight grandchildren, including the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, have stood vigil around her coffin as she lies in state at Westminster Hall.\n\nAt King Charles's request, Prince Harry wore military uniform, for the first time since 2020.\n\nPrince Harry has worn civilian clothes at public events since the Queen died.\n\nIt is the first time in history that the grandchildren of a monarch have taken part in the ceremony.\n\nThe King's sons William and Harry were joined by Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall, the children of Princess Anne, as well as Prince Andrew's daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, and Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, who are Prince Edward's children.\n\nAt 44, Peter Philips is the oldest of the Queen's grandchildren, while the youngest, James, Viscount Severn, is 14.\n\nIn silence and with their heads bowed, the eight cousins stood at different points around the coffin as crowds continued to file past.\n\nPrince William stood at the head of the Queen's coffin with his brother at the opposite end.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex, the parents of Louise and James, looked on from a platform facing the coffin.\n\nThe grandchildren's vigil started at 18:01 BST and lasted for just under 15 minutes.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Queen's children, including the King, took part in a similar vigil, standing guard for about 10 minutes.\n\nAhead of the vigil, Beatrice and Eugenie paid tribute to their \"dear Grannie\", saying: \"It has been the honour of our lives to have been your granddaughters and we're so very proud of you.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, they said the Queen was \"our matriarch, our guide, our loving hand on our backs leading us through this world\" and that they already miss her \"terribly\".\n\nThey went on: \"Thank you for making us laugh, for including us, for picking heather and raspberries, for marching soldiers, for our teas, for comfort, for joy.\n\n\"You, being you, will never know the impact you have had on our family and so many people around the world.\n\n\"The world mourns you and the tributes would really make you smile. They are all too true of the remarkable leader you are.\"\n\nThe pair told the Queen they were \"so happy you're back with Grandpa\" and added that \"our dear Uncle Charles, the King, will continue to lead in your example as he too has dedicated his life to service\".\n\nThis was another poignant image, mixing the grandeur of a public ceremony with the intimacy of personal family memories. The Queen's grandchildren were standing vigil around her coffin, with the queue of people flowing either side of them.\n\nThe people who had queued for many hours, bringing their own memories, shared the big silence of Westminster Hall with the royal grandchildren.\n\nPrince Harry wore a Blues and Royals uniform and wearing the same uniform, on the other side of the coffin, was his brother Prince William.\n\nPrincess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie took their place in the vigil. In a tribute this afternoon they'd talked of the loss of \"our dearest grannie\".\n\nWith the tap-tap-tap of a soldier's sword on the stone, time was up. They finished their vigil and followed Prince William back out of the hall.\n\nThe vigil on Saturday was the first time Prince Harry had been seen in military uniform since stepping back as a working royal in 2020.\n\nHe served two tours in Afghanistan as part of the Army. He now lives in California with his wife Meghan and their two children.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex was wearing the Blues and Royals No 1 uniform, the same uniform as his brother.\n\nPrince William has completed more than seven years of full-time military service, including three-and-a-half years as a search and rescue pilot.\n\nPrince Harry stood at the opposite end of the coffin to his brother, the Prince of Wales\n\nPrince Andrew was also allowed to wear his military uniform as he stood guard on Friday. The 62-year-old stepped down as a working royal in 2019, after facing questions over his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe prince was later stripped of his military titles.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Prince William and his father King Charles went to Lambeth, south London to shake hands and greet people queuing to view the Queen lying in state.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex conducted their own walkabout outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall until her funeral on Monday.\n\nThe queue to see the coffin stretches as far as Southwark Park and has previously seen wait times of over 24 hours. Officials have warned that the queue will be closed before 06:30 BST on Monday, so that people do not join the line and fail to reach Westminster Hall in time.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, organisers announced that the accessible queue has reached full capacity, with all time slots now allocated.", "Queen Elizabeth II's historic handshake with former IRA leader Martin McGuinness in Belfast on 27 June 2012\n\nWithin hours of the Queen's death, the warning went out from Sinn Féin headquarters.\n\nAn email reminded activists of party policy on social media posts.\n\nIt said it was important to be \"respectful\" and \"avoid using any form of personal abuse\" when engaging in social media.\n\nThere was no mention of the Queen's passing, but the message was delivered loud and clear.\n\nThose tempted to post or like messages mocking the Queen's death were told to think again.\n\nThat message was backed up by a post from the Andersonstown News, which reminded republicans the Queen bowed her head to dead IRA men and women.\n\n\"Maybe it is worth counting to 10 before hitting the tweet button tonight,\" the post read.\n\nBut despite their best efforts, those beyond the reach or influence of such messages let loose.\n\nBe it offensive chanting from fans at a Dublin soccer match or a cavalcade through a republican housing estate, the opportunity to gloat at the Queen's passing was too tempting to pass up.\n\nThe posts were shared and liked but they were also criticised by those who view the new relationship between the Royals and republicans in a different light.\n\nA transformation was triggered by the Queen on her visit to the Republic in 2011, a visit boycotted by Sinn Féin.\n\nSinn Féin Leader Michelle O'Neill signs a book of condolence for the Queen at Belfast City Hall\n\nBut since then, republicans have built on that moment with Martin McGuinness's multiple meetings and handshakes with the Queen.\n\nHis successor, Michelle O'Neill, typified the new relationship when, dressed in black, she reflected on the Queen's contribution to peace and reconciliation.\n\nShe also led the tributes to the Queen in the assembly chamber yesterday describing the late monarch as \"courageous and gracious\".\n\nLater in the book of condolence Ms O'Neill wrote: \"Deepest sympathies on this sad occasion. Thank you for advancing peace and reconciliation between our islands. First Minister-elect, Michelle O'Neill MLA.\"\n\nA Sinn Féin delegation will join the King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, at a special service marking the Queen's passing at St Anne's Cathedral later today.\n\nBut Sinn Féin will not be taking part in any events marking King Charles' accession to the throne.\n\nThat is where republicans draw the line.\n\nThose events are, says Sinn Féin, only for those who have an allegiance to the crown.\n\nThe fact the party has to remind the public where the boundaries are, reflects how far its relationship with the Royals has travelled.\n\nKing Charles, who was then Prince Charles, shakes hands with then Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in Galway in 2015\n\nThere is, according to party President Mary Lou McDonald, an open line of communication.\n\nKing Charles wrote what Mary Lou McDonald described as a \"lovely letter\" when she was recovering from Covid.\n\nShe wrote to the then Prince Charles and Queen to expresses her condolences at the passing of Prince Phillip.\n\nThe expected attendance of the Sinn Féin president, or vice president at the Queen's funeral next week in London, will further cement that relationship.\n\nBut beyond the handshakes, what political purpose does it serve?\n\nDoes it show Sinn Féin as the party ready for government in the Republic?\n\nNo more royal boycotts but instead a maturing relationship with the monarchy.\n\nIt may also prove to be a mood changer in the Stormont stalemate.\n\nBut don't expect Sinn Féin's new-found respect for royalty to be a political game changer.\n\nOnce the week of royal protocol is over, another protocol will be back at the heart of politics and parties will return to their trenches.", "Thousands of people have been queuing along the banks of the River Thames to view the Queen's coffin as she lies in state in London's Westminster Hall.\n\nQueues have been building since Wednesday morning, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to pay their respects before her funeral on Monday.\n\nA line of mourners hoping to view the coffin is snaking for around five miles from Westminster across Lambeth Bridge and along the river to Southwark Park. Some have queued for hours, sometimes overnight, in all weathers for a chance to pay their respects.\n\nWestminster Hall opened its doors to the public on Wednesday after a grand procession brought the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace. The lying-in-state will continue until 06:30 BST on Monday, the day of the state funeral. The government has warned people could face 30-hour waits to get in.\n\nThey will walk by the Queen's closed coffin, which rests on a raised platform, known as a catafalque, beneath the 11th Century hall's medieval timber roof.\n\nEach corner of the platform is being guarded in a continuous vigil by soldiers from units that serve the Royal Household.\n\nThe coffin is draped in the Royal Standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown, a wreath of white roses and dahlias and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre.\n\nThe grand hall is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, at the heart of British government.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nThe BBC has a dedicated live stream for those unable to travel to London. The service is available in the UK on the BBC home page, the BBC News website and app, iPlayer, BBC Parliament and the red-button. It is also available internationally via bbc.com/news.\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds of mourners packed the streets between Buckingham Palace and Westminster for the slow ceremonial procession to carry the coffin to the hall.\n\nIn the bright sunshine that followed the rain, the coffin made its way through the heart of the capital borne on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by seven black horses.\n\nA huge 18 hands-tall (183cm) veteran horse named Lord Firebrand, ridden by Capt Amy Cooper, led the procession and set the pace.\n\nThe gun carriage, known as the George Gun Carriage, carried King George VI's coffin in 1952 and was used in the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.\n\nTo the sound of funeral marches played by the Scots Guards and the Grenadier Guards, the procession stepped off at a slow pace of 75 steps per minute - a tempo typically reserved for such sombre occasions.\n\nKing Charles III, wearing full ceremonial uniform, followed behind the coffin on foot, accompanied by his siblings as well as his sons, Prince William, dressed in his Royal Air Force uniform, and Prince Harry in a morning suit.\n\nThe King and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, were among those following the coffin\n\nThe sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, evoked poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral 25 years ago, said royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.\n\nUp to 1,000 members of the armed forces in ceremonial dress took part in events surrounding the parade.\n\nBehind mounted Metropolitan Police, the procession was headed by the Household Cavalry and the Grenadier and Scots Guards. They were followed, just ahead of the Queen's coffin, by members of the Royal Household, those working closely with the Queen.\n\nFollowing the King and other royals behind the coffin and bringing up the rear of the procession were members of the King's former household, when he was known as the Prince of Wales.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex travelled to the hall by car.\n\nGuns were being fired from Hyde Park at one-minute intervals throughout the procession. Big Ben also tolled.\n\nAs her coffin passed by some in the crowd burst into tears, BBC correspondent Nick Beake said. Others made the sign of the cross, army veterans saluted their former commander-in-chief - while families embraced, he added.\n• None Procession for the Lying-in-State of Her Majesty The Queen - Gov.uk The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people watched the Queen's coffin on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh\n\nIn the heart of Edinburgh this week we witnessed an ancient ritual in the modern age.\n\nAs the Queen's cortege made its way up the Royal Mile from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral, the streets were a sea of smartphones.\n\nIt was a vivid reminder that this nation changed beyond measure in the time of Elizabeth, a monarch whose affection for Scotland was, in her own words, deep and abiding.\n\nDescended from Stewart kings and Scottish aristocracy, Elizabeth's roots here ran deep.\n\nFrom childhood summers at her mother's ancestral home, Glamis Castle in Angus, to formal duties at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, she spent a great deal of her long life in Scotland.\n\nThe future Queen (right) at Glamis Castle in the early 1930s, with her mother and sister Margaret\n\nStaff on the Balmoral estate recall a woman with a love of horses, hunting and hurtling around in Land Rovers.\n\nHistorian Prof Sir Tom Devine says the late monarch showed respect for Scotland as a nation and many Scots, in return, showed respect for the Crown.\n\nThe long queues and lengthy waits to view the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh's St Giles' Cathedral, and the huge crowds her cortege drew in as it travelled from Balmoral Castle, underline that affection.\n\nSir Tom says the late Queen's clear \"love of the land\" - a blood relationship running all the way back to the 14th century King Robert the Bruce - and her evident pride in being \"Queen of Scots as well as Queen of the UK\", helped to sustain support for Elizabeth in her lifetime.\n\nAt times though there were complications.\n\nWithin weeks of the coronation in 1953, the newly-enthroned monarch and her husband arrived in the Scottish capital where 30,000 people packed into Murrayfield stadium.\n\nAlthough the welcome was warm, her title - Elizabeth II - left some cold. She was in fact the first Elizabeth to rule Scotland.\n\nIt was only on the death of Elizabeth I in 1603 that the crowns of Scotland and England had been united.\n\nKing Charles, the Princess Royal, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward held a vigil at St Giles' Cathedral on Monday evening\n\nThe Tudor queen was succeeded by the first Stuart monarch who was styled James I of England and James VI of Scotland.\n\nAnd so when the young princess became Elizabeth II on the death of her father there was slightly unusual trouble.\n\nPost-boxes in Scotland bearing the inscription EIIR were vandalised, even blown up, until the Royal Mail switched the design to a crown emblem instead.\n\nIt was an early hint of constitutional tension which would resurface a quarter of a century later.\n\nThe UK monarch is supposed to be politically neutral which made the Queen's 1977 silver jubilee address to MPs and peers in London's Westminster Hall controversial, even shocking to some.\n\nHint of constitutional tension resurfaced during the Queen's silver jubilee\n\nThe issue of the day was Labour's plan to devolve power to Scotland and Wales.\n\nPerceptively perhaps the Queen spoke of a growing \"awareness of historic national identities in these islands\", which she described as driving discussion about devolution.\n\n\"I number Kings and Queens of England and of Scotland, and Princes of Wales among my ancestors and so I can readily understand these aspirations...\" she explained.\n\nThen came the controversial caveat: \"...but I cannot forget that I was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Perhaps this jubilee is a time to remind ourselves of the benefits which union has conferred, at home and in our international dealings, on the inhabitants of all parts of this United Kingdom.\"\n\nSir Tom Devine says: \"I think it's almost certain that she must have been a unionist, emotionally.\"\n\nHe describes the Queen as probably \"the most significant and influential British monarch since the union of 1707\" when Scotland and England's parliaments were united to form Great Britain.\n\nOpinion polls often suggested that Elizabeth was more popular than the institution she led.\n\nKing Charles III and the Queen Consort during a visit to the Scottish Parliament\n\nNow under King Charles III, argues Sir Tom, it is \"almost inevitable\" that Scotland's relationship with the monarchy will change.\n\nThe new king, he says, \"will have the hardest of hard tasks to follow the Queen\".\n\nThe polling expert and professor of politics at Strathclyde University, Sir John Curtice, says polling conducted before her death indicated a clear majority in England and Wales would choose retaining the monarchy over setting up a republic.\n\nIn Scotland, however, while monarchy was still the preferred option of the two, support for it was below 50%.\n\nThe institution could not be described as unpopular north of the border, says Sir John, but it is \"definitely less popular in Scotland\" than it is in England.\n\nThat, combined with a feeling that the constitution may now be in flux, must surely be a concern for King Charles.\n\nPerhaps he will follow the example of his mother who demonstrated flexibility when faced with public support for political change.\n\nThe Queen arrives to open the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1999\n\nBy the end of the century the devolved Scottish Parliament which Labour had failed to secure in the late 1970s had become a reality and this time the monarch enthusiastically embraced it.\n\nAs she inaugurated the new institution in 1999 she spoke with warmth and affection in praise of the national character of the Scots, a people with whom she made clear she strongly identified.\n\nBy now it was obvious that the revival of separate national identities which the Queen had discerned in her realm two decades earlier was transforming politics.\n\nWithin eight years of devolving powers over many domestic policy areas to the new parliament and executive in Edinburgh, the nation entered a period of Scottish National Party hegemony, Scottish Labour began to wander into the political wilderness, and a date was fixed for a referendum on independence - 18 September 2014.\n\nThe monarch was hosting Tory prime minister David Cameron at Balmoral less than two weeks before the vote when a poll in the Sunday Times suggested Scotland was on the brink of seceding from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was apparently an awkward meal.\n\nThe Queen with former prime minister David Cameron\n\nA week later, just days before polling stations opened to consider the question \"Should Scotland be an independent country?\", the Queen was reported to have told an onlooker at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral: \"Well, I hope people will think very carefully about the future.\"\n\nThe Palace denied the comment was political but those denials were later undermined by Mr Cameron in a BBC documentary when he recalled feeling a \"mounting sense of panic\" on seeing the poll.\n\nThe former PM admitted that he then asked Buckingham Palace for \"just a raising of the eyebrow even...a quarter of an inch,\" because he and his team believed the Queen could \"make a difference\".\n\nIf she did, the SNP leadership was careful not to blame her. In fact it was a mark of her relative popularity in Scotland, at least in comparison to the monarchy as an institution, that the party abandoned, or at least played down, republican tendencies.\n\nThe SNP plan for an independent Scotland set out before the referendum involved retaining the British monarch as head of state. It still does. It's a position which appears to be aimed more at winning over supporters of other parties to the nationalist cause than keeping its own voters happy.\n\nA Lion Rampant and a Saltire are carried into St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh ahead of the thanksgiving service for Queen Elizabeth\n\nAs Prof Ailsa Henderson, of Edinburgh University, points out support for the monarchy in Scotland varies depending on voting preferences.\n\nAmong Conservatives support is in the high 70s in percentage terms, for Labour and Liberal Democrat voters it is in the 60s, and for SNP supporters it is \"much lower\" - in the high 20s.\n\n\"There's a distinction between what the party leadership has said and what supporters of independence actually want and there you find more tepid support for the monarchy,\" she explains.\n\nBut even some republicans, such as the former deputy leader of the SNP, Jim Sillars, are comfortable with the party's position on the topic.\n\nDoes Charles's accession to the throne affect the constitutional debate in Scotland?\n\n\"Not one bit,\" says Mr Sillars.\n\nEconomic difficulties and political divergence with England are the key factors, he argues, adding \"no disrespect to the new King but he's irrelevant in the constitutional issue\".\n\n\"My advice to the independence movement is put that aside, that is not the most relevant matter that faces us at the present time,\" he adds.\n\nKing Charles sits with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during an audience at the Palace of Holyroodhouse\n\nBut if the United Kingdom as we know it is to be preserved, argues Sir Tom Devine, who has previously expressed support for independence himself, then the sovereign does have a role to play.\n\n\"The monarch will obviously want to try to maintain what has been there for centuries,\" he argues.\n\nThat may be harder after the death of the Queen, a moment which represents the unravelling of one thread which bound the nation together.\n\nIn many ways Elizabeth embodied stability and national unity, both in her wartime service and survival of the Blitz, and in her link to a shared - and controversial - imperial enterprise which many Scots enthusiastically joined or supported.\n\nIn the decade of her birth, her grandfather King George V still ruled over the widest empire the world had ever known, an empire on which it was said the sun never set.\n\nNearly a century later she dies in a time of uncertainty about the UK's future relationship with Europe and the wider world and amid enormous economic and social turmoil.\n\nAll around us there are reminders of the changes the nation underwent in the Elizabethan Age, and reminders too that as King Charles III ascends to the throne, it is changing still.", "Will King Charles III turn his back on a lifetime of environmental campaigning?\n\nAs Prince of Wales he spent decades campaigning, cajoling, and convening meetings to drive action on environmental issues.\n\nAs king he is subject to different rules - the monarch is obliged to remain politically neutral.\n\nBut his friends and advisers say he will not cool on the issue of global warming.\n\nMight urging action on key global issues like climate change or biodiversity loss be part of what a modern monarchy looks like?\n\nKing Charles' interests have ranged from tropical forests to the ocean depths, from sustainable farming practices to water security. They began long before such concerns became mainstream.\n\nWithin months of his investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969, the 20-year-old Prince Charles wrote to Prime Minister Harold Wilson worried about the decline of salmon stocks in Scottish rivers. \"People are notoriously short-sighted when it comes to questions of wildlife,\" he complained.\n\nIncreasingly he has focused on tackling global warming, which he regards as one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced. He was a major presence at the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow last year, urging world leaders to work together to save the planet during a speech at the opening ceremony.\n\nWhen I interviewed him ahead of COP26 he told me \"It has taken far too long\" for the world to respond to the risks of climate change. I pointed out world leaders would soon be gathering to talk about the climate crisis, he responded: \"But they just talk, the problem is to get action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III interviewed by BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt last year: \"People should really notice how despairing some young people are\" about climate change.\n\nHe even said he understood why some people felt motivated to take to the streets with organisations like Extinction Rebellion, noting \"people should really notice how despairing so many young people are\".\n\nAs for the risk of not taking action, he was very clear: \"It will be a disaster. It will be catastrophic. It is already beginning to be catastrophic because nothing in nature can survive the stress that is created by these extremes of weather.\"\n\nThe veteran green campaigner Tony Juniper rates the new king as \"possibly the most significant environmental figure of all time\". Chairman of Natural England and a long-term adviser to Charles, Mr Juniper has spoken of the \"incredible depth\" of his knowledge and the \"absolutely enormous\" impact he has had.\n\nThe question is whether as king, Charles, will be so outspoken on this or any other issue.\n\n\"Everything we know about how he has thought about his accession, tells us he will be absolutely clear about his constitutional duties,\" says Jonathan Porritt, former head of Friends of the Earth and an ex-adviser to the new king.\n\nKing Charles has said as much himself. When asked in an interview in 2018 whether he would be a \"meddling\" king he replied \"I am not that stupid\" and referred to suggestions he would continue to lobby parliamentarians as \"nonsense\".\n\nWhen I asked him last year whether he thought the government of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson was doing enough to tackle the climate issue, he laughed. \"I couldn't possibly comment.\"\n\nAnd, last week, the new king acknowledged it would \"not be possible for me to give as much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply\".\n\nBut his passion for environmental issues will not suddenly evaporate. Much of his work had already taken place away from the glare of publicity.\n\n\"The King is a convener, connecting people and organisations in ways that open up possibilities and create solutions,\" says his former press secretary, Julian Payne. Charles would invite \"the best brains and the most experienced people and listen to their ideas and advice\".\n\n\"I suspect it is a modus operandi that will continue as he takes on this new role,\" says Mr Payne..\n\nCharles's approach to problem-solving has led to some unexpected initiatives. Look how he worked to engage the accountancy profession in tackling climate change, says Mr Porritt.\n\nHe recognised the world would need ways of calculating emissions and judging the progress of companies, says Mr Porritt. And, in 2004, he set up the Accounting for Sustainability Project, to attempt to begin to work out how that might be done.\n\nIn recent years he has worked to encourage the business community to help lead action on climate change. More than 500 chief executives - including the heads of some of the biggest financial institutions and businesses in the world - are now part of his Sustainable Markets Initiative.\n\nThey are described as a as a \"coalition of the willing\" and have signed up to his \"Terra Carta\" pledges, agreeing to \"rapidly accelerate the transition towards a sustainable future\".\n\n\"We need a vast military-style campaign to marshal the strength of the global private sector,\" Charles said when he opened COP26.\n\nOne senior British politician told me he could imagine Charles making a similar speech as king. \"You won't hear him expressing a view on fracking,\" he said, \"but I can imagine him making a speech on the need to take more urgent action on climate.\"\n\nUS Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry hopes King Charles will still press for action on climate\n\nUS President Joe Biden's climate envoy, John Kerry, agrees. He has said he hopes Charles will continue to press for action on climate.\n\n\"It is a universal issue, it is not ideology,\" Mr Kerry told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, \"It's about the survival of the planet. I can't imagine him not wanting to [press for action on climate] and feeling compelled to use the important role as the monarch and urge the world to do the things the world needs to do.\"\n\nTackling climate change is, after all, an obligation on governments that is enshrined in UK law.\n\nThe Climate Change Act requires the government reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\nAll the main parties agree it is an important priority. Prime Minister Liz Truss has already said her government will \"double down\" on reaching the target.\n\nSo, here's a question King Charles III will have already considered: how controversial is it for a British monarch to express general support for something that is already enshrined in law.\n• None What kind of king will Charles be?", "Queen Elizabeth II made a \"huge difference in changing attitudes and building relationships\" in Northern Ireland, Stormont Speaker Alex Maskey has said.\n\nThe Sinn Féin politician paid tribute to her as he offered a message of condolence to Charles III on the new monarch's first visit to Northern Ireland as King.\n\nRead more: Charles III says Queen prayed for Northern Ireland", "Twitter's shareholders have voted to approve a deal with Elon Musk to buy the company for $44bn (£38bn).\n\nThe decision was made in a short conference call with investors from the company's San Francisco headquarters.\n\nIt means Twitter will now try to force Elon Musk to buy the company in the courts.\n\nThe meeting followed explosive testimony from Twitter's former head of security Peiter Zatko in front of the US Senate.\n\nIn April, Twitter agreed to sell the company to the world's richest person, Elon Musk.\n\nHowever, the deal soured after Mr Musk alleged he was misled by Twitter about the number of spam and bot accounts on the platform.\n\nHe said he no longer wished to purchase the company in May, but Twitter argues that Mr Musk cannot back out of the deal.\n\nThe social media platform says that fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users (those who are able to look at adverts) are bots. Mr Musk argues it could be many times higher.\n\nTwitter is currently valued at $32bn, considerably below the $44bn offer from Mr Musk.\n\nToday's vote could have spelled the end of Twitter's legal pursuit, but shareholders have now given the company the green light to pursue Mr Musk in court.\n\nThe two are set to meet in front of a Delaware state court in October. During the hearing a judge will decide whether or not Mr Musk has to buy the company.\n\nJust before the shareholder decision, Twitter whistle-blower Pieter Zatko was in Washington testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about alleged security flaws.\n\nHe told US lawmakers the firm was \"misleading the public\" about how secure the platform is.\n\nThe firm's former head of security went on to say that Twitter was \"a decade behind\" security standards. Twitter says Mr Zatko was fired from his job, and that the claims are inaccurate.\n\nMr Zatko has previously supported Elon Musk's claim that the platform has more spam and fake accounts than it has admitted - though he didn't elaborate on this on Tuesday.\n\nLast week, a judge said that Mr Musk's lawyers would be allowed to use the Twitter whistle-blower's testimony in court.\n\nIt largely focussed on national security issues - and is not officially connected with Mr Musk's attempt to pull out of the deal to buy Twitter.", "Google is facing two legal cases which could result in the tech giant paying out damages of up to €25bn (£19.5bn) over its digital advertising practices.\n\nThe company is accused of anti-competitive conduct, and of abusing its dominant place in the ad tech market.\n\nSeparate legal cases, in the UK and in the Netherlands, are being filed in the coming weeks on behalf of publishers seeking \"compensation\" from Google.\n\nGoogle has recently drawn scrutiny from anti-trust regulators after complaints.\n\nAd tech powers the online adverts that people see on their smartphones or when using the web. Google is the largest, and most important, ad tech vendor - with a market share reaching over 90%.\n\nSelling digital advertising space has become a valuable source of income for publishers including global news websites, as well as smaller operators, such as independent bloggers - all of whom agree to carry advertising on their sites for a fee.\n\nThe European Commission and its UK equivalent are investigating whether Google's dominance in the ad tech business gives it an unfair advantage over rivals and advertisers.\n\nThe French competition watchdog imposed a €220m fine on the company last year.\n\nJohnny Ryan, from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, told the BBC: \"Google is under pressure on two big issues - one is anti-trust and the other is data protection.\"\n\nMr Ryan said more cases were coming to light as competition enforcers around the world \"increasingly put demands on Google\".\n\nBut he added \"the fines we have seen so far from competition authorities have had absolutely no consequence whatsoever\".\n\nDamien Geradin, of the Belgian law firm Geradin Partners - which is involved in the Dutch case - said, \"Publishers, including local and national news media, who play a vital role in our society, have long been harmed by Google's anti-competitive conduct.\n\n\"It is time that Google owns up to its responsibilities and pays back the damages it has caused to this important industry.\n\n\"That is why today we are announcing these actions across two jurisdictions to obtain compensation for EU and UK publishers.\"\n\nThe British claim, at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, will seek to recover compensation for owners of websites carrying banner advertising.\n\nIf successful, this would mean a wide and diverse group could get compensation - from major media sites down to small and medium-sized businesses who produce their own online content.\n\nBusinesses which do not wish to be included in the legal action can opt out.\n\nUK law firm Humphries Kerstetter is planning to bring its case with Geradin Partners to the Tribunal next month, although the process could take years to reach a conclusion.\n\nToby Starr, of Humphries Kerstetter, told the BBC, it was important to bring the claim because of the reasonable expectation that the tech giant might change practices as a result.\n\nHe said the claim represented \"victims of Google's anti-competitive conduct in ad tech who have collectively lost an estimated £7 billion\".\n\n\"This includes news websites up and down the country with large daily readerships, as well as the thousands of small business-owners who depend on advertising revenue - be it from their fishing website, food blog, football fanzine or other online content [which] they have spent time creating and publishing.\"\n\nThe UK competition watchdog is also investigating Google's power in the digital advertising technology market.\n\nThe Dutch case is open to European publishers affected by Google's actions. Geradin Partners has teamed up with Dutch law firm Stek to bring the collective claim.\n\nJan Bart van de Hel, from Stek, said: \"Many publishers have suffered damages as result of Google's wrongful actions.\n\n\"It is important to take action against this, not only to make sure that the damages of the publishers are fully compensated, but also to make sure that Google's anti-competitive conduct is prevented for the future.\"\n\nUK litigation funder Harbour is funding both lawsuits. Harbour is a privately-owned company which pays legal costs upfront \"and helps manage the costs and risks of litigation\" in return for a pre-agreed share of the amount recovered if the legal action is successful.\n\nGoogle did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.", "Major shops and businesses across the UK shut their doors as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.\n\nKing Charles III approved a bank holiday on Monday for the state funeral at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt was up to employers to decide whether to give staff the day off to observe the national day of mourning.\n\nMany supermarkets and shop chains decided to close their doors, while others limited opening hours.\n\nHere's an at-a-glance guide to what was open and closed on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nIt is thought more than a million people travelled to London for the state funeral so some convenience stores stayed open to give them access to food and drink.\n\nJohn Lewis is among the stores that will close in order to mark the Queen's funeral\n\nDepartment stores Harrods, Selfridges, John Lewis and House of Fraser have shut their doors, while some shopping centres were showing the funeral on big screens.\n\nCenter Parcs backtracked on its plan to ask guests to leave on Monday after complaints from angry holidaymakers\n\nHoliday resort Center Parcs backtracked over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral. Guests have been allowed to stay but on-site facilities including restaurants are shut. Butlin's holiday resort stayed open on Monday, with some changes to arrival times. Some leisure operators decided to close their doors as a mark of respect.\n\nEastEnders fictional pub the Queen Vic played tribute to the Queen in a special scene\n\nSome of the UK's largest pub and restaurant chains stayed open as a place for communities to come together to remember the Queen.\n\nOther aspects of daily life have also been put on hold on the day of the state funeral.\n\nPost offices were closed after Royal Mail announced its services would be suspended. Some of the UK's biggest strikes by postal workers and rail staff have also been put on hold.\n\nMajor London train stations will be open and hundreds of extra train services have been scheduled with some running through the night.\n\nPharmacies such as Lloyds and Well Pharmacy were shut all day.\n\nSome funerals that were scheduled for Monday have been postponed, in some cases at the request of the bereaved families and others because cemeteries and crematoria are closed for the day.\n\nThe government advised on its website that the additional bank holiday \"will allow individuals, businesses and other organisations to pay their respects to Her Majesty and commemorate Her reign, while marking the final day of the period of national mourning\".\n\nAlthough it says that some businesses \"may wish to consider closing or postponing events\", there is no statutory entitlement to time off for workers.", "US rapper PnB Rock has been shot dead in an apparent robbery at a Los Angeles restaurant.\n\nThe musician, 30, was with his girlfriend when a gunman reportedly demanded jewellery before opening fire inside a waffle house in the south of the city.\n\nPolice found PnB with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead in hospital 45 minutes later.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made over Monday's shooting.\n\nLos Angeles Police Department Capt Kelly Muniz said a suspect approached a couple inside Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles and demanded they hand over personal items.\n\nShe told reporters at the scene this led to \"some sort of verbal exchange\" before the victim was shot several times and fell to the floor.\n\nThe suspect then \"removed items from the victim\", she said, before running to a waiting getaway car and fleeing the scene.\n\nUS media has said law enforcement sources confirmed the rapper was the target of the attack.\n\nTributes have since flooded in for PnB Rock - real name Rakim Hasheem Allen - who rose to fame with the release of his 2016 hit Selfish and had collaborated with artists including Ed Sheeran.\n\nSuperstar Drake posted a photo of the pair together on his Instagram story, and rapper Offset posted a Twitter tribute urging followers to pray for PnB's two children.\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\nOthers pointed out that the shooting follows the death of fellow rapper Pop Smoke - who was killed in a Hollywood Hills burglary last February.\n\nIt's been suggested his killers were able to find his address after he accidentally revealed it in a social media post.\n\nThe latest shooting has led to discussions about the safety of rappers, after it was suggested an Instagram photo of PnB and his partner may have revealed the pair's location.\n\nDJ Akademiks, who runs a popular hip-hop YouTube channel, said he had interviewed the rapper just a week ago about a previous attempt to rob 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. Skip twitter post 2 by DJ Akademiks 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\nNicki Minaj said Pop Smoke's death had taught rappers to be more cautious about their whereabouts.\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 Nicki Minaj 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\nMeanwhile Cardi B took a different view, and challenged people who had blamed PnB Rock's girlfriend Stephanie Sibounheuang for posting the photo.\n\nShe tweeted that it was \"highly unlikely\" that the suspects had tracked them online and that it was \"irresponsible and inconsiderate\" to blame Stephanie for \"something so tragic\".\n\nPnB Rock was born in Philadelphia in 1991, going on to record two studio albums, Catch These Vibes and Trapstar Turnt PopStar.\n\nHe released his most recent song, Luv Me Again, just two days before the shooting.\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.", "The Queen's four children have been carrying out the traditional Vigil of the Princes around the coffin of their late mother in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.\n\nThe symbolic move sees four people - in this case King Charles III, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward - position themselves at each side of the coffin to stand guard for a short time.\n\nThe Princess Royal's appearance has made her the first woman to be part of the vigil, which has until now been carried out by male-only members of the Royal Family.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh returned to the Forth Road Bridge 50 years after officially opening it\n\nQueen Elizabeth II left her beloved Balmoral for the final time on Sunday on a journey that stirred memories of her life of service.\n\nHer cortege wended its way through villages and towns she knew well. It skirted cities where she opened hospitals, congratulated business leaders, met schoolchildren and greeted well-wishers.\n\nAs well as the villages of Aberdeenshire, where she was considered a neighbour as much as a monarch, it travelled through Aberdeen, then south through Angus, Dundee, Perth and Fife.\n\nSymbolically, Her Majesty's coffin was taken over Queensferry Crossing - a structure she opened in 2017.\n\nAlong this journey to her final resting place were the visible signs of the role she played in shaping modern Scotland.\n\nThe late Queen marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One at Crathie Kirk in August 2014\n\nAfter the Royal cortege left Balmoral it passed close to Crathie Kirk - the church where the Royal family have worshipped since Queen Victoria in 1848.\n\nIt was an important place to Queen Elizabeth, a woman of great faith. Just last weekend she hosted the Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.\n\nHe said she was \"obviously frail...[but] absolutely on the ball\", adding that she was \"very much very engaged with what was happening in the church and what was happening in the nation too\".\n\nThe late Queen spoke to the local butchers in Ballater before unveiling a plaque marking a Diamond Jubilee cairn in September 2012\n\nIt was also a link to the local community, which included the nearby village of Ballater, where she was considered a local by many.\n\nAfter flooding caused millions of pounds worth of damage in 2015, the late Queen later met residents affected in an official visit and praised local efforts to recover.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II launched the flow of oil from the Forties Field in the North Sea to BP's Grangemouth refinery\n\nThe coffin was driven along the A93 towards Aberdeen, before turning south and crossing the King George VI bridge, named after her father.\n\nThe city was the focus of many trips by the Queen. It was where she opened a children's hospital in 2005 and hosted a special sitting of the Scottish Parliament in 2002.\n\nBut it was perhaps her actions in Dyce in 1975 which had the most profound effect on the city - she pressed a gold-plated button which formally began the operation of the UK's first oil pipeline.\n\nThe 130-mile pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth served the Forties oilfield 110 miles east of Aberdeen.\n\nIt marked the beginning of a North Sea oil industry which brought thousands of new jobs and great prosperity to the north-east of Scotland.\n\nHowever, faced with a climate emergency and an energy crisis, Europe's oil capital is looking towards renewable sources of energy.\n\nShe met apprentices at the Michelin tyre factory in Dundee in 2016\n\nHeading south on the A90, the coffin took in the Kingsway - designed to commemorate Edward VII - through Dundee.\n\nDuring a trip to the city in 2016, the Queen met apprentices at the Michelin tyre factory's training school and workshop.\n\nHowever, two years later the company announced the closure of the site, with the loss of 850 jobs.\n\nMore than 300 million tyres had been produced in the plant, which opened in 1971. It finally closed in June 2020 and is now an \"innovation centre\".\n\nThe young Princess Elizabeth was with her parents and cousin at Glamis Castle in 1931 to celebrate her grandparents' golden wedding anniversary\n\nBetween Aberdeen and Dundee, the Royal coffin travelled along the A90, skirting the Angus town of Forfar.\n\nNearby is Glamis Castle, the ancestral home of the late Queen's maternal grandparents and a place where she is said to have spent many happy childhood holidays.\n\nIt was where her parents honeymooned and where her mother, Queen Elizabeth, gave birth to her sister, Princess Margaret in 1930.\n\nPrince William - now the Prince of Wales - graduated with a degree in geography\n\nPast Perth, the coffin travelled through Fife - a short hop from St Andrews where the late Queen's grandson William went to university and met his future wife, Catherine.\n\nShe joined Prince Philip, her son Charles and his wife, Camilla, at the graduation ceremony in June 2005.\n\nThe Queen was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh as she named the Royal Navy's biggest ever ship\n\nAs the coffin reached the most southerly point of Fife, it passed Rosyth - where the UK's largest warship was officially named in her honour, in June 2014.\n\nShe smashed a bottle of whisky against the side of the aircraft carrier at Rosyth dockyard.\n\nSix UK shipyards, and more than 10,000 people at more than 100 companies worked on HMS Queen Elizabeth.\n\nIt entered service in 2020 and is now the Royal Navy's Fleet Flagship.\n\nNicola Sturgeon looked on as the late Queen cut the ribbon on the Queensferry Crossing\n\nThe late Queen opened two bridges across the Forth during her 70 year reign - the Forth Road Bridge in 1964, and the Queensferry Crossing in August 2017.\n\nHer coffin crossed the new Queensferry Crossing, which links Fife to Edinburgh.\n\nShe returned to the Forth Road Bridge in 2014 to mark its 50th anniversary and was back just three years later to cut the ribbon on its £1.35bn replacement.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II said the Queensferry Crossing, the UK's tallest bridge, was a \"breath-taking sight\" and one of three \"magnificent structures\" across the Forth.\n\nAt the end of its journey, the Royal coffin was taken to the Palace of Holyroodhouse - the Royal residence opposite the Scottish Parliament building.\n\nThe late Queen officially opened the £431m building in 2004 - three years late and over budget.\n\nIn a speech to MSPs she acknowledged the construction's \"difficult and controversial birth\" and urged them to make Holyrood a \"landmark of 21st Century democracy\".\n\nShe returned in October last year to open the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood despite some Covid restrictions still being in place.\n\nThe leaders of the main political parties in Scotland greeted The Queen before the ceremony last year.\n\nIn a speech in the debating chamber, she paid tribute to those who made an \"extraordinary contribution\" during the pandemic.\n\nAnd she spoke of her happy memories of Scotland and her \"deep and abiding affection for this wonderful country\".\n\n\"It is often said that it is the people that make a place and there are few places where this is truer than it is in Scotland.\"", "Simon Armitage previously wrote the poem Queenhood to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year\n\nThe poet laureate has written a poem to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nFloral Tribute, by Simon Armitage, is written through the metaphor of the lily of the valley - one of the late Queen's favourite flowers, which appeared in her coronation bouquet.\n\nThe first letter of each line spells out \"Elizabeth\" when taken together.\n\nArmitage told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme he tried to be \"personal and write a poem of condolence but without being intrusive\".\n\nComprised of two verses, Floral Tribute describes the coming of a September evening and the appearance of a lily as \"a token of thanks\".\n\nIn the first stanza, Armitage writes of \"A promise made and kept for life - that was your gift\".\n\nExplaining his decision to employ the acrostic technique and spell out the late Queen's name, Armitage said: \"It's a lovely name but a name she probably rarely got to hear very much because everybody had to preface that with ceremonial nominals.\"\n\nArmitage told the Today programme the poem was an opportunity to do something \"outside of the language and commentaries we've already heard\".\n\nEvening will come, however determined the late afternoon,\n\nLimes and oaks in their last green flush, pearled in September mist.\n\nI have conjured a lily to light these hours, a token of thanks,\n\nZones and auras of soft glare framing the brilliant globes.\n\nA promise made and kept for life - that was your gift -\n\nBecause of which, here is a gift in return, glovewort to some,\n\nThe country loaded its whole self into your slender hands,\n\nHands that can rest, now, relieved of a century's weight.\n\nEvening has come. Rain on the black lochs and dark Munros.\n\nLily of the Valley, a namesake almost, a favourite flower\n\nInterlaced with your famous bouquets, the restrained\n\nZeal and forceful grace of its lanterns, each inflorescence\n\nBreaks uncrowned on remote peaks and public parks, and\n\nEverything turns on these luminous petals and deep roots,\n\nThis lily that thrives between spire and tree, whose brightness\n\nHolds and glows beyond the life and border of its bloom.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen made a \"huge difference in changing attitudes\" in Northern Ireland, says Stormont Speaker Alex Maskey\n\nAs the speaker at Stormont, Alex Maskey knows how to get his message across.\n\nPicking the right moment with the right audience is all part of the job.\n\nToday in the presence of King Charles III and Camila, the Queen Consort, and with a massive audience looking in he seized his opportunity.\n\nHe is Sinn Féin's longest-serving elected representative and a former republican prisoner.\n\nToday his job was to deliver a message of condolence to the royal couple on behalf of the Northern Ireland Assembly, but he crafted a speech which went well beyond words of comfort.\n\nHe carefully contrasted the Queen's leadership in helping to build peace and reconciliation with the lack of leadership elsewhere.\n\nIt was a veiled swipe at those behind the stalemate at Stormont.\n\nIn another political dig to others he highlighted how the Queen in her work underlined that one tradition is not diminished by reaching out to show respect to another.\n\nThe speaker also took the opportunity to remind the King how the political landscape has been transformed allowing someone from his background to hold the office of Speaker.\n\nIt was a speech laced with political undertones but on the surface respectful to both the late Queen and King Charles.\n\nIn an earlier exchange in a back room, Mr Maskey brought a smile to the King's face during a conversation with the political leaders.\n\nThe King spent time speaking with leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties at Hillsborough Castle, including Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (centre)\n\nKing Charles remarked to Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill how her party, was now the largest at Stormont when the Speaker quickly jumped in and said \"don't tell Jeffrey\" - a reference to Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, who was standing next to them.\n\nIt followed a warm two handed handshake from Ms O'Neill to King Charles as she talked about the Queen's passing.\n\nHe thanked her for her kind words about his mother, to which Ms O'Neill replied: \"She played a great role in peacebuilding and reconciliation, it is the end of an era.\"\n\nThe King also spent time talking to Sir Jeffrey, Alliance leader Naomi Long, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Doug Beattie and SDLP assembly member Mathew O'Toole.", "Rich households will receive twice as much support aimed at reducing the cost of living than poorer households next year, a think tank has claimed.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation said if the government cuts National Insurance and limits energy bill rises, richer homes will get support worth £4,700 in 2023, compared to £2,200 for the poorest.\n\nA typical household energy bill will be limited to £2,500 annually until 2024.\n\nThe think tank said \"details and costings\" were missing from the plan.\n\nSupport for the richest tenth of households will \"far exceed the level of support for the poorest tenth of households despite the latter being most exposed to high energy bills\", the Resolution Foundation, which focuses on low to middle income households, said.\n\nThe huge support scheme could cost up to £150bn, but Prime Minister Liz Truss has refused to put a figure on it, saying \"extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures\".\n\nThe Department for Business could not offer a comment when contacted by the BBC, due to the period of national mourning.\n\nUnder the government's Energy Price Guarantee, suppliers are limited in the amount that can be charged for each unit of energy.\n\nFor a typical household - one that uses 12,000 kWh (kilowatt hours) of gas a year, and 2,900 kWh of electricity a year - it means they will pay an average of £2,500 a year on their energy bill for the next two years.\n\nWithout this intervention, that annual bill would have been £3,549 a year. Last winter it was £1,277 a year.\n\nThe support with energy bills will be available for households in England, Scotland and Wales with equivalent assistance for Northern Ireland.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation and former Labour adviser, said the government's support was \"colossal\" and \"bold\", but warned families should \"still expect a tough winter ahead\", but still said limiting bills was \"absolutely the right thing to do in terms of providing support where it's needed.\"\n\nThe Resolution Foundation said the \"near-universalist intervention\" fitted with previous support offered in the form of a £150 council tax rebate and a £400 energy bill discount.\n\nThe think tank added that targeted help had also been provided for lower income households through the benefits system, but said tax cuts benefitting the richest half of households meant \"the total package of government support now in place to support incomes in 2022-23 provides no more support to poorer than richer households\".\n\nThe Energy Price Guarantee comes with an enormous price tag for the government. Although they won't state how much it may total, this report suggests it could be bigger than the banking bailout during the financial crisis. Think about that for a second.\n\nAlthough welcomed as some action after a summer of stasis, there are plenty of organisations saying that this huge sum of money is flowing in the wrong direction.\n\nAlthough most households had been facing the same huge price increase in October, those price rises do not affect everyone in the same way. Those with less money spend proportionately more of their income on energy, and are likely to have smaller properties to heat, which means they won't save as much with this guarantee, and will still struggle to pay bills at the current rate.\n\nThere will be what the government is calling a \"fiscal event\" this month, and the pressure is mounting on the government to provide more detail and more targeted help for the poorest households. Although this was the first announcement of Liz Truss's premiership, the scale and the repercussions mean that it is likely to be the economically defining one.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) recently described the support package as \"very poorly targeted\".\n\n\"Finding a way of targeting [support] to the many, many millions who really need it, without giving it to the many, many millions who don't, appears to be something that has stumped the Treasury and the government for finding a mechanism of achieving that,\" he said.\n\nThe state intervention will be funded by government borrowing, adding to the UK's already large debt pile. The total cost of the support will depend on the cost of energy on the international energy markets, which can be volatile.\n\nMr Johnson questioned: \"Is it the best way of spending the money?\n\n\"I rather suspect it is an inevitable way in the short run if everybody who needs help is to get that help, but I do think it's incredibly important that the government thinks through and gets to a better or more targeted way of supporting us as we get through to next winter.\"\n\nMs Truss has rejected calls to extend a windfall tax on gas and oil company profits to pay for the package, after calls from the Labour party, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP to do so.\n\nA windfall tax is a one-off tax imposed by a government on a company. The idea is to target firms that have benefitted from something they were not responsible for - in other words, a windfall.\n\nMr Bell said that by ruling out \"any attempt\" to fund the government's new support through further windfall taxes, \"the welcome support today could have a nasty sting in terms of higher mortgage payments and higher taxes tomorrow\".\n\nA mini-Budget outlining how the government intends to pay for measures to tackle the cost-of-living crisis is set to take place this month.\n\nOther plans include lifting the ban on fracking and new licences for North Sea oil and gas, to boost domestic energy supplies.", "Artem says he was held by Russians in a police cell for more than 40 days, and was electrocuted\n\nIn north-eastern Ukraine, a counter-offensive has seen the nation's forces recapture swathes of territory, and drive out Russian troops.\n\nBut in the newly-liberated areas, relief and sorrow are intertwined - as accounts emerge of torture and killings during the long months of Russian occupation.\n\nArtem, who lives in the city of Balakliya in the Kharkiv region, told the BBC he was held by Russians for more than 40 days and was tortured with electric shocks.\n\nBalakliya was liberated on 8 September after being occupied for more than six months. The epicentre of the brutality was the city's police station, which Russian forces used as their headquarters.\n\nArtem said he could hear screams of pain and terror coming from other cells.\n\nThe occupiers made sure the cries could be heard, he said, by turning off the building's noisy ventilation system.\n\n\"They turned it off so everyone could hear how people scream when they are shocked with electricity,\" he told us. \"They did this to some of the prisoners every other day... They even did this to the women\".\n\nAnd they did it to Artem, though in his case only once.\n\n\"They made me hold two wires,\" he said.\n\n\"There was an electric generator. The faster it went, the higher the voltage. They said, 'if you let it go, you are finished'. Then they started asking questions. They said I was lying, and they started spinning it even more and the voltage increased.\"\n\nArtem told us he was detained because the Russians found a picture of his brother, a soldier, in uniform. Another man from Balakliya was held for 25 days because he had the Ukrainian flag, Artem said.\n\nA school principal called Tatiana told us she was held in the police station for three days and also heard screams from other cells.\n\nWe visited the police station, and saw the Lord's Prayer scratched on the wall of one of the cramped cells, alongside markings to indicate how many days had passed.\n\nUkrainian police officers say as many as eight men were held in cells intended for two people. They say locals were scared to even pass the station when the Russians were in charge, in case they were grabbed by Russian soldiers.\n\nDestroyed military vehicles abandoned by Russian forces line the roads of Balakliya\n\nIn Balakliya's city centre, where the Ukrainian flag flies again, crowds gathered around a small truck carrying food supplies. Many in the queue were elderly and looked exhausted, but there were happy reunions too as friends embraced each other for the first time since the Russians were driven out.\n\nJust a short walk away at the end of a lonely laneway, some of their victims lie hastily buried by their neighbours. A crude wooden cross marked the makeshift grave of a taxi driver called Petro Shepel. His passenger - whose identity is still unknown - lies next to him.\n\nThe stench of death filled the air as the police exhumed their remains, and zipped them into body bags.\n\nThe authorities say the two men were shot near a Russian checkpoint on the last day of the occupation.\n\nPetro's mother, Valentyna, looked on as the bodies were exhumed, and she railed against the Russians who killed her only son.\n\n\"I want to ask Putin, why did he shoot and kill my son?\" she cried.\n\n\"What for? Who asked him to come here with such threatening weapons? Not only did he kill our children, but he killed us, their mothers.\n\n\"These days I am a dead woman. And I want to address all mothers of the world: rebel against that assassin.\"\n\nOn the road to Balakliya, we saw military vehicles marked with the pro-war \"Z\" symbol - apparently abandoned by the Russians as they fled.\n\nIn a nearby village, we were shown the extensive damage to the school. Local authorities said this was one of the last acts of destruction before the Russians were driven out.\n\nStanding in the ruins, the regional head of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, said the critical task now was to restore water and electricity supplies, but there are concerns the power lines could be mined.\n\nAsked by the BBC if he thought the Russians could return he replied: \"We are in war, there is always danger\".", "Squid Game actor Lee Jung-jae (left) and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk with their Emmy awards\n\nSquid Game's Lee Jung-jae has become the first Asian star to win the Emmy award for best male actor in a drama.\n\nThe South Korean won for playing the main role of the increasingly desperate Seong Gi-hun in the hit Netflix show.\n\nThe show's creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, won the best drama series director prize, also the first Asian to do so.\n\nTed Lasso won best comedy series for the second year in a row, while outstanding drama went to Succession, also for a second year running.\n\nThe drama's British creator Jesse Armstrong made a jibe about the monarchy during his acceptance speech at the US TV industry's most prestigious ceremony of the year.\n\n\"It's a big week for successions - new King in the UK, this for us,\" he joked. \"Evidently a bit more voting involved in our winning than Prince Charles.\"\n\n\"Keep it royalist, keep it royalist,\" the show's star Brian Cox, who was also on stage, told him after the audience went fairly quiet.\n\nSuccession's Brian Cox (left) told creator Jesse Armstrong (right) to \"keep it royalist\" on stage\n\nArmstrong then added: \"I'm not saying that we're any more legitimate in our position than he is. We'll leave that to other people.\"\n\nAnother Succession cast member, Matthew Macfadyen, won best supporting drama actor for his portrayal of ambitious interloper Tom Wambsgans, which he said was a \"bonkers gift of a role\".\n\nHowever, Cox could not replicate last year's best actor win, losing out to Squid Game's Lee.\n\nFellow Briton Brett Goldstein was among the night's other acting winners, alongside Zendaya, Amanda Seyfried, Michael Keaton, Julia Garner and Jean Smart.\n\nEuphoria star Zendaya won her second Emmy for best lead drama actress in three years\n\nZendaya won best drama actress for a second time for playing teenage drug addict Rue in Euphoria, following her win in 2020.\n\n\"Anyone who has loved a Rue or feels like they are a Rue - I want you to know I'm so grateful for your stories, and I carry them with me, and I carry them with her,\" she said on stage.\n\nTed Lasso star Jason Sudeikis repeated his 2021 success by winning best leading comedy actor for playing the titular football coach.\n\nHis win was mirrored by his co-star Goldstein, who won best supporting actor in a comedy series for playing Lasso's assistant coach Roy Kent for the second year running.\n\nPopular newcomer Abbott Elementary, a mockumentary set in a US primary school, also had a share of the success when Sheryl Lee Ralph won best supporting actress in a comedy. She plays no-nonsense teacher Barbara Howard and is the first black actress to win in this category since 1987.\n\nShe sang the opening lines of Dianne Reeves' song Endangered Species after accepting her award, adding in an impassioned speech afterwards: \"This is what believing looks like.\"\n\nHer co-star and the show's creator Quinta Brunson won the award for comedy series writing, although her acceptance speech was partly overshadowed by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel lying down on the stage in an apparently comic moment after he lost a previous award.\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 Ashley Lee 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\nHotel satire White Lotus was the biggest winner overall, picking up 10 prizes including best limited series, beating competition including Inventing Anna and Pam & Tommy, a drama based on the relationship between Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.\n\nWhite Lotus also won best writing, best directing, best supporting actor for Murray Bartlett and best supporting actress for Jennifer Coolidge.\n\nSeyfried was also a producer on The Dropout\n\nSeyfried was named best lead actress in a limited series or anthology for her role as Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout, based on the real-life story of the disgraced biotech entrepreneur.\n\nShe beat stars including Lily James (Pam and Tommy), Toni Collette (The Staircase) and Garner (Inventing Anna).\n\nGarner didn't go home empty-handed, however, scooping best supporting actress for her role as Ruth in Netflix crime drama Ozark - the third time she has won the award for that role.\n\nKeaton won his first Emmy for his role as a small-town doctor in opioid crisis drama Dopesick, replicating his Golden Globe win earlier this year.\n\nKeaton, who took time out of the industry for a few years, referred to his \"doubters\" and \"believers\" during his speech.\n\n\"There have been some doubters. I've had some doubters. You know what? We're cool,\" he said.\n\nSinger Lizzo won her first Emmy for best reality competition for Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, a category recently dominated by RuPaul's Drag Race.\n\nThe show offers plus-size dancers the chance to compete to join the About Damn Time singer on tour.\n\nLizzo got teary during her speech and asked the audience to \"Make some noise for my big girrrls!\"\n\nLizzo was tearful as she collected her award, saying: \"When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media. Someone fat like me, black like me, beautiful like me.\"\n\nThere was a muted build-up to the event, with some pre-show festivities called off following the death of Queen Elizabeth II last week.\n\nThe British Film and Television Academy cancelled its traditional Hollywood tea party for nominees, while the Canadian consulate postponed its celebrations.\n\nBut beyond the Succession speech, it was not mentioned during the ceremony, which was hosted by Saturday Night Live comedian Kenan Thompson and was the first full-scale Emmys since the pandemic.\n\nThe Emmys are voted for by more than 25,000 members of the US Television Academy, which represents those in front of and behind the cameras.\n\nThis year's awards honour the best TV shows that premiered or streamed between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: King Charles III leads the procession behind the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh\n\nThousands of people watched in near-silence as the Queen's coffin made its journey up the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Queen's children, led by King Charles III, walked behind the hearse as it drove from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nA service of remembrance was then held in the cathedral, where the Queen will lie at rest until Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is estimated that 20,000 people are in a mile-long queue to pay their last respects.\n\nAll four of the Queen's children - King Charles, Princess Anne, and Princes Andrew and Edward - later held a vigil for 10 minutes around the coffin of their late mother at the cathedral.\n\nEarlier they had walked behind the hearse, along with Princess Anne's husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nA car behind them carried Camilla, the Queen Consort, and Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, Prince Edward's wife.\n\nMeanwhile, many people have spent hours queuing through the night to file past the coffin, ahead of its journey to London.\n\nBy BBC Scotland's Andrew Picken, on the Royal Mile\n\nAs the procession edged closer the crowd fell silent and cries of \"she's here\" were heard.\n\nThere was a sea of hands holding phones in the air to try and capture the moment on camera while a barking dog momentarily put the police horses on edge.\n\nFrom the back of the crowd a cry of \"God Save the King\" came as the coffin passed the Canons' Gait pub.\n\nThe silence lingered for a few moments after the procession had passed as people collected their thoughts.\n\nThere was a respectful silence from the crowd earlier, which was 10 deep in places, as the procession to the cathedral took place on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe quiet was punctuated by the echo of ceremonial gunshots which were fired from Edinburgh Castle every minute.\n\nPolice Scotland said a 22 year-old man had been arrested in connection with a breach of the peace after footage appeared to show a man heckling the royal procession on the Royal Mile.\n\nThe King had addressed both Houses of Parliament earlier on Monday, before he and the Queen Consort flew to Edinburgh.\n\nHe was welcomed on the tarmac by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack and Edinburgh's Lord Provost, Robert Aldridge.\n\nThey then travelled to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where there was applause as the King and the Queen Consort met members of the public.\n\nThe monarch spent time shaking hands and also received gifts of flowers.\n\nKing Charles took part in the ancient Ceremony of the Keys\n\nKing Charles inspects an honour guard at the Palace of Holyroodhouse\n\nKing Charles then took part in the ancient Ceremony of the Keys, where he was handed the keys to the city by the lord provost.\n\nIn keeping with tradition, he handed them back, entrusting their safekeeping to the city's elected officials.\n\nKing Charles III also inspected a guard of honour from the Royal Regiment of Scotland.\n\nHe then led the procession to St Giles' Cathedral behind the Queen's coffin, which was draped with the Royal Standard in Scotland and dressed with a wreath of flowers.\n\nThe cathedral then hosted a service celebrating the Queen's life and her connection to Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Royal Regiment of Scotland place Queen's coffin on the catafalque\n\nThe Rev Calum MacLeod, who led the service, welcomed the Royal family, representatives of \"our nation's life\" and \"people whose lives were touched by the Queen in so many unforgettable ways\".\n\nHe said: \"We gather to bid Scotland's farewell to our late monarch, whose life of service to the nation and the world we celebrate. And whose love for Scotland was legendary.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon read a lesson during the service, which was also attended by Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nLater, Ms Sturgeon - who had an audience with King Charles at Holyrood - paid tribute to the Queen during a motion of condolence in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nShe hailed the Queen as \"a true and steadfast friend of this parliament\" who has been \"intrinsic to the story of modern Scotland\".\n\nKing Charles responded to the motion in the Scottish Parliament\n\nResponding to the motion, King Charles said: \"Through all the years of her reign, the Queen, like so many generations of our family before her, found in the hills of this land and in the hearts of its people a haven and a home.\"\n\nParaphrasing Robert Burns, he described the Queen as: \"The friend of man, the friend of truth, the friend of age and guide of youth.\n\n\"Few hearts like hers with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed.\"\n\nThe monarch also confirmed he was passing his Duke of Rothesay title to Prince William.\n\nMourners then started filing past the Queen's coffin at St Giles' Cathedral, including while the King and his siblings' stood in vigil on Monday evening.\n\nThe symbolic ceremony sees four people - in this case King Charles III, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward - position themselves at each side of the coffin to stand guard for a short time.\n\nThe Princess Royal's appearance has made her the first woman to be part of the vigil, which has until now been carried out by male-only members of the Royal Family.\n\nWhile the Queen lies at rest at St Giles' Cathedral, her coffin will remain under continuous vigil for 24 hours, guarded by the Royal Company of Archers.\n\nThe queue to view the coffin starts at George Square Lane/North Meadow Walk in The Meadows, where wristbands are being issued for entry to the cathedral.\n\nThe public have been warned the queue is likely to involve standing for a number of hours.\n\nMembers of the public filed past while the King and his three siblings posted a vigil around the coffin\n\nMourners were advised to bring their own food and drinks. Toilets are available and visitors are able to leave the queue briefly to use the facilities.\n\nThere are be airport-style security checks for entering St Giles' at George IV Bridge and certain restrictions apply on mobile phones, with photography and recording not permitted.\n\nThe Royal Household has asked that floral tributes are left at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Queen's coffin will be flown from Edinburgh Airport to Buckingham Palace.\n\nFrom Thursday, the Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall for four days. Her funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19 September.\n\nWhat are your memories of the Queen? Share your tributes and reflections by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jean-Luc Godard pictured at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004\n\nFilm director Jean-Luc Godard, who spearheaded the revolutionary French New Wave of cinema, has died at 91.\n\nGodard burst onto the scene with 1960's À bout de souffle (Breathless), which started a run of acclaimed releases that rewrote the rules of film and influenced directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino.\n\nA family representative said he died by assisted suicide in Switzerland.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said Godard \"had the vision of a genius\".\n\nIn a tribute on Twitter, Mr Macron wrote: \"He was like an apparition in French cinema. Then he became a master of it.\n\n\"Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We have lost a national treasure, a man who had the vision of a genius.\"\n\nGodard's legal advisor Patrick Jeanneret told the AFP news agency that the Franco-Swiss film-maker \"had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure as he was stricken with 'multiple invalidating illnesses', according to the medical report\".\n\nAssisted suicide is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances.\n\nGodard started as a film critic before stepping behind the camera with the stylish and edgy Breathless. Its stars Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo were glamorous in a new, casual way, while the camera was constantly moving, the editing was swift and bold, and the script semi-improvised.\n\nThe director once said: \"It was a film that took everything that cinema had done - girls, gangsters, cars - exploded all this and put an end, once and for all, to the old style.\"\n\nJean-Luc Godard with Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo on the set of Pierrot Le Fou in 1965\n\nThat was followed by Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier) - although the film was banned until 1963 because of its depiction of government-sanctioned torture.\n\nIts cast included Danish model Anna Karina, who married Godard in 1961 and went on to appear in a string of his most successful films.\n\nShe played a nightclub dancer who wants a baby in 1961's Une Femme est une Femme (A Woman Is A Woman); a young Parisian prostitute in 1962's Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live); and a gang member in Bande à Part (Band of Outsiders) in 1965.\n\nTarantino named his production company A Band Apart, in reference to the latter film's original title, and once said Godard was \"so influential\" to him as a director.\n\n\"Godard is one who taught me the fun and the freedom and the joy of breaking rules… I consider Godard to be to cinema what Bob Dylan was to music,\" he said.\n\nGodard's rich seam of influential films in the 1960s also included Alphaville and Le Mépris (Contempt).\n\nContempt, from 1963, starring Brigitte Bardot, was named by Scorsese as one of his 10 favourite movies. It is \"one of the most moving films of its era\" and Godard was \"the great modern visual artists of cinema\", the Taxi Driver director wrote in 2014.\n\nGodard's storylines also mixed up time and space, changing the idea of a fixed narrative. He once said: \"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end - but not necessarily in that order.\"\n\nHe had more than 100 films to his name in total, also including Une Femme Mariée (1964), Pierrot le fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966) and Week-end (1967).\n\nActress Macha Méril, who starred in Une Femme Mariée, said: \"He is a genius. What is a genius? It's someone who does something that has never been done before and forces everyone else to change their way of thinking and doing.\n\n\"It's like Picasso... Geniuses are people who change the way people think.\"\n\nHe received an honorary Oscar in 2011, with the dedication reading: \"For passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema.\"\n\nGodard's most recent work was released in 2018, although some thought he moved from being provocative to being wilfully obscure as his career went on.\n\nGodard filming student marches on the streets of Paris in 1968\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, his family said the director had died \"peacefully at home\". They added: \"No official [funeral] ceremony will take place. He will be cremated.\"\n\nFormer French culture minister Jack Lang told the Reuters news agency: \"He filled cinema with poetry and philosophy. His sharp and unique eye made us see the imperceptible.\"\n\nOthers paying tribute included actor Antonio Banderas, who wrote: \"Thank you monsieur Godard for expanding the boundaries of the cinema.\"\n\nBaby Driver director Edgar Wright wrote: \"RIP Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential, iconoclastic film-makers of them all.\n\n\"It was ironic that he himself revered the Hollywood studio film-making system, as perhaps no other director inspired as many people to just pick up a camera and start shooting.\"\n\nFilm critics also discussed his style and influence.\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 Luke Buckmaster 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people filed past the Queen's coffin in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh\n\nThe public viewing of the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh has ended.\n\nAbout 33,000 people filed through St Giles' Cathedral where Her Majesty lay at rest for 24 hours.\n\nMany of them had queued through the night for the opportunity to pay their last respects to the Queen.\n\nThe coffin left the cathedral at about 16:20 on Tuesday and was taken by road to Edinburgh Airport, before being flown on a C-17 Globemaster to RAF Northolt, near London.\n\nIt will go on to Buckingham Palace ahead of lying in state at Westminster Hall for four days.\n\nThe Scottish government said \"people across the country\" had paid their respects, attended remembrance events and reflected \"on a life of service\".\n\n\"This has been a very special part of history for Scotland,\" a statement added.\n\nMourners started filing into the cathedral on Monday evening to be part of the historic moment.\n\nThousands waited through the night, joining the line at The Meadows, which is south of the cathedral where the coffin lay.\n\nA steady stream of people joined the queue at The Meadows on Tuesday\n\nThose wanting to attend the vigil were required to pick up wristbands at the start of the queue, more than a mile away from the church. The last of those were handed out at 13:00 and the doors to the cathedral were closed to the public just before 15:00.\n\nIt is understand that everyone who had picked up an official wristband managed to file past the coffin.\n\nOfficials had earlier warned that the wristband did not guarantee entry.\n\nCharlie, 68, and his mother Janet, 89, were the last two people allowed to join the queue in Edinburgh's Meadows.\n\nHuge crowds gathered outside St Giles' Cathedral as the Queen's coffin began its journey to Edinburgh Airport\n\nHaving travelled from Cathcart in Glasgow, Charlie - pushing his mother in a wheelchair - said he was \"very honoured\" to be in the city for this \"very sombre occasion\".\n\nIt was important for his mother Janet to see the Queen's coffin, he added.\n\nShe married in 1952 and the first television set she bought was to watch the late monarch's coronation the following year.\n\nThe final opportunity for people to pay their respects to Her Majesty in Scotland came along the route her cortege travelled to Edinburgh Airport.\n\nThere is also still a floral tribute at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nHeavy traffic congestion and disruption was expected in the city after a series of road closures along the route to the airport.\n\nAre you travelling to London to pay your respects to the Queen? Share your plans with us by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The household of the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall - now King Charles III and Queen Consort - has ceased operations\n\nSome staff at Clarence House have been warned their jobs are at risk following King Charles III's accession to the throne.\n\nThe Guardian said dozens of staff were told during the thanksgiving service for the Queen in Edinburgh on Monday.\n\nClarence House said some redundancies were \"unavoidable\" because of the change in role for Charles and his wife Camilla, now Queen Consort.\n\nThey were working to find alternative roles for employees, a spokesman said.\n\nThe Guardian reported that private secretaries, the finance office, the communications team and household staff were among those who had been warned of redundancies, as the offices of King Charles III and the Queen Consort move to Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe King's top aide, his principal private secretary Sir Clive Alderton, said in the letter to staff that the change in role for the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall meant Clarence House would be \"closed down\".\n\nHe said the former Prince of Wales's personal interests and former activities would no longer be carried out.\n\n\"It is therefore expected that the need for the posts principally based at Clarence House whose work supports these areas, will no longer be needed.\"\n\nStaff were left livid and shaken by the announcement, the newspaper said.\n\nThe Clarence House spokesman said: \"Following last week's accession, the operations of the household of the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have ceased and, as required by law, a consultation process has begun.\n\n\"Our staff have given long and loyal service and, while some redundancies will be unavoidable, we are working urgently to identify alternative roles for the greatest possible number of staff.\"\n\nThe Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned the decision to announce redundancies during the period of mourning as \"nothing short of heartless\".\n\n\"While some changes across the households were to be expected, as roles across the Royal Family change, the scale and speed at which this has been announced is callous in the extreme,\" said general secretary Mark Serwotka.\n\n\"Least of all because we do not know what staffing the incoming Prince of Wales and his family might need.\n\nMr Serwotka said the union would \"continue to work with the Royal Households to ensure that those staff have full job security\".\n\n\"We remain committed to supporting those colleagues across the wider Royal Family's estates, whose futures are thrown into turmoil by this announcement at this already difficult time.\"\n\nIt is understood legal advice taken by the household required the information to be shared with staff at the earliest opportunity, despite efforts to delay until after the Queen's funeral.\n\nHowever, Grant Harrold, former butler to King Charles when he was the Prince of Wales, said the news would not have come as a shock to staff.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Trust me, it's not a shock for the household.\"\n\n\"When I joined, I was fully aware that if the Queen passed I would be redundant because my boss is no longer the Prince of Wales.\"\n\nMr Harrold, who previously worked at Highgrove House, the King's family residence in Gloucestershire, added: \"The good thing is, I know they will do everything possible to make sure that people are put into positions where possible - and, as I said, there will be people that want to retire or want a change of career.\"\n\nClarence House, which stands alongside St James's Palace, was the official London residence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed whether the King and Queen Consort will live at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe households of the Queen Mother and the Duke of Edinburgh were closed after their deaths.\n\nAny Clarence House staff being made redundant will be offered \"enhanced\" redundancy payments, it is understood. No staff will be affected for at least three months.", "Police say the chase ended in Kirkstall Gardens\n\nA man has been shot dead by police in south London.\n\nOfficers said they were pursuing a \"suspect vehicle\" at about 21:50 BST on Monday and ended the chase by making \"tactical contact\" in Kirkstall Gardens, Streatham Hill.\n\nThe victim, believed to be in his 20s, was subsequently shot and died in hospital at about 00:15.\n\nEfforts are under way to contact his family, the Met said, and the police watchdog is investigating.\n\nPolice cordons and road closures are in place.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said investigators had been sent to the scene to start gathering evidence.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all of those affected by this terrible incident,\" it said in a statement.\n\nA 39-year-old man, who lives on nearby New Park Road, said the car drove along his street before turning into Kirkstall Gardens.\n\nHe said: \"A police car came down Kirkstall Gardens and crashed into him.\n\n\"Another police car came in behind him and they had him locked in at the bottom of Kirkstall Gardens.\n\n\"The car was immobile when he was shot. The bang was really loud.\"\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 Boxing\n\nAnthony Joshua has accepted WBC champion Tyson Fury's terms for an all-British heavyweight fight on 3 December and is \"awaiting a response\", his management company has said.\n\nJoshua, 32, was sent an offer by Team Fury, suggesting a 60-40 purse split to the champion and a December fight date.\n\nThe fight was agreed on Friday but the announcement was delayed because of the death of the Queen last Thursday.\n\nInitial terms have been agreed but Joshua is yet to sign a contract.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter and shared by Joshua, 258MGT said: \"258 and Matchroom Boxing can confirm, on behalf of Anthony Joshua, that we accepted all terms presented to us by Fury's team for a fight.\"\n\nFury, 34, had said he was retiring after beating Dillian Whyte in April, and reiterated that claim last month, before challenging former world champion Joshua in a video posted on social media.\n\nJoshua was beaten by Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch in Saudi Arabia last month, his third defeat in his past five bouts.\n\nThere is a rematch clause with a 50-50 split if Joshua beats Fury, but the venue for the December fight, should it go ahead, is yet to be confirmed.\n\nCardiff's Principality Stadium has been mooted, while Saudi Arabia or another country in the Middle East could also host it.\n\nThere are still hurdles to overcome before the fight is finalised, with both fighters signed to rival promoters and broadcasters, although two-time champion Joshua this week entered the WBC rankings in sixth position in another significant development.\n\nA boxer must be ranked in the top 15 by all governing bodies to challenge for a world title.", "Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of one count of rape on the direction of the judge at his trial.\n\nMr Mendy, 28, was cleared at Chester Crown Court of the rape of a 19-year-old woman at his home in Prestbury, Cheshire, on 24 July last year.\n\nCo-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found not guilty of two counts of rape against the same woman.\n\nThey remain on trial for alleged sexual offences which they both deny.\n\nMr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, was also cleared of one count of sexual assault against the same woman.\n\nOn Tuesday Judge Stephen Everett ordered the jury to clear the defendants of those counts after the prosecution offered no further evidence and formal not guilty counts were entered.\n\nHe had warned jurors not to speculate as to why the prosecution had decided not to pursue guilty verdicts and to continue to \"faithfully\" try the defendants on the multiple charges they still face.\n\nLouis Saha Matturie, 41, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault\n\nEarlier the jury were told of a private video of the woman having \"enthusiastic sex\" with Mr Matturie when she claimed she had been raped.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned and when court resumed, prosecutors told the court they were no longer seeking guilty verdicts on alleged sexual offences involving the 19-year-old complainant.\n\nThe rape charge dropped against Mr Mendy related to an incident with Mr Matturie when the woman had claimed she awoke to find the footballer raping her.\n\nMr Mendy still faces seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.\n\nProsecutors have alleged Mr Mendy was a \"predator\" who \"turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game\".\n\nMr Matturie, the footballer's friend and fixer, is alleged to have had the job of finding young women for sex.\n\nHe denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.\n\nBoth men said if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.\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 staring into the abyss' - Former Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has been discussing the challenges facing the King and the UK as the country enters a new phase in its history. Dr Williams told the BBC’s Newscast podcast: “We’re a society staring into a little bit of an abyss in the next few months, where poverty and deprivation for quite a lot of people, are going to be a major issue.” Talking about the role of King Charles III, he said: “I think it is crucial that the new King give the message... that he's committed to a society where nobody gets forgotten.” He went on to say: “Lots of communities are faced with really impossible choices about energy, about food, about their general security. It’s the biggest thing I know on the agenda of the new prime minister and the new government. It’s a watershed moment for them just as much as for the monarchy.” Dr Williams said: “If we can get through this winter without collapse, we can manage with all those pressures, we will have sent a very important message to the other end of Europe that we are prepared to face some constraints for the sake of Ukraine.” Last Thursday, the government set out its energy support plan which included limiting energy bill rises for all households for two years, and six months for businesses. Newscast’s full interview with Dr Williams is available on BBC Sounds. This content is currently not available", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the Queen was \"absolutely on it\" when she spoke to him two days before her death\n\nBoris Johnson has said the late Queen Elizabeth II was \"bright and focused\" in their last meeting before his resignation as prime minister.\n\nHe tendered his resignation to the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Tuesday last week before she appointed his replacement, Liz Truss.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC he was moved by the Queen's \"sense of duty\" when her death was announced two days later.\n\nHe said he thought the British monarchy would endure thanks to the Queen.\n\nWhile she modernised and \"revolutionised\" the UK's constitutional monarchy, Mr Johnson said, her greatest achievement was assuring the succession to her son, King Charles III.\n\nThe 14th prime minister of the Queen's 70-year reign, Mr Johnson reflected on the late monarch's life and the impression she left on him during their encounters while he was in office.\n\nLike every prime minister, Mr Johnson held weekly audiences with the Queen to inform her about matters of national importance.\n\nDescribing their final meeting, when he offered his resignation, Mr Johnson said: \"Given how ill she obviously was, how amazing it was that she be so bright and focused. It was a pretty emotional time.\"\n\nIn the last of the BBC's series of interviews with former prime ministers, presenter Fiona Bruce asked Mr Johnson if he was ever too busy to attend his weekly audience with the Queen.\n\n\"No, you must be joking,\" Mr Johnson said, describing his regular meetings with the Queen as \"a fantastic break from everything else\" and \"a wonderful moment of tranquillity\".\n\nThe Queen appointed Liz Truss as prime minister last week, days before the monarch's death\n\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, some of those weekly audiences were held virtually while social-distancing regulations were in force in England, and across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson recalled how his government worked with Buckingham Palace to organise a special address to the nation, delivered by the Queen during the first lockdown in April 2020.\n\nIn it, the Queen reassured the nation \"we will meet again\", evoking the words of the Vera Lynn wartime song and the UK's blitz spirit during World War Two.\n\nMr Johnson said the message was \"incredibly important\", and even pop stars \"wouldn't have the same impact as that broadcast\".\n\nThe congregation wore masks and was socially distanced in line with Covid rules at the time, with the Queen seated alone.\n\nIt later emerged that Covid rule-busting parties were held in Downing Street on the eve of the funeral. \"How did you two get past that?\" Mr Johnson was asked.\n\n\"Because of her great sense of constitutional function she never got into that sort of conversation,\" Mr Johnson said. \"She was really absolutely focused on what she saw as the important issues. It's a very trusting environment, the audience with Her Majesty. So that never came up.\"\n\nWhat was discussed, though, \"was just about everything under the sun\", Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson said the Queen was an \"amazing authority about history, about politics\" and knew everyone, from former US President John F Kennedy, to former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.\n\nAnd he referred to the \"sweep of progress\" over the past 70 years, saying: \"That's why I think she should be Elizabeth the Great, by the way, because look at what happened to this country in her reign. The immeasurably advances in prosperity and opportunity and longevity, whatever your metric is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Boris Johnson pays tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II in Parliament\n\nWhen asked how he responded to the Queen's death, Mr Johnson - now a backbench Conservative MP - said he felt \"this slightly inexplicable excess of emotion\".\n\n\"Speaking entirely personally, for me it was a colossal thing,\" he said.\n\nFinally, Mr Johnson was asked if Charles - who was both the oldest and the longest-serving heir apparent in British history - would be different as King.\n\n\"I don't know that he will necessarily will be different in a fundamental way,\" Mr Johnson said, describing the succession as \"absolutely flawless\".", "Chris Kaba was due to become a father\n\nThe officer who shot dead Chris Kaba in south London should have been suspended sooner, the victim's family says.\n\nThe 24-year-old rapper, who was unarmed, was killed by a single shot in Streatham Hill on 5 September.\n\nMr Kaba's family welcomed the suspension but said there was \"no urgency\" around the investigation.\n\nHis cousin, Jefferson Bosela, told the BBC the officer should have been suspended as soon as the homicide investigation was launched on Friday.\n\nThe police watchdog, Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), began a homicide investigation on 9 September.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the family, Mr Bosela told Radio 4's Today programme: \"We welcome that decision but, to be honest, I think... the second a criminal investigation was opened he should have been suspended from there.\n\n\"You know, first we wanted a criminal investigation opened and that took four days, and then the officer being suspended took another two days.\n\n\"So it seems like there's no urgency in their dealings with this quite tragic matter.\"\n\nA candlelit vigil was held in memory of Chris Kaba on Monday evening\n\nThe Met Police said in its statement on Monday the firearms officer had been suspended due to the \"significant impact on public confidence\", but its decision did \"not determine the outcome of the IOPC investigation\".\n\nThe Met Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said it was \"supporting a brave firearms colleague involved in a recent incident in South London - and we are also supporting their family.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all affected.\"\n\nIt added: \"Being a firearms officer in London is one of the world's toughest jobs.\n\n\"Officers - volunteers - know the responsibility/accountability that comes with it and deserve our support.\n\n\"Ill-informed commentary from those in positions of power following any tragic incident is unwarranted.\"\n\nMr Kaba, who was due to become a father, was stopped by firearms officers when his car was flagged by a number plate recognition camera.\n\nHis cousin, Mr Bosela, said the family wanted to know whether police officers believed they were stopping the suspected owner of the car or Mr Kaba, who the family said was not the registered owner.\n\nThe family is also demanding the IOPC releases police-worn camera footage of the shooting and aerial helicopter footage, as well as a timeline for the investigation.\n\nMr Bosela said: \"Chris's parents are suffering an unimaginable loss.\n\n\"The nature in which he died makes it really harsh and so difficult. They're so strong but they're struggling.\"\n\nHe added: \"We want the footage to be shown to the family to have a clear understanding of what happened.\"\n\nNews of the officer's suspension came as Mr Kaba's family and friends joined members of the community at a candlelit vigil, in the residential street where he was fatally shot, to mark one week since his death.\n\n\"At the vigil, his mother was saying, 'Chris, what were you saying in your last minutes? I wish I had just one minute with you, speak to me please'. It was heart-breaking,\" Mr Bosela continued.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the decision by Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to suspend the officer was \"a really important decision\", which he \"fully\" supported.\n\nThe mayor added it was important the IOPC had the time it needed to carry out its investigation properly.\n\nMP for Streatham, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, who is supporting the Kaba family, said: \"The Met have finally suspended the officer who fired the shot that killed Chris Kaba.\n\n\"It shouldn't have taken public pressure to make this happen.\n\n\"Time to honour the family's further demands without delay.\"\n\nThe family has set up a fundraising page and Instagram account with a target of raising £50,000, which they said was to support their campaign for justice.\n\nCorrection 20 September 2022: The reference to the IOPC's investigation has been corrected to reflect it is a homicide 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 cost of green energy like wind and solar has been falling for decades\n\nSwitching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says.\n\nThe report said it was wrong and pessimistic to claim that moving quickly towards cleaner energy sources was expensive.\n\nGas prices have soared on mounting concerns over energy supplies.\n\nBut the researchers say that going green now makes economic sense because of the falling cost of renewables.\n\n\"Even if you're a climate denier, you should be on board with what we're advocating,\" Prof Doyne Farmer from the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School told BBC News.\n\n\"Our central conclusion is that we should go full speed ahead with the green energy transition because it's going to save us money,\" he said.\n\nThe report's findings are based on looking at historic price data for renewables and fossil fuels and then modelling how they're likely to change in the future.\n\nThe data for fossil fuels goes from 2020 back more than 100 years and shows that after accounting for inflation, and market volatility, the price hasn't changed much.\n\nRenewables have only been around for a few decades, so there's less data. But in that time continual improvements in technology have meant the cost of solar and wind power have fallen rapidly, at a rate approaching 10% a year.\n\nThe report's expectation that the price of renewables will continue to fall is based on \"probabilistic\" modelling, using data on how massive investment and economies of scale have made other similar technologies cheaper.\n\n\"Our latest research shows scaling-up key green technologies will continue to drive their costs down, and the faster we go, the more we will save,\" says Dr Rupert Way, the report's lead author from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.\n\nWind and solar are already the cheapest option for new power projects, but questions remain over how to best store power and balance the grid when the changes in the weather leads to fall in renewable output.\n\nBack in 2019 Philip Hammond, then Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote to the prime minister to say that the cost of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in the UK would be more than £1tn. This report says the likely costs have been over-estimated and have deterred investment.\n\nIt also says predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the cost of keeping global temperatures rises under 2 degrees would correspond to a loss of GDP by 2050 were too pessimistic. The transition to renewables was, it says, likely to turn out to be a \"net economic benefit\".\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Joule and is a collaboration between the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, the Oxford Martin Programme on the Post-Carbon Transition, the Smith School of Enterprise & Environment at the University of Oxford, and SoDa Labs at Monash University.", "Prince William and Prince Harry will walk together behind the Queen's coffin in a procession in London on Wednesday.\n\nThe brothers, along with the King, will follow the coffin on foot from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where the Queen will lie in state.\n\nThe procession will leave the palace at 14:22 BST and is expected to arrive at Westminster Hall at 15:00 BST.\n\nA service lasting about 20 minutes will then be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nThe King's three siblings - Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward - will also walk in the procession.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, will travel by car, as will Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nIt comes after Prince William and Prince Harry, accompanied by their wives, appeared in front of crowds gathered outside Windsor Castle on Saturday.\n\nThe group arrived in the same car and spent around 40 minutes greeting mourners and looking at flowers left for their grandmother.\n\nIt was the first time the brothers had been seen alongside one another in public since the funeral of their grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, in April last year.\n\nBoth were at a service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, but sat on opposite sides of the cathedral.\n\nThe brothers appeared together to greet mourners outside Windsor Castle following the Queen's death\n\nThe King spoke warmly of Harry and Meghan in his televised address to the nation on Friday evening.\n\nAfter announcing that William and Kate would become Prince and Princess of Wales, he said: \"I want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas.\"\n\nIn a tribute to the Queen released on Monday, Harry also said he wanted to \"honour my father in his new role as King Charles III\".\n\nMaj Gen Christopher Ghika, commanding officer for the procession to Westminster Hall, said the parade would involve 800 to 1,000 members of the armed forces.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's a very sad duty, but it's a unique privilege to take part in the armed forces' last duty to our Queen.\n\n\"In terms of evocative images of the Queen leaving Buckingham Palace for the last time, this is going to be a very special afternoon.\"\n\nA rehearsal was held in the early hours of Wednesday for those taking part in the procession\n\nMourners are queuing to attend the Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall, with the first person waiting since Monday. About 400,000 people are expected to attend.\n\nKate Paysen, 58, flew from Lisbon for the lying in state.\n\nMs Paysen, originally from the UK, said: \"I always felt that when the Queen died I would come and pay my respects.\n\n\"My father was in the Army and I grew up in a royalist household, and I think it's important to come and be part of history. I think the Queen for me always made me feel proud to be British.\"\n\nPeople can observe the lying-in-state from 17:00 BST on Wednesday. It concludes at 06:30 on Monday, the morning of the Queen's funeral.\n\nGovernment guidance says the queue is expected to be very long, with people standing for \"many hours, possibly overnight\" and with very little opportunity to sit down.\n\nIt is thought the queue might reach four miles up the Thames to Bermondsey", "Center Parcs has backtracked over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe holiday firm said it had made the decision \"as a mark of respect\" and to allow employees to \"be part of this historic moment\".\n\nBut the move prompted complaints from angry holidaymakers online.\n\nIt would have meant some guests would have had to leave part-way through their break and return afterwards.\n\nOne holidaymaker the BBC spoke to described the previous plans as \"ridiculous\".\n\nOthers took to Center Parcs' Facebook page to express their anger, with one saying the last-minute change showed no respect to guests.\n\nCenter Parcs had said that guests would have to leave its five UK sites for 24 hours from 10:00 BST on Monday 19 September.\n\nThe company has now changed its decision, saying that it will no longer require guests who are not due to depart on Monday to leave.\n\nThose due to arrive on Monday, however, will still not be able to check in until 10:00 BST Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday evening, it said: \"The vast majority of our guests are either due to arrive or depart on Monday 19 September.\n\n\"We have however, reviewed our position regarding the very small number of guests who are not due to depart on Monday, and we will be allowing them to stay on our villages rather than having to leave and return on Tuesday.\"\n\nThe five locations of its holiday parks include: Elveden Forest, Suffolk; Longleat Forest, Wiltshire; Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire; Woburn Forest, Bedfordshire; and Whinfell Forest, Cumbria.\n\nFacilities on-site, including restaurants, will still remain closed on Monday too. Center Parcs said it would be offering a discount for the lack of facilities available on that day.\n\nDavid Tomlinson from Solihull, is two days into a two-week break with his wife at the Sherwood Forest site.\n\nHe said the company had the opportunity to inform guests of the decision before they checked in on Monday.\n\nGuests also took to Center Parcs' Facebook page to vent their frustration before the update was made.\n\n\"You're closing your sites at very short notice as a mark of respect, while showing very little respect for your customers,\" one wrote.\n\nAnother said: \"We were five related families getting together for our annual family holiday - with two small children and two dogs, three hours from home!\n\n\"Sorry, but this is an awful decision that has left us devastated.\"\n\nThey pleaded: \"By all means close the restaurants and activities, but let us stay on the park!\"\n\nRival holiday company Butlin's has said that its resorts will be staying open on Monday, with some changes to arrival times.\n\nAccording to government guidance, businesses are under no obligation to close during the period of national mourning, which includes the Queen's funeral on Monday 19 September.\n\nHowever, a number of firms have said they will close all or some of their stores on Monday, including supermarket chains Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda and retailers such as Primark and John Lewis.\n• None What is a state funeral? Where is the Queen buried?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe 'period of silence' at Anfield lasted for about 30 seconds and was observed by all but a handful of those in the stadium Tributes to the Queen were respectfully observed across 30 EFL games and at Liverpool and Tottenham's Champions League matches as UK football resumed after the weekend's postponements. All English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football was called off after the UK's longest-serving monarch died aged 96 last week. At almost all English Football League (EFL) matches the National Anthem was played. A 'period of silence' was held at EFL games as well as Liverpool and Tottenham's Champions League matches. BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty reported that the vast majority of Liverpool supporters at a capacity Anfield observed a shorter period of silence impeccably, with one or two rogue shouts at the start of the tribute quickly shouted down before their fixture against Ajax. A minute's silence was respected at Swansea City in the only EFL game taking place in Wales while the Championship club opted not to play the National Anthem before their home game with Sheffield United. Liverpool said before the game against Ajax that a 'period of silence' would be held and it lasted for about 30 seconds. Liverpool fans booed 'Abide With Me' and 'God Save the Queen' before last season's FA Cup final but manager Jurgen Klopp said on Monday he was confident they would show respect against Ajax, as they did against Manchester United last season following the death of Cristiano Ronaldo's baby boy. On Tuesday, the Hillsborough Survivors Support Alliance, along with Liverpool legends Sir Kenny Dalglish and Graeme Souness, also urged fans to show respect. A minute's silence was observed before Tottenham's Champions League game at Sporting Lisbon, where the Champions League anthem was also played. But the Champions League anthem was not played at Anfield, nor was there a Champions League banner in the centre circle. Neither the Champions League anthem nor the British National Anthem will be played at any of this week's Champions League games in the UK, with Uefa having rejected requests from Chelsea, Manchester City and Rangers to play 'God Save the King' at their home games on Wednesday. Both sets of players wore black armbands at Anfield, as did all EFL players, while flags were flown at half-mast. Some clubs also ensured they played appropriate music and suspended their regular advertisements as a mark of respect. Elsewhere, Mansfield Town released 96 doves during the players' handshake before their League Two game at home to Carlisle United. Classical singer Russell Watson sang the national anthem before Preston's Championship game against Burnley while at AFC Wimbledon's League Two home game with Northampton, messages recorded by local MPs were played as they joined a group of more than 50 dignitaries to lay a floral tribute in the centre circle before kick-off. A Swansea statement read: \"The EFL provided all clubs with guidance around the suggested form and order any tributes should take. While that guidance was not prescriptive, as a club we tailored our tribute in a manner that we deemed appropriate. \"We would like to place on record our sincere thanks to supporters of both clubs who impeccably observed the minute's silence, while the tributes on display up and down the country was the perfect way to remember Her late Majesty.\" Swansea and fellow Welsh club Wrexham issued requests for their fans to respect the minute's silence, but there was a minority of shouting and booing before Wrexham's National League game at home to Dagenham & Redbridge, partly from fans rebuking other supporters. In a statement on Wednesday, Wrexham said it was \"disappointing to hear the one-minute silence disturbed be a small number of individuals among the 9,835 in attendance\", \"To have the club's name in the media this morning for all the wrong reasons, is not a scenario that should have occurred and we wish to apologise to all who were offended by the actions of the minority, while thanking the vast majority who did observe the one-minute silence. \"A number of the individuals who disturbed the one-minute silence were asked to leave the Racecourse Ground for their own safety.\" Mansfield Town released 96 doves as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died aged 96 Programmes at many EFL games featured an image of Queen Elizabeth II, including Hull City's match against Stoke City An image of Queen Elizabeth II was displayed on the big screen before MK Dons' game with Bolton Wanderers At Bayern Munich's Champions League game with Barcelona, fans displayed banners telling authorities to 'respect fans' after the postponement of the weekend's games in the UK\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", "A man shouted at Prince Andrew as he walked behind the hearse\n\nA 22-year-old man has been charged in connection with a breach of the peace after the Duke of York was heckled as he walked behind the Queen's coffin.\n\nFootage showed a man shouting at Prince Andrew as he followed the coffin up Edinburgh's Royal Mile, at about 14:50 on Monday.\n\nThe man was pulled out of the queue by two bystanders and was later arrested and charged.\n\nHe was released and will appear in court at a later date.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"He was released on an undertaking to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nNo other arrests have been made in relation to the incident. Officers would not confirm if any inquiries into the incident were ongoing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The coffin was driven from St Giles' Cathedral to Edinburgh Airport\n\nCrowds lined the streets of Edinburgh as Queen Elizabeth's coffin made its final journey in Scotland.\n\nThere was applause as the coffin left St Giles' Cathedral, where it had been lying at rest since Monday, to travel to Edinburgh Airport.\n\nIt was then flown to London on board a military plane.\n\nAbout 33,000 people had filed past the coffin in the cathedral, with thousands queuing through the night for the chance to pay their respects.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon was among those to attend a final prayer service at St Giles' Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon, alongside Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone and Scottish Secretary Alistair Jack.\n\nAn honour guard and royal archers lined the street before the Queen's coffin was brought outside.\n\nIt left St Giles' Cathedral on a hearse shortly before 16:20 to make the journey to Edinburgh Airport.\n\nThousands of people packed into the historic streets of Edinburgh for the third day in a row to see the coffin.\n\nThe hearse carrying the Queen's coffin as it left St Giles' Cathedral\n\nCrowds watched the cortege as it made its way to the airport\n\nSupport worker Bethany Walker, 21, said she came straight from her night shift to queue to pay her respects to the Queen.\n\n\"It's a historic event and we want to be there. It's part of the history books,\" she said.\n\nDuncan Wilson Paisley, who served in the Royal Highlanders for 25 years, said he felt a particular gratitude to the Queen.\n\n\"She was a wonderful lady for whom everybody has the utmost respect,\" he said.\n\nThe coffin was taken to Edinburgh Airport as well-wishers lined the streets.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is carried onto the plane\n\nPrincess Anne, Ms Sturgeon and Mr Jack watched from the tarmac as the Queen's coffin was placed on the plane in front of a guard of honour from the Royal Regiment of Scotland.\n\nThe Princess Royal, who accompanied the coffin on the flight, said: \"It has been an honour and a privilege to accompany her on her final journeys.\"\n\nThe coffin was flown to London on an aircraft that was used to evacuate thousands of people fleeing the Taliban in Kabul last summer.\n\nThe C-17 Globemaster has also been used to take humanitarian aid and weapons to Ukraine following Russia's invasion.\n\nThe coffin arrived at RAF Northolt before being taken to Buckingham Palace, where it was met by King Charles and Camilla, Queen Consort, as well as other members of the Royal Family.\n\nIt was received by a guard of honour - formed by the King's Guard - before being taken to the Bow Room inside the palace where it will be watched over by a rota of chaplains.\n\nThe King left Scotland earlier on Tuesday, travelling to Northern Ireland as part of his Operation Spring Tide tour.\n\nHe visited Belfast for the first time as monarch, accompanied by Camilla, Queen Consort.\n\nThey met Northern Ireland's political and religious leaders and took part in a prayer service at St Anne's Cathedral.\n\nSpeaking after the coffin left Scotland, Ms Sturgeon said: \"Over these past few days we have seen just how much Her Majesty meant to the people of Scotland.\n\n\"As anticipated, people from all walks of life gathered across the country and in our capital city to pay tribute to the only monarch most of us have ever known.\"\n\nShe added: \"Scotland has now bid our Queen of Scots a sad, but fond farewell. We will not see her like again.\"", "The royal siblings came together to follow the hearse through the streets of Edinburgh\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's four children were seen in public together for the first time since her death in Balmoral.\n\nKing Charles, the Princess Royal, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward were walking behind the Queen's hearse as it made its way towards St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.\n\nIt was a poignant sight. Children following the coffin of their mother. It doesn't matter how old the children are, at that moment they become children again.\n\nAnd they looked a little stiffer and slower, carefully keeping in step with each other, flanked by cameras and ceremonial guards.\n\nThey looked solemn as they climbed up the Royal Mile. In the space of the past 18 months they've lost both their parents. There's a loneliness that comes with that even with the world's press watching.\n\nThere was a quiet dignity too. Princess Anne has faithfully accompanied her mother's coffin since it left the privacy of Balmoral and the 72-year-old was walking behind it for this stretch too dressed in her Royal Navy ceremonial uniform. She'll stay with it until the Queen lies in state in Westminster Hall.\n\nFunerals, like weddings, put people back into a family setting. But these royal siblings have had their roles fundamentally changed in the last few days.\n\nThe procession went from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral\n\nKing Charles has begun a new life as his mother's has ended. He's taken on one of the highest-profile jobs in the world at the age of 73.\n\nHe is now the centre of attention, commander-in-chief as well as chief mourner, and walked holding out a field marshal's baton in his hand.\n\nThe Queen's insignia was still stitched on his uniform, where soon his own letters will replace hers.\n\nAlongside his own private grief he's had an intense timetable of meetings, public and private, travelling to talk to politicians and planners, interspersing his new duties as King with his role in the progress of the funeral.\n\nHe has been pushed into the limelight when most people would want to hide away.\n\nThe hereditary principle means that as Charles and his heirs move to centre-stage, others in the family are inexorably eased to the edges, no longer the children of the monarch. Distant branches on the royal tree.\n\nPrince Andrew, 62, was marching uphill too. He had his medals, but as he's no longer a working royal he wasn't wearing a military uniform, unlike his brothers and sister.\n\nHe was staring straight ahead, perhaps thinking how much his life has changed too.\n\nThey walked along Edinburgh streets that are usually noisy with tourists. Today there were even bigger crowds, but with a sense of quiet and curiosity.\n\nThere was the sound of horses' hooves on the cobbles and a sea of mobile phones held up by people recording a few moments of history going past them.\n\nThen with more ceremony and salutes, the coffin and the Queen's children entered the cathedral for a service with hymns, music and prayers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The traditional Vigil of the Princes has taken place in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh\n\nLater on Monday evening the four children gathered together again in silent vigil facing outwards from the mother's coffin in the cathedral for the Vigil of the Princes - a long-standing tradition last performed during the Queen Mother's funeral. In their private grief they bowed their heads as members of the public continued to file past to pay their respects.\n\nThe coffin had travelled with flowers on top, including from the Queen's estate in Balmoral. A crown was added for the first time, the grandeur stepping up at each part of the journey, which will culminate next week in a state funeral.\n\nThe church is named after Saint Giles and maybe the royal siblings might have envied his lifestyle. He was a hermit who lived in the woods where no one could find him.", "King Charles has spoken about his mother's love of Scotland - saying she had \"found in the hills of this land, and the hearts of its people, a haven and a home\". Today she will leave that Scotland for the last time.\n\nIn life, Queen Elizabeth came to embody that deep and abiding bond the King evoked on Monday in the chamber at Holyrood - the bond of a shared history and a common identity across the United Kingdom.\n\nScotland today has, arguably, been diverging from the rest of the UK politically for 40 years. Support for independence remains below 50% - but not by much - and among the young it is much higher than that.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants an independent Scotland - but if that comes to pass, to retain the monarchy with King Charles and his heirs on the Scottish throne.\n\nAs King, Charles will have to keep his views on that prospect to himself. But he begins a reign that will be very finely attuned to the sensibilities of Scotland and the distinctiveness of its traditions and institutions.\n\nThat he has chosen to begin his reign with visits to Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff is telling. It suggests that the future of the Union is at the heart of his concerns. The early decades of his late mother's reign were characterised by the long slow contraction of British Imperial power overseas. He will be alert to the possibility that his own reign could come to be defined by the continuation of that process here, and the eventual dissolution of the United Kingdom itself.\n\nBut all that is for another day. On Monday, kilted soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Scotland formed a bearer party and carried the coffin of the Queen from the privacy of the Throne Room at Holyrood Palace.\n\nHer four children walked slowly up the steep incline of that ancient thoroughfare known as the Royal Mile, following their mother's hearse.\n\nThe eyes of the world intrude on their private sorrow. They must subordinate their own grief to the imperatives of public ritual. It is the way they have lived their lives.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was carried into St Giles Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh, where the Queen had sometimes worshipped, not as head of the Church here, but simply as a member.\n\nHere, they placed on the coffin the Crown of Scotland, made in the 16th Century for her ancestor James V.\n\nIt is the centre-piece of the Scottish crown jewels - also known as the Honours of Scotland. Consider the quiet symbolism of this - it is a gesture toward the distinctive character of Scotland's historic nationhood.\n\n\"Here at St Giles,\" said the parish minister, the Reverend Calum MacLeod, \"John Knox confronted Mary Queen of Scots, King James VI argued about liturgy, Oliver Cromwell preached, and our late Queen received the Honours of Scotland,\" on her accession to the throne 70 years ago.\n\nThe Scottish parliament she opened 23 years ago is the centre of public and political life here now. The King and Queen Consort were escorted into the chamber by the King's bodyguard in Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers.\n\nEach party leader spoke in support of a motion of condolence, beginning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\n\"Our nation is in mourning for a Queen whose loss we have not yet begun to come to terms with,\" Ms Sturgeon told the chamber. \"We are deeply honoured by the presence today of His Majesty King Charles III and the Queen Consort. Your Majesty, we stand ready to support you as you continue your own life of service and as you build on the extraordinary legacy of your beloved mother, our Queen. Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Scots, we are grateful for her life. May she now rest in peace.\"\n\nThe King replied: \"My mother felt as I did the greatest admiration for the Scottish people,\" he said. \"For their magnificent achievements, and their indomitable spirit, and it was the greatest comfort to her to know in turn the true affection in which she was held. The knowledge of that deep and abiding bond must be, to us, as solid, as we mourn the end of a life of incomparable service.\"\n\nThe Queen's coffin will today be taken to London to lie in state at Westminster Great Hall.\n\nWhat will remain of that legacy, when this period of mourning is over and she recedes into the middle distance of our collective memory?\n\nThat question will be at the heart of the new reign that began when she died.", "The Duke of Sussex used this picture of himself with the Queen to accompany his tribute\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has remembered his grandmother's \"infectious smile\" in a touching tribute to the late Queen.\n\nDescribing Elizabeth II as a \"guiding compass\" in her commitment to service and duty, Prince Harry said he was grateful for the \"special moments\" they shared.\n\n\"You are already sorely missed, not just by us, but by the world over,\" he said.\n\nThe duke also thanked the Queen for her \"sound advice\".\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry echoed words spoken by the Queen's husband the Duke of Edinburgh: \"Life, of course, consists of final partings as well as first meetings.\"\n\nHe said: \"Granny, while this final parting brings us great sadness, I am forever grateful for all of our first meetings - from my earliest childhood memories with you, to meeting you for the first time as my Commander-in-Chief, to the first moment you met my darling wife and hugged your beloved great-grandchildren.\n\n\"I cherish these times shared with you, and the many other special moments in between.\n\n\"You are already sorely missed, not just by us, but by the world over.\n\n\"And as it comes to first meetings, we now honour my father in his new role as King Charles III.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"We, too, smile knowing that you and grandpa are reunited now, and both together in peace.\"\n\nHis statement is thought to have been held back a day and released on Monday out of respect for the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.\n\nThe duke used a photograph of him smiling with the Queen at the 2019 wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor, the daughter of the Queen's cousin Prince Michael of Kent, to accompany his tribute.\n\nPrinces Harry and William were joined by their wives, Meghan and Catherine, at Windsor on Saturday to view some of the flowers and messages left for the Queen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his tribute on Saturday, Prince William, now the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, said that while the world had \"lost an extraordinary leader\" he had lost his \"Grannie\".\n\nThe Sussexes, who live in California, had been in Europe last week when the Queen died, attending Invictus Games events.", "The Queen's coffin will travel from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall on Wednesday to lie in state for four days, so the public can pay their final respects.\n\nThis video shows the route it will take.\n\nOn Monday, the coffin will be moved to nearby Westminster Abbey for the state funeral.", "King Charles III visited Northern Ireland on Tuesday for the first time as monarch as part of his tour of the UK.\n\nHe landed at Belfast City Airport - in the shadows of the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard cranes - at about 12:00 BST.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were presented with gifts of truffles with an image of the Giant's Causeway on the tin and a bunch of flowers by Ella Smith and Lucas Watt, both aged 10, from Forge Integrated Primary School in the city.\n\nThe King and Camilla travelled to Royal Hillsborough, given the prefix in 2021 due to the village's connection to the Royal Family, where people had been waiting since dawn to catch a glimpse of them.\n\nThe King and Camilla spent time shaking hands and greeting those who had gathered in the main street of the village in County Down.\n\nConnie the corgi also met the King as he received flowers and cards from excited schoolchildren.\n\nMerlin the Persian cat, wearning a golden crown, was among those who lined the streets.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla spent time admiring the floral tributes left outside Hillsborough Castle, the only royal residence in Northern Ireland, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nInside the castle the King and Camilla received a message of condolence from Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey before the King made a short speech to the guests.\n\nThe King also met senior Stormont politicians, including Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill, Democratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and figures from the other main parties.\n\nHe was introduced to troops at the castle, shortly after a 21-gun salute had taken place in the castle gardens.\n\nOutside there were smiles and one woman (below, left) held a photo of her meeting the then Prince of Wales when she received an MBE several years ago.\n\nThe Hillsborough Fort Guard also stood outside during the King's visit to the royal residence.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort made their way to St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast for a service of reflection for the life of the Queen, their last formal engagement in Northern Ireland for the day.\n\nA large crowd gathered outside Belfast City Hall to witness the King and Camilla pass through the city centre.\n\nLarge screens were placed in the city centre for those who wanted to watch the service.\n\nInside the cathedral Prime Minister Liz Truss and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin were among those who took part in the service.\n\nIt was Ms Truss's first visit to Northern Ireland since she became prime minister last week and she was greeted by Michelle O'Neill from Sinn Féin, whose part is the largest in the Stormont assembly.\n\nAfter the service the King and Queen Consort greeted those who had gathered in Writers' Square opposite the cathedral.\n\nThe hundreds of people who were there did their best to capture the historic visit on camera.", "Family and friends gathered at St Mary's Church in Prittlewell, Southend, for Archie's funeral\n\nFamily and friends of Archie Battersbee, who died following a legal battle over his life support, have paid tribute to him at his funeral in Essex.\n\nThe 12-year-old boy died in August after his parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, lost a series of legal hearings around his medical treatment.\n\nMourners at the service at St Mary's Church in Southend were asked to wear purple ribbons or ties to remember him.\n\nMs Dance told the congregation \"he was the best little boy ever\".\n\nSpeaking through tears, she said Archie had lived a \"fulfilled, happy life\" and was \"moulding into such a perfect young man\".\n\nThe song Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi was played over speakers and there was poetry, hymns, a bible reading and a video montage of photographs and film of Archie.\n\nHollie Dance told the service her son was \"the best little boy ever\"\n\n\"There was nothing run-of-the-mill about Archie,\" said Matt Badcock, head teacher at Earls Hall Primary School, which Archie attended.\n\nHe also praised Archie's loyalty and \"strong friendships\".\n\nAnother tribute came from Verity Adams of South Essex Gymnastics Club.\n\nShe said Archie was a keen gymnast and scaled every piece of equipment and had \"no fear\".\n\n\"I've never seen that level of confidence in someone so young,\" she said.\n\nArchie's coffin was brought to the church by horse and carriage\n\nA gymnastics coach praised Archie's athleticism, saying he had \"no fear\"\n\nThe colour purple became associated with Archie's Army - the name given to people who supported his parents' legal fight.\n\nAhead of the service, his mother said the 12-year-old had wanted to be a world champion fighter and the funeral would honour that wish.\n\n\"He's still going out a champ,\" she said.\n\nArchie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and did not regain consciousness\n\nIn April, Ms Dance found her son unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, and she believed he may have been taking part in an online challenge when he was injured.\n\nArchie suffered severe brain injuries and needed life-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatment. He never regained consciousness.\n\nMs Dance and Archie's father had fought Barts NHS Health Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital in east London where he was treated, about the care of their son.\n\nDoctors believed it was in his best interests for life support to be withdrawn - a decision supported by various courts over a number of months. Treatment was stopped in August.\n\nFollowing the service, a private burial took place and a memorial bench was unveiled in Southend's Priory Park, with a plaque that reads \"Make the most of your life, live and be happy\".\n\nArchie's family unveiled a memorial bench at Priory Park after the funeral\n\nHollie Dance said the service would be a celebration of her son's life\n\nIt was a moving service for Archie in Southend, punctuated with music, from his arrival to The Notorious BIG's Hypnotize to a gospel performance of Amazing Grace.\n\nThe church was packed with people of all ages. But perhaps the greatest reminder of Archie's youth were the schoolboys who sat arm-in-arm comforting one another throughout the service.\n\nArchie's gymnastics coach Verity Adams spoke of how full of life he was, how he would scale the equipment in seconds and how, from her very first meeting with him, she knew he had something special.\n\nThe 447 mourners wore black and purple in Archie's memory. There was laughter and nods of agreement when they were told Archie was happiest \"when upside down\".\n\nHis tearful mum Hollie spoke briefly, telling those gathered that Archie would poke fun at her cooking, that he would tell people he knew his dinner was done when the \"fire alarm went off\".\n\nWhen her voice cracked, shouts of \"we love you Hollie\" and \"we're so proud of you\" came from the pews before the church erupted into applause.\n\nArchie's family went on from the church to a private burial, his glittery silver coffin placed in a horse-drawn carriage.\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 UK's jobs market, which has been buoyant since the economy began to recover from the pandemic, might be starting to turn, experts have warned.\n\nAlthough the unemployment rate fell to 3.6% in the three months to July - the lowest since 1974 - the employment rate and number of vacancies also fell.\n\nRises in regular pay are also failing to keep up with rising living costs.\n\n\"The jobs boom that began six months after the pandemic is probably coming to an end now,\" said the boss of Reed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, James Reed, who chairs the recruitment business, said: \"There are still very large numbers of vacancies and people are still advertising a lot of jobs, and that's why we've seen unemployment continue to go down.\n\n\"The question is, what happens next? Will there be a jobs slump? That's a concern clearly but our data at the moment doesn't suggest that, because we've still got a large number of vacancies and a lot of employers are still struggling to recruit.\"\n\nOne reason for the fall in the unemployment rate is a rise in the number of people who are no longer looking for work, and so not counted in the figure. The inactivity rate rose to 21.7%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, the highest since 2017.\n\nThe squeeze on pay also remains, with rises in regular pay lagging behind inflation. When taking the rise in prices into account, the value of regular pay fell by 2.8%, the ONS said.\n\nInflation - a measure of price rises - remains at a 40-year high of 10.1% and the latest figure, due out on Wednesday, is forecast to be higher.\n\nThe continued gap between private and public sector pay growth was also visible from the ONS's figures.\n\nAverage regular pay growth for the private sector was 6% in May to July, compared with 2% for the public sector. According to the ONS, that is the largest ever difference between private and public sector, outside of the height of the pandemic period.\n\nDespite the jobless rate falling to its lowest rate for 48 years, other measures suggested that the jobs market might be beginning to turn.\n\nThe number of job vacancies fell by the most in two years, down 34,000 between June and August, although the overall number of vacancies still remains historically high.\n\nThe employment rate also slipped to 75.4%, a small drop from the previous three-month period.\n\nThe EY Item Club said the fall in the unemployment rate masked some job market weakness.\n\n\"The decline in joblessness disguised what was only a modest 40,000 rise in employment, the smallest since January to March, with a rise in inactivity playing a bigger role in pushing unemployment down,\" said Martin Beck, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club.\n\n\"Moreover, the single-month data showed the number in work in July falling on three months earlier to the greatest extent since January 2021. This suggests that the weak economy is starting to have an adverse effect on the jobs market.\"\n\nWhile the headline jobs numbers remain strong, with the unemployment rate at its lowest in nearly half a century and long-term joblessness down, there are some signs of a turn here.\n\nFirstly the lower unemployment rate is not really about a jobs boom, it is more reflective of fewer people actively looking for work. That in turn, in the very latest figures, arises out of record numbers of long-term sick. There could be an economic impact here from record NHS waiting lists.\n\nSo the latest jobs numbers remain the silver lining on some dark economic clouds. Other elements here reflect the wider cost of living pressures.\n\nReal pay continues to fall sharply, especially for public sector workers. This is despite some high cash-terms pay growth. And despite a slowing economy, vacancies remain high. Labour shortages are in turn restraining businesses, and in particular could mean inflation remains higher for longer.\n\nThere is one unemployed person per vacancy, a record low, and the jobs are not being filled. But if the government wants to \"go for growth\" that will have to change.\n\nRob Sutton is facing challenges trying to recruit staff for his business.\n\nRob Sutton is founder of RKW, the UK's largest manufacturer, distributor and designer of small domestic appliances.\n\nHe employs 500 people in Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands and said his wage bill has gone up by more than £2.5m in the past two years.\n\n\"We are having to review our wage costs on a monthly basis because it is moving at that fast a speed,\" he said.\n\n\"It has been an absolute nightmare, where we are having to increase [wages] all the time so all our costs are going up and nothing is coming down at the moment.\n\nHis business is expanding and trying to recruit more staff, but it has been a challenge.\n\n\"We've probably got around 20 vacancies that we cannot fill,\" he says.\n\n\"We've had examples where recruitment agencies have come onto our car park where our employees are parked and they put letters on the windscreens saying 'we will give you £1,000 to come and join the company' to entice them away because there has been a massive shortage of order picking and warehouse operators.\n\n\"That's mainly because a lot of the European workers have gone home pre-Covid.\"\n\nBusinesses have warned that the squeezed labour market is having a detrimental effect.\n\n\"With firms doing their best to keep afloat during a period of spiralling costs, they are also facing an extremely tight labour market which is further impacting their ability to invest and grow,\" said Jane Gratton from the British Chambers of Commerce.\n\n\"During a period of increasing inflation, and a stagnant economy, we cannot afford to let recruitment problems further dampen growth.\"\n\nTony Wilson, director at the Institute for Employment Studies, also warned that \"firms simply can't find the workers to fill their jobs\".\n\n\"This is holding back growth but also pushing up inflation, with pay growth in the private sector now running above 6% and contributing to even higher prices.\"", "The mother and father of 24-year-old Chris Kaba - who was shot dead by police in south London - have accused the Metropolitan Police of racism.\n\nChris Kaba was killed in a residential street in Streatham Hill on Monday night following a police chase.\n\nThe police watchdog, the IOPC, is investigating the incident. A spokesman for the Met said the force is \"co-operating fully\" as the IOPC carries out a \"thorough and independent investigation\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles III promised to follow the late Queen's \"selfless duty\" in his first address to both Houses of Parliament as monarch.\n\nThe King said Parliament was the \"living and breathing instrument of our democracy\" as he spoke in front of 900 MPs and peers at Westminster Hall.\n\nIt followed condolences from speakers of the House of Commons and Lords.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle, House of Commons speaker, said \"as deep as our grief is, we know yours is deeper\".\n\nAddressing the King on behalf of MPs, Sir Lindsay added: \"We know you hold the greatest respect, the precious traditions, the freedoms, and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government.\n\n\"We know that you will bear those responsibilities which fall to you with the fortitude, dignity, demonstrated by Her late Majesty.\"\n\nThe King, in his response, said: \"While very young, Her Late Majesty pledged herself to serve her country and her people and to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government which lie at the heart of our nation. This vow she kept with unsurpassed devotion.\n\n\"She set an example of selfless duty which, with God's help and your counsels, I am resolved faithfully to follow.\"\n\nState trumpeters played a fanfare as King Charles made his way through Westminster Hall at 10:25 BST while the Royal Standard was raised in place of the half mast.\n\nKing Charles was accompanied by his wife the Queen Consort while he addressed MPs and peers\n\nKing Charles said he \"cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us\" at Westminster Hall\n\nBuilt in 1097, Westminster Hall has played a significant role in British history across the centuries.\n\n\"I cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us and which reminds us of the vital parliamentary traditions to which members of both houses dedicate yourselves, with such personal commitment for the betterment of us all,\" the King said in his address.\n\n\"Parliament is the living and breathing instrument of our democracy. That your traditions are ancient we see in the construction of this great hall and the reminders of medieval predecessors of the office to which I have been called.\"\n\nAt the ceremony - which took place in the same hall where the Queen's coffin will lie in state later this week - the monarch, accompanied by Camilla, Queen Consort, were offered condolences on behalf of both Houses of Parliament.\n\nLord McFall paid tribute to the late Queen and said she \"captured the imagination of peoples across the globe\".\n\n\"We remember her commitment, her kindness, her humour, her courage and her fortitude as well as the deep faith which was the anchor in her life,\" he added.\n\n\"We are proud and humbled to welcome you as King.\"\n\nAlso among the attendees in the hall was Ugbana Oyet, the first black sergeant at arms in the role's history.\n\nMonday's visit to Westminster also saw members of both houses pledging loyalty to the new monarch.\n\nThe audience at Westminster Hall formed a \"who's who\" of contemporary politicians. Party leaders chatting amiably in the front few rows, cabinet ministers of decades past now in the House of Lords a few rows back.\n\n\"There is nobody in either House who has taken an oath of allegiance to anybody other than Queen Elizabeth,\" Conservative peer and former MP Lord Cormack said after the ceremony.\n\n\"I've been here 52 years, I've taken the oath 14 times. On Saturday for the first time to the new King.\"\n\nYounger parliamentarians, like Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who became Labour MP for Slough in 2017, were conscious of just how rare it is for MPs to be part of the transition to a new monarch.\n\n\"It is a very privileged position we find ourselves in,\" he said.\n\nAfter the ceremony, the King and Queen Consort travelled to Edinburgh, the city where the Queen's coffin has been lying-in-rest since Sunday.\n\nThere, they were greeted by large crowds before they continued on to the Palace of Holyroodhouse for the Ceremony of Keys.\n\nThe trip marks the start of a royal tour of all four nations of the UK.\n\nOne well-wisher among the crowd outside the palace thanked the King and the Queen Consort for the UK's support for Ukraine during the nation's conflict with Russia.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort were greeted by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as they arrived at Edinburgh Airport\n\nThe ceremony at Holyroodhouse was followed by a procession along the Royal Mile to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nThe King, alongside Princess Anne and Princes Edward and Andrew, walked behind the Queen's coffin as it made its way along the Royal Mile.\n\nThe Duke of York did not wear military uniform because he is no longer a working royal, although is expected to as a special mark of respect at a final vigil to be held at Westminster Hall.\n\nAt the cathedral, the Royal Family were joined by a congregation drawn from all areas of Scottish society for a service of thanksgiving for the Queen's life.\n\nThe King later returned to Holyroodhouse for an audience with Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, before making the short journey to the Scottish Parliament, where members delivered a motion of condolence.\n\nLater in the evening, the King and his family observed a vigil at the cathedral in honour of the Queen.\n\nHer coffin will remain at the cathedral for 24 hours for members of the public to pay their respects, before being flown back to RAF Northolt and then travelling on to Buckingham Palace.\n\nSince the Queen died at Balmoral on Thursday, thousands of mourners have laid flowers and tributes at places she lived, including Buckingham Palace, Sandringham House and Windsor Castle.\n\nMore than 750,000 could file past the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall during her lying-in-state later this week. Mourners wishing to do so have been warned queues could reach 20 hours.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall, the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, was the Queen Mother in 2002 when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nSir Peter Bottomley, father of the House of Commons, said he expected \"we'll see 10 times more than that\" this week.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It is a magnificent opportunity for people to come through Westminster Hall and actually feel the modernity of the monarchy and the tradition.\"\n\nSir Peter said the events of the past few days showed how in the space of a week you can change the head of state and the prime minister and have people taking to the streets \"with love and flowers\".\n\nThe lying-in-state begins at 17:00 BST on Wednesday and will last until 06:30 on Monday 19 September - the day of the Queen's funeral at Westminster Abbey.\n\nMembers of the public have been invited to take part in a minute's silence at 20:00 BST on Sunday, the evening before the funeral.\n\n\"The silence can be marked privately at home on your own or with friends and neighbours, out on your doorstep or street with neighbours, or at any locally arranged, community events and vigils,\" a spokesperson for No 10 said.", "The DUP's Diane Dodds said she met the Queen on many occasions.\n\nShe recalled a meeting when her husband, Nigel Dodds, was lord mayor of Belfast.\n\nThe day before two policemen had been injured.\n\n\"When she came forward she inquired about the health of the policemen and then went on to say she had seen Nigel speaking on the news the previous night.\n\nShe said she took away two things: \"The Queen was touched by the violence and pain in Northern Ireland but in my naivety I was completely surprised that the Queen had been watching the six o’clock news.\"\n\nShe said the loss of the Queen meant different things for generations.\n\n\"For many of us it is another lost connection to parents and loved ones - a sense of a generation quietly fading away,\" Mrs Dodds said.\n\nHowever she said that to her very young grandchildren the Queen was the woman who had tea with Paddington Bear and had sandwiches in her purse.", "The Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday, after her coffin has been lying in state for the last four full days.\n\nHere is your guide to what will happen, day by day.\n\nMonday is the day of the Queen's state funeral. It is also a bank holiday in the UK.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state will end at 06:30 BST when the last people will file past her coffin. The doors to Westminster Abbey will then open at 08:00 ahead of the funeral.\n\nAt 10:44, the Queen's coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and it will be drawn by 142 sailors from the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III will walk behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nThe procession will be led by a massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force - numbering 200 musicians.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive at the Abbey at 10:52. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.\n\nAt around 11:55, the Last Post will sound, followed by a national two-minute silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12:00.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will travel in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. The King and senior royals will walk behind the coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will follow the procession by car. Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals.\n\nFrom there the coffin will be taken by a state hearse to Windsor. Shortly after 15:00, the hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nThe three-mile (5km) avenue will be lined with members of the armed forces.\n\nA committal service will then begin at 16:00. Attended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, it will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nAfter, the Queen will then be lowered into the royal vault.\n\nLater in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen will be buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "This was His Majesty's 40th trip to Northern Ireland, but his first as King\n\nOn his first visit to Northern Ireland as King, Charles III said his mother \"never ceased to pray for the best of times for this place and its people\".\n\nThe King also received a message of condolence from the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nSinn Féin's Alex Maskey said the Queen recognised how a \"small but significant gesture can make a huge difference in changing attitudes\".\n\nThe royal couple spent just over four hours in Northern Ireland.\n\nTheir first engagement was at Hillsborough Castle, the only royal residence in Northern Ireland, which has been a focal point for floral tributes to the late Queen.\n\nThe King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, met well-wishers in the County Down village, before the King held a private meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and senior representatives from Stormont's political parties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III: New King meets NI parties for first time as monarch\n\nThe royal couple then travelled into Belfast for a service in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.\n\nSpeaking at Hillsborough Castle, the King said the late Queen had seen momentous and historic changes throughout her long reign.\n\n\"My mother felt deeply, I know, the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those who history had separated and extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts,\" he said.\n\n\"Now, with that shining example before me, and with God's help, I take up my new duties resolved to seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen made a \"huge difference in changing attitudes\" in Northern Ireland, says Stormont Speaker Alex Maskey\n\nStarting his speech in Irish, Mr Maskey, Sinn Féin's longest-serving elected representative, said: \"Ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh leat ag an am crua seo (I would like to sympathise with you at this difficult time).\n\n\"It's extraordinary to consider how much social and political change Queen Elizabeth witnessed... throughout her long reign.\n\n\"Yesterday an assembly of unionists, republicans, nationalists and those for whom the Constitution is not a main focus united to pay tribute to the late Queen.\n\n\"When she first came to the throne, no one would have anticipated an assembly so diverse and inclusive.\"\n\nHe was there to deliver a message of condolence to the King and Queen consort on the death of the Queen.\n\nBut the message he delivered went much further as he reflected on the changing political landscape in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe carefully contrasted the Queens leadership in helping to build peace and reconciliation with the lack of leadership elsewhere - a veiled swipe at those behind the stalemate at Stormont.\n\nIn another political dig to others, he highlighted how the Queen in her work underlined that one tradition is not diminished by reaching out to show respect to another.\n\nThe speaker also took the opportunity to remind the King how the political landscape has been transformed allowing someone from his background to hold the office of Speaker.\n\nRead more of Enda's analysis here.\n\nKing Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort arrived at Belfast City Airport\n\nAfter leaving Hillsborough Castle the royal couple travelled into Belfast to meet leaders from all the major faiths in Northern Ireland before a service of prayer and reflection on the life of Queen Elizabeth II at St Anne's Cathedral.\n\nDuring the service, Archbishop of Armagh John McDowell, the head of the Church of Ireland, highlighted the Queen's efforts to foster peace on the island of Ireland.\n\nHe told the King and Queen Consort that \"faithfulness, care, dutifulness, love and devotion\" were all part of her long reign.\n\n\"All of these could be employed to describe her relationship with Northern Ireland, with patience binding them all together, but paying attention especially to what she said most recently, the word which I think will be most associated with Queen Elizabeth and Ireland, north and south, is 'reconciliation',\" the archbishop said.\n\nHe added that the Queen \"followed where Jesus led as women often have in the elusive and unfinished work of reconciliation here in Ireland\".\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss attended the service, along with Irish President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin.\n\nAgain, hundreds of people lined the route through the city.\n\nThe Reas from Carryduff and the Dolans from Belvoir took the day off school and made their way to City Hall at 08:00 BST to see the royal couple.\n\n\"We'll never see anything like this again,\" said Lisa Dolan.\n\n\"It's a once in a lifetime event.\"\n\nMs Dolan said she felt sorry for the King being \"unable to grieve the way the rest of us would\", but understood it was his duty as monarch.\n\n\"He's been working towards this his entire life,\" she added.\n\nHazelwood Integrated students Jo and James were among those who gathered at Writers' Square, across from St Anne's Cathedral.\n\nHazelwood Integrated students Jo and James hoped to see the royal couple after the service at St Anne's Cathedral\n\nThey said that as history students, they were excited to be witnessing such an historical event.\n\n\"I was a wee bit heartbroken when the queen died - I'm not going to lie,\" said James.\n\nBut he was equally excited to see the new King.\n\n\"I had never really thought about the Queen as a force in my life until she died and then it felt like something was missing,\" Jo said.\n\nAt the end of the service, the King and Queen Consort left St Anne's through the west door where they again met members of the public in Writers' Square, before heading back to Belfast City Airport for the return flight to London.", "Thousands of people have queued through the night to see the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh.\n\nThe line trailed far back along the paths of the city's Meadows, south of St Giles' Cathedral where the coffin is lying at rest.\n\nMourners had begun filing into the cathedral at on Monday evening, keen to pay their respects to the Queen and be part of a historic moment.\n\nElizabeth Mbulaiteye, who is from Uganda but lives in Glasgow, joined the queue at midday on Monday with her son Daniel and daughter Angel, and were still there eight hours later.\n\nElizabeth said: \"My mother was born in the same year as the Queen, so she was named Elizabeth. She loved the Queen, so she called me Elizabeth as well.\n\n\"She's 96 now, and on Saturday she travelled to Balmoral to pay her respects.\n\n\"When we were growing up, we were always very big fans of the Royal Family.. We wanted to come through today and be part of a historic moment.\"\n\nElizabeth Mbulaiteye (centre) said she wanted to be part of a \"historic moment\"\n\nCalum King 54, from East Linton in East Lothian, drove from Nottingham after his last training weekend with the Army reserves.\n\n\"Nearly 34 years ago, I swore an oath of allegiance to her. So it's only fitting that I say my goodbyes,\" he said.\n\nOnce he had finished queuing into the early hours of the morning, he was expecting to to go home in time for work on Tuesday morning.\n\nAhmad Zaky, Mutiara Tan, and Anindya Hapsari have just moved to Edinburgh from Indonesia to study for their MBAs and this was the first day of their course.\n\nAnindya said: \"We believe that this is only once in a lifetime.\n\n\"We never imagined that this would happen while we were studying in Edinburgh. \"\n\nAhmad Zaky, Mutiara Tan and Anindya Hapsari only recently moved to Edinburgh\n\nFiona and Matt Sigsworth, both 35, joined the Meadows queue at 19:00 in hopes that they might make St Giles' Cathedral by midnight.\n\nThey came wrapped up warm, with packed rolls and drinks to keep them going into the small hours travelling from the Coaltown of Balgonie, near Glenrothes in Fife.\n\nFiona, a teacher, said: \"It's once a lifetime and we wanted to pay our respects to an extraordinary woman.\n\n\"We're not royalists, but I respect and admire what the Queen has done for the country and the sacrifice and duty that she's shown for 70 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People from across the country travelled to Edinburgh to pay their respects to the Queen\n\nAs people continued to join the queues, the Salvation Army vans were offering hot drinks and rolls for the cold night ahead, with toilets and water stops stationed along the queue.\n\nCorey Burgher, 44, was there with stepdaughter Giovanna Giambastiani, 24, at 2:30am.\n\nMr Burgher, who works in the Royal Navy, said: \"We wanted to say our goodbyes to the boss.\n\n\"I didn't know her personally, but I met her when I was a kid. But I got quite emotional about it, it was quite a shock.\"\n\nIan Burns, 65, and wife Lina, 54, were still queuing by the university at 2am.\n\nLina, from Ukraine, had work at 9am but said: \"We are here to cherish the memories. She is the best role model in modern society. I haven't heard about anyone else as good as the Queen.\"\n\nBy 4am when David and Selda Dow joined the queue the night was colder and the park quieter as people shuffled forward in silence.\n\nSelda, a staff nurse, said: \"We went to the proclamation for the new King yesterday and we think he's doing really well.\n\n\"I've only met the Queen once briefly at the Holyrood Garden Party when I was 18 but she was lovely.\n\n\"So tonight we wanted to come and join the queue to pay our respects.\"\n\nBetty and Thomas Bremner brought granddaughter Zara to Edinburgh to see the Queen's coffin\n\nEarlier, those who had already been able to view the coffin told of their \"emotional\" experience in the cathedral.\n\nBetty and Thomas Bremner, from Kennoway in Fife, watched the coffin being driven along the M90 on Sunday before travelling to Edinburgh with granddaughter, Zara, on Monday.\n\n\"It was a privilege. It was serene, beautiful, you weren't rushed at all. It was just so peaceful, I'm glad I came, really glad I came,\" Mrs Bremner said.\n\nThey waited six hours to see the coffin. But the grandmother said: \"I would have stood all night, if I had to.\"\n\nHer husband said he found it surprisingly emotional.\n\n\"It was very, very sad actually. I didn't think I would shed a tear but it got to me in the end when I was walking through St Giles'.\"", "Tens of thousands of people cheered as William Ruto was sworn in as Kenya's president at a ceremony in the capital Nairobi following his narrow election win last month.\n\nMr Ruto hailed it as \"a moment like no other\", adding that a \"village boy\" had become president.\n\nDefeated candidate Raila Odinga did not attend. He said he had \"serious concerns\" about his opponent's victory.\n\nMr Ruto won the election with 50.5% of the vote, to Mr Odinga's 48.8%.\n\nMr Odinga has alleged that the result was rigged, but the Supreme Court has ruled the election was free and fair.\n\nMr Ruto - the former deputy president - was handed a copy of Kenya's constitution and a sword to represent the transfer of power from President Uhuru Kenyatta.\n\nWith his hand on a Bible, the 55-year-old swore to preserve and protect the constitution.\n\n\"Standing here today is testimony that there is God in heaven. I want to thank God because a village boy has become the president of Kenya,\" Mr Ruto said, referring to the fact that he grew up in rural Kenya.\n\nHe also had conciliatory words for Mr Odinga, and all his opponents.\n\n\"Their supporters will be my constituents. I will work with all Kenyans irrespective of who they voted for,\" Mr Ruto said.\n\nThere was also a handshake between the outgoing Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto, his former deputy with whom he fell out during their second term in office.\n\nNew Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua said the Ruto administration marked \"freedom\" for Kenya, and the days when people were targeted because of their association with him \"are over\".\n\nEarlier, at least eight people were reported to have been injured in a crush as they jostled to enter the stadium to witness the ceremony.\n\nBut inside the crowd was in high-sprits, with frequent cheering, waving of the Kenyan flag, and groups of people proudly wearing yellow - the colour synonymous with Mr Ruto's campaign.\n\nAbout 20 heads of state from across Africa attended the event.\n\nReligion was a persistent theme throughout the swearing in ceremony, with leaders from the Christian and Islamic faiths offering prayers for the new president.\n\nBishop Mark Kariuki said God had showcased his might by elevating Mr Ruto, who was once a road-side chicken seller, to the presidency.\n\nMr Kenyatta has stepped down at the end of his two terms. He backed Mr Odinga in the election, saying Mr Ruto was unworthy to serve as president.\n\nMr Kenyatta congratulated Mr Ruto on his win only a day before his inauguration.\n\nMr Kenyatta said he was committed to a peaceful transition and urged the new president to serve all Kenyans.\n\nSeveral people were injured in a crush as they tried to enter the stadium\n\nIn a statement, Mr Odinga said he had received a call from Mr Ruto inviting him to the inauguration, but that he would not attend as he was abroad and he did not believe the election was free and fair.\n\nThis is despite the fact that the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous judgment, confirming Mr Ruto's victory and dismissing Mr Odinga's concerns that the election was marred by widespread irregularities.\n\nMr Ruto won after portraying himself as a \"hustler\" who was challenging an attempt by two dynasties - the Odingas and Kenyattas - to hang on to power.\n\nHe promised a \"bottoms-up\" approach to the economy to tackle the high unemployment rate among young people, and to improve the lives of those less well off.", "The Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral for their silver wedding anniversary in 1972\n\nThe Queen's love of her home in Balmoral in Royal Deeside was well known.\n\nShe spent most summers at the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire, usually with her beloved husband Philip and family by her side.\n\nSurrounded by countryside, Balmoral Castle is where she spent many a happy holiday - from visiting with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary as a small child, to the final months of her life.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip with children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Charles (left to right) in the grounds of Balmoral in 1960\n\nShe hosted numerous royal garden parties there and enjoyed watching events at the nearby Braemar Highland Games with other members of the Royal Family.\n\nShe spent much of Prince Philip's last years with him at Balmoral - they remained there together during lockdown and spent their 73rd wedding anniversary there in November 2020.\n\nBalmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when the estate and its original castle were bought from the Farquharson family by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband. The house was then found to be too small and the current Balmoral Castle was commissioned.\n\nBalmoral Castle has been a residence of the Royal Family since 1852\n\nThe castle itself is an example of Scottish baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Environment Scotland as a category A listed building. The new castle was completed in 1856 and the old castle demolished shortly afterwards.\n\nIt remains private property of the Queen and is not part of the Crown Estate.\n\nIt is a working estate, including grouse moors, forestry and farmland, as well as managed herds of deer, Highland cattle, and ponies.\n\nThe Royal Family were at Balmoral when Princess Diana died on 31 August 1997 and it initially became the focus of the aftermath.\n\nAfter attending a private service at Crathie Church, the Queen and the Royal Family stop to look at floral tributes left for Princess Diana, at the gates of Balmoral Castle, in September 1997\n\nThe Sunday morning after her death, the Queen and Princes Charles, William and Harry attended a church service at nearby Crathie Kirk.\n\nOn their way home they viewed the floral tributes and messages left by the public.\n\nHere are some more images of the Queen and her family at Balmoral over the years:\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary on the way back to Balmoral after attending church at nearby Crathie in September 1932\n\nThe Royal Family during a visit to Balmoral Castle in 1951, Princess Elizabeth is with her children Prince Charles (left) and Princess Anne\n\nQueen Elizabeth II with her children Charles (right) and Anne, posing in Balmoral in 1952\n\nThe Queen plays with Prince Charles and Princess Anne at the castle windows in 1952\n\nThe Queen watches her son Prince Charles driving in a toy car on the grounds of Balmoral Castle\n\nPresident Eisenhower with the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral Castle in September 1959\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in a field with Highland cattle at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen at the writing desk in her study at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip in the study at Balmoral in 1976\n\nQueen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with theirs three sons, Edward, Charles and Andrew for their 32nd wedding anniversary at Balmoral on 20 November 1979\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip on holiday at Balmoral Castle in 2005\n\nThe Queen and members of the Royal Family break into laughter as they watch the tug-of-war during the Braemar Gathering in 2006\n\nThe Queen attends a garden party at Balmoral Castle in 2012\n\nThe Queen signs a message at Balmoral that was carried in the Commonwealth baton ahead of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games\n\nThe Queen arrives at Crathie Kirk with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in August 2019\n\nThe Queen inspects the Balaklava Company, 5 Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland at the gates at Balmoral, as she takes up summer residence at the castle in August 2021\n\nChildren from Crathie Primary School present the Queen with a card at the Balmoral Estate's cricket pavilion in October 2021\n\nQueen Elizabeth receiving the new prime minister, Liz Truss, in the drawing room at Balmoral on Tuesday\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have hailed Queen Elizabeth II as \"the greatest ever leader\", saying she was \"courageous and gracious\".\n\nThey were speaking as King Charles III prepares to make his first visit as monarch to Belfast on Tuesday.\n\nSinn Féin's Alex Maskey, Speaker, said it was important the assembly came together \"in recognition of a long life given to public service\".\n\nA book of condolence is being opened in Stormont's Great Hall.\n\nThe first to speak was Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill who said the Queen was \"a courageous and gracious leader\".\n\nShe said that, with her former party colleague, the late and ex-deputy first minister Martin McGuinness, she met the Queen in 2012 and in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Her warmth, kindness and unfailing courtesy towards us was appreciated,\" she said.\n\n\"She made real efforts and in good faith to build relationships with those of us who were Irish.\"\n\nGordon Lyons, DUP, said the Queen \"had a unique capacity to bring us together.\"\n\nHe called her the \"greatest ever leader\" with a devotion to duty \"to the very end\".\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long hailed the Queen's \"unswerving dedication to duty, right to her final hours\".\n\n\"She personified something which most could admire,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a graciousness, a generosity as to how she did her work - but also a twinkle in her eye.\"\n\nYou could call it the Queen's last act of reconciliation in Northern Ireland.\n\nA chamber better known for its deep political divisions was united to remember the late monarch.\n\nRepublicans and unionists united in their praise of the Queen.\n\nOn her last visit to Stormont, the Queen said politics here was \"not straight forward\".\n\nToday it felt like it was.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said the Queen was \"current, accessible, approachable in a changing world\".\n\n\"Her Majesty epitomised service,\" he said, adding that her visit to Ireland was \"extraordinary\".\n\nShe had shown \"courage, leadership and generosity of spirit\" and \"won the hearts of the Irish people\".\n\nMatthew O'Toole, SDLP, said what was remarkable was the Queen's \"ability to win respect and affection from people from a huge range of backgrounds\".\n\nHe paid tribute to her \"extraordinary contribution to reconciliation\" across Ireland and Great Britain.\n\n\"The sorrow of this nation is palpable but so, too, is the gratitude for the life and the reign of Queen Elizabeth II,\" said TUV leader Jim Allister.\n\nHe said her service was \"unstinting and unparalleled\" and she had a capacity for empathy.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen's coffin has been brought to Edinburgh after a six-hour journey on Sunday from Balmoral.\n\nThe Queen is lying at rest at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, before being taken to St Giles' Cathedral ahead of her journey to London ahead of her funeral on 19 September.\n\nThe Assembly Commission has followed the other legislatures in closing Parliament Buildings to the public during the period of mourning. A link to the official online books of condolences are being posted on the assembly website.\n\nAs with other legislatures, it has been agreed that written questions will not be tabled during the period of official mourning.\n\nCharles became King following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday and an historic meeting at St James's Palace formally confirmed his role on Saturday.\n\nFurther proclamations took place in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh on Sunday.\n\nAs part of a UK tour, the King will arrive in Belfast on Tuesday before travelling to Hillsborough Castle.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort is expected to accompany him, and Prime Minister Liz Truss will be attending church services in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.\n\nOn Tuesday, King Charles will meet the new Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, as well as local party leaders.\n\nHe is to receive a message of condolence from the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nKing Charles III greets members of the crowd along the Mall during an impromptu walkabout following the death of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nThe King and Queen Consort will then meet leaders from all the major faiths in Northern Ireland before a service of prayer and reflection at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin will be attending the service along with Irish preisdent Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina Higgins.\n\nSimon Coveney, the Irish minister for foreign affairs, will also attend.\n\nIn advance of the King's visit, there will be some traffic disruption around Belfast City Hall - including Donegall Square North, Wellington Place and Chichester Street with road closures put in place on Monday evening.\n\nMeanwhile, anyone who wants to be at Royal Hillsborough during Tuesday's visit can use a shuttle bus service from 07:00 to 10:30 BST departing from both Lisburn train station and the Eikon Centre.\n\nGeneral public shuttle bus services to and from Royal Hillsborough will resume again from 16:00 BST - 20:00 BST (subject to change).\n\nParking is not permitted in Royal Hillsborough.\n\nOn Saturday, a gun salute at Hillsborough Castle marked the Principal Proclamation of King Charles.\n\nOn Sunday, the Accession Proclamation was read at the castle by the Norroy and Ulster King of Arms Robert Noel in front of an audience of dignitaries and members of the public.\n\nThe event featured military in full ceremonial dress, a bugler and a 21-gun salute.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen: People from Northern Ireland and Republic in Edinburgh for historic day\n\nWith the thanksgiving service over, the cobbled streets of Edinburgh feel a little less tightly packed.\n\nEarlier, in preparation for the Queen's funeral procession, the space from the street to the barriers along the Royal Mile was several people deep.\n\nDavina Hull from Lurgan in County Armagh had been there waiting from early morning.\n\nShe said: \"It went so quickly, but there was this calmness in the air when the Queen's coffin approached.\n\n\"It was special to be here.\"\n\nMs Hull travelled from Lurgan, County Armagh to Edinburgh to pay her respects to Queen Elizabeth II\n\nNow, the Queen's coffin will lie in St Giles' Cathedral for 24 hours to allow members of the public to file past and pay their respects.\n\nThe line for St Giles' is already long and continuing to grow.", "Kenneth Starr at an event in 2019\n\nKenneth Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to then-President Bill Clinton's impeachment, has died at the age of 76, his family says.\n\nStarr, a former judge and US solicitor general, died at a Houston hospital on Tuesday of complications from surgery.\n\nAs the independent counsel investigating Mr Clinton, Starr became a household name across the US.\n\nMore recently he served on the team defending former President Donald Trump from impeachment in 2020.\n\nA native of Texas, Starr was appointed by the US Department of Justice in 1994 to investigate Whitewater, a scandal-plagued 1980s land venture that involved both Bill and Hillary Clinton.\n\nWhile conducting the investigation, Starr found evidence that Mr Clinton had been having an affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.\n\nIt resulted in Mr Clinton being impeached by the US House of Representatives in 1998. He was later acquitted by the Senate. Starr wrote about the inquiry in a bestselling book, Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation.\n\nHe said while promoting the book in a CBS interview in 2018 that he regretted \"the pain that resulted to so many, including to the nation\" from the Lewinsky phase of the probe.\n\nMonica Lewinsky once said Starr turned her life into a \"living hell\"\n\nBut he maintained \"it had to be done\" and declined to apologise to Ms Lewinsky for the bullying and harassment she endured after the affair came to light.\n\nFor her part, Ms Lewinsky wrote in a Vanity Fair magazine article that Starr had turned her life into a \"living hell\", and described him as \"creepy\" after bumping into him at a Manhattan restaurant.\n\nHer reaction to news of his death was more measured.\n\nMs Lewinsky tweeted: \"as i'm sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings… but of more importance, is that i imagine it's a painful loss for those who love him.\"\n\nYears after the Clinton investigation in 2016, Starr was forced to leave a position as President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, after an inquiry determined that the school had mishandled rape accusations involving members of its football team. The scandal also led to his resignation as the university's chancellor and as a law professor.\n\nStarr continued to practise law after leaving the university. He also taught constitutional law, penned several books and was a legal pundit for Fox News.\n\nIn early 2020, he again returned to the national spotlight by joining a team defending Mr Trump against impeachment proceedings.\n\nThat inquiry stemmed from claims the then-president had withheld military aid to Ukraine in a bid to force the country to dig up dirt on his political rivals. Mr Trump was acquitted of the charges.\n\nImpeachment, Starr said at the time, was a \"matter of last resort\", arguing that the charges against Mr Trump paled in comparison to those faced by Mr Clinton.\n\nStarr is survived by his wife Alice and three children.\n\n\"We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving father and grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first,\" one of his sons, Randall Starr, said in a statement.\n\nRobert Vagley, the former head of the American Insurance Association, was quoted in the family's statement as saying that Starr will always be remembered for his \"willingness to serve for the greater good without regard for his own plans and wishes\".", "Dover MP Natalie Elphicke has said tackling small boat crossings must be a top priority for Prime Minister Liz Truss\n\nThe number of people who have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year has now exceeded the total for the whole of 2021.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) said 601 migrants made the crossing on Monday in 19 boats, bringing this year's total so far to 28,592 people.\n\nIn 2021, the total was 28,526 people.\n\nThe latest crossings come as the High Court hears a challenge against the government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda.\n\nThe Home Office will not comment on these figures, saying it would be inappropriate in a period of national mourning.\n\nThere's no doubt though that they will be causing concern for the new home secretary, Suella Braverman.\n\nOn her appointment, she said controlling immigration would be a top priority.\n\nThe Rwanda policy is facing a number of legal challenges, so any flights to Kigali would be some way off, if they are ruled to be legal.\n\nIn the shorter term, the Home Office may look to strengthen relations with the French authorities, to try to stop boats setting off in the first place.\n\nThe 2022 figure to date is almost double the number of people that had been detected by this point last year, which was just over 14,600.\n\nAugust saw the highest daily total on record, with 1,295 people crossing in 27 boats.\n\nThe number of people reaching the UK in small boats from France has increased steadily in recent years.\n\nIn April, former home secretary Priti Patel signed what she described as a \"world-first agreement\" with Rwanda in an attempt to deter migrants from making the journey to the UK.\n\nHowever, several asylum seekers, the Public and Commercial Services Union and charities Care4Calais, Detention Action and Asylum Aid are embroiled in a court case with the Home Office as they challenge the legality of the policy.\n\nThe first deportation flight - due to take off on 14 June - was grounded amid legal challenges.\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.", "After six months of war, it is still unknown what the Russian president will do next\n\nYou can normally expect Russian state TV's flagship weekly news programme to trumpet Kremlin successes.\n\n\"On the frontlines of the special operation [in Ukraine], this has been the toughest week so far,\" declared sombre-looking anchor Dmitry Kiselev.\n\n\"It was particularly tough along the Kharkiv front, where following an onslaught by enemy forces that outnumbered ours, [Russian] troops were forced to leave towns they had previously liberated.\"\n\nFor \"liberated\", read \"seized\". Moscow had occupied those areas months ago, but after a lightning counter-offensive by the Ukrainian army, the Russian military has lost considerable territory in north-east Ukraine.\n\nStill, Russian state media are putting a brave face on things. Officially, what happened in Kharkiv region isn't being referred to here as a \"retreat\".\n\n\"The Russian defence ministry dismissed rumours that Russian troops fled in disgrace from Balakliya, Kupiansk and Izyum,\" claimed the latest edition of the government paper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta. \"They didn't flee. This was a pre-planned regrouping.\"\n\nIn tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets, a military analyst took a different view: \"It's already clear that we underestimated the enemy. [Russian forces] took too long to react and the collapse came… As a result, we suffered a defeat and tried to minimise the loss by withdrawing our troops so they weren't surrounded.\"\n\nThis \"defeat\" has sparked anger on pro-Russian social media channels and among \"patriotic\" Russian bloggers, who have accused their military of making mistakes.\n\nSo has the powerful leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.\n\n\"If today or tomorrow no changes in strategy are made,\" Mr Kadyrov warned, \"I will be forced to speak with the leadership of the defence ministry and the leadership of the country to explain the real situation on the ground to them. It's a very interesting situation. It's astounding.\"\n\nIt's more than six months since Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the days that followed, I remember Russian politicians, commentators and analysts on TV here predicting that what the Kremlin calls its \"special military operation\" would be wrapped up within days; that the Ukrainian people would greet Russian troops as liberators, and that Ukraine's government would collapse like a pack of cards.\n\nInstead, more than six months on, the Russian army has been losing ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo, here's a key question: will this have political consequences for Vladimir Putin?\n\nAfter all, for more than 20 years, Mr Putin has, within the Russian elite, enjoyed a reputation for being a winner; for always managing to extricate himself from the tightest of spots; in short, for being invincible.\n\nI've often viewed him as the Russian version of famous escape artist Harry Houdini. Whatever knots or chains he got tied up in, Mr Putin always managed to slip free.\n\nThe last six months suggest that President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was a major miscalculation. Unable to secure a rapid victory, Russia got bogged down in a long, bloody offensive, and has suffered a series of embarrassing defeats.\n\nWhen an authoritarian leader's aura of invincibility fades, it can cause problems for the aforesaid leader. Vladimir Putin will know Russia's history. It hasn't ended well for past Russian leaders who fought wars and didn't win them.\n\nRussia's defeat by Japan led to the first Russian Revolution of 1905. Military failures in World War One sparked the 1917 Revolution and the end of the Tsar.\n\nPublicly, though, President Putin has no intention of ending up the loser.\n\nOn Monday, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists: \"[Russia's] special military operation continues and will continue until all the tasks that were initially set have been fulfilled.\"\n\nWhich brings us to the other key question: what will Mr Putin do next?\n\nYou'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who knows what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning. Much may depend on how accurate the information is that he is receiving from his military and intelligence chiefs.\n\nBut here are two things we do know: the Russian president rarely admits to making mistakes. And he rarely makes U-turns.\n\nIn Moscow, Vladimir Putin seemed relaxed as he opened a new Ferris wheel\n\nFrom what the state media is saying, we're already seeing signs that failures on the battlefield are being blamed on Western support for Ukraine.\n\nThere is one more uncomfortable question that's been in the background for months: if he cannot achieve victory via conventional weapons, would President Putin go nuclear?\n\nOnly a few days ago, Ukraine's military chief, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, warned: \"There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian armed forces.\"\n\nFor now, there are no open signs of panic in the Kremlin. Russian state TV is sounding more positive. It's been describing Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as \"a turning point in the special operation\".\n\nAs for the Kremlin leader, last Saturday - as reports were coming in from Ukraine that Russia was losing territory - back in Moscow, a relaxed looking Vladimir Putin was inaugurating a new Ferris wheel, the tallest in Europe.\n\nRussia's president still seems to believe that, like Moscow's new Big Wheel, his \"special operation\" will turn in his favour.", "The arrests of protesters after the death of Queen Elizabeth II are \"deeply concerning\", free-speech campaigners have said.\n\nPolice in Scotland have charged two people, while a man was arrested and de-arrested in Oxford.\n\nThe arrests came at events to mark the Queen's death and proclaim King Charles III Britain's new monarch.\n\nIn London, as queues began for the lying in state, the Met Police said people \"have a right to protest\".\n\nA 22-year-old man has now been charged in connection with a breach of the peace after the Duke of York was heckled during the procession of the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh on Monday.\n\nVideos on social media showed a man shouting at Prince Andrew as he walked behind the hearse, before being dragged to the ground by two bystanders.\n\nIt comes after a 22-year-old woman was charged in connection with a breach of the peace after an accession proclamation for the King outside St Giles' Cathedral a day earlier.\n\nBoth have been released and will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date.\n\nOn the same day, Symon Hill, 45, was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence after shouting \"Who elected him?\" during another accession proclamation in Oxford.\n\nThames Valley Police said he was later de-arrested and was assisting officers \"voluntarily\".\n\nRuth Smeeth, chief executive of Index on Censorship, said the arrests were \"deeply concerning\", adding: \"We must guard against this event being used, by accident or design, to erode in any way the freedom of expression that citizens of this country enjoy.\"\n\nSilkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, said police officers had a \"duty to protect people's right to protest as much as they have a duty to facilitate people's right to express support, sorrow, or pay their respects\".\n\nJodie Beck, policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, said it was \"very worrying to see the police enforcing their broad powers in such a heavy-handed and punitive way\".\n\n\"Protest is not a gift from the State, it is a fundamental right,\" she said.\n\nHuge numbers of people are expected to flock to the capital over the coming week\n\nAlso on Monday, a protester holding a sign reading \"Not my King\" outside parliament ahead of the King's arrival at Westminster Hall was ushered away by police.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a member of the public had been asked to move from outside the Palace of Westminster \"in order to facilitate vehicle access and egress through the gates\" but had not been arrested or asked to leave the wider area.\n\nThe Met also responded to a video circulating on social media in which an officer is heard asking for the details of a man who had held up a blank piece of paper and expressed an intention to write \"Not my King\" on it. The officer - who was reportedly from another force brought in to assist the Met - is heard saying the message \"may offend people\".\n\nA statement from Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy reads: \"The public absolutely have a right to protest and we have been making this clear to all officers involved in the extraordinary policing operation currently in place.\"\n\nAround 1,500 military personnel will work alongside police and civilian stewards to manage the huge numbers of people expected to flock to London over the next week.\n\nThe new Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said his force faced a \"massive challenge\".\n\n\"We will have a safe event, but we're going to be putting thousands of officers into this because of the level of security required and the millions of people who want to pay their respects,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman would not comment on individual arrests, but said: \"More broadly, obviously, this is a period of national mourning for the majority, the vast majority of the country.\n\n\"But the fundamental right to protest remains as a keystone of our democracy.\"", "The Seventeen Going Under singer says he has \"neglected\" himself for more than a year\n\nSam Fender has announced he is to take a short break from touring to look after his mental health.\n\nThe star took to social media to tell fans he and his band were \"burnt out\".\n\n\"My friends and colleagues have been worried about me for a while and it's not going to get better unless I take the time to do so,\" he wrote.\n\nFender's upcoming US headline shows will be cancelled, as well as gigs with Florence and the Machine and the Life is Beautiful Festival.\n\nHis rescheduled appearances at UK record stores are also affected.\n\nFender will play at St James' Park in Newcastle in June, fulfilling a \"childhood dream\"\n\nHowever, the North Shields star said he was \"super excited\" for Australia in late November and \"everything to come in 2023\", including June's homecoming gigs at Newcastle United's St James' Park, for which tickets sold out within minutes.\n\n\"It seems completely hypocritical of me to advocate discussion on mental health and write songs about it, if I don't take the time to look after my own mental health,\" his statement read.\n\n\"I've neglected myself for over a year now and haven't dealt with things that have deeply affected me.\n\n\"It's impossible to do this work on myself while on the road, and it's exhausting feigning happiness and wellness for the sake of business.\"\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 Sam Fender 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\nFender has won two Brit awards, both of which have been turned into beer hand pulls at the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields, where he worked and was discovered at the age of 18.\n\nBoth his albums, 2019's Hypersonic Missiles and 2021's Seventeen Going Under topped the UK charts, with the latter shortlisted for the Mercury music prize.\n\nFender said he was grateful to have such an awesome fan base\n\nFender said he was \"eternally overwhelmed\" by the \"love and support\" of fans and apologised, adding that \"the state of my wellbeing is starting to affect everything I do, including my performances\".\n\n\"I refuse to go out there and not give it my all every time, as you all deserve nothing else,\" he added.\n\n\"I can't express how grateful we are to have such an awesome fan base.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian forces have seized even more territory from Russia as they continue their counter-offensive, the country's president has said.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky said troops have now retaken more than 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) from Russian control in September, in the east and the south.\n\nThe BBC cannot verify these figures.\n\nRussia has admitted losing key cities in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, in what is seen by some military experts as a potential breakthrough in the war.\n\nMoscow describes its troop withdrawal from the region in recent days as a \"regrouping\" with the aim of focusing on the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in Ukraine's east.\n\nThat claim has been ridiculed even in Russia, with many social media users there describing the stated pull-out as \"shameful\".\n\nSpeaking later on Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ukrainian forces had made \"significant progress\" in their counter-offensive, but added that it was too early to predict the outcome.\n\n\"The Russians maintain very significant forces in Ukraine as well as equipment and arms and munitions. They continue to use it indiscriminately against not just the Ukrainian armed forces but civilians and civilian infrastructure as we've seen,\" Mr Blinken said.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. Russia still holds about a fifth of the country.\n\nIn his late video address on Monday, President Zelensky said: \"From the beginning of September until today, our warriors have already liberated more than 6,000 sq km of the territory of Ukraine - in the east and south\".\n\n\"The movement of our troops continues,\" he said.\n\nThe counter-offensive appears to have been rapid. Last Thursday, President Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had retaken 1,000 sq km, but by Sunday that stated figure had tripled to 3,000 sq km.\n\nMr Zelensky thanked several of Ukraine's brigades involved in the counter-offensive, describing their fighters as \"true heroes\".\n\nHe did not reveal which Ukrainian cities and villages had been liberated.\n\nUkrainian troops pose with flags in a village retaken from Russian control in the north-eastern Kharkiv region\n\nRussia's military earlier admitted that its troops had to leave the key cities of Balakliya, Izyum and Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. Russia now controls only a small eastern part of the region.\n\nSignificant - albeit slower - advances by Ukrainian troops have also been reported in the southern Kherson region, which borders with Crimea - a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nUK defence officials say the Ukrainian army's recent successes will have \"significant implications\" for Russia's overall operational design.\n\nHowever, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has insisted that military operations in Ukraine will continue \"until all the tasks that were initially set\" have been fulfilled.\n\nRussia says its forces have been carrying out strikes in those areas retaken by Ukraine in recent days.\n\nValerii Marchenko, mayor of Izyum, told the BBC the Ukrainian army was in his city and the state flag had been raised.\n\nThe military is now engaged in cleaning up the war-torn city and Ukrainian forces are searching for Russian soldiers potentially hiding in people's houses.\n\nMr Marchenko said that after \"about 10 days\", residents who had to flee the city would be able to return \"safely\".\n\nRussia has been accused of targeting civilian infrastructure in revenge for setbacks on the battlefield.\n\nA wave of missile strikes on Sunday caused massive power cuts across north-eastern Ukraine, leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity and running water for several hours.\n\nThe Ukrainians believe they've answered important questions. Can they break the stalemate and recapture territory? Yes. Can they use Western weapons effectively? Yes. The result is their most important victory since winning the battle for Kyiv back in March.\n\nThis matters because without proof they can win, they fear that the economic costs of supporting Ukraine and opposing Russia might be too much for some of their NATO allies, especially over a long, hard winter.\n\nAs for the Russians, this was a rout. Not a fighting retreat or a redeployment. Military intelligence failed and soldiers with catastrophically poor morale abandoned large amounts of equipment.\n\nThe Ukrainians know what they're fighting for - it is not clear that the Russians do.", "Aldi has overtaken Morrisons to become the fourth-largest UK supermarket for the first time, according to data from research firm Kantar.\n\nDiscounters are grabbing more market share as shoppers take steps to manage their budgets, Kantar said.\n\nFood prices are rising quickly as energy and fuel costs soar, and the war in Ukraine squeezes grain production and pushes up fertiliser costs.\n\nMilk, butter and dog food prices were rising especially quickly.\n\nInflation in the UK has been rising at its fastest rate for 40 years as food prices climb with living costs eating into household budgets.\n\n\"It seems there's no end in sight to grocery inflation as the rate at which food and drink prices are increasing continues to accelerate,\" said Kantar head of retail and consumer insight Fraser McKevitt.\n\n\"Shoppers are taking steps to manage their budgets including broadening the range of stores they visit, with the discount grocers benefiting.\"\n\nShoppers are also cutting back on spending by buying more own-brand products, with sales of the very cheapest value own-label products up by a third compared to last year.\n\nNevertheless, Kantar said food price rises will push up the average annual grocery bill by £571 to £5,181.\n\nKantar said Aldi's sales rose by almost a fifth in the 12 weeks to 4 September compared with a year earlier, giving it a market share of 9.3%.\n\nAldi UK and Ireland chief executive Giles Hurley said shoppers were \"voting with their feet by choosing Aldi over full price traditional supermarkets\".\n\nMeanwhile, Morrisons' sales dropped by 4.1% over the same period, with its market share falling to 9.1%.\n\nMorrisons said market share was \"partly a function of new store openings\".\n\n\"Although Morrisons has not put on any significant new space for a while, some competitors are still opening many new stores,\" it said.\n\nHowever, it added that \"customers don't really care about market share statistics - they care about value, quality, provenance and service and that is where our focus is going to remain.\"\n\nThis feels like a real moment in the supermarket aisles.\n\nAldi and Lidl have been steadily stealing customers and growing market share driven by hundreds of new store openings.\n\nAnd they're still expanding, unlike their bigger rivals.\n\nWith no grocery home delivery service, the discounters didn't have a great pandemic, but they're now clearly back on form.\n\nAccording to Kantar, the grocery market is worth around £131bn, and both chains together have now nabbed 16% of it.\n\nAldi is adding more than a billion pounds of sales a year at this current rate of growth.\n\nThey don't have it all their own way though. The price gap isn't as big as it used to be.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's are price matching Aldi on many key products.\n\nBut in these challenging times, Aldi and Lidl are benefiting from cash-strapped shoppers trying to manage their budgets, and they are on the march again.\n\nData relates to the 12 weeks to 4 September 2022\n\nMr McKevitt said: \"Back at the start of the 2010s, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons together accounted for over three quarters of the sector but that traditional big four is no more.\n\n\"The discounters have seen dramatic sales increases in recent months, bringing more and more customers through their doors.\"\n\nHe said Aldi had consistently been opening stores, and that 14.2 million people had shopped at the grocer in the past three months.\n\nAldi and Lidl have been expanding and growing their market share in the UK over the past decade.\n\nHowever, online grocer Ocado, which has also been growing, said it expected to see a small drop in sales this year as customers buy less and and look for cheaper items.\n\nPreviously the company, which is a joint venture between Ocado Group and Marks & Spencer, had predicted a small increase in sales.\n\nIn a trading update, Ocado said it expected earnings to be \"close to break-even\" this year as rising costs, including energy and dry ice, and the lower average value of people's shopping baskets offset a growth in the number of customers.", "King Charles III and other royals followed the Queen's coffin in a procession up Edinburgh's Royal Mile.\n\nThe coffin was taken to St Giles' Cathedral for a service of remembrance, before mourners are allowed to pay their respects.\n\nThousands of people gathered along the Royal Mile to watch.", "Ferrier wore a face mask as she left Glasgow Sheriff Court after being sentenced\n\nAn MP who travelled by train despite knowing she had Covid has been ordered to carry out 270 hours of community service.\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 had previously pled guilty to culpably and recklessly exposing the public to the virus.\n\nThe charge stated that she had failed to self-isolate and had \"exposed people to risk of infection, illness and death\".\n\nProsecutors told Glasgow Sheriff Court that her conduct had shown a \"reckless disregard of public safety\".\n\nFerrier was an SNP MP at the time of the offence, but subsequently lost the party whip and has been sitting in the Commons as an independent. She has so far resisted calls to stand down.\n\nOrdering Ferrier to carry out 270 hours of unpaid work within the next nine months, Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull said she had \"wilfully disregarded guidance\" by not self-isolating after her test.\n\nHe added: \"Your behaviour was deliberate and extended over a number of days. The gravity of harm that could have resulted from your actions could have been significant.\"\n\nThe MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West took a Covid test on Saturday 26 September 2020 because she had a \"slight cough\", but did not believe she would be positive.\n\nShe went to church in Glasgow on the Sunday while still awaiting the result of her test and gave a reading to the congregation of 45 people, before later spending more than two hours in a bar in Prestwick, Ayrshire.\n\nFerrier then took a taxi from her home to Glasgow Central Station on the Monday and travelled to London on a train which had 183 passengers on board.\n\nShe spoke in the Commons at about 19:30 that evening before going to sit at a table with DUP MP Jim Shannon, where they conversed for 20 minutes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull ordered Ferrier to carry out 270 hours of unpaid work\n\nThe positive result from her Covid test was delivered at 20:03 by text and email. Ms Ferrier attended the SNP whips' office and told then chief whip Patrick Grady MP that she would be returning to Scotland in the morning.\n\nAfter spending the night in her London hotel - where she should have isolated for two weeks under the rules in place at the time - she caught 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 the service and disclosed that she had had a \"slight and infrequent cough\" the day before her test.\n\nHer defence advocate, Brian McConnachie KC, described Ferrier's actions as having been \"48 hours of poor decisions in a lifetime of otherwise complete observance and upholding of the law\".\n\nMr McConnachie said she had convinced herself the test would be negative and that there would be no danger, and that there had been \"uncontrolled panic\" when it came back positive.\n\nHe added: \"She is 62-year-old lady, a genuine first offender, who has contributed significantly to the constituency in which she resides and to the country with her service as an MP\", and said she would \"almost certainly\" lose her seat at the next general election.\n\nThe court had received 34 testimonials and letters in support of Ms Ferrier from other MPs - including Mr Shannon, who tested negative after his conversation with Ms Ferrier - as well as constituents and staff.\n\nMargaret Ferrier has been spared a prison sentence, but that doesn't mean her future as an MP is necessarily safe.\n\nHad she been jailed, she could have been open to a recall petition - which would have triggered a by-election if 10% of her constituents signed up.\n\nThis could still happen if she faces sanction from the House of Commons authorities, who could investigate her conduct now that the police process is over.\n\nIf the standards watchdog suspends her from the Commons for 10 sittings days, that could also trigger a recall petition.\n\nOf course the other route out of parliament would be if Ms Ferrier heeded the calls of all political parties and resigned.\n\nHowever there is no sign she is minded to quit - she spoke in the House as recently as last week, asking questions of ministers about child maintenance payments.", "There is one great final duty that many children feel towards their parents: the duty to see them safely and peacefully to their last rest.\n\nAlmost all who take on that emotional task do so out of the public glare.\n\nBut it was always going to be different for Princess Anne amid an extraordinary moment of history.\n\nIn the last few days, it's emerged that the late Queen wished that her only daughter, officially the Princess Royal, should take the primary role in escorting her coffin - an echo of the role she herself played for her father King George VI's final journey from Sandringham in 1952.\n\nHer wish reflects the princess's reputation for hard work and duty, and the practical burdens faced by King Charles in the first days of his reign.\n\nWithin 24 hours of Elizabeth's death, the new king's life had become a whirlwind, requiring him to balance personal grief with his duties of state.\n\nHis 72-year-old sister - younger by 21 months - was at Balmoral, preparing to escort the Queen's coffin from that private family space into the public realm.\n\nThe first stage was to accompany the coffin on its six-hour journey to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nThe long road from Balmoral: The Princess Royal's car following the hearse in Scotland\n\nThe journey would have required a degree of stoicism. By the time she had performed a deep curtsey as the coffin was carried into the Edinburgh palace, the emotion was showing.\n\nOn Monday, her duties continued. This time, she walked behind the pallbearers to St Giles' Cathedral. Later, at the lying-in-rest, the princess became the first female member of the Royal Family to take part in the traditional vigil.\n\nPrincess Anne curtseys as her mother's coffin is brought to Edinburgh\n\nThe symbolism and message of Anne, standing solemnly in her honorary Royal Navy ceremonial uniform, was clear. Here was a princess raised in the modern era: an equal to her brothers.\n\nOn Tuesday evening she accompanied the coffin, on the farewell to Scotland, escorting it all the way to Buckingham Palace, where the full protocol and formalities of a state funeral would begin.\n\nNobody should be surprised by the prominent role of Princess Anne. She is hardly someone to baulk at duty and service.\n\nCharles and Anne, less than two years between them, with their parents\n\nFor years, she and Charles have been measured by watchers for the annual title of Most Hardworking Royal.\n\nIn 2021 she undertook 387 official engagements - two more than the then-Prince of Wales - a number that had been growing for both of them in the later years of her mother's reign.\n\nShe has completed almost 500 overseas visits - 49 to Germany alone - and is patron of a 300 charities. Her association with Save The Children dates back to 1970.\n\nEven during the pandemic she was at work, visiting and raising the profile of a mobile testing centre.\n\nAs her public presence developed over the decades, it was clear she had inherited her late father's reputation for no-nonsense and, on occasion, blunt-speaking.\n\nThat dogged refusal to play the role of a meek fairy tale princess stood her in good stead during a botched 1974 attempt to kidnap her.\n\nShe recalled to TV chat show host Michael Parkinson her refusal to go with the kidnapper amid the shoot-out which had left her protection officer and two others wounded,\n\n\"We had a discussion about where - or where not - we were going to go,\" she recalled. \"I was scrupulously polite because I thought it would be silly to be too rude at that stage.\"\n\nAn official government report available at the National Archives reports that her actual words to the assailant had been: \"Not bloody likely.\"\n\nHer formal title of Princess Royal is a customary honour dating from the 17th Century. Notwithstanding that tradition, its award in 1987 has long been considered a symbol of how her work was so valued within what her parents - and grandfather King George VI - called \"The Firm\".\n\nThat hard work has long been balanced with an independence of spirit - often difficult to achieve as a working Royal.\n\nCompeting in horse trials in 1976, the year she made the Olympic squad\n\nIn 1971, the then-21-year-old took the gold medal at the European eventing championships - and she was named BBC Sports Personality Of The Year. Five years later she made the Team GB for the Montreal Olympics.\n\n\"I certainly saw it as a way of proving that you had something that was not dependent on your family,\" she later said. \"It was down to you to succeed or fail.\"\n\nClearly, she had that approach to life in mind when she passed her heavy goods vehicle test, allowing her to drive horse lorries without the help of a royal retinue.\n\nAs competitive equine sports receded with age, other work that brought her personal satisfaction took over - including overseeing her Gloucestershire farm.\n\nWhen she guest-edited Country Life magazine for her 70th birthday, she critiqued what had gone wrong in some rural areas - calling for more to be done to provide housing for local people who are \"priced out of the market\".\n\n\"All of them could make the difference,\" she wrote.\n\nWhen Charles, as Prince of Wales, spoke his mind, his interventions regularly raised constitutional eyebrows.\n\nFor Anne-watchers it was more a mark of a practical solutions-focused woman who has spent her life wanting to get things done - so focused on getting things done that she raised her own children without royal titles, in the hope that they could have a relatively normal life.\n\nThat can-do will-do attitude will continue to be seen in the days ahead - an attitude first seen in September 1969.\n\nBack then, just 18-years-old, she undertook her first official engagement for Queen Elizabeth, when she opened a double-decker bus training centre near Shrewsbury.\n\nThe Birmingham Post reported she was a \"most modern Miss\", taking to the wheel of an Albion Viking bus and laughing that it was easier to handle than a Balmoral Land Rover.\n\nIt was the first of thousands of duties on behalf of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nHer last duties for her late mother are now before her.\n\nThe princess herself says it has been an \"honour and a privilege\" to accompany her mother on her final journeys.\n\nThere is no doubt that a new chapter in her public life is about to begin as she counsels and supports the King - and carries on rolling up her sleeves and getting on with it.", "The Ukrainian military has released these pictures of seemingly-abandoned Russian vehicles in a river\n\nUkraine says it has made significant gains in pushing back Russian troops, retaking more than 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) of territory in recent days. Jonathan Beale, the BBC's defence correspondent, takes a closer look at why they have been so successful - and what hurdles Ukraine's forces may still face in winning the war.\n\n\"Don't underestimate the Ukrainian's ability to surprise,\" a senior US military officer told me early this summer, just as Russia was continuing to make advances in the Donbas.\n\nUkraine's ability to surprise has become a hallmark of this war: from the Russian retreat from Kyiv, to recent attacks in Crimea. Now there's another surprise happening in the east of the country.\n\nUntil now, it was Russia making most of the advances here - albeit a slow and grinding affair that was proving costly to its army. Now it's Ukraine making the gains, taking back thousands of square miles of territory in just a matter of days.\n\nThe biggest gains for Ukraine have been in the east around the city of Kharkiv. The UK's latest defence intelligence report says that Ukraine has now liberated an area twice the size of Greater London - though it's difficult to establish the level of advances and continuing fighting with journalists kept well away from the frontline.\n\nUkraine says it has captured the strategically important cities of Izyum and Kupiansk - military hubs used by Russia to resupply its forces in the Donbas. Those losses alone would be a major blow to the Russian army.\n\nSurprise has been the key to Ukraine's advances. That and the intelligent use of western weapons - including US and UK long-range multiple rocket launchers, used to destroy Russian supply lines, ammunition dumps and command posts. Last week, the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said long range artillery had hit more than 400 key targets over the summer period.\n\nBefore the arrival of these weapons, Russia had always had a numeric advantage in terms of artillery. But now, the tables appear to have turned: US intelligence officials claim Russia is having to seek the help of North Korea to resupply them with millions of artillery shells, suggesting their stocks have been seriously depleted in the six months of fighting.\n\nThat impact of those western weapons - combined with Ukraine's determination to take back territory - has forced Russian forces and their proxies into what looks like a chaotic retreat. Images on social media show tanks, armoured vehicles, weapons and ammunition left behind in a rush and abandoned.\n\nInterestingly, the advance in the east has been much faster than the Ukrainians' well-publicised offensive in the south towards the city of Kherson. Ukraine had telegraphed that offensive long before it got under way, while keeping quiet about its plans for the east. It all now appears to have been part of its plan: if not a diversion, then a screen to hide what it was preparing in the east.\n\nIt's clear it successfully wrong-footed Russia. Over the past few months, Russia's been redeploying forces from the east to bolster its defences in the south. Both fronts are now vulnerable.\n\nBut Ukraine is finding it harder to make gains in the south where they're more exposed, having to fight in mostly open countryside. An advancing army needs more troops and firepower to overcome a defending army.\n\nRussian troops have left behind equipment in their rush to pull back from the frontlines\n\nThe danger for Ukraine may now be similar to the one Russia faced in the early stages of the war. Trying to advance on multiple fronts can prove costly - in terms of ammunition, equipment, and troops. The bigger the gains the longer the supply lines - which can then be targeted by a defender. There's also the risk that those forces that have advanced furthest - creating a bulge in the defensive line - could become surrounded.\n\nDespite the optimism, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has warned that Ukraine's forces in the east could now be more vulnerable to a Russian counter-attack. Seizing territory is not enough. An army has to hold the ground too. That might prove easier if the local population are behind you.\n\nUkraine's double-pronged offensive is still risky. It could easily suffer setbacks. But this is much more than simply seizing back land - even if that is the ultimate goal.\n\nUkraine is sending a signal to the world that it really believes it can win this war. It's already using these gains to appeal for more western weapons. And the offensive comes at a critical time - just before winter when it'll be harder to fight and the will of the west will be tested. The war is far from over. But Ukraine is once again showing the world its ability to surprise and overcome the odds.", "Video appears to show abandoned Russian tanks and military equipment that have been seized by Ukrainian troops.\n\nUkraine's military says its forces have retaken miles of territory from Russia, making its first significant gain in months. The towns of Izyum and Kupiansk, both key hubs for the supply of Russian forces in Donbas, were taken on Saturday. A Ukrainian counterattack in Kherson in the south continues\n\nRussia still holds about a fifth of the country, but the Russian retreat is being seen by many analysts as a very significant Ukrainian success.", "Transport bosses have confirmed that extra train services will be running for people travelling to London to pay respects to the Queen.\n\nA limited service will run through the night on some routes.\n\nDemand is expected to be particularly heavy from Wednesday, when the public can attend the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall from 17:00 BST.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said it was doing \"all it can\" to ensure smooth journeys during the period of mourning.\n\nThe Queen, who died on Thursday aged 96, will lie in state in Westminster Hall for four full days before her funeral, meaning the public will be allowed to view her coffin.\n\nHundreds of thousands, if not millions, are expected to travel to the capital.\n\nOnly a handful of operators will be putting on night trains and they are expected to be very limited.\n\nFor example, there will be an extra train per hour on some routes, and every two hours on some others.\n\nAvanti West Coast, which is still running a dramatically reduced timetable amid a staff shortage, will put on some more train services this week to help people travel to the capital.\n\nServices on Avanti's busiest route between Manchester and London are currently reduced to one per hour.\n\nFrom Tuesday until Thursday, between 9.35am and 5.55pm there will be four further trains from Manchester to London Euston, and four extra trains north from London to Manchester between 12.40pm and 8.40pm.\n\nOn Friday, Avanti will be running three extra trains each way, between the same times.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, told customers to check journey planners for the most up-to-date information.\n\nIt also warned that services to, and stations in, London would be \"extremely busy\" as a result and has urged passengers to leave plenty of time for travel during the official mourning period, which ends the day of the Queen's state funeral on Monday 19 September.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) and Network Rail said there were plans to ensure people could travel \"as easily as possible\".\n\n\"The transport industry is working hard to help people pay their respects in London and across the UK,\" said Sir Peter Hendy, chair of Network Rail.\n\n\"Please make sure you check before you travel as we expect the road and transport networks to be busy.\"\n\nNetwork Rail said a normal timetable would be running on the day of the funeral, rather than a reduced one that might operate on a regular bank holiday, along with some additional services.\n\nAndy Byford, TfL's transport commissioner, said that while normal services were scheduled on the London Underground, \"there may be short notice changes and diversions as a result of the large number of people travelling and necessary road closures\".\n\nSome underground stations will be busier than normal, TfL said, with some disruption expected due to some stations being temporarily closed, or normal routes in and around stations being changed.\n\nPeople have been told to avoid Green Park tube station if possible, and to use others such as Victoria, Piccadilly Circus and St James' Park.\n\nThe Elizabeth Line does not usually operate any services on a Sunday on the central section between Paddington and Abbey Wood, but this Sunday it will operate 12 trains an hour.\n\nSome bus services will be diverted because of road closures, including night buses, and some taxi ranks will be closed as cabs and coaches will be affected by road closures.\n\nNational Express said London Victoria Coach station will be closed on 19 September. All of its London services will be diverted via Wembley Stadium, with the exception of journeys between London and Dover, Ramsgate and Luton and Stansted Airports. These services will be diverted via Stratford and Baker Street instead.\n\nFor those travelling from further afield, Heathrow Airport has said some flights will be disrupted on Friday.\n\nJourneys could be cancelled or rescheduled in order to ensure silence over central London as the Queen's coffin is moved to Westminster Hall.\n\nAre you travelling to pay your respects to the Queen? Share your plans with us by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Thai court ruled the activist - pictured in the pink dress - had mocked and defamed the queen at this protest in 2020\n\nAn activist in Thailand has been jailed for two years after a court found she insulted the monarchy by dressing like the Thai queen.\n\nJatuporn 'New' Saeoueng, 25, wore a pink dress at a political demonstration in Bangkok in 2020.\n\nShe denied the royal insult charge, saying she had just worn a traditional dress.\n\nBut Thailand has notoriously strict laws which effectively ban criticism of the king and other royals.\n\nSince King Maha Vajiralongkorn ascended the throne in 2019, rights groups say authorities have increasingly exercised lèse-majesté laws to quash a protest movement that had demanded reform of the powerful monarchy.\n\nSince November 2020, at least 210 protesters have been charged with lèse-majesté offences, after a three-year period where the law wasn't enforced at all, Thai legal groups say.\n\nHuman rights groups strongly criticised the court's verdict on Monday. Jatupon was sentenced to three years but had her term immediately reduced to two years.\n\nShe had attended the protest in 2020 as a performer dressed in a formal pink silk dress, where she walked a red carpet accompanied by an attendant who held an umbrella over her head.\n\nThe king's wife, Queen Suthida, often wears formal silk fashions for public events. Thai royals also often have attendants hovering over them with parasols at ceremonies and other events.\n\nJatuporn said in an interview published before the court ruling: \"I have no intention to mock anyone. I dressed for myself on that day, for a version of myself in a Thai tradition dress,\" the Associated Press reported.\n\nThe red carpet protest - one of several that year critical of the monarchy and its influence over the military government - had been staged the same week as a fashion show being held by one of King Vajiralongkorn's daughters.\n\n\"The mock fashion show was a satirical take on the political situation of the country - a peaceful public event akin to a street festival,\" said an Amnesty International spokesman.\n\n\"Participants should not be punished for participating in a peaceful assembly.\"\n\nLast year, a former civil servant who was deemed to have been critical of the royals on social media was sentenced to 43 years in jail.\n\nThe palace has not commented on either of these lèse-majesté cases.\n\nThe protest movement had initially targeted the military-backed government, led by the ex-junta leader who seized power from a democratically-elected civilian government in a coup in 2014.\n\nHowever its criticisms then expanded to include the new king and royal family.\n\nThe movement shattered a taboo on criticising the monarchy, though protest leaders were careful to call for changes to the institution, not its abolition.\n\nProtesters wanted greater scrutiny after King Vajiralongkorn took direct control of the Crown's immense wealth and leadership of two army divisions.\n\nHis famously lavish lifestyle also rankled with ordinary Thais struggling amid the pandemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Micheál Martin tells the BBC about the need to nurture relations between the UK and Ireland\n\nQueen Elizabeth's death is a reminder to the UK and Ireland that they need to \"proactively nurture the relationship\", the Taoiseach (Irish PM) told the BBC.\n\nMicheál Martin noted the monarch's trip to Ireland in 2011 was a \"watershed moment\" for relations between the two.\n\nIt was the first trip by a British sovereign to the independent state and saw the Queen greeted by large crowds.\n\nIt was a diplomatic success, and left the Irish with a \"fondness\" for the Queen, Mr Martin said.\n\nHer passing, he added, had left him with a sense of \"deep sadness\" - but also with hope for the future relationship between the UK and Ireland, which has come under strain amid the British government's plan to scrap parts of the post-Brexit trade deal it agreed with the EU.\n\n\"I would like to think that the visit of Queen Elizabeth II first of all to Ireland, her passing would give us all time for reflection, and will remind us of the need to proactively nurture the relationship between Britain and Ireland to enhance it in the time ahead,\" the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) said during an interview with the BBC's Fergal Keane.\n\n\"And that this moment gives us that opportunity for reflection and for resetting, in a good way, that relationship.\"\n\nThe sight of the Irish flag at half-mast above City Hall spoke to the genuine affection of Cork people for Queen Elizabeth. Inside a book of condolence was filled with messages praising the Queen as a \"healer\" and \"peacemaker\".\n\nOne hundred years ago Cork was at the centre of the insurgency which pitted guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army against the forces of the British Crown. Following an IRA ambush in 1920, parts of the city - including the original City Hall - were destroyed by police and soldiers.\n\nTwo Lord Mayors who died in the conflict are commemorated by statues outside City Hall. One was assassinated by undercover police. His successor died on hunger strike in a British jail.\n\nYet by the time she arrived in Cork in 2011 it seemed sure that largescale political violence had ended on the island of Ireland. The Troubles in Northern Ireland had been brought to an end by the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and violent activism was confined to small dissident Republican groups.\n\nThe Queen's visit signalled a closeness between the two countries after years of careful negotiation and compromise.\n\nMr Martin said the four-day visit had almost been about \"lightening the load of history\" - a history which had seen the British rule over Ireland for hundreds of years before the creation of the Irish Free State and the partition of Northern Ireland in 1922.\n\nIt saw the Queen speak a few words in Irish - a language once banned under British rule - at a state dinner in Dublin Castle, the former seat of British power in Ireland, and lay a wreath in Dublin's Garden of Remembrance - a park dedicated to Irish people who fought against the British.\n\nIt was her bowing her head in the Garden of Remembrance which struck Mr Martin in particular.\n\n\"It was a great, great gesture - more than a gesture, an act - that really meant a lot to people, and I think what it really said was, A hundred years on, we all must mature and evolve and have that generosity of spirit which allows us to look back on history in a much more informed, non-prejudicial way.\"\n\nThe Queen also visited Croke Park during the 2011 trip, the site of the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1920\n\nHowever, he pointed out that King Charles III, then the Prince of Wales, had also played a role with his own visit in 1995, and then again in 2002 and 2015. He noted on the final visit, the King had made \"again a very generous speech remembering all who had died\". The Royal Family, he pointed out, had suffered their own hurt with the killing of Lord Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, in an IRA bombing.\n\n\"All of that has helped the cause of reconciliation - the basic idea we have a lot in common now,\" he added.\n\nMr Martin also paid tribute to the new King's \"great messages about climate change\".\n\n\"He was there long before many, in terms of wildlife, biodiversity and climate change. That to me is leadership - in terms of pointing people in the right direction to protect future generations.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen's children and grandchildren greeted her coffin on its arrival at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe King was there with Royal Family members including his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, Princes William and Harry and their wives, Catherine and Meghan.\n\nThe hearse, accompanied by the Queen's daughter Princess Anne, travelled by road after a flight from Edinburgh.\n\nDespite the rain, crowds gathered along the route to pay their respects.\n\nThere was applause from the thousands gathered outside as the hearse arrived at the palace. Shouts of \"hip, hip hooray\" were heard as the sombre mood gave way to respectful celebration of the late Queen.\n\nMany people lining the street put down their umbrellas as a sign of respect while phone cameras lit up the crowds as people documented the historic moment.\n\nThe King and Queen Consort have since left Buckingham Palace after witnessing the arrival of the coffin.\n\nThe procession to the palace marks one of the final stages of a solemn journey, which began on Sunday at the Queen's Balmoral estate where she died aged 96 on Thursday.\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday evening, the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, said it had been an \"honour and a privilege\" to accompany the Queen on her final journeys, having travelled with her mother's coffin from Balmoral to London.\n\n\"Witnessing the love and respect shown by so many on these journeys has been both humbling and uplifting,\" she said.\n\n\"We will all share unique memories. I offer my thanks to each and every one who share our sense of loss.\n\n\"We may have been reminded how much of her presence and contribution to our national identity we took for granted.\"\n\nPrincess Anne said it had been an \"honour and a privilege\" to accompany her mother's coffin on its journey to London\n\nThousands paid their respects as the Queen lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral, in Edinburgh overnight, before her coffin was flown to RAF Northolt, in north-west London this evening.\n\nThe national anthem was played as the RAF plane, which has previously been used to evacuate people from Afghanistan and deliver weapons to Ukraine, prepared to take off.\n\nThe number of people outside the palace began to swell this afternoon - although it thinned slightly as the rain became heavier, with most of those gathered wearing raincoats and carrying umbrellas - creating a subdued atmosphere.\n\nBut there were still several thousand waiting along the barriers outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nAmong them was Londoner Alex Myers, and her dog Minnie, who decided to take a detour to the palace after hearing the Queen's coffin was on its way.\n\nShe said the atmosphere when the hearse arrived was \"incredible and inspiring and very moving\".\n\n\"I think the outpouring of love has been a really amazing thing,\" she said, as both her and Minnie headed home slightly wetter than when they arrived, hours before.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was in a bespoke new hearse designed in consultation with her, to allow the public a clear view of her casket.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will rest in the Bow Room of the palace overnight before it is borne in procession on a gun carriage departing the palace for Westminster at exactly 14:22 BST on Wednesday.\n\nIn the past, the Queen has hosted foreign royalty and dignitaries in the room, including King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, former US president George Bush, and Premier League footballers.\n\nIt is in the palace's west wing, was formerly known as the Bow Library and was named after the window that runs along one side.\n\nThe Queen made her last appearance at Buckingham Palace in June alongside three generations of her family\n\nOn Wednesday, the Queen's coffin will be taken via The Mall, Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall and Parliament Square to Westminster Hall.\n\nFlights from Heathrow could face disruption to ensure silence over central London as the Queen's coffin is moved, the airport said.\n\nThe coffin will lie in state in the hall until the morning of the funeral next Monday. More than 400,000 people are expected to be able to file past it there.\n\nFrom 17:00 BST on Wednesday, people will be able to pay their respects, although mourners have been warned to expect long queues.\n\nThere will be some assistance for those unable to stand for a long time, Downing Street said, with the Prime Minister's official spokesman adding that \"everything possible\" would be done to facilitate those who could not wait for extended periods.\n\nBarriers for the queue were being placed as far out as Southwark Park, in south-east London, about three miles from Westminster, and about 50 people had already begun queuing to see the Queen lying in state by 20:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe Queen's final public appearance at Buckingham Palace was on the east front balcony on 5 June, where she stood alongside family members during Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nEarlier, after standing vigil by his mother's coffin in Edinburgh on Monday, King Charles travelled to Northern Ireland alongside Camilla, the Queen Consort, where he met politicians and officials.\n\nHe said the Queen had \"never ceased to pray for the best of times for this place and its people\" and said she had felt deeply \"the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those whom history had separated\".\n\nThe King pledged to \"seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe received a message of condolence from the speaker of the assembly Alex Maskey, a member of Sinn Féin, who said the Queen recognised how a \"small but significant gesture can make a huge difference in changing attitudes\".\n\nMore than 26,000 mourners filed past the Queen's coffin at St Giles', where she lay at rest before being taken to Edinburgh airport and flown to RAF Northolt, in West London.\n\nPeople queued for hours with the final wristbands granting access being given out at 13:00 BST, leaving some of those turned away in tears.", "Strictly Come Dancing will move from its original launch date as television schedules continue to change in the wake of the Queen's death.\n\nThe 20th series was due to premiere on Saturday with a pre-recorded launch show, but that episode will now screen on Friday 23 September.\n\nThe first live show will follow on Saturday 24 September, the BBC said.\n\nContestants for this year's series include Bros singer Matt Goss and Paralympic medallist Ellie Simmonds.\n\nStrictly Come Dancing is not the only programme to be shuffled in the schedules following the Queen's death last week.\n\nThe final of Celebrity Masterchef will now be shown on Thursday 22 September, a week later than planned. Episodes of EastEnders are also premiering first on the BBC iPlayer, as its regular slot on BBC One is subject to last-minute changes.\n\nThe BBC has also announced it will broadcast the first Paddington film on Saturday 17 September as a tribute to the Queen - who starred with the Peruvian bear in a sketch marking her Platinum Jubilee earlier this year.\n\nPaddington 2 will then be shown on Monday 19 September, following coverage of the Queen's funeral\n\nOther broadcasters have also had to adjust their schedules, with topical comedy programmes like The Last Leg put on pause for a week; and filming on the Netflix series The Crown suspended as a mark of respect.\n\nHowever, Channel 4 has confirmed that the latest series of The Great British Bake Off will return to the airwaves as planned on Tuesday night.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's Gareth Gordon looks back at the Queen's relationship with Northern Ireland\n\nRoyalty in the 21st Century is more about symbolism than power, but the Queen knew the power of symbols in the cause of reconciliation.\n\nIn June 2012, she greeted thousands at Stormont for a Diamond Jubilee party.\n\nEarlier the eyes of the world focused on an historic handshake with Martin McGuinness at Belfast's Lyric theatre.\n\nThe Queen and the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin in May 2011\n\nThe four-second handshake between the former IRA leader and the British monarch appeared to usher in a new era in 40 years of troubled history.\n\nA year earlier, the Queen had broken new ground in Dublin, joining the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, to lay wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.\n\nQueen Elizabeth at the National Convention Centre, Dublin, in 2011\n\nGiven that the garden is dedicated to those who died fighting British rule, this was another occasion that, at one time, would have seemed unimaginable.\n\nThen the Queen went on to charm her Irish audience at a state banquet when she spoke in Irish, greeting them: \"A Uachtaráin agus a chairde\" (president and friends).\n\nThere were some small, republican protests, but during a visit to the English market in Cork, most people seemed more than ready to welcome the Queen on the first visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch since King George V in 1911.\n\nIf these scenes were a novelty in Cork, not so north of the border where the Queen was a frequent visitor over the decades.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrived by steam train to open the new Bellarena Station village in County Londonderry in 2016\n\nIn fact, she took her first flight in an aircraft in 1945 when, as a teenage princess, she accompanied her parents to Northern Ireland on a two-day visit.\n\nFour years later, Princess Elizabeth was back, together with her husband, Prince Philip.\n\nThe couple returned in 1953 after the Queen's coronation.\n\nInevitably, given the politics of Ireland, not everyone was a fan. In 1966, the Queen opened a new bridge across the River Lagan in Belfast named in her honour. But as her motorcade wound through the city, a protester dropped a brick from a high building onto the bonnet of the Royal car.\n\nWhen the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, the Troubles were at their height. The IRA threatened to give the monarch a \"visit to remember\".\n\nSpectators lined the shores of Belfast Lough to watch the Queen arrive on board the Royal Yacht Britannia. She made a special reference to Northern Ireland in her Christmas message that year.\n\n\"No-where is reconciliation more desperately needed than in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen visited Pat O'Connell's fish stall at the English Market in Cork in 2011\n\n\"That is why I was particularly pleased to go there. No-one dared to promise an early end to the Troubles but there is no doubt that people of goodwill in Northern Ireland were greatly heartened by the chance they had to share the celebrations with the rest of the nation and Commonwealth.\"\n\nShe often expressed sadness after atrocities committed during the Troubles. But the murder that hurt her most personally had to be the IRA's assassination of Earl Mountbatten, in 1979.\n\nThe earl was her husband's uncle. She appeared to refer implicitly to his loss many years later in her Dublin speech.\n\n\"It is a sad and regrettable reality that through history our islands have experienced more than their fair share of heartache, turbulence and loss,\" she said.\n\n\"These events have touched us all, many of us personally, and are a painful legacy. We can never forget those who have died or been injured, and their families.\n\n\"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy.\n\n\"With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.\"\n\nThe then Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid showed the Queen the site of the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh, as part of the Golden Jubilee Tour in 2002\n\nAs the Troubles raged, the Queen did not visit Northern Ireland at all during the 1980s.\n\nBut she returned in the 1990s - praising the Ulster Defence Regiment in Lisburn, opening another new bridge in Belfast and meeting church leaders in Armagh.\n\nIn 2000, she presented the Royal Ulster Constabulary with the George Cross, then later that decade watched dance and drama in Londonderry, and toured the site of the Omagh bombing.\n\nAt Stormont, she praised the progress made towards peace.\n\n\"Life has never been straightforward here, but I welcome the real sense of normality that has, over recent years, been returning to the lives of ordinary people, even if tempered from time to time by moments of disappointment and pessimism. You now have a better future for Northern Ireland in your grasp,\" she told politicians.\n\nThe Queen's trip to the Giant's Causeway in 2016 was her first visit to Northern Ireland's best known tourist attraction\n\nHer last visit to Northern Ireland ended up being in 2016 - she had been due to visit Northern Ireland for a two-day trip in October 2021 to coincide with the centenary but it was cancelled on medical advice.\n\nThis was perhaps when the public first became aware of concerns surrounding the then 95-year-old's health.\n\nThroughout her reign, the Queen remained painfully aware of the tragedies that beset Northern Ireland.\n\nBut she seemed to take heart from the knowledge that she could play an important role in helping people put the past in perspective and concentrating minds on what she hoped would be a brighter future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Pratt-Korbel is described by her mother as \"her little shadow\"\n\nThe mother of Olivia Pratt-Korbel has called on those responsible for her daughter's murder to come forward.\n\nSpeaking with a bandaged arm in an emotional appeal, Cheryl Korbel, 46, said: \"You know you've done wrong, so you need to own up.\"\n\nThe nine-year-old girl was shot when a gunman chased another man into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August. She later died in hospital.\n\nMs Korbel described Olivia as her \"little shadow\".\n\nA 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest when the gunman fired. Neither of the men who entered the home had any links to the family.\n\nMs Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door on the attacker, but he fired two more shots at the man he had pursued, police said.\n\nSpeaking in a video appeal released by Merseyside Police, Ms Korbel said: \"Like I taught my kids, you do something wrong, you own up to it.\n\n\"If anyone is hiding these guns they need to speak up because they need to be off the streets.\n\n\"No one, no one at all should have to go through this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The family of Olivia have released a video of the schoolgirl at a Christmas market\n\nMs Korbel said the family had been planning days out and a trip to buy Olivia's new school uniform shortly before she was killed.\n\nShe said: \"I didn't get that chance to go and get her school uniform. But I'll keep going, for Liv.\"\n\nMs Korbel said Olivia \"was amazing\" and \"she loved life\".\n\n\"She was my little shadow, She went everywhere with me. Everyone that she met, they fell in love with her.\n\n\"She left her mark on everyone that she met. She may only have been nine but she packed a lot in them nine years.\"\n\nMs Korbel broke down in tears as she described how her daughter would never stop talking, adding: \"That's what I miss the most, because I can't hear her talk.\"\n\nVarious arrests have been made in connection with the shooting death of Olivia Pratt-Korbel\n\nOlivia's father, John Francis Pratt, has also paid tribute to his daughter and called for anyone with information about her death to come forward.\n\nThe 34-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder was also arrested for attempted murder in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHe remains in custody and police were granted a further 36 hours on Monday night to continue questioning him.\n\nThe same extension was also granted regarding two men, aged 29 and 41, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nA fourth man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender on Sunday night is also being questioned.\n\nOlivia's death was one of three fatal shootings within a week in the city.\n\nPolice previously arrested two men, aged 33 and 36, on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder before releasing them on bail.\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.", "Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs is to face a retrial over allegations he assaulted his ex-girlfriend, a judge has ruled.\n\nThe judge set a new trial date of 31 July next year at a short hearing on Wednesday at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nJurors had failed to reach verdicts following more than 20 hours of deliberations in his four-week trial.\n\nMr Giggs, 48, also denied controlling or coercive behaviour towards his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville, 38.\n\nHe also denied \"losing control\" and headbutting her and assaulting Ms Greville's sister, Emma, 26, by elbowing her in the jaw during a row at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester on 1 November 2020.\n\nGiggs will now go on trial for a second time, after the jury in the first trial was discharged last week, facing the same charges.\n\nIn a statement issued following the decision, Mr Giggs said he was \"obviously disappointed that a retrial has been ordered\".\n\n\"My not guilty plea remains in relation to all charges. I am confident that justice will eventually be done and my name will be cleared of all the allegations,\" said Mr Giggs, who was not required to attend the hearing.\n\n\"I would like to thank my legal team, my mum, my children, my girlfriend Zara, as well as my closest friends, for their support throughout this period.\n\n\"I understand the level of interest and the scrutiny around this case, but I would like to ask that my and my family's privacy is respected in the weeks and months ahead.\"\n\nDuring Wednesday's hearing, Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, told Judge Hilary Manley: \"We do seek a retrial in respect of Mr Giggs.\n\n\"The matter has been considered at a senior level within the Crown Prosecution Service and also the willingness of the complainant to give evidence, although that is not determinative on the matter, has also been canvassed.\n\n\"They indicate a preparedness so to do.\"\n\nJudge Manley approved a retrial and told Mr Giggs' lawyers in court that his bail would be extended until the trial next year.\n\nIt means Mr Giggs will have been on bail for more than two and a half years before his case goes to trial again, following a pre-trial hearing scheduled for 3 July.\n\nHe quit as Wales' manager in June.", "Crew said they rescued two people, who reportedly survived by clinging to ceiling pipes for over 12 hours\n\nSeven people in South Korea have died after they were trapped in an underground car park during floods caused by Typhoon Hinnamnor.\n\nThey had gone down to move their cars but got caught by the incoming torrents.\n\nCrew said they rescued two people, who reportedly survived by clinging to ceiling pipes for more than 12 hours.\n\nTyphoon Hinnamnor, the strongest cyclonic storm this year so far, hit South Korea earlier this week.\n\nRescuers had to wade through metres of brown water to enter the almost completely submerged basement on Tuesday night.\n\nAccording to news site Yonhap, all nine people were residents of an apartment building who had earlier on Tuesday morning been told by the management office to move their cars from the car park.\n\nThe survivors - a man in his 30s and a woman in her 50s - were reported to be in stable condition.\n\nCrews remove a body - covered by a white sheet -from the submerged basement car park\n\nThe water rushed in before many people were able to get out\n\nPresident Yoon Suk-yeol expressed his grief over the drownings, calling it a \"disaster\".\n\n\"I couldn't sleep last night because of this tragedy,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he had designated the city a special disaster zone, and would travel to the region later on Wednesday.\n\nPohang, the city where the tragedy occurred, has suffered the worst damage across the country. In one area, a beachside hotel collapsed on its foundations during the storm. The resort operators told the BBC no guests had been injured.\n\nThe beachside resort collapsed during the storm\n\nAt least 10 people have now died in South Korea as a result of Typhoon Hinnamnor, which swept the country's southern and eastern coasts on Monday and Tuesday, driving huge surf, gale-force winds and heavy rain.\n\nSeveral other cities across the south - including Busan and Ulsan- are also dealing with wreckage caused by the storm, which ripped up roads, smashed building windows and flattened trees.\n\nSouth Korea - like many countries in East Asia - has over the past few months endured extreme rains as well as record temperatures.\n\nIn early August, it recorded massive downpours which flooded cities, including the capital Seoul. Such floods killed at least eight people, including three who were living in basement apartments.\n\nThe deaths prompted Korea's president to outlaw such units - known as banjiha, which were popularised in the Oscar-winning film Parasite.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. South Korea's Banjiha apartments: 'I have nowhere else to go'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA heavy burden of responsibility falls immediately upon the shoulders of any new prime minister, often causing a silent quiver of nerves. For Liz Truss, self doubt does not form part of her lexicon.\n\nPeople who have met her in recent days say she is relishing the ride and is brimming with self-confidence.\n\nBut even the UK's new prime minister might admit in private that what she describes as \"eye-watering\" energy bills will present her with a hefty challenge, unprecedented since her hero Margaret Thatcher assumed office nearly half a century ago.\n\nWhen Lady Thatcher moved into Downing Street in 1979, the country had a good idea of their new prime minister. She had been leader of the opposition for four years.\n\nWhile Truss has been a cabinet minister for eight years, she has had a lower profile than Thatcher. And even those who know the foreign secretary are wondering what instincts she will follow.\n\nWill we see the return to the fore of the pragmatist who moved seamlessly from the Remain camp to the warm embrace of the Brexiteers? Or will she govern in the mode of her leadership campaign - a lady not for turning, in the words of Thatcher, who will focus on tax cuts?\n\nOver the past few days, BBC Newsnight has been speaking to people who know Truss to assess whether her past can tell us about her future. The consensus seems to be that we will see Liz Truss turning to both sides of her political past to guide her thinking.\n\nOver the weekend Truss announced that within a week of taking office, she will outline an emergency plan to help people with those energy bills. But in a \"fiscal event\" later this month, her new chancellor will outline a \"broader package\" that will hold fast to her campaign pledges.\n\nBaroness Morgan of Cotes, who entered parliament with Truss in 2010 and who served with her in cabinet, says we will see the two sides of the new prime minister's character in response to the energy crisis.\n\n\"I think that there'll be a combination of approaches,\" Baroness Morgan tells Newsnight. \"I think people are going to find it's quite hard to pigeonhole Liz in many ways.\"\n\nPaul Goodman, editor of the ConservativeHome website and someone who knew Truss during his time as an MP, says the new PM will need to put the UK on a war footing to both meet the energy crisis and to shore up her political support.\n\n\"The key to Liz Truss over many years has been her adaptability,\" he says. \"So although she has this reputation as an ideologue and she has very clear ideological roots - originally as a Liberal Democrat - she is somehow the darling of Leavers who in the referendum was a Remainer.\n\n\"She is the champion now of the Tory right, having once been a Liberal Democrat. And she's presented herself in this election as the new kid on the block when she's actually been in cabinet for the best part of 10 years. So she has extraordinary powers of reinvention and recovery.\"\n\nLiz Truss campaigned for Remain during the EU referendum, but quickly backed Brexit after the vote\n\nBut there could be political trouble in embracing strong state support to help people with energy bills. \"The difficulty for her would be this: among the people who elected her are a large body of people who want a different approach,\" Goodman says.\n\n\"So she would have to fall back for support on the body in the Conservative party that didn't vote for her, while irritating, if not angering, some of those that did. And that's going to be a very difficult political horse to ride.\"\n\nAn unlikely political mentor sees a more ideological figure. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, the former Labour defence secretary, encouraged Truss to pursue a political career when she was head of government relations at Cable & Wireless, where he served as a board member.\n\n\"Liz is somebody who gets on well with people,\" Robertson said. \"She has become much more ideological since the days when I would meet her occasionally in the House of Commons… I think she's going to turn out to be quite an ideological fixed-view person in No 10.\"\n\nRobertson knew her as a conventional budding politician who had attended Oxford and who would soon enter the world of Westminster think tanks. That conventional path was pursued in parliament when Truss followed David Cameron's lead in supporting Remain in the referendum.\n\nThe careers of many Tory Remainers were destroyed by that referendum. But it was the making of Truss.\n\nIn the aftermath of the referendum she intuited what would happen at the time when it was a genuinely open question about what sort of Brexit we'd end up with. \"The Leavers will win because they care more,\" she told friends.\n\nThat was a political judgment which led her to make an emotional commitment - she would throw her lot in with that side, lock stock and barrel.\n\nMr Goodman says her change of tack is more complicated than a simple case of a pivoting politician. \"My memory of the time is of a certain vibe emanating from Liz Truss which is: 'What's all this got to do with me? I'm trying to get on my with my job as [environment secretary] and this referendum seems to me a massive distraction from it.'\"\n\nHe added: \"So I don't feel it was just about pleasing the powers that be. But what happened then shows her powers of adaptability.\"\n\nChanging her mind is constant theme for Truss, who was an active Liberal Democrat at university. But her passion for politics, influenced by her left-wing activist parents as a child, has also been constant.\n\nTruss's success has led to something of a family split. Her mother Priscilla has put family ties before politics and is enthusiastically supporting her daughter. But her father John, a maths professor, is less reconciled to the idea of his daughter as a Tory prime minister, according to her friends.\n\nBut Liz Truss does take one core gift from her father into Downing Street: a passion for maths. And anyone invited to an interview with the prime minister had better expect a tricky maths challenge.", "La Grita is located at a height of 1,440m, but the mountains reach to more than 3,000m\n\nEmergency workers are searching for a group of people who disappeared while on a spiritual retreat in the Andes.\n\nDrones and dogs are being deployed to comb the mountainous area around La Grita, in Venezuela's Táchira state.\n\nAn official with the civil protection team said between 16 and 20 people were missing, but local media suggest the number could be higher.\n\nRelatives say they have not heard from their loved ones since they left for the retreat on 22 August.\n\nNeighbours told local paper La Nación that a number of local families had packed food and camping mats and set off into the mountains on what they described as a four-day spiritual retreat.\n\nA priest in La Grita said the group had followed a woman who claimed to have received a revelation by the Virgin Mary.\n\nIn his Sunday sermon, the priest warned of the dangers of believing in \"fanatics\" who made claims about the end of the world being nigh.\n\nYesnardo Canal of the local civil protection authority said a newborn and a number of children were among the missing.\n\nOn Tuesday, a search team combed through the area where locals had reported seeing the group but found nothing.\n\nLa Grita is located at a height of 1,440m (4,725ft) but the surrounding moorlands reach a height of 3,000m.\n\nThe mayor of the area said that the families' disappearance was \"very suspicious\". \"There are several theories [of what may have happened] but we won't know what really happened until the investigations have been concluded,\" the official added.", "Ursula von der Leyen said as well as price cap there should be a mandatory target to cut peak electricity use\n\nThe European Union's executive body has proposed capping the price of Russian gas, within hours of Russia's leader condemning the idea as stupidity.\n\nEnergy prices have soared in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, forcing the EU's 27 states into action.\n\n\"We must cut Russia's revenues which Putin uses to finance this atrocious war,\" said European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nBut Mr Putin said Moscow would react to a cap by halting supplies completely.\n\n\"We will not supply gas, oil, coal, heating oil - we will not supply anything,\" he said, if it went against Russia's interests.\n\nEuropean leaders have accused Moscow of \"weaponising\" its gas exports in response to Western sanctions on Russian individuals and businesses.\n\nWhile the Kremlin denies that is the case, the big Nord Stream 1 pipeline into northern Germany has been shut indefinitely, with Moscow directly blaming sanctions.\n\nLast week, the G7 group of nations - announced a price cap for Russian oil - a move it said would reduce both Moscow's revenue for its Ukraine invasion, and inflation in the West.\n\nFinnish researchers recently estimated that Russia has made €158bn (£136bn) from surging fossil fuel prices during the six-month invasion - with EU imports accounting for more than half of that.\n\nSpeaking to an economics forum in the far eastern city of Vladivostok on Wednesday, Russia's leader condemned sanctions as economic aggression, and a \"fever\" posing a threat to the entire world.\n\nThe quality of life for Europeans was being sacrificed while poorer countries were losing access to food, he argued: \"Now we are seeing how production and jobs in Europe are closing one after another.\"\n\nAlthough he acknowledged inflation in Russia was rising, he minimised the effect that sanctions were having on Russian companies: \"I am sure that we have not lost anything and we will not lose anything.\"\n\nRussian companies have struggled to source much-needed imported parts. But Mr Putin asserted that confidence in the dollar, euro and pound was being lost before people's eyes - while Russia was emerging from the war with its sovereignty strengthened.\n\nThe Russian leader said Western currencies were falling while Russia was not losing anything\n\nRussia launched its invasion on 24 February and now occupies around a fifth of Ukrainian territory. Six months on, it has been pushed back from areas around Kyiv and the north and now faces a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the south and east.\n\nWestern nations responded to the war with several rounds of sanctions. The European Union has attempted to cut its reliance on Russian gas and oil and Moscow - and on Friday EU energy ministers will try to decide how to protect consumers and businesses from the threat of enormous bills over the winter.\n\nAhead of the meeting, Ursula von der Leyen said Europe had weakened Russia's grip on its gas requirements. Gas storage was already up to 82% and supplies had increased from the US, Norway, Algeria and other countries.\n\nBefore the invasion, Russia accounted for 40% of the EU's imported gas, but today that proportion was now down to only 9%, she said.\n\nAs well as a price cap on Russian gas, EU ministers have been looking at how to separate the cost of gas from the price of electricity, which are linked in Europe's market. The Commission president outlined several other plans:\n\nThe plans will go before energy ministers on Friday, and one diplomat told the BBC he was sceptical: \"Good luck getting that through council complete and intact.\"\n\nEU member states have already responded to the crisis with a series of packages to help consumers. At the weekend Sweden and Finland announced liquidity guarantees for power companies, while Germany said it would spend €65bn (£56.2bn) with help for the vulnerable as well as tax breaks for energy-intensive businesses.\n\nIn Vladivostok, Mr Putin went on to accuse Europe of cheating the developing world out of Ukrainian grain exports in the wake of a UN-led deal to lift Russia's naval blockade.\n\nFor months ships were unable to leave Ukraine's three Black Sea ports but shipments resumed last month. Mr Putin told his audience that only two grain ships had since gone to Africa - which is not the case. He said he wanted to discuss revisiting the deal, in remarks rejected by Ukraine as groundless.\n\nOther ships have left for Yemen and Sudan while several vessels have gone to ports in Egypt.\n\nA UN-chartered ship carrying 23,000 tonnes arrived in Djibouti last week. The grain has now reached Ethiopia in 60 lorries, with the aim of feeding more than one and a half million people in a country blighted by drought and civil war.\n\nUnder the agreement all cargoes are approved by a joint centre in Turkey. The centre says 2m tonnes have been authorised so far, including to Turkey and the Middle East as well as ports in the EU.", "The new PM Liz Truss has pledged to \"deliver on the energy crisis\"\n\nNew Prime Minister Liz Truss will unveil plans to limit energy bill rises on Thursday, spending billions to protect people from soaring prices.\n\nTypical household energy bills could be capped at around £2,500 a year, with firms also likely to get some relief.\n\nIt is unclear how long the support will last, but the government is expected to borrow at least £100bn to pay for it.\n\nCurrently, a typical household's annual gas and electricity bill is due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 in October.\n\nExperts and charities have warned that without help with soaring energy bills, lives will be at risk this winter, as people struggle to afford basic day-to-day living costs.\n\nHowever, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition pressure group estimates that if the energy price cap is frozen at £2,500, 6.9 million UK households will still be in fuel poverty this winter - up from 4.6 million last winter.\n\nThe recent increase in consumers' bills follows sharp rises in wholesale gas prices largely due to the conflict in Ukraine, which has reduced supplies of Russian gas.\n\nAhead of the announcement, Ms Truss said she knew families and firms were worried about \"how they are going to make ends meet this autumn and winter\".\n\n\"Putin's war in Ukraine and weaponisation of gas supply in Europe is causing global prices to rise - and this has only made clearer that we must boost our long-term energy security and supply,\" she said.\n\nShe pledged to \"tackle the root cause of these problems, so that we are not in this position again\".\n\nTo limit the amount customers' bills go up by, the government is expected to compensate energy firms for the difference between the wholesale price for gas and electricity they pay and the amount they can charge customers.\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Do you have any questions for our experts? Get in touch.\n\nCustomers will not be expected to repay the help, with the huge support package due to be funded by the government borrowing about £100bn.\n\nThe final sum will depend on the cost of energy on the international energy markets - which can be extremely volatile - as well as whether additional support is offered to the most vulnerable households.\n\nBut Labour said the government should extend a windfall tax on gas and oil company profits to pay for the package - with leader Sir Keir Starmer warning that working people will be footing the bill for \"vast\" energy firm profits under her plans.\n\nEd Miliband, the shadow secretary for climate change, told the BBC on Thursday: \"We know that the energy companies are making excess profits of £170bn over the next two years\n\n\"I cannot understand - apart from ideology and dogma - why the first port of call should not be [taxing] these excess profits.\"\n\nThe government is, however, planning a shake-up of the energy market, the BBC has learned. Following a series of meetings with officials, energy companies - mainly in the nuclear and renewables sector - have agreed in principle to accept new long-term contracts at fixed prices well below current rates, BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt said.\n\nMost accept that the profits they are making currently are not sustainable during a national crisis, he added.\n\nHowever, Mr Miliband said accepting \"slightly lower prices now\" would mean \"much higher prices\" in future and be a \"terrible deal for billpayers\".\n\nRocketing prices are leaving households facing eyewatering energy bills. Several councils are considering setting up \"warm banks\" - community spaces for people who cannot afford winter heating - while some teachers are warning of cuts to staff, school trips or courses to cover rising costs.\n\nEvery household in the UK is already due to be given a one-off £400 discount on their fuel bills from October - a move announced by Ms Truss's defeated leadership rival Rishi Sunak while he was chancellor.\n\nAnd £650 will be paid to more than eight million low-income households who receive benefits or tax credits, alongside further payments to pensioner households and disabled people.\n\nThe current price cap - set by Ofgem and which limits the maximum amount domestic customers can be charged for each unit of energy - is due to increase in October. It will mean a typical household will pay £3,549 a year for their energy.\n\nUnlike households, businesses are not protected by an energy price cap. Many are currently facing even sharper rises in energy bills than households, which could lead to firms going under or cutting their wage bills by firing staff.\n\nBut firms are also expected to receive some relief under the new plan.\n\nThe system to support business could be more complex than that for households and is likely to be reviewed more often. According to reports, it could see the government force energy firms to offer specific reductions on the unit price of the energy used by firms.\n\nBusiness groups have welcomed the plan, although the British Chambers of Commerce warned \"it remains to be seen\" whether it goes far enough in providing the support that firms need.\n\nAbdul Shahid, who runs the Masala restaurant in Derby city centre, said his business needed help \"now, not three months later\".\n\n\"Our energy bills have more than doubled in many cases and all of our ingredients have gone up as well,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"We are definitely thinking about shutting our doors, it's very stressful.\"\n\nRosemary Brown, director of Bluebell Dairy, a luxury ice cream maker, said her energy costs had jumped from £35,000 a year to £80,000. That would rise to £225,000 a year if she renewed tomorrow, she added.\n\n\"We need help with capping the energy costs for the immediate future. We also strongly need to see some investment from the government in renewable energy so that 12 months along the line we've got systems in place.\"\n\nIf businesses are included, that could see the overall cost of the government support package rise to well above £100bn.\n\nThe cost of UK government borrowing is currently at its highest level for eight years, with the yield on 10-year bonds rising above 3%. The rise in yield indicates investors' anticipation that the government will have to borrow more in future. It also means any future borrowing will be more expensive.\n\nHowever, some economists have suggested that plans to cap energy bills could mean that increases in the cost of living will peak earlier and be \"significantly lower\" than previously forecast.\n\nThe cost of living is currently rising at its fastest rate in 40 years, with prices 10.1% higher than the same time last year. The rise is largely driven by the sharp rise in energy prices.\n\nInvestment bank Goldman Sachs said that a cap on household energy bills could see inflation peak at 10.8% in October, rather than the 14.8% forecast before. It also sees prices falling more quickly as well, with inflation slowing to 2.4% by December 2023.\n\nThe Bank of England also said the plan could slow rising prices.\n\nHowever, both cautioned that there was uncertainty around what exactly the plan will look like and what would happen once any cap is lifted.\n\nEconomists also expect the UK to fall into a recession despite Ms Truss' energy support plan - albeit a shorter and less severe one.\n\nThe Bank of England predicted the UK will enter a recession later this year - with the Bank's governor Andrew Bailey saying there is little that can be done to stop that happening.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Truss is also reportedly set to announce she is scrapping the ban on fracking which was introduced in 2019 over concerns it was causing earth tremors.\n\nThe controversial gas extraction technique involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure solution at a rock layer to release the gas inside.", "Penny Polar Bear (C) introduced her mothers to the show on Tuesday\n\nLoved by pre-school audiences in the UK, US, Australia and Latin America, Peppa Pig is arguably one of the most recognisable - and popular - cartoon animals in the world.\n\nIt is perhaps no wonder, then, that the programme's decision to introduce its first same-sex couple has made waves.\n\nDuring an episode titled Families, which first aired on Tuesday on Channel 5 in the UK, where Peppa Pig is made, the eponymous character was introduced to friend Penny Polar Bear's mothers.\n\nWhile drawing a portrait of her family, Penny explained: \"I live with my mummy and my other mummy. One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti.\"\n\nThe programme, created by British animators Mark Baker and Neville Astley, has been running since 2004. This is the first time in its 18-year history a same-sex couple has been featured.\n\nIt comes two years after a petition was created on a US-based website, demanding a \"same-sex parent family on Peppa Pig\". It has garnered almost 24,000 signatures.\n\n\"Children watching Peppa Pig are at an impressionable age,\" the creators of the petition wrote. \"Excluding same-sex families will teach them that only families with either a single parent or two parents of different sexes are normal.\"\n\nRobbie de Santos, director of communications and external affairs at LGBT rights charity Stonewall, described seeing a same-sex family in fictional Peppatown as \"fantastic\".\n\n\"Many of those who watch the show will have two mums or two dads themselves and it will mean a lot to parents and children that their experiences are being represented on such an iconic children's programme,\" he told the BBC.\n\nPeppa Pig is by no means the first children's programme to feature same-sex couples. US cartoon Arthur, aimed at four to eight-year-olds, won praise back in 2019 after it showed a gay wedding during its 22nd series.\n\nAt the time, Maria Vera Whelan of PBS KIDS - where Arthur ran until it ended earlier this year - said in a statement PBS believed it was \"important to represent the wide array of adults in the lives of children\".\n\nOther popular cartoons to have touched on LGBT relationships have included Adventure Time and Steven Universe - both are also from the US but aimed at audiences aged 10 and above.\n\nFollowing the latest episode of Peppa Pig, Twitter was alive with debate about the introduction of Penny Polar Bear's family. \"Lesbians in Peppa Pig... can't kids shows just be for kids?\" one man wrote, accusing the show of \"box-ticking\".\n\nAnother disagreed, saying: \"Well what do you know? My kids saw the first same-sex couple on Peppa Pig and the world didn't end.\"", "The new PM called the Ukrainian and US presidents on her first day in office\n\nLiz Truss has rewarded her key allies with top jobs in a major reshuffle hours after succeeding Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng is made chancellor, James Cleverly becomes foreign secretary and Suella Braverman replaces Priti Patel as home secretary.\n\nOne of Ms Truss's closest friends, Therese Coffey, is appointed as health secretary and deputy PM.\n\nHer new cabinet will meet ahead of her first Prime Minister's Questions later.\n\nNone of those who backed her defeated rival, Rishi Sunak, will remain in her full cabinet, with Dominic Raab, Grant Shapps, George Eustice and Steve Barclay all returning to the backbenches.\n\nBut Ms Truss's press secretary said the changes would \"unify\" the Tory Party and pointed to senior roles for five of her leadership rivals: Suella Braverman, Tom Tugendhat as security minister, Kemi Badenoch as trade secretary, Penny Mordaunt as leader of the Commons, and Nadhim Zahawi as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.\n\nFor the first time, none of the top four \"great offices of state\" - prime minister, chancellor, home secretary and foreign secretary - is held by a white man.\n\nMeanwhile, the new PM made her first call to a fellow foreign leader, pledging the UK's ongoing support to Ukraine in a call with President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nNo 10 said Ms Truss was also \"delighted\" to accept an invitation to visit Ukraine.\n\nShe later spoke to US President Joe Biden, where the pair discussed the importance of the UK reaching an agreement with the EU over post-Brexit trading rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere are a handful of striking things about the composition of Liz Truss's cabinet.\n\nThere has been a near total purge of those who backed Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe only one who I can spot is Michael Ellis, the new attorney general for England and Wales.\n\nAnd even he will attend cabinet rather than being a cabinet minister, subtle though that distinction is.\n\nThis dominance of Truss campaign supporters around the Truss top table is already prompting grumbling among some Tory MPs, although we do await appointments to the more junior ranks in government.\n\nThe prime minister's desire for loyalty and building a government in her own image runs the risk of provoking rebellion down the track.\n\nMs Truss finished her first tranche of appointments late on Tuesday, with new the Chancellor, Mr Kwarteng, tweeting that getting the job was \"the honour of a lifetime\".\n\nHe is expected to spend his first day meeting chief executives of various banks to brief them on his outlook.\n\nMr Kwarteng is also understood to be finalising plans for energy bill support which would see a typical household bill capped at around £2,500 a year.\n\nBut Labour have asked where the money is coming from to fund the bill.\n\n\"We really haven't got the detail,\" Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy told the BBC.\n\n\"She is going to freeze bills. Where is the money coming from?\n\n\"Is it actually gonna come from consumers - bill payers down the line - or is it going to come from the oil and gas companies who have made huge profits, more than they imagined, and can actually afford to fund it.\"\n\nMs Truss has previously said she is not keen on a windfall tax on energy companies' profits.\n\nLiz Truss is set to face Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's questions later\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace was one of the few senior ministers to retain his job, where he has earned plaudits in his response to the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nNadine Dorries, who backed Ms Truss, said she had been asked by the new PM to stay on as culture secretary but had decided to quit front-line politics.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg, an early supporter of Ms Truss, was appointed business, energy and industrial strategy secretary.\n\nMr Sunak, the former chancellor whose resignation helped trigger the downfall of Boris Johnson, had already made it clear he did not expect to be offered a new job.\n\nBut his supporters had urged Ms Truss to appoint an \"inclusive\" cabinet and not simply surround herself with loyalists.\n\nMs Truss was appointed the 56th prime minister of the UK by the Queen, in a ceremony at Balmoral on Tuesday.\n\nShe returned to a rain-lashed Downing Street, where in a short speech, she vowed to grow the economy through tax cuts and reform; take action to deal with energy bills and put the health service on \"a firm footing\".", "The manhunt for Myles Sanderson has entered its fourth day\n\nCanada's parole board will review its decision to release one of the men now suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing attack in Saskatchewan.\n\nParole documents of Myles Sanderson, 32, show he has 59 prior convictions as well as a history of violence.\n\nHe was released in February while serving a four-year sentence.\n\n\"I want to know the reasons behind the decision,\" Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said. \"I'm extremely concerned by what occurred here.\"\n\nThe hunt for Myles Sanderson is in its fourth day following the stabbing attack on Sunday that left 10 people dead and 18 others injured. Ten victims remain in hospital, three of them in critical condition.\n\nThe other suspect, his 31-year-old brother Damien Sanderson, was found dead by police on Monday at the James Smith Cree Nation, a close-knit indigenous community in central Saskatchewan. The discovery brought the death toll to 11.\n\nAt an emotional news conference on Wednesday, relatives of the victims spoke of the \"horror\" of the attack that has stunned the country. They were among the first relatives to come forward and speak about their loss.\n\n\"We are broken, but we're not defeated,\" said Mark Arcand, chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council and brother of Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns. Bonnie, 48, and her son Gregory Burns, 28, were both killed.\n\nBonnie \"took care of everybody\" and was \"a true matriarch\", her brother said, adding that Gregory loved his family and had two children with a third on the way.\n\nWith a smile, Chief Arcand said he \"didn't like\" being in a room with Bonnie and her husband Brian, \"because all they would do was laugh at us and joke\".\n\nHe recalled the horror he felt after hearing the news of the attack, driving alone for two hours to reach his sister and her family at James Smith Cree Nation. Bonnie and Gregory were among nine victims that lived in the community.\n\n\"One of the most traumatising things was the visual scene that day,\" he said.\n\nBonnie was a \"hero\", he said, adding that she had died protecting her three young sons. One of the children was stabbed but survived.\n\n\"These two young boys woke up to screaming not being able to help,\" he said. \"One of the young boys was hiding behind a high chair watching the whole thing happen.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I'm just a kid from the reserve. We didn't want this, we didn't ask for this.\"\n\nFour days after the stabbing spree, there are still more questions than answers.\n\nIt is unclear whether Myles Sanderson acted alone or with assistance, including from his brother Damien. Nor is it clear why Wes Petterson, an elderly man who lived in Weldon, 30km (18 miles) away, was killed.\n\nPolice have said they believe some victims were targeted, but have not offered any information about a possible motive.\n\nIt is also unknown where in the province - or in the country - Myles Sanderson is now.\n\nAn alert was sent to Canadian mobile phone users on Wednesday afternoon warning people near the town of Wakaw, 40km north of Saskatoon, to \"seek immediate shelter/shelter in place\" because a man armed with a knife had been seen driving in the area.\n\nIt comes a day after another reported sighting turned out to be a false alarm.\n\nThese questions have fuelled intense speculation throughout Saskatchewan about the mass stabbing - conjecture that was scotched by Chief Arcand on Wednesday.\n\n\"Don't listen to rumours, innuendos,\" he said. \"Please don't assume.\"\n\nParole documents show Myles Sanderson has a decades-long criminal record, including 59 criminal convictions since he was 18, including assault, threats, and robbery. The files also indicate his childhood was marred by domestic violence and parental substance abuse.\n\nThe parole board in February said he would \"not present an undue risk\" and that his release would \"contribute to the protection of society\" by facilitating his rehabilitation.\n\nSaskatoon police earlier confirmed they've been searching for Myles Sanderson since May, when he stopped meeting with his assigned caseworker and was classified as \"unlawfully at large.\"\n\nIt also noted that he had taken steps towards rehabilitation during an earlier release, including participation in cultural ceremonies, staying sober and getting a job.\n\n\"I am assured that the Parole Board of Canada will be undertaking an investigation of the decision,\" Mr Mendicino told reporters on Tuesday evening.\n\n\"There will be an appropriate time and a place to review policy and resourcing and we need to embrace that review, we need to be transparent with Canadians to make sure that this kind of thing never happens again,\" he said.", "A man who lost his job as period dignity officer is pursuing legal action against the group that hired him.\n\nJason Grant is taking action under the Equality Act, with the possibility of a sexual discrimination claim.\n\nTayside's period dignity working group said on Tuesday that it was scrapping the role following \"threats and abuse\".\n\nMr Grant's appointment sparked a heated debate online, with critics saying the job should have gone to a woman.\n\nHis role was created to ensure the legal right to free period products in public places and was described as the first of its kind in Scotland.\n\nThe working group – which comprises of representatives from Dundee and Angus College, Perth College, Angus Council and Dundee City Council – had said Mr Grant was the strongest candidate for the job.\n\nEmployment law specialist Ryan Russell, of MML Legal, said it was pursuing a case on behalf of Mr Grant under the Equality Act 2010.\n\nMr Russell claimed that Mr Grant was \"publicly dismissed\" before being given written confirmation that the role had been scrapped.\n\nSolicitor Ryan Russell says his client was \"publicly dismissed\"\n\nHe said: \"The partnership chose to remain completely silent in the last few weeks until publicly announcing his dismissal from the post.\n\n\"During this time, the partnership said nothing whilst Jason came under constant attack from all around the globe.\n\n\"There are many legal issues arising not only from his appointment but in the decisions that have been made not to support Jason or stand by their appointment which could impact his health, career and future prospects.\n\n\"If Jason was not a man, would he have been dismissed from the role? How would you feel if this was a member of your family.\"\n\nMr Grant had been expected to lead a campaign across schools, colleges and communities in Tayside to raise awareness of Scotland's law on period products and ensure that funding was allocated appropriately.\n\nThe role was funded by the Scottish government, which said it was not involved in making appointments to such posts.\n\nThe working group said it was considering \"alternative ways\" of providing period services.\n\nIt declined to comment on the legal action.", "The outgoing prime minister compared himself to \"one of those booster rockets\" that \"has fulfilled its function\" and pointed to what he said were his achievements in office, such as resolving the Brexit impasse, the vaccine programme during the pandemic and supporting Ukraine following its invasion by Russia", "Around 100,000 pupils in Northern Ireland are already entitled to free school meals\n\nA number of schools in Northern Ireland have decided to offer more pupils free meals in response to rises in the cost of living.\n\nSome schools are now offering free breakfasts to all pupils and some are offering hot dinners to more pupils.\n\nPrices are rising faster than they have done for 40 years with inflation above 10%.\n\nEnergy bills especially have risen substantially putting increased pressure on many families.\n\nIn Wales, the government has begun rolling out a programme to offer free school meals to all primary school children by 2024.\n\nAround 100,000 children in Northern Ireland are entitled to free school meals, that is around 30% of the total school population.\n\nBut some principals who spoke to BBC News NI said that an increasing number of families who were not entitled to the benefit were also facing rising pressures.\n\nAmong the schools to offer complimentary meals to an increased number of pupils since the start of the new term are Belfast Boys' Model and Belfast Girls' Model.\n\nBoth are large non-selective post-primary schools in north Belfast with more than 1,000 pupils each.\n\nBelfast Girls' Model is to provide all of its new pupils in Year 8 with a complimentary school meal until Christmas and will give all of its pupils a complimentary Christmas dinner.\n\nThe school also said it hoped to offer a free meal to every student during the winter months.\n\nAt Belfast Boys' Model, meanwhile, all pupils are being offered a free breakfast.\n\nThe school canteen will provide a cooked breakfast, cereal, fruit or bread to any of the school's 1,000 pupils who want it until Christmas.\n\nThe school's principal Mary Montgomery said that in the first week of term alone around 200 boys a day had been turning up to get breakfast.\n\n\"We opted for breakfast as it's the meal to start the day,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Getting good nutrition helps with concentration and a good mindset for the rest of the day.\n\n\"We are also conscious of the pressures on the families of our pupils, and we wanted to take some of the pressure off.\"\n\nThe school governors also decided to provide every pupil with a free school coat or bodywarmer ahead of the new school year.\n\nMs Montgomery said the school had also provided free meals to all pupils in June, and hoped to offer free dinners over the winter but that would depend on finding funding.\n\nAt the nearby Hazelwood Integrated College, meanwhile, any of the school's 1,000 pupils can also get a free breakfast if they want it.\n\nThe school has also been providing free hot dinners to any pupil who wants one for the last two Decembers, and plan to do the same again this year.\n\nThe vice-principal Aine Leslie told BBC News NI that parents had really appreciated the move.\n\n\"It took a huge pressure off at Christmas when the cost of living - in any year - would always be higher in December,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not just for students on free school meal entitlement, it's for all of the students.\n\nSome schools running free breakfast clubs and similar schemes say there has been a recent increase in demand\n\n\"Our parents are telling us that it helps them the most in December, it takes pressure off them having to pay for school meals coming up to Christmas.\"\n\nAt the same time in 2020, the school decided that its breakfast club should be open to all students to get a free hot breakfast if they wanted it.\n\n\"Our school nurse was very much involved in that,\" said Ms Leslie.\n\n\"When we introduced it the school nurse reported that the number of children coming to her in periods one and two had significantly decreased.\n\n\"She would have had a lot of children coming to her with sore tummies who were coming from families experiencing poverty that didn't have breakfast.\n\n\"The school nurse more or less begged us could we keep this as a long-term initiative because she had really seen an improvement in some of the most vulnerable children.\"\n\nWhile the school has provided breakfast and December meals since 2020, Ms Leslie said that demand had increased, as had that for a school uniform swap shop which ran over the summer.\n\n\"We would pride ourselves as a school with a low-cost uniform, it's not an expensive uniform,\" she said.\n\n\"Even the parents that get the uniform grant we know it doesn't cover an entire uniform, even a low-cost uniform.\"\n\nThe school's breakfast club has been so successful that they have won a UK award from the Kellogg's company, which they are due to collect at Westminster later in September.\n\nMs Leslie said that Hazelwood used some funding they received to target social need to provide pupils with food but had also raised money themselves to pay for the service.\n\n\"We're continuously always out there looking for sources, there isn't a regular income,\" she said.\n\n\"We'd like to see a more sustained approach so we could keep on doing this without having to continuously go out to look for external sources of funding.\n\n\"We need our children to be healthy and happy and when they're healthy and happy they will learn much better.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer for us, we're going to keep doing it.\"\n\nSome other schools across Northern Ireland have made similar decisions.\n\nPrimate Dixon Primary in Coalisland, for example, offers free fruit and free toast to its 500 pupils and free musical instrument tuition.\n\nIn 2021, pupils at the nearby St Joseph's College in the County Tyrone were also provided with free meals throughout December.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK can \"ride out the storm\", Liz Truss has said as she became the country's 56th prime minister.\n\nGiving her first speech as PM in Downing Street, Ms Truss said her three early priorities would be the economy, energy and the health service.\n\nShe said her mission was to ensure \"prosperity for all\" and that she was \"determined to deliver\".\n\nShe replaces Boris Johnson who used his leaving speech to urge Conservative MPs to get behind the new prime minister.\n\nSpeaking in front of the door to No 10 after an autumnal downpour nearly derailed the planned event, Ms Truss said she was \"honoured\" to take on the role \"at a vital time for our country\".\n\nShe said the country faced challenges caused by Russia's \"appalling aggression\" in Ukraine and the aftermath of the Covid pandemic.\n\nHowever, she said the British people had \"the grit and determination\" to \"tackle those challenges\".\n\n\"As strong as the storm may be, I know that the British people are stronger.\"\n\nSetting out her initial aims, she said she would grow the economy through tax cuts and reform; take action to deal with energy bills and put the health service on \"a firm footing\".\n\nColleagues of the new prime minister gathered outside No 10 to hear Ms Truss's speech\n\nFollowing the speech, Ms Truss began to appoint the senior ministers who will sit in her cabinet.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng has been named chancellor, Therese Coffey is the new health secretary and deputy PM, and James Cleverly becomes foreign secretary.\n\nSuella Braverman, who ran against Ms Truss to be Conservative leader, replaces Priti Patel as home secretary.\n\nIn her first call as prime minister, Ms Truss spoke to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nDowning Street said the two leaders discussed the need to \"cut off funds fuelling Putin's war machine\".\n\nNo 10 also said Ms Truss had a conversation with US President Joe Biden in which they \"reflected on the enduring strength of the special relationship\".\n\nThe first address of a newly installed prime minister does more to shape, to frame their premiership than any utterance before, or after.\n\nLiz Truss's speech was her introduction to the country; a long standing minister well known at Westminster but much less so beyond.\n\nShorn of biography but heavy on belief, she sought to describe the country she now leads; how it is one of grit and courage, how she wants to be an \"aspiration nation\".\n\nThis was an attempt to meld the 2019 Conservative manifesto, which delivered the majority that allows her to govern, with the policy promises of this summer's campaign.\n\nA determination to build hospitals, schools, road and broadband sounded like what Boris Johnson called \"levelling up\", without using that slogan.\n\nTax cuts and help with energy bills, the centrepiece of her pitch for the job.\n\nHer challenges in office are both instant and colossal; her response to the energy bills crisis expected on Thursday.\n\nBefore that the appointment of ministers and Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMs Truss and her team will also be putting together their plan for helping people deal with rising energy bills.\n\nAn announcement is due on Thursday and is expected to include a freeze on energy bills worth billions of pounds.\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats have previously called for a freeze on energy bills to be funded through a windfall tax on the profits of gas and oil companies.\n\nMeanwhile in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans to freeze rent and rail fares in a bid to ease the cost of living crisis.\n\nMs Truss gave her speech after travelling back from Scotland where she was officially appointed by the Queen.\n\nPlans to speak outside were put into jeopardy following a burst of heavy rainfall which forced waiting colleagues and journalists to take shelter, while the podium was covered in a black bin bag.\n\nHowever, the rain subsided in time to allow Ms Truss to address the cameras from outside.\n\nDuring her speech, Ms Truss paid tribute to her predecessor Mr Johnson saying he would be remembered as a \"hugely consequential prime minister\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Johnson used his final speech as prime minister outside Downing Street to praise his colleagues in government.\n\nHe said they had \"got Brexit done\", delivered \"the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe\", and \"organised prompt supply of weapons to Ukraine\".\n\nMr Johnson - who was removed by his own MPs - also urged his Conservative colleagues to get behind Ms Truss saying: \"It's time for politics to be over, folks.\"\n\nReflecting on his own future, Mr Johnson likened himself to \"one of those booster rockets\" that \"has fulfilled its function\".\n\nThe outgoing prime minister also compared himself to Cincinnatus, a Roman statesman and military leader, who returned to his farm having battled against an invasion. However, he later came out of retirement for a second term as leader of Rome.", "The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has called the new health secretary's record on abortion rights \"deeply concerning\".\n\nTherese Coffey, appointed by new PM Liz Truss, has previously voted against extending access to abortion care.\n\nAbortion charities have accused Ms Coffey of putting her personal beliefs \"above expert clinical guidance\".\n\nBut Ms Coffey told the BBC abortion access already available in England will continue while she is in post.\n\nMs Coffey recently voted against making at-home abortion pills, introduced during the pandemic, permanently available in England and Wales.\n\nIt was a free vote in the Commons, meaning that MPs made a decision based on their own beliefs, rather than on party lines.\n\nWhen asked about the vote, Ms Coffey said she was \"a democrat and the vote was won in Parliament by people who wanted to make that permanent\".\n\n\"There are many other people who are exceptionally pro-abortion who did not want that to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"However Parliament voted, it's happened, and the regulations are already in place.\"\n\nShe said as health secretary, she would focus on \"what the vast majority of people use the NHS\" for - ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentists.\n\nIn June, when asked about her views on access to abortion in an interview with Sky News, Ms Coffey said: \"Abortion law isn't going to change in this country.\"\n\nMs Coffey, who is a practising Catholic, said she would \"prefer that people didn't have abortions but I am not going to condemn people that do\".\n\nAs a backbencher in 2010, Ms Coffey also introduced a motion in Parliament which called for \"mental health assessments\" for women seeking an abortion.\n\nHer motion in 2010 said: \"In its 14 March 2008 statement the Royal College of Psychiatrists advised that healthcare professionals who assess or refer women who are requesting an abortion should assess for mental disorder and for risk factors that may be associated with its subsequent development\" and called on the government to \"give its full backing to mental health assessments for women presenting for abortion\".\n\nShe voted against extending abortion rights to women in Northern Ireland, but wrote at the time this was because she supported devolution and did not believe the UK Parliament should be \"exercising direct rule on this issue\".\n\nMs Coffey also defended former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt after he said he believed the abortion limit should be reduced to 12 weeks, tweeting that the \"majority of European countries have [a] 12 week limit #abortion\".\n\nClare Murphy, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), said while politicians were entitled to their own views on abortion, what mattered was whether their \"personal convictions stand in the way of women's ability to act on their own\".\n\nMs Murphy told the BBC that by voting to revoke access to at-home abortion care, she was voting \"against the advice of leading medical bodies including Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Royal College of Midwives and the BMA\".\n\n\"To have a health secretary who would place their personal beliefs above expert clinical guidance is deeply concerning.\"\n\nMs Murphy said the UK should be \"a beacon for women's reproductive choice\", especially after the repeal of Roe v Wade, a legal precedent that safeguarded access to abortion in the US.\n\n\"Anti-abortion protest activity is escalating, with women and clinic staff facing intimidation while seeking to access and provide an NHS-funded service,\" Ms Murphy said.\n\n\"Every week, women with complex medical conditions are forced to continue pregnancies against their will because of a lack of appointments within NHS hospital settings.\n\n\"We need a health secretary who wants to improve access to a medical procedure that one in three women will need in their lifetime, not impose further restrictions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rosie Duffield calls for the government to enshrine in law \"a woman's right to choose\".\n\nWhen the new PM, Liz Truss, was foreign secretary, the UK government organised a multinational statement committing to the rights of women and girls as part of an intergovernmental conference it hosted in London in early July.\n\nIt was later amended to remove references to \"sexual and reproductive health and rights\" and \"bodily autonomy\".\n\nThe joint statement was signed by 22 countries before it was amended. One country, Malta, where abortion is illegal, has signed since the amendment.\n\nA question was tabled on 19 July 2022 to ask Ms Truss about the decision to remove reference to reproductive healthcare from the statement.\n\nForeign minister Vicky Ford responded on behalf of Ms Truss and said: \"In our capacity as chair of the event, we amended the statement we made at the Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference to make the final statement more inclusive of all perspectives and views to allow for a constructive exchange of views on all issues.\"\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy, who has campaigned to make abortion a human right in the UK, told the BBC: \"There's every reason to believe this new administration will lead to abortion access being reduced because the new prime minister herself removed a commitment to protecting this from her own international activity.\n\n\"It's why we have to put the freedom of women in the UK to choose to have an abortion beyond interference just as the government has pledged to protect freedom of speech from interference too.\"", "Celia Marsh, who had a severe dairy allergy, died in 2017 after eating a super-veg rainbow flatbread\n\nPret a Manger failed to conduct checks on manufacturers supplying dairy-free products, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe 42-year-old, from Wiltshire, had a severe dairy allergy and collapsed after eating the sandwich bought from the chain's store in Bath, Somerset.\n\nA trading standards officer said they did not have any evidence of Pret verifying the dairy-free claim.\n\nThe wrap had contained yoghurt which was supposed to be vegan but was later found to contain traces of dairy protein.\n\nThe yoghurt was produced by Planet Coconut, which is the UK manufacturer and distributor of products developed by Australia-based yoghurt company CoYo.\n\nMs Marsh's family and her husband (centre) have been attending the inquest\n\nKirsty Langford, a trading standards officer for Bath and North East Somerset Council, told the inquest Pret a Manger had not apparently conducted its own audit of the claims made by Planet Coconut.\n\n\"When a dairy-free claim is made on a product you expect some sort of testing to be taking place,\" she said.\n\n\"That may not itself be the responsibility of Pret A Manger but it would probably be Pret's responsibility to ensure their supplier was undertaking some sort of testing.\"\n\nMs Langford continued: \"When we went back to Planet Coconut we weren't supplied with any test certificate and we weren't sure that Pret had been supplied with any either - we haven't been supplied with any evidence of that.\n\n\"That becomes more important when there is a dairy-free claim on the product, that is when you would expect finished product testing to make sure that 'free-from' claim can be verified.\"\n\nMs Langford said that ordinarily, a free-from claim on a product would be supported by a risk assessment by the retailer checking all the processes and ingredients in the supply chain.\n\nShe recounted that Planet Coconut had said it was testing its product for allergens every year and added how often a product should be tested was not enshrined in law.\n\n\"With a small supplier like Planet Coconut it would be less often than a bigger (company),\" Ms Langford said.\n\n\"I would expect Pret to check that testing was being undertaken through their supplier - there were supplier audits being undertaken (by Pret) but I don't think the audit picked up on the testing of the product.\"\n\nAn investigation revealed the yoghurt contained 'HG1' starch, supplied by Tate and Lyle PLC, that was identified as the possible source of the contamination.\n\nThe court was told Tate & Lyle had never said the HG1 starch was suitable for a dairy-free claim and alleges it had passed on the information concerning the risk of contamination to Planet Coconut.\n\nThe court heard that the trace of milk in the flatbread was so small that it would only be expected to have an effect on around 5% of people with the most acute dairy allergy.\n\nMrs Marsh's husband, Andy, said his wife had \"religiously\" avoided dairy after suffering a near-fatal incident a few months previously in which she needed 15 shots of adrenalin.\n\nPret was charged with food safety failures in the wake of Mrs Marsh's death, but the prosecution was later dropped due to lack of evidence.\n\nAll Pret sandwiches are displayed with a warning stating they are made onsite in a busy kitchen, and that the company cannot guarantee they are suitable for people with allergies.\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.", "The Queen has postponed an online meeting of the Privy Council after being advised to rest by doctors, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe palace said that after \"a full day\" on Tuesday the monarch, 96, had accepted the medics' advice.\n\nIn a break in tradition she met outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his successor Liz Truss in Balmoral, in Aberdeenshire.\n\nThe Queen has suffered from mobility issues in recent times.\n\nThe monarch remains at Balmoral and the latest advice does not involve a hospital stay.\n\nShe had been due to hold the Privy Council virtually on Wednesday evening, during which Ms Truss would have taken her oath as First Lord of the Treasury and her new cabinet ministers would have been sworn into their roles.\n\nThe Privy Council is a formal body, mainly made up of senior politicians, which advises the Queen.\n\nIn a statement a Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"After a full day yesterday, Her Majesty has this afternoon accepted doctors' advice to rest.\n\n\"This means that the Privy Council meeting that had been due to take place this evening will be rearranged.\"\n\nDuring her 70-year reign the Queen has typically had an audience with her new prime minister at Buckingham Palace.\n\nIt is understood the decision for Ms Truss and Mr Johnson to travel to Scotland was taken to provide certainty for the new prime minister's diary.\n\nPhotographs of the monarch, carrying a walking stick, and Ms Truss were published shortly after their meeting on Tuesday.\n\nBeyond Buckingham Palace saying the Queen pulled out on the advice of her doctors after a \"full day yesterday\", there is no further official commentary on her health.\n\nThe decision to hold the Privy Council meeting online on Wednesday was itself part of changed arrangements because of ongoing problems with the Queen's mobility.\n\nThe monarch showed her determination in carrying out her constitutional duty in appointing a new PM on Tuesday.\n\nBut the decision to call off the meeting, at relatively short notice, will raise fresh concerns about the fragility of the Queen's health.\n\nAs head of state, it is the Queen's duty to appoint the prime minister who leads the government.\n\nThe Queen has been taking her traditional summer break in Scotland with family and guests. She usually stays at the estate from August to October.\n\nAs well as ongoing mobility issues in recent months, the monarch had Covid in February.\n\nIn the past seven months, Buckingham Palace has tended to confirm the Queen's attendance at public engagements on the day, depending on how she is feeling.\n\nDuring this period she has missed several high-profile engagements, including the State Opening of Parliament, the Platinum Jubilee Concert and the commemorative Derby.\n\nAs head of state it is the Queen's duty to appoint the prime minister", "London-based Beavertown has become the latest craft beer brewer to be taken over by a drinks giant.\n\nHeineken, which took a £40m minority stake in Beavertown in 2018, has now agreed to buy the remaining shares.\n\nBeavertown founder Logan Plant will step down as boss and be replaced by Heineken veteran Jochen Van Esch.\n\nOther UK craft brands to have been bought out include Camden Town and London Fields breweries.\n\nMr Plant, who is the son of Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, said he began Beavertown in his kitchen 10 years ago, brewing beer in a rice pan. Now the business employs more than 160 people.\n\nBeavertown used the money raised from the 2018 share sale to expand the business, which included building a new brewery in Enfield.\n\nHe said the culture of Beavertown, including its branding and \"drive to brew the very best tasting beers\", will continue.\n\nMr Plant, who was a musician himself before becoming an entrepreneur, told the BBC that the last ten years had been \"immense\".\n\n\"People power is what makes Beavertown unique,\" he said, adding that he is not leaving the business, instead \"going back to my roots\", and working with the team on beers and \"innovations\".\n\nHe said his dad is a \"massive fan\" of the brewery, just as Led Zeppelin is one of his favourite bands, and that he'd had \"a lot of support from family\" with the business venture.\n\nMr Plant said he'd started the brewery because he was \"obsessed\" with beer. His dad \"loves going to the pub\" and he would take him round local pubs in the Midlands when he was 18, and when Mr Plant was a touring musician he would make notes on beers he had tried.\n\nHis dad supported him in setting up the brewery, which was more about moral support rather than money, he said, adding that he had gained his \"work ethic and determination\" from his parents.\n\nMr Van Esch, who has worked for Heineken for 20 years, will become the firm's new managing director, while Mr Plant will have an advisory role.\n\nMr Van Esch said Beavertown \"will not see a huge change because the strategy is right\".\n\n\"The brand is in growth, it has a fantastic culture and work ethos and people love the beers. We will support, invest in and grow the company, and I am incredibly excited about the future,\" he said.\n\nMr Plant, pictured left, will step back and be replaced by Mr Van Esch\n\nAfter Heineken took its minority stake, Beavertown almost tripled its sales from £12.7m in 2018 to £35.2m in the year to 31 March 2020.\n\nThe firm did this mainly by increasing production capacity, but also through a partnership with Tottenham Hotspur football club, where it opened a microbrewery.\n\nThe buyout is part of a trend of big drinks firms acquiring craft breweries.\n\nIn 2015, AB-Inbev, the world's biggest brewing group, bought the London-based Camden Town Brewery in an £85m deal, and in 2020 it completed its acquisition of the US-based Craft Brew Alliance.\n\nCarlsberg bought the London Fields Brewery in 2017, although it closed the brewery in 2021 and tried to sell the business.", "Apple has unveiled the iPhone 14, with emergency satellite connectivity and car crash detection technology, at a launch event in the US.\n\nThe company revealed four versions of the new handset at its Cupertino headquarters, with an audience attending in person for the first time since the pandemic.\n\nIt also showed off a new extreme sports wearable - the Watch Ultra.\n\nThe event focused on next generation iPhone, Watch and AirPod products.\n\nApple CEO Tim Cook was on stage at the Steve Jobs theatre inside the tech giant's California campus - but the presentation itself was entirely pre-recorded.\n\nApple Watch Series 8 has a number of new features, including car crash detection, temperature sensors for tracking ovulation cycles and a new low-power mode option.\n\nPeople have been cautious about menstrual trackers since changes were made to abortion legislation in the US and there are concerns that data about periods could be used by law enforcement. Apple says the data on its devices will be encrypted and only accessible via a passcode or biometrics.\n\n\"We are taking our commitment to women's health even further,\" said Jeff Williams, chief operating officer at Apple.\n\nApple said a new automatic retrospective ovulation notification could help those who are trying to conceive.\n\nIf activated, the new watch can monitor body temperate every five seconds overnight, and detect tiny changes which can signal ovulation.\n\nAnother new feature is car crash detection. Using sensors, the watch will be able to identify a severe crash and will automatically connect its wearer with emergency services, provide their exact location and notify emergency contacts.\n\nThe Series 8 now also features a low power mode, a feature borrowed from the iPhone, that promises up to 36 hours of battery life on a full charge.\n\nThe Apple Watch Series 8 is priced from $399 in the US, £419 in the UK.\n\nSwim-proof, dust-proof and crack-resistant - Apple has announced its rival to the likes of Garmin, Polar and other rugged watchmakers.\n\nUltramarathoner Scott Jurek from Born to Run appeared in the presentation for the new watch, which focused on a larger face design for extreme sports use.\n\nAll Ultra watches have up to 36 hours battery life on a single charge and an extended battery life of 60 hours, with Apple promising enough power for its customers to complete an ultra-triathlon which includes swimming, cycling and running.\n\nThe Apple Watch Ultra is priced from $799 in the US, £849 in the UK.\n\nApple CEO Tim Cook told the BBC it was \"good to be back\" in person\n\nThe company is releasing the iPhone 14 in two sizes, the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14 Plus.\n\nThe new handsets are capable of sending an emergency call for help via satellite. The phone will display the whereabouts of passing satellites overhead and demonstrate how to point the device at them correctly.\n\nIt can take from 15 seconds to a few minutes to send a basic message.\n\n\"The investment to add satellite capability should not be underestimated,\" said Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight.\n\n\"It will likely have taken Apple years to put all the pieces of the puzzle in place, including a commercial agreement with satellite provider Globalstar, and the creation of the infrastructure needed to pass messages to the emergency services.\"\n\nTech analyst Paolo Pescatore said he believed the innovation was good news for consumers \"in hard-to-reach areas\".\n\n\"It is encouraging to see providers starting to get serious about using satellite - ultimately reliable and robust connectivity is still highly sought-after among all users,\" he said.\n\nThe tech giant announced a new 12-megapixel camera, capable of taking photos of fast-moving subjects, and the company claims a 49% improvement in low-light capturing.\n\nThe front camera also included auto-focus for the first time, to help sharpen selfies.\n\nAccording to Apple, iPhone users took more than three trillion photos in the last 12 months.\n\nThe iPhone 14 is priced from $799 (US), £849 (UK).\n\nThe biggest change in iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max design is the top of the screen which is now a pill shaped cut-out.\n\nA feature called the Dynamic Island has replaced the black notch, which many iPhone users complain about - and it can change shape depending on what notifications there are.\n\nThe other big change is that the handset can always remain on.\n\nWhen the phone is not in use, the screen dims and the refresh rate is lowered.\n\nThe handset comes in a deep purple colour alongside black, silver and gold.\n\nThe iPhone 14 Pro is priced at $999 (US), £1099 (UK).\n\nAirPods Pro are easier to find than their predecessors. Each pair comes with a new system for finding individual lost earphones, which play a chime when dropped outside of the case.\n\nAdditionally, the case itself gets its own speaker, which will play a louder sound when prompted by the Find My app.\n\nThe new AirPods Pro are priced at $249 (US), £249 (UK).\n\nBeing here in person, among an enthusiastic crowd of Apple fans, certainly made for a more interesting launch than recent years. But nothing was announced today that is going to revolutionise the tech industry.\n\nMuch of Apple's new tech seems ideal if you find yourself in some kind of peril on a regular basis. The new iPhone 14 will be able to send texts by satellite when off the grid. The Ultra Watch design is chunky with extra-long battery life - the company says this is perfect for multi-day remote trips. Apple also announced a new crash detection system on new watches and phones, which will alert the emergency services when it detects an impact. The strategy here is pretty clear. Apple is continuing to pitch its hardware as a health and safety aid. Not surprisingly, Tim Cook describes the products as \"essential\".\n\nBut in reality these are interesting but fairly niche updates - features that users will hope they will never have to use.", "Tens of thousands of businesses are at risk of going under without government support because of soaring energy bills, according to insolvency experts.\n\nRed Flag Alert, which monitors the financial health of firms, told the BBC previously profitable companies are experiencing significant losses.\n\nAmong those that survive, many will be forced to make workers redundant, the consultancy said.\n\nFirms are waiting to hear if they will get help with their energy bills.\n\nOn Thursday the government, led by new Prime Minister Liz Truss, is expected to announce significant financial support for households facing an 80% rise in the energy price cap in October.\n\nBusinesses are not covered by the cap, however, and Red Flag is warning that more than 75,000 larger firms that are high energy users are at risk of insolvency or are likely to lay off staff without government support.\n\nThe government's plan is expected to include some relief for businesses - but details are not yet known.\n\nAccording to Red Flag, many firms will face a choice between paying wages or paying energy bills.\n\n\"Businesses can't absorb these costs and they're going to be forced very quickly into a decision about headcount or being able to pay energy bills,\" said chief economist Nicola Headlam. \"That's going to be the reality and it's coming down the track very quickly.\"\n\nAccording to Red Flag Alert, there are 355,000 companies with a turnover higher than £1m that are designated as high energy users - industries such as steel, glass, concrete, and paper production. Of those, the company estimates 75,972 are at risk of insolvency, and they estimate 26,720 of them could fail because of energy costs. That is in addition to the 26,000 insolvencies they had already predicted this year.\n\n\"That is a colossal number of people whose businesses will fail, without a large-scale support package from the government\", said Ms Headlam. \"That's more than during the pandemic, and more than in any other recession.\n\n\"A business turning over a million pounds two years ago would have spent around 8% of that on energy costs and made profits of around £90,000.\n\n\"If the cost of energy doubles to 16%, that instantly wipes out profitability, and they're straight into a scenario where it threatens the viability of the business within a year.\"\n\nBeyond the large, energy-intensive companies, smaller companies with turnover under £1m, were also at risk of failure, Red Flag Alert said. It highlighted the hospitality sector where firms face a triple threat of increasing energy bills, higher supply and staffing costs, and a fall-off in consumer spending, squeezed by inflation.\n\nThat is certainly the case for James Greenhalgh, who runs Flamingos Coffee House in Leeds, and a bar in the city too. The combined energy bill for both is due to leap from £1,500 to around £10,000 from the beginning of October.\n\n\"That's more expensive than our wage bill. That's just catastrophic,\" said Mr Greenhalgh.\n\n\"It's an extinction event for many businesses like mine,\" said Mr Greenhalgh.\n\n\"I've been speaking to so many similar businesses in Leeds and everyone's in the same situation - considering whether to try and battle through, mothball sites over the winter and hope things improve, or whether it's game over.\"\n\n\"The only thing I can do is wait to see what help the government will give. I can't innovate out of it. I can't put prices up because our customers don't have the money.\"\n\nWithout rapid government help, Mr Greenhalgh said he would have to close one of his sites, and make staff redundant.\n\n\"If the government had stepped in two months ago, it would have made a much bigger difference. The delays this summer have slammed customer confidence\", he added.\n\nRed Flag Alert calculates businesses overall will need £100bn a year in support to tackle the rise in energy bills.\n\nWhile hospitality is not included in that figure, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, restaurateur Martin Williams warned that thousands of smaller firms in the industry were also at risk.\n\nThe boss of the Gaucho steakhouse chain urged the government to consider energy bills help, as well as VAT cuts and business rates reform.\n\n\"There needs to be some confidence and that can only come from government support by the prime minister and the chancellor,\" he said.\n\nHowever the government is already under pressure over how it will finance a promised package of support for households, while sticking to promises to cut taxes.\n\nMs Truss is understood to be planning to borrow up to £100bn to to limit the expected sharp rise in energy bills for households and firms.\n\nRight now, the annual energy bill for a typical household is £1,971. From 1 October, however, that is due to rise 80% - to £3,549. It is understood that the plans will see a typical household energy bill rise to £2,500 instead - about £1,000 less than expected, but still about £500 more than at present.\n\nAs well as households, businesses are also expected to receive some help. Many firms are currently facing even sharper rises than households and many fixed-rate deals for business expire this October, exposing thousands of firms to full costs that could rise by four or five times or more.\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Truss pledged to \"deliver on the energy crisis\".", "Today was the first glimpse of a new politics - a reconfigured national conversation.\n\nAfter a summer of public tussles within one party, this was the return of party politics - but with a different feel, a different tone.\n\nIt felt less personal, much less theatrical and more ideological.\n\nGone were the linguistic gymnastics of Boris Johnson.\n\nGone was the personal venom between the Conservative and Labour leaders.\n\nInstead, the instinctive dividing lines between the Tories and Labour seemed sharper; Sir Keir's demand for a windfall tax on energy companies, the prime minister's resistance to the idea.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has continued to colour the canvas of her government beyond the foreground.\n\nHer top team was dubbed an \"Abba cabinet\" - the winner takes it all, her supporters in near total domination.\n\nAppointments this afternoon to junior ranks included a smattering of supporters of Rishi Sunak, including the former cabinet minister Robert Jenrick and former Leader of the House Mark Spencer.\n\nTomorrow will see the new government's first big moment: its plan to help with energy bills.\n\nIt is likely to define its early time in office.", "A US cruise ship passenger was killed by a shark while snorkelling near the Bahamas on Tuesday, according to local authorities.\n\nThe 58-year-old woman from Pennsylvania was on an excursion near Green Cay near Nassau when the incident took place.\n\nPolice later said that the family identified the shark as a bull shark. A similar incident in the area took the life of a 21-year-old American in 2019.\n\nBahamian police spokeswoman Chrislyn Skippings told reporters that the woman was on an excursion with a local tour company, which took her to the popular snorkelling area.\n\nFamily members and tour company staff saw her being attacked and managed to pull her from the water. A local news outlet, Eyewitness News, quoted Ms Skippings as saying that the victim suffered wounds to her \"upper extremities\".\n\nThe victim was declared dead by authorities after being taken to shore.\n\nHer cruise ship, the Harmony of the Seas, was docked in Nassau at the time of the attack. It had just begun its seven day cruise of the western Caribbean from Port Canaveral in Florida on 4 September.\n\nCruise operator Royal Caribbean International said in a statement that they are \"providing support and assistance to the guest's loved ones during this difficult time.\"\n\nThe incident is the first fatal shark attack in the Bahamas since 2019, when a 21-year-old woman from California was attacked by sharks near Rose Island, about half a mile (0.8km) away from Tuesday's attack.\n\nIn another recent incident, an eight-year-old British boy was injured after being attacked by three sharks in another part of the Bahamas. His father later told The Sun that the attack \"was like a scene out of Jaws\".\n\nIn total, statistics from the Florida-based International Shark Attack File show that only about 32 shark attacks have been reported in the Bahamas since 1749, the highest number in the region.\n\nMichael Heithaus, a marine biologist at Florida International University in Miami, told the Associated Press that the relatively high number of shark attacks in the area is likely due to the high number of people in the waters, which are home to a vibrant marine ecosystem.\n\nGlobally, there were 73 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks in 2021, including nine which resulted in death.", "New Health Secretary Therese Coffey has been quick to spell out her priorities.\n\nThey are, she says, the A, B, C and D of the NHS - ambulance, backlogs, care, and doctors and dentists.\n\nIt is easy to understand why she highlights these areas - they are critical to the immediate future of both the health service and patients in England (health is devolved so she only has responsibility for this nation).\n\nThe delays being seen in responding to 999 calls are, quite simply, putting lives at risk.\n\nThe NHS is also struggling to see those needing non-urgent treatment, such as knee and hip operations. There are currently more than 6.7 million people on the waiting list backlog - nearly one in eight of the population.\n\nAs a result, care is being compromised. In fact, welcoming Ms Coffey to the role, the NHS Confederation, which represents managers, said the health service was in its \"worst state in living memory\".\n\nThose who know Ms Coffey believe she is suited to the role. \"She's got attention to detail, a laser-like focus and a proven track record at the Department for Work and Pensions,\" says a former government adviser who has worked closely with her.\n\nAs work and pensions secretary, she oversaw an improvement in the benefits system in terms of efficiency and processing of claims.\n\nShe also hit targets to move people off benefits and into work - a push in which she again used the alphabet to signify her intention with:\n\nBut those challenges are very different from the ones she faces in the health service. Firstly, she benefited from the fact that there were so many jobs available, helping drive down unemployment to its lowest level for nearly 50 years.\n\nAnd, secondly, improving the efficiency of the benefits payment system is largely transactional. \"It's about getting the right processes in place and accountability,\" the former adviser says.\n\n\"The problems in the NHS are much more deep-rooted and therefore not so easy to fix.\"\n\nThat brings us on to the new health secretary's D - doctors and dentists. Or more generally staff.\n\nOverall, nearly one in 10 NHS posts is vacant, with the UK having fewer doctors and nurses per head than many other Western European nations after a decade of budget squeezes.\n\nAnd for doctors in particular, the situation is - some argue - being made worse by a cap on pension payments which means doctors face large tax bills late on in their careers, encouraging early retirement.\n\nWhile the cap could simply be removed - as Labour has called for - the wider staffing shortage is more problematic.\n\nIt takes five years to train a doctor and three to train a nurse. What's more, the problems in the NHS are directly linked to shortages in another area altogether - social care and the lack of staff there.\n\nThere are plans to reform that system, but the new prime minister has pledged to scrap the rise in National Insurance that was going to be used to help pay for that.\n\nThe priorities may be simple, but finding the solutions is not.", "Chris Kaba, known as Madix or Mad Itch 67, was a 23-year-old drill rapper\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it knows the family and community of a man shot dead by an officer \"want answers\".\n\nChris Kaba, who was due to become a father within months, died after a police chase that ended in Streatham Hill, south London, on Monday night.\n\nMr Kaba, a 23-year-old rapper known as Madix or Mad Itch, was part of the MOBO-nominated drill group 67.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said it \"recognises the devastating and lasting impact this tragic incident will have\".\n\nThe shooting is being investigated by the IOPC, as is standard in deaths following police contact.\n\nMr Kaba was shot dead by police in south London\n\nThe independent body, which oversees police complaints in England and Wales, confirmed one shot was fired from a police-issue firearm.\n\nIOPC investigators said they were examining police footage and CCTV from the area, as well as carrying out house-to-house inquiries.\n\nSal Naseem, IOPC London regional director, said: \"When the police use fatal force it is important that there is a robust, independent investigation to establish all of the circumstances surrounding what happened.\n\n\"It is natural that the community wants answers quickly but I would ask that people refrain from speculation that may be unhelpful to all of those affected.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination, which will determine a provisional cause of death, is set to take place.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Russian forces were at the plant when a UN agency team visited last week\n\nShelling of Europe's biggest nuclear power plant could lead to unlimited release of radioactive materials - and Russian military equipment on site could undermine its security, the UN's nuclear agency has warned.\n\nRussia occupied the Zaporizhzhia plant at the start of its invasion of Ukraine and it has come under repeated attack.\n\nAfter a visit last week, UN's nuclear watchdog has called for a safety and security protection zone.\n\nIt said shelling must end immediately.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the report - saying it noted the \"presence of Russian military hardware on the territory of the nuclear power plant, pressure on our employees there, and makes clear references to the Russian military occupation\".\n\nHe added that he'd support a security zone if it was aimed at demilitarising \"the territory of the nuclear power plant\".\n\nThe plant lies on the southern bank of the River Dnieper, across the water from Ukrainian-held towns and military positions.\n\nBoth sides have accused each other of targeting the plant, occupied by Russian forces in early March.\n\nOn Tuesday, Russia accused Kyiv of hitting the area three times in 24 hours. Ukraine says Russia forces have used it as a shield from which to fire on nearby cities, although Russia insists they are guarding the site.\n\nHowever the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency is careful not to apportion blame to either side.\n\nShelling continued while a 14-strong IAEA team visited the site last week and its head Rafael Grossi warned at the time of a very real risk of nuclear disaster. Although most of the team left the plant after two days, it said two of its officials would remain there on a permanent basis.\n\nThe UN agency said a depleted staff were working in very challenging circumstances\n\nIn its report released on Tuesday, the agency highlighted the \"extremely stressful conditions\" facing the 907 Ukrainian staff working there under Russian military control.\n\nIt said the depleted staff should be entitled to family support and an appropriate work environment.\n\nThe IAEA detailed the damage to the plant and said while continued shelling had not yet triggered a nuclear emergency it did present a constant threat to safety that \"may lead to radiological consequences with great safety significance\".\n\nThere was an urgent need for \"interim measures\" to prevent a nuclear accident caused by military action, it added, saying all relevant parties would have to agree to a \"nuclear safety and security protection zone\" being set up to avoid further damage.\n\nRussian military, vehicles and equipment were seen around the plant and \"several military trucks\" were inside the turbine halls of two of the plant's six reactors, the agency said.\n\nIt warned that military equipment on site and clashes near vital areas undermined the plant's protection system and it called for the removal of vehicles that could interfere with safety systems.\n\nThe watchdog said staff had to secure permission from the Russian military to visit cooling ponds at the plant and it criticised the presence of nuclear officials from Russia's nuclear body, Rosatom. That could lead to possible friction when key decisions had to be made, it said.\n\nThe Russian ambassador to the UN said the IAEA should have blamed Ukraine for shelling the occupied nuclear plant.\n\n\"We regret that in your report ... the source of the shelling is not directly named,\" Vasily Nebenzya told a Security Council session attended virtually by Mr Grossi.\n\nAlthough it has six reactors, the Zaporizhzhia plant has only had two operating since the war began and just one reactor has been working in recent days.\n\nThree of the four lines providing power from Ukraine's grid have been put out of action during the fighting and on Saturday the UN watchdog said the last line had also been disconnected, leaving just one lower-power reserve line from a nearby thermal plant.\n\nUkrainian officials said on Monday that the last working reactor was disconnected from the grid after the last main power line went down.\n• None How risky is stand-off over Ukraine's nuclear plant?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Scottish woman who found she could detect Parkinson's through smell has inspired scientists to develop a swab test that could be used to diagnose it.\n\nResearchers in Manchester have created a new method which they say can detect the disease in three minutes.\n\nFurther study will be required to validate the findings before they can develop a diagnostic test that could be used in clinics or by GPs.\n\nTheir work was inspired by Joy Milne, a retired nurse from Perth.\n\nJoy, 72, knew her husband Les had Parkinson's more than 12 years before he was diagnosed when she identified a change in the way he smelled.\n\n\"He had this musty rather unpleasant smell especially round his shoulders and the back of his neck and his skin had definitely changed,\" she said.\n\nJoy first detected the odour on her husband Les, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's at the age of 45\n\nShe only linked the odour to the disease after Les was diagnosed and they met people at a Parkinson's UK support group who had the same distinctive smell. Les died in June 2015.\n\nNow a team in the University of Manchester, working with Joy, has developed a simple skin-swab test which they claim is 95% accurate under laboratory conditions when it comes to telling whether people have Parkinson's.\n\nThe researchers analysed sebum - the oily substance on skin - which was collected by using a cotton swab on patients' backs, an area where it is less often washed away.\n\nUsing mass spectrometry, they compared 79 people with Parkinson's with a healthy control group of 71 people.\n\nThe research found more than 4,000 unique compounds in the samples, of which 500 were different between people with Parkinson's and the control group.\n\nProf Perdita Barran, who led the research, said there was not currently a chemical test for Parkinson's disease and many thousands of people were on waiting lists for a neurological consultation.\n\nShe said developing a confirmatory test that could be used by a GP would be \"transformative\".\n\n\"At the moment we have developed it in a research lab and we are now working with colleagues in hospital analytical labs to transfer our test to them so that it can work within an NHS environment,\" she said.\n\n\"We are hoping within two years to be able to start to test people in the Manchester area.\"\n\nProf Perdita Barran said she was tremendously excited by the results\n\nParkinson's is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. Around 145,000 people in the UK live with the condition, says Parkinson's UK - including more than 12,000 in Scotland.\n\nThere is no cure and no definitive diagnostic test, with clinicians diagnosing patients by observing symptoms.\n\nThe condition can cause a wide variety of symptoms including difficulty walking, speaking and a tremor.\n\nThe scientists now need to validate their findings in a clinical lab before it can be used for patients.\n\nJames Jopling, the Scotland director of Parkinson's UK, said the discovery could make a real difference to people living with the disease.\n\n\"Currently with no definitive test people have to wait months or years to be diagnosed so the fact that you could get the treatment and support you need and that researchers could begin new treatments is incredibly important,\" he said.\n\nJoy knows what an earlier diagnosis would have meant for her and her family.\n\n\"We would have spent more time with family,\" she said.\n\n\"We would have travelled more. If we had known earlier it might have explained the mood swings and depression.\"\n\nThe night before her husband died, he made her promise to investigate her sense of smell.\n\nAccording to Joy, he said: \"You must do this because it will make a difference.\"\n\nShe hopes her accidental discovery will do exactly that.\n• None Paper Spray Ionization Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry of Sebum Classifies Biomarker Classes for the Diagnosis of Parkinson’s The 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\nThree days after a deadly stabbing spree in Saskatchewan, the surviving suspect's whereabouts remain unknown.\n\nThe announcement of a possible sighting of Myles Sanderson in the James Smith Cree Nation area on Tuesday turned out to have been a false alarm.\n\nHe has been the target of a major police manhunt since Sunday after the attack that left 10 people dead and 18 injured, not including the suspects.\n\nThe attack has rocked the otherwise peaceful Canadian region.\n\nPolice have warned people to \"take appropriate precautions\" in an alert sent to mobile phones in the area.\n\nTuesday's false alarm will probably do little to calm the tension felt in the indigenous community of James Smith Cree Nation, where most of the victims were found, and the nearby town of Weldon, which is mourning the loss of long-time resident Wes Petterson, 77, who is reported to have been murdered in front of his house.\n\nIn Weldon, a small town of some 200 residents with gravel streets, a neat grid of single-storey homes, two churches, a post office and corner shop, most doors remain shut, though there are plenty of media present.\n\nResidents are \"right now, pushing up against the glass, looking out their windows\", said Ruby Works, one of the few Weldon residents willing to speak to visiting media.\n\nThe nearby James Smith Cree Nation has also issued a plea for privacy and time to mourn, and some media have been asked to leave.\n\nSunday's attack has prompted messages of condolence from around the world - including from Britain's Queen Elizabeth, who is also Canada's head of state. She said she was mourning alongside all of Canada.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with those recovering from injuries, and grieving such horrific losses,\" the monarch said in a statement on Wednesday.\n\nSaskatchewan police initially said on Sunday they were looking for two suspects - brothers Damien and Myles Sanderson, aged 31and 32 respectively - who they believed might have travelled 300km (185 miles) south to Regina following the attacks.\n\nOn Monday, police revealed they had found Damien Sanderson's body that morning during the course of their investigation in a grassy area near a house on James Smith Cree Nation.\n\nPolice say his body had \"visible injuries not believed to be self-inflicted at this point\". But police did not say whether Myles Sanderson was believed to be responsible for his brother's death.\n\nThey also said they had charged both men on multiple counts, including Myles Sanderson with three counts of first-degree murder, despite him not being in custody.\n\nBeyond the search for Myles Sanderson, many questions remain in the case, including what drew the violence to Mr Petterson's doorstep.\n\n\"You can't find anything bad about him,\" said lifelong Weldon resident Doreen Lees, who was still using the present tense while speaking of her late friend whom she had known for three decades.\n\nMr Petterson was a gentle man, known around town for his homemade Saskatoon berry jam, and for the flower he liked to wear in his hat.\n\nHe would often drive Mrs Lees, 89, to the nearby community church where they both were members.\n\nThis past Sunday morning, a few hours before church services would usually begin, Doreen and her daughter Leona were on their front porch, taking in the view of the neighbouring fields while Leona had coffee.\n\nA man approached, holding a jacket over his mouth, and asked for a ride.\n\nDoreen Lees points out her friend Wes Petterson, killed on Sunday, in a Weldon community scrapbook\n\n\"He said, 'Can you help me? I've cut my face,'\" Leona said. Believing he was injured she called for help, but the man fled.\n\nDoreen and Leona are not sure whether it was one of the suspects, or someone else possibly involved, but police were quick to arrive that day and have since taken their statements.\n\nFor the first time ever, they have taken to locking their doors - but Leona has not stopped taking coffee on the porch in the morning.\n\n\"I did today, I will tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nAs the communities grapple with the grief, there have been appeals from police and indigenous organisations for people to come forward with any information.\n\n\"The uncertainty continues to cause immeasurable stress and panic among our families, friends, and neighbours,\" said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents all 74 First Nations of Saskatchewan, in a statement on Monday.\n\n\"They have already gone through enough. We must do everything we can to help end this tragedy without any more loss of life.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Chief Cameron alluded to issues of substance abuse, saying in a statement that \"this is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities\".\n\nMyles Sanderson's parole documents from earlier this year, first reported by the Canadian Press and obtained by the BBC, suggest a history of substance abuse. Evidence of violent behaviour, past convictions including assault charges and childhood trauma are also indicated in his file.\n\n\"These murders weren't just caused by individuals making decisions,\" said Niigaan Sinclair, head of indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba. \"And that's not a defence in any way.\"\n\nThe crimes were \"heinous, they were horrible\", said Prof Sinclair, who is Anishinaabe. \"But these brothers were born into trauma and are now sharing that trauma with those around them.\"", "Wild chimpanzees have their own \"signature drumming style\" according to scientists.\n\nResearchers who followed and studied chimps in the Ugandan rainforest found that the animals drum out messages to one another on tree roots.\n\nThe scientists say that the signature rhythms allow them to send information over long distances, revealing who is where, and what they are doing.\n\nThe findings are published in the journal Animal Behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine Hobaiter from the University of St Andrews explained that the wild apes use huge tree roots as a large wooden surface to drum on with their hands and feet.\n\n\"If you hit the roots really hard, it resonates and makes this big deep, booming sound that travels through the forest,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Inside Science programme.\n\n\"We could often recognise who was drumming when we heard them; it was a fantastic way to find the different chimpanzees we were looking for. So if we could do it, we were sure they could too.\"\n\nEach male chimpanzee, the scientists found, uses a distinct pattern of beats. They combine it with with long-distance vocalisations, called pant-hoots. And different animals drum at different points in their call.\n\nLead researcher on this study, PhD student Vesta Eleuteri from the University of Vienna, described how some individuals have a more regular rhythm, like rock and blues drummers, while some have more variable rhythms, like jazz.\n\n\"I was surprised that I was able to recognise who was drumming after just a few weeks in the forest,\" she said. \"But their drumming rhythms are so distinctive that it's easy to pick up on them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Eleuteri described one young male chimp, that researchers have named Tristan, as \"the John Bonham (late Led Zeppelin drummer) of the forest\".\n\n\"He makes these very long drumming bouts with lots of beats and you can tell them from far away, so you can just tell it's Tristan drumming.\"\n\nThe animals also appeared only to use their signature rhythm when they were travelling. The researchers speculate that a chimp chooses whether or not to give his identity away.\n\n\"If you're showing off to a group around you - if you're displaying - you might not necessarily want the big alpha male who's around the corner to know who you are,\" said Dr Hobaiter. \"You don't want to give the game away.\"\n\nShe added that understanding chimps' drumming in this way could solve a longstanding communication puzzle: wild chimpanzees greet each other when they meet, but they do not seem to \"say goodbye\" when they split off in the forest.\n\n\"The chimps might not need to say goodbye, because they're effectively able to keep in touch while they're away,\" Dr Hobaiter explained.\n\n\"These long distance signals give the chimps a way to check in with one another. That might help us to understand one of these things that we thought was a real difference between chimps and humans, and help us to understand why that difference might have come about.\"", "Workers at Royal Mail have announced further strikes in a dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nStaff in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are already set to walk out on Thursday this week.\n\nThey will now also strike for 48 hours on 30 September and 1 October - the latest move in a worsening dispute.\n\nThe CWU said its 115,000 members did not support an \"imposed\" 2% pay rise. Royal Mail says the union rejected an offer worth up to 5.5%.\n\nCWU general secretary Dave Ward 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\n\"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\nHe highlighted the £400m the company had returned to shareholders in the last year, saying \"our members won't accept pleads of poverty from the company\".\n\nRoyal Mail's latest adjusted operating profit for the year to March was £416m, up from £344m previously, but the company says it is currently losing £1m a day.\n\nA spokesperson from Royal Mail apologised to customers for the inconvenience and reiterated that it was now a parcels business.\n\n\"We must adapt old ways of working designed for letters,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Strike action has weakened our financial position and is threatening the long-term job security of our postmen and women,\" they added.\n\n\"The CWU has a responsibility to recognise the reality of the situation Royal Mail faces as a business and to engage urgently on the changes required.\"\n\nRoyal Mail said it was doing all it could to \"minimise any delays\". On 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\nA range of workers including Openreach engineers, BT call centre staff, railway workers and barristers have walked out in recent weeks as wages fall further behind soaring inflation of about 10%.", "The government has clear legal powers to send migrants to Rwanda under its controversial relocation scheme, its lawyers have told the High Court.\n\nOn the third day of a legal challenge against the policy, lawyers for the Home Secretary argued concerns from the United Nations were misplaced.\n\nThe plan to fly migrants to Rwanda is on hold until the outcome of the case.\n\nLiz Truss and her new Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, support the plan begun by Priti Patel and Boris Johnson.\n\nThe government is facing a highly unusual five-day legal challenge to the policy involving at least 10 migrants, campaign groups Care4Calais and Detention Action, and the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents the vast majority of UK Border Force staff.\n\nThe claimants argue the home secretary has no legal right to send migrants to Rwanda and, furthermore, deciding the country is safe was irrational.\n\nEvidence already aired in court has included warnings from a handpicked government adviser that the African country's regime has murdered political opponents.\n\nBut opening the government's defence of the policy, Lord David Pannick QC said it was clear the home secretary could send migrants to another country provided she could show it was safe under a law dating back to Tony Blair's Labour government.\n\nThat 2004 legislation gave ministers the power to identify \"safe third countries\" and to relocate asylum seekers there, rather than handle their claims for refuge in the UK.\n\nThe law could only be used if the government was sure migrants would not be sent on to another more dangerous country - and Lord Pannick said the government had obtained those assurances.\n\n\"There is no other criteria stated by Parliament,\" said Lord Pannick.\n\n\"It is not for the court to insert more criteria so as to limit the [home secretary's powers].\n\n\"The [international law] obligation on the UK is to either assess the claim or return the asylum seeker to a safe third country,\" said Lord Pannick.\n\n\"If we choose to return the individual to a third country that is safe, then we, the UK, have complied with our obligations under the Refugee Convention.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the court heard the UN's Refugee Agency believes Rwanda has neither the capacity nor the expertise to deal with the numbers that could be sent.\n\nFurthermore, it warned the government of Rwanda may not abide by the agreement it had struck with the UK.\n\nBut government lawyers said documents from the Rwandan government showed it has given point-by-point assurances that all migrants will be fairly treated.\n\n\"The home secretary has received detailed assurances from the government of Rwanda regarding both the processing of relocated individuals' asylum claims and the reception and ongoing treatment of relocated individuals,\" said written submissions.\n\n\"The court can and should place great weight on those assurances. Rwanda is a signatory to both the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention Against Torture and a key Commonwealth partner of the UK.\"\n\nThe case continues until Friday - with a second stage expected to take place in October.", "It was gone half 10 on Tuesday night and cabinet positions were still being filled - a self-imposed deadline from the prime minister approaching with the first meeting of the cabinet at 8.30 BST this morning.\n\nThere are a handful of striking things about its composition.\n\nThere has been a near-total purge of those who backed Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe only one who I can spot is Michael Ellis, the new attorney general for England and Wales.\n\nAnd even he will attend cabinet rather than being a cabinet minister, subtle though that distinction is.\n\nThis dominance of Truss campaign supporters around the Truss top table is already prompting grumbling among some Tory MPs, although we do await appointments to the more junior ranks in government.\n\nThe prime minister's desire for loyalty and building a government in her own image runs the risk of provoking rebellion down the track.\n\nOne adviser told me her top team needed to pass \"the Today programme test\" as it was put to me.\n\nCould they go on Radio 4 in the morning and answer questions from Nick Robinson and gang along the lines of: \"Minister, on 17 August you said this very disobliging thing about the now prime minister, how on earth can you now credibly serve in her cabinet?\"\n\nAnd yes, clearly some of Rishi Sunak's most gobby supporters might have found such a scenario a little tricky.\n\nAnd No 10 would have found it excruciating.\n\nBut there were members of Team Sunak whose support of the former chancellor was more understated, who might have been expected by many to still serve Liz Truss at the top table - and there is no place for them.\n\nTake Grant Shapps, the former transport secretary, one of Boris Johnson's best cabinet communicators, now on the backbenches.\n\nMr Johnson often faced a similar criticism in his appointments by the way - the accusation that he promoted based on loyalty rather than competence.\n\nNo 10 argues the cabinet represents the \"depth and breadth of talent in the Conservative Party\" and so point out five other contenders for the party leadership feature in it.\n\nThey insist too it will unify the party.\n\nAnother thing that is worth a mention - ethnic diversity.\n\nRewind not that many years and cabinets looked very blokey and very white, particularly in what are known as the great offices of state - the prime minister, the chancellor, the home secretary and the foreign secretary.\n\nNow it is the complete opposite, with Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng, Suella Braverman and James Cleverly.\n\nAnd a final observation: churn at the top of government.\n\nI've written here in the last few days about the turnover of prime ministers in recent years - four in the space of a little over six years.\n\nBut the churn extends to the cabinet too.\n\nWe had a long standing observer of Conservative politics on the BBC's Newscast podcast, Lord Barwell, who worked in Downing Street for Theresa May.\n\nHe made the point that there is just one survivor around the cabinet table from David Cameron's time as prime minister, six years ago.", "Warnings over potential sewage spills into the water are in place along the coast\n\nPollution warnings are in place for more than 100 British beaches after untreated sewage was discharged into the sea.\n\nThe warnings appear on the Safer Seas and Rivers Service, run by the charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), and are based on water firms' data.\n\nDischarges are allowed for example after heavy rainfall, to stop the sewage system being overwhelmed.\n\nBut there is mounting public anger at their impacts on rivers and beaches.\n\nSAS Chief Executive Hugo Tagholm told the BBC that the discharges came after just the \"slightest hint\" of rain.\n\nHe criticised the water companies' use of combined sewer overflows, which are designed to release sewage and rainwater in times of extreme heavy rain.\n\n\"Do they think this is a joke? Do they not realise how much anger there is about their profiteering and pollution?\" he said.\n\nIn parliament, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas urged the government to \"cut the crap\" and return the \"failing\" water industry to public hands.\n\nOver the last 24 hours, one company - Southern Water (SW) - has discharged untreated sewage into almost 30 bathing sites, including the popular resorts of Bognor Regis, Hastings and Cowes.\n\nSW's data also show it has released untreated water on 95 occasions since the beginning of September. Two storm discharge pipes, at Southsea East and Stokes Bay, were discharging for more than 24 hours.\n\nBy law, these kinds of sewage discharges are legal only in \"exceptional\" circumstances.\n\nIn a statement Southern Water said: \"Rain can overwhelm the combined sewer and drainage system which exists in many parts of our region. To protect homes, schools and businesses from flooding, storm overflows act as a release valve and release excess water into the sea. These discharges are heavily diluted, typically being 95% rainwater. There are around 15,000 storm overflows in England and approximately 1,000 in our region.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Environment Agency is warning people not to swim at more than 50 bathing water sites across England, because of the poor water quality.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency currently has poor water quality warnings at 18 of its designated bathing waters, while Natural Resources Wales has three water quality warnings in place.\n\nDuring an urgent question in the Commons on Tuesday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said discharges of raw sewage into waterways would be cut by a quarter by 2025.\n\n\"This is the first government to set a clear requirement on water companies to reduce the harm caused by sewage discharges and we've set this in law through the Environment Act,\" he said.\n\nCaroline Lucas accused ministers of \"going backwards\" on the issue.\n\n\"We have a so-called plan that allows water companies to continue polluting until 2035 in areas with significant importance to human and ecological health and until 2050 elsewhere, that's sanctioning almost 30 years more of pollution,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces the plan to freeze rents until spring\n\nNicola Sturgeon has announced a rent freeze for public and private rented properties as part of efforts to help people struggling with rising bills.\n\nThe first minister said the cost-of-living crisis was a \"humanitarian emergency\" which could cost lives.\n\nHer government is to table emergency legislation banning evictions during winter and freezing rents until spring.\n\nThere are also plans to freeze rail fares and to boost the Scottish Child Payment to £25 per week from November.\n\nMs Sturgeon has also written to new Prime Minister Liz Truss, asking her to convene a four-nation meeting of political leaders to focus on helping households.\n\nThe plans were part of the first minister's annual Programme for Government speech, which comes at the start of each new year at Holyrood.\n\nShe said the legislative programme was deliberately focused on the cost-of-living crisis, which she said \"poses a danger not just to livelihoods but to lives\".\n\nMs Sturgeon called for action from UK ministers \"on a scale similar to the Covid response\", but said her government would also take further steps to \"strengthen the emergency safety net for those struggling to pay bills\".\n\nThis includes an increase in the Scottish Child Payment - a weekly payment to families who are in receipt of certain benefits - to £25 per week from 15 November. The scheme is also to be expanded to eligible under-16s, meaning more than 400,000 could benefit.\n\nScotRail fares are to be frozen until at least March 2023, with the government having taken the rail operator into public ownership earlier in the year.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon confirmed that emergency legislation would be tabled at Holyrood to protect tenants in private and socially rented homes.\n\nThis will include a moratorium on evictions during winter as well as a rent freeze, to run from today until at least the end of March next year.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's plans to freeze rents, ban evictions and raise the child payment to £25 a week will make the headlines today.\n\nBut these announcements were prefaced with a very stark warning from the first minister - that the Scottish government is getting short of cash.\n\nThat rising inflation has reduced their spending power and that larger-than-expected pay deals for public sector workers and other cost-of-living help will also limit what they can spend elsewhere.\n\nIn short, \"hard choices\" lie ahead and the Scottish government won't be able to do everything it would like.\n\nThat may not only mean rejecting new demands but potentially delaying or dropping some existing commitments.\n\nThe first minister did not give details. It seems that is being delegated to her deputy, John Swinney, who is due to make a separate financial statement tomorrow.\n\nThe Scottish Association of Landlords accused the the government of \"attacking landlords for political reasons\".\n\nChief executive John Blackwood said the proposals \"will only further reduce the supply of housing, putting more people at risk. This is not a solution, it will only cause more hardship.\"\n\nHe also said he had been \"inundated\" by landlords saying they would be removing their vacant properties from the rental market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Student renter Matthew Peacock: \"We need to look at actually rent reductions.\"\n\nIn her speech the first minister warned that her government faces \"hard choices\" in how these policies are paid for, with an emergency budget review being carried out.\n\nShe said it would mean \"stopping some things we planned to do, to fund what is essential to support people through this crisis\".\n\nThe other proposals announced as part of the Programme for Government included:\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she still aims to hold an independence referendum in October 2023, arguing that Holyrood lacks the powers \"we desperately need to respond to a crisis like this\".\n\nBut opposition parties hit out at this, saying it was a waste of time and money.\n\nHe called for the Scottish and UK governments to \"tackle the cost of living crisis jointly together\" and said Ms Truss would roll out plans in the coming days to alleviate the pressure on household budgets.\n\nMr Ross also said an independence referendum was \"unacceptable at a time when people are struggling - the wrong priority at the worst possible time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Landlord John Blackwood: \"Fewer and fewer people will rent out properties and tenants will really struggle to find a home.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the government \"needs to go further and go faster to avert this crisis\".\n\nHe said: \"Whether you voted yes or no, whether you voted leave or remain, your bills are going up right now - you need urgent action right now.\n\n\"You need a UK government to step in right now to impose an energy price freeze and a windfall tax, and you need an emergency cost of living act in Scotland right now to put more money in people's pockets.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the speech was \"thin gruel\" for anxious Scots, and that the government lacked the \"humility, creativity and ambition necessary to face the problems\".\n\nThe Scottish Greens - who are in government with the SNP - welcomed the announcements. MSP Ariane Burgess said the rent freeze would \"provide vital stability and support for tenants across Scotland at a time when many are suffering\".", "Liz Truss became prime minister on 6 September 2022, replacing Boris Johnson who was in post for slightly more than three years.\n\nShe was not the first choice of Conservative MPs - but she was the clear winner in a ballot of Tory members, who had the final say.\n\nTruss has been a government minister since 2012, and held cabinet posts under David Cameron, Theresa May and Johnson, most recently as foreign secretary.\n\nA Remain supporter at the 2016 EU referendum, who began her political journey at Oxford University as a Liberal Democrat, she is now an enthusiastic Brexiteer who has vowed to get back to traditional tax-cutting Tory values.\n\nTruss, who has two children, was elected to Parliament as MP for South West Norfolk in 2010 after serving as deputy director of think tank Reform.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Therese Coffey: Things said on social media don't worry me\n\nIt's 08:00 in the morning and the second most powerful woman in Westminster is giving one of her first interviews in her new role at the apex of government.\n\nAs she's grilled about her new job, she suddenly seems distracted as she grabs for her mobile phone.\n\n\"I've just realised my alarm is going off on my phone,\" says Therese Coffey, live on LBC Radio. \"You're getting a bit of Dr Dre.\"\n\nThe unmistakable staccato opening keys of Dr Dre's 1999 hit Still D.R.E. ring out as Ms Coffey chuckles and admits \"it's just an eight o'clock alarm\". She regains her composure and the interview continues.\n\nMeet the new health secretary and deputy prime minister - a music and football-loving Tory MP with a reputation for partying as hard as she works.\n\nA long-time ally of new Prime Minister Liz Truss, Ms Coffey has been given one of the most challenging briefs in government: fixing the multiple crises afflicting the NHS.\n\nIn her first speech as prime minister, Ms Truss said putting \"our health service on a firm footing\" was one of her three early priorities.\n\nThe fact Ms Truss has appointed one of her strongest supporters to that role indicates how seriously the prime minister is taking this particular priority.\n\nWith 6.6 million people in queues for treatment, NHS backlogs - as well growing ambulance waiting times and staff vacancies - will be at the top of her to-do list.\n\nHer plan to sort it out? \"My focus is on A, B, C, D,\" Ms Coffey told the BBC. \"That stands for ambulances, backlogs, care and doctors and dentists.\"\n\nFocusing on social care and freeing up space in hospitals \"is going to be critical\", she said.\n\nGiven her cabinet experience as work and pensions secretary, Ms Coffey will believe she's up to the task entrusted to her by Ms Truss.\n\nClose friends since they were elected as Tory MPs in 2010, Ms Truss and Ms Coffey have risen through the political ranks together.\n\nTheir friendship has proved fruitful for their political careers.\n\nBoth attended Oxford University, with Ms Coffey studying chemistry (as former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did) and cutting her political teeth in the Oxford Union debating society.\n\nMs Coffey was born in 1971 in Lancashire and educated in Liverpool. She has attributed her Conservative political persuasions to her experiences of growing up in the city during the 1970s and 80s.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Political Thinking podcast in 2020, Ms Coffey criticised the Labour Militant council of the 1980s and said the rest of the country \"seemed to be getting on rather well\" under the prime minister at the time, Mrs Thatcher.\n\nAt the start of her professional life, Ms Coffey worked in several roles for confectionary giant Mars and as a finance manager at the BBC.\n\nElected for the safe Tory seat of Suffolk Coastal, her parliamentary career began in 2010. Since then, she has served in the governments of Theresa May, Boris Johnson and now Ms Truss.\n\nBefore becoming deputy PM, her most prominent role was secretary of state at the Department for Work and Pensions, a post she held from September 2019 until this week.\n\nIn that role her mettle was tested in September last year, when she defended the scrapping of a £20 weekly uplift to Universal Credit payments introduced during the pandemic.\n\nIn remarks criticised as out of touch, Ms Coffey said benefits recipients could make the money back by working two extra hours a week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Therese Coffey defended the phasing-out of the Universal Credit uplift\n\nWhen she was linked with a senior role in Ms Truss's government, Ms Coffey and her voting record on certain issues came under renewed scrutiny.\n\nA practising Catholic, Ms Coffey has previously voted against extending abortion care, saying earlier this year she would \"prefer that people didn't have abortions but I am not going to condemn people that do\".\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service has called the new health secretary's record on abortion rights \"deeply concerning\". But Ms Coffey told the BBC abortion access already available in England and Wales will continue while she was in post.\n\nSimilarly controversial was her row with Manchester United star Marcus Rashford last year, after he forced the government to extend its free school meal voucher scheme.\n\nOn his campaign, Rashford tweeted: \"When you wake up this morning and run your shower, take a second to think about parents who have had their water turned off during lockdown.\"\n\nIn reply, Ms Coffey posted on Twitter: \"Water cannot be disconnected though.\"\n\nExpressing concern at her response, Rashford urged MPs to \"put rivalries aside\" and help struggling households.\n\nYet Ms Coffey has insisted she doesn't pay much attention to social media. When asked about social media posts circulating about her, the health secretary said: \"I don't tend to look at social media.\"\n\nSuch comments, she said, do not worry her.\n\nMs Coffey seems comfortable with the unconventional political persona she has cultivated.\n\nIn Westminster, her karaoke nights are the stuff of legend, with Ms Truss known to be a regular attendee in the past.\n\nMs Coffey's enthusiasm for karaoke was on full display at the Tory conference in October last year, when she was filmed belting out a version of (I've Had) The Time Of My Life and other pop anthems.\n\nFootball - namely Liverpool FC - is another of her passions. She is a regular at Anfield - Liverpool FC's stadium - and even followed the team to Paris to watch their defeat to Real Madrid in the Champions League final earlier this year.\n\nShe was also pictured alongside Ms Truss at Wembley, where they cheered on England's Lionesses in their Women's Euro 2022 victory against Germany.\n\nMs Truss and Ms Coffey were at Wembley to watch the Euro 2022 final\n\nOther pictures of Ms Coffey have been less flattering. One, taken at a Spectator magazine party in 2015, showed her toking a large cigar and swilling a glass of champagne.\n\nBut despite the occasional gaffe, Ms Coffey has been described in glowing terms by her colleagues.\n\nNadine Dorries, the former culture secretary, has said \"nothing ever goes wrong\" in a department led by Ms Coffey, and friends in Westminster cite the new deputy PM's tireless work ethic.\n\nUnmarried with no children, Ms Coffey is a private person. She's never been shy about showing her loyalty to Ms Truss though.\n\nHer tweet marking Ms Truss's elevation to prime minister was a case in point.\n\n\"Brilliant news that @trussliz is now our prime minister,\" Ms Coffey wrote.\n\nIt was a retweet of a post shared by Ms Coffey almost exactly 10 years ago to celebrate the promotion of a friend to a junior ministerial role. The friend was Liz Truss.\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 Thérèse Coffey #PutinMustFail 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.", "The earliest evidence ever of surgical amputation has been discovered in an Indonesian cave.\n\nResearchers found the buried 31,000-year-old body of a young person that shows evidence of leg amputation.\n\nThe find pushes back the origin of this complicated surgery by more than 24,000 years.\n\nAfter the procedure the person was cared for by their ancient community for years until their death, archaeologists say.\n\nDr Melandri Vlok, who examined the body, said it was \"quite clear\" surgery had been carried out.\n\nA detailed examination of the ancient body, details of which are published in the journal Nature, revealed that the operation took place when the person was a child. Growth and healing of their leg bone suggests they recovered and lived for another six to nine years, probably dying in their late teens or early twenties.\n\nThe grave itself was excavated in a cave called Liang Tebo, in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, a place that has some of the world's earliest rock art.\n\nOne of the three researchers who found and excavated the grave, Dr Tim Maloney from the Griffith University in Australia, said he was simultaneously \"excited and terrified\" to reveal the ancient bones.\n\nAs well as the left foot being absent, the leg bones show signs of healing\n\n\"We very carefully brushed away the deposits and recorded the lower half of the remains. We could see that the left foot was absent, but also that the remaining bone fragments were unusual,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"So we were excited at the range of possibilities, including surgery, that had caused this.\"\n\nThe excavation team subsequently asked Dr Vlok, who is based at the University of Sydney, to examine the remains. \"With a discovery like this\", she said, \"it's a mixture of excitement and sorrow, because this happened to a person.\n\n\"This person - a child - experienced so much pain, even if it was 31,000 years ago.\"\n\nDr Maloney explained that, because this person showed signs of having been cared through their recovery and for the rest of their life, the archaeologists are confident that this was an operation, rather than any kind of punishment or ritual.\n\n\"To allow them to live in this mountainous terrain, it's highly likely that the rest of their community invested in their care,\" he explained.\n\nDurham University archaeologist Prof Charlotte Robertson, who was not involved in the discovery but reviewed the findings, added that they challenged the view that medicine and surgery came late in human history.\n\nAn artist's impression of the person during their life 31,000 years ago\n\n\"It shows us that caring is an innate part of being human,\" she told the BBC. \"We can't underestimate our ancestors.\"\n\nAmputations, she pointed out, require a comprehensive knowledge of human anatomy and surgical hygiene, and considerable technical skill.\n\n\"Nowadays, you think about amputation in western context, it's a very safe operation. The person is given anaesthesia, sterile procedures are used, there is control of bleeding and pain management.\n\n\"Then you've got 31,000 years ago, someone is performing an amputation on this person and it's successful.\"\n\nDr Maloney and his colleagues are now working to investigate what kind of stone surgical tools could have been used at that time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Lovely to have you with us\" - headmaster greets the Cambridge children\n\nThe Cambridge \"gang\" have started a new chapter together, walking hand-in-hand with their parents on the first day at their new school.\n\nPrince George, nine, Princess Charlotte, seven, and Prince Louis, four, are all starting at Lambrook School, in Berkshire, after the family's recent move to Windsor.\n\nFor little Louis, in summer uniform, it was his very first day at school.\n\nOn the settling-in day, the duke referred to his children as \"all the gang\", ushering them up the steps of the private school.\n\nHeadmaster Jonathan Perry was on hand to greet the young royals, shaking each of them by the hand and saying it was \"lovely to have you with us\".\n\nAsked if they were excited, all three replied \"yes\" and Prince William said they were \"all looking forward to it\" and had \"lots of questions\".\n\nThe siblings showed no obvious signs of nerves as they walked confidently into Lambrook in the sunshine holding their parents' hands.\n\nEarlier, they had been forced to dodge the showers after pulling up in the school's grounds. Parents arriving later were hit by torrential rain.\n\nAs the family walked towards the school entrance in front of two cameras, they could be heard laughing and Prince William was seen stroking Prince Louis' hair reassuringly.\n\nThe children's first full day is on Thursday, the official start of term.\n\nThe Cambridge children are all smiles on the way to their new school\n\nThis will be a privileged education. Annual fees for all three children will be more than £53,000.\n\nThe school sits in 52 acres of Berkshire countryside close to Ascot Racecourse. It has a nine-hole golf course and swimming pool as well as bees, chickens and pigs for pupils to look after.\n\nSome children are boarders at the school but, for now, the Cambridges will be day pupils.\n\nIn 1990, his parents Prince Charles and Princess Diana accompanied William on his first day at Ludgrove Preparatory School near Wokingham, Berkshire\n\nIn 2017, Prince George started at Thomas's Battersea in London\n\nPrincess Charlotte was greeted by one of the teachers at Thomas's Battersea on her first day in 2019\n\nMarking a first day at school has become a royal rite of passage.\n\nEarlier, a single photographer and one TV camera filmed the Cambridge family as they arrived at Lambrook. The footage was then shared across a number of media organisations.\n\nLimiting the number of cameras and journalists is a way of protecting the children from the public glare. The hope is that a managed glimpse into life at Lambrook will afford the family some privacy at school from now on.\n\nIt was very different when William started school.\n\nIn the late-80s and mid-90s, he faced a barrage of cameras as he started nursery and then school, always accompanied by his mother and often his father. To cries of \"William\" or \"Diana\" those nervous, first steps into school were a major media event.\n\nWhen he started Eton in 1995, cameras were even allowed to follow him as he walked to his first lesson. Such access just would not happen now. These milestones are still recorded but royal children are no longer as exposed on these significant days.\n\nPrince William's sister-in-law, the Duchess of Sussex, recently discussed her concerns about her son Archie attending school in the UK during an interview with US magazine The Cut.\n\nMeghan said she would not have been able to pick up Archie from school in the UK \"without it being a royal photo call with a press pen of 40 people snapping pictures\" and said that was something she had a problem with.\n\nThe Editors' Code of Practice, the rules from the Independent Press Standards Organisation newspapers and magazines follow, prevents photographing children at school.\n\nGeorge, Charlotte and Louis can stay at Lambrook until they are 13 years old. The school says its aims to create \"happy and thoughtful young adults who are global citizens\".\n\nLambrook has some royal history, with two of Queen Victoria's grandsons, Prince Christian Victor and Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, having been pupils.\n\nDuring their time at the school, Queen Victoria used to travel from Windsor Castle to watch them in plays and cricket matches.", "Ukraine's President Zelensky said he has \"good news\", claiming the recapture of several settlements from Russia.\n\nRumours have swirled for days about a possible breakthrough in the eastern Kharkiv region, but with no word from Ukrainian officials.\n\nMr Zelensky declined to name which places had been retaken, saying that \"now is not the time to name\" them.\n\nSeparately, US officials said Ukraine was making \"slow but meaningful progress\" against Russian forces.\n\nSpeaking in his nightly video address to Ukrainians, President Zelensky said there was \"good news\" about the rumoured success of Ukrainian troops.\n\n\"I think every citizen feels proud of our soldiers,\" he said, naming specific military units and applauding their bravery in combat.\n\nBut he said: \"Now is not the time to name the settlements to which the Ukrainian flag returns.\"\n\nUkraine has tightened its operational security in recent weeks, sharing few details about a widely expected counter-offensive in the east and south.\n\nUkrainian soldiers have launched an offensive south-east of Kharkiv, towards the eastern region of Donetsk, over which Russia has maintained substantial military control since the war began six months ago.\n\nSome reports suggest Ukrainian forces may be a few dozen kilometres from the city of Izyum, an important link in Russia's military supply chain.\n\nSpeaking at an event in the United States, Colin Kahl - the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy - suggested that Ukrainian forces were performing better than Russian troops in some areas.\n\n\"It is early days. I think the Ukrainians are making slow but meaningful progress. And we'll see how things pan out,\" he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\n\"But I certainly think things are going better on the Ukrainian side right now in the south than is true on the Russian side.\"\n\nIn its nightly update, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Wednesday that it had \"repelled all Russian attacks\" in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions - but that both sides continued to exchange artillery and air strikes, damaging a dozen different places.\n\nPresident Zelensky also said on Wednesday that Ukraine's national budget next year would be that of a country at war - with more than a trillion hryvnia ($27bn; £23.5bn) spent on defence.\n\nBut he promised key social provisions such as pensions would be maintained.\n\nHowever, \"it is necessary to reduce as much as possible all non-critical expenses\", he warned - \"all that does not help defence, does not help the economic development of the country, social and cultural provision of our people\".\n\nSeparately, US and UN observers raised concerns over the fate of civilians in Ukraine as the war continues.\n\nA senior UN human rights official said the organisation was concerned about the displacement of people in Ukraine - and particularly the fate of children.\n\n\"There have been credible allegations of forced transfers of unaccompanied children to Russian-occupied territory, or to the Russian Federation itself,\" warned Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights.\n\nHer agency is concerned that Russia has created \"a simplified procedure\" to provide those children with Russian citizenship, and potentially have them adopted into Russian families, she said.\n\nSuch moves would breach the Geneva Convention, she added.\n\nThe US, also on Wednesday, said it was concerned about a similar forced movement of Ukrainians - but of adults.\n\nThe State Department accused the Kremlin of having lists of Ukrainians to be forced into areas of the country under Russian control as part of what it calls \"filtration operations\".\n\n\"Filtration is a dehumanising word, describing a massive campaign that the Kremlin has launched to imprison, to forcibly deport or disappear those Ukrainian citizens Moscow decides could be a potential threat,\" spokesman Vedant Patel said.\n\n\"Victims of filtration are given no choice but to submit or face dire consequences.\"\n\nHe described the system as a large-scale and advanced operation involving technology such as facial recognition and phone tracking - and said the US had evidence linking Kremlin officials to the project.\n\nHowever, Russia's UN Ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, said Ukrainians travelling to Russia merely went through a registration procedure.", "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.", "Left to right: Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Harry Styles and Gemma Chan at the Don't Worry Darling premiere in Venice on Sunday\n\nHarry Styles has joked on stage that he \"went to Venice to spit on Chris Pine\", while resuming his US tour at New York's Madison Square Garden.\n\nSocial media was ablaze on Tuesday after a journalist suggested Styles appeared to spit as he was sitting down next to Pine at the premiere of their new film Don't Worry Darling in Venice.\n\nA source close to the English singer-turned-actor had earlier denied it.\n\nUS actor Pine's representative branded the claim as \"a ridiculous story.\"\n\nReturning from the film festival, Styles laughed as he told fans on Wednesday evening: \"I just popped very quickly to Venice to spit on Chris Pine... but fret not, we're back.\"\n\nHis words prompted laughter and screams from fans.\n\nVideos and online speculation suggested when Styles sat down for Sunday's out-of-competition premiere, he appeared to spit on his co-star, who was seated between him and the film's director Olivia Wilde.\n\nPine stopped clapping and looked down at his lap before smiling.\n\nThe Star Trek and Wonder Woman actor's spokesperson added earlier this week that it was \"a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation\".\n\nThey said: \"There is nothing but respect between these two men and any suggestion otherwise is a blatant attempt to create drama that simply does not exist.\"\n\nIt is the latest in a string of controversies surrounding the film. Florence Pugh, who plays Styles' on-screen partner, walked the red carpet at the premiere but was notably absent from the press conference.\n\nWhen asked about reports of a rift by a journalist, Wilde, who is Styles' partner in real life, said she would not contribute to the \"endless tabloid gossip and all the noise out there\", choosing instead to praise Pugh's acting abilities.\n\nThe English actress posted a belated message on Instagram on Wednesday, alongside a picture of her and co-stars on the Venice red carpet, writing: \"I'm still taking it all in!\"\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 florencepugh 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\"Qwoaaar. What a moment this was?\"\n\nShe offered \"a massive congratulations to everyone standing on that carpet\", adding: \"We premiered in Venice! A huge wonderful win in itself.\n\n\"I'd never been to Venice Film Festival before.. It was mega! The crowds! The cheers! The energy was incredible.\"\n\nDon't Worry Darling, set in the 1950s, stars UK actors Harry Styles and Florence Pugh\n\nStyles' part opposite Pugh was originally meant to have been played by Shia LaBeouf, who Wilde recently said she had fired because his \"process was not conducive to the ethos that I demand in my productions\".\n\nBut the US actor denied that, telling Variety he had \"quit the film due to lack of rehearsal time\". LaBeouf stoked the flames of controversy further by sharing a video that Wilde allegedly sent him in 2020, asking him to return to the production, and asking if he and Pugh could \"make peace\".\n\nBut when a journalist at the same Venice press conference tried to probe further into the topic, it was swiftly shut down by the moderator.\n\nBillboard Pop also shared a video of Pine apparently zoning out when Styles talked about the film.\n\nDon't Worry Darling, which hits UK cinemas later this month, has received mixed reviews from critics, with the Guardian calling it an \"unconvincing tale of dystopian suburbia\", while the Telegraph descried it as \"largely fantastic: the sort of juicy but accessible studio production that have all but vanished since the 1990s\".", "Enoch Burke appeared at the High Court in Dublin\n\nA secondary school teacher who was jailed after he ignored a court order will remain in prison for at least another week, after refusing to give an undertaking that he would obey the injunction.\n\nThe order prevents Enoch Burke from attending or attempting to teach at the school where he works.\n\nBut the court heard that after it was put in place, Mr Burke continued to go to the school.\n\nA further injunction has been granted.\n\nMr Burke faced legal proceedings after a disciplinary process was launched against him by Wilson's Hospital school in County Westmeath.\n\nIt came after he confronted his then-principal in public at a school event in June - Mr Burke objected to addressing a student who is transitioning gender with a new name and using the \"they\" pronoun.\n\nMr Burke was suspended with pay pending the outcome of the process, but the court was told he turned up at the school for his timetabled hours.\n\nThe initial injunction was then put in place by the High Court, but after it was breached by Mr Burke he was jailed at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, the city's High Court granted a further injunction, preventing Mr Burke from attending or attempting to teach pending the outcome of a disciplinary process.\n\nLawyers for the school said Mr Burke was attempting to say the case was about his refusal to call a boy a girl.\n\nBut barrister Rosemary Mallon said the case was not about transgenderism, but about a teacher ignoring a lawful decision by his school's board of management to suspend him on pay pending the outcome of a disciplinary process.\n\nMs Mallon said the principal had serious concerns about how Mr Burke may act in the school, as well as concerns for the student involved and the entire student body.\n\nShe said the case was not about his beliefs but about his alleged conduct.\n\nMs Mallon said Mr Burke was asking the court to interfere with the school's disciplinary process, something the courts should be slow to do.\n\nMr Burke told the court he had spent the last two nights in Mountjoy Prison which was a new experience for him.\n\nHe said he had had much time to consider his actions and behaviour leading him to that place.\n\nMr Burke added he did not find instances of misconduct, but only actions \"worthy of commendation\".\n\nHe said he would never leave Mountjoy Prison if in doing so, he must violate his conscience and his religious beliefs, and deny his God.\n\nMs Mallon said it was quite clear Mr Burke had no intention of complying with the order and much of what he said were more appropriate issues to be dealt with at his disciplinary meeting or a full trial of the case.\n\nShe said he had not legally challenged the suspension or the court orders despite having had the opportunity to do so.\n\nMr Justice Max Barratt said he accepted the case was not about the issue of transgenderism and was simply an application for a further injunction which he granted.\n\nThe case has been scheduled to come back before the court in a week's time although Mr Burke was told he could come back to court at any time if he wished to purge his contempt.\n\nThe costs of the legal proceedings were awarded against him.", "The pound has plummeted to its lowest level against the US dollar since 1985.\n\nSterling fell 0.64% to $1.145 on Wednesday afternoon - a level not seen in 37 years.\n\nThe Bank of England said a weaker outlook for the UK economy as well as a stronger dollar were putting pressure on sterling.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey also warned that little could be done to stop the UK falling into a recession this year as the war in Ukraine continued.\n\nHe added that it would \"overwhelmingly be caused by the actions of Russia and the impact on energy prices\".\n\nThe Bank expects the economy to shrink in the last three months of 2022 and keep shrinking until the end of 2023.\n\nThe warning comes ahead of a government plan to limit a sharp rise in energy bills.\n\nIt is understood that a typical energy bill could be capped at around £2,500, with new Prime Minister Liz Truss set to announce the details on Thursday.\n\nCurrently, a typical household's gas and electricity bill is due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 in October.\n\nEnergy prices climbed sharply when lockdown was lifted and the economy started to return to normal. They have increased further as Russia sharply cut its gas supplies to Europe.\n\nIt has pushed up the price of gas across the continent, including in the UK, having a huge knock-on effect on consumers.\n\nSpeaking in front of the Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday, Mr Bailey said \"sadly\" a recession remained the most likely outcome in the UK.\n\nWhen asked by MPs if there was much that the central bank could do to stop it, he said: \"Insofar as the war is having this huge effect, the answer to that would be no.\"\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said a recession would \"overwhelmingly be caused by the actions of Russia and the impact on energy prices\".\n\nThe Bank predicted a UK recession last month as it raised interest rates by the highest margin in 27 years in a bid to keep soaring prices under control.\n\nHigher interest rates can make borrowing more expensive, meaning people have less money to spend and prices will stop rising as quickly. But there is a limit as to how effective UK rate rises can be when inflation is caused by global issues.\n\nDefending its recent moves, Mr Bailey added: \"The person going to put the UK in recession is Vladimir Putin, not the MPC [Monetary Policy Committee].\"\n\nHe said the Bank would take the new prime minister's energy plan announcement \"into account\" when deciding on interest rates next week.\n\nDuring her campaign, Ms Truss hit out at the Bank of England, accusing it of being slow to react to rising prices and protect vulnerable households.\n\nBut on Wednesday, the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng reiterated his \"full support for the independent Bank of England and their mission to control inflation, which is central to tackling cost of living challenges\".\n\nHe also said he and Mr Bailey would meet twice a week from now on to discuss the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nOther economists also expect the UK to fall into a recession despite Ms Truss's energy support plan - albeit a shorter and less severe one.\n\nBut some suggested on Wednesday that plans to cap energy bills could mean that increases in the cost of living will peak earlier and be \"significantly lower\" than previously forecast.\n\nThe cost of living is rising at its fastest rate in 40 years, at 10.1%, with food, fuel and energy prices all up.\n\nInvestment bank Goldman Sachs said a cap on bills for households could see inflation, which tracks how the cost of living changes over time, peak at 10.8% in October, rather than the 14.8% it forecast before. It then expects inflation to slow to 2.4% by December 2023.\n\nDeutsche Bank, HSBC and the Bank of England's own chief economist, Huw Pill, also believe the plan could slow price rises.\n\nBut there is uncertainty around what exactly the plan will look like and what would happen once any cap is lifted.\n\nMr Pill also said it was too soon to say how it might affect interest rates, which have gone up for the last six months in a row as the Bank tries to calm prices.\n\nOthers say that capping energy prices at their current level would still leave many people struggling.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, four in 10 adults who pay energy bills are already finding it \"very or somewhat difficult to afford them\".\n\nAnd the End Fuel Poverty Coalition pressure group estimates that if the energy price cap is frozen at £2,500 this October, 6.9 million UK households will still be in fuel poverty this winter - up from 4.6 million last winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Worried about energy bills? The BBC's Colletta Smith tells you - in a minute - about four discounts and payments that could help\n\nThere are also concerns about the cost of Ms Truss's plan, with research firm Capital Economics describing the support package as an \"effective but expensive sticking plaster\".\n\nMany expect the government to borrow at least £100bn, adding to the UK's already-high debt pile. This would come as Ms Truss attempts to push through a promised £30bn of tax cuts.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chancellor said higher borrowing will be \"necessary\" in the short term to help people with bills.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC's Today programme: \"The big question here is: 'Is it going to be £100bn? What is the exit strategy from supporting bills?'\n\n\"My guess is it might end up being an awful lot more than that unless we react quite quickly to make it a better [energy] system,\" he said, adding that the plan would benefit affluent people more than the less well off.\n\nOn the other side of the House of Commons just before the PMQs battle, was perhaps the more important Commons appearance. Governor Andrew Bailey and his team, confirming that there was not much they can do to stop a recession, blaming it on the Kremlin, and acknowledging that the UK is facing an historically unprecedented energy shock. It is heading to be three or four times worse for households than the hit to incomes in the 1970s' oil shock.\n\nAt the same time the Bank welcomed the end of the summer uncertainty over energy bills, and anticipate that it will be big enough to prevent inflation spiralling higher. However Governor Bailey also acknowledged there were specific UK factors driving jittery markets, in addition to the strong dollar, especially the UK's extra reliance on gas. As Chief Economist Huw Pill put it, that dependence is not going to change quickly, so the only real question is \"who covers that cost?\". With sterling falling again today, to a 37 year low against the dollar, there are concerns in the markets that the PM and Chancellor will hope to contain tomorrow.", "Actor Noel Clarke appeared in Kidulthood and Doctor Who\n\nActor and producer Noel Clarke has dropped his legal action against Bafta, the academy has confirmed.\n\nThe organisation suspended Clarke's membership and an honorary award last year after the Guardian published allegations of sexual misconduct made by 20 women who worked with him.\n\nHe denied the claims and earlier this year police said he would not face a criminal investigation.\n\nBafta said the allegations represented conduct contrary to expected standards.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, a Bafta spokesperson said: \"We note that Noel Clarke has dropped his legal action against Bafta.\n\n\"The serious misconduct alleged in first-hand testimonies and published in the Guardian newspaper is contrary to the standards expected of a Bafta member and the values we uphold as an arts charity and academy.\"\n\nThey added: \"We stand by our decision to suspend his honorary award and membership as soon as the detailed allegations came to light.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked Clarke's representatives for a comment.\n\nDenying all allegations of sexual assault, the Kidulthood and Doctor Who actor, 46, previously told the Mail on Sunday: \"There has been no arrest, no charges, no trial, no verdict, but I have been criminalised.\"\n\nHe said it was \"a form of modern McCarthyism\", referencing a 1950s purge of suspected Communists in the US.\n\nIn 2021, The Guardian newspaper published allegations of misconduct from 20 women who had worked with Clarke over a 15-year period.\n\nThe alleged incidents included complaints of groping and sexual misconduct between 2004 and 2019, all of which he has denied.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in March this year there was not enough evidence against him to warrant a criminal investigation.", "A sticky tape skin test could help predict if young babies are likely to develop bad eczema, say scientists.\n\nThe team - from the University of Copenhagen - used it on a group of two-month-olds to painlessly collect and then examine skin cell samples.\n\nThey found detectable immune biomarker changes in the cells that were linked with future eczema risk.\n\nBabies at high risk might benefit from early treatment with skin creams to avoid painful flare-ups, they suggest.\n\nThe youngsters with elevated levels of Thymus and Activation-Regulated Chemokine in their skin cells were found to be more than twice as likely to develop atopic eczema by the age of two as other babies in the study.\n\nThe researchers took sticky tape samples from 450 babies in total.\n\nThey are presenting their work, which was funded by the Lundbeck Foundation, at a medical conference called the 31st European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Congress.\n\nOne of the lead investigators, Dr Anne-Sofie Halling from the Bispebjerg Hospital at the University of Copenhagen, said: \"To our knowledge, this is the first to show that non-invasively collected skin biomarkers can be used to predict the subsequent onset and severity of paediatric atopic eczema.\"\n\nShe said there appeared to be an \"open window of opportunity\" in the first few months, where successful intervention may reduce the risk of atopic eczema.\n\n\"It is also at this age we were able to identify both immune and lipid biomarkers that predicted the development of atopic eczema.\n\n\"Our findings of predictive immune and lipid biomarkers collected at two months of age will help identify children at highest risk of atopic eczema using a non-invasive and painless method, so future preventive strategies can target these children only and prevent cases of this common disease that so many children are suffering from.\"\n\nAndrew Proctor, Chief Executive of the National Eczema Society, said: \"This exciting study to identify additional biomarkers adds to our understanding of eczema and opens up new possibilities for preventing the condition developing.\n\n\"This will be welcomed by so many parents and children who suffer severely from this debilitating condition. It is fantastic the researchers were able to use tape strips to gather skin cells for the study, which are non-invasive and easier for patients than some other approaches.\"\n\nProf Carsten Flohr of the British Association of Dermatologists said: \"While more research needs to be done, it's possible that with the right advice, parents of at-risk infants could take steps to treat the condition early to minimise its severity when it does occur and, in some cases, even prevent their children from developing the condition in the first place.\"\n• None 'Some days I wanted to rip my skin off'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has spoken in favour of new fossil fuel projects in the North Sea\n\nDuring the leadership campaign, new PM Liz Truss promised to \"double down\" on the UK's commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.\n\nBut as summer temperatures soared, there was little talk of greater ambition from the Tory contenders, and plenty about how environmental policies might be watered down or changed.\n\nIn its latest progress report on net zero the government's advisers, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said that \"tangible progress is lagging the policy ambition\".\n\nSo is the new Truss government going to close the \"policy gaps\" identified by the CCC, or widen them?\n\nThe two key cabinet positions for net zero are now held by Jacob Rees-Mogg, the business secretary, who will oversee the all-important energy sector, and Ranil Jayawardena, the environment secretary.\n\nDon't expect the new business secretary to be making many friends within the environmental lobby, or the \"green blob\" as he has called them.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has spoken in the past of extracting \"every last drop\" of North Sea oil, and licenses could be approved rapidly for new oil and gas exploration. That's a complete no-no for almost all climate scientists, who say there can be no more fossil fuel projects if we are going to retain any hope of keeping global temperature rises under 1.5 degrees. Climate scientists say missing that target would accelerate the risks of climate change like extreme weather.\n\n\"It doesn't have a knock on effect on net zero.\" Mr Rees Mogg said when talking about new North Sea oil and gas on his podcast earlier this year.\n\n\"It's more environmentally friendly to use gas that you've got at hand than to import liquefied gas from the rest of the world.\"\n\nA small group of Conservatives have also been demanding that the new PM take a fresh look at fracking and Ms Truss has given them some encouragement.\n\nOn the campaign trail she said that what she called the \"effective ban\" on fracking would be lifted but it would only take place where local communities supported it (which may well stop it happening).\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has called shale gas \"very clean\" and said that the threat of drilling causing earthquakes was overstated with \"some the equivalent of a bus passing by your house.\"\n\nThe cold, hard capitalist truth is that new renewables are currently a much cheaper source of new power generation than any of the fossil fuel or nuclear alternatives. So shifting towards wind and solar makes not just environmental, but economic sense, while at the same time giving us more energy security.\n\nNew environment secretary Ranil Jayawardena has talked about \"protecting our countryside from solar farms\"\n\nBritain is a world leader in offshore wind and in the next few years the building of ever larger wind-farms - mainly in the North Sea - looks set to continue. Huge projects are already under way and will come on stream in the next couple of years.\n\nThere's unlikely to be shift in policy towards two Tory renewable bugbears with comparable price tags - onshore wind and solar.\n\nMs Truss has already said she wants new solar panels to be limited to the roofs of buildings and not put on agricultural land, and her environment minister appears to have even stronger views.\n\n\"I don't think there's any need for solar power given the huge potential for wind,\" Ranil Jayawardena said in a social media video posted in November 2021.\n\n\"If you feel strongly about protecting our countryside from solar farms write to your local councillor and give them the support they need to take action quickly to protect our countryside from them.\"\n\nWind farms on land have a much shorter development timeline, but new projects have effectively been halted since 2014 when local communities were given greater powers to object. Despite the attraction of quicker cheap energy, neither Ms Truss, Mr Rees-Mogg or Mr Jayawardena have shown any enthusiasm for making onshore any easier.\n\nOn one of his podcasts, Mr Rees-Mogg talks about \"hairshirt greenery\", the idea that environmental problems can be addressed by limiting our consumption of resources.\n\n\"If you are too aggressive, too \"hairshirty\" people won't vote for it.\" he says.\n\n\"So you've got to go with the grain of public opinion with what people are willing to accept. And that means raising living standards through efficient use of technology\".\n\nIn that light, latest polling on renewables conducted by Mr Rees-Mogg's new department makes interesting reading. It shows that 7% of people would be unhappy (compared to 54% who would be happy) about a solar farm being built in their local area and 12% unhappy (with 43% happy) about an on-shore wind-farm.", "A UK ticket-holder has come forward to claim the £110m Euromillions jackpot.\n\nIf a single ticket holder has won the jackpot, it would make them wealthier than Harry Styles, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nThe National Lottery said a single ticket-holder had come forward to claim the \"life-changing sum\".\n\nIt is the fifth Euromillions jackpot won in the UK this year, including the record £195m win in July.\n\nThe Euromillions draw is played in nine European countries and held twice a week.\n\nThe UK ticket-holder would be richer than Harry Styles worth £100m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List\n\nThe full amount won in Friday's draw was £110,978,200.90.\n\nOnce the ticket has been validated and paid, the winner will then decide whether or not to go public.\n\nOnly 15 UK players have ever won a jackpot of more than £100 million, with the record-holders deciding to remain anonymous after winning £195 million in July .\n\nJoe and Jess Thwaite scooped £184m on the EuroMillions in May", "The group of women worked together to find out the identity of this man, who subjected them to brutal interrogations\n\nA Russian police officer's takeaway food order was the breakthrough clue which helped a group of women, who had been terrorised by him, reveal his true identity. For the first time, a BBC investigation tells the story of how they tracked him down.\n\nThe women, mostly aged between 19 and 25, had attended a rally in Moscow in March against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They were quickly rounded up by officers and put in the back of a police van.\n\nMost of them didn't know each other, but despite the circumstances the atmosphere was upbeat. They even set up a Telegram group chat as they travelled across the city to Brateyevo police station.\n\nWhat happened next was far worse than they anticipated.\n\nOver the next six hours they suffered verbal and physical abuse that, in some cases, amounted to torture - one woman says she was repeatedly starved of oxygen when a plastic bag was put over her head.\n\nMarina (top right) and Anastasia (bottom right) - and in the police van (left)\n\nThe abuse was carried out by the same unnamed plain-clothes officer - tall, athletic, dressed in a black polo neck. In their group chat, they gave him the nickname the \"man in black\".\n\nTwo of the women, Marina and Alexandra, secretly recorded audio on their phones. In one, the officer can be heard shouting about his \"total impunity\".\n\nBut if his aim was to intimidate them into silence, he would fail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to the “man in black” shouting insults at Marina and Alexandra while he assaults them\n\nAfter their release, the women discussed on the Telegram group how they could work out who he was.\n\n\"If we just kept on living like it didn't happen, if we just published the [recordings] and laid low… most likely, they would think they can do it again and that they would be completely unpunished,\" says 22-year-old student Marina.\n\nHis image was seared in their memories, but they could find no sign of him on police websites. And with no name to go on, social media was a dead end. After more than a fortnight of searching, they were close to giving up.\n\nAnd then the women had a breakthrough.\n\nIn late March, there was a massive data leak from the popular Russian food delivery app Yandex Food. The group had an idea.\n\nThey began raking through the data to see if there had been any orders to Brateyevo police station over the past year. They discovered there had - by nine different customers. Could one of them have been the \"man in black\"?\n\nMost of the Yandex data only included first names and a phone number. The group of women used these to find several social media profiles for staff at the police station, but no photos resembled their interrogator.\n\nFinally they came to one of the last names on the list: Ivan. A popular Russian name, so one of the most difficult to pin down. Ivan's phone number, however, did reveal a trail online - six classified adverts from the Russian trading website Avito.ru. But most of the adverts only gave them the information they already knew - a first name.\n\nOne, however - for a Skoda Rapid car sold 10 minutes' drive from Brateyevo police station, posted in 2018 - included the seller's full name: Ivan Ryabov.\n\nWith a surname, they could search for a picture. And almost immediately, 19-year-old Anastasia came across one she recognised.\n\n\"I started crying. I could not believe… that I managed to do it.\"\n\nShe sent the picture to Marina, Alexandra, and others in the Telegram group, who agreed they had found their \"man in black\".\n\nThey hope this will finally prompt the authorities to open a criminal investigation.\n\nThe audio recordings give a chilling insight into the women's abuse.\n\nRyabov can be heard telling Marina to answer his questions before \"I take off my boot and smash you on the head with it.\"\n\nFor 14 minutes, Marina says she was shouted at and kicked by Ryabov - a pistol in her face.\n\nBBC Eye Investigations tells the story of how these young Russian women came together to expose the identity of their torturer and his commanding officer.\n\nAnastasia, waiting outside, remembers hearing the sound of screaming and blows. When she, too, refused to co-operate with the questioning, she says Ryabov beat her over the head with a water bottle, emptied its contents over her, and then pulled a plastic bag over her soaking head where he held it against her nose and mouth for 30-40 seconds at a time.\n\n\"You think to yourself - how much longer can I take this?\" she says.\n\nAlexandra, 26, also managed to record her abuse, and in her audio we hear Ryabov boast of his total impunity. \"You think we're going to get in trouble for this? Putin told us to kill all of [your type]. That's it! Putin's on our side!\"\n\nHe then threatens to kill her himself, adding: \"And then they'll give me a bonus for it too.\"\n\nAt least 11 of the detainees say they experienced physical abuse at the hands of the \"man in black\".\n\nWhen the women publicly released the audio recorded on their phones earlier this year, one Russian politician called for action - but the country's Investigative Committee deemed there to be \"insufficient evidence\" to warrant opening a criminal investigation into the case.\n\nThe women also wanted to know who had authority over Ryabov that day - and why that person wasn't stopped.\n\nAnastasia had always felt another man - who the women dubbed the \"man in beige\" - was in charge that evening. Though he wasn't present inside Room 103 - where the women were terrorised - \"all communication took place through him\", she says.\n\nOne of the detainees had secretly filmed him in the station waiting room. But the shaky video wasn't much to go on.\n\nA grab from the video of the \"man in beige\"\n\nThe BBC obtained an arrest report from 6 March, which was signed by the police station's acting head: Lieutenant Colonel AG Fedorinov.\n\nWe then found a local newspaper report from 2012 which mentions an Alexander Georgievich Fedorinov, with an accompanying photograph which seemed to match his image.\n\nBut because the photo was 10 years old, the BBC used facial recognition software to double-check - and found images matching the \"man in beige\" in the video were linked to a social media account in the name of Alexander Fedorinov. That same account was tagged in an online advert for job vacancies at Brateyevo police station.\n\nThe BBC put the allegations - that police officer Ivan Ryabov initiated and participated in the abuse of detainees, and that this abuse in some cases amounted to torture - to both Ryabov and Fedorinov, and to Russia's Investigative Committee. There was no response.\n\nBy uncovering the identity of their abuser, Marina, Anastasia and Alexandra hope that some form of justice and accountability will emerge.\n\n\"We want to make… it possible for the law to affect them,\" says Marina. \"No one can do this to another person, even if he is a government official.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: From the scene of Canada stabbings suspect arrest\n\nThe suspect in a stabbing spree in Canada which left 10 people dead and 19 injured has died after being captured by police.\n\nMyles Sanderson, 32, experienced \"medical distress\" after the arrest on a motorway in the province of Saskatchewan following a high-speed chase and died later, police say.\n\nThey gave no details. An unnamed official earlier said that Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries.\n\nThree are in a critical condition.\n\nIt is not clear what prompted Sunday's mass killings which encompassed 13 separate crime scenes. Both suspects - Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien, 31 - are dead.\n\nMost of those killed in the rampage - and the suspects themselves - were from the James Smith Cree Nation, an indigenous community.\n\nPolice found Damien's body on Monday and are investigating whether his brother killed him.\n\n\"This evening our province is breathing a collective sigh of relief,\" Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said on Wednesday night.\n\nShe said police had received a report earlier in the day of Myles Sanderson stealing a vehicle from outside a property. The householder was not injured during the theft.\n\nPolice gave pursuit as Sanderson fled at speeds of 150km/h (93mph).\n\nThey forced his vehicle into a ditch and officers found a knife in it as they arrested him, said the police chief.\n\nHe was taken into custody at around 15:30 local time (22:30 BST) and taken to a hospital in Saskatoon, where he was pronounced dead, she added.\n\nNews of Sanderson's capture came soon after an alert was sent to Canadian mobile phone users warning people near the town of Wakaw to \"seek immediate shelter/shelter in place\" because a man armed with a knife had been seen driving a stolen white Chevrolet Avalanche in the area.\n\nCBC News reports that Sanderson had broken into a woman's rural property at around 14:00 local time on Wednesday.\n\nThe woman spotted Sanderson walking up to her front door, so she locked it and took refuge in a bathroom in her bedroom, her son told the Canadian broadcaster.\n\nSanderson kicked down the front door and went into the bedroom, telling the woman he would not hurt her and asking her to come with him, but she refused, according to her son.\n\nThe suspect took the woman's car keys, along with her mobile phone, water and a soft drink and cigarettes, the son said. The woman called police through a landline, reports CBC.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the parents of the brothers had appealed for their surviving son to turn himself in.\n\n\"I want to apologise for my son, my sons,\" their mother said in an interview with CBC News.\n\n\"We don't know the whole story, but I want to apologise to everybody that was hurt and affected by this terrible situation.\"\n\nMyles Sanderson had been facing charges of first-degree murder.\n\nCanada's parole board said on Tuesday that it would review why he had been released early from prison while serving a four-year sentence for several violent crimes.\n\nIn February, the board said he would \"not present an undue risk\" and that his release would \"contribute to the protection of society\" by facilitating his rehabilitation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSaskatoon police earlier confirmed they had been searching for Myles Sanderson since May, when he stopped meeting his assigned caseworker and was classified as \"unlawfully at large\".\n\nParole documents show he had a decades-long criminal record, including 59 criminal convictions since he was 18 for assault, threats and robbery.\n\nAccording to court papers, Sanderson had stabbed two of the victims killed in Sunday's rampage - his in-laws, Earl Burns and Joyce Burns - seven years earlier.\n\n\"I want to know the reasons behind the [parole] decision,\" Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told reporters. \"I'm extremely concerned by what occurred here.\"\n\nAt an emotional news conference on Wednesday, relatives of the victims spoke of their \"horror\".\n\nMark Arcand, chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council, said his sister, Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns, died protecting her three children.\n\n\"One of the young boys was hiding behind a highchair watching the whole thing happen,\" he said.", "Nick Brown MP has been administratively suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation into a complaint.\n\nHe is one of the party's longest-serving MPs but will now sit as an independent until reinstated.\n\nThe Newcastle upon Tyne East MP says he doesn't know the nature of the complaint but was co-operating with the investigation.\n\nMr Brown served as chief whip under five Labour leaders including Tony Blair, Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer.\n\nHis suspension from Labour Party membership will lead to the automatic precautionary suspension from the Parliamentary Labour Party in accordance with party rules.\n\nMr Brown was first elected as an MP in 1983 and went on to serve as a minister between 1997 and 2010.\n\nLast year, Labour adopted a new complaints process, set up in the wake of controversy over anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nA 2020 Equalities and Human Rights Commission report into how the claims were handled recommended that the party put in place \"long-term arrangements for independent oversight of the complaint handling process\".\n\nParty members backed creating this new system at its annual conference in 2021.", "The mother and father of 24-year-old Chris Kaba - who was shot dead by police in south London - have accused the Metropolitan Police of racism.\n\nChris Kaba was killed in a residential street in Streatham Hill on Monday night following a police chase.\n\nThe police watchdog, the IOPC, is investigating the incident. A spokesman for the Met said the force is \"co-operating fully\" as the IOPC carries out a \"thorough and independent investigation\".", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nAlcohol will be served \"in select areas within stadiums\" at this year's Qatar World Cup, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThe Fifa event will be taking place in a Muslim country in the Middle East for the first time, and the consumption of alcohol is prohibited in Islam.\n\nA 40,000-capacity fan zone in the capital Doha has also been confirmed, where a drink can also be purchased.\n\n\"We want people to come and have experiences they will never forget,\" CEO Nasser Al Khater told BBC Sport.\n\nAl Khater said they are still \"finalising our alcohol strategy\" but this is the first time the Supreme Committee for Legacy and Delivery have publicly announced plans to allow fans to drink within the stadium perimeter.\n\nFifa have said ticket holders will have access to drink options within the stadium perimeter prior to kick-off and after the final whistle.\n\nInside the stadium bowl ticket holders will only be able to purchase non-alcoholic beer and soft drinks.\n\nIt marks a significant relaxation of the rules for the tournament as Qatar - like other countries in the Middle East - has strict controls on alcohol and it is illegal to consume it in public.\n\nLicensed hotel bars and restaurants are the only places that usually sell alcohol, but visitors during the tournament will also be able to purchase a beverage at the Fifa fan festival in Doha's Al Bidda Park after 18:30 local time.\n\nDuring the 2019 Fifa Club World Cup, which took place in Doha and was won by Liverpool, supporters were able to consume alcohol in a site just outside the city.\n\nAl Khater said additional locations \"will be communicated in due course\", adding: \"While alcohol will be available to those who want a drink in designated areas, it will not be openly available on the streets.\n\n\"What we ask is that people, when they visit, stick to these designated areas.\n\n\"We are incredibly excited to be welcoming the world to Qatar and the Middle East and Arab world. For many people it will be their first opportunity to see and explore the region.\n\n\"It is a once in a lifetime opportunity and we are determined to use it to its fullest.\"\n\nQatar has a population of just under three million and it is expected about 1.2 million visitors will be in attendance during the World Cup.\n\nAl Khater said there were \"no concerns over a shortfall of accommodation\" with up to 130,000 rooms available across hotels, cabins in two cruise ships, apartments and desert camps.\n\nThere have been 40 million ticket requests for the tournament, with 2.45 million already being sold, and Al Khater said he was \"confident\" all tickets available to the general public will be sold.\n\nThe tournament has been moved to start a day earlier on Sunday, 20 November, with hosts Qatar facing Ecuador.\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", "Unite union members at Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council are to begin continuous strike action from Thursday.\n\nThe union said there was \"a total failure to recognise the need to provide council workers with a living income\".\n\nIt said the industrial action followed \"a proposal to settle the strike\" at a council meeting on Tuesday.\n\nThe council said it had been unable to reach agreement at the meeting and warned residents to expect disruption.\n\nGareth Scott of Unite said the union had hoped that Causeway councillors would \"support a deal similar to that which ended the disputes at Derry City and Strabane and Mid-Ulster council\".\n\nAccording to the union, a proposal was put to Tuesday's council meeting \"to settle the strike by offering two pay-point increments and a lump sum to workers\".\n\nIn a statement, the council said the strike action related to a dispute over 2021-2022 pay, \"which is negotiated nationally by the National Joint Council (NJC) on behalf of councils in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"Further to this, council has been negotiating locally with trade unions, which led to the matter being discussed at last night's full council meeting,\" it said.\n\n\"Members were unable to reach agreement and therefore strike action will now proceed.\"\n\nThe council warned that services such as waste collection, recycling centres, and street cleaning could be affected.\n\nMr Scott said Unite hoped other unions would join the industrial action, the latest in a series of such strikes across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We are hopeful that both Nipsa and GMB trade unions will now swiftly proceed to ballot their members and lend their strength to a joint strike action,\" he said.\n\n\"Workers stand stronger when they stand together.\"\n\nCauseway Coast and Glens Borough Council said it \"deeply regrets that strike action is taking place and the impact this will have on residents\"\n\nThe council asked residents to leave bins out for collection on their normal day, saying the would be emptied \"where there are sufficient crews to deliver a service\".\n\n\"If bins are not emptied, residents are asked to take their bins back in from the kerbside and place them out again on their next scheduled collection day during the strike,\" it said.\n\nIt said it \"deeply regrets that strike action is taking place and the impact this will have on residents\" and remained \"fully committed to finding a resolution through ongoing discussions with trade unions\".\n\nLast week, it emerged that a strike affecting bin collections in the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area was to be extended despite concerns about mounting rubbish.\n\nUnions said no deal had been reached with the council.\n\nThe strike began on 15 August and it involves more than 1,000 council workers who are protesting over their pay and conditions.\n\nIt is being staged by members of the GMB, Unite and Nipsa trade unions.\n\nThe action was initially due to last for four weeks but the council said it would now continue past 11 September.\n\nAbout 200 members of the Unite union working for Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council have also gone on strike.\n\nThe action follows a dispute about pay and conditions.\n\nUnite has said a dispute is ongoing in Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.\n\nMaintenance workers at the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) have also begun strike action over pay.\n\nUnite said on Monday the dispute involves about 300 of its members and would remain in place for four weeks.", "Top row, left to right: Christian Head, Thomas Burns, Lana Head. Bottom row, left to right: Gregory Burns, Robert Sanderson, Wesley Petterson\n\nA 62-year-old former first responder who was killed as she tried to help others and a kind-hearted 77-year-old widower are among the victims of a violent rampage in Canada that left 10 people dead and a nation in shock.\n\nPolice have released the full list of those killed in the stabbings in the province of Saskatchewan on 4 September.\n\nNine of the 10 victims are from James Smith Cree Nation, an indigenous community with nearly 3,500 members.\n\nOne victim, Wesley Petterson, is from Weldon, a quiet farming town nearby of about 200 people.\n\nLocals described Mr Petterson, the oldest of the victims at 78 years old, as a \"lovely\" man who was devoted to his community. Neighbour Ruby Works said she had been left devastated by his death.\n\n\"I couldn't even catch my breath,\" she told the Canadian broadcaster CBC, saying she was still in shock.\n\n\"If someone needed a hand, he helped. He was a kind-hearted man,\" Ms Works added about the man she had known since childhood and had looked on as an uncle.\n\n\"He didn't deserve this,\" she said. \"Both communities are destroyed. All lives are shattered.\"\n\nWeldon resident Robert Rush described Mr Petterson as a gentle man who \"wouldn't hurt a fly\".\n\nMr Rush added that Mr Petterson's adult grandson had been in the basement at the time of the attack. \"He stayed down there until they were gone,\" Mr Rush said.\n\nAnother of those killed was named as 61-year-old Gloria Burns.\n\nA former first responder, she had worked at the James Smith Cree Nation health clinic and her brother, Darryl Burns, said she \"had devoted her life to helping people\".\n\nFrom left to right: Gloria Burns, Carol Burns, Bonnie Burns and Earl Burns Sr\n\nMs Burns was killed in the attack after responding to initial calls for aid and while trying to help others in her home, her brother said.\n\n\"For her to go into a situation like this where [she was] helping people, even though it cost her life ... that's who she was,\" Mr Burns told CBC.\n\n\"She died helping people. And we have to pick up that torch and carry it.\"\n\nGregory Burns, 28, and his mother, Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns, 48, were also killed.\n\nIn a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Bonnie's brother, Mark Arcand, who is also chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council, described his sister as a matriarch who loved taking care of her four children.\n\n\"Mama bear took care of her cubs,\" Mr Arcand said.\n\nHe said Bonnie died outside of her home after she ran out to help her son Gregory, who was stabbed first. Another one of her sons, 13-year-old Drayson, was also stabbed but survived.\n\n\"How could somebody do this to women and children?\" he said. \"Words can't express the pain that we are feeling.\"\n\nGregory's father and Bonnie's husband, Brian, wrote on Facebook: \"It's hard when my boys cry at night for their mom.\"\n\nThomas Burns, 23, and Carol Burns, 46, were also among the victims identified.\n\nPolice said they would not identify or confirm the relationships of those killed.\n\nAnother victim, mother-of-two Lana Head, has been identified by her former partner, Michael Brett Burns.\n\nHe told local media that she had worked as a security guard at Northern Lights Casino and had also been a commissionaire officer.\n\nThe 49-year-old lived in James Smith Cree Nation and leaves behind two daughters, Sable, 31, and Sage, 30. Just hours before the attack she had posted on social media that she had \"so many good memories to cherish\".\n\nFriends and family paid tribute to Ms Head. In a post to her Facebook page, one friend recalled her \"sweet demeanour and caring ways\".\n\nIn a tribute to Ms Burns, Michael Brett Burns wrote that she will be \"missed dearly\".\n\n\"I just hurt and tonight I cry alone,\" he added.\n\nChristian Head, 54, was also among the victims listed by police.\n\nA veteran, Earl Burns Sr, was also killed in the attack. He had been a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.\n\nVeteran Voices of Canada paid tribute to Mr Burns Sr, 66, in a social media post, writing that he \"gave his life to save his wife and grandchildren during the terrible attack\".\n\nPolice also identified Robert Sanderson, 49, as one of the victims.\n\nChakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson - one of the region's elected leaders - told the Regina Leader Post that everyone in the community had been affected.\n\n\"They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we're all related here, so it's pretty hard,\" Mr Sanderson said. \"It's pretty horrific.\"\n\nIndigenous rights groups in Canada have urged the federal government to provide support to the communities.\n\nDarryl Burns echoed that call, telling reporters that the local community was in chaos as it tried to come to terms with the \"massacre\".\n\n\"I know deep down we need healing and forgiveness. That's one of the things my sister taught. And that's one of the things I will carry out in her name,\" he said.", "The Bill of Rights was aimed at reasserting the primacy of UK courts in human rights cases\n\nLiz Truss's government has shelved plans for a law designed to give ministers the power to ignore human rights rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nThe Bill of Rights bill, championed by former Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, was due back before Parliament.\n\nMr Raab said the bill would reassert the primacy of UK law on human rights cases.\n\nBut a source said the bill is unlikely to progress in its current form.\n\nA source told BBC political editor Chris Mason that Ms Truss's new administration was \"reviewing the most effective means to deliver objectives through our legislative agenda\".\n\nThe Bill of Rights bill was intended to make clear that the UK's Supreme Court had legal supremacy and ECHR decisions did not always need to be followed by British courts.\n\nThe bill also contained measures to strengthen free speech and make it easier to deport foreign criminals by restricting their right to appeal using human rights arguments.\n\nEarlier this year, the ECHR - which is based in Strasbourg - blocked the British government's plans to send migrants to Rwanda.\n\nDuring the Tory leadership campaign, Liz Truss promised to strengthen the Bill of Rights to provide a \"sound legal basis\" to tackle illegal migration.\n\nBut on Wednesday, Downing Street declined to guarantee that a new Bill of Rights will be introduced during the current Parliament.\n\nBack in 2019, the Conservative Party manifesto promised to \"update\" the Human Rights Act.\n\nDominic Raab's now-binned bill went much further.\n\nHis critics said it would restrict the number of human rights challenges against allegedly bad government that British judges could consider while, confusingly, still allowing the same challenges to go before the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nCritics included Sir Jonathan Jones, the government's former top lawyer. He has tweeted his support for Liz Truss's decision, saying the bill had been a paradoxical mess.\n\nThe political battle over human rights hasn't gone away - not least because Suella Braverman, the new home secretary, says she wants the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nThat seems vanishingly unlikely under Liz Truss - but her government does not seem to have ruled out resurrecting some parts of Mr Raab's plan in future legislation.\n\nThe bill had triggered concern from the legal profession and human rights groups, who accused the government of a power grab.\n\nLast year the government launched what it said were \"common sense\" reforms to the Human Rights Act, saying they would \"restore confidence\" in the legal system.\n\nThe Human Rights Act was introduced more than 20 years ago and it sets out in law a set of minimum standards of how everyone should be treated by public bodies.\n\nThe proposals committed to staying within the ECHR, despite pressure from some Conservatives to leave the treaty.\n\nMr Raab said the UK would \"remain a party to the European Convention on Human Rights\", while saying the government wanted to \"change, reform to revise\" how it is interpreted by courts.\n\nOn Tuesday Mr Raab, a strong advocate of the Bill of Rights, was replaced as justice secretary by Brandon Lewis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary Steve Reed described the Bill of Rights bill as a \"disastrous\" piece of legislation which \"makes it harder to deport foreign terrorists and rips up basic legal protections\".\n\nDirector of Big Brother Watch Silkie Carlo welcomed the government's decision to shelve the legislation as \"a huge win for the public\".\n\nHowever, she added that the government was \"full of people\" who wanted to leave the ECHR - a move she argued would amount to \"a depraved attempt to steal basic rights and freedoms\".", "We're now ending our live coverage of the arrest and death of the main suspect in the stabbing spree that claimed the lives of 10 people in Canada on Sunday.\n\nMyles Sanderson died after experiencing \"medical distress\" after his arrest on Wednesday, police said, without giving further detail.\n\nThey also declined to comment further on how his brother Damien, who is accused of helping in the murders, died earlier this week.\n\nHis body was found on Monday, and police say they suspect his brother may have killed him.\n\nOur live coverage was provided by Max Matza, Holly Honderich, Jessica Murphy, Nadine Yousif, Robin Levinson-King and Grace Conley, and edited by Rebecca Seales.", "Lewis Capaldi has told fans he has Tourette's Syndrome (TS), speaking about its day-to-day effects in an Instagram Live video.\n\nThe 25-year-old explained that due to his twitches, people mistakenly think he takes drugs before concerts.\n\nTS is a condition that \"causes a person to make involuntary sounds and movements called tics\", according to the NHS.\n\n\"I have Tourette's, I've always had it, apparently,\" the Scottish singer said.\n\nHe recently mentioned on stage that he has the condition, explaining why his shoulders sometimes twitch.\n\n\"I do the shoulder twitch quite a lot. And you see underneath every TikTok and stuff, people are like, 'why is he twitching?', which is fine. Curiosity is fine.\"\n\n\"Do you think before performing [in front of] 20,000 people, as an anxious person, I'm going to take a big line of cocaine? Never going to happen.\"\n\nThere has been a positive reaction to Lewis's honesty from fans with the condition.\n\n\"It's good that someone of that calibre is able to feel comfortable enough to say, 'Yeah, I've got Tourette's syndrome',\" Holly Ann Maria tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"I think it's really important because it shows that yes, he has a debilitating disability. However, he is still very talented.\"\n\nThe 23-year-old from Essex says Lewis's attitude is \"really quite refreshing\".\n\n\"A lot of people don't like to talk about controversial topics, but he literally talks about anything and everything and doesn't care.\"\n\n'When artists are relatable, I think that makes them more popular', Holly says\n\nLewis also spoke about how he has had Botox in his shoulder to try to limit the tics.\n\n\"It's a new thing, I haven't really learned much about it - I'm learning. I had Botox on my shoulder to stop it moving. It worked for a bit.\"\n\nHe told fans that he didn't think it was a big deal, but that when he got the diagnosis, it made sense to him.\n\nEarlier this year, Billie Eilish spoke about having the condition, telling American host David Letterman that the condition can be \"exhausting\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool were thrashed by Napoli in their first Champions League Group A game on a night to forget in Italy.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side were 3-0 down at half time but it could easily have been more as Alisson saved a penalty and Virgil van Dijk made a goalline block.\n\nPiotr Zielinski put Napoli ahead from the spot in the fifth minute after Victor Osimhen had hit the post.\n\nAndre-Frank Anguissa and Giovanni Simeone extended Napoli's lead, before Zielinski scored again after the break.\n\nIt was a terrible opening half from Liverpool as Joe Gomez struggled to deal with Osimhen and was relieved when the Napoli forward trudged off with an injury before half-time.\n\nHis replacement, Simeone, needed just three minutes to score on his Champions League debut as Liverpool looked shell-shocked by the home side's relentless forward approach.\n\nThere were chances for the visitors - Van Dijk had a header well saved, Mohamed Salah struck an effort at the goalkeeper and a teasing cross bounced dangerously off Harvey Elliott's knee at the back post.\n\nBut Liverpool were sloppy in possession - even Salah mis-controlled a good pass from Trent Alexander-Arnold when well-placed in the box - and their defensive mistakes were punished by an expressive Napoli side.\n\nAny hope of a second-half comeback were over when Zielinski chipped a finish over Alisson from close range to make it 4-0 and though Luis Diaz curled in for an immediate response and came close with a diving header, Liverpool were deservedly beaten.\n\nDeadline-day signing Arthur Melo came on for his debut late in the second half and fellow midfielder Thiago returned from injury to make a brief cameo, but Liverpool will head home having now won just two of their last seven matches in all competitions.\n• None Go straight to all the latest Liverpool news and views\n• None You can now get Liverpool news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n\nFrom the very first minute, Liverpool were on the back foot in Naples.\n\nOsimhen gave them an early warning when he rounded Alisson and fired against the post from a tight angle.\n\nNapoli, though, needed only five minutes to take the lead when Zielinski coolly slotted in his penalty after handball against James Milner.\n\nA typical Klopp side would have been expected to bounce back immediately, but this season Liverpool have looked tired, demotivated and seriously out of form.\n\nWhat followed instead was only humiliation as the hosts were ruthless, while Liverpool made numerous mistakes and struggled to get a stronghold of the game with talisman Salah having several poor touches.\n\nOsimhen ran the struggling Gomez ragged and Napoli could have scored at least another two goals, were it not for a goalline clearance from Van Dijk to deny Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and a penalty save from Allison to thwart Osimhen after the lively frontman had been caught by Van Dijk.\n\nFormer Fulham midfielder Anguissa doubled Napoli's lead in style as a quick one-two ripped apart Liverpool's defence, before Kvaratskhelia set up Simeone's third.\n\nWhen the whistle finally blew for the break, Klopp sprinted straight down the tunnel.\n\nThe last time Liverpool conceded three goals in the first half of a Champions League game was in October 2014 when they lost 3-0 to Real Madrid.\n\n\"That's an embarrassing 45 minutes,\" former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said on BT Sport,\n\nLiverpool at least improved in the second half but Napoli remained in complete control.\n\nThe impressive Zielinski added the fourth two minutes after the restart and Diaz's curling effort in the 49th minute was no consolation for the disappointing six-time European champions.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Arthur (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Diogo Jota.\n• None Attempt saved. Alessio Zerbin (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by André-Frank Zambo Anguissa.\n• None Offside, Napoli. André-Frank Zambo Anguissa tries a through ball, but Giovanni Simeone is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Giovanni Simeone (Napoli) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alessio Zerbin. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool 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 Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football", "After returning from Balmoral on Tuesday, Liz Truss addressed the UK for the first time from Downing Street.\n\nShe pledged to get \"Britain working again\", deal with the energy crisis and make sure people could get GP and NHS services \"on a firm footing\".", "A customs officer checks a Russian car at the border with Finland in July\n\nThe European Union is proposing to make it more expensive and harder for Russian citizens to get visas.\n\nRussians wanting to enter the EU will face a lengthier application process and see fees rise from €35 (£30; $34) to €80 (£69; $79).\n\nThis should continue as long as Moscow wages its war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU Commission said.\n\nMore than a million Russians have travelled to EU countries since the invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nMargaritis Schinas, an EU Commission vice-president, said Russia had \"completely undermined\" the trust on which the existing EU-Russia visa agreement was based.\n\nUnder that agreement, Russians had for 15 years enjoyed a streamlined process for getting EU visas.\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, tweeted to say that the visa agreement should be suspended as there \"can be no business as usual\" with Russia.\n\nTuesday's move follows a decision last week by EU foreign ministers, when they agreed in principle to suspend the existing visa agreement with Moscow.\n\nThe plan had been seen as a compromise, with Ukraine and some EU member states calling for a blanket ban - but others like France and Germany opposed to going that far.\n\nSome EU countries bordering Russia had already begun to tighten border controls.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov last week admitted that the EU decision would make life more difficult for Russian travellers, calling the proposal \"another ridiculous decision in a series of ongoing absurdities\".\n\nUnder the proposals, Russian citizens will face:\n\nSeparately, the EU Commission is proposing that the member states refuse to recognise Russian passports issued in occupied Ukraine.\n\n\"Russians should not have easy access to the European Union and travelling to the EU as a tourist is not a human right,\" said EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Kaba's parents, Prosper Kaba and Helen Nkama, are demanding answers from the Met\n\nNo firearm was found at the scene after a man was shot dead by police in south London, it has emerged.\n\nChris Kaba, 24, died after a police pursuit of a car ended in Streatham Hill on Monday night.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said no \"non-police issue firearm\" had been found following a detailed search of the car and surrounding area.\n\nMr Kaba's family has accused the Met Police of being \"totally racist\".\n\nThe IOPC said an Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera indicated the vehicle was linked to a firearms incident in the previous days.\n\nThe Audi was hemmed in by two police cars in narrow residential street Kirkstall Gardens before one round was fired from a police weapon at about 22:00 BST.\n\nThe IOPC said CPR was immediately given by officers and support requested from the ambulance service but Mr Kaba later died in hospital.\n\nA spokesman said: \"A detailed search of the scene and surrounding area was completed last night. No non-police issue firearm has been recovered from the vehicle or the scene.\"\n\nForensic examinations will be completed on Mr Kaba's car and some of the police vehicles involved in the incident, the watchdog said.\n\nChris Kaba was due to become a father at the time of his death\n\nMr Kaba, who was due to become a father, was a rapper known as Madix or Mad Itch and was part of the MOBO-nominated drill group 67.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC before the IOPC's statement, father Prosper Kaba said: \"For us, it is totally racist and criminal and we want all the community, especially the minority community, to see this as a racism case.\"\n\nMother Helen Nkama, speaking through tears, said: \"My heart is broken. I am speechless.\"\n\nIn a statement released through the charity Inquest, the family said they wanted \"a homicide investigation into the death from the outset\" and they do not want \"any delay as has happened in other fatal shootings\".\n\n\"We are devastated; we need answers and we need accountability. We are worried that if Chris had not been black, he would have been arrested on Monday evening and not had his life cut short,\" the statement added.\n\nChris Kaba, known as Madix or Mad Itch 67, was a 24-year-old drill rapper\n\nThe Met Police said it understood the incident was \"extremely concerning to the local community\".\n\nCommander Alexis Boon, from the Met, said: \"I understand that this incident is extremely concerning and I would like to reassure the community that the Met is co-operating fully with the IOPC as they carry out a thorough and independent investigation.\"\n\nIn a tweet, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said his thoughts were with \"all those affected by this awful incident\".\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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End of twitter post by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem, said: \"We recognise that there is community concern following this incident and we appreciate that questions will remain around how Mr Kaba tragically ended up being fatally shot following an attempted vehicle stop.\n\n\"We are working hard to piece together all of the circumstances and we want to reassure the community that these questions will be answered in due course.\n\n\"However, it will take some time before our investigation is able to uncover all of the facts.\"\n\nPolice say the chase ended in Kirkstall Gardens\n\nThe pastor of a church which Mr Kaba attended as a child said there were discussions in the community about organising a vigil.\n\nReverend Siaa-Liane Mathurin, of New Park Road Baptist Church, said: \"Chris came to the church when he was little. He was from round here, he lived just over the road.\n\n\"The community are scared. I've had young people come to me asking 'why did they shoot him?' There are families who didn't send their kids to school today.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination, which will determine a provisional cause of death, is set to take place.", "Chris Kaba died in hospital about two hours after he was shot\n\nA man shot dead by police after a chase in south London has been named locally as 23-year-old rapper Chris Kaba.\n\nMr Kaba was shot after a pursuit of a \"suspect vehicle\" that ended in Kirkstall Gardens, Streatham Hill, at about 21:50 BST on Monday.\n\nPastor Rachel Swaby said Mr Kaba was a rapper known as Madix and part of the MOBO-nominated drill group 67.\n\nKim Alleyne, 49, whose daughter Karima Waite was engaged to Mr Kaba, said he had been due to become a father.\n\nShe said: \"He was so loved. He was so funny. He was super-kind. Crazy. He was always happy. He'd do anything for you.\"\n\nKimberly Alleyne, right, said Mr Kaba was expecting a child with her daughter\n\nShe added: \"He was a fiancé, he was due to get married in five months' time. He's got a baby on the way that he's never going to see.\n\n\"It's horrible and so shocking and so sad.\"\n\nShe questioned why Mr Kaba was shot, adding that her daughter was \"in a tremendous amount of pain\". Ms Alleyne said had her daughter's fiancé been white he would have been given \"a chance to get out the car\".\n\nMs Swaby, a pastor at New Park Road Baptist Church, told the BBC she felt \"physically sick\" learning about the death of Mr Kaba.\n\nShe said: \"He was a young person in the community, obviously a talented rapper.\n\n\"He had a young family on the way and it just feels like his life has been cut short for no reason... I think something needs to be done to hold police to account.\"\n\nPeople laid floral tributes at the scene of the shooting\n\nMr Kaba's cousin Jefferson Bosela, 27, described the rapper as a \"loving, good person\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"I've put it out there he wasn't perfect… but regardless of that nobody deserves to be killed by the police unless there is an imminent or direct threat to the public, which at that moment in time, from what I'm hearing, he was not.\"\n\nDuring the chase, police used a tactic where they collided with the car they were pursuing to force it to stop.\n\nLocals said they heard gunshots and a police helicopter hovering overhead.\n\nA man, who lives on nearby New Park Road and wanted to remain anonymous, said: \"The bang was really loud. I was in my house with my gaming headphones on and I heard it.\"\n\nAnother man, who lives in Kirkstall Road and asked not to be named, said: \"I heard what sounded like one or two gunshots and then a lot of commotion.\"\n\nMr Kaba died in hospital about two hours after he was shot.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has started an investigation\n\nBell Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Streatham, said tensions were rising in the area following the shooting and called for police to release more information about what happened.\n\n\"People are drawing their own conclusions,\" the Labour politician said.\n\n\"They're looking back at what happened with Mark Duggan, looking back to 2011, and again looking back at the time when we don't get the information that we need about an incident on the basis that it's being investigated.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has opened an investigation, as is standard after a police shooting.\n\nThe independent body, which oversees police complaints in England and Wales, confirmed one shot was fired from a police issue firearm.\n\nIOPC investigators said they were examining police footage and CCTV from the area, as well as carrying out house-to-house inquiries.\n\nSal Naseem, IOPC London regional director, said: \"When the police use fatal force it is important that there is a robust, independent investigation to establish all of the circumstances surrounding what happened.\n\n\"It is natural that the community wants answers quickly but I would ask that people refrain from speculation that may be unhelpful to all of those affected.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination, which will determine a provisional cause of death, is set to take place.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed calls by the UN nuclear agency for a safety protection zone at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.\n\nThe plant has been occupied by Russia since the start of the war and it has come under repeated attack since, with both sides blaming each other.\n\nThe UN says that the shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power station must end immediately.\n\nShelling could cause unlimited release of radioactive materials, it said.\n\nIn a report published on Tuesday, following last week's much-awaited visit, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that the presence of Russian military equipment on site could undermine its security.\n\nShelling continued while a 14-strong IAEA team visited the site last week and its head, Rafael Grossi, warned at the time of a very real risk of nuclear disaster. Although most of the team left the plant after two days, it said two of its officials would remain there on a permanent basis.\n\nMr Zelensky said he would support the safety zone if it aimed to demilitarise the territory of the nuclear plant. Mr Zelensky said the report noted the presence of Russian military hardware on the territory of the plant and referred to pressure on employees, alongside \"clear references to the Russian military occupation\".\n\nThe plant lies on the southern bank of the River Dnieper, across the water from Ukrainian-held towns and military positions.\n\nOn Tuesday, Russia accused Kyiv of hitting the area three times in 24 hours. Ukraine says Russian forces have used the plant as a shield from which to fire on nearby cities, although Russia insists it is guarding the site.\n\nIn its report, the nuclear agency highlighted the \"extremely stressful conditions\" facing the 907 Ukrainian staff working there under Russian military control.\n\nHowever, the IAEA is careful not to apportion blame to either side.\n\nThe IAEA detailed the damage to the plant and said that while continued shelling had not yet triggered a nuclear emergency, it did present a constant threat to safety that \"may lead to radiological consequences with great safety significance\".\n\nThere was an urgent need for \"interim measures\" to prevent a nuclear accident caused by military action, it added, saying all relevant parties would have to agree to a \"nuclear safety and security protection zone\" being set up to avoid further damage.\n\nThe UN Security Council held an emergency meeting after the publication of the IAEA's report to discuss the situation in Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said \"as a first step, Russian and Ukrainian forces must commit not to engage in any military activity towards the plant site or from the plant site\".\n\nIn an eventful day for British politics, the UK's new prime minister, Liz Truss, spoke to Mr Zelensky about the war in Ukraine, among other mutual concerns.\n\nThe UK has been a firm supporter of Ukraine since the beginning of the war.", "As Liz Truss traversed the UK racking up the votes to defeat Rishi Sunak, in the same towns where she wooed the membership hustings, including in leafy apparently affluent areas, the size of the challenge she was vying to inherit was getting notably worse.\n\nThe situation on the ground has deteriorated for ordinary households and businesses, as prices continued to surge yet higher. And at the same time there has been an ominous turn in the markets for British government borrowing and in currency markets.\n\nThe combination of these two changes alter the reality of the situation she now takes on as prime minister. The question is how much it changes the immediate solutions she has promised as campaigner.\n\nFrom Durham to Derbyshire and Stoke-on-Trent and beyond, the stories we have reported on in many local communities show the real life depths of this cost of living crisis, even at current energy prices.\n\nThe surge in food prices is breaking the charitable model of food banks and food pantries that have emerged in almost every town and city.\n\nNot only has demand surged, turning many of last year's food charity donors into recipients of support, but supplies are now a problem.\n\nMany of these projects are reliant on surplus food stocks from supermarket supply chains. But supermarkets facing massive inflationary pressures, trying to avoid passing on all of those price hikes to consumers, have been trimming surplus stock, meaning there is less tinned goods available for donations.\n\nDemand up hugely, at a time when supply is a problem. This is just one manifestation of out-of-control inflation.\n\nJo Yendole from Stone Community hub says some people have stopped using hot water\n\nWe visited a facility in Stone, Staffordshire. Jo Yendole who helps run Stone Community hub said: \"One of the guys who's on licence from prison, sort of struggling to maintain his flat and the cost of his flat actually said he would prefer to go back to prison because it was easier because he just couldn't see how we were going to afford to live.\n\n\"And another lady who she was she's talking about the cost of gas and an energy prices said she'd completely turned her boiler off and wasn't using any hot water and was boiling a kettle. The gas price is not even affordable in the summer for her\".\n\nAt a pantry in Matlock, Derbyshire, which offers subsidised food at about a tenth of supermarket prices, Beverley Parker from Rural Action Derbyshire told me people were returning fresh food, because they could not afford refrigeration costs.\n\n\"We've heard of people switching off their fridges and freezers because they can't afford the electricity. You're risking your own health and that of your family, by eating food that hasn't been stored correctly.\n\n\"A lot of people are choosing to either get rid of their cars or not use them. Public transport in the countryside is limited at best. So we've we've even heard of people walking six miles from the food bank, and then six miles back home, because they can't afford the bus fare.\"\n\nAt another community hub in Peterlee, County Durham, I met dual-income working families who had started to grow their own vegetables and heard the co-ordinators tell of clients pre-emptively cancelling energy bill direct debits. Much of this happened even before the move in prices up to £3,549.\n\nWhile the energy companies have tried to pre-empt the arrival of Liz Truss with a ready to go plan to cancel the rise in the energy cap, that might not require upfront borrowing, there are still huge amounts of support being relied upon, even at existing bills.\n\nOne energy company boss, former government fuel poverty tsar Derek Lickorish who is chairman of Utilita, told me the reality for the poorest customers. A typical £50 on prepayment meters which would ordinarily last 12 days in winter, might only last two days from January.\n\n\"Liz Truss has said that she intends to solve this problem, and I welcome that. This is a war footing to my mind. It will affect government borrowing.\n\n\"If we don't, we're going to have major problems with customers having unaffordable bills. There'll be huge mental health problems, we will see businesses going broke, we'll see people losing their jobs and they want to have disposable income to spend with businesses. It really is Armageddon, if we don't deal with this, and that's what we've got to get on with it\".\n\nSo as we head towards some version of the energy companies tariff deficit fund being announced imminently by the new prime minister, she faces further pressure from the markets.\n\nThe dollar has been strong as the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, has indicated a sharper rise in interest rates. But sterling has fallen notably against the dollar and the euro.\n\nLong-term borrowing costs for the government have topped 3%, setting the floor for borrowing for mortgages and for businesses.\n\nThe government will have to work closely with the Bank of England\n\nThese are jitters rather than a crisis. In that context it was notable to see both Ms Truss and her likely Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, row back from her early campaign rhetoric criticising the Bank of England.\n\nThe government and Bank will need to work very closely together in the coming months.\n\nAn important difference with the pandemic bailout is there can be no expectation that the Bank will buy up most of the issuance of extra government borrowing. The Bank has already indicated it will do the opposite soon as part of \"reverse QE\". If the government needs to borrow more, it will have to find buyers for the debt among pension funds, insurers and foreign buyers, and pay a high price.\n\nIf the PM wants to abide by her campaign promises to make tens of billions of tax cuts, and help launch an energy bailout for both households and businesses, at a time when energy prices in markets could go yet higher, borrowing will have to go up in the first instance.\n\nBut if she does not help both sectors, disposable income will drain from the economy, and many small businesses will simply go bust, hiking up unemployment too.\n\nThe new prime minister already faced a very tricky balancing act between inflation and recession. The past month means the room for manoeuvre has got even smaller. Given this hand, Rishi Sunak may not end up regretting his loss.", "The scene at the corner of Ormeau Road and St Jude's Parade in south Belfast on Wednesday evening\n\nPolice are investigating reports that a man armed with a crossbow was seen in south Belfast.\n\nOfficers are combing St Jude's Parade, a quiet residential street just off the Ormeau Road, after a claim that a crossbow bolt had been fired from the roof of an apartment building.\n\nA cyclist who is understood to have been passing by at the time was not injured.\n\nEyewitnesses said a man was detained by police at the scene and taken away.", "Energy bills have been rising for households across Europe as prices have been driven up by worries about gas and oil supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIndividual countries, and the European Union (EU), have announced support schemes for consumers.\n\nIn 2021, the EU imported 40% of its gas from Russia - so many of its member states are exposed to high energy prices.\n\nIn response, the EU is introducing:\n\nIt includes a cap on gas and electricity prices for households and some businesses from early next year.\n\nThe government will pay December's monthly gas bill for all households and small-to-medium businesses.\n\nIn September and October, all taxpayers received a one-off energy payment €300. There has been extra help for people on benefits.\n\nGermany is trying to cut energy consumption by:\n\nA windfall tax on energy companies will be applied from December 2022 to the end of June 2023.\n\nIn January, the government forced the state-owned energy provider, Électricité de France (EDF), to cap price rises at 4% for a year.\n\nIt says it will cap rises in gas and electricity at 15% for 2023, as part of a €45bn (£39bn) scheme to support households and businesses.\n\nFrance had already announced a one-off €100 (£84) payment last year to 5.8 million households receiving energy vouchers.\n\nThe government plans to reduce energy consumption by 10% by:\n\nThe government is planning a windfall tax on energy companies in the 2023 budget.\n\nFrance is cutting the temperature in public swimming polls by 1C\n\nItaly is expecting to spend about €49.5bn (£42bn).\n\nIts measures include a €200 (£169) one-off payment to people earning €35,000 (£29,600) a year or less, and a 20% tax credit for all energy-intensive companies experiencing a 30% rise in prices.\n\nThe Italian government is also trying to reduce gas consumption by:\n\nThe government is planning a windfall tax on energy companies in 2023.\n\nSince November, electricity and gas prices for households have been capped at January 2022 levels - up to a certain amount of consumption. Any extra use will be charged at market rates.\n\nThe government is also offering a discount of €190 on energy bills in November and December to all households.\n\nThere is a one-off energy allowance of €1,300 to those on lower incomes.\n\nVAT on energy bills and tax on petrol and diesel have also been cut.\n\nThe Dutch government is also introducing:\n\nIt is expecting to spend €15.5bn (£13.5bn) on these measures.\n\nThe Dutch government is advising households and business to cut consumption, including by turning down heating by 1C.\n\nThe government is planning a windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nSpain has cut VAT on energy bills and reduced tax on electricity.\n\nSpain and Portugal have introduced a price cap for gas - which will last for one year and aims to halve gas bills for 40% of customers in the two countries.\n\nThere is also a one-off payment of €200 euros for people in Spain who earn less than €14,000 a year and are not already receiving benefits.\n\nSpain's measures are expected to cost about €27bn (£23bn).\n\nThe government has an energy-saving plan which includes limiting air conditioning in public buildings and shops in the summer and keeping heating to 19C in the winter.\n\nIt wants shops to close their doors when the heating is on and says they should switch off lights after 22:00.\n\nThe government is introducing a windfall tax on energy companies and banks over the next two years.\n\nIt has announced plans for an energy price support package for households, worth 26.8bn zlotys (£4.8bn).\n\nIt incudes freezing energy prices for 2023 at this year's level, with a limit of 2,000 kWh per year for most households.\n\nThere will be higher thresholds for households with people with disabilities and for families with three or more children.\n\nThe government has abolished VAT on food, gas and fertilizer and reduced it on petrol, diesel and energy bills.\n\nThere is also a new mandatory 10% electricity saving for national and local government public administrations.\n\nHouseholds that reduce electricity use by 10% in 2023 compared with 2022, will be rewarded with an additional discount.\n\nNorway has set a maximum price that households should pay for their energy - anything over this, the government will pay 80% of the bill.\n\nA new package of loans and subsidies for businesses was announced in September. This will cover companies that spend more than 3% of revenue on power costs.\n\nThe government has also proposed new taxes on onshore wind and hydropower energy, to redistribute some of the huge increase in profits over the past year.\n\nThe UK government has brought in a cap on the price of a unit of energy until April 2023, which will mean the typical household bill for gas and electricity will be £2,500 a year.\n\nThis is being extended to April 2024, but typical bills will be capped at £3,000 a year.\n\nThere will be more support for those on benefits and for pensions households.\n\nThe government brought in a windfall tax on UK oil and gas firms' profits which is expected to raise £5bn a year. This is being increased and extended.\n\nPreviously, the government introduced an energy bill discount of £400 for every household with some extra support for people on benefits.\n\nThe UK government launched a public information campaign on how to save energy in November, which was later than other countries in Europe.", "Prime Minister Liz Truss is understood to be planning to borrow billions to limit the expected sharp rise in energy bills for households and firms.\n\nIt is understood that a typical energy bill could be capped at around £2,500 with full details expected on Thursday.\n\nCurrently, a typical household's gas and electricity bill is due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 in October.\n\nThe government's plans to subsidise bills means that customers will not be expected to repay the support.\n\nIt is unclear how long the government support will last, but the overall government support package is expected to total around £100bn.\n\nThe ultimate figure will depend on gas and energy price movements in the highly volatile international energy markets as well as how much additional support is offered to the most vulnerable.\n\nMs Truss has pledged to \"deliver on the energy crisis\" - with details expected to be announced on Thursday.\n\nEnergy bosses have insisted for some time that a government-backed superfund from which they could borrow to subsidise bills \"is the only game in town\".\n\nHowever, the government is understood to be reluctant to see money added to customer bills for up to 20 years so energy companies could pay back the loans.\n\nIt is also thought to be reluctant to add the cost to general taxation, given their pledges to be a tax cutting government.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng - tipped to be the new chancellor - has already indicated the government is prepared to borrow to support the economy.\n\nThis would be consistent with Ms Truss' position that the UK needs to break free of the Treasury's strict spending rules.\n\nNevertheless, the estimated £100bn is a sizeable sum to borrow at the same time as cutting taxes and boosting spending on defence and it could end up costing more than that, given the fluctuating price of wholesale gas.\n\n\"One of the dangers here is that it could even be more expensive than £100bn,\" said Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, contrasting it with the Covid-prompted furlough scheme, which cost £60bn-£70bn.\n\n\"There has to be a risk that energy prices stay high for a long time, perhaps even up to three or four years,\" he said. \"Then this starts being baked into public spending long-term.\"\n\nThe cost of UK government borrowing hit its highest level for eight years on Tuesday, with the yield on ten-year bonds rising above 3%. That reflects the market's expectation that the government will have to borrow more and means any future borrowing will be more expensive.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan to borrow to support energy bills was only one you would adopt \"if you can't think of anything else\" because it amounted to subsidising everybody's gas use, when the higher price suggested there was not enough gas available. That could lead to rationing, he suggested, and would mean high-income households would benefit by a much larger amount than those at the lower end.\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Get in touch.\n\nGovernment sources say that over time, new energy supply measures - such as cutting the link between renewable sources and the gas price - will lower costs while a growing economy will shrink the proportion of overall debt to the size of the economy.\n\nBusinesses are also expected to be offered some relief in the plan set to be announced on Thursday.\n\nUnlike households, businesses are not protected by an energy price cap. Many fixed-rate deals for business expire this October, exposing thousands of firms to full costs that could rise by four or five times or more. Thousands would go bust or cut their wage bills by firing staff.\n\nThe precise mechanism to help business may be more complicated and would be reviewed more frequently but reports suggest it could see the government mandate energy firms to offer specific reductions on the unit price of the energy businesses use.\n\nIncluding businesses could easily push the cost of the government's energy plan over £100bn.\n\nAlex Veitch of the British Chambers of Commerce said: \"It is encouraging that the government is seriously considering the support it can give to businesses during these very difficult times.\n\n\"But it remains to be seen whether these plans will go far enough in offering the help that many firms so desperately need.\"\n\nCraig Beaumont from the Federation of Small Businesses said: \"This commitment looks very promising, and arguably the best reassurance that small businesses need that some form of help with bills will follow - not just for households.\n\n\"The scope and reach of the help is going to be absolutely crucial to save hundreds of thousands of small businesses this winter.\"", "The body of a captured British man who died in detention has been returned by Russia with signs of \"possible unspeakable torture,\" Ukraine says.\n\nPaul Urey, aged 45, is reported to have died in detention in July after being captured by pro-Russian separatists.\n\nHe was being held captive in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) breakaway region of Ukraine.\n\nThe UK has previously described Mr Urey as an aid worker and said Russia must face responsibility for his death.\n\nUkraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said \"Russians\" had now returned his body with \"signs of possible unspeakable torture,\" giving no further details.\n\nHe went on to condemn the detention and torture of civilians as a war crime, vowing to \"identify perpetrators of this crime and hold them to account\".\n\nMr Urey, from Warrington, Cheshire, was detained at a checkpoint near the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia in April and accused of being a mercenary.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the reports of his death, Mr Urey's mother said she had been \"so upset\" when she heard of her son's plans to go to Ukraine.\n\n\"Part of me thinks maybe he just, because of how ill he was, maybe he wanted to go and die there doing something,\" she said.\n\nIf proven, evidence of torture could potentially contradict earlier claims by Russian-backed officials that Mr Urey died in captivity on 10 July as a result of underlying health conditions and \"stress.\"\n\n\"He died of acute coronary insufficiency aggravated by pulmonary and brain edema,\" Russian state news agency Tass quoted one official, Natalya Nikonorova, as saying at the time.\n\nHe was also in a \"depressed psychological state due to indifference to his fate in his homeland\", another official claimed.\n\nIn July the UK Foreign Office summoned the Russian ambassador over reports of Mr Urey's death in detention, for which it said Russia must bear full responsibility.\n\nLiz Truss, who was then foreign secretary and is now prime minister, said he had been captured while undertaking humanitarian work.\n\n\"He was in Ukraine to try and help the Ukrainian people in the face of the unprovoked Russian invasion,\" she said.", "Ashley Wadsworth died from stab wounds to the chest\n\nJack Sepple, 23, killed Ashley Wadsworth at a house in Tennyson Road, Chelmsford, Essex, on 1 February.\n\nMs Wadsworth, from Vernon in British Columbia, had died from stab wounds to the chest, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.\n\nSepple was remanded in custody until sentencing in court at a date to be fixed.\n\nIn a brief hearing, Sepple, of Tennyson Road, admitted killing her after his barrister, Christopher Paxton QC, said a psychiatrist had indicated that the defendant was fit to plead.\n\nJudge Christopher Morgan told Sepple: \"By your plea of guilty to murder there's only one sentence that can be passed and that's a life sentence.\"\n\nHe remanded the defendant in custody until a date to be fixed, when he will be sentenced.\n\nMs Wadsworth had written on Facebook that she had moved to Chelmsford in November.\n\nMs Wadsworth was pronounced dead at the address on Tennyson Road\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\nWater levels in Pakistan's biggest lake are starting to recede, officials say, after last-ditch attempts to prevent it from bursting its banks.\n\nManchar Lake, in Sindh province, is dangerously full after record monsoons that inundated swathes of Pakistan.\n\nIts banks were deliberately breached to protect surrounding areas and more than 100,000 people have been displaced.\n\nTeams are racing to rescue thousands still stranded in Pakistan's worst climate-induced disaster in years.\n\n\"We see the water is now starting to come down,\" provincial minister Jam Khan Shoro told the BBC. \"If we didn't make the breaches, several towns with big populations would have been destroyed and many more people in danger.\"\n\nFloods in Pakistan have affected some 33 million people and caused at least 1,343 deaths, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Agency said.\n\nOfficials have said a little over a quarter of a million people are in shelters, a fraction of those who need help.\n\nDamaged infrastructure is also hampering aid and rescue operations, which cannot keep pace with demand. Some connecting roads in Sindh province have either collapsed, are flooded or are backed up for days with queuing traffic.\n\nManchar Lake straddles two districts - Jamshoro and Dadu - with an urban population of more than 1 million.\n\nTowns that became virtual islands - Mehar (pictured here) west of Lake Manchar, and Johi to the north-east\n\nJohi, a town near the lake, has been surrounded by water and now resembles an island. Its residents have built an improvised dyke to slow down water coming into the area, as they did during floods in 2010. Authorities told the BBC they do not know yet if the measure will work this time.\n\nMeanwhile, the UN children's agency Unicef has said more children are at risk of dying from disease in Pakistan because of the shortage of clean water.\n\nThis year's floods - Pakistan's worst climate-induced natural disaster in years - have been caused by record torrential rainfall and melting glaciers in the country's northern mountains.\n\nPakistan's climate change minister, Sherry Rehman, told the BBC that richer countries needed to do more to help poorer countries faced with the devastation caused by climate change.\n\n\"Richer countries have got rich on the back of fossil fuels… and have been burning their way to kingdom come,\" she said in an interview with BBC News.\n\nThe disaster has highlighted the stark disparity between countries that are the largest contributors towards climate change and countries that bear the brunt of its impact. Pakistan produces less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions but its geography makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change.\n\nLow-emission countries like Pakistan, Ms Rehman said, \"are now feeling the heat - quite literally of other people's development and greed\".\n\n\"We have made an appeal to the developed world that this is the time to actually do more.\"\n\nShe acknowledged flood aid from countries including the US, Qatar, Turkey - but said international support would be needed to help make Pakistan's infrastructure climate resilient.\n\n\"We neither have the money or the technical capacity.\"", "Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor and replaced by Jeremy Hunt after his mini-budget resulted in financial turbulence and a revolt from Tory MPs.\n\nHe has become Britain's second shortest-serving chancellor, lasting just 38 days in the role.\n\nThe long-time ally of Prime Minister Liz Truss, seen as her political soulmate, was appointed to the role on 6 September.\n\nSpeaking before Mr Kwarteng became chancellor, one friend told the Times that he and Ms Truss were a bit like \"Batman and Robin\", adding: \"They are both slight social misfits, amiable geeks, and have strong views which are in tune with each other.\"\n\nHe took over at Number 11 Downing Street at a critical time for the UK economy, with millions looking to him for help with soaring winter energy bills.\n\nAn Old Etonian who became the first black Conservative cabinet minister in 2021, he read classics and history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has a PhD in economic history. He is also a past winner of notoriously tough BBC quiz show University Challenge.\n\nFamily: Married to solicitor Harriet Edwards with one daughter\n\nMr Kwarteng's parents came to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960s. He was born in East London in 1975, the same year as Ms Truss.\n\nHis economist father and barrister mother gave him a traditional Ashanti first name, meaning \"born on Sunday\", when he was actually born on a Monday. He told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast his parents stayed silent on the matter when he jokingly pulled them up on it.\n\nThe Church was a strong part of his mother's life and she was a lifelong Conservative voter.\n\nHe was just three years old when Margaret Thatcher came to power, and she would remain prime minister until his GCSE year. He has said in the past that his mother deeply admired Mrs Thatcher as someone \"who wanted to rely on their own efforts\" and has described himself as a \"pragmatic Thatcherite\".\n\nHe attended the exclusive private school Eton College after winning a scholarship there, and went on to graduate with a double first from Cambridge University in classics and history.\n\nOne well-known anecdote about the young Kwasi Kwarteng harks back to his admissions interview for Trinity College. The self-confident 17-year-old told the tutor, who had arrived late and hadn't conducted many of these interviews before: \"Don't worry, sir - I'm sure you'll do very well.\"\n\nHe was part of the Cambridge team which won University Challenge in 1995, although he generated headlines for uttering a swearword after he buzzed in and forgot the answer to a question.\n\nHe has since questioned how much being good at quizzes \"relates to anything in what people call 'real life'\".\n\nKwasi Kwarteng appeared in the winning team for Trinity College, Cambridge, on University Challenge in 1994-95\n\nHe attended Harvard University in the United States on a Kennedy Scholarship, before returning to the University of Cambridge to complete a PhD in economic history in 2000.\n\nDuring his second stint at the university, Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now head of the V&A Museum, joked that then roommate Mr Kwarteng was \"quite ungovernable and dishevelled\".\n\nHe worked as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and a financial analyst at banks including JP Morgan in the City of London and got involved in Conservative politics as chairman of the Bow Group think tank.\n\nHe has remarked that \"politics was always something I was drawn to\", and he made his first attempt to become an MP in 2005. He stood as the Conservative candidate for Brent East at the general election, but came third. There was also an unsuccessful run for the London Assembly in 2008.\n\nHowever, he became part of the \"class of 2010\", a cohort of politicians entering Westminster for the first time that year. He was elected as MP for Spelthorne in Surrey and entered Parliament the same time as future colleagues Ms Truss, Priti Patel and Sajid Javid.\n\nHis maiden speech in the House of Commons came with some comments he described as \"controversial\", when he used the opportunity to criticise the former Labour government led by Gordon Brown and how it tackled the 2008 financial crisis.\n\n\"They have not once accepted any blame for what happened and they seem to think that we can just sail on as before,\" he said, also setting out the view that \"wealth creation is the most important element in getting us out of this recession\".\n\nAlthough Mr Kwarteng was tipped to become the Conservatives' first black cabinet member as early as 2006, he spent eight years as a constituency MP before he became a minister.\n\nHe backed Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and in 2017 became a ministerial aide to the then Chancellor Philip Hammond, before becoming a junior minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union.\n\nMr Kwarteng also co-authored the book Britannia Unchained with several Tory MPs, including Ms Truss. In the 2012 text, they claimed: \"Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.\" He has since distanced himself from this view.\n\nMr Kwarteng has used his spare time to write several books and pamphlets on topics from Mrs Thatcher's final six months in office to the British Empire and its legacy.\n\nHe has argued that \"the debate around Black Lives Matter and imperialism or colonialism has a cartoon-like view of history\", and has said he thinks that view is true on both sides of the issue.\n\nMr Kwarteng was a supporter of Boris Johnson who put him on the ministerial fast-track as energy minister in 2019.\n\nHe worked there for more than a year before becoming business secretary 18 months later.\n\nThe ascent has been described as a \"reward\" for his backing of Mr Johnson during the race for party leadership.\n\nThe realities of the pandemic and the soaring cost of energy, however, meant that his views on state intervention in industry moderated.\n\n\"There's nothing [better] to convert someone from being a radical free marketeer to seeing the virtues of government action than making them an energy minister,\" he said at a 2019 Conservative party conference event.\n\nThat same year, he married solicitor Harriet Edwards, having previously dated former Home Secretary Amber Rudd.\n\nHis political partnership with Ms Truss, a fellow member of the 2010 intake of MPs, paid dividends when she asked her close ally to serve as chancellor.\n\nBut the mini-budget he unveiled on 23 September spooked financial markets and prompted a drop in the value of the pound.\n\nAmid warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of England stepped in to buy government bonds in a bid to stabilise their value.\n\nThe chancellor said he had listened to criticism - including from within his party - and there was a U-turn on a plan to abolish the 45p rate of income tax for top earners.\n\nBut market turbulence continued, causing speculation that the government would announce a further reversal on its tax-cutting plans.\n\nThe day before his ejection from Number 11 Downing Street, Mr Kwarteng said \"our position hasn't changed\" - and that he would \"absolutely\" still be in his job a month later.", "Olivia died after being shot by a gunman chasing a man into her home\n\nA man who was arrested on suspicion of the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool has been released on conditional bail.\n\nPolice were given extra time to question the man, 34, who was also arrested on suspicion of attempted murder on Sunday.\n\nOlivia was shot when a gunman chased another man into her home in Dovecot.\n\nThree other men, aged 29, 34 and 41, held on suspicion of assisting an offender have also been bailed.\n\nThe schoolgirl was shot in the chest after convicted burglar Joseph Nee, who was being chased by a gunman, ran into her home on 22 August.\n\nHer mother, Cheryl Korbel, was injured as she tried to the shut the door but the attacker fired more shots.\n\nNeither of the men who entered the home had any links to the family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Pratt-Korbel is described by her mother as \"her little shadow\"\n\nMerseyside Police appealed for information from the public and said the investigation was \"ongoing\", adding that detectives needed to \"build up a strong evidential picture\".\n\nMs Korbel, who was shot in the wrist, has called on those responsible for her daughter's murder to come forward.\n\nSpeaking in a video appeal she said: \"You know you've done wrong, so you need to own up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The family of Olivia released a video of her at a Christmas market\n\nOlivia's father, John Francis Pratt, said his daughter's death could not be in vain as he remembered her as a \"real bright spark who loved to laugh\".\n\nThe schoolgirl's death was one of three fatal shootings within a week in the city.\n\nLeaders in Merseyside released an open letter on Tuesday calling for \"no more violence, no more turning a blind eye and no more innocent lives ruined\".\n\nThe joint statement from Liverpool City Region leaders said the deaths of \"three innocent victims\" - Olivia, Ashley Dale and Sam Rimmer, had to \"represent a line in the sand\".\n\nA tribute was paid to Olivia on the big screen at Goodison Park on Saturday\n\nDuring the opening of Olivia's inquest, Liverpool Senior Coroner Andre Rebello said armed response officers found her with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\nHe said a police officer had \"scooped\" her up and ran with her to try to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nBut she was pronounced dead in hospital a short time later.\n\nDetectives have praised the community response and said dashcam footage, CCTV and other pieces of intelligence had been submitted by members of the public.\n\nMerseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Chris Green said the community had \"stood strong and stepped forward\".\n\nHe vowed that \"together we'll identify those responsible\".\n\nPolice had previously arrested two other men, aged 33 and 36, on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder before releasing them on bail.\n\nA minute's applause was held nine minutes into the Everton v Liverpool game on Saturday in memory of Olivia and an anti-knife and gun crime banner was unfurled across both sets of supporters.\n\nOlivia's funeral is due to take place at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot on 15 September and her family has asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" for the service.\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.", "Holiday Inn owner, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), has confirmed the company has been hit by a cyber-attack.\n\nIHG, which has some of the world's largest hotel chains, issued a statement saying it was investigating \"unauthorised access\" to a number of its technology systems.\n\nThe UK-based company said its \"booking channels and other applications\" had been disrupted since Monday.\n\nIt manages the Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Regent hotels.\n\n\"IHG is working to fully restore all systems as soon as possible,\" the company said.\n\nIHG confirmed it was assessing the nature, extent and impact of the incident and had implemented its response plans, including appointing external specialists to investigate the breach.\n\nThe company is also in the process of notifying regulatory authorities.\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"We will be supporting hotel owners and operators as part of our response to the ongoing service disruption. IHG's hotels are still able to operate and to take reservations directly.\"\n\nBut many people trying to book accommodation have been complaining.\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 Kim Sweat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis 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\nIHG did not say there had been any loss of customer data.\n\nIt also did not specifically say it was a ransomware attack, but most of the speculation points in that direction.\n\nLast month, a Holiday Inn in Istanbul was breached by LockBit, which released data stolen from the company.\n\nIt is not known if there is a connection between the attacks.\n\nThe hotel chain was also the target of a three-month security breach in 2017 when more than 1,200 of its franchised hotels in the US were affected.\n\nThe hack comes amid increased scrutiny on appropriate defences against cyber-attacks, particularly on Western financial institutions, in the wake of heightened geopolitical tensions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine early this year.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea have sacked manager Thomas Tuchel on the new owners' 100th day in charge after their third defeat of the season.\n\nThe former Borussia Dortmund and Paris St-Germain boss exits after winning three trophies in 20 months.\n\nOwner Todd Boehly has placed Tuchel's coaching staff in temporary charge until a replacement is found.\n\nA club statement said the owners believed it was \"the right time\" to bring in a new head coach.\n\nBBC Sport understands the decision would have been taken regardless of the 1-0 defeat in Chelsea's Champions League opener at Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday night.\n\nIt is also understood that Chelsea will make a swift appointment and among the bookmakers' favourites to take over are Brighton manager Graham Potter, former Spurs and PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino, former Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane and current Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers.\n\nChelsea are sixth in the Premier League after three wins, one draw and two defeats.\n\nTheir new ownership oversaw a £255.3m spending spree in the summer window, thought to be a British record, bringing in eight new players.\n• None Get all the latest reaction, analysis and fan views on Tuchel's sacking in one place\n• None You can now get Chelsea news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n\nBut despite the outlay, the club's form had been patchy and Tuchel was critical of his players on occasion, as well as being fined twice for his behaviour already this season.\n\nIt is believed that Tuchel - who led Chelsea to the Champions League title in his first season - had lost the confidence of the squad and the board in recent times, and had become less communicative with both groups.\n\n\"As the new ownership group reaches 100 days since taking over the club, and as it continues its hard work to take the club forward, the new owners believe it is the right time to make this transition,\" a club statement said.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone at Chelsea FC, the club would like to place on record its gratitude to Thomas and his staff for all their efforts during their time with the club. Thomas will rightly have a place in Chelsea's history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup in his time here.\"\n\nBBC Sport also understands that Chelsea will now look for a long-term manager who shares their vision for a collaborative culture and focus on development of all players in the squad.\n\nNew signings - including the deadline day deal for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Barcelona - were down to collaboration of the board and Tuchel, and it is said he became less involved as time went on.\n\nTuchel was appointed on 26 January 2021, replacing Frank Lampard, and guided the club to their second Champions League title just four months later.\n\nHe went on to add the Uefa Super Cup and Fifa Club World Cup later that year.\n• None Go straight to all the best Chelsea content\n• None Clashes with Tottenham boss Antonio Conte in the 2-2 draw with Tottenham -\n• None with Chelsea over a contract extension, saying: \"You know how glad I am to be here.\"\n• None Further fine for comments about referee Anthony Taylor and\n• None Said he was \"angry at myself and the team\" and that\n\nSacking Tuchel might come as a surprise to many, but his touchline behaviour has been indicative of a wider malaise at the club under his tutelage.\n\nHe was tetchy on the pre-season tour in Los Angeles and critical of his players after their United States friendlies. That was repeated after the Dinamo Zagreb defeat where he complained about a lack of intensity from them.\n\nIn the last 16 Premier League games, from April to the start of this season, Tuchel's win percentage had dropped to 44%.\n\nDuring that same period, Chelsea are eighth in the Premier League form table - behind Brighton, Brentford and Newcastle.\n\nNow we are told that he had lost the confidence of his players - which could explain a perceived lack of hunger - and critically, the board. Even though Chelsea have been renowned for their 'hire and fire' approach under former owner Roman Abramovich, the new American ownership, led by Boehly, has been equally decisive.\n\nQuestions will remain about whether it was a wise move to sack Tuchel after allowing him to take a key part in transfer policy, but sources have said that targets have been a result of a collaborative approach, which Tuchel slowly withdrew from.\n\nBuying into that will be key for Tuchel's replacement. Brighton manager Graham Potter has received plaudits for how he works with sporting directors and how he develops players, but there will be many coaches who will want to take over at Stamford Bridge, with the new ownership once again showing they will be aggressive in their pursuit of success.\n\nChelsea had fallen from being top of the Premier League at the start of December 2020 to eighth before Lampard's departure in January 2021 - out of the title race and in danger of missing out on a Champions League spot.\n\nTuchel drew his first match in charge, at home to Wolves, but won his next four, eventually going unbeaten in his first 13 league games - a record for a new Chelsea manager.\n\nHe secured a fourth-place finish that term, pipping Leicester to the final Champions League place on the final day despite defeat by Aston Villa.\n\nChelsea went on to beat Manchester City in the 2021 Champions League final in Porto as Tuchel repeated the feat of Roberto di Matteo, who led Chelsea to the 2012 Champions League title after taking charge midway through the season.\n\nTuchel led Chelsea through one of the most tumultuous periods in the club's history as the spotlight turned on the club's ownership by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe club was placed under government sanctions from March as a new owner was sought for the club before the £4.25bn buy-out was completed at the end of May.\n\nDespite the ongoing ownership issues, Tuchel managed to guide Chelsea to a third-placed finish in the Premier League last season, as well as the FA Cup and League Cup finals, losing both to Liverpool on penalties.\n\nThe German boss worked with Boehly to revamp the squad with a record-breaking transfer window this summer.\n\nWhile a handful of first-team regulars such as Antonio Rudiger and Timo Werner left the club, and £97.5m striker Romelu Lukaku was loaned out to Inter Milan, a raft of big-money signings arrived at Stamford Bridge.\n\nKalidou Koulibaly and Wesley Fofana were brought into defence, while Raheem Sterling bolstered the attack, along with the deadline-day signing of Aubameyang from Barcelona.\n\nAubameyang made his debut in the defeat by Zagreb, but was short of match fitness and lasted just over 50 minutes.\n\nThe potential problems behind the scenes at Chelsea surfaced in Tuchel's comments following the shock Champions League group-stage loss, as he admitted the side was \"not where we want to be\".\n\n\"We are clearly not there, where we need to be and where we can be,\" he said. \"So it's on me, it's on us, we need to find solutions.\n\n\"At the moment, everything is missing, [there is] too much to analyse. I'm a part of it.\n\n\"I am angry at myself, I am angry at our performance. I didn't see it coming. I don't know where this performance comes from.\n\n\"It's a lack of hunger, intensity, a lack of determination to win duels, to actually do things on the highest level.\"\n\nFormer England and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has said the decision to sack Tuchel was a \"massive statement\" from Boehly that \"doesn't make sense\".\n\n\"Chelsea have set their stall out now. It's a giant statement from Todd Boehly and his new regime. It leads you to the point, where will they go? Do they have someone lined up?\" Ferdinand said.\n\n\"Anybody who comes in now. You'd think it's a downgrade on Tuchel and his resume. He is a proper manager. All the players I speak to talk positively about him. He is honest and direct. He has clarity on how he wants to play. I can't understand it.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea winger Pat Nevin said \"it is a surprise but not a complete shock\" to see Tuchel leave the club.\n\n\"We liked Tuchel, as a person and as a manager,\" Nevin told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"They have been poor away from home so far this season.\n\n\"Whether or not that's because Tuchel hasn't been able to get the best out of them or if Boehly and the new owners wanted to get their own man in anyway, I'm not sure.\n\n\"They have changed a lot in 100 days after all.\"\n\nNevin thinks Boehly should look closer to home for his next appointment: \"I've often thought in times gone past there must be a possibility that Emma Hayes will get a big job. I think some people will talk about it and hope one day she does get that job. She is so good.\"\n\nMeanwhile, West Ham boss David Moyes said he was \"very surprised\" at Tuchel's sacking.\n\n\"I'm disappointed because I want managers to stay in their job,\" he said. \"It's a difficult job but I think we all understand it probably comes to us at some time.\n\n\"He is a very experienced manager, but I don't think he will be out of work long if he chooses not to be.\"\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea 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 Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "The Russian leader said Western currencies were falling while Russia was not losing anything\n\nVladimir Putin has condemned Western sanctions imposed because of Russia's war in Ukraine as a fever that poses a threat to the entire world.\n\nIn a speech to an economic forum in Vladivostok, he said Russia was coping with the West's economic \"aggression\".\n\nBut the Russian president warned the quality of life for Europeans was being sacrificed to sanctions while poorer countries were losing access to food.\n\nHe also said Europe was cheating poor countries out of Ukraine's grain.\n\nFor months Ukraine's sea ports were blockaded by Russian forces, but since exports resumed at the start of August Russia's leader asserted that only two grain ships had gone to the poorest countries including in Africa - which is not the case. He said he wanted to discuss revisiting the deal, in remarks rejected by Ukraine as groundless.\n\nRussia launched its invasion on 24 February and now occupies around a fifth of Ukrainian territory. Six months on, it has been pushed back from areas around Kyiv and the north and now faces a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the south and east.\n\nWestern nations responded to the war by imposing sanctions on a large number of Russian individuals, businesses and state-run enterprises. The European Union has sought to cut its reliance on Russian gas and oil and Moscow has shut its key Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to Germany, blaming it on technical issues.\n\nEnergy prices have soared and EU ministers meet on Friday to respond to the crisis. The Russian leader condemned one proposal for a cap on Russian gas prices as stupid.\n\nMr Putin told his audience the West was trying to impose its behaviour on other countries. Many companies had rushed to leave Russia, he said, but \"now we are seeing how production and jobs in Europe are closing one after another\". However, Russia is also feeling the pinch, with inflation rising and companies struggling to import much needed parts.\n\nThe EU has already barred direct flights from Russia and last week its 27 member states angered Moscow further by agreeing to make the process of securing a visa more laborious for Russians. A much-prized Schengen visa covering 22 EU countries is likely to become more expensive too. The three Baltic states have now gone further with a deal to bar Russians from crossing from Russia and Belarus, unless they are lorry drivers or have family and humanitarian reasons.\n\nIn an address that appeared to target Western observers as much as a domestic audience, President Putin said confidence in the dollar, euro and pound was being lost before people's eyes. Russia, meanwhile, was emerging from the war with its sovereignty strengthened: \"I am sure that we have not lost anything and we will not lose anything.\"\n\nUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia was seeking to blackmail Europe with its energy resources: \"Putin wants to ruin the stability and well-being of every household in Europe.\"\n\nTop Chinese legislator Li Zhanshu was attending the forum and the Russian president said that \"no matter how much someone would like to isolate Russia, it is impossible to do this\". Russian news agencies said President Putin would meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan next week.\n\nUntil a UN-sponsored deal was agreed aimed at lifting Russia's blockade of three Ukrainian Black Sea ports, grain exports had been reduced to a minimum. Shipments have gradually resumed and a UN-chartered ship carrying 23,000 tonnes arrived in Djibouti last week. The grain has now reached Ethiopia in 60 lorries, with the aim of feeding more than one and a half million people in a country blighted by drought and civil war.\n\nOther ships have left for Yemen and Sudan while several vessels have gone to ports in Egypt.\n\nUnder the deal all cargoes are approved by a joint centre in Turkey. The centre says two million tonnes have been authorised so far, including to Turkey and the Middle East as well as ports in the EU.\n\nBut President Putin accused many European countries of continuing to act like colonialists and he said he would propose restricting destinations for Ukrainian exports to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\n\"Not counting Turkey as a mediator country, practically all the grain taken out of Ukraine is destined not for the poorest and developing countries, but for countries of the European Union,\" the Russian leader argued.\n\nA Ukrainian presidential adviser accused him of making groundless statements, telling Reuters news agency the Russian leader was seeking to influence public opinion around the world and put pressure on the UN.", "Police in Tennessee say a body found on Monday is that of missing heiress Eliza Fletcher.\n\nThe 34-year-old mother-of-two was a teacher in the area, and the granddaughter of a local billionaire.\n\nShe was abducted while jogging early on Friday morning near the University of Memphis campus.\n\nCleotha Abston - a 38-year-old man with a previous conviction for abduction - has been charged with kidnapping and murdering Ms Fletcher.\n\nHer family issued a statement after the discovery of her body, saying they were \"heartbroken and devastated\".\n\n\"Liza was a such a joy to so many - her family, friends, colleagues, students, parents, members of her Second Presbyterian Church congregation, and everyone who knew her,\" they said.\n\n\"Now it's time to remember and celebrate how special she was and to support those who cared so much for her.\"\n\nWell-known in the community, Ms Fletcher was the granddaughter of the late Joseph Orgill III, a billionaire local hardware magnate and philanthropist. His company is now reportedly worth over $3bn (£2.6bn) and employs more than 5,000 people.\n\nMs Fletcher worked as a junior kindergarten teacher at St Mary's Episcopal School instead of for the family business.\n\nShe vanished at around 04:00 local time on Friday. CCTV footage showed a man approaching her and getting into a physical confrontation, forcing Ms Fletcher into a black SUV, according to police documents.\n\nShe was reported missing after failing to return home on Friday after her early-morning run, and her family posted a $50,000 (£43,330) reward for information.\n\nThe Memphis Police Department said officers had found a body at around 17:07 on Monday but stressed no identification had been made.\n\nSurveillance footage shows Eliza Fletcher running close to the University of Memphis campus\n\nOn Tuesday, officers said the deceased \"located yesterday in the 1600 block of Victor\" had been identified as Eliza Fletcher.\n\nAuthorities later confirmed the body had been found in the rear of a vacant duplex apartment.\n\nAt the time of the body's discovery, Cleotha Abston, who was arrested on Saturday, had been charged with aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence.\n\nAdditional charges for him have now \"been added for first-degree murder and first-degree murder in perpetration of kidnapping\", police said in the update.\n\nCleotha Abston, photographed in 2017 by the Tennessee Department of Correction\n\nHe was arrested after his DNA was detected on a pair of sandals found near where Ms Fletcher was last seen, according to an arrest affidavit.\n\nOfficers also found a vehicle at the address where he had been staying that matched CCTV footage of Ms Fletcher being forced into a similar car.\n\nVideo shows him spending over an hour cleaning his car after arriving at his brother's apartment complex just over three hours after Ms Fletcher was abducted.\n\nAccording to court documents, a witness said Mr Abston had been behaving erratically and had used carpet cleaner on his car's interior. The unnamed source also said he had washed his clothes in his brother's sink.\n\nHe attempted to flee when US Marshals arrived at the residence but was captured, the affidavit said.\n\nMr Abston previously served nearly 20 years in prison for kidnapping a prominent Memphis attorney in 2000 at gunpoint. He was released in late 2020.", "The fire tore through a third of the building, trapping people on the upper levels\n\nAt least 32 people have died and others have been injured in a huge fire at a karaoke complex in southern Vietnam near Ho Chi Minh City.\n\nThe fire broke out on the upper floor of the establishment on Tuesday night, trapping customers and staff.\n\nTo escape, four people jumped from the second and third floors, local media said. They were injured but survived.\n\nFirefighters reached the scene shortly after alarms went off. The cause of the blaze is being investigated.\n\nCong An Nhan Dan newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the Public Security Ministry, said 32 people were now confirmed to have lost their lives, including 17 men and 15 women.\n\nThe search for victims has ended, the VnExpress news site quoted an official saying. There were around 60 people in the bar when fire broke out, according to the public security ministry.\n\n\"The fire started on the second floor of the bar and quickly spread to the third floor, which was full of flammable material,\" it said in a statement.\n\nA top official with the ruling Communist Party in Binh Duong province to the north of Ho Chi Minh City, where the bar is located, had earlier put the death toll at 23, with 11 injured.\n\nThe An Phu karaoke bar occupied a significantly sized building with 29 rooms. State media reported the bodies of eight people were found in the toilets.\n\nAbout a third of the building had been on fire, local officials said. It had several decorations and wooden decor, BBC Vietnamese reported.\n\nCrews said the blaze took just under an hour to bring under control.\n\nThis is the deadliest in a series of fires in karaoke bars in Vietnam in recent years, raising concerns over poor safety standards. Last month, three firefighters died as they tried to extinguish a fire at a karaoke venue in the capital Hanoi.\n\nIn 2016 a fire at another karaoke lounge in Hanoi left 13 people dead.\n\nThis fire has shocked Vietnam, not only because it is the deadliest of its kind - 32 people lost their lives and more than 40 are badly injured - but because fires are so common in the country's karaoke bars.\n\nSince 2014, there have been at least six such incidents, resulting in the deaths of 58 people.\n\nAn investigation by Vietnamese MPs in 2019 highlighted serious issues with the work of the Fire and Rescue Department and local authorities, but their recommendations seem to have been lost in a maze of red tape.\n\nPrime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, himself a former deputy chief of the ministry in charge of firefighting brigades, has now ordered a thorough inspection of all health and safety and fire regulations across the country.\n\nBut the public want to know the root cause of the problem. Is it a lack of oversight in fire prevention measures, often caused by corruption in licensing for entertainment venues, or just bad luck?", "Throughout the leadership campaign Liz Truss's husband Hugh O'Leary kept very much in the background.\n\nHowever, now his wife is the UK's prime minister, he will have to get used to spending more time in the limelight.\n\nIn that respect he has something in common with another prime ministerial spouse - Philip May, Theresa's other half, who also kept a low profile.\n\nBy strange coincidence, the two men also spent part of their childhood in the Wirral town of Heswall.\n\nSpeaking to The Times, a former neighbour of Mr O'Leary's family remembered him as \"very earnest and very quiet but a lovely boy\".\n\nFor university, Mr O'Leary left the North West to study mathematical economics at the London School of Economics, after which he became an accountant.\n\nHis mathematical mind may well have been what attracted Ms Truss, who is the daughter of a mathematician and is said to be passionate about the subject.\n\nThe pair met at the Conservative Party conference, in Blackpool in 1997 - a bleak period for the party recovering from an electoral battering, but a happier time for the young couple.\n\nSpeaking to You Magazine in 2019, Ms Truss said she \"invited him ice skating and he sprained his ankle\".\n\nThe accident didn't put him off and they were married three years later. The couple have two teenage daughters.\n\nLike his wife, Mr O'Leary was keen to get involved in politics and stood - in 1998, 2002 and 2006 - to be a councillor in Greenwich, south London.\n\nHowever, unlike his wife, who became a councillor for Eltham South in 2006, he was unsuccessful.\n\nThat same year, the couple went through a tricky period when details of an affair between Ms Truss and her fellow Conservative Mark Field came to light.\n\nThis later led to an attempt by local party members to oust her when she was selected as the candidate for the South West Norfolk constituency.\n\nAt the time, Ms Truss said: \"I am really sorry about that [affair]. It's a mistake I made and as far as me and my husband are concerned, it's water under the bridge.\"\n\nReflecting on the incident in 2019, she said: \"It was a baptism of fire.\n\n\"It was difficult but… I was so determined to stay selected and I wasn't going to let… you know, I worked really, really hard and I won that selection fair and square.\n\n\"And, actually, even though it was a really unpleasant thing to go through, it made me stronger afterwards because I had to have that fight.\"\n\nAsked if it made her marriage stronger she replied: \"I think that's a separate thing. But I am really happily married.\"\n\nMs Truss is a keen Instagrammer but mostly prefers to keep her partner out of her social media posts.\n\nIn one exception in 2019, Ms Truss posted a picture of herself with her husband on Instagram at Blagdon Hall, in Northumberland with the caption: \"Love of my life. #happyvalentinesday\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrighton's home Premier League match against Crystal Palace on Saturday, 17 September has been postponed because of a planned rail strike.\n\nThe Premier League says the fixture has been \"regrettably\" called off after receiving a request from Brighton.\n\nThe league added in a statement that industrial action on the rail network means there will be \"no public transport available for supporters\".\n\nA new date for the game at Amex Stadium is yet to be announced.\n\nBrighton chief executive Paul Barber said: \"While we fully appreciate this will be of huge disappointment to both sets of fans, and causes disruption to both teams' fixture schedules as well as those of supporters, the safety of fans of both clubs, our matchday staff, players and officials must be the priority.\n\n\"We have taken into consideration how difficult it would be for fans of both clubs to attend the match without access to the rail network and we looked at a number of options and various contingency plans.\n\n\"This included additional travel options or moving the match to earlier or later in the same week, with Sunday afternoon the latest the fixture could be played on that weekend due to the international break.\n\n\"But it simply was not possible to play the match with a full capacity crowd in attendance.\"\n• None Our coverage of Brighton & Hove Albion 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 Albion - go straight to all the best content", "A marble head of the goddess Athena was among the stolen items\n\nNew York's district attorney has returned $19m (£16m) worth of stolen art to Italy.\n\nThe 58 pieces include a marble head of the goddess Athena dated 200 BC, worth an estimated $3m alone.\n\nThe stolen artefacts were sold on to museums and private dealers by convicted looters, said Mr Alvin Bragg.\n\nIt is the city's latest effort to return plundered goods to their country of origin - $66m worth have been returned so far this year.\n\nThe head of the DA's antiquities trafficking unit promised there would be \"many more seizures and many more repatriations\".\n\nHomeland Security was part of the investigation to seize and repatriate these objects to the Italians - 21 of these came from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\n\nAlthough the pieces have immense monetary value, an Italian police commander described them as \"priceless\".\n\nGen Roberto Riccardi said he felt especially happy knowing that these objects would be returning to communities, who would know \"where we come from, about our history, about our identity\".\n\nInvestigators had worked for years to track down the art smugglers' trails and locate the items that were being repatriated, according to Homeland Security officials.\n\nGiacomo Medici and Giovanni Franco Becchina are among the convicted robbers who used a network throughout Italy to steal pieces from unguarded sites, according to the DA's office.\n\nIt said that Medici's apparatus looted the marble head of Athena from a temple in central Italy, which was then installed at the Met in 1996.\n\nPasquale Camera was another regional crime boss, who organised the robberies as early as the 1960s from churches and museums, according to the office.\n\nIt said these objects were eventually imported to the US where they were sold to American billionaire Michael Steinhardt, who is now banned from buying antiquities after evidence found that items he owned had been looted and illegally smuggled.\n\nIn 2021, Mr Steinhardt surrendered treasures worth $70m as part of a deal which means he will not face criminal charges.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a moment of symbolic unity, Prince William and Prince Harry walked side by side behind the Queen's coffin as it left Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.\n\nAlong with King Charles and other members of the Royal Family, they processed to Westminster Hall where the Queen will lie in state until Monday.\n\nThe sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, will evoke poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral 25 years ago.\n\nThe Queen's coffin, carried on a gun carriage, passed below the Buckingham Palace balcony where only three months ago she appeared for the final moments of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThe procession evokes memories of Princess Diana's funeral in 1997\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBandsmen played sombre music to accompany this careful choreography of mourning, Beethoven and Mendelssohn alongside the drumbeat of marching feet - exactly 75 steps per minute - and the sound of horses' hooves in the autumn sunshine.\n\nThe same gun carriage had carried the coffins of the Queen's father and mother - and as it went past there were ripples of applause and some tears from people crowding along the route.\n\nWalking on foot behind the coffin were the Queen's four children, King Charles, Princess Anne and Prince Edward, in military uniform, with Prince Andrew, no longer a working royal, in a morning suit and wearing medals.\n\nAnd behind them were William, now the Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, also as a non-working royal not wearing military uniform.\n\nThis time the brothers were side by side, unlike Prince Philip's funeral last year when they had someone walking between them, in what was seen at the time as a sign of separation.\n\nThe brothers appearing together sends a strong visual message of family unity, after so much speculation about tensions and disagreements between them.\n\nTheir wives, Catherine and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Camilla, the Queen Consort, travelled in cars behind.\n\nCrowds watched as Royals, led by the King, followed behind the coffin\n\nWilliam, Harry, Catherine and Meghan had appeared together at the weekend to greet well-wishers in Windsor, tuning into a public mood wanting reconciliation, and bringing back memories of the \"fab four\" of young royals.\n\nA thundercloud of media interest has hung over claims of a strained brotherly relationship, now conducted from different sides of the Atlantic.\n\nBut it's not clear what the feelings might really be for a family whose private grief comes with so much public scrutiny.\n\nCatherine is now the new Princess of Wales and the images of the coffin procession will bring back thoughts of another September funeral, when Diana in 1997 was buried from Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe couples went on an unexpected walkabout together in Windsor at the weekend\n\nWilliam and Harry, as young schoolboys, walked in that funeral procession, with their father King Charles and grandfather Prince Philip. In step at a time when their worlds had been turned upside down.\n\nToday's procession was another national moment. Crowds held up mobile phones to capture a glimpse of history taking place before them. Big Ben rang out around the streets, tolling each minute. Queen Elizabeth had left Buckingham Palace for the very final time.\n\nHer connections with the palace went back across the eras. She'd been Christened there 96 years ago and there were guests in that family photo who had been alive at the same time as the Duke of Wellington, victor of Waterloo.\n\nThe coffin has been covered with the emblems of the monarchy, the Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown. But there are also personal connections in the flowers in the wreath. Along with white roses and white dahlias there was pine from Balmoral and lavender and rosemary, a symbol of remembrance, from the gardens at Windsor.\n\nAmong those on the Mall was Nicola Dainton, a 56-year-old grandmother from Chorley Wood, Hertfordshire, who was joined by her daughter Emily, and her grandchildren, Freddie, two, and baby Millie, for what she described as a \"very emotional\" moment.\n\nShe said Princes William and Harry appeared \"deep in their thoughts of the Queen\" but said the moment felt very different to their mother's funeral.\n\n\"They were two young boys then. This felt more they were there to support the family,\" she added.\n\nDawn Livingstone, who was with six of her family all from County Tyrone, said the moment had been sad, sombre and fitting.\"She has left a legacy that will never be paralleled by anyone else,\" she said.Matthew Ferguson, her son-in-law, said: \"It's the closest I have ever been to the Queen. It's been a privilege and an overwhelming experience.\"The family, who left home at 02:00, are now heading to Westminster Hall to take in more of the atmosphere before a 22:00 flight home.\n\nDawn Livingstone and her family had to leave home at 02:00\n\nRoyal aides have described this procession as a significant symbolic turning point in the funeral journey. The Queen was head of her family, but she was also head of state - and here her family were putting her back into the public realm.\n\nThe procession was taking her to the heart of political life, through Whitehall, past Downing Street and to the Houses of Parliament.\n\nAt Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, there was a short service of prayers and readings conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.\n\nSoldiers from the Grenadier Guards had lifted the coffin into place on a \"catafalque\", a raised platform inside the medieval hall.\n\nThe Royal Family salutes the coffin of the late Queen\n\nA short service was held in Westminster Hall where the Queen will lie in state until Monday\n\nWith the Royal Family standing in the historic hall, a psalm was sung - \"O Lord, thou hast searched me out and known me\" - and a reading which began \"Let not your heart be troubled\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan appeared to be holding hands as they left.\n\nFrom 17:00 BST on Wednesday, the Queen's lying-in-state will begin, when the public will have their chance to pay respect, until the morning of the funeral on Monday.\n\nThe queues have already started and everyone, like the Queen's family in the procession, will have arrived with, and will leave with, their own memories.", "Ursula von der Leyen was making her annual State of the Union speech\n\nEU chief Ursula von der Leyen has called for cuts to electricity use across the bloc and windfall taxes on energy firms to tackle high prices.\n\nShe told the European Parliament that gas and electricity prices had hit all-time highs after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nShe called for electricity consumption to be cut at peak hours by at least 5%.\n\nBut plans for a cap on the price of natural gas, a key Russian export to the EU, were put on hold.\n\nThe plan outlined in Strasbourg targets \"excess revenues\" with proposals to skim the profits of low-carbon electricity producers and implement a de facto windfall tax on the oil, gas and coal sectors.\n\nThe money raised, estimated to be €140bn (£121bn; $141bn), would go to families and businesses across the EU's 27 states.\n\nCompanies producing energy from low-carbon sources such as wind, solar and nuclear would face a cap of €180 per megawatt hour (MWh) on their revenue.\n\nBy comparison, the front-year electricity price in Germany, the EU's biggest economy, was trading at just below €500/MWh on Wednesday.\n\n\"Power generators with lower operating costs have been able to reap extraordinary profits, way beyond what may have reasonably expected based on investment decisions,\" European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans said.\n\nThe windfall tax on fossil fuel producers and refiners would require them to contribute 33% of their taxable surplus profit.\n\nThe EU's member states will pore over the proposals with hopes of an agreement by the end of this month.\n\nMs von der Leyen also announced she would be visiting Ukraine again later on Wednesday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying: \"Europe's solidarity with Ukraine will remain unshakeable.\"\n\nMr Zelensky's wife Olena was in the parliament as guest of honour to hear the speech.\n\nMs von der Leyen said that \"making ends meet\" was \"becoming a source of anxiety for millions of businesses and households\".\n\n\"In these times, it is wrong to receive extraordinary record revenues and profits benefiting from war and on the back of our consumers,\" she argued.\n\nDefending EU sanctions on Russia, she said: \"This is the time for us to show resolve, not appeasement.\"\n\n\"Russia's financial sector is on life-support,\" she asserted, with nearly 1,000 international companies having left the country.\n\n\"The Russian military is taking chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix their military hardware because they ran out of semiconductors. Russia's industry is in tatters.\"\n\nRussia has so far largely managed to avoid the economic meltdown predicted back in the spring when sweeping sanctions were imposed. It has cushioned the blow with revenue from oil and gas sales.\n\nUkraine has officially been a candidate for accession to the EU since June.\n\nIt recently began a counter-offensive to drive back Russian troops, reportedly regaining thousands of sq km of territory in the east and the south this month.\n\n\"This is the time for us to show resolve, not appeasement,\" said Ms von der Leyen. \"We are in it for the long haul.\"\n\nIt was her conviction, she said, \"that with courage and solidarity, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will fail and Europe will prevail\".\n\nRussia, a global energy supplier, is locked in an economic struggle with the EU which imposed sweeping sanctions in response to the invasion.\n\nBefore the invasion, Russia accounted for 40% of the EU's imported gas. That figure has since fallen to below 10%.\n\nThis summer, European gas prices were about 10 times higher than their average level over the past decade.\n\nA portion of the gas is also burnt to generate electricity, meaning that high gas prices push up power bills too.\n\nMs von der Leyen said EU states had managed to stockpile gas reserves for the winter to 84% of capacity, well ahead of an October deadline.\n\nShe named the US, Norway and Algeria as \"reliable\" gas suppliers.\n\nShe also announced plans to set up a European hydrogen bank to promote investment of up to €3bn in that fuel as a green alternative to fossil fuels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is hydrogen energy and why is it important?\n\nState of the Union speeches are always wide-ranging and, in that sense, this one was no different. But of course the circumstances have dramatically changed from Ursula von der Leyen's last address, one year ago.\n\nThe fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated an energy crisis that is now the dominant issue within the bloc. Deep, longer-term, energy market reforms are being mooted but I understand those will not be ready until next year.\n\nThe more immediate proposals, to tackle high prices, centre on cuts to consumption and de facto windfall taxes on energy companies.\n\nThe European Commission president was trying to send a message about European resolve this winter. Sanctions against Russia were \"here to stay\", she said. But questions still hang over the EU's readiness to impose more penalties against President Putin, while promises of integrating Ukraine more into the EU's orbit and economy will be closely watched by its government and citizens.", "A US teenager who stabbed her alleged rapist to death has been sentenced by an Iowa court to five years' probation.\n\nPieper Lewis, 17, was also ordered to pay $150,000 (£130,000) to Zachary Brooks' family over his murder in 2020 in Des Moines. She was 15 at the time.\n\nLast year, she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and wilful injury. Both charges are punishable by up to 10 years in jail.\n\nShe could be jailed for 20 years if she violates her probation terms.\n\nLewis was sentenced on Tuesday by Polk County District judge David M Porter.\n\nUnder the terms of her probation, the judge ordered her to be placed in a residential facility, where she must wear a tracking device.\n\n\"The next five years of your life will be full of rules you disagree with, I'm sure of it,\" Mr Porter said. \"This is the second chance that you've asked for. You don't get a third.\"\n\nWhile he alluded to the controversial nature of Lewis being forced to make payments to Mr Brooks' family, he noted that \"this court is presented with no other option\" under Iowa law.\n\nA GoFundMe launched by one of Lewis' former teachers had surpassed $300,000 by Wednesday night.\n\n\"My spirit has been burned, but still glows through the flames. Hear me roar, see me glow, and watch me grow,\" Lewis read on Tuesday from a statement she had prepared, the Associated Press news agency reports.\n\nIn 2020, Lewis was sleeping in a hallway after fleeing an abusive home when a man took her in and trafficked her to others for sex.\n\nShe told the court one of them was Brooks, 37, and that he had raped her many times.\n\nThe teenager stabbed him more than 30 times in June 2020 in a flat in Des Moines, the capital of the Iowa state in the Midwestern region, when she was aged just 15.\n\nWhile Lewis accepted she had committed a crime, she defended her actions.\n\n\"I took a person's life,\" she said. \"My intentions that day were not to just go out and take somebody's life. In my mind I felt that I wasn't safe and I felt that I was in danger, which resulted in the acts. But it doesn't take away from the fact that a crime was committed.\"\n\nPolice and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually assaulted and trafficked. But the prosecution had argued that Brooks was asleep at the time, and therefore not an immediate threat.\n\nDozens of US states have adopted so-called \"safe-harbour\" laws that offer victims of trafficking some level of immunity, but a bill passed by the Iowa House of Representatives has stalled in the state Senate after law enforcement groups raised concerns.\n• None 'It felt like I was on trial when I reported rape'", "'We're staring into the abyss' - Former Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has been discussing the challenges facing the King and the UK as the country enters a new phase in its history. Dr Williams told the BBC’s Newscast podcast: “We’re a society staring into a little bit of an abyss in the next few months, where poverty and deprivation for quite a lot of people, are going to be a major issue.” Talking about the role of King Charles III, he said: “I think it is crucial that the new King give the message... that he's committed to a society where nobody gets forgotten.” He went on to say: “Lots of communities are faced with really impossible choices about energy, about food, about their general security. It’s the biggest thing I know on the agenda of the new prime minister and the new government. It’s a watershed moment for them just as much as for the monarchy.” Dr Williams said: “If we can get through this winter without collapse, we can manage with all those pressures, we will have sent a very important message to the other end of Europe that we are prepared to face some constraints for the sake of Ukraine.” Last Thursday, the government set out its energy support plan which included limiting energy bill rises for all households for two years, and six months for businesses. Newscast’s full interview with Dr Williams is available on BBC Sounds. This content is currently not available", "Chris Kaba was due to become a father\n\nThe officer who shot dead Chris Kaba in south London should have been suspended sooner, the victim's family says.\n\nThe 24-year-old rapper, who was unarmed, was killed by a single shot in Streatham Hill on 5 September.\n\nMr Kaba's family welcomed the suspension but said there was \"no urgency\" around the investigation.\n\nHis cousin, Jefferson Bosela, told the BBC the officer should have been suspended as soon as the homicide investigation was launched on Friday.\n\nThe police watchdog, Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), began a homicide investigation on 9 September.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the family, Mr Bosela told Radio 4's Today programme: \"We welcome that decision but, to be honest, I think... the second a criminal investigation was opened he should have been suspended from there.\n\n\"You know, first we wanted a criminal investigation opened and that took four days, and then the officer being suspended took another two days.\n\n\"So it seems like there's no urgency in their dealings with this quite tragic matter.\"\n\nA candlelit vigil was held in memory of Chris Kaba on Monday evening\n\nThe Met Police said in its statement on Monday the firearms officer had been suspended due to the \"significant impact on public confidence\", but its decision did \"not determine the outcome of the IOPC investigation\".\n\nThe Met Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said it was \"supporting a brave firearms colleague involved in a recent incident in South London - and we are also supporting their family.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all affected.\"\n\nIt added: \"Being a firearms officer in London is one of the world's toughest jobs.\n\n\"Officers - volunteers - know the responsibility/accountability that comes with it and deserve our support.\n\n\"Ill-informed commentary from those in positions of power following any tragic incident is unwarranted.\"\n\nMr Kaba, who was due to become a father, was stopped by firearms officers when his car was flagged by a number plate recognition camera.\n\nHis cousin, Mr Bosela, said the family wanted to know whether police officers believed they were stopping the suspected owner of the car or Mr Kaba, who the family said was not the registered owner.\n\nThe family is also demanding the IOPC releases police-worn camera footage of the shooting and aerial helicopter footage, as well as a timeline for the investigation.\n\nMr Bosela said: \"Chris's parents are suffering an unimaginable loss.\n\n\"The nature in which he died makes it really harsh and so difficult. They're so strong but they're struggling.\"\n\nHe added: \"We want the footage to be shown to the family to have a clear understanding of what happened.\"\n\nNews of the officer's suspension came as Mr Kaba's family and friends joined members of the community at a candlelit vigil, in the residential street where he was fatally shot, to mark one week since his death.\n\n\"At the vigil, his mother was saying, 'Chris, what were you saying in your last minutes? I wish I had just one minute with you, speak to me please'. It was heart-breaking,\" Mr Bosela continued.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the decision by Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to suspend the officer was \"a really important decision\", which he \"fully\" supported.\n\nThe mayor added it was important the IOPC had the time it needed to carry out its investigation properly.\n\nMP for Streatham, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, who is supporting the Kaba family, said: \"The Met have finally suspended the officer who fired the shot that killed Chris Kaba.\n\n\"It shouldn't have taken public pressure to make this happen.\n\n\"Time to honour the family's further demands without delay.\"\n\nThe family has set up a fundraising page and Instagram account with a target of raising £50,000, which they said was to support their campaign for justice.\n\nCorrection 20 September 2022: The reference to the IOPC's investigation has been corrected to reflect it is a homicide 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.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "The Queen is lying in state in Westminster Hall after a procession from Buckingham Palace.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's final departure from Buckingham Palace began at 14:22 BST, when the slow-moving procession departed her former home for Westminster Hall. The Queen's four children, led by King Charles, walked behind the coffin.\n\nNearby, Big Ben tolled at 60-second intervals throughout the Queen's 38-minute journey to the Palace of Westminster.\n\nThe coffin travelled down the Mall on a gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, pulled by a team of horses bearing riders in ceremonial dress.\n\nThe tree-lined boulevard, which cuts through the centre of London, has witnessed countless royal events over the years, including celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee earlier this year to mark the Queen's 70 years on the throne.\n\nMembers of the public lined the Mall, many wiping away tears, some clapping and cheering, as the Queen's coffin passed by.\n\nThe coffin was draped in the Royal Standard, representing the Sovereign and the UK, with the Imperial State Crown resting on top.\n\nThe crown - placed on a purple cushion - features the St Edward's sapphire, Black Prince's Ruby and the Cullinan II diamond, cut from the largest diamond in the world. The coffin also bore a wreath of white roses and dahlias.\n\nKing Charles III was joined by his sons, Prince William, now Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, in the solemn procession. Other senior members of the Royal Family also took part.\n\nUp to 1,000 members of the armed forces took part in the procession, including the Household Cavalry - represented by the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals.\n\nKing Charles III, his siblings Princess Anne and Prince Edward, and his son, the Prince of Wales, all wore military uniform.\n\nThe King's brother, Prince Andrew, and his younger son, Prince Harry, both wore suits. Prince Harry is no longer a working member of the Royal Family, having taken a decision in 2020 to step back.\n\nPrince Andrew, too, is no longer a working royal. He lost his military titles earlier this year - shortly before he settled a civil sexual assault lawsuit in the US, in which he denied any wrongdoing.\n\nThe Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex all travelled from Buckingham Palace by car, joining the King at Westminster Hall for a short service following the procession.\n\nThe procession moved along Horse Guards Parade and down Whitehall to arrive at Westminster Hall at 15:00 BST.\n\nEight young men from the Grenadier Guards were entrusted with the task of carrying the Queen's coffin into the Palace of Westminster.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people are expected to file past the coffin to pay their respects to the Queen over the next four days - with a huge policing operation in place.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nEarlier in the day, guards waited for the Queen's coffin to emerge from Buckingham Palace.\n\nAnd large queues formed along the banks of the River Thames, as people waited for the Queen's lying-in-state to begin.\n\nThe late Queen will lie in state inside Westminster Hall until the morning of her funeral, to be held on Monday 19 September.", "Claire Foy playing the Queen at her coronation in The Crown\n\nClaire Foy, who portrayed the Queen in the first two seasons of The Crown, has said she was \"honoured\" to have played a \"small part of her story\".\n\nFoy played the monarch in the Netflix drama before the baton was passed to Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton.\n\n\"I think that she was an incredible monarch,\" Foy told the BBC's Lizo Mzimba at the Toronto Film Festival.\n\n\"She united people and she was a massive symbol of continuity and dignity and grace.\"\n\nThe British actress added: \"My main feeling is just thinking about her as a mother and a grandmother and a great-grandmother, really, and I'm very honoured to have been a teeny tiny, small part of her story.\"\n\nFoy is now one of the stars of Women Talking, which had a premiere in Toronto on Tuesday\n\nThe first season of The Crown, which chronicled the Queen's life from her wedding in 1947 until 1955, has re-entered Netflix's weekly global top 10 chart following the news of her death.\n\nThe streaming giant has revealed it was watched for 17.6 million hours globally, making it the platform's seventh most-viewed TV show in English for the week of 5-11 September.\n\n\"HRH Queen Elizabeth II was in the hearts and minds of viewers,\" Netflix noted.\n\nFoy won best actress awards at both the Emmys and Golden Globes for playing the Queen. She was speaking to BBC News while promoting her new film Women Talking, in which she stars alongside Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.\n\nColman took over from Foy as the Queen and will herself be succeeded by Imelda Staunton\n\nColman, who took over the main royal role for series three and four of The Crown, was also in Canada this week promoting her own new film, Empire of Light.\n\nShe told Variety she had felt proud to be British on Friday after watching King Charles III's first speech since the death of his mother.\n\n\"From a British point of view, he did it so beautifully,\" she said. \"It was all about love, tolerance and gentleness, and I think that's what she always wanted and she's done.\n\n\"She made a promise as a young women and she absolutely kept it with such dignity, and I think we're all incredibly impressed by what she did, and I was thrilled at how beautiful his speech was.\"\n\nSeries five of The Crown will arrive in November and will see Staunton playing the Queen in the 1990s.", "Northern Irish schoolboy Christopher Atherton became the youngest senior footballer in the United Kingdom at 13 years and 329 days old when he played for Glenavon on Tuesday.\n\nThe teenage forward came on as a second-half substitute in their 6-0 win over Dollingstown in the League Cup.\n\nAnd he made a quick impact, providing an assist for Glenavon's sixth goal.\n\nAtherton breaks the record set by Jordan Allan, who played for Airdrie aged 14 years and 191 days.\n\nAllan made his debut for Airdrie against Livingston in April 2013.\n\nAfter making his debut, Atherton missed out on becoming the youngest senior player in the world by just 10 days.\n\nThe record is held by Souleymane Mamam, who played for Togo in a World Cup qualifier against Zambia in May 2001 at 13 years and 319 days.\n\nGlenavon manager Gary Hamilton said the teenager was set to become the youngest player in the world in April if he had not been away for the final game of the season.\n\n\"A lot of us at that age would have been dreaming of becoming a footballer and playing for a first team, thinking it is a million miles away,\" Hamilton told Glenavon's YouTube channel.\n\n\"I had no doubt that if we got ahead in the game then I could bring him on because he was comfortable to train with the first team before the last match of last season.\n\n\"Only he had to go to watch Celtic with his Dad he would have played in that match as well, as it was the last match of the season and at that stage there was nothing to play for with seventh place already secured.\n\n\"We were planning on giving him his debut then which would have made him the youngest player in the world, but unfortunately he is just going to have to settle with being the youngest player in the UK.\"\n\n'A great kid who works night and day at his game'\n\nHamilton said it filled him with joy and pride to see Atherton, who has been at the Lurgan Blues' academy for almost 10 years, making his first-team debut.\n\n\"He is a great kid. I've had the pleasure watching him every other week for the last eight years because he plays in the same academy team as [Hamilton's son] Callum,\" he added.\n\n\"He is a joy to watch and is a great kid but the work he does away from training at Glenavon, and the dedication that he has to becoming a professional footballer, is unbelievable.\n\n\"That is what separates him from a lot of the kids at the academy. He works night and day at his game, he eats the rights foods and he goes to bed at the right time.\n\n\"He does everything that he can to become a better footballer and to give himself the best opportunity of becoming a professional footballer. I have been watching him for years and for a long time I've said he is the best player I've seen at his age.\"\n\nGlenavon have developed a strong pedigree in recent years of developing young players who have gone on to earn moves into full-time football, with Mark Sykes currently at Bristol City, and Shayne Lavery at Blackpool.\n\nHamilton is in no doubt that Atherton, who can play in any of the forward positions as well as midfield, will soon make a move to England or Scotland.\n\n\"He is just such a special talent. There is a lot of interest in him from cross-channel clubs and I am not one bit surprised,\" the former Glentoran and Northern Ireland striker continued.\n\n\"It fills you full of joy and pride because we started this academy and he has been there from the start from when he was four or five years of age.\n\n\"He has progressed right through. He just gets on with it. He is a quiet kid but he has confidence and ability - nothing fazes or fears him out on that football pitch.\n\n\"When we started that phase of the academy, to have someone come right through and play for the first team is lovely.\"", "King Charles III visited Northern Ireland on Tuesday for the first time as monarch as part of his tour of the UK.\n\nHe landed at Belfast City Airport - in the shadows of the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard cranes - at about 12:00 BST.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were presented with gifts of truffles with an image of the Giant's Causeway on the tin and a bunch of flowers by Ella Smith and Lucas Watt, both aged 10, from Forge Integrated Primary School in the city.\n\nThe King and Camilla travelled to Royal Hillsborough, given the prefix in 2021 due to the village's connection to the Royal Family, where people had been waiting since dawn to catch a glimpse of them.\n\nThe King and Camilla spent time shaking hands and greeting those who had gathered in the main street of the village in County Down.\n\nConnie the corgi also met the King as he received flowers and cards from excited schoolchildren.\n\nMerlin the Persian cat, wearning a golden crown, was among those who lined the streets.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla spent time admiring the floral tributes left outside Hillsborough Castle, the only royal residence in Northern Ireland, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nInside the castle the King and Camilla received a message of condolence from Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey before the King made a short speech to the guests.\n\nThe King also met senior Stormont politicians, including Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill, Democratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and figures from the other main parties.\n\nHe was introduced to troops at the castle, shortly after a 21-gun salute had taken place in the castle gardens.\n\nOutside there were smiles and one woman (below, left) held a photo of her meeting the then Prince of Wales when she received an MBE several years ago.\n\nThe Hillsborough Fort Guard also stood outside during the King's visit to the royal residence.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort made their way to St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast for a service of reflection for the life of the Queen, their last formal engagement in Northern Ireland for the day.\n\nA large crowd gathered outside Belfast City Hall to witness the King and Camilla pass through the city centre.\n\nLarge screens were placed in the city centre for those who wanted to watch the service.\n\nInside the cathedral Prime Minister Liz Truss and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin were among those who took part in the service.\n\nIt was Ms Truss's first visit to Northern Ireland since she became prime minister last week and she was greeted by Michelle O'Neill from Sinn Féin, whose part is the largest in the Stormont assembly.\n\nAfter the service the King and Queen Consort greeted those who had gathered in Writers' Square opposite the cathedral.\n\nThe hundreds of people who were there did their best to capture the historic visit on camera.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles III promised to follow the late Queen's \"selfless duty\" in his first address to both Houses of Parliament as monarch.\n\nThe King said Parliament was the \"living and breathing instrument of our democracy\" as he spoke in front of 900 MPs and peers at Westminster Hall.\n\nIt followed condolences from speakers of the House of Commons and Lords.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle, House of Commons speaker, said \"as deep as our grief is, we know yours is deeper\".\n\nAddressing the King on behalf of MPs, Sir Lindsay added: \"We know you hold the greatest respect, the precious traditions, the freedoms, and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government.\n\n\"We know that you will bear those responsibilities which fall to you with the fortitude, dignity, demonstrated by Her late Majesty.\"\n\nThe King, in his response, said: \"While very young, Her Late Majesty pledged herself to serve her country and her people and to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government which lie at the heart of our nation. This vow she kept with unsurpassed devotion.\n\n\"She set an example of selfless duty which, with God's help and your counsels, I am resolved faithfully to follow.\"\n\nState trumpeters played a fanfare as King Charles made his way through Westminster Hall at 10:25 BST while the Royal Standard was raised in place of the half mast.\n\nKing Charles was accompanied by his wife the Queen Consort while he addressed MPs and peers\n\nKing Charles said he \"cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us\" at Westminster Hall\n\nBuilt in 1097, Westminster Hall has played a significant role in British history across the centuries.\n\n\"I cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us and which reminds us of the vital parliamentary traditions to which members of both houses dedicate yourselves, with such personal commitment for the betterment of us all,\" the King said in his address.\n\n\"Parliament is the living and breathing instrument of our democracy. That your traditions are ancient we see in the construction of this great hall and the reminders of medieval predecessors of the office to which I have been called.\"\n\nAt the ceremony - which took place in the same hall where the Queen's coffin will lie in state later this week - the monarch, accompanied by Camilla, Queen Consort, were offered condolences on behalf of both Houses of Parliament.\n\nLord McFall paid tribute to the late Queen and said she \"captured the imagination of peoples across the globe\".\n\n\"We remember her commitment, her kindness, her humour, her courage and her fortitude as well as the deep faith which was the anchor in her life,\" he added.\n\n\"We are proud and humbled to welcome you as King.\"\n\nAlso among the attendees in the hall was Ugbana Oyet, the first black sergeant at arms in the role's history.\n\nMonday's visit to Westminster also saw members of both houses pledging loyalty to the new monarch.\n\nThe audience at Westminster Hall formed a \"who's who\" of contemporary politicians. Party leaders chatting amiably in the front few rows, cabinet ministers of decades past now in the House of Lords a few rows back.\n\n\"There is nobody in either House who has taken an oath of allegiance to anybody other than Queen Elizabeth,\" Conservative peer and former MP Lord Cormack said after the ceremony.\n\n\"I've been here 52 years, I've taken the oath 14 times. On Saturday for the first time to the new King.\"\n\nYounger parliamentarians, like Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who became Labour MP for Slough in 2017, were conscious of just how rare it is for MPs to be part of the transition to a new monarch.\n\n\"It is a very privileged position we find ourselves in,\" he said.\n\nAfter the ceremony, the King and Queen Consort travelled to Edinburgh, the city where the Queen's coffin has been lying-in-rest since Sunday.\n\nThere, they were greeted by large crowds before they continued on to the Palace of Holyroodhouse for the Ceremony of Keys.\n\nThe trip marks the start of a royal tour of all four nations of the UK.\n\nOne well-wisher among the crowd outside the palace thanked the King and the Queen Consort for the UK's support for Ukraine during the nation's conflict with Russia.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort were greeted by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as they arrived at Edinburgh Airport\n\nThe ceremony at Holyroodhouse was followed by a procession along the Royal Mile to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nThe King, alongside Princess Anne and Princes Edward and Andrew, walked behind the Queen's coffin as it made its way along the Royal Mile.\n\nThe Duke of York did not wear military uniform because he is no longer a working royal, although is expected to as a special mark of respect at a final vigil to be held at Westminster Hall.\n\nAt the cathedral, the Royal Family were joined by a congregation drawn from all areas of Scottish society for a service of thanksgiving for the Queen's life.\n\nThe King later returned to Holyroodhouse for an audience with Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, before making the short journey to the Scottish Parliament, where members delivered a motion of condolence.\n\nLater in the evening, the King and his family observed a vigil at the cathedral in honour of the Queen.\n\nHer coffin will remain at the cathedral for 24 hours for members of the public to pay their respects, before being flown back to RAF Northolt and then travelling on to Buckingham Palace.\n\nSince the Queen died at Balmoral on Thursday, thousands of mourners have laid flowers and tributes at places she lived, including Buckingham Palace, Sandringham House and Windsor Castle.\n\nMore than 750,000 could file past the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall during her lying-in-state later this week. Mourners wishing to do so have been warned queues could reach 20 hours.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall, the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, was the Queen Mother in 2002 when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nSir Peter Bottomley, father of the House of Commons, said he expected \"we'll see 10 times more than that\" this week.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It is a magnificent opportunity for people to come through Westminster Hall and actually feel the modernity of the monarchy and the tradition.\"\n\nSir Peter said the events of the past few days showed how in the space of a week you can change the head of state and the prime minister and have people taking to the streets \"with love and flowers\".\n\nThe lying-in-state begins at 17:00 BST on Wednesday and will last until 06:30 on Monday 19 September - the day of the Queen's funeral at Westminster Abbey.\n\nMembers of the public have been invited to take part in a minute's silence at 20:00 BST on Sunday, the evening before the funeral.\n\n\"The silence can be marked privately at home on your own or with friends and neighbours, out on your doorstep or street with neighbours, or at any locally arranged, community events and vigils,\" a spokesperson for No 10 said.", "A 31-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of 28-year-old Hollie Thomson.\n\nMs Thomson, from the Greenan area of West Belfast, was found dead in a house on Sunday 11 September.\n\nChris Morelli, from Willowvale Avenue, appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court via video-link on Wednesday.\n\nA police witness said that Ms Thomson had died from suffocation but this was challenged by a lawyer for the defendant.\n\nA second post-mortem examination is to take place before Ms Thomson's body is released to her family.\n\nThe court was also told the defendant had attempted to take his own life shortly after the murder of Ms Thomson.\n\nBail was refused and Mr Morelli is now due to appear before Belfast's Crown Court.", "In a slow and sombre procession, the Royal Family has followed the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. Mournful music played during the ceremonious cortege, as guns were fired in Hyde Park and Big Ben was tolled every minute.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nParticipants in the mass participation event at next year's London Marathon will be able to register as non-binary, rather than male or female.\n\nThe change, which does not affect the elite races, will be a \"significant step\" in improving the race's inclusion said director Hugh Brasher.\n\n\"Changes such as this demonstrate our commitment to making the London Marathon for everyone,\" he added.\n\nThe elite races and their prizes will continue to be divided into male and female categories only.\n\nThe 2023 London Marathon will return to its traditional springtime slot for the first time in four years when it takes place on Sunday 23 April.\n\nThe ballot for the 2023 event will open on Saturday 1 October, the day before 2022's race is held.\n\nMore than 350,000 people applied to run in the 2022 event after an estimated 80,000 took part in the 2021 event, virtually or in person.", "There was a solemn hush as the procession moved through crowds on the Royal Mile\n\nThe crowds started building before first light.\n\nOn the Royal Mile in Edinburgh local people, visitors to the city and families staked their place, keen for a front row seat to history.\n\nBy the time King Charles III and his family began walking behind the procession to St Giles' Cathedral, the sombre crowds were 10-deep.\n\nAbove street level, windows were flung open and every possible vantage point was claimed.\n\nPeople clambered on to walls and railings, straining to get the best view, while others filmed from the windows of their flats overlooking the famous street.\n\nA solemn hush descended as the King, his brothers and sister followed the slow-moving hearse carrying their mother's coffin, save for shouts of \"God bless the Queen\" and \"God save the King\".\n\nOthers opted to queue for the opportunity to file past the Queen's coffin as it lies at rest in the cathedral.\n\nThey waited in the Meadows park for wristbands which would grant them access to pay their last respects.\n\nHolidaymakers Chris and Sue walked for nine miles to take their place on the Royal Mile for the procession.\n\nThe couple, from Rossendale, Lancashire, were on holiday near Musselburgh in East Lothian.\n\nChris joined the Army 45 years ago and was drafted in to help manage the route of the Queen's Jubilee procession in Oxfordshire in 1977.\n\n\"We booked our holiday six months ago, before all this happened,\" he said. \"We've just walked nine miles and we just made it in time. We are proud of ourselves and proud of our Queen.\n\n\"That was beautiful, very humbling to witness. People were so peaceful, everyone paying their respects. I am so glad we are here.\"\n\nSue (right) said it was \"moving\" to watch the Royal Family grieving\n\nSue and her daughter Zoe travelled from Stirling for the procession.\n\n\"It was lovely, it was so quiet,\" said a tearful Sue. \"I wasn't sure if people were going to cheer when it passed by but it was really nice and respectful.\n\n\"It's sad isn't it? We are watching a family grieving, and it's about respecting that. It's part of history. When it is sombre like that, it is just so moving.\n\n\"My dad was in the Army and he got an MBE so he met the Queen. I was brought up respecting the monarchy and I do think about what my dad would think. We did this for him.\"\n\nLinda Greenshields brought a flag her aunt waved at the late Queen's coronation\n\nAmong those waiting outside the cathedral was Linda Greenshields, who claimed her prime position at 07:00.\n\nShe travelled from Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, with a flag that her aunt had waved at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953.\n\n\"I had to come and pay my last respects,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I was just a few days old when the king died and I still have my coronation mug at home.\n\n\"It's going to be very emotional, she's just always been there - it's so sad.\"\n\nThousands lined the Royal Mile ahead of the procession behind the Queen's coffin\n\nJoyce, who lives \"just round the corner\" from the Palace of Holyroodhouse, sat on a fold-up chair doing a crossword on the Royal Mile.\n\n\"Normally everything would be in London so for people here, it has made a big difference and I feel you have got to take part in it,\" she said.\n\n\"I was stood in the West End for hours yesterday waiting for the coffin procession to come through but I wasn't sure whether I could stand for so long again so I've brought a chair today.\"\n\n\"She has given everything for all these years - I feel she gave up so much to do what she did. Her life could have been so different if she wasn't the Queen,\" she added.\n\nKeith Knowlton took his four children, including Frances, five, to the Royal Mile to witness history\n\nBoard games, colouring pads and tablets were in full supply for Keith Knowlton and his four children who had been on the Royal Mile since 07:00.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"They had school today but I thought it was worthwhile to take them out to witness this historic event.\n\n\"Living in Edinburgh for a few years now, we just felt it was important for our children to witness a piece of history.\n\n\"I have great respect for the Queen and truly believe, as an American, we have had not a stronger, faithful and more lasting ally than the Queen and I'm so grateful to have the chance to be here.\"\n\nJane Sutherland, 77, was \"umming and aahing\" about watching the procession, but she's glad she made the effort\n\nAustralian Jane Sutherland, 77, moved to Scotland in 1968 and now lives in Liberton, on the south side of Edinburgh. She set up a chair on the Royal Mile several hours before the procession was due to begin.\n\n\"I was only six or seven but I do remember the last King,\" she said. \"It was a big thing in Australia when he died.\n\n\"I saw people being interviewed at St Giles' Cathedral on the BBC at seven or eight o'clock this morning and was umming and aahing whether to come down, but I'm glad I did.\n\n\"It is good to be here in amongst people where it is all happening. It is so different. It is history.\"\n\nShe said she \"dragged the grandchildren\" to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to lay flowers and went to the proclamation announcing the accession of King Charles on Sunday.\n\n\"I think the Queen was the most wonderful person and a great example to everyone with her dedication and that smile of hers.\"\n\nJen wants her son, Theo, to have the same relationship with the Royal Family as her.\n\nJen and her eight-year-old son Theo, whose school had a local public holiday on Monday, had travelled from Falkirk to Edinburgh.\n\nThey were sat on the pavement on the lower half of the Royal Mile near the Palace of Holyroodhouse, more than three hours before the procession was due to begin.\n\n\"It is just part of history,\" Jen said. \"The Queen has always been part of my life. My grandma is a similar age and she has always been there. It's a bit strange.\n\n\"I want him [Theo] to have the same relationship with the Royal Family as I did. The Royals were always there and I don't think we should let that die.\n\n\"I don't know about anybody else but it makes me feel secure.\n\n\"It's strange but there's also a sense of jubilation because I have never known a King. My grandparents have, but it's a new beginning for me.\"\n\nViola booked her train to the UK as soon as the Queen's death was announced\n\nThe front row position along barriers outside St Giles' includes thousands of people who have travelled far and wide to witness this moment in history.\n\nViola Henkenhaf, 18, booked her trains and accommodation as soon as the Queen's death was announced on Thursday. The teenager has travelled from south-west Germany. She didn't want to miss this opportunity to convey her feelings.\n\nAlice Ferguson (centre) travelled to Edinburgh from Helensburgh to pay her respects\n\nAlice Ferguson travelled to Edinburgh from Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute to pay her respects.\n\nThe 68-year-old was in London in 1997 for Princess Diana's funeral and her granddaughter recently danced for the Queen at Windsor Castle.\n\nShe said: \"We love the Royal Family, we love the Queen and we want to pay our respects.\n\n\"I often used to say what will it be like when she is not here and now we have to face that. I think today it will really hit home she is not here - but never to be forgotten.\"\n\nAlice said the pictures of Princes Harry and William together at Windsor Palace was \"very special\", adding: \"It is so nice they have all come together.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's Gareth Gordon looks back at the Queen's relationship with Northern Ireland\n\nRoyalty in the 21st Century is more about symbolism than power, but the Queen knew the power of symbols in the cause of reconciliation.\n\nIn June 2012, she greeted thousands at Stormont for a Diamond Jubilee party.\n\nEarlier the eyes of the world focused on an historic handshake with Martin McGuinness at Belfast's Lyric theatre.\n\nThe Queen and the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin in May 2011\n\nThe four-second handshake between the former IRA leader and the British monarch appeared to usher in a new era in 40 years of troubled history.\n\nA year earlier, the Queen had broken new ground in Dublin, joining the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, to lay wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.\n\nQueen Elizabeth at the National Convention Centre, Dublin, in 2011\n\nGiven that the garden is dedicated to those who died fighting British rule, this was another occasion that, at one time, would have seemed unimaginable.\n\nThen the Queen went on to charm her Irish audience at a state banquet when she spoke in Irish, greeting them: \"A Uachtaráin agus a chairde\" (president and friends).\n\nThere were some small, republican protests, but during a visit to the English market in Cork, most people seemed more than ready to welcome the Queen on the first visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch since King George V in 1911.\n\nIf these scenes were a novelty in Cork, not so north of the border where the Queen was a frequent visitor over the decades.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrived by steam train to open the new Bellarena Station village in County Londonderry in 2016\n\nIn fact, she took her first flight in an aircraft in 1945 when, as a teenage princess, she accompanied her parents to Northern Ireland on a two-day visit.\n\nFour years later, Princess Elizabeth was back, together with her husband, Prince Philip.\n\nThe couple returned in 1953 after the Queen's coronation.\n\nInevitably, given the politics of Ireland, not everyone was a fan. In 1966, the Queen opened a new bridge across the River Lagan in Belfast named in her honour. But as her motorcade wound through the city, a protester dropped a brick from a high building onto the bonnet of the Royal car.\n\nWhen the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, the Troubles were at their height. The IRA threatened to give the monarch a \"visit to remember\".\n\nSpectators lined the shores of Belfast Lough to watch the Queen arrive on board the Royal Yacht Britannia. She made a special reference to Northern Ireland in her Christmas message that year.\n\n\"No-where is reconciliation more desperately needed than in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen visited Pat O'Connell's fish stall at the English Market in Cork in 2011\n\n\"That is why I was particularly pleased to go there. No-one dared to promise an early end to the Troubles but there is no doubt that people of goodwill in Northern Ireland were greatly heartened by the chance they had to share the celebrations with the rest of the nation and Commonwealth.\"\n\nShe often expressed sadness after atrocities committed during the Troubles. But the murder that hurt her most personally had to be the IRA's assassination of Earl Mountbatten, in 1979.\n\nThe earl was her husband's uncle. She appeared to refer implicitly to his loss many years later in her Dublin speech.\n\n\"It is a sad and regrettable reality that through history our islands have experienced more than their fair share of heartache, turbulence and loss,\" she said.\n\n\"These events have touched us all, many of us personally, and are a painful legacy. We can never forget those who have died or been injured, and their families.\n\n\"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy.\n\n\"With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.\"\n\nThe then Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid showed the Queen the site of the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh, as part of the Golden Jubilee Tour in 2002\n\nAs the Troubles raged, the Queen did not visit Northern Ireland at all during the 1980s.\n\nBut she returned in the 1990s - praising the Ulster Defence Regiment in Lisburn, opening another new bridge in Belfast and meeting church leaders in Armagh.\n\nIn 2000, she presented the Royal Ulster Constabulary with the George Cross, then later that decade watched dance and drama in Londonderry, and toured the site of the Omagh bombing.\n\nAt Stormont, she praised the progress made towards peace.\n\n\"Life has never been straightforward here, but I welcome the real sense of normality that has, over recent years, been returning to the lives of ordinary people, even if tempered from time to time by moments of disappointment and pessimism. You now have a better future for Northern Ireland in your grasp,\" she told politicians.\n\nThe Queen's trip to the Giant's Causeway in 2016 was her first visit to Northern Ireland's best known tourist attraction\n\nHer last visit to Northern Ireland ended up being in 2016 - she had been due to visit Northern Ireland for a two-day trip in October 2021 to coincide with the centenary but it was cancelled on medical advice.\n\nThis was perhaps when the public first became aware of concerns surrounding the then 95-year-old's health.\n\nThroughout her reign, the Queen remained painfully aware of the tragedies that beset Northern Ireland.\n\nBut she seemed to take heart from the knowledge that she could play an important role in helping people put the past in perspective and concentrating minds on what she hoped would be a brighter future.", "Asda has temporarily limited purchases of its new budget range Just Essentials, blaming soaring demand.\n\nThe supermarket said customers would be limited to buying three items at most of each product until further notice.\n\nIt launched Just Essentials in May, promising an expanded line of low-cost products to help shoppers with the cost of living.\n\nThat came after food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe criticised Asda for cutting back its budget ranges in some stores.\n\nBut on Wednesday, the supermarket said demand was outstripping availability, with sales growing almost 20% faster than the market average.\n\n\"Just Essentials is proving very popular with customers and we are working hard to improve availability across the range,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"To ensure as many customers as possible can buy these products, we are temporarily limiting purchases to a maximum of three of each product for a short period of time. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.\"\n\nIt comes as the price of food soars, with consumers paying a record £571 more on average for their groceries than last year, according to data from research firm Kantar.\n\nAsda's new value range, which features 300 budget products, replaced its smaller Smart Price range in May.\n\nMs Monroe had criticised the supermarket in April for taking value ranges off its shelves and raising prices at time when many household budgets were being squeezed.\n\nEarlier this year trade magazine The Grocer said suppliers were given just four weeks to come up with new products for Just Essentials.\n\nThe supermarket has also faced criticism that the range's bright yellow packaging \"stigmatises\" hard up shoppers - claims it rejects.\n\nAsda, which was bought by the billionaire Issa brothers and their backers TDR Capital in 2020, is the UK's third largest grocer.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit 9.9% in the year to August, easing slightly from 10.1% in July.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, food prices rose at their fastest pace since 2008 last month as the war in Ukraine continued to help drive up prices at supermarket tills.\n\nShoppers are seeking discounts and the budget chain Aldi overtook Morrisons in August to become the fourth-largest UK supermarket for the first time, according to Kantar.\n\nPeople are also cutting back on spending by buying more own-brand products, with sales of the very cheapest value own-label products up by a third compared to last year.", "Thousands of people have been queuing along the banks of the River Thames to view the Queen's coffin as she lies in state in London's Westminster Hall.\n\nQueues have been building since Wednesday morning, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to pay their respects before her funeral on Monday.\n\nA line of mourners hoping to view the coffin is snaking for around five miles from Westminster across Lambeth Bridge and along the river to Southwark Park. Some have queued for hours, sometimes overnight, in all weathers for a chance to pay their respects.\n\nWestminster Hall opened its doors to the public on Wednesday after a grand procession brought the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace. The lying-in-state will continue until 06:30 BST on Monday, the day of the state funeral. The government has warned people could face 30-hour waits to get in.\n\nThey will walk by the Queen's closed coffin, which rests on a raised platform, known as a catafalque, beneath the 11th Century hall's medieval timber roof.\n\nEach corner of the platform is being guarded in a continuous vigil by soldiers from units that serve the Royal Household.\n\nThe coffin is draped in the Royal Standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown, a wreath of white roses and dahlias and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre.\n\nThe grand hall is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, at the heart of British government.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nThe BBC has a dedicated live stream for those unable to travel to London. The service is available in the UK on the BBC home page, the BBC News website and app, iPlayer, BBC Parliament and the red-button. It is also available internationally via bbc.com/news.\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds of mourners packed the streets between Buckingham Palace and Westminster for the slow ceremonial procession to carry the coffin to the hall.\n\nIn the bright sunshine that followed the rain, the coffin made its way through the heart of the capital borne on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by seven black horses.\n\nA huge 18 hands-tall (183cm) veteran horse named Lord Firebrand, ridden by Capt Amy Cooper, led the procession and set the pace.\n\nThe gun carriage, known as the George Gun Carriage, carried King George VI's coffin in 1952 and was used in the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.\n\nTo the sound of funeral marches played by the Scots Guards and the Grenadier Guards, the procession stepped off at a slow pace of 75 steps per minute - a tempo typically reserved for such sombre occasions.\n\nKing Charles III, wearing full ceremonial uniform, followed behind the coffin on foot, accompanied by his siblings as well as his sons, Prince William, dressed in his Royal Air Force uniform, and Prince Harry in a morning suit.\n\nThe King and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, were among those following the coffin\n\nThe sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, evoked poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral 25 years ago, said royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.\n\nUp to 1,000 members of the armed forces in ceremonial dress took part in events surrounding the parade.\n\nBehind mounted Metropolitan Police, the procession was headed by the Household Cavalry and the Grenadier and Scots Guards. They were followed, just ahead of the Queen's coffin, by members of the Royal Household, those working closely with the Queen.\n\nFollowing the King and other royals behind the coffin and bringing up the rear of the procession were members of the King's former household, when he was known as the Prince of Wales.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex travelled to the hall by car.\n\nGuns were being fired from Hyde Park at one-minute intervals throughout the procession. Big Ben also tolled.\n\nAs her coffin passed by some in the crowd burst into tears, BBC correspondent Nick Beake said. Others made the sign of the cross, army veterans saluted their former commander-in-chief - while families embraced, he added.\n• None Procession for the Lying-in-State of Her Majesty The Queen - Gov.uk The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ashley Dale, 28, died after she was shot in the garden of her home on Leinster Road\n\nThree men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was shot in her back garden in Liverpool.\n\nAshley Dale, 28, died after she was found wounded in the Old Swan area in the early hours of 21 August.\n\nThree men, aged 27, 35, and 40, were detained in Cumbria and Merseyside and were also held on suspicion of possession of a firearm.\n\nA 57-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, police said.\n\nThe four suspects, from Merseyside, remain in custody for questioning.\n\nThis brings the total number of arrests to eight, police have said.\n\nTwo men previously arrested on suspicion of Ms Dale's murder and two women held on suspicion of assisting an offender remain on bail.\n\nOpening her inquest in August, Liverpool senior coroner Andre Rebello told Gerard Majella Courthouse that the environmental health officer was not believed to have been the intended target of the shooting.\n\nHe said the door of Ms Dale's Leinster Road home had been forced and she had been found lying unresponsive close to her mobile phone and several bullet casings in her back garden.\n\nHe added that until someone was caught and the process of law was applied to \"this most heinous tragedy\", her family would \"struggle with a very difficult bereavement journey\".\n\nMs Dale was found in the back garden of her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan\n\nSpeaking shortly after her death, Ms Dale's family described her as \"a hard-working young woman who had her entire life ahead of her\".\n\nShe had recently been promoted at her job with Knowsley Council, they said.\n\n\"None of this makes sense and our lives will never be the same again. A senseless crime that has torn a family apart,\" they added.\n\nMs Dale was one of four people who were killed in a week on Merseyside.\n\nLater that day, nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot dead in her home in Dovecot.\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.", "An EU court has largely upheld a record fine against Google for using the Android platform to cement its search engine's dominance.\n\nThe €4.125bn (£3.5bn) penalty is the largest anti-trust fine ever handed down by the European Commission.\n\nIt said Google had breached its laws by forcing Android phone-makers to carry its search and web browser apps in order to access the Google Play Store in 2018.\n\nGoogle has since changed its terms.\n\nThe firm said it was \"disappointed\" by the verdict.\n\n\"Android has created more choice for everyone, not less, and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world,\" Google said in a statement.\n\nGoogle acquired the mobile phone operating system developer, which today powers roughly 70% of the world's mobile phones, in 2005 for $50m (£43m).\n\nThe European General Court reduced the European Commission's original fine slightly in Wednesday's final ruling on Google's appeal. It said this was to reflect \"the gravity and the duration\" of the infringement.\n\n\"The General Court largely confirms the Commission's decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine,\" it said.\n\nA European Commission spokesperson said it will \"carefully study the judgement and decide on possible next steps\".\n\nThe European Consumer Organisation, which represents a network of consumer groups across the EU, welcomed the ruling.\n\nMonique Goyens, its director general, said the ruling \"confirms that Europe's consumers must enjoy meaningful choice between search engines and browsers on their phones and tablets\".\n\nShe said Google had deprived consumers of \"genuine choice\" over which search engines to use.\n\n\"If they preferred, for example, to use more innovative and privacy-friendly services, Google's restrictions prevented them from doing so.\"\n\nThe court's ruling shores up the European Commission's efforts to clamp down on Big Tech, after anti-trust fines against Intel and Qualcomm were quashed by the European General Court earlier this year.\n\nGoogle says it was acting like any other business when it told other manufacturers using Android that in order to include the Play Store on their smartphones and tablets, they also had to pre-install Google's own search and web apps.\n\nWithout that store, the devices would have had limited access to other apps, making them a lot less desirable to buy. The EU says this was unlawful.\n\nThe appeal has dragged on for four years now, but Google did change its terms after the original ruling, in 2018. The European court lowered the fine slightly to reflect this - but it's still the largest anti-trust penalty it has ever given out.\n\nGoogle says Android offers more choice, not less, and that anyone is free to change their search and web browser apps - but the reality is that most people never stray from the option that came with their phone.\n\nThe EU argues Google used its position to obtain too large a share of the search pie\n\nA number of different manufacturers use Android as the operating system for their devices.\n\nGoogle's version of Android does not prevent device owners downloading alternative web browsers or using other search engines.\n\nBut at the time of the original 2018 judgement the EU's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said that only 1% of users downloaded a rival search app, and 10% a different browser.\n\n\"Rapid innovation, wide choice, and falling prices are classic hallmarks of robust competition and Android has enabled all of them,\" chief executive Sundar Pichai blogged.\n\nIn that original ruling, the EU commission said that Google had abused its \"dominant position\" by imposing anti-competitive contractual restrictions on manufacturers because:\n\nGoogle was required to \"stop and to not re-engage in any of the three types of practices\" or do anything else that might have the same effect.\n\nIn denying Google's appeal, the court agreed with all but the last of these findings - concerning payments to manufacturers - which it annulled.\n\nThe European Commission first began scrutinising Android in April 2015, after a complaint by FairSearch - a lobby group that originally included Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle among its members.\n\nClifford Chance, a law firm representing FairSearch, said the latest judgment was a \"vindication\" of its client's complaint.\n\nA partner of the firm, Dieter Paemen, said in a statement: \"The annulment of one of the infringements found and the reduction of the fine won't lighten up the mood in Mountain View - that's just a drop in the bucket for Google.\n\n\"This is a positive outcome for consumers who stand a better chance of real choices on their mobile devices.\"\n\nNow, Mr Paemen said, the Commission must turn to seriously enforcing the \"remedies\" in the decision.", "Lisa Jarmany created this topper in Tydd St Mary in Lincolnshire\n\nKnitted and crocheted tributes are just one of many ways people across England have found to honour the late Queen.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II died at her Balmoral estate in Scotland on Thursday at the age of 96.\n\nSince her death a number of postboxes across the country have been decked out with special woolly tops.\n\nThe Royal Mail said it appreciated \"the creativity\" but has asked people to ensure they do not prevent mail from being collected or posted.\n\nMany of the toppers feature images of the late monarch, her beloved corgis and an array of crowns.\n\nLynn Clegg's toppers have seen villagers call her the 'Banksy of Walton'\n\nVictoria Gibbons fashioned this topper for a postbox in Walters Ash, High Wycombe\n\nLisa Jarmany, from Tydd St Mary in Lincolnshire, said she had been taught to crochet by her great-grandmother when she was seven.\n\nShe said she had always wanted to make a postbox topper and the announcement of the Queen's death had pushed her to do it.\n\n\"It really made me think 'right, now I am going to get one done'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stafford group Chicks that Knit describe the process of making a topper\n\nMs Jarmany said it was \"quite fiddly\" to do and it took her about 20 hours to complete.\n\n\"Our post box is right outside our village shop, which I run,\" she said.\n\n\"I just know it will bring a smile to a lot of people's faces.\"\n\nThis topper appeared at Mickleover in Derbyshire\n\nThis one was spotted in Sutton on Sea near Mablethorpe\n\nLynn Clegg, from Walton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, has been making postbox toppers for two years.\n\n\"I started doing them during the first lockdown,\" she explained.\n\n\"I had to shield for 18 months due to starting chemotherapy.\n\n\"The villagers absolutely love them and they now call me Banksy of Walton.\"\n\nLaura Sutcliffe's topper in Church Stretton, Shropshire, thanked the Queen for her years of service\n\nThis crown appeared on top of the postbox outside Windermere Post Office in Cumbria\n\nA Royal Mail spokesperson said: \"Over the years, our customers have created postbox toppers across the UK, including now to commemorate the period of national mourning for Her Majesty the Queen.\n\n\"We appreciate the creativity and hard work that goes into designing and making these works of art.\n\n\"We always ask that such decorations avoid raising any safety concerns or causing offence, and that toppers do not inadvertently prevent mail from being posted and collected.\"\n\nTracy Williams' topper appeared in Heathfield, East Sussex, while Veronica Stevens' can be found in Burringham Road, Scunthorpe\n\nDiane Croombs placed her topper on a postbox in Gosport", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen made a \"huge difference in changing attitudes\" in Northern Ireland, says Stormont Speaker Alex Maskey\n\nAs the speaker at Stormont, Alex Maskey knows how to get his message across.\n\nPicking the right moment with the right audience is all part of the job.\n\nToday in the presence of King Charles III and Camila, the Queen Consort, and with a massive audience looking in he seized his opportunity.\n\nHe is Sinn Féin's longest-serving elected representative and a former republican prisoner.\n\nToday his job was to deliver a message of condolence to the royal couple on behalf of the Northern Ireland Assembly, but he crafted a speech which went well beyond words of comfort.\n\nHe carefully contrasted the Queen's leadership in helping to build peace and reconciliation with the lack of leadership elsewhere.\n\nIt was a veiled swipe at those behind the stalemate at Stormont.\n\nIn another political dig to others he highlighted how the Queen in her work underlined that one tradition is not diminished by reaching out to show respect to another.\n\nThe speaker also took the opportunity to remind the King how the political landscape has been transformed allowing someone from his background to hold the office of Speaker.\n\nIt was a speech laced with political undertones but on the surface respectful to both the late Queen and King Charles.\n\nIn an earlier exchange in a back room, Mr Maskey brought a smile to the King's face during a conversation with the political leaders.\n\nThe King spent time speaking with leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties at Hillsborough Castle, including Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (centre)\n\nKing Charles remarked to Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill how her party, was now the largest at Stormont when the Speaker quickly jumped in and said \"don't tell Jeffrey\" - a reference to Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, who was standing next to them.\n\nIt followed a warm two handed handshake from Ms O'Neill to King Charles as she talked about the Queen's passing.\n\nHe thanked her for her kind words about his mother, to which Ms O'Neill replied: \"She played a great role in peacebuilding and reconciliation, it is the end of an era.\"\n\nThe King also spent time talking to Sir Jeffrey, Alliance leader Naomi Long, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Doug Beattie and SDLP assembly member Mathew O'Toole.", "The household of the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall - now King Charles III and Queen Consort - has ceased operations\n\nSome staff at Clarence House have been warned their jobs are at risk following King Charles III's accession to the throne.\n\nThe Guardian said dozens of staff were told during the thanksgiving service for the Queen in Edinburgh on Monday.\n\nClarence House said some redundancies were \"unavoidable\" because of the change in role for Charles and his wife Camilla, now Queen Consort.\n\nThey were working to find alternative roles for employees, a spokesman said.\n\nThe Guardian reported that private secretaries, the finance office, the communications team and household staff were among those who had been warned of redundancies, as the offices of King Charles III and the Queen Consort move to Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe King's top aide, his principal private secretary Sir Clive Alderton, said in the letter to staff that the change in role for the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall meant Clarence House would be \"closed down\".\n\nHe said the former Prince of Wales's personal interests and former activities would no longer be carried out.\n\n\"It is therefore expected that the need for the posts principally based at Clarence House whose work supports these areas, will no longer be needed.\"\n\nStaff were left livid and shaken by the announcement, the newspaper said.\n\nThe Clarence House spokesman said: \"Following last week's accession, the operations of the household of the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have ceased and, as required by law, a consultation process has begun.\n\n\"Our staff have given long and loyal service and, while some redundancies will be unavoidable, we are working urgently to identify alternative roles for the greatest possible number of staff.\"\n\nThe Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned the decision to announce redundancies during the period of mourning as \"nothing short of heartless\".\n\n\"While some changes across the households were to be expected, as roles across the Royal Family change, the scale and speed at which this has been announced is callous in the extreme,\" said general secretary Mark Serwotka.\n\n\"Least of all because we do not know what staffing the incoming Prince of Wales and his family might need.\n\nMr Serwotka said the union would \"continue to work with the Royal Households to ensure that those staff have full job security\".\n\n\"We remain committed to supporting those colleagues across the wider Royal Family's estates, whose futures are thrown into turmoil by this announcement at this already difficult time.\"\n\nIt is understood legal advice taken by the household required the information to be shared with staff at the earliest opportunity, despite efforts to delay until after the Queen's funeral.\n\nHowever, Grant Harrold, former butler to King Charles when he was the Prince of Wales, said the news would not have come as a shock to staff.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Trust me, it's not a shock for the household.\"\n\n\"When I joined, I was fully aware that if the Queen passed I would be redundant because my boss is no longer the Prince of Wales.\"\n\nMr Harrold, who previously worked at Highgrove House, the King's family residence in Gloucestershire, added: \"The good thing is, I know they will do everything possible to make sure that people are put into positions where possible - and, as I said, there will be people that want to retire or want a change of career.\"\n\nClarence House, which stands alongside St James's Palace, was the official London residence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed whether the King and Queen Consort will live at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe households of the Queen Mother and the Duke of Edinburgh were closed after their deaths.\n\nAny Clarence House staff being made redundant will be offered \"enhanced\" redundancy payments, it is understood. No staff will be affected for at least three months.", "A French woman at a camp in Syria in 2021, where relatives of suspected IS fighters are held (file picture)\n\nFrance has been ordered to re-examine the repatriation requests of two French women accused of travelling to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group.\n\nFrance has long refused to allow IS members to return on security grounds.\n\nBut the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said the women had been denied the right to enter a country \"of which (one) is a national\".\n\nIt ordered the French government to review the case and ensure against \"arbitrariness\" of the refusal.\n\nOfficials in Paris have argued that French nationals who committed crimes in Syria and Iraq must face local justice, rather that being repatriated to their home country.\n\nBut the Strasbourg court said officials had to \"re-examine the repatriation requests, in a prompt manner\".\n\nThe two women, aged 31 and 33 respectively, left France in 2014 and 2015 with their partners. They travelled to the Syrian city of Raqqa and the Iraqi city of Mosul, where they later gave birth to several children.\n\nSince the fall of the so-called IS, the women have been held in Kurdish controlled refugee camps in north-eastern Syria, and their parents - who brought the case - said they faced the risk of disease and malnutrition.\n\nThey also alleged that their lives at the camp are at risk at the camp and asked the court to ensure that their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights were protected.\n\nBut judges said the French government cannot be held responsible for conditions in Syrian camps since \"it was not exercising its jurisdiction there\".\n\nThe ECHR is a court of the Council of Europe, which has 46 members, and is separate to the European Union.\n\nIts decision could create a political headache for a number of European governments, who have sought to prevent the return of citizens who joined IS.\n\nThousands of former IS members are believed to be held in Syrian camps and human groups say some 75 French women and 160 children remain at refugee camps.\n\nAnother 40,000 foreign nationals, most of them Iraqis, are also detained in camps across Syria.\n\nIn the UK, the British government has faced a long-running dispute with Shamima Begum.\n\nShe was 15 years old when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join the IS group in 2015.\n\nThe UK government stripped her of her citizenship and denied her requests to return to the country after she was found at a refugee camp in Syria by British journalists.\n\nBut other countries, such as Ireland - who recently tried a former member of its defence forces over her membership of IS - have chosen to allow citizens to return and later place them on trial.", "King Charles III became frustrated with a leaking pen when signing a book at Hillsborough Castle, an official residence in Northern Ireland, with Camilla, Queen Consort, remarking on how the pen was leaking.\n\nThe King has undertaken a gruelling schedule since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on 8 September and has been performing ceremonial duties throughout the United Kingdom since then.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe 'period of silence' at Anfield lasted for about 30 seconds and was observed by all but a handful of those in the stadium Tributes to the Queen were respectfully observed across 30 EFL games and at Liverpool and Tottenham's Champions League matches as UK football resumed after the weekend's postponements. All English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football was called off after the UK's longest-serving monarch died aged 96 last week. At almost all English Football League (EFL) matches the National Anthem was played. A 'period of silence' was held at EFL games as well as Liverpool and Tottenham's Champions League matches. BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty reported that the vast majority of Liverpool supporters at a capacity Anfield observed a shorter period of silence impeccably, with one or two rogue shouts at the start of the tribute quickly shouted down before their fixture against Ajax. A minute's silence was respected at Swansea City in the only EFL game taking place in Wales while the Championship club opted not to play the National Anthem before their home game with Sheffield United. Liverpool said before the game against Ajax that a 'period of silence' would be held and it lasted for about 30 seconds. Liverpool fans booed 'Abide With Me' and 'God Save the Queen' before last season's FA Cup final but manager Jurgen Klopp said on Monday he was confident they would show respect against Ajax, as they did against Manchester United last season following the death of Cristiano Ronaldo's baby boy. On Tuesday, the Hillsborough Survivors Support Alliance, along with Liverpool legends Sir Kenny Dalglish and Graeme Souness, also urged fans to show respect. A minute's silence was observed before Tottenham's Champions League game at Sporting Lisbon, where the Champions League anthem was also played. But the Champions League anthem was not played at Anfield, nor was there a Champions League banner in the centre circle. Neither the Champions League anthem nor the British National Anthem will be played at any of this week's Champions League games in the UK, with Uefa having rejected requests from Chelsea, Manchester City and Rangers to play 'God Save the King' at their home games on Wednesday. Both sets of players wore black armbands at Anfield, as did all EFL players, while flags were flown at half-mast. Some clubs also ensured they played appropriate music and suspended their regular advertisements as a mark of respect. Elsewhere, Mansfield Town released 96 doves during the players' handshake before their League Two game at home to Carlisle United. Classical singer Russell Watson sang the national anthem before Preston's Championship game against Burnley while at AFC Wimbledon's League Two home game with Northampton, messages recorded by local MPs were played as they joined a group of more than 50 dignitaries to lay a floral tribute in the centre circle before kick-off. A Swansea statement read: \"The EFL provided all clubs with guidance around the suggested form and order any tributes should take. While that guidance was not prescriptive, as a club we tailored our tribute in a manner that we deemed appropriate. \"We would like to place on record our sincere thanks to supporters of both clubs who impeccably observed the minute's silence, while the tributes on display up and down the country was the perfect way to remember Her late Majesty.\" Swansea and fellow Welsh club Wrexham issued requests for their fans to respect the minute's silence, but there was a minority of shouting and booing before Wrexham's National League game at home to Dagenham & Redbridge, partly from fans rebuking other supporters. In a statement on Wednesday, Wrexham said it was \"disappointing to hear the one-minute silence disturbed be a small number of individuals among the 9,835 in attendance\", \"To have the club's name in the media this morning for all the wrong reasons, is not a scenario that should have occurred and we wish to apologise to all who were offended by the actions of the minority, while thanking the vast majority who did observe the one-minute silence. \"A number of the individuals who disturbed the one-minute silence were asked to leave the Racecourse Ground for their own safety.\" Mansfield Town released 96 doves as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died aged 96 Programmes at many EFL games featured an image of Queen Elizabeth II, including Hull City's match against Stoke City An image of Queen Elizabeth II was displayed on the big screen before MK Dons' game with Bolton Wanderers At Bayern Munich's Champions League game with Barcelona, fans displayed banners telling authorities to 'respect fans' after the postponement of the weekend's games in the UK\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", "Government support for businesses struggling with energy bills may not arrive until November.\n\nHowever, the help would be backdated, and cover the period from 1 October, a government spokesperson said.\n\nLast week Prime Minister Liz Truss said firms would get \"equivalent support\" to the help that was announced for households.\n\nBut companies have been in the dark as to what that actually means, including how much support they will get.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We will confirm further details of the business support scheme next week. The scheme will support businesses with their October energy bills, including through backdating if necessary.\"\n\nThe help may be backdated because the precise mechanism and amount of support may not be finalised till November, a government source said.\n\nThe support for business was also time-limited to six months, with an option to extend support for \"vulnerable businesses\" - but there was little indication of what that means either.\n\nAlan Soady from The Federation for Small Business told the BBC \"all businesses are vulnerable if they are energy users and let's face it, the problems in the gas market don't look they are going away in six months\".\n\nUnlike households - where a cap on the unit price for gas and electricity means an average household will pay £2,500 per year for energy - there is no such mechanism for businesses.\n\nFirms have a huge variety of different contracts based on the intensity of their usage and the mix between gas and electricity.\n\nMany big businesses also have their own energy buying departments and systems to insure themselves, or \"hedge\", against extreme price movements.\n\nAlso, unlike households, there is no price cap, and therefore no moment when everyone's bills will change.\n\nFirms typically have one or two-year fixed contracts, but a significant number - the CBI estimates a third - traditionally come up for renewal before winter and in October.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said meetings continue, to thrash out the details of their approach, and the business of government goes on during the official mourning period.\n\nThat will be little comfort to a business owner I spoke to last week agonising over whether to hand back the keys to his premises ahead of this winter.\n\nThe Prime Minister and Chancellor have written a blank cheque trying to avert a recession.\n\nHouseholds' knowledge their bills are fixed for the next two years will help in that endeavour, but few businesses will invest, hire, or sign a new lease until they know what help is coming their way, when and for how long.\n\nIf recession is to be avoided, the government will need to provide more detail, and reassurance as soon as possible.", "Thursday has been a quieter day than others over the last week - with King Charles at Highgrove House before he heads to Wales tomorrow, and the Queen's coffin lying in state for a first full day.\n\nBut there's still been a wave of activity across the country, including a walkabout in Norfolk by the new Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nLet's take a look at some of the key moments of the day.\n\nThursday began with an early-morning rehearsal of the Queen's funeral. This photo was taken at around 03:00 BST Image caption: Thursday began with an early-morning rehearsal of the Queen's funeral. This photo was taken at around 03:00 BST\n\nThe new Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, headed to Sandringham House to see flower tributes to the Queen Image caption: The new Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, headed to Sandringham House to see flower tributes to the Queen\n\nLondon school children joined Muslims from across the UK at Regent's Park Mosque to honour the life of Queen Elizabeth II and to mark the accession of King Charles III Image caption: London school children joined Muslims from across the UK at Regent's Park Mosque to honour the life of Queen Elizabeth II and to mark the accession of King Charles III\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack (centre left) and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace (centre right) stood guard by the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall. They're both members of the Royal Company of Archers Image caption: Scottish Secretary Alister Jack (centre left) and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace (centre right) stood guard by the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall. They're both members of the Royal Company of Archers\n\nThousands are still queuing to see the Queen's coffin lying in state; the estimated wait time is at least eight hours Image caption: Thousands are still queuing to see the Queen's coffin lying in state; the estimated wait time is at least eight hours\n\nThis aerial shot shows dozens of people leaving Westminster Hall after paying their respects to the Queen Image caption: This aerial shot shows dozens of people leaving Westminster Hall after paying their respects to the Queen\n\nOver in New York, the UN General Assembly held a special session as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II Image caption: Over in New York, the UN General Assembly held a special session as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II", "The Queen's coffin will travel from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall on Wednesday to lie in state for four days, so the public can pay their final respects.\n\nThis video shows the route it will take.\n\nOn Monday, the coffin will be moved to nearby Westminster Abbey for the state funeral.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has been to the recaptured city of Izyum, a key logistics hub in north-eastern Ukraine.\n\nDuring his visit, Mr Zelensky thanked troops who took part in the counter-attack against Russian occupiers.\n\nHe oversaw a flag-raising ceremony and said the Ukrainian flag would return to every city and village in the country.\n\nUkrainian officials say they are targeting towns in the eastern Donbas region after making a series of gains in a rapid counter-offensive.\n\nIn recent days, Ukraine's army has reclaimed swathes of occupied territory, forcing Russian troops to retreat.\n\nIn a late evening address on Tuesday, Mr Zelensky said his forces were fortifying their hold over 8,000 sq km (3,088 sq miles) of retaken territory in the Kharkiv region.\n\nLast Thursday, President Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had retaken 1,000 sq km. By Sunday, Ukraine's figure had tripled to 3,000 sq km, before rising again to 6,000 sq km.\n\nThe precise scale of Ukraine's gains has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nMr Zelensky vowed to take back all Ukrainian territory still occupied by Russian forces - he said he did not know when this would happen, but that \"truth is on our side\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian military is deploying so-called barrier troops in Ukraine to prevent its own units from fleeing, according to Ukrainian military intelligence.\n\nUkrainian defence officials said that according to intercepted conversations, \"panic\" and \"refusals to fight\" are setting in among Russian troops.\n\nElsewhere in Ukraine, officials accused Russian forces of targeting civilian infrastructure in the southern city of Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday.\n\nCruise missiles fired at the city's \"hydraulic structures\" caused water levels in a nearby river to rise and threatened local drinking supplies, Ukrainian authorities said.\n\nResponding to the attack, Mr Zelensky described Russia as a \"terrorist state\" that was trying to \"flood Kryvyi Rih\".\n\n\"All the occupiers can do is to sow panic, create an emergency situation, try to leave people without light, heat, water and food. Can it break us? Not at all. Will they face a fair response and retribution? Definitely yes,\" the Ukrainian president said.\n\nIn the US, President Biden said Ukraine had made \"significant\" gains.\n\nHe said it was \"clear\" that the advance had enjoyed success, but cautioned that the offensive \"could be a long haul\".\n\nWhile Russia still controls around a fifth of Ukraine's territory, towns in the Donbas that fell early in the war are now the focus of Kyiv's advancing forces.\n\nAfter failing to capture cities across the country, including the capital, Kyiv, Russia is focusing on the Donbas - parts of which were already under the control of Russian-backed rebels before Russia launched its invasion this year.\n\nAndrey Marochko, military commander of the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic - one of two regions that make up the Donbas - told Russian state media that fighting had reached the borders of the territory.\n\nAnd Serhiy Haidai, the exiled Ukrainian head of the Luhansk region, said Ukrainian forces were engaging Russian troops on the outskirts of Lyman.\n\n\"There are fierce battles in Lyman now, which I think will last a few more days,\" Mr Haidai said in a Telegram post.\n\nLyman fell to Russian forces after a protracted battle at the end of May. It sits less than 150 km (93 miles) away from the city of Donetsk, the capital of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nIts capture was a coup for Russian troops, giving Moscow control over a key east-west highway.\n\nIn other areas, Ukrainian forces are said to have reached the Russian border, and Mr Hayday said their capture of two towns - Izyum and Kupiansk - could see supply lines to the Russian-held cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk severed.\n\nThe speed and scale of Ukraine's advance appears to have taken Russia by surprise\n\nAs Kyiv's forces move into previously occupied areas, allegations of Russian war crimes have started to emerge.\n\nLocals in the town of Balakliya told the BBC that Russian troops had tortured civilians at the town's police station during their occupation, while others recounted being electrocuted while in detention.\n\nThe Kremlin has admitted that its forces have left some eastern towns, but refused to call it a retreat, instead insisting that its forces were regrouping.\n\nOn Monday, Moscow insisted that it would press on with its invasion \"until all the goals that were originally set are achieved\".\n\nBut the pace of the Ukrainian advance appears to have taken Russian forces by surprise, with reports of some of Moscow's forces abandoning their uniforms to blend in with civilians.\n\nIn some areas, Russian teachers who moved to Ukrainian towns and cities after Moscow seized control were left behind by the retreating troops.\n\nAn unspecified number have now been detained by Ukrainian forces and Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has warned that they will face charges.\n\nMeanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to re-enter negotiations with Ukraine as soon as possible during a 90-minute phone call on Tuesday.\n\nA German government read-out of the call said Mr Scholz urged Mr Putin \"to find a diplomatic solution as soon as possible, based on a ceasefire, a complete withdrawal of Russian troops and respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This was His Majesty's 40th trip to Northern Ireland, but his first as King\n\nOn his first visit to Northern Ireland as King, Charles III said his mother \"never ceased to pray for the best of times for this place and its people\".\n\nThe King also received a message of condolence from the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nSinn Féin's Alex Maskey said the Queen recognised how a \"small but significant gesture can make a huge difference in changing attitudes\".\n\nThe royal couple spent just over four hours in Northern Ireland.\n\nTheir first engagement was at Hillsborough Castle, the only royal residence in Northern Ireland, which has been a focal point for floral tributes to the late Queen.\n\nThe King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, met well-wishers in the County Down village, before the King held a private meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and senior representatives from Stormont's political parties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III: New King meets NI parties for first time as monarch\n\nThe royal couple then travelled into Belfast for a service in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.\n\nSpeaking at Hillsborough Castle, the King said the late Queen had seen momentous and historic changes throughout her long reign.\n\n\"My mother felt deeply, I know, the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those who history had separated and extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts,\" he said.\n\n\"Now, with that shining example before me, and with God's help, I take up my new duties resolved to seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen made a \"huge difference in changing attitudes\" in Northern Ireland, says Stormont Speaker Alex Maskey\n\nStarting his speech in Irish, Mr Maskey, Sinn Féin's longest-serving elected representative, said: \"Ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh leat ag an am crua seo (I would like to sympathise with you at this difficult time).\n\n\"It's extraordinary to consider how much social and political change Queen Elizabeth witnessed... throughout her long reign.\n\n\"Yesterday an assembly of unionists, republicans, nationalists and those for whom the Constitution is not a main focus united to pay tribute to the late Queen.\n\n\"When she first came to the throne, no one would have anticipated an assembly so diverse and inclusive.\"\n\nHe was there to deliver a message of condolence to the King and Queen consort on the death of the Queen.\n\nBut the message he delivered went much further as he reflected on the changing political landscape in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe carefully contrasted the Queens leadership in helping to build peace and reconciliation with the lack of leadership elsewhere - a veiled swipe at those behind the stalemate at Stormont.\n\nIn another political dig to others, he highlighted how the Queen in her work underlined that one tradition is not diminished by reaching out to show respect to another.\n\nThe speaker also took the opportunity to remind the King how the political landscape has been transformed allowing someone from his background to hold the office of Speaker.\n\nRead more of Enda's analysis here.\n\nKing Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort arrived at Belfast City Airport\n\nAfter leaving Hillsborough Castle the royal couple travelled into Belfast to meet leaders from all the major faiths in Northern Ireland before a service of prayer and reflection on the life of Queen Elizabeth II at St Anne's Cathedral.\n\nDuring the service, Archbishop of Armagh John McDowell, the head of the Church of Ireland, highlighted the Queen's efforts to foster peace on the island of Ireland.\n\nHe told the King and Queen Consort that \"faithfulness, care, dutifulness, love and devotion\" were all part of her long reign.\n\n\"All of these could be employed to describe her relationship with Northern Ireland, with patience binding them all together, but paying attention especially to what she said most recently, the word which I think will be most associated with Queen Elizabeth and Ireland, north and south, is 'reconciliation',\" the archbishop said.\n\nHe added that the Queen \"followed where Jesus led as women often have in the elusive and unfinished work of reconciliation here in Ireland\".\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss attended the service, along with Irish President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin.\n\nAgain, hundreds of people lined the route through the city.\n\nThe Reas from Carryduff and the Dolans from Belvoir took the day off school and made their way to City Hall at 08:00 BST to see the royal couple.\n\n\"We'll never see anything like this again,\" said Lisa Dolan.\n\n\"It's a once in a lifetime event.\"\n\nMs Dolan said she felt sorry for the King being \"unable to grieve the way the rest of us would\", but understood it was his duty as monarch.\n\n\"He's been working towards this his entire life,\" she added.\n\nHazelwood Integrated students Jo and James were among those who gathered at Writers' Square, across from St Anne's Cathedral.\n\nHazelwood Integrated students Jo and James hoped to see the royal couple after the service at St Anne's Cathedral\n\nThey said that as history students, they were excited to be witnessing such an historical event.\n\n\"I was a wee bit heartbroken when the queen died - I'm not going to lie,\" said James.\n\nBut he was equally excited to see the new King.\n\n\"I had never really thought about the Queen as a force in my life until she died and then it felt like something was missing,\" Jo said.\n\nAt the end of the service, the King and Queen Consort left St Anne's through the west door where they again met members of the public in Writers' Square, before heading back to Belfast City Airport for the return flight to London.", "Kenneth Starr at an event in 2019\n\nKenneth Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to then-President Bill Clinton's impeachment, has died at the age of 76, his family says.\n\nStarr, a former judge and US solicitor general, died at a Houston hospital on Tuesday of complications from surgery.\n\nAs the independent counsel investigating Mr Clinton, Starr became a household name across the US.\n\nMore recently he served on the team defending former President Donald Trump from impeachment in 2020.\n\nA native of Texas, Starr was appointed by the US Department of Justice in 1994 to investigate Whitewater, a scandal-plagued 1980s land venture that involved both Bill and Hillary Clinton.\n\nWhile conducting the investigation, Starr found evidence that Mr Clinton had been having an affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.\n\nIt resulted in Mr Clinton being impeached by the US House of Representatives in 1998. He was later acquitted by the Senate. Starr wrote about the inquiry in a bestselling book, Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation.\n\nHe said while promoting the book in a CBS interview in 2018 that he regretted \"the pain that resulted to so many, including to the nation\" from the Lewinsky phase of the probe.\n\nMonica Lewinsky once said Starr turned her life into a \"living hell\"\n\nBut he maintained \"it had to be done\" and declined to apologise to Ms Lewinsky for the bullying and harassment she endured after the affair came to light.\n\nFor her part, Ms Lewinsky wrote in a Vanity Fair magazine article that Starr had turned her life into a \"living hell\", and described him as \"creepy\" after bumping into him at a Manhattan restaurant.\n\nHer reaction to news of his death was more measured.\n\nMs Lewinsky tweeted: \"as i'm sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings… but of more importance, is that i imagine it's a painful loss for those who love him.\"\n\nYears after the Clinton investigation in 2016, Starr was forced to leave a position as President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, after an inquiry determined that the school had mishandled rape accusations involving members of its football team. The scandal also led to his resignation as the university's chancellor and as a law professor.\n\nStarr continued to practise law after leaving the university. He also taught constitutional law, penned several books and was a legal pundit for Fox News.\n\nIn early 2020, he again returned to the national spotlight by joining a team defending Mr Trump against impeachment proceedings.\n\nThat inquiry stemmed from claims the then-president had withheld military aid to Ukraine in a bid to force the country to dig up dirt on his political rivals. Mr Trump was acquitted of the charges.\n\nImpeachment, Starr said at the time, was a \"matter of last resort\", arguing that the charges against Mr Trump paled in comparison to those faced by Mr Clinton.\n\nStarr is survived by his wife Alice and three children.\n\n\"We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving father and grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first,\" one of his sons, Randall Starr, said in a statement.\n\nRobert Vagley, the former head of the American Insurance Association, was quoted in the family's statement as saying that Starr will always be remembered for his \"willingness to serve for the greater good without regard for his own plans and wishes\".", "The Treasury is considering removing a cap on bankers' bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules.\n\nSources said no final decisions had been made, but confirmed chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng considered it a way of making London a more attractive place for global banks to do business.\n\nCity bosses have long complained about the EU-wide bonus rules which cap bonuses at twice an employee's salary.\n\nThey say they lead to higher base pay that pushes up banks' fixed costs.\n\nThose costs cannot be adjusted in line with the firm's financial performance, they add, making the UK less attractive than the US or Asia.\n\nPeople close to Mr Kwarteng confirmed reports in the Financial Times that the new chancellor is considering the move.\n\nCritics have argued that uncapped bonuses lead to the kind of excessive risk taking that spawned the financial crisis of 2008.\n\nBut others argue that other new rules that can hold senior managers personally and potentially criminally responsible for misconduct, plus the ability to claw back bonuses years after they are granted, achieve a sufficient disincentive.\n\nTaking the lid off bankers' pay at a time when many households are facing hardship from the rising cost of living will undoubtedly provoke outrage in many quarters.\n\nThe proposal \"sends a rather confused signal when people are being squeezed in terms of the cost of living, and the government is trying to encourage pay restraint in the public sector\", Andrew Sentance, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, told the BBC.\n\n\"To appear to allow bankers to have bigger bonuses at the same time, doesn't look very well timed. There may be some longer term arguments for pursing this policy but I think the timing would be very bad if they did it now.\"\n\nRachel Winter, from Killick & Co, told the BBC: \"It's an absolutely terrible time for this headline when you've got inflation [at] a 40-year high, you've got so many people struggling with the cost of living, do we really want to be reading headlines about banker bonuses?\n\n\"Arguably the banks do pay a lot of tax, so I think the chancellor is looking at ways to boost the UK economy to get more banks to come to London, to stay in London and pay more tax.\"\n\nRemoving the cap is just one of a number of deregulation initiatives being considered.\n\nThe government is also keen to relax rules limiting the amount insurance and pension funds can invest in assets that are harder to sell at short notice - such as long-term infrastructure projects.\n\nThese rules are part of pan-European regulations collectively known as Solvency II.\n\nBut the Bank of England is concerned that relaxing the rules could expose pensioners' savings to greater long-term risk and that lowering the amount of ready cash firms are required to hold could see them pay out any money freed up to their shareholders rather than invest in projects favoured by the government.\n\nPitting the Treasury and the financial services industry against the Bank of England is seen as a key test of the Bank's independence and senior officials at the Bank have privately conceded the fight over Solvency II is a political one they could well lose.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng laid out his \"unashamedly pro-growth plan\" for the economy at a gathering of senior bankers two weeks ago.\n\nHe would argue that the instincts that persuade him to cut banking regulations are the same instincts that persuaded him to throw a £100bn-plus shield over businesses and households to prevent high energy prices causing a job-and-growth-killing recession.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrinces William and Harry were joined by Catherine and Meghan at Windsor as they viewed the tributes to the Queen and spent time talking to the crowd.\n\nThousands of people had gathered throughout the day outside the castle before the four arrived.\n\nAmanda Goldsmith was one of many who had come to Windsor to lay flowers, where she met the new Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"I shook William and Catherine's hands. She is so beautiful and was lovely. She spoke to me for ages.\n\nAmanda Goldsmith and husband Andrew Mitchell waited hours to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales\n\n\"I told them I was sorry for their loss and she said 'it's just not the same at the castle without the Queen'.\"\n\nMs Goldsmith, who had come from West Byfleet, in Surrey, with her husband Andrew Mitchell, said the Prince of Wales had commented on the flowers and cards left by children saying they were amazing.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex spent time speaking to those in the crowd\n\nOn Thursday Prince William and his brother Prince Harry had joined their father and other senior members of the Royal Family at Balmoral in Scotland as a statement was issued that the Queen was under medical supervision, before later that day it was announced that she had died.\n\nNow on the day that King Charles III was proclaimed King in a grand ceremony at St James's Palace, his sons were together in public outside Windsor, meeting some of the thousands who have been gathering since Thursday.\n\nFor many within the crowd the first sign that the royals were about to appear was when security placed barriers around the Cambridge Gate entrance and on Long Walk.\n\nThen suddenly there were cheers, children were raised on people's shoulders and everyone's phone was in the air to grab a picture as Princes William and Harry arrived with Catherine and Meghan.\n\nWilliam was made the Prince of Wales by his father, King Charles III\n\nThe last time William was joined in public by his brother at Windsor Castle was at the funeral of their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh in April last year.\n\nSilence then fell as the couples, united in grief, stopped to read the tributes, pointing out particular messages.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex held hands as they walked from the car and read the tributes, with Harry affectionately putting his hand on Meghan's back at one stage.\n\nApplause broke out again as the four royals then made their way to greet the waiting crowd, where they received dozens of bouquets.\n\nPriti Vyas, from Pinner, said she \"felt both happy and very emotional\" and was glad to have been able to speak to the Sussexes to give them her condolences.\n\nPriti Vyas said she could feel the \"warmth from Harry and Meghan\"\n\n\"We talked about the Queen, and Harry wanted to know if I had met her before,\" said Ms Vyas, adding that she had only seen her from a distance, once.\n\nShe said it had been lovely to speak to the couple, if only for a quick chat and that she had felt genuine \"warmth from them\".\n\n\"All four of them thanked me to be here waiting for them and I congratulated Kate and William.\n\n\"I just wish that their grandmother was here as well,\" she said.\n\nSukhjit Johal from Coventry also came to pay her respects and was glad to see the royals.\n\n\"Kate was bending to see all the children, if she heard anyone say her name she would turn round and try to talk to them - like the Queen did.\n\nSukhjit Johal and Julia were disappointed to not speak to the Royals\n\n\"They really seem to understand the nation has lost the Queen too - they're allowing us to grieve with them,\" she said, something she felt was \"really heartfelt\" when \"all of them are going through a deeper level of grief than the public\".\n\nJulia, from London, was close enough to catch a glimpse of the Prince of Wales and his brother.\n\nWhile William had appeared \"very sombre\" as his father was proclaimed King earlier in the day, she said he was smiling as he met the crowd.\n\n\"I could see Harry on the other side and he was reaching up high, trying to reach as many hands as possible.\"\n\nMoments before Prince William had met the crowd he had issued a tribute to his \"Grannie\", saying: \"She was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life\".\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales, with their children Prince George and Louis and Princess Charlotte moved to Windsor last month. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are living in the US, having left the UK in March 2020.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh returned to the Forth Road Bridge 50 years after officially opening it\n\nQueen Elizabeth II left her beloved Balmoral for the final time on Sunday on a journey that stirred memories of her life of service.\n\nHer cortege wended its way through villages and towns she knew well. It skirted cities where she opened hospitals, congratulated business leaders, met schoolchildren and greeted well-wishers.\n\nAs well as the villages of Aberdeenshire, where she was considered a neighbour as much as a monarch, it travelled through Aberdeen, then south through Angus, Dundee, Perth and Fife.\n\nSymbolically, Her Majesty's coffin was taken over Queensferry Crossing - a structure she opened in 2017.\n\nAlong this journey to her final resting place were the visible signs of the role she played in shaping modern Scotland.\n\nThe late Queen marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One at Crathie Kirk in August 2014\n\nAfter the Royal cortege left Balmoral it passed close to Crathie Kirk - the church where the Royal family have worshipped since Queen Victoria in 1848.\n\nIt was an important place to Queen Elizabeth, a woman of great faith. Just last weekend she hosted the Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.\n\nHe said she was \"obviously frail...[but] absolutely on the ball\", adding that she was \"very much very engaged with what was happening in the church and what was happening in the nation too\".\n\nThe late Queen spoke to the local butchers in Ballater before unveiling a plaque marking a Diamond Jubilee cairn in September 2012\n\nIt was also a link to the local community, which included the nearby village of Ballater, where she was considered a local by many.\n\nAfter flooding caused millions of pounds worth of damage in 2015, the late Queen later met residents affected in an official visit and praised local efforts to recover.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II launched the flow of oil from the Forties Field in the North Sea to BP's Grangemouth refinery\n\nThe coffin was driven along the A93 towards Aberdeen, before turning south and crossing the King George VI bridge, named after her father.\n\nThe city was the focus of many trips by the Queen. It was where she opened a children's hospital in 2005 and hosted a special sitting of the Scottish Parliament in 2002.\n\nBut it was perhaps her actions in Dyce in 1975 which had the most profound effect on the city - she pressed a gold-plated button which formally began the operation of the UK's first oil pipeline.\n\nThe 130-mile pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth served the Forties oilfield 110 miles east of Aberdeen.\n\nIt marked the beginning of a North Sea oil industry which brought thousands of new jobs and great prosperity to the north-east of Scotland.\n\nHowever, faced with a climate emergency and an energy crisis, Europe's oil capital is looking towards renewable sources of energy.\n\nShe met apprentices at the Michelin tyre factory in Dundee in 2016\n\nHeading south on the A90, the coffin took in the Kingsway - designed to commemorate Edward VII - through Dundee.\n\nDuring a trip to the city in 2016, the Queen met apprentices at the Michelin tyre factory's training school and workshop.\n\nHowever, two years later the company announced the closure of the site, with the loss of 850 jobs.\n\nMore than 300 million tyres had been produced in the plant, which opened in 1971. It finally closed in June 2020 and is now an \"innovation centre\".\n\nThe young Princess Elizabeth was with her parents and cousin at Glamis Castle in 1931 to celebrate her grandparents' golden wedding anniversary\n\nBetween Aberdeen and Dundee, the Royal coffin travelled along the A90, skirting the Angus town of Forfar.\n\nNearby is Glamis Castle, the ancestral home of the late Queen's maternal grandparents and a place where she is said to have spent many happy childhood holidays.\n\nIt was where her parents honeymooned and where her mother, Queen Elizabeth, gave birth to her sister, Princess Margaret in 1930.\n\nPrince William - now the Prince of Wales - graduated with a degree in geography\n\nPast Perth, the coffin travelled through Fife - a short hop from St Andrews where the late Queen's grandson William went to university and met his future wife, Catherine.\n\nShe joined Prince Philip, her son Charles and his wife, Camilla, at the graduation ceremony in June 2005.\n\nThe Queen was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh as she named the Royal Navy's biggest ever ship\n\nAs the coffin reached the most southerly point of Fife, it passed Rosyth - where the UK's largest warship was officially named in her honour, in June 2014.\n\nShe smashed a bottle of whisky against the side of the aircraft carrier at Rosyth dockyard.\n\nSix UK shipyards, and more than 10,000 people at more than 100 companies worked on HMS Queen Elizabeth.\n\nIt entered service in 2020 and is now the Royal Navy's Fleet Flagship.\n\nNicola Sturgeon looked on as the late Queen cut the ribbon on the Queensferry Crossing\n\nThe late Queen opened two bridges across the Forth during her 70 year reign - the Forth Road Bridge in 1964, and the Queensferry Crossing in August 2017.\n\nHer coffin crossed the new Queensferry Crossing, which links Fife to Edinburgh.\n\nShe returned to the Forth Road Bridge in 2014 to mark its 50th anniversary and was back just three years later to cut the ribbon on its £1.35bn replacement.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II said the Queensferry Crossing, the UK's tallest bridge, was a \"breath-taking sight\" and one of three \"magnificent structures\" across the Forth.\n\nAt the end of its journey, the Royal coffin was taken to the Palace of Holyroodhouse - the Royal residence opposite the Scottish Parliament building.\n\nThe late Queen officially opened the £431m building in 2004 - three years late and over budget.\n\nIn a speech to MSPs she acknowledged the construction's \"difficult and controversial birth\" and urged them to make Holyrood a \"landmark of 21st Century democracy\".\n\nShe returned in October last year to open the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood despite some Covid restrictions still being in place.\n\nThe leaders of the main political parties in Scotland greeted The Queen before the ceremony last year.\n\nIn a speech in the debating chamber, she paid tribute to those who made an \"extraordinary contribution\" during the pandemic.\n\nAnd she spoke of her happy memories of Scotland and her \"deep and abiding affection for this wonderful country\".\n\n\"It is often said that it is the people that make a place and there are few places where this is truer than it is in Scotland.\"", "From Wednesday evening, a limited number of trains will run through the night on some routes to and from London, to help mourners get home.\n\nThey are among the extra services being put on by train companies in the coming days, and around Monday's state funeral.\n\nExamples include Great Western services from London Paddington to Reading, and Southeastern from Charing Cross to Tunbridge Wells.\n\nNot all operators are doing this.\n\nTransport bosses have predicted \"unprecedented\" demand for travel in the capital during the mourning period for the late Queen.\n\nHer coffin was taken from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall today, where she will lie in state until Monday, which has been declared a bank holiday. During this period Westminster Hall will be open 24 hours a day.\n\nTrains and tubes were busy on Wednesday as thousands of visitors streamed into central London to pay their respects.\n\nThe city's major railway stations were about 10% busier than usual up until 14:00 BST today.\n\nCharing Cross saw a particular increase, with 20% more people coming through this morning compared to last week.\n\nHowever, track operator Network Rail said it appeared fewer commuters had travelled today, with visitors attending today's procession and lying-in-state replacing them.\n\nFootfall at the big stations was still below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe London Chamber of Commerce and Industry said it expected fewer business people would be using public transport and possibly more employees would be working from home. It said the period of mourning would have an effect on business activity, with activities like external meetings being scaled back.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) data show there were 1.66 million entries and exits on London's Tube today before 10:00 BST, about 5% more than last Wednesday.\n\nPeople have been warned some tube stations may close temporarily to avoid crowding, and they have been told to avoid Green Park station which can currently only be used to exit or change lines.\n\nThere was only a small increase in bus usage today compared to the week before. Road closures around ceremonial events have meant diversions on some bus services.\n\nThe online ticket company Trainline says the number of people who have used its platform to book trains to central London stations next Monday - the day of the Queen's funeral - is up 53% compared with Monday this week.\n\nPeople are being advised to consider delaying train journeys home from London after Monday's state funeral, to avoid everyone rushing at the same time, meaning long queues for trains or crowding.\n\nWith road closures in place on Monday, National Express coaches that would have started and finished at Victoria coach station will run from Wembley instead.\n\nAvanti West Coast has added a few more daily train services to its current severely reduced timetable - the result of staff shortages - and is working on the possibility of adding some more at the weekend and on Monday. However, today a number of Avanti trains were cancelled.\n\nTrain strikes which were originally scheduled for Thursday and Saturday this week have been called off. However, disputes between the rail industry and unions remain unresolved, and new dates are expected to be set once the current period of mourning has ended.\n\nSince the last strikes took place, Grant Shapps has been replaced as transport secretary by Anne-Marie Trevelyan. She has invited the general secretaries of the RMT, Aslef and TSSA unions to meet her.\n\nOn Wednesday, a meeting went ahead with Mick Whelan of train drivers' union Aslef. It does not mean the government's position on the ongoing disputes has changed, but suggests the incoming Secretary of State may be looking to approach the situation in a less adversarial manner than that of her predecessor.", "Artem says he was held by Russians in a police cell for more than 40 days, and was electrocuted\n\nIn north-eastern Ukraine, a counter-offensive has seen the nation's forces recapture swathes of territory, and drive out Russian troops.\n\nBut in the newly-liberated areas, relief and sorrow are intertwined - as accounts emerge of torture and killings during the long months of Russian occupation.\n\nArtem, who lives in the city of Balakliya in the Kharkiv region, told the BBC he was held by Russians for more than 40 days and was tortured with electric shocks.\n\nBalakliya was liberated on 8 September after being occupied for more than six months. The epicentre of the brutality was the city's police station, which Russian forces used as their headquarters.\n\nArtem said he could hear screams of pain and terror coming from other cells.\n\nThe occupiers made sure the cries could be heard, he said, by turning off the building's noisy ventilation system.\n\n\"They turned it off so everyone could hear how people scream when they are shocked with electricity,\" he told us. \"They did this to some of the prisoners every other day... They even did this to the women\".\n\nAnd they did it to Artem, though in his case only once.\n\n\"They made me hold two wires,\" he said.\n\n\"There was an electric generator. The faster it went, the higher the voltage. They said, 'if you let it go, you are finished'. Then they started asking questions. They said I was lying, and they started spinning it even more and the voltage increased.\"\n\nArtem told us he was detained because the Russians found a picture of his brother, a soldier, in uniform. Another man from Balakliya was held for 25 days because he had the Ukrainian flag, Artem said.\n\nA school principal called Tatiana told us she was held in the police station for three days and also heard screams from other cells.\n\nWe visited the police station, and saw the Lord's Prayer scratched on the wall of one of the cramped cells, alongside markings to indicate how many days had passed.\n\nUkrainian police officers say as many as eight men were held in cells intended for two people. They say locals were scared to even pass the station when the Russians were in charge, in case they were grabbed by Russian soldiers.\n\nDestroyed military vehicles abandoned by Russian forces line the roads of Balakliya\n\nIn Balakliya's city centre, where the Ukrainian flag flies again, crowds gathered around a small truck carrying food supplies. Many in the queue were elderly and looked exhausted, but there were happy reunions too as friends embraced each other for the first time since the Russians were driven out.\n\nJust a short walk away at the end of a lonely laneway, some of their victims lie hastily buried by their neighbours. A crude wooden cross marked the makeshift grave of a taxi driver called Petro Shepel. His passenger - whose identity is still unknown - lies next to him.\n\nThe stench of death filled the air as the police exhumed their remains, and zipped them into body bags.\n\nThe authorities say the two men were shot near a Russian checkpoint on the last day of the occupation.\n\nPetro's mother, Valentyna, looked on as the bodies were exhumed, and she railed against the Russians who killed her only son.\n\n\"I want to ask Putin, why did he shoot and kill my son?\" she cried.\n\n\"What for? Who asked him to come here with such threatening weapons? Not only did he kill our children, but he killed us, their mothers.\n\n\"These days I am a dead woman. And I want to address all mothers of the world: rebel against that assassin.\"\n\nOn the road to Balakliya, we saw military vehicles marked with the pro-war \"Z\" symbol - apparently abandoned by the Russians as they fled.\n\nIn a nearby village, we were shown the extensive damage to the school. Local authorities said this was one of the last acts of destruction before the Russians were driven out.\n\nStanding in the ruins, the regional head of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, said the critical task now was to restore water and electricity supplies, but there are concerns the power lines could be mined.\n\nAsked by the BBC if he thought the Russians could return he replied: \"We are in war, there is always danger\".", "Roy and Teresa Lee, with their daughter Serena, were among the first to attend the lying-in-state\n\nSome of the first mourners to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state in Westminster Hall have come away in tears, describing the sight of the cloaked coffin as overwhelming.\n\nRoy Lee, who queued for 11 hours with his wife and teenage daughter, said the dignity and solemnity of it made the hairs stand up on the back of his neck.\n\nHe was one of thousands queuing to pay their respects to the late monarch.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will remain in the hall until 06:30 BST on Monday.\n\nMr Lee's wife, Teresa, came out of the hall bursting with pride.\n\n\"Entering the hall was overwhelming,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"But being in there gave me such a feeling of pride. That she was the Queen of our country and she served us so amazingly. I felt proud to be British.\"\n\nAsked what was going through his mind as he stood beside the coffin, Mr Lee said he was \"saying a little thank you\".\n\n\"I'm not sure if that was the right thing but we did it in gratitude,\" he said. Mrs Lee wished the Queen would rest in peace and silently told her: \"You've done your job.\"\n\nThousands of people have queued to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II\n\nSurrounded by statuesque soldiers standing vigil in vibrant uniforms and with four candles burning beside it, the Queen's coffin is lying in state on a raised platform in the centre of the hall.\n\nThe mood as the first mourners entered was sombre with some crossing themselves while others bowed or took off their hats to show respect.\n\nTears streaked the faces of many.\n\nThere were no signs asking people to be quiet yet a near-silent hum could be heard as people slowly walked through the 11th Century hall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First mourners to see Queen lie in state speak to BBC\n\nOld friends Jane Ward and Clare Lynas, from Newbury, said they got lucky as a changing of the guard in the hall gave them an unexpected extra couple of minutes with the Queen.\n\n\"It was stunningly beautiful, very emotional and beautifully orchestrated,\" said Clare, 61, a retired headmistress.\n\n\"I wanted to say a proper goodbye. She deserves that.\"\n\nThe friends said time flew while they spent 12 hours queuing to pay their respects. The highlight came outside Lambeth Palace when the Archbishop of Canterbury made an appearance.\n\n\"He was fascinated by our wristbands,\" said Jane, 62, a former lawyer. He joked that he hoped his robes and cross would get him access to the Queen, she added.\n\nFriends Jane Ward and Clare Lynas said the 12 hours they waited just flew by\n\nFor Natalie Gladin, a 47-year-old mum from north Essex, the sight of the Queen lying in state was so overwhelming her tears were still falling as she spoke to the BBC.\n\n\"It's like losing your own family. I lost my dad last year, and my mum,\" she said.\n\nWith Violet, her 11-year-old, holding her hand tightly, she explained: \"In the queue it was really friendly and quite jovial. The minute you get to the doors, it changes.\n\n\"It's total silence and really, really sombre.\"\n\nShe said she was prepared to queue for days but they set off at 03:30 and by 17:30 they were filing very slowly, one by one, through the hall.\n\nHer daughters said they bowed their heads and curtsied when they reached the end of the coffin.\n\nAs she bowed her head, Ms Gladin said she wished the Queen well in the next life and to be reunited with those she has lost.\n\nNatalie Gladin, with her daughters, said she would have queued for days to see the Queen\n\nWith thousands of people expected to want to be part of the historic moment, a queuing system has been set up, which currently stretches two miles along the south bank of the River Thames.\n\nFences have been set up all the way to Southwark Park, some seven miles away, in case the queue stretches that far.\n\nAs night fell there were still thousands of people queuing towards London Bridge, with a respectful but cheerful atmosphere as people waited to witness a moment in history.\n\nWhile those who camped out overnight into Wednesday had to contend with heavy rain, those waiting into Thursday saw a drier night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First mourners arrive to pay their respects to the Queen\n\nThe government has warned that people could end up queuing for up to 30 hours to witness history.\n\nIt has published a live queue tracker for people to follow on YouTube - which shows the length of the queue in miles, as well as estimated queueing times and the nearest landmark to the back of the line.\n\nThe queue to enter the Queen's lying-in-state has stretched more than two miles\n\nPeople queue in Victoria Tower Gardens to pay their respects to the late Queen\n\nThe BBC is live streaming as people file past so that those unable to make it to London are able to pay their respects at home.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was brought to Westminster Hall in a sombre procession from Buckingham Palace, followed by the King and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nAfter a short service the first mourners were allowed in to pay their respects just after 17:00 BST on Wednesday.", "Jean-Luc Godard pictured at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004\n\nFilm director Jean-Luc Godard, who spearheaded the revolutionary French New Wave of cinema, has died at 91.\n\nGodard burst onto the scene with 1960's À bout de souffle (Breathless), which started a run of acclaimed releases that rewrote the rules of film and influenced directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino.\n\nA family representative said he died by assisted suicide in Switzerland.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said Godard \"had the vision of a genius\".\n\nIn a tribute on Twitter, Mr Macron wrote: \"He was like an apparition in French cinema. Then he became a master of it.\n\n\"Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We have lost a national treasure, a man who had the vision of a genius.\"\n\nGodard's legal advisor Patrick Jeanneret told the AFP news agency that the Franco-Swiss film-maker \"had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure as he was stricken with 'multiple invalidating illnesses', according to the medical report\".\n\nAssisted suicide is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances.\n\nGodard started as a film critic before stepping behind the camera with the stylish and edgy Breathless. Its stars Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo were glamorous in a new, casual way, while the camera was constantly moving, the editing was swift and bold, and the script semi-improvised.\n\nThe director once said: \"It was a film that took everything that cinema had done - girls, gangsters, cars - exploded all this and put an end, once and for all, to the old style.\"\n\nJean-Luc Godard with Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo on the set of Pierrot Le Fou in 1965\n\nThat was followed by Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier) - although the film was banned until 1963 because of its depiction of government-sanctioned torture.\n\nIts cast included Danish model Anna Karina, who married Godard in 1961 and went on to appear in a string of his most successful films.\n\nShe played a nightclub dancer who wants a baby in 1961's Une Femme est une Femme (A Woman Is A Woman); a young Parisian prostitute in 1962's Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live); and a gang member in Bande à Part (Band of Outsiders) in 1965.\n\nTarantino named his production company A Band Apart, in reference to the latter film's original title, and once said Godard was \"so influential\" to him as a director.\n\n\"Godard is one who taught me the fun and the freedom and the joy of breaking rules… I consider Godard to be to cinema what Bob Dylan was to music,\" he said.\n\nGodard's rich seam of influential films in the 1960s also included Alphaville and Le Mépris (Contempt).\n\nContempt, from 1963, starring Brigitte Bardot, was named by Scorsese as one of his 10 favourite movies. It is \"one of the most moving films of its era\" and Godard was \"the great modern visual artists of cinema\", the Taxi Driver director wrote in 2014.\n\nGodard's storylines also mixed up time and space, changing the idea of a fixed narrative. He once said: \"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end - but not necessarily in that order.\"\n\nHe had more than 100 films to his name in total, also including Une Femme Mariée (1964), Pierrot le fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966) and Week-end (1967).\n\nActress Macha Méril, who starred in Une Femme Mariée, said: \"He is a genius. What is a genius? It's someone who does something that has never been done before and forces everyone else to change their way of thinking and doing.\n\n\"It's like Picasso... Geniuses are people who change the way people think.\"\n\nHe received an honorary Oscar in 2011, with the dedication reading: \"For passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema.\"\n\nGodard's most recent work was released in 2018, although some thought he moved from being provocative to being wilfully obscure as his career went on.\n\nGodard filming student marches on the streets of Paris in 1968\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, his family said the director had died \"peacefully at home\". They added: \"No official [funeral] ceremony will take place. He will be cremated.\"\n\nFormer French culture minister Jack Lang told the Reuters news agency: \"He filled cinema with poetry and philosophy. His sharp and unique eye made us see the imperceptible.\"\n\nOthers paying tribute included actor Antonio Banderas, who wrote: \"Thank you monsieur Godard for expanding the boundaries of the cinema.\"\n\nBaby Driver director Edgar Wright wrote: \"RIP Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential, iconoclastic film-makers of them all.\n\n\"It was ironic that he himself revered the Hollywood studio film-making system, as perhaps no other director inspired as many people to just pick up a camera and start shooting.\"\n\nFilm critics also discussed his style and influence.\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 Luke Buckmaster 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A ban on multi-buy deals for junk food has already been delayed\n\nThe government is reviewing its anti-obesity strategy for England, including plans for a ban on TV advertising of junk food before 9pm.\n\nIt is understood ministers believe it should be looked at in light of the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nBut health campaigners said they were \"deeply concerned\" about reports the measures could be scrapped.\n\nA ban on multi-buy deals and pre-watershed advertising of junk food had already been delayed earlier this year.\n\nThe government said the plans would be deferred for a year while officials assessed the impact on household finances and to give the industry more time to prepare.\n\nHowever, restrictions on the placement of less healthy products at checkouts and store entrances are currently still due to go ahead in October.\n\nIn April, new rules requiring larger restaurants and takeaways to print calories on menus also came into force.\n\nThe Guardian, which first reported the story, also suggested the tax on high-sugar soft drinks, which was introduced in 2018, could be reviewed.\n\nCelebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was among those to criticise the review, saying the strategy had been \"hard won and has the support of the nation's health experts\".\n\nHe added that the prime minister \"has no mandate to cancel it and doing so will not merely increase the burden on the NHS but shorten the lives of many thousands of people\".\n\nKatharine Jenner, director of the Obesity Health Alliance, a coalition of 40 organisations, said axing measures in the strategy would \"not help the cost of living crisis in the short term, and in the long term would lead to serious consequences for our health, our economy and our NHS\".\n\n\"It would be reckless and a great shame to waste government and business time and money rowing back on these obesity policies, which are evidence-based and already in law,\" she said.\n\nGraham MacGregor, chairman of Action on Sugar, said scrapping the strategy would be disastrous to public health and for food business which had prepared for the policy change.\n\n\"Now, more than ever, the UK population need equitable access to healthy, affordable food and this can only be achieved with policies designed to rebalance our food system,\" he said.\n\nFood prices are rising at their fastest rate for 14 years, with the war in Ukraine disrupting supplies of key goods such as sunflower oil, wheat and fertiliser.\n\nHousehold budgets are also being squeezed by soaring energy costs.\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership race, Liz Truss had pledged to scrap the planned ban on multi-buy deals for unhealthy products and not to introduce any new taxes on junk food.\n\n\"Those taxes are over,\" she told the Daily Mail. \"Talking about whether or not somebody should buy a two-for-one offer? No. There is definitely enough of that.\"\n\nIt marks a change in approach from Boris Johnson, who had made tackling obesity a priority when he was prime minister.\n\nHis views were influenced by his experience of being hospitalised with Covid-19, with Mr Johnson highlighting that losing weight was a way of reducing the risk from coronavirus.", "About 900 MPs and peers were in Westminster Hall to hear the King's address on Monday\n\nWestminster Hall is where the Queen's coffin will lie in state and where King Charles III addressed MPs and peers for the first time as monarch on Monday.\n\nBuilt in 1097, it is a huge building that has played a significant role in British history across the centuries.\n\nIt has hosted the trials of Charles I and Guy Fawkes, Henry VIII's coronation banquet and a Nelson Mandela speech.\n\nThe hall survived a devastating fire in the 19th Century that destroyed most of the rest of the Palace of Westminster.\n\nThe building of Westminster Hall was commissioned by King William II - the son of William the Conqueror - who wanted a significant construction project to impress his new subjects. Its stone walls were about 6ft (2m) thick and remain largely intact today, albeit extended in height and refaced during processes of restoration.\n\nIt acted as a banqueting hall - though was so large other smaller halls had to be built nearby for some occasions, with the royal household usually eating in one of those.\n\nFrom the 12th Century, Westminster became the administrative centre of the kingdom and the base for the Treasury.\n\nThe hall became the most common site for legal proceedings under the Magna Carta, in 1215, which stipulated there should be a fixed place where judges should sit.\n\nThat led to it being the location for the trials of Guy Fawkes - for plotting to blow up Parliament in 1606 - and of King Charles I.\n\nAlthough monarchs had been deposed or murdered before, the trial of Charles I in 1649 was the first time one had been tried in public and condemned to death while still reigning. Accused of tyranny and treason, the king was convicted within a week.\n\nEleven years later when the monarchy was reinstalled under Charles II, the bodies of some of the key men who had ordered his father's execution were exhumed and their bodies stuck on poles on one of the hall's towers. Oliver Cromwell's head was there for more than 20 years.\n\nIn modern times, the hall remains in regular use. Many visitors to the Houses of Parliament walk through the hall after entering the building and passing through security checks.\n\nParliamentary discussions happen there and it stages addresses from visiting dignitaries such as French President Charles de Gaulle in 1960, South African leader Nelson Mandela in 1996, Pope Benedict in 2010 and US President Barack Obama in 2011.\n\nMore than 200,000 people saw the Queen Mother's coffin in Westminster Hall in 2002\n\nThe first royal lying-in-state in the hall was that of Edward VII in 1910 and the most recent that of the Queen Mother in 2002 - the same year the Queen addressed MPs and peers on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee.\n\nBut it is not only royals who have lain in state in Westminster Hall - the same honour was extended to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill following his death in 1965 and to the victims of the R101 airship disaster of 1930.", "McDonald's is to close all of its UK restaurants on Monday 19 September, as a mark of respect to Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.\n\nThe fast food chain, which has around 1,300 outlets in the UK, said they would all be shut until 5pm on the day.\n\nA bank holiday across the UK was approved by King Charles III for the day of his mother's funeral.\n\nThe Queen, Britain's longest ever reigning monarch, died on Thursday at her Scottish estate in Balmoral.\n\nJohn Lewis, Waitrose, Asda, Primark and a host of other businesses have already said they will be shut in the UK on Monday to mark the proceedings.\n\nA McDonald's spokesperson told the BBC that they took the decision to close the restaurants as they \"want to allow our people to pay their respects in the way they choose\".\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, McDonald's said: \"In honour of HM Queen Elizabeth II and to enable everyone at McDonald's to pay their respects, our restaurants across the UK will be closed from midnight until 5pm on Monday 19th September.\"\n\nDeliveries will also not be available until after 5pm.\n\nThe company said that operating hours and services may vary after that time, and advised customers to check before going to one of their restaurants.\n\nOther fast food chains are taking different approaches. Domino's told the BBC its stores will open at 12pm on Monday, after the ceremony has finished, slightly later than their usual 11am opening time.\n\nThe government advises on its website that the additional Bank Holiday \"will allow individuals, businesses and other organisations to pay their respects to Her Majesty and commemorate Her reign, while marking the final day of the period of national mourning.\"\n\nAlthough it says that some businesses \"may wish to consider closing or postponing events\", there is no statutory entitlement to time off for workers.\n\nOn Tuesday, Center Parcs faced outrage from guests after the holiday park said it planned to ask guests to leave its five UK sites on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe move would have meant some guests being forced to leave part-way through their break, only to return the next day.\n\nThe holiday firm has since reversed its decision, saying that guests who are not due to depart on Monday will no longer be required to leave.\n\nHowever, people due to arrive on Monday are still not being permitted to check in until 10am on Tuesday.\n\nCineworld has also said it will close all of its UK cinemas on the day of the state funeral. The company has 128 cinemas in the UK and Ireland.\n\nOther major businesses that have already said they will be shut in the UK on Monday include:", "Lyra McKee was 29 when she was shot as she watched a riot in Londonderry\n\nA man has been jailed for seven years for possessing the gun that police believe was used to kill journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nNiall Sheerin, 29, from Tyrconnell Street in Londonderry, previously admitted possession of the gun on dates between September 2018 and June 2020.\n\nHe will spend seven years in prison followed by five years on licence.\n\nMs McKee, who was 29, was observing rioting in the Creggan estate in Derry when she was shot on 18 April 2019.\n\nThe judge at Belfast Crown Court said he believed Sheerin was an associate of a \"serious terrorist gang who posed a danger to the public\".\n\nThe dissident republican paramilitary group the New IRA has admitted carrying out the murder of Ms McKee.\n\nThe judge told the court that he was not sentencing Sheerin in connection with the murder.\n\nHe said that was because the \"prosecution cannot establish to the requisite standard\" that Sheerin was aware of the specific history of the weapon.\n\nSheerin had been charged with possessing the Hammerli X-Esse .22 pistol, a magazine and a quantity of .22 calibre cartridges.\n\nThe Hammerli X-Esse pistol was found during police searches in the Ballymagroarty area of Derry\n\nThe gun was found wrapped in plastic bags in a hollow behind a telegraph pole in a field in the Ballymagroarty area of Derry in 2020.\n\nBullets and a spent ammunition magazine were also discovered in the package.\n\nBallistics tests showed the pistol had been used in five shootings in the city in the previous 21 months, including the killing of Ms McKee.\n\nSheerin will be subject to terrorist notification requirements under the Terrorist Act for the next 15 years.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Ms McKee's sister Nichola McKee-Corner said: \"Now the story of the gun has come to an end but the story of the gunman actually continues.\"\n\nShe said she would like the gunman to have \"the courage to come forward himself and accept responsibility for what he did\".\n\nShe she conceded that that was \"realistically probably not going to happen at this stage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nichola McKee-Corner spoke outside the court in Belfast after Niall Sheerin was sent to prison\n\n\"We would again appeal to anyone who has information about the identity of the gunman to come forward and to help us gain full justice for Lyra,\" said Ms McKee-Corner.\n\n\"Justice isn't something that stands alone with the police service - justice is the whole business of the community.\"\n\nSpeaking later to BBC News NI, she added: \"This is one stage of the process completed. Without that gun our Lyra would still be here.\n\n\"It is very important to have that stage completed, and to have that weapon off the streets and the handler off the streets.\n\n\"It makes our country a safer place for other people, hopefully has gone towards preventing other serious crimes and other deaths.\"\n\nSpeaking after Sheerin was sentenced, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said its investigation into Ms McKee's death remained \"very much active\".\n\n\"It's over three years now since that tragic day and the pain felt by Lyra's loved ones is understandably as raw as ever,\" said Det Sup Eamonn Corrigan.\n\n\"I'm keen to reassure the community that we remain committed to working with them and our partner agencies to stop the corrosive influence of terrorists.\n\n\"Our investigation into Lyra's murder, as demonstrated by today's sentencing, is very much active.\n\n\"We will work tirelessly to bring those responsible before the courts.\"\n\nThree men are awaiting trial charged with Ms McKee's murder.", "File photo of Azerbaijan soldiers in position in the Tartar region in 2016\n\nFighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday night killed almost 100 soldiers, it has emerged.\n\nArmenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said 49 of its soldiers died in overnight clashes, while Azerbaijan's defence ministry said 50 of its servicemen were also killed.\n\nThe neighbouring countries have fought two wars and seen regular smaller clashes span three decades.\n\nOn Tuesday, Russia said it brokered a ceasefire for the latest outbreak.\n\nArmenia initially said the fighting had calmed, rather than ended completely. Later, Azerbaijan said it had completed its objectives following \"provocations\" from its neighbour.\n\nAt the core of the dispute is the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. It is, according to internationally-recognised borders, firmly a part of Azerbaijan - but is populated by ethnic Armenians.\n\nThe cultural divide extends beyond politics into religion, too: Armenia is a majority-Christian country, while Azerbaijan is mostly Muslim.\n\nBoth countries were part of the Soviet Union before its dissolution at the end of 1991.\n\nThe dispute has led to full-scale war in the 1980s and 1990s, a six-week war in 2020 and continuing clashes for decades.\n\nThe two countries blame each other for the latest outbreak of violence.\n\nArmenia claimed that several towns along the border had been shelled by its neighbour and that it had responded to the provocation.\n\nAzerbaijan said its infrastructure came under attack first, with military spokesman Lt Col Anar Eyvazov saying that military movements over the past month \"demonstrate that Armenia is preparing for a large-scale military provocation\".\n\nViolence continued on Monday night before Moscow said it had negotiated a rapid ceasefire to take effect early on Tuesday morning.\n\nArmenia's Nikol Pashinyan, however, said \"the intensity of hostilities has decreased, but attacks on one or two fronts from Azerbaijan continue\".\n\nLater on Tuesday, Azerbaijan said its servicemen died \"as a result of Armenia's large-scale provocation\" and it accused Armenia of violating a ceasefire brokered by Russia.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron spoke to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on the same day, urging him to \"return to respecting the ceasefire\" with Armenia.\n\nThe fighting has been condemned internationally. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made personal phone calls to the leaders of both nations on Tuesday, urging them to come to a peaceful settlement and prevent further fighting.\n\nMr Blinken said he would push \"for an immediate halt to fighting and a peace settlement\" between both countries.\n\nRussia is close to Armenia, but is a major power in the region and maintains relationships with both sides.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin was \"personally\" taking a role in mediating.\n\n\"The president is naturally making every effort to help de-escalate tensions at the border,\" he said.\n\nTurkey, meanwhile, has ties with Azerbaijan and seemingly backed its version of events. Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, said \"Armenia should cease its provocations and focus on peace negotiations\".\n\nMonday night's fighting is believed to be the worst since the 2020 conflict, in which thousands were killed. That war ended in a deal brokered by Russia, which saw Armenia withdraw its troops from occupied areas around Nagorno-Karabakh.\n\nA Russian peacekeeping force of nearly 2,000 men was deployed to the area as part of the negotiations, where it remains today.", "The mother and father of 24-year-old Chris Kaba - who was shot dead by police in south London - have accused the Metropolitan Police of racism.\n\nChris Kaba was killed in a residential street in Streatham Hill on Monday night following a police chase.\n\nThe police watchdog, the IOPC, is investigating the incident. A spokesman for the Met said the force is \"co-operating fully\" as the IOPC carries out a \"thorough and independent investigation\".", "The company's five UK villages will close on 19 September\n\nCenter Parcs is facing further backlash after deciding to close its UK villages on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe company originally told guests they would need to leave by 10:00 BST on Monday and not return until Tuesday.\n\nGuests already on holiday will now be able to stay, but people due to arrive on Monday will not be able to start their holidays until the following day.\n\nSome of them have told the BBC it had cost them extra expense and also a lot of stress.\n\nEllie Walters, who is getting married on Thursday, was due to check in on Monday for her honeymoon.\n\n\"I just think it's actually quite a disgrace because I'm so stressed about it,\" said Ms Walters, who is due to go to Center Parcs in Nottinghamshire.\n\n\"The trouble is you can't even get on the phone to them.\n\n\"You go away to have that relaxation and that stress-free time and just spend really nice quality time together, and you're left worrying and I don't think you should be doing that on your holiday.\"\n\nEllie Walters is due to stop at Center Parcs for her honeymoon\n\nCenter Parcs has said it is closing its villages \"as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment\".\n\nHowever, Ms Walters said it would have been better for staff and guests to watch the funeral together.\n\n\"Can you imagine how nice it would have been if everybody was at Center Parcs and they got a couple of screens up somewhere and everyone was together and watching it?\" she said.\n\n\"I think that would have been a better scenario than having to shut everywhere and create a lot of stress for all the guests.\"\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\nCenter Parcs told some guests on Twitter they would need to \"remain in their lodges\" on Monday, leading some people to compare the sites to prisons.\n\nHowever, Center Parcs has now said guests will be able to walk around the villages, which are in Cumbria, Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire, Suffolk and Bedfordshire.\n\nThe facilities, such as restaurants and swimming pools, will be closed.\n\nEmma Sherlock, 37, planned to arrive at Center Parcs in Nottinghamshire on Monday with her husband and three disabled children.\n\nShe said they had spent a long time saving up £1,200 to go on the five-night trip, and have now had to spend an extra £300 to stay in a hotel for the first night.\n\n\"We need a family room for the equipment because I've got three disabled children,\" she explained.\n\n\"Feeding tubes, suction machines, specialist beds, we've had to organise and hire.\n\n\"We're not going to have another holiday for ages now because of the cost of living going up.\"\n\nTheir holiday had already been postponed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe sympathised with Center Parcs staff who had been dealing with frustrated customers.\n\n\"I was on hold for two hours yesterday before they picked up and the lady was sobbing her heart out,\" she said.\n\nGuests will not be able to use Center Parcs facilities on Monday but can walk around\n\nDavid Tomlinson is among guests already staying at Center Parcs who were previously told they would need to leave for a day.\n\nFor him, this would have meant driving home to Solihull for two-and-a-half hours, then driving back to Nottinghamshire the day after.\n\nHe said the situation was still \"not ideal\".\n\n\"People are still paying for the use of those facilities they can't touch,\" he said.\n\n\"What riled me up yesterday was Center Parcs were responding to some people on Twitter but not to people with more serious issues.\"\n\nHe said he could understand some businesses closing, but people's holiday plans should not be changed at short notice.\n\n\"It's very different to McDonald's closing, which means you can't have a burger,\" he said.\n\n\"But people book to stay at Center Parcs a year in advance and pay quite a lot of money to go.\"\n\nA Center Parcs spokesperson said: \"Like many businesses we have taken the decision to close on Monday 19 September.\n\n\"This decision was taken as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Sweden's prime minister has resigned after her government was defeated in Sunday's election.\n\nMagdalena Andersson's centre-left bloc lost narrowly to a bloc of right-wing parties, 176 seats to 173, with 99% of the votes counted.\n\nModerate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is now expected to form a government.\n\nHis right-wing grouping includes the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that has campaigned against rising gang shootings.\n\nIt is a huge blow to Andersson's Social Democrats, which gained votes compared to the last election, and remain Sweden's largest party.\n\nBut in Sweden, it is bloc politics that usually decides who gets into power and the right bloc has scored a razor-thin majority.\n\nThe final result is still to be confirmed after a recount, which is standard practice in Sweden.\n\nMs Andersson accepted defeat at a news conference on Wednesday. She formally offered her resignation on Thursday.\n\n\"In parliament, they have a one or two seat advantage,\" she said. \"It's a thin majority, but it is a majority.\"\n\nThe close-fought election campaign was dominated by gangs, immigration and integration issues, as well as soaring electricity prices.\n\nMs Andersson was the Nordic nation's first female PM when she took office last year - she quit on the first day, before returning soon after.\n\nShe has been edged out by a four-party right-wing block made up of the Sweden Democrats, Moderate Party, Christian Democrats and Liberals.\n\nIt is a momentous turning point for Swedish politics - the Sweden Democrats was once treated as a pariah by political parties, but has now won around 20% of the vote.\n\nIt vowed to \"make Sweden safe again\" by bringing in longer prison sentences and restricting immigration.\n\nHowever the party's leader Jimmie Akesson will not become prime minister, because he does not have the support of the other right-wing parties to take on the job.\n\nInstead, Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderates has said he will start work to form a government.\n\n\"I am ready to do all I can to form a new, stable and vigorous government for the whole of Sweden and all its citizens,\" he said on Wednesday.\n\nIt remains unclear whether Mr Kristersson's government will involve a coalition or formal cooperation with the Sweden Democrats. He has already held talks this week with the leaders of the Christian Democrats and Liberal parties as well as the nationalists.\n\nThe Sweden Democrats is a party born out of a neo-Nazi movement at the end of the 1980s, which has slowly grown stronger while attempting to polish its image.\n\nAlthough many of its policies are right-wing, it sits to the left of some other parties in the bloc on some economic issues, such as protecting the current level of unemployment insurance.\n\nIt started off growing its support base among rural working class voters, but this has now broadened. This year it has almost doubled its support amongst first-time voters, with some 22% of 18-21-year-olds voting for the party according to Swedish Public Service broadcaster SVT's exit poll survey.\n\nIn 2019 Mr Kristersson started talks with the Sweden Democrats after years of declining to cooperate with them - a move which has now changed Sweden's political landscape.\n\nMs Andersson told reporters on Wednesday that she understood those concerned at the party's growing popularity. \"I see your concern and I share it,\" she said.\n\nMagdalena Andersson's Social Democrats had governed Sweden since 2014 and dominated the country's political landscape since the 1930s.\n\nSunday's vote was one of the closest elections ever in Sweden, with thousands of overseas and postal votes needed to be counted to get a clearer picture of who the winner was.", "The Ukrainian military has released these pictures of seemingly-abandoned Russian vehicles in a river\n\nUkraine says it has made significant gains in pushing back Russian troops, retaking more than 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) of territory in recent days. Jonathan Beale, the BBC's defence correspondent, takes a closer look at why they have been so successful - and what hurdles Ukraine's forces may still face in winning the war.\n\n\"Don't underestimate the Ukrainian's ability to surprise,\" a senior US military officer told me early this summer, just as Russia was continuing to make advances in the Donbas.\n\nUkraine's ability to surprise has become a hallmark of this war: from the Russian retreat from Kyiv, to recent attacks in Crimea. Now there's another surprise happening in the east of the country.\n\nUntil now, it was Russia making most of the advances here - albeit a slow and grinding affair that was proving costly to its army. Now it's Ukraine making the gains, taking back thousands of square miles of territory in just a matter of days.\n\nThe biggest gains for Ukraine have been in the east around the city of Kharkiv. The UK's latest defence intelligence report says that Ukraine has now liberated an area twice the size of Greater London - though it's difficult to establish the level of advances and continuing fighting with journalists kept well away from the frontline.\n\nUkraine says it has captured the strategically important cities of Izyum and Kupiansk - military hubs used by Russia to resupply its forces in the Donbas. Those losses alone would be a major blow to the Russian army.\n\nSurprise has been the key to Ukraine's advances. That and the intelligent use of western weapons - including US and UK long-range multiple rocket launchers, used to destroy Russian supply lines, ammunition dumps and command posts. Last week, the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said long range artillery had hit more than 400 key targets over the summer period.\n\nBefore the arrival of these weapons, Russia had always had a numeric advantage in terms of artillery. But now, the tables appear to have turned: US intelligence officials claim Russia is having to seek the help of North Korea to resupply them with millions of artillery shells, suggesting their stocks have been seriously depleted in the six months of fighting.\n\nThat impact of those western weapons - combined with Ukraine's determination to take back territory - has forced Russian forces and their proxies into what looks like a chaotic retreat. Images on social media show tanks, armoured vehicles, weapons and ammunition left behind in a rush and abandoned.\n\nInterestingly, the advance in the east has been much faster than the Ukrainians' well-publicised offensive in the south towards the city of Kherson. Ukraine had telegraphed that offensive long before it got under way, while keeping quiet about its plans for the east. It all now appears to have been part of its plan: if not a diversion, then a screen to hide what it was preparing in the east.\n\nIt's clear it successfully wrong-footed Russia. Over the past few months, Russia's been redeploying forces from the east to bolster its defences in the south. Both fronts are now vulnerable.\n\nBut Ukraine is finding it harder to make gains in the south where they're more exposed, having to fight in mostly open countryside. An advancing army needs more troops and firepower to overcome a defending army.\n\nRussian troops have left behind equipment in their rush to pull back from the frontlines\n\nThe danger for Ukraine may now be similar to the one Russia faced in the early stages of the war. Trying to advance on multiple fronts can prove costly - in terms of ammunition, equipment, and troops. The bigger the gains the longer the supply lines - which can then be targeted by a defender. There's also the risk that those forces that have advanced furthest - creating a bulge in the defensive line - could become surrounded.\n\nDespite the optimism, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has warned that Ukraine's forces in the east could now be more vulnerable to a Russian counter-attack. Seizing territory is not enough. An army has to hold the ground too. That might prove easier if the local population are behind you.\n\nUkraine's double-pronged offensive is still risky. It could easily suffer setbacks. But this is much more than simply seizing back land - even if that is the ultimate goal.\n\nUkraine is sending a signal to the world that it really believes it can win this war. It's already using these gains to appeal for more western weapons. And the offensive comes at a critical time - just before winter when it'll be harder to fight and the will of the west will be tested. The war is far from over. But Ukraine is once again showing the world its ability to surprise and overcome the odds.", "Police are continuing to appeal for more information about Olivia's killer\n\nA £50,000 reward has been offered in the search for the killer of Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.\n\nThe nine-year-old was shot during a struggle when a gunman burst into her home on 22 August.\n\nThe money has been put up by Crimestoppers founder Lord Ashcroft for information that leads to the conviction of the schoolgirl's killer.\n\nMerseyside Police has so far arrested nine men as part of the investigation but no charges have been brought.\n\nThe shooting happened when the gunman chased another man into Olivia's home.\n\nOlivia's mother Cheryl Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door and her daughter suffered a fatal shot to her chest.\n\nLord Ashcroft said: \"We need to catch the cowards responsible.\n\n\"Olivia's murder has shocked us all, which is why I have made this personal offer to help get justice for Olivia's family and friends.\n\n\"What happened is truly unacceptable and I say to anyone who has information that can help catch the killer to come forward completely anonymously.\"\n\nOfficers were seen searching a stream at West Derby Golf Club\n\nMick Duthie, director of operations at Crimestoppers, said: \"We know it can be difficult to speak up about someone who is involved in serious crime, especially if they are close to you.\n\n\"Nobody will know you contacted us, and you will be doing the right thing for Olivia, her family, friends and the wider community who are still trying to come to terms with this tragedy.\"\n\nEarlier in the week police carried out a search of West Derby Golf Club for two guns used in the attack.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Det Ch Supt Mark Kameen said: \"We have made nine arrests and we are building up an evidential picture, but we still need more information and we need to find the guns.\"\n\n\"I would appeal to anyone who has information which could help us with our investigation to come forward.\n\n\"This offender and those protecting him are a blight on the community and the impact they have on the decent people of the community is toxic.\"\n\nOlivia's funeral is due to take place at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot on Thursday.\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.", "There is one great final duty that many children feel towards their parents: the duty to see them safely and peacefully to their last rest.\n\nAlmost all who take on that emotional task do so out of the public glare.\n\nBut it was always going to be different for Princess Anne amid an extraordinary moment of history.\n\nIn the last few days, it's emerged that the late Queen wished that her only daughter, officially the Princess Royal, should take the primary role in escorting her coffin - an echo of the role she herself played for her father King George VI's final journey from Sandringham in 1952.\n\nHer wish reflects the princess's reputation for hard work and duty, and the practical burdens faced by King Charles in the first days of his reign.\n\nWithin 24 hours of Elizabeth's death, the new king's life had become a whirlwind, requiring him to balance personal grief with his duties of state.\n\nHis 72-year-old sister - younger by 21 months - was at Balmoral, preparing to escort the Queen's coffin from that private family space into the public realm.\n\nThe first stage was to accompany the coffin on its six-hour journey to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nThe long road from Balmoral: The Princess Royal's car following the hearse in Scotland\n\nThe journey would have required a degree of stoicism. By the time she had performed a deep curtsey as the coffin was carried into the Edinburgh palace, the emotion was showing.\n\nOn Monday, her duties continued. This time, she walked behind the pallbearers to St Giles' Cathedral. Later, at the lying-in-rest, the princess became the first female member of the Royal Family to take part in the traditional vigil.\n\nPrincess Anne curtseys as her mother's coffin is brought to Edinburgh\n\nThe symbolism and message of Anne, standing solemnly in her honorary Royal Navy ceremonial uniform, was clear. Here was a princess raised in the modern era: an equal to her brothers.\n\nOn Tuesday evening she accompanied the coffin, on the farewell to Scotland, escorting it all the way to Buckingham Palace, where the full protocol and formalities of a state funeral would begin.\n\nNobody should be surprised by the prominent role of Princess Anne. She is hardly someone to baulk at duty and service.\n\nCharles and Anne, less than two years between them, with their parents\n\nFor years, she and Charles have been measured by watchers for the annual title of Most Hardworking Royal.\n\nIn 2021 she undertook 387 official engagements - two more than the then-Prince of Wales - a number that had been growing for both of them in the later years of her mother's reign.\n\nShe has completed almost 500 overseas visits - 49 to Germany alone - and is patron of a 300 charities. Her association with Save The Children dates back to 1970.\n\nEven during the pandemic she was at work, visiting and raising the profile of a mobile testing centre.\n\nAs her public presence developed over the decades, it was clear she had inherited her late father's reputation for no-nonsense and, on occasion, blunt-speaking.\n\nThat dogged refusal to play the role of a meek fairy tale princess stood her in good stead during a botched 1974 attempt to kidnap her.\n\nShe recalled to TV chat show host Michael Parkinson her refusal to go with the kidnapper amid the shoot-out which had left her protection officer and two others wounded,\n\n\"We had a discussion about where - or where not - we were going to go,\" she recalled. \"I was scrupulously polite because I thought it would be silly to be too rude at that stage.\"\n\nAn official government report available at the National Archives reports that her actual words to the assailant had been: \"Not bloody likely.\"\n\nHer formal title of Princess Royal is a customary honour dating from the 17th Century. Notwithstanding that tradition, its award in 1987 has long been considered a symbol of how her work was so valued within what her parents - and grandfather King George VI - called \"The Firm\".\n\nThat hard work has long been balanced with an independence of spirit - often difficult to achieve as a working Royal.\n\nCompeting in horse trials in 1976, the year she made the Olympic squad\n\nIn 1971, the then-21-year-old took the gold medal at the European eventing championships - and she was named BBC Sports Personality Of The Year. Five years later she made the Team GB for the Montreal Olympics.\n\n\"I certainly saw it as a way of proving that you had something that was not dependent on your family,\" she later said. \"It was down to you to succeed or fail.\"\n\nClearly, she had that approach to life in mind when she passed her heavy goods vehicle test, allowing her to drive horse lorries without the help of a royal retinue.\n\nAs competitive equine sports receded with age, other work that brought her personal satisfaction took over - including overseeing her Gloucestershire farm.\n\nWhen she guest-edited Country Life magazine for her 70th birthday, she critiqued what had gone wrong in some rural areas - calling for more to be done to provide housing for local people who are \"priced out of the market\".\n\n\"All of them could make the difference,\" she wrote.\n\nWhen Charles, as Prince of Wales, spoke his mind, his interventions regularly raised constitutional eyebrows.\n\nFor Anne-watchers it was more a mark of a practical solutions-focused woman who has spent her life wanting to get things done - so focused on getting things done that she raised her own children without royal titles, in the hope that they could have a relatively normal life.\n\nThat can-do will-do attitude will continue to be seen in the days ahead - an attitude first seen in September 1969.\n\nBack then, just 18-years-old, she undertook her first official engagement for Queen Elizabeth, when she opened a double-decker bus training centre near Shrewsbury.\n\nThe Birmingham Post reported she was a \"most modern Miss\", taking to the wheel of an Albion Viking bus and laughing that it was easier to handle than a Balmoral Land Rover.\n\nIt was the first of thousands of duties on behalf of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nHer last duties for her late mother are now before her.\n\nThe princess herself says it has been an \"honour and a privilege\" to accompany her mother on her final journeys.\n\nThere is no doubt that a new chapter in her public life is about to begin as she counsels and supports the King - and carries on rolling up her sleeves and getting on with it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen's children and grandchildren greeted her coffin on its arrival at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe King was there with Royal Family members including his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, Princes William and Harry and their wives, Catherine and Meghan.\n\nThe hearse, accompanied by the Queen's daughter Princess Anne, travelled by road after a flight from Edinburgh.\n\nDespite the rain, crowds gathered along the route to pay their respects.\n\nThere was applause from the thousands gathered outside as the hearse arrived at the palace. Shouts of \"hip, hip hooray\" were heard as the sombre mood gave way to respectful celebration of the late Queen.\n\nMany people lining the street put down their umbrellas as a sign of respect while phone cameras lit up the crowds as people documented the historic moment.\n\nThe King and Queen Consort have since left Buckingham Palace after witnessing the arrival of the coffin.\n\nThe procession to the palace marks one of the final stages of a solemn journey, which began on Sunday at the Queen's Balmoral estate where she died aged 96 on Thursday.\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday evening, the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, said it had been an \"honour and a privilege\" to accompany the Queen on her final journeys, having travelled with her mother's coffin from Balmoral to London.\n\n\"Witnessing the love and respect shown by so many on these journeys has been both humbling and uplifting,\" she said.\n\n\"We will all share unique memories. I offer my thanks to each and every one who share our sense of loss.\n\n\"We may have been reminded how much of her presence and contribution to our national identity we took for granted.\"\n\nPrincess Anne said it had been an \"honour and a privilege\" to accompany her mother's coffin on its journey to London\n\nThousands paid their respects as the Queen lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral, in Edinburgh overnight, before her coffin was flown to RAF Northolt, in north-west London this evening.\n\nThe national anthem was played as the RAF plane, which has previously been used to evacuate people from Afghanistan and deliver weapons to Ukraine, prepared to take off.\n\nThe number of people outside the palace began to swell this afternoon - although it thinned slightly as the rain became heavier, with most of those gathered wearing raincoats and carrying umbrellas - creating a subdued atmosphere.\n\nBut there were still several thousand waiting along the barriers outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nAmong them was Londoner Alex Myers, and her dog Minnie, who decided to take a detour to the palace after hearing the Queen's coffin was on its way.\n\nShe said the atmosphere when the hearse arrived was \"incredible and inspiring and very moving\".\n\n\"I think the outpouring of love has been a really amazing thing,\" she said, as both her and Minnie headed home slightly wetter than when they arrived, hours before.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was in a bespoke new hearse designed in consultation with her, to allow the public a clear view of her casket.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will rest in the Bow Room of the palace overnight before it is borne in procession on a gun carriage departing the palace for Westminster at exactly 14:22 BST on Wednesday.\n\nIn the past, the Queen has hosted foreign royalty and dignitaries in the room, including King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, former US president George Bush, and Premier League footballers.\n\nIt is in the palace's west wing, was formerly known as the Bow Library and was named after the window that runs along one side.\n\nThe Queen made her last appearance at Buckingham Palace in June alongside three generations of her family\n\nOn Wednesday, the Queen's coffin will be taken via The Mall, Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall and Parliament Square to Westminster Hall.\n\nFlights from Heathrow could face disruption to ensure silence over central London as the Queen's coffin is moved, the airport said.\n\nThe coffin will lie in state in the hall until the morning of the funeral next Monday. More than 400,000 people are expected to be able to file past it there.\n\nFrom 17:00 BST on Wednesday, people will be able to pay their respects, although mourners have been warned to expect long queues.\n\nThere will be some assistance for those unable to stand for a long time, Downing Street said, with the Prime Minister's official spokesman adding that \"everything possible\" would be done to facilitate those who could not wait for extended periods.\n\nBarriers for the queue were being placed as far out as Southwark Park, in south-east London, about three miles from Westminster, and about 50 people had already begun queuing to see the Queen lying in state by 20:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe Queen's final public appearance at Buckingham Palace was on the east front balcony on 5 June, where she stood alongside family members during Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nEarlier, after standing vigil by his mother's coffin in Edinburgh on Monday, King Charles travelled to Northern Ireland alongside Camilla, the Queen Consort, where he met politicians and officials.\n\nHe said the Queen had \"never ceased to pray for the best of times for this place and its people\" and said she had felt deeply \"the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those whom history had separated\".\n\nThe King pledged to \"seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe received a message of condolence from the speaker of the assembly Alex Maskey, a member of Sinn Féin, who said the Queen recognised how a \"small but significant gesture can make a huge difference in changing attitudes\".\n\nMore than 26,000 mourners filed past the Queen's coffin at St Giles', where she lay at rest before being taken to Edinburgh airport and flown to RAF Northolt, in West London.\n\nPeople queued for hours with the final wristbands granting access being given out at 13:00 BST, leaving some of those turned away in tears.", "In many cupboards, bathroom cabinets - or even on the side of a few lorries - the Queen's Royal Arms have, as a symbol, shown consumers that those same products grace palaces and castles.\n\nBut all of that is about to change.\n\nWhen Queen Elizabeth II passed away at her Scottish estate in Balmoral, more than 600 Royal Warrants passed with her.\n\nThese symbols on packaging or websites not only show that the companies meet exacting standards, but have also supplied the Royal Household on a regular basis.\n\nThe Royal Warrant Association has said, however, that these businesses must now reapply for their warrants. They are reviewed after a change in reigning sovereign but companies can continue to use the Royal Arms in connection with the business for up to two years.\n\nAt Crown Paints in Darwen, Lancashire, they are hoping they'll be able to keep that special relationship.\n\n\"It's a real badge of honour and we're really proud of it,\" explains marketing director Katie McLean, adding that it has become a key factor when it comes to recruiting and retaining staff.\n\n\"We have people who have worked here for generations, whose family worked here back in the 1960s when the Queen visited us.\"\n\nThe business was awarded the Royal Warrant by King George VI in 1949 and it was renewed by the Queen in 1955.\n\nCrown Paints was awarded the Royal Warrant by King George VI in 1949.\n\nA metal crest hangs high above the main doors of its head office and the firm has recently supplied paints to Sandringham estate and Frogmore Cottage.\n\nAlthough Katie admits it's good for business - and for exports - she says the Warrant runs far deeper than that: \"It's instilled a sense of pride but also responsibility in everyone here at Crown. It means we've always worked with community projects here and lead the way in sustainability,\" she said. \"We'll carry on doing that and hope that it's something we and the King are aligned on.\"\n\nSustainability - and the environment - are the words that keep coming up when speaking to businesses about the potential desires of King Charles III.\n\nThe 180 warrants Charles issued as Prince of Wales will continue now that he is King because they go with the household, not the title.\n\nMany of the products affiliated with the Queen are very high-end; Fortnum & Mason goodies, champagnes and equine supplies. Others include household items such as Marmite, Twinings Tea, Tate & Lyle sugars, Cadbury's chocolates and Heinz sauces.\n\nHeinz has been supplying Royal Households since 1951, thanks to inheriting some close connections when it purchased Lea and Perrins. The latter even made a tiny miniature bottle for the children's doll's house in Windsor Castle in 1924.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the Heinz factory near Wigan in 2009.\n\nFirst stocked as luxuries in department stores, Heinz goods are now present in many kitchens across the country.\n\nIn May 2009, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the Heinz factory in Kitt Green near Wigan, to mark the 50th anniversary of its official opening, a Heinz spokesperson said.\n\nAnd they're not the only American family favourite on the list.\n\nKellogg's director Paul Wheeler says the company has such a strong history of serving up cereal to the Queen, they once had a little van, called Genevieve, to make deliveries to the palace.\n\nPaul Wheeler told the BBC the firm had held a Royal Warrant for the entirety of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.\n\n\"Nowadays, the Royals get their cereal from us through their normal grocery supplier,\" Paul added, but he said it has been a privilege to hold the Warrant for the Queen's entire reign, and part of that of her father King George VI too.\n\nAs an American firm, the Warrant has been a boost for Kellogg's. Although the crest is a mark of quality for their products, it does not go on each box.\n\nThe Manchester production site is Kellogg's largest in Europe, but boxes shipped to the Republic of Ireland, for example, do not include the crest.\n\nChange does also mark a moment of opportunity. Consumer behaviour expert Dr Amna Khan says such marks, much like Red Tractor or Fairtrade, are a shorthand for making purchasing decisions.\n\n\"They streamline purchasing decisions and these products will make consumers feel elevated, buying into status and nostalgia,\" said the senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.\n\nDr Aman Khan is a senior lecturer in consumer behaviour and retailing at Manchester Metropolitan University\n\nDr Khan suspects that King Charles III's Warrants will continue the trend of modernisation: \"We'll see newer brands that connect with consumers better,\" she said.\n\n\"That's the best endorsement any product can get. All any logo wants to say is that [this company is] different and distinct - and it doesn't get much more distinct than the royal family.\"\n\nFirms can, of course, also fall from favour.\n\nIn 1999, the palace decided to end the royal endorsement of the tobacco company Gallaher - makers of Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut cigarettes - ending a 122-year agreement with the firm.\n\nThe palace said at the time it was due to lack of demand from the Royal Household, but commentators said that King Charles - a fervent anti-smoker - was reportedly instrumental in the withdrawal. It was welcomed by anti-smoking groups.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort now have the power to award a Warrant. There is also an expectation that the new King will grant his son and heir, Prince William, the ability to issue his own Warrants.\n\nBut it remains to be seen which type of firms are bestowed with the honour.\n• None The Food Chain - Shop like the Queen - BBC Sounds\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and friends from across the globe were among the 2,000 guests at the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHere's who was in the abbey, and where they were seated.\n\nClosest to the Queen's coffin were her four children and their spouses. King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, sat alongside the Princess Royal and her husband, the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sat directly behind the King while the Prince and Princess of Wales sat across the aisle from them.\n\nAll of the Queen's eight grandchildren sat in the front two rows, days after they stood together in vigil at the lying-in-state. Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, seven, were the Queen's only great-grandchildren to attend the service.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife the Duchess of York was in the second row next to her daughter Princess Eugenie.\n\nShe sat next to the Queen's nephew, the Earl of Snowdon. The earl, David Armstrong-Jones, is the son of the Queen's late sister, Princess Margaret and the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.\n\nHis sister Lady Sarah Chatto, who was close to the Queen, was also at the service with her husband Daniel Chatto and her two sons.\n\nOther members of the Queen's family sat in the first few rows included her cousins, the Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent.\n\nSome of the Queen's god children were also there including Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer.\n\nClose friends also attended. Ladies-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey and Dame Mary Morrison, were seen arriving alongside Angela Kelly, the Queen's personal dresser and one of her closest confidents.\n\nThe Queen Consort's children were invited - Laura Lopes, second from left, and Tom Parker Bowles.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary were alongside other cabinet ministers. All of the UK's surviving former prime ministers were also seated in the quire of the abbey.\n\nIn the middle row was Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson, Philip May, Theresa May, David Cameron, and Samantha Cameron.\n\nIn the front row were Sarah Brown, Gordon Brown, Cherie Blair, Sir Tony Blair, Lady Norma Major and Sir John Major.\n\nAll monarchs were invited to the funeral and the vast majority flew to London for it.\n\nDenmark's Queen Margrethe II - now the only female monarch in the world - sat opposite King Charles close to the coffin.\n\nOther kings and queens from The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Norway and Belgium also attended - as did the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.\n\nIt also marked the first international visit for the Emperor and Empress of Japan since they ascended the throne three years ago.\n\nMalaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah were seated behind King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government were thought to have been in the abbey.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and his wife Jill were sat in the 14th row behind the Polish president Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda.\n\nThe president of France, Emmanuel Macron, was with his wife Brigitte. Mr Macron, who met the Queen three times, had said that she had been \"a friend of France, a kind-hearted queen, who has left a lasting impression on her country and her century\".\n\nOther heads of government who were there included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is among those not invited\n\nRepresentatives from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan were not invited. This is because the UK does not have full diplomatic relations with these countries.\n\nNo-one from Russia, Belarus and Myanmar was invited either.\n\nDiplomatic relations between the UK and Russia have all but collapsed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was \"not considering\" attending the funeral.\n\nThe invasion was launched partially from the territory of Belarus. And the UK has significantly scaled back its diplomatic presence in Myanmar since a military coup last year.\n\nNorth Korea (DPRK) and Nicaragua were invited to send only ambassadors, not heads of state.\n\nHuman rights groups had criticised the decision to invite Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The prince has been accused by Western intelligence of ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Prince Turki Bin Mohammed al Saud attended the funeral instead.\n\nGraphics by Mark Bryson, additional reporting by Daniel Rosney and the Visual Journalism team", "The King and his sons, Princes William and Harry, have walked behind Queen Elizabeth's coffin as Her Majesty made her way to Westminster Hall.\n\nThe Queen's other children, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Prince Andrew, also joined the procession.", "Twitter's shareholders have voted to approve a deal with Elon Musk to buy the company for $44bn (£38bn).\n\nThe decision was made in a short conference call with investors from the company's San Francisco headquarters.\n\nIt means Twitter will now try to force Elon Musk to buy the company in the courts.\n\nThe meeting followed explosive testimony from Twitter's former head of security Peiter Zatko in front of the US Senate.\n\nIn April, Twitter agreed to sell the company to the world's richest person, Elon Musk.\n\nHowever, the deal soured after Mr Musk alleged he was misled by Twitter about the number of spam and bot accounts on the platform.\n\nHe said he no longer wished to purchase the company in May, but Twitter argues that Mr Musk cannot back out of the deal.\n\nThe social media platform says that fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users (those who are able to look at adverts) are bots. Mr Musk argues it could be many times higher.\n\nTwitter is currently valued at $32bn, considerably below the $44bn offer from Mr Musk.\n\nToday's vote could have spelled the end of Twitter's legal pursuit, but shareholders have now given the company the green light to pursue Mr Musk in court.\n\nThe two are set to meet in front of a Delaware state court in October. During the hearing a judge will decide whether or not Mr Musk has to buy the company.\n\nJust before the shareholder decision, Twitter whistle-blower Pieter Zatko was in Washington testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about alleged security flaws.\n\nHe told US lawmakers the firm was \"misleading the public\" about how secure the platform is.\n\nThe firm's former head of security went on to say that Twitter was \"a decade behind\" security standards. Twitter says Mr Zatko was fired from his job, and that the claims are inaccurate.\n\nMr Zatko has previously supported Elon Musk's claim that the platform has more spam and fake accounts than it has admitted - though he didn't elaborate on this on Tuesday.\n\nLast week, a judge said that Mr Musk's lawyers would be allowed to use the Twitter whistle-blower's testimony in court.\n\nIt largely focussed on national security issues - and is not officially connected with Mr Musk's attempt to pull out of the deal to buy Twitter.", "The soaring price of milk, cheese and eggs has pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years.\n\nFood prices rose at their fastest pace since 2008 in the year to August as the war in Ukraine continued to help drive up prices at supermarket tills.\n\nFalling petrol and diesel prices meant the overall inflation rate eased slightly but it remains near a 40-year high, official figures show.\n\nRising costs are eating into budgets, with prices rising further than wages.\n\nOverall UK inflation, which measures the rate at which prices rise, eased for the first time in almost a year in August, slipping to 9.9% from July's 10.1%.\n\nThe figure was not as high as economists had feared but some have warned the inflation rate is likely to continue to rise, noting that the cost of food, clothing and services - which include things such as shops and restaurant prices - were all continuing to rise sharply.\n\nThe Bank of England has warned inflation could top 13% this year, and is expected to keep raising interest rates to try to control it.\n\nHowever, the government plan to try and prevent widespread hardship by limiting rises in household energy bills, is likely to mean inflation will now not rise as high as previously expected.\n\n\"High inflation continues to drive Britain's cost-of-living crisis, but the outlook has brightening considerably over the past week,\" said Jack Leslie, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"The Energy Price Guarantee should prevent a second winter surge in prices.\"\n\n\"However, high inflation is set to be with us for some time, particularly for low-income who continue to be hit hardest by high prices.\"\n\nFood prices have been going up around the world following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has been one of the factors pushing up prices at supermarket tills.\n\nThe war has disrupted supplies from the two countries, which are major exporters of goods such as sunflower oil, wheat, and fertiliser.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser or enable javascript to see this content\n\nThe easing in the inflation rate reflects some respite at the petrol pumps over summer.\n\nThe real question is whether we are now past the peak?\n\nThat would have been a ridiculous suggestion a week ago before the Energy Price Guarantee.\n\nBut that should take 4 to 6 percentage points off headline inflation in the coming months.\n\nThe problem is that other sources of inflation are still surging.\n\nFood prices rose over the month of August, by the highest rate since 1995, driven by basics such as milk, cheese and eggs.\n\nServices inflation, which captures rising wages in large parts of the economy, is still going up too.\n\nAnd, of course, even at 9.9%, prices are rising much faster than wages, and much higher than the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nThe Bank is still likely to raise interest rates repeatedly in the coming months.\n\nSo the expectation is that this is a dip, before further rises alongside the increase in energy bills next month.\n\nHowever, the peak, when it comes, should be much closer to where we are now, perhaps 11 or 12%, than anticipated before the Prime Minister's energy guarantee.\n\nInflation is the pace at which prices are rising. For example, if a bottle of milk costs £1 and that rises by 5p compared with a year earlier, then milk inflation is 5%.\n\nCentral banks around the world, including the Bank of England, have been trying to get soaring inflation under control by hiking interest rates.\n\nRaising rates is a way of controlling inflation, as it increases the cost of borrowing and encourages people to borrow and spend less. It also encourages people to save more.\n\nThe Bank had been widely expected to increase rates again on Thursday, but it postponed that decision following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe Monetary Policy Committee's decision will now be announced on 22 September.\n\nKitty Ussher, chief economist at the Institute of Directors said she still expected interest rates to go up when the Bank of England announced its latest decision.\n\n\"The fact that the falling headline rate is due to changes in the price of petrol and diesel, which is driven predominantly by the international price of oil rather than by domestic factors, means news is unlikely to alter expectations of a rise in interest rates,\" she said, noting the Bank would act to try to stem UK price rises, such as food and services.\n\nAccording to separate figures published by the ONS, house prices recorded their biggest annual increase in 19 years in the year to the end of July.\n\nThe 15.5% rise compared with a 7.8% annual increase the previous month.\n\nThe jump was mainly due to the effects of the stamp duty holiday last year.\n\nThe stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland was reduced from July last year, before being phased out in October 2021.\n\nA similar property tax holiday in Wales ended at the end of June last year and the equivalent holiday in Scotland ended at the end of March. All were a response to concerns about the economic effect of Covid lockdowns.\n\nAs a result, the jump recorded for this July was mainly because of the contrast with the falls in prices seen this time last year.\n\nThe average UK house price was £292,000 in July, the ONS said.", "While some Wall Street banks launch return-to-office battles in London and New York, Citigroup is trying a different tack: offices at the beach.\n\nThe bank has opened a new hub for junior staff in the seaside city of Malaga, on Spain's Costa del Sol.\n\nIn addition to sun, staff are promised a reprieve from the industry's traditionally gruelling hours.\n\nThough salaries are also lower, more than 3,000 people applied for a spot, the bank said.\n\nThe bank has hired 27 people so far, from a stated goal of 30. The group, most of them aged 22 to 26, is drawn from 22 countries and speaks 15 different languages.\n\nIts staff in Malaga will work eight-hour days with no weekend work for around half of the $100,000 (£86,000) starting salary offered for the same roles in London and New York.\n\nAccording to one career website, investment bankers in London typically work a 65-70 hour week in quiet periods, although this can rise to as many as 100 hours in busy periods.\n\nCiti formally opened a new office in Malaga on Wednesday\n\nThe first day at the office, which formally opened on Wednesday, included a round of hobnobbing with Malaga's mayor, Citi said.\n\nOfficially, the new recruits will assist teams working with clients in a range of industries, including property, technology and healthcare. Bank representatives said the jobs are office-based, not remote,\n\nCiti first announced the plan in March, saying it was meant to help it reduce turnover and draw new people to the industry, which has seen its allure fade as tech companies and other firms in finance dangle similarly high salaries but less demanding days.\n\n\"Low levels of junior banker retention are being seen across the industry, and the message is clear: the key driver behind many junior-level departures is the search for a better work-life balance. At Citi, we are listening,\" Manolo Falcó, the bank's global co-head of banking, capital markets and advisory said at the time.\n\nThe bank has also raised starting salaries, while Citi boss Jane Fraser, the first woman to lead a Wall Street bank, famously declared Zoom-free Fridays last year, calling for a \"reset\" from the \"relentlessness of the pandemic workday\".\n\nThe moves come as the pandemic has lain bare strains in banking's infamously tough work culture.\n\nIn recent years, for example, young staff at Goldman Sachs have revolted against senior managers, taking gripes about burnout, return-to-office demands and, most recently, allegedly stingy coffee perks to the press.\n\nIn May, Goldman appeared to soften its image when it said senior staff would be allowed to take as much holiday as they wanted in order to \"rest and recharge\". Junior bankers, however, will still only be entitled to a fixed amount of holiday.\n\nThe bank follows tech firms LinkedIn, Bumble and Netflix in introducing the perk.", "The flight taking the Queen's coffin to London was the most tracked in history, website Flightradar24 has said.\n\nNearly six million people tried to follow the plane's route from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt within its first minute in the air, the website said.\n\nThe huge traffic caused disruptions to the site, where users can track the path of planes in the air.\n\nMore than 4.79 million people watched on its site and app and 296,000 were watching on a YouTube stream, it said.\n\nThe previous record was when a flight carrying US politician Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan last month was followed by 2.2 million people on Flightradar24.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was flown on an RAF Globemaster C-17, after lying in state at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.\n\nThe flight used the callsign \"Kittyhawk\", used for any military flight with the Queen on board.\n\nPrincess Anne and her husband Sir Timothy Laurence accompanied the coffin, with the princess saying she had felt fortunate to be able to share the final hours of the life of her \"dearest mother\".\n\n\"It has been an honour and a privilege to accompany her on her final journeys,\" she added.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace were among those waiting at RAF Northolt for the flight, which landed just before 19:00 BST.\n\nFlightradar24 said it had taken steps to make its platform as stable as possible before the plane took off.\n\nThe flight to Taiwan taken by Ms Pelosi, the US House of Representatives Speaker, in August attracted interest as she was the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit Taiwan, which China sees as a breakaway province.\n\nExplaining how Tuesday's figures had dwarfed that traffic, Flightradar24 said: \"Based on our experience last month, we expected a large influx of users, but this immediate, massive spike was beyond what we had anticipated.\"\n\nIt said about 600,000 users were able to \"successfully follow the flight before performance degraded\".\n\n\"Even though our platform suffered under such heavy load, Queen Elizabeth II's final flight from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt is by far the all-time most tracked flight on Flightradar24 and will likely remain at the top for a long while,\" it 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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The cost of green energy like wind and solar has been falling for decades\n\nSwitching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says.\n\nThe report said it was wrong and pessimistic to claim that moving quickly towards cleaner energy sources was expensive.\n\nGas prices have soared on mounting concerns over energy supplies.\n\nBut the researchers say that going green now makes economic sense because of the falling cost of renewables.\n\n\"Even if you're a climate denier, you should be on board with what we're advocating,\" Prof Doyne Farmer from the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School told BBC News.\n\n\"Our central conclusion is that we should go full speed ahead with the green energy transition because it's going to save us money,\" he said.\n\nThe report's findings are based on looking at historic price data for renewables and fossil fuels and then modelling how they're likely to change in the future.\n\nThe data for fossil fuels goes from 2020 back more than 100 years and shows that after accounting for inflation, and market volatility, the price hasn't changed much.\n\nRenewables have only been around for a few decades, so there's less data. But in that time continual improvements in technology have meant the cost of solar and wind power have fallen rapidly, at a rate approaching 10% a year.\n\nThe report's expectation that the price of renewables will continue to fall is based on \"probabilistic\" modelling, using data on how massive investment and economies of scale have made other similar technologies cheaper.\n\n\"Our latest research shows scaling-up key green technologies will continue to drive their costs down, and the faster we go, the more we will save,\" says Dr Rupert Way, the report's lead author from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.\n\nWind and solar are already the cheapest option for new power projects, but questions remain over how to best store power and balance the grid when the changes in the weather leads to fall in renewable output.\n\nBack in 2019 Philip Hammond, then Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote to the prime minister to say that the cost of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in the UK would be more than £1tn. This report says the likely costs have been over-estimated and have deterred investment.\n\nIt also says predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the cost of keeping global temperatures rises under 2 degrees would correspond to a loss of GDP by 2050 were too pessimistic. The transition to renewables was, it says, likely to turn out to be a \"net economic benefit\".\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Joule and is a collaboration between the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, the Oxford Martin Programme on the Post-Carbon Transition, the Smith School of Enterprise & Environment at the University of Oxford, and SoDa Labs at Monash University.", "Prince William and Prince Harry will walk together behind the Queen's coffin in a procession in London on Wednesday.\n\nThe brothers, along with the King, will follow the coffin on foot from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where the Queen will lie in state.\n\nThe procession will leave the palace at 14:22 BST and is expected to arrive at Westminster Hall at 15:00 BST.\n\nA service lasting about 20 minutes will then be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nThe King's three siblings - Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward - will also walk in the procession.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, will travel by car, as will Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nIt comes after Prince William and Prince Harry, accompanied by their wives, appeared in front of crowds gathered outside Windsor Castle on Saturday.\n\nThe group arrived in the same car and spent around 40 minutes greeting mourners and looking at flowers left for their grandmother.\n\nIt was the first time the brothers had been seen alongside one another in public since the funeral of their grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, in April last year.\n\nBoth were at a service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, but sat on opposite sides of the cathedral.\n\nThe brothers appeared together to greet mourners outside Windsor Castle following the Queen's death\n\nThe King spoke warmly of Harry and Meghan in his televised address to the nation on Friday evening.\n\nAfter announcing that William and Kate would become Prince and Princess of Wales, he said: \"I want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas.\"\n\nIn a tribute to the Queen released on Monday, Harry also said he wanted to \"honour my father in his new role as King Charles III\".\n\nMaj Gen Christopher Ghika, commanding officer for the procession to Westminster Hall, said the parade would involve 800 to 1,000 members of the armed forces.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's a very sad duty, but it's a unique privilege to take part in the armed forces' last duty to our Queen.\n\n\"In terms of evocative images of the Queen leaving Buckingham Palace for the last time, this is going to be a very special afternoon.\"\n\nA rehearsal was held in the early hours of Wednesday for those taking part in the procession\n\nMourners are queuing to attend the Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall, with the first person waiting since Monday. About 400,000 people are expected to attend.\n\nKate Paysen, 58, flew from Lisbon for the lying in state.\n\nMs Paysen, originally from the UK, said: \"I always felt that when the Queen died I would come and pay my respects.\n\n\"My father was in the Army and I grew up in a royalist household, and I think it's important to come and be part of history. I think the Queen for me always made me feel proud to be British.\"\n\nPeople can observe the lying-in-state from 17:00 BST on Wednesday. It concludes at 06:30 on Monday, the morning of the Queen's funeral.\n\nGovernment guidance says the queue is expected to be very long, with people standing for \"many hours, possibly overnight\" and with very little opportunity to sit down.\n\nIt is thought the queue might reach four miles up the Thames to Bermondsey", "Center Parcs has backtracked over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe holiday firm said it had made the decision \"as a mark of respect\" and to allow employees to \"be part of this historic moment\".\n\nBut the move prompted complaints from angry holidaymakers online.\n\nIt would have meant some guests would have had to leave part-way through their break and return afterwards.\n\nOne holidaymaker the BBC spoke to described the previous plans as \"ridiculous\".\n\nOthers took to Center Parcs' Facebook page to express their anger, with one saying the last-minute change showed no respect to guests.\n\nCenter Parcs had said that guests would have to leave its five UK sites for 24 hours from 10:00 BST on Monday 19 September.\n\nThe company has now changed its decision, saying that it will no longer require guests who are not due to depart on Monday to leave.\n\nThose due to arrive on Monday, however, will still not be able to check in until 10:00 BST Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday evening, it said: \"The vast majority of our guests are either due to arrive or depart on Monday 19 September.\n\n\"We have however, reviewed our position regarding the very small number of guests who are not due to depart on Monday, and we will be allowing them to stay on our villages rather than having to leave and return on Tuesday.\"\n\nThe five locations of its holiday parks include: Elveden Forest, Suffolk; Longleat Forest, Wiltshire; Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire; Woburn Forest, Bedfordshire; and Whinfell Forest, Cumbria.\n\nFacilities on-site, including restaurants, will still remain closed on Monday too. Center Parcs said it would be offering a discount for the lack of facilities available on that day.\n\nDavid Tomlinson from Solihull, is two days into a two-week break with his wife at the Sherwood Forest site.\n\nHe said the company had the opportunity to inform guests of the decision before they checked in on Monday.\n\nGuests also took to Center Parcs' Facebook page to vent their frustration before the update was made.\n\n\"You're closing your sites at very short notice as a mark of respect, while showing very little respect for your customers,\" one wrote.\n\nAnother said: \"We were five related families getting together for our annual family holiday - with two small children and two dogs, three hours from home!\n\n\"Sorry, but this is an awful decision that has left us devastated.\"\n\nThey pleaded: \"By all means close the restaurants and activities, but let us stay on the park!\"\n\nRival holiday company Butlin's has said that its resorts will be staying open on Monday, with some changes to arrival times.\n\nAccording to government guidance, businesses are under no obligation to close during the period of national mourning, which includes the Queen's funeral on Monday 19 September.\n\nHowever, a number of firms have said they will close all or some of their stores on Monday, including supermarket chains Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda and retailers such as Primark and John Lewis.\n• None What is a state funeral? Where is the Queen buried?", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nErling Haaland's magnificent strike capped a dramatic Manchester City comeback and condemned former club Borussia Dortmund to a painful Champions League defeat at Etihad Stadium.\n\nCity struggled against a composed Dortmund, who took the lead when the outstanding Jude Bellingham glanced home Marco Reus' cross after 56 minutes.\n\nPep Guardiola's side toiled in search of inspiration and found the equaliser with 10 minutes left when defender John Stones fired a powerful shot past Dortmund keeper Alexander Meyer.\n\nInevitably, it was left to Haaland to produce a truly special moment four minutes later, showing outstanding athleticism to soar through the air and score from Joao Cancelo's cross.\n• None 'Bellingham shows why he must start for England'\n• None 'They didn't stop me' - the night Haaland 'emulated Cruyff'\n\nHaaland had been kept relatively quiet by his former Dortmund team-mates but this special striker still made the defining, spectacular contribution as City came from behind to win.\n\nThe young Norwegian was on the margins of the game but had posted a warning with a shot that struck the outside of the post minutes before scoring.\n\nStones' equaliser, struck with plenty of force but met with little obstruction from the strangely static keeper Meyer, shifted the emphasis of a game in which Dortmund's calm defence, marshalled by the veteran Mats Hummels and with Bellingham pulling the strings in midfield, left City frustrated.\n\nCity suddenly sensed a winner but it was still something special when Haaland took off into the air to meet Cancelo's cross with his outstretched left foot to divert the ball past a disbelieving Meyer.\n\nIt brought a broad smile to the face of his father, former City midfield man Alf-Inge, watching in the stands. He re-enacted the moment but, understandably, without his son's elasticity and elegance.\n\nHaaland's goal was his 13th of the season and his 26th in 21 Champions League games.\n\nCity's fans rejoiced as this was exactly the sort of moment the 22-year-old was signed for, to decide big Champions League games that looked to be getting away from them.\n\nIt means City now have a maximum return from two games and a striker every team in the competition will fear.\n\nBellingham embraced his former Dortmund team-mate Haaland, the pain of defeat mixed with a resigned smile at the world-class goal that undid so much good work by the Bundesliga side.\n\nIt was mutual admiration as Haaland will have appreciated the sheer class of the 19-year-old England midfielder, who was the game's most significant presence until City launched that late turnaround.\n\nBellingham demonstrates a maturity beyond his years with the perfect range of passing, composure and also an eye for a goal as he reacted quicker than City's defenders to divert Reus' cross past Ederson.\n\nGareth Southgate names his next England squad on Thursday. Bellingham is now producing a growing body of evidence to suggest he must be a starter ahead of Kalvin Phillips, who has barely played since moving to City from Leeds United.\n\nAnd he was certainly more impressive than the disappointing Jack Grealish, who could have had no complaints when he was substituted as City manager Guardiola tried to get his side back into the game after Dortmund took the lead.\n• None Phil Foden (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Donyell Malen (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Raphaël Guerreiro.\n• None Attempt blocked. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Erling Haaland.\n• None Attempt saved. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by John Stones.\n• None Salih Özcan (Borussia Dortmund) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Thomas Meunier (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marco Reus.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 2, Borussia Dortmund 1. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by João Cancelo with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rodri (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1, Borussia Dortmund 1. John Stones (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Daniel Jarvis collided with England batsman Jonny Bairstow during the fourth Test at the Oval\n\nA self-styled YouTube prankster who collided with England cricketer Jonny Bairstow after invading the pitch at the Oval has been found guilty of aggravated trespass.\n\nDaniel Jarvis, 34, ran into the batter at the non-striker's end after sprinting on to the field to bowl at Ollie Pope on day two of the fourth Test against India last September.\n\nHe said he did not believe he was trespassing because he had a ticket.\n\nJarvis will be sentenced next month.\n\nThe defendant, from Gravesend in Kent, has a YouTube account with more than 170,000 subscribers.\n\nHe said that some people \"run out naked\" during games but do not get arrested. Jarvis told Croydon Magistrates' Court that he \"accidentally\" made contact with Bairstow, adding: \"I can't remember the man's name.\"\n\nBairstow scored a total of 37 runs in the Test match, which India won by 157 runs\n\nDistrict Judge Daniel Benjamin said: \"The issue in the case is straightforward, namely whether he intended to disrupt the Test match.\"\n\nHe concluded this was the defendant's intention, adding: \"I find Mr Jarvis guilty of aggravated trespass.\"\n\nThe court was shown broadcast footage of Jarvis running on to the pitch, as well as a video he recorded showing him hiding in a toilet before sprinting on to the field after receiving a phone call telling him the time was right.\n\nThe court also viewed videos of him invading the pitch at two previous matches between England and India last year, at Lord's on 12 August and at Headingley on 25 August.\n\nJarvis, who represented himself, said he was not arrested over those pitch invasions, adding \"no-one has been prosecuted for these things before\".\n\n\"I didn't intend to disrupt the match,\" he told the court. \"I didn't know when I was coming out. Why wasn't I arrested before? Why is everyone attacking me for it?\"\n\nJarvis said he got \"positive feedback\" on his videos, which he made for \"people's pleasure\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia has covertly spent more than $300m (£260m) since 2014 to influence politicians in more than 24 countries, the US has alleged.\n\nThe Department of State's allegation is based on a declassified US intelligence assessment released on Tuesday.\n\nA senior official from President Joe Biden's administration said: \"We think this is just the tip of the iceberg.\"\n\nRussia has not publicly commented on the issue. Moscow itself has repeatedly accused the US of meddling abroad.\n\nAmerican intelligence \"assesses that these are minimum figures and that Russia likely has transferred additional funds covertly in cases that have gone undetected\", said the Biden administration official during a phone briefing.\n\nThe official was speaking on condition of anonymity.\n\nThe US intelligence assessment released in a cable did not name specific countries or officials believed to have been targeted by Russia - but said they spanned four continents.\n\nThe administration official said the US intelligence community was now privately briefing select countries on the alleged Russian covert financing. The briefings would remain confidential, the official added.\n\nAn administration source familiar with the findings alleged that Russia had spent about $500,000 to back Albania's centre-right Democratic Party in 2017 elections and also bankrolled parties or candidates in Bosnia, Montenegro and Madagascar, according to the AFP news agency.\n\nThe source also said the Kremlin had used Brussels as a hub for foundations and other fronts that back far-right candidates.\n\nFictitious companies were said to be used to fund European parties and to buy influence elsewhere.\n\nThe Russian authorities have so far made no public statements on the US claim.\n\nMoscow has previously blamed America's CIA intelligence agency for interfering in other countries' affairs, including by backing various coups around the globe.\n\nThe US has meddled in foreign elections more than 80 times worldwide between 1946-2000, not including coups or attempts at regime change, according to a database kept by Carnegie Mellon University researcher Dov Levin.\n\nOn Tuesday, state department spokesman Ned Price called Russia's alleged covert funding an \"assault on sovereignty\".\n\nLast year, US intelligence officials assessed in a report that Russian President Vladimir Putin was likely to have authorised attempts to influence America's 2020 election in favour of former President Donald Trump.\n\nBut it said no foreign government had compromised the final results.", "Queen Elizabeth II has left Buckingham Palace for the final time.\n\nHer coffin makes its way towards Westminster Hall where Her Majesty will lie in state for four days. Members of the public will be able to pay their respects 24-hours-a-day until 06:30 BST on Monday 19 September.", "The BBC has launched a dedicated stream of the Queen lying in state, for people who want to pay their respects virtually.\n\nThe service is being offered globally for those who want to pay their respects but cannot travel to London or are physically unable to queue.\n\nIt will be available on the BBC home page, the BBC News website and app, the iPlayer, BBC Parliament and Red Button.\n\nWatch the stream on this link until Monday, the morning of the funeral.\n\nPeople will be able to file past the coffin in Westminster Hall until 06:30 BST on Monday.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit Westminster Hall to pay their respects to Britain's longest-reigning monarch.\n\nMourners began gathering as early as Monday, and by Wednesday morning many people had joined the queue forming on nearby streets and along the banks of the River Thames.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was taken to Buckingham Palace after it was flown from Edinburgh to London on Tuesday evening.\n\nIt has since been carried to Westminster Hall on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by a team of black horses.\n\nKing Charles III, his sons the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, and other members of the Royal Family followed behind the coffin on foot.\n\nAfter the coffin was placed in position in Westminster Hall by the Grenadier Guards, a short service was held, attended by the King and members of the Royal Family and led by the Archbishop of Canterbury accompanied by the Dean of Westminster.\n\nWestminster Hall was the venue for the King's address to MPs and peers on Monday, when he was also given their condolences.\n\nAt 17:00 BST the public were allowed to begin entering the hall to file past the coffin and pay their respects.\n\nThe Queen will then lie in state until Monday, which has been declared a Bank Holiday across the UK.\n\nDuring the lying-in-state period, Westminster Hall will be open for 24 hours a day.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.", "The Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday, after her coffin has been lying in state for the last four full days.\n\nHere is your guide to what will happen, day by day.\n\nMonday is the day of the Queen's state funeral. It is also a bank holiday in the UK.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state will end at 06:30 BST when the last people will file past her coffin. The doors to Westminster Abbey will then open at 08:00 ahead of the funeral.\n\nAt 10:44, the Queen's coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and it will be drawn by 142 sailors from the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III will walk behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nThe procession will be led by a massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force - numbering 200 musicians.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive at the Abbey at 10:52. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.\n\nAt around 11:55, the Last Post will sound, followed by a national two-minute silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12:00.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will travel in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. The King and senior royals will walk behind the coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will follow the procession by car. Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals.\n\nFrom there the coffin will be taken by a state hearse to Windsor. Shortly after 15:00, the hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nThe three-mile (5km) avenue will be lined with members of the armed forces.\n\nA committal service will then begin at 16:00. Attended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, it will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nAfter, the Queen will then be lowered into the royal vault.\n\nLater in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen will be buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "Firefighters at the ruins of a house in Sotk, which Armenia claimed had been hit by Azeri shelling\n\nMore than 100 Armenian soldiers have been killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan since Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said.\n\nAzerbaijan said on Thursday that 71 of its troops had been killed, in fighting which both sides blame on the other.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of long-running conflicts fought between the two former Soviet republics over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.\n\nRussia and the US have each called for peace between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking to his country's parliament, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said 105 Armenian servicemen had been killed since Monday night in attacks he blamed on Azerbaijan.\n\nHe also accused Azeri troops of occupying 10 sq km (4 sq miles) of Armenian territory this week and said he had now turned to Russia for military assistance - a long-time ally of Armenia.\n\nAzerbaijan denies the Armenian account of this week's events, including reports that it fired upon vehicles belonging to Russia's FSB security services stationed inside Armenia.\n\nInstead, Azerbaijan claims its neighbour started the conflict by shelling military targets within its own district of Kalbacar.\n\n\"Our units are taking the necessary response measures,\" Azerbaijan's defence ministry said, according to Reuters.\n\nA fragile ceasefire brokered by Russia on Tuesday failed to hold, with both sides blaming the other of breaching the agreement and reports of violence continuing into Wednesday evening.\n\nLate on Wednesday evening Armenia said a truce has been agreed with Azerbaijan, although there has been no confirmation yet from Azerbaijan.\n\nOn Thursday Azerbaijan's defence ministry published a list of 71 servicemen killed in the clashes.\n\nThe fighting is the deadliest to break out between the two neighbours in two years.\n\nInternational leaders are intensifying diplomatic efforts to prevent it from escalating into an even deadlier war - as has happened with previous skirmishes in the past.\n\nIn addition to the human cost of a second war in the former USSR, a full-blown conflict would risk dragging in Russia and Turkey, both key powers in the region, as well as disrupting crucial oil and gas transit routes.\n\nAs part of that diplomatic effort, the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) is sending a peace mission to Armenia that the Kremlin said would arrive \"imminently\".\n\nTurkey is aligning itself with Azerbaijan and its President, Recep Erdogan, has accused Armenia of starting the conflict by violating an existing peace settlement.\n\nIn Washington, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held phone calls with the leaders of both nations in the hope of facilitating a ceasefire - urging Moscow to do more as well.\n\nA long-running dispute between the neighbouring republics over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region has led to full-scale war in the 1980s and 1990s, a six-week war in 2020 and continuing clashes for decades.\n\nAlthough internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, the region has long been populated and effectively administered by ethnic Armenians.\n\nA Moscow-brokered peace deal that ended the 2020 war saw Armenia withdraw its troops from some occupied areas within Azerbaijan.\n\nA Russian peacekeeping force of nearly 2,000 men was deployed to the area as part of the negotiations, where it remains today.", "Hundreds of people braved wet weather to be among the first people to see the Queen's coffin.\n\nThe first groups of people arrived at Albert Embankment on Monday and number have been growing.\n\nThe BBC's Kristian Johnson spent the night camping with people queuing.", "While the Queen was lying in state, on top of her coffin rested the Imperial State Crown, perhaps the most familiar treasure in the Crown Jewels - a priceless collection of tens of thousands of gemstones collected over the centuries by British kings and queens.\n\nThe crown sparkles with nearly 3,000 stones - including 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and five rubies.\n\n\"It can be quite hard to look at sometimes because of the sheer light that comes off them. It's literally dazzling… visually overpowering,\" says historian and author of The Crown Jewels, Anna Keay.\n\nShe says historically, right back to the Middle Ages, crowns were viewed as expressions of wealth and status.\n\nMade in 1937 for the coronation of the Queen's father, King George VI, the Imperial State Crown was designed to be lighter, and to fit better, than the crown it replaced - which dated back to Queen Victoria. But nevertheless, the Imperial Crown still weighs in at a hefty 2.3lbs (1.06kg).\n\nDuring her reign, Queen Elizabeth II would wear it annually for the State Opening of Parliament - as she sat on a golden throne reading out the government's key legislative plans for the year ahead.\n\nThe Queen, with the Duke of Edinburgh by her side, wearing the crown at the State Opening of Parliament in 2016\n\nIn 2018, the Queen joked about how heavy the crown felt to wear.\n\n\"You can't look down to read the speech, you have to take the speech up, because if you did your neck would break,\" explained Her Majesty.\n\n\"There are some disadvantages to crowns, but otherwise they're quite important things.\"\n\nIn 2019, when the monarch was well into her 90s, a lighter crown was used - and in 2021, the final time she took part in the ceremony, she didn't wear one at all.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown includes the 317 carat Cullinan II diamond - sometimes called the Second Star of Africa. Cut from the largest diamond ever found, it was given to Edward VII on his 66th birthday by the government of the Transvaal - a former British crown colony - in present day South Africa.\n\nIt also includes the oldest gem in the royal collection - a sapphire said to have once been worn in a ring by the 11th Century king of England, St Edward the Confessor. The stone is now set at the centre of the cross that tops the crown.\n\nThe Queen was particularly keen on a large red gemstone in the crown - known as the Black Prince's Ruby. It is thought to have been worn in 1415 during the Hundred Years' War by Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - when English forces beat the French to the south of Calais.\n\nLegend has it that the king placed a feather in a hole drilled into the ruby. \"It's fun to see,\" the Queen told the BBC in 2018, \"the idea that his plume was put into the stone on his helmet - bit rash, but that was the sort of thing they did, I suppose, in those days.\"\n\nBBC presenter Clive Myrie - who was given unprecedented, close-up access to the crown earlier this year for a BBC documentary - described seeing it as \"almost unreal\".\n\n\"The clarity of the diamonds is absolutely unbelievable.\"\n\nWith unprecedented access to the latest technology, Clive Myrie reveals the magnificent, astonishing, complicated history buried within the Crown Jewels\n\nBut putting a price on how much the Imperial State Crown - and all the Crown Jewels - is worth is nigh on impossible. Royal expert Alastair Bruce told the BBC documentary the collection was beyond monetary value.\n\n\"Calling it priceless is sensible, but you can just add as many zeros as there are diamonds in the collection.\"\n\nWhen not in use, the Imperial State Crown is on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower of London - which has been home to the Crown Jewels for more than 600 years.\n\nFollowing tradition, King Charles III will wear the St Edward's Crown for his coronation, but will put on the Imperial State Crown to leave Westminster Abbey at the end of the ceremony. Then, like his mother before him, he will wear the Imperial State Crown at the opening of Parliament, as well as on other official occasions.", "Video caption: Former First Minister Peter Robinson speaks to EvEx about his memories of the Monarch Former First Minister Peter Robinson speaks to EvEx about his memories of the Monarch\n\nQuote Message: The Queen strongly wanted to make a contribution towards reconciliation and demonstrated that both in Northern Ireland and with her visit to the Republic of Ireland. The response from the ordinary person on the street [in the Republic], indicated the welcome there was in the south for a new beginning and for relations north south and east west.\" from Peter Robinson Former NI first minister The Queen strongly wanted to make a contribution towards reconciliation and demonstrated that both in Northern Ireland and with her visit to the Republic of Ireland. The response from the ordinary person on the street [in the Republic], indicated the welcome there was in the south for a new beginning and for relations north south and east west.\"\n\nThe Queen was \"prepared to go the second mile, she was an encourager all the way\" for the peace process in Northern Ireland, former first minister Peter Robinson told Radio Ulster.\n\nIn his role, he met the Queen on a number of occasions and also got to know her in private audiences.\n\n\"She was a wonderful person, she was driven by faith and duty,\" he said.\n\n\"Those who met her personally found that infectious spirit she had.\"\n\nWhen the cameras were not around, Mr Robinson said that he found she had been \"well briefed\" and had a \"\"really acute inquiring mind\".\n\n\"She went for the kind of areas you weren't expecting. She'd ask: What is it like to work with him?\" he said.\n\nThis was not just about Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, the late deputy first minister, but other politicians well known in Northern Ireland, he said.\n\nSpeaking about the historic handshake between Her Majesty and Mr McGuinness, he said: \"It wasn't an easy occasion for either of the two individuals.\n\n\"There was a lot of history on both sides. It was an important part of our overall process.", "Charles III speaks to well-wishers after leaving Buckingham Palace, thanking them for their condolences.\n\nThe new monarch stopped to greet onlookers after his proclamation ceremony earlier in the day.", "Mourners are continuing to lay flowers outside Hillsborough Castle\n\nQueen Elizabeth II \"managed to charm an entire country\" during her historic state visit to the Republic of Ireland, the Irish foreign minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said many Irish people saw her with \"new affection\" after she became the first UK monarch to visit the independent state in May 2011.\n\nAcross Northern Ireland, people have been laying flowers and signing books of condolence for the late Queen.\n\nA number of sports events have been postponed as a mark of respect.\n\nThe UK is in mourning after its longest-reigning monarch died on Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly will be recalled on Monday at 12:30 BST to allow members to pay tribute.\n\nPoliticians and dignitaries from across the island of Ireland have expressed their admiration for the Queen's 70 years of service as Britain's head of state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Those laying flowers at Hillsborough Castle spoke of their admiration for the Queen\n\nIn particular, they have praised her contribution to the peace process on the island of Ireland, remembering her first and only visit to the Republic of Ireland 11 years ago.\n\nShe was hosted by Belfast native Mary McAleese, the then president of Ireland.\n\nMrs McAleese described the four-day trip as \"magical\" and said the Queen had made a \"very special pilgrimage of reconciliation\".\n\nDuring the visit, the Queen laid a wreath in Dublin's Garden of Remembrance - a park dedicated to Irish people who fought against British rule.\n\nShe also spoke a few words in Irish at a state dinner in Dublin Castle, the former seat of British power in Ireland.\n\nA moment of reflection during the Queen's visit to Ireland in May 2011\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mrs McAleese said the Queen was a person who transcended politics and who was \"deeply respected\" by people from different backgrounds and political persuasions.\n\n\"Many, many people across the island who would not be supporters of the idea of monarchy, for example people who would be republicans, and many Irish nationalists would share with me deep sorrow at her passing, because she was always a woman who was worthy of respect,\" the former president said.\n\n\"Why? Because she earned that respect over seven decades.\"\n\nThe 2011 visit was \"an extraordinary moment\" in British-Irish relations, according to the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney.\n\nAt the time, Mr Coveney escorted the Queen on a walkabout around the English Market in his native Cork.\n\nThe Queen visited the English Market in Cork in 2011, accompanied by Simon Coveney (right)\n\nHe told the BBC's Talkback's programme the royal guest \"managed to charm an entire country\" during her trip.\n\n\"And she addressed the British-Irish relationship in terms of our history - with all its tragedy, but with all it's closeness - in a way that really I think resulted in so many Irish people seeing her with a new affection.\n\n\"It was just one of her many achievements over 70 years of an extraordinary reign.\"\n\nThe following year, the Queen broke new ground in her first meeting with the then deputy first minister, and former IRA commander, Martin McGuinness.\n\nSpeaking to Evening Extra, the former first minister Peter Robinson recalled his memories of the historic handshake.\n\n\"I felt that she very strongly wanted to make a contribution. She felt we were on the right path, that the kind of reconciliation and way forward that we were moving was something that was worthy of her support,\" he said.\n\n\"She showed that by her own endeavours in Northern Ireland as well as her visit to the south.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former First Minister Peter Robinson speaks to BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra about his memories of the Queen\n\n\"It wasn't an easy occasion for either of the two individuals because there was a lot of history on both sides. I think it was an important part of our overall process.\"\n\nMr Robinson said Mr McGuinness \"did take some flak\" from some people around him over the occasions he met the Queen.\n\n\"It wasn't always an easy thing for republicans to do but I think it did just indicate that we were moving on in Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are continuing to mourn the Queen's death and floral tributes are mounting outside the gates of Hillsborough Castle in County Down, the Royal Family's official residence in Northern Ireland.\n\nMore than 200 people stood at the gates of Hillsborough Castle for a gun salute in honour of Queen Elizabeth II - part of a UK-wide military honour.\n\nThose who brought floral tributes include people in their 90s, who remember well the Queen's coronation.\n\nParents have been guiding young children to the gates to lay flowers.\n\nAs the cannons fired - some people stood with their heads bowed, and many remarked on the sense of history, change and grief.\n\nBooks of condolence opened in Belfast City Hall at 14:30 BST on Friday and the council is also organising a special sitting in which councillors can pay tribute.\n\nA book of condolence has also opened in Londonderry's Guildhall, while similar tributes have opened in Derry's St Columb's Cathedral, where the Queen visited as a young princess in 1945, and Strabane's Alley Theatre.\n\nSigning his own tribute at the cathedral, Bishop Andrew Forster said: \"Little did she know what lay ahead of her.\n\n\"But she's been a wonderful monarch and her life has been solely about duty and service, and she will be sorely missed by a great many people.\"\n\nSeveral councils across Northern Ireland are opening books of condolence at venues which include:\n\nFlowers have been left on the Shankill Road in Belfast\n\nA major security operation is continuing to manage the flow of people who want to pay their respects.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said special transport will be put in place from the Eikon Centre to visit Hillsborough Castle from Saturday.\n\n\"There are currently structural preparations being put in place and Hillsborough Castle will remain closed to members of the public until tomorrow,\" the NIO added.\n\nThe Irish FA said that fixtures across all affiliated football in the country, and all other organised football activity at all levels, will not go ahead this weekend.\n\nAll of this weekend's rugby and hockey games in Ulster have also been postponed.\n\nThe NI International Air Show has been cancelled as a mark of respect.", "The Queen is said to have been a very good mimic\n\nThe Queen's role in public life was tightly choreographed and she often had to keep a straight face. But in her later years, she gave us a glimpse of her sense of humour.\n\nFrom sharing a marmalade sandwich with Paddington Bear to photobombing Australian hockey players, here is a look back at some of her funniest moments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From June 2022: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for Party at the Palace\n\nAs part of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, the Queen was filmed having tea with Paddington Bear, in a sketch which opened the BBC's Party at the Palace marking her 70 years on the throne.\n\nAs the celebrations were about to begin, Paddington offered her his beloved snack - a marmalade sandwich. \"I always keep one for emergencies,\" he told her, pulling one out from under his famous red hat.\n\n\"So do I,\" replied the Queen, opening up her signature black handbag and taking out her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs part of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Queen made a dramatic entrance with the help of another British icon - James Bond.\n\nIn a skit created by director Danny Boyle, the Queen received a visit from 007 in Buckingham Palace, before the pair left together by helicopter. She then appeared to skydive into the Olympic Stadium to greet cheering crowds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boom: The Queen and Prince Harry responded to Barack and Michelle Obama's Invictus Games challenge\n\nIn 2016, the Queen appeared in another viral video clip - this time with her grandson Prince Harry to promote the Invictus Games.\n\nThe pair watched a video message from former US president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama, who issued Prince Harry a sporting challenge.\n\nThe Queen was unfazed. \"Oh really, please,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen insisted on cutting a cake with a ceremonial sword at an event at the Eden Project in Cornwall.\n\nThe Queen cut many cakes during her lifetime, but only once with a ceremonial sword. She tried out the more unorthodox method at a charity event in Cornwall.\n\nWhen a volunteer reminded her that a standard knife was available, the Queen was undeterred.\n\n\"I know there is,\" she retorted, continuing to clutch the sword. \"This is more unusual.\"\n\nIn 2014, two Australian hockey players were left stunned when the Queen appeared smiling in the background of their picture at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nJayde Taylor (left) posted the first image on Twitter and said: \"Ahhh The Queen photo-bombed our selfie!\", with the tweet instantly going viral.\n\nThe Queen was accompanied by her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, at thousands of official engagements.\n\nBut during a military review at Windsor Castle in 2003, a swarm of bees derailed the normal efficient-running of events. The royal couple saw the funny side, captured on camera by photographer Chris Young.\n\n\"It was a human moment,\" he told the BBC. \"She was giggling like a little girl and he was laughing too.\"", "King Charles III gave the following address at St James's Palace upon his proclamation as king by the Accession Council on Saturday.\n\nIt is my most sorrowful duty to announce to you the death of my beloved mother, The Queen.\n\nI know how deeply you, the entire nation - and I think I may say the whole world - sympathise with me in the irreparable loss we have all suffered. It is the greatest consolation to me to know of the sympathy expressed by so many to my sister and brothers and that such overwhelming affection and support should be extended to our whole family in our loss.\n\nTo all of us as a family, as to this kingdom and the wider family of nations of which it is a part, my mother gave an example of lifelong love and of selfless service.\n\nMy mother's reign was unequalled in its duration, its dedication and its devotion. Even as we grieve, we give thanks for this most faithful life.\n\nI am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me.\n\nIn taking up these responsibilities, I shall strive to follow the inspiring example I have been set in upholding constitutional government and to seek the peace, harmony and prosperity of the peoples of these Islands and of the Commonwealth Realms and territories throughout the world.\n\nIn this purpose, I know that I shall be upheld by the affection and loyalty of the peoples whose sovereign I have been called upon to be, and that in the discharge of these duties I will be guided by the counsel of their elected parliaments.\n\nIn all this, I am profoundly encouraged by the constant support of my beloved wife.\n\nI take this opportunity to confirm my willingness and intention to continue the tradition of surrendering the hereditary revenues, including the Crown Estate, to my government for the benefit of all, in return for the Sovereign Grant, which supports my official duties as head of state and head of nation.\n\nAnd in carrying out the heavy task that has been laid upon me, and to which I now dedicate what remains to me of my life, I pray for the guidance and help of almighty God.", "There is a tiny special club, a powerful group who knew Queen Elizabeth in a particular and private way - her prime ministers.\n\nThey all used to speak to her in person for an hour or so each week. The monarch was their confidant of sorts, an adviser providing a shrewd ear.\n\nFor this week's programme I've been speaking to Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May, the Queen's 11th, 12th, and 13th prime ministers, about why it matters, their memories of one monarch, and their hopes for the next.\n\nThe Queen always would have \"done her red boxes, read government papers\" and would be well-versed in the dilemmas of government decisions, said Mrs May.\n\nHer predecessor, Mr Brown, joked that sometimes he had been \"embarrassed\" by the extent of her knowledge, recalling that on one occasion she had more up to date information about a particular Commonwealth country than he did.\n\nMr Cameron described the Queen as the \"world's greatest public servant\" with a profound understanding of what was going on at any one moment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mr Cameron told the BBC that Charles had served “the longest apprenticeship in history”\n\nAll three former PMs told me they benefitted enormously from her long years of experience that she shared with them in private - a sense that whatever the problem of the day, she could provide advice and a sense of proportion.\n\nThey all emphasised the new King's long years of preparation and knowledge of the role he now occupies, with Mr Cameron telling me the then-Prince Charles, during what he called \"the longest apprenticeship in history\", had practised holding audiences with him while his mother was on the throne.\n\nLooking to the future, Mr Brown said he felt King Charles - in his televised address to the nation on Friday - had carefully sent a message to the country that his priorities would change, leaving his charities and causes to others to take on.\n\nYet what stood out in our conversations were their personal encounters with the Queen.\n\nFor Mr Brown it was the time she told the corgis to \"shut up\" in front of his young sons. For months after, they would defend themselves when being told off for using the phrase by saying: \"If the Queen says it, why can't we?\"\n\nGordon Brown recalls the Queen telling her corgis to \"shut up\" in front of his young sons\n\nMr Cameron recalled the time he got lost on the Balmoral estate but was found by the Duke of Edinburgh - travelling at speed in his Land Rover across the moor - and how at state occasions, his wife Samantha always wanted to sit next to the then-Prince Charles because he was the most fun companion for a long, formal evening.\n\nMrs May remembered with laughter the time she dropped the cheese at the Balmoral picnic, then put it back on the table even though the Queen was watching her every move, and how at those Highland weekends the monarch would sit happily playing patience on her own while her guests mingled around her.\n\nThese politicians knew the Queen well, but our conversations echo how many members of the public perhaps felt - the most formal, yet familiar too.\n\nThe monarch with golden robes and a jewel-laden Crown - but a friendly face in a difficult moment.\n\nThe most experienced and knowledgeable diplomat the country has ever seen, and the party host clearing up the barbecue. The head of state of the sixth biggest economy in the world, but also a great-grandmother at ease with Paddington Bear.\n\nOn our show last week we interviewed the woman who was the last politician to have the traditional audience with the Queen. It's fitting perhaps that the last formal photograph of her showed that vital encounter with Liz Truss.\n\nThe new PM and the new King are now the next to fulfil this tradition. It's hard to fathom how much has changed in just seven days. But the connection, the importance of the conversations between the inhabitant of the Palace and the prime minister goes on.\n\nSunday with Laura Kuenssberg is on BBC One from 09:00 BST on Sunday 11 September and on BBC iPlayer", "Tell us your memories of the Queen.\n\nBBC News wants to hear your tributes, reflections and memories after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. We'll be including these in special commemorative coverage on our website.\n\nWhether you or your relatives remember the coronation in 1953, you met the Queen, or you held a street party earlier this summer for her Platinum Jubilee, we want you to share your special moments with us.\n\nOr you might just want to pay tribute to the UK's longest-reigning monarch.\n\nTell us what the Queen and her extraordinary 70-year reign meant to you.\n\nWhat are your memories of the Queen? Share your tributes and reflections by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "In Australia an image of the Queen is projected onto the sails of a darkened Sydney Opera House in tribute\n\nCondolences have poured in from around the world following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nA portrait of the Queen draped with black ribbon sits alongside books of condolences at Queen's Park Legislative Assembly, Ontario, Canada\n\nCrowds have gathered to mourn and leave flowers in the Queen's memory.\n\nIn Moscow a mourner pays tribute before a portrait of the Queen that has been set up at an Anglican church in the Russian capital\n\nCandles burn in memory of the Queen in Prague, Czech Republic\n\nIn Tokyo, Japan a woman pays her respects before a tribute to the Queen that appeared outside the British embassy\n\nArt students in Mumbai paint commemorative portraits marking the end of the Queen's reign\n\nThe city council in Benidorm, Spain, installed a flagpole with a union flag at half mast\n\nIn the 56 nations of the Commonwealth, national leaders broke the news and paid tribute to the Queen. President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana praised her role in overseeing \"the dramatic transformation of the Union\".\n\nNewspapers in Nairobi, Kenya, paid tribute to the Queen\n\nThe UK's longest-serving monarch died at Balmoral aged 96, following a 70-year reign.\n\nMourners remembered the Queen at a waterfront ceremony in Nice, France on the Promenade des Anglais\n\nOn the outskirts of Amritsar, in India, a paper artist holds up a model of London's Tower Bridge adorned with a special tribute\n\nEuropean energy and climate ministers observe a minute of silence in the Queen's memory before meeting in Brussels, Belgium\n\nBooks of condolence have been open around the world for dignitaries and members of the public to sign.\n\nAn entry handwritten by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in a book of condolence at the British embassy in Seoul\n\nA sculpture created by Sudarshan Pattnaik at the Bay of Bengal Sea's Puri beach, India\n\nItems left by the public outside the British embassy in Berlin, Germany", "A smiling Queen greets guests during a garden party in Coleraine, Northern Ireland in June 2007 during an one-day visit to Northern Ireland\n\nThe Queen played a part in Northern Ireland's peace process with her words and her actions.\n\nShe visited Belfast more than 20 times but it was perhaps her visit to Dublin in 2011 that was the most politically and historically significant.\n\nShe was the first British monarch to visit the city for more than 100 years.\n\nThe Queen was also the first to set foot in the Republic of Ireland since it gained independence, following the Anglo-Irish war.\n\nShe used the ground-breaking four-day trip to try to heal the wounds of the past.\n\nIrish President Mary McAleese and Queen Elizabeth II laid a wreath at Dublin's Garden of Rememberance in May 2011\n\nThis was epitomised by her address to a state banquet in Dublin when she began by speaking in Irish.\n\nThe then Irish president Mary McAleese looked stunned, and exclaimed: \"Wow\".\n\nIt was seen as a personal way of making the political point that after many years of hostility, Ireland and Britain were now friends.\n\nThe Queen also laid a wreath at the Dublin's Garden of Remembrance, which commemorates those who fought against Britain to achieve Irish independence.\n\nThe following year, the Queen shook hands with Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, a former IRA leader at an event in Belfast.\n\nQueen Elizabeth's historic four-second handshake with former IRA leader Martin McGuinness in Belfast on 27 June 2012\n\nAgain, it was seen as a bridge-building gesture.\n\nIn 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was related to the Royal family, was killed by the IRA while holidaying on the Irish coast.\n\nFor security reasons, the Queen's visits to Northern Ireland were less frequent during the violent years of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.\n\nThe then Princess Elizabeth waving as she arrived at Dungannon High School for Girls in County Tyrone in March 1946\n\nShe visited in the summer of 1977 on the Royal yacht Britannia as part of her silver jubilee celebrations, but did not return until June 1991.\n\nHer first visit to Northern Ireland was back in 1945, one of three visits before she became Queen.\n\nIn July 1953, she made her first visit as monarch. When she stayed overnight at Hillsborough Castle, local Orangemen arrived playing Lambeg drums to mark her coronation.\n\nIn total, she made 25 visits to Northern Ireland, the majority of them coming in the 1990s and 2000s after the peace process took hold.\n\nJohn Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough (L), Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip listen to drummers in July 1953 during an official visit to Northern Ireland\n\nFollowing the Good Friday Agreement, she visited the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont in 2002.\n\nIn an address, she said: \"Over the last half century I have always enjoyed my visits to Northern Ireland. Even in the most troubled of times I have been heartened by the warmth and good humour of the people I have met.\"\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrive to attend a State Banquet in Dublin Castle in May 2011 in Dublin, Ireland\n\nTen years later, she returned to Stormont, and was driven through the estate in an open-topped vehicle. An estimated 20,000 people gathered to see her and the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nIn 2014, she visited Belfast's largest indoor market, St George's, and was shown around by the then chief executive of Belfast City Council, Suzanne Wylie.\n\nSecurity staff had a momentary scare when a teenager suddenly emerged from the crowd in front of the Queen, but it was merely to take a \"selfie\" photograph with the monarch.\n\nThe Royal couple chat to stall holder Simon Matthews during a visit to St George's market in Belfast in June 2014 in Belfast\n\nDuring her many speeches and statements about Northern Ireland, she always chose her words carefully.\n\nIn remarks issued to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland in May 2021, she said: \"The continued peace is a credit to its people, upon whose shoulders the future rests.\"\n\nShe was supposed to attend a church service in Armagh in October 2021 to mark the centenary but was unable to attend for medical reasons.", "1984, the Queen delivers her annual Christmas Day message to the nation from Windsor Castle\n\nBorn of the Royal House of Windsor, it is no surprise the Queen had such a close attachment to the 11th century castle built after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror.\n\nThe oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, it has been the family home of British kings and queens for almost 1,000 years.\n\nIt is only fitting Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest reigning monarch, should have spent so much time there during her 96 years.\n\nHere we take a look back at Her Majesty's time in Windsor, a place of work and rest.\n\nA young Princess Elizabeth in 1941 with one of the many corgis she owned over the years, here in the grounds of Windsor Castle\n\n1959, the Queen sits with the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. At her feet, one of her corgis, Sugar\n\n1961 and on horseback in the grounds of the castle with her first born, now King Charles III\n\nLooking on with a firefighter as fire destroyed 115 rooms of the castle in 1992, a curtain was ignited by a spotlight\n\nIn 2020 knighting Cpt Sir Tom Moore, who became famous for walking round his garden raising money for the NHS\n\nIn the quadrangle of Windsor Castle in 2020 with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh on his 99th birthday\n\nAt work to the end, the Queen met with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau at Windsor Castle in March 2022, just six months before she died\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "King Charles III thanked his late mother Queen Elizabeth II as she begins her last journey to be with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away in April 2021.\n\nHis Majesty went on to say \"may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest\" in his emotional message.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDomestic football, from the Premier League to grassroots, will not take place in most of the UK this weekend after Queen Elizabeth II died aged 96.\n\nMatches at all levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been postponed, while in Scotland only senior games have been affected.\n\nHowever, several other sports are continuing as planned, including cricket, golf, rugby union and horse racing.\n• None At-a-glance: What's on and what's off this weekend\n\nWhat were the key factors behind football's decision?\n\nAfter the Queen died on Thursday, football's governing bodies convened on Friday to discuss the best course of action for the upcoming weekend's fixtures.\n\nThe government's national mourning guidance advised that cancelling games was not obligatory, leaving the decision to individual sports.\n\nThe Football Associations of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all confirmed on Friday that fixtures would be postponed as a mark of respect.\n\nThe Premier League said the decision not to go ahead with its 10 games this weekend was made to honour the Queen's \"extraordinary life and contribution to the nation\".\n\nIn a rare example of unity, football's authorities are understood to feel that - unlike other sports that have already paused events this week, like racing, cricket and golf - football has not yet had a chance to stop, reflect and show its respects.\n\nMany people disagree of course, and feel matches would have provided fans with an opportunity to pay tribute. There is understandable sympathy for those who have spent money on tickets and transport, and now have to change plans at short notice, especially with so many other events in other sports going ahead.\n\nThe decision to stop grassroots and school sport is also contentious, especially after so much football was lost during the pandemic, even if it is just for one weekend.\n\nBut the FA is known to be mindful of football's status as the national sport at this historic moment, and the close ties the sport had with the Queen, who was patron of the FA, while Prince William is its president. According to well-placed sources, there has been a provisional plan to pause fixtures in such circumstances for several years now, and it was always likely that those plans would be honoured, despite the inevitable scrutiny.\n\nWhat about next week?\n\nWith it being part of this weekend's round of fixtures, Monday's Premier League game between Leeds and Nottingham Forest was also called off.\n\nBut after that there are Champions League, Europa League, Europa Conference League and English Football League games taking place in midweek.\n\nEuropean games on Thursday evening went ahead as scheduled, with a minute's silence observed in matches involving British teams.\n\nUefa has not yet provided an update on next week's games involving British sides, but Manchester City's Champions League game with Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday is due to go ahead as planned.\n\nBBC Sport has been told City are able to provide the policing needed, so the game will take place as scheduled at Etihad Stadium.\n\nRangers, who host Napoli in the Champions League on Tuesday, said in a statement they are in discussions with Uefa but \"at present, the game is scheduled to take place at the scheduled date and time\".\n\nManchester United have confirmed their Europa League game with FC Sheriff in Moldova next Thursday will take place as scheduled \"following discussions with the relevant governing bodies and in line with guidance issued by the UK government\".\n\nThe EFL has not yet issued an update yet on its round of midweek games.\n\nAs for next weekend's fixtures, they are currently taking place as planned although that could change depending on when details of the Queen's state funeral are provided.\n\nThe funeral is expected to take place at Westminster Abbey in less than two weeks, but the exact day will be confirmed by Buckingham Palace.\n\nIf it takes place next weekend then fixtures could again be postponed. Policing games could be a factor in the decision if they are redeployed to London en masse before the Queen's funeral.\n\nThere are currently three matches scheduled to take place in the capital over Saturday and Sunday. The Premier League is understood to be talking to its clubs, while the Metropolitan Police has been asked for a comment.\n\nTottenham play Leicester on Saturday evening, while Brentford face Arsenal and Chelsea are at home to Liverpool on Sunday 18 September.\n\nWhen will the postponed games be played?\n\nFinding room in the packed English football calendar for a full round of Premier League fixtures (and possibly two) is going to be complicated.\n\nIn a unique season that includes a winter World Cup - and restarts on 20 December with the Carabao Cup fourth round, space is severely limited.\n\nThere is no spare midweek from now until the season ends on 3 June that exists without a purpose.\n\nTwo, 17 January and 7 February, are for FA Cup third and fourth-round replays. Three more, 4 April, 2 May and 23 May, are for matches that have been postponed on the weekends of the EFL Cup final and the FA Cup sixth round and semi-finals.\n\nTwo January midweeks are for the individual legs of the EFL Cup semi-finals. Eight midweeks are reserved for Uefa matches - and the European governing body is resistant to domestic games being played at the same time as its matches. And two midweeks in March form part of the final mid-season international break.\n\nDiscussions will start next week about how to resolve the issue. The respective governing bodies are relaxed about the situation given they dealt with similar calendar issues during the 2020-21 Covid-19-affected season.\n\nThen, FA Cup replays were scrapped and the EFL Cup semi-finals were played as one game.\n\nAnswers will be similarly difficult now.\n\nWhat has been the reaction of fans?\n\nThe Football Supporters' Federation accepted there was \"no perfect decision\" for the football authorities, but added it believed many supporters would have wanted games to go ahead.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"We believe football is at its finest when bringing people together at times of huge national significance - be those moments of joy or moments of mourning.\n\n\"Our view, which we shared with the football authorities, is that most supporters would have liked to go to games this weekend and pay their respects to the Queen alongside their fellow fans.\n\n\"Not everyone will agree, so there was no perfect decision for the football authorities, but many supporters will feel this was an opportunity missed for football to pay its own special tributes.\"\n\nPlay will resume in England's cricket Test against South Africa on Saturday, and the women's Twenty20 match between England and India will go ahead.\n\nGolf's PGA Championship will restart on Saturday after play was halted on Thursday.\n\nBritish horse racing will return on Sunday, with rugby union's Premiership season beginning on Saturday after two fixtures on Friday were postponed.\n\nSunday's Great North Run will go ahead as planned, with organisers saying it is \"an opportunity to come together and express our condolences while celebrating the life of our extraordinary Queen\", and that the event would be \"more subdued out of respect\".\n\nBoxing's world title fight between Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields on Saturday has been postponed, with a provisional date of 15 October set for it to be rescheduled.\n\nAll British Boxing Board of Control tournaments have also been postponed for the weekend.", "Videos on social media showed some fans chanting at the club's Europea Conference League game against Djurgardens\n\nDublin football club Shamrock Rovers has condemned \"callous\" chants by some of its fans mocking the Queen's death.\n\nSocial media videos show fans chanting at the club's Europa Conference League game against Djurgardens at Tallaght Stadium on Thursday.\n\nThe match was being played not long after the Queen's death was announced.\n\nThe Football Association of Ireland (FAI) described the chanting as \"highly insensitive\".\n\nThe club said the behaviour breached ground regulations.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Such highly insensitive and callous chanting is not acceptable at our club and is against the values that Shamrock Rovers FC stands for.\n\n\"Our ground regulations issued on match tickets and on signage at entry strictly prohibit such activity.\"\n\nThe FAI called for \"respect to be shown\" at the weekend's League of Ireland matches.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussian forces have withdrawn from key eastern towns, as a rapid Ukrainian counter-attack makes further gains.\n\nUkrainian officials said troops entered Kupiansk, a vital eastern supply hub for Russian forces, on Saturday.\n\nRussia's defence ministry then said its troops have retreated from nearby Izyum to allow them \"to regroup\".\n\nThe ministry also confirmed the withdrawal of troops from a third key town, Balaklyia, in order to \"bolster efforts\" on the Donetsk front.\n\nThe Ukrainian advances - if held - would be the most significant since Russia withdrew from areas around Kyiv in April.\n\nIn his nightly video address on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Ukraine had now liberated 2,000 sq km (700 sq miles) from Russia since beginning a renewed counter-offensive earlier this month.\n\nHis claim would suggest that half of that area has been recaptured in the last 48 hours alone - as it is twice the area of territory Mr Zelensky said had been liberated when he spoke on Thursday evening.\n\nRussia's admission of a withdrawal from Izyum is significant because it was a major military hub for Moscow.\n\n\"A three-day operation was carried out on the drawdown and organised transfer of the Izyum-Balakliya group of troops to the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic,\" the Russian statement said.\n\n\"In order to prevent damage to the Russian troops, a powerful fire defeat was inflicted on the enemy.\"\n\nShortly afterwards, the chief administrator of Russian-controlled parts of the Kharkiv region recommended that its residents evacuate to Russia \"to save lives\", according to the Russian state-run Tass news agency.\n\nAnd the governor of the neighbouring Belgorod region, in Russia, said mobile catering, heating, and medical assistance would be available to people queuing to cross the border.\n\nThe advances will be seen as a sign that Ukraine's army has the capacity to retake Russian-occupied territory, crucial as Kyiv continues to ask its hard-pressed Western allies for military support.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said the latest developments had shown its forces were able to defeat the Russian army and could end the war faster with more Western weapons.\n\nThe pace of the counter-offensive has not only caught the Russians off guard, but even surprised some Ukrainians. People here have been struggling to keep up with news of the latest gains.\n\nThe Russians have now lost two key logistics hubs - the railway cities of Izyum and Kupiansk. This is a military setback and a public humiliation for President Putin.\n\nWe cannot reach the frontlines. Journalists have been denied access. Ukraine is determined to control the information war. But plenty of footage has emerged on social media showing Ukrainian troops raising their flag in newly liberated areas.\n\nAll of this is cathartic for Ukraine and reassuring for its Western backers.\n\nThe Russians still hold around a fifth of the country and few imagine a swift end to the war. But the Ukrainians have now shown they can beat the Russians in battle, not just outmanoeuvre them. According to one military expert, it's the first time since World War Two that whole Russian units have been lost.\n\nEarlier, UK defence officials said Ukraine had advanced 50km (31 miles) into previously Russian-held territory.\n\n\"Russian forces were likely taken by surprise,\" the UK Ministry of Defence said. \"The sector was only lightly held and Ukrainian units have captured or surrounded several towns.\"\n\nUkraine launched its counter-offensive in the east earlier this week, while international attention was focused on an anticipated advance near the southern city of Kherson.\n\nAnalysts believe Russia redirected some of its most seasoned troops to defend the city.\n\nBut as well as gaining ground in the east, Ukraine is also making gains in the south, an official said.\n\nNataliya Gumenyuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian army's southern command, said they had advanced \"between two and several dozens of kilometres\" along that front.\n\nBut Russian forces fighting on the southern front are said to have dug into defensive positions, and Ukraine's troops have faced heavy resistance since the offensive began.\n\nAnd in Kharkiv itself, one person was killed and several homes damaged on Saturday as Russian rocket fire hit the city, according to local officials.\n\nUkrainian officials shared a picture on social media that appeared to show Ukrainian troops holding up the country's flag in front of Kupiansk city hall, with the Russian flag at their feet.\n\nOn Friday President Zelensky said his forces were \"gradually taking control of new settlements\" and \"returning the Ukrainian flag and protection for all our people\".\n\nHe also said that national police units were returning to liberated settlements and urged civilians to report suspected Russian war crimes to them.\n\nHis call followed a report from the UN's monitoring team in Ukraine which said they had \"documented a range of violations against prisoners of war\" by Moscow's forces.\n\nThe report also accused Ukrainian troops of \"cases of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners of war\".", "A soldier waves from a Ukrainian vehicle as it travels towards to the frontline near Kharkiv\n\nUkraine says it has retaken more than 1,000 sq km (385 sq miles) of territory in its south and east from Russia in the past week.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said that more than 30 settlements had been \"liberated\" in the Kharkiv region.\n\nRussia's top occupation official in Kharkiv region conceded Ukrainian forces had won a \"significant victory\".\n\nVitaly Ganchev told Russian TV that the Ukrainians had broken through the Russian defence line.\n\nHe said civilians were being evacuated from Kupiansk, one of the most important urban centres in the Russian-held part of Kharkiv, and two other towns.\n\nAccording to analysis by the Institute for the Study of War think tank, Kyiv's troops are now just 15km (9 miles) from Kupiansk, home to an essential railway junction that Moscow has been using to supply its troops on the battlefield.\n\nRussia is believed to be sending reinforcements to the region by road and by air, using giant Mi-26 transport helicopters, each capable of carrying 80 soldiers.\n\nIn a separate Facebook post Ukraine's army said that in three days troops had advanced 50km (30 miles). If verified, that would mark the fastest movement of the front line since the rapid retreat of Russian forces from positions around the capital, Kyiv, in March.\n\nThe offensive south-east of Kharkiv would also bring Ukraine's troops closer to the eastern region of Donetsk, over which Russia has maintained substantial military control since the war began six months ago.\n\nMr Ganchev also denied that Ukrainian forces had recaptured the town of Balakliya despite a video appearing to show Ukrainian soldiers there.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to confirm who has control of the city, but verified social media posts show Ukrainian flags flying from administrative buildings in the city's centre on Thursday.\n\nWhile Ukraine claims to have advanced its troops in some parts of the country, in other areas there have been reports of renewed Russian aerial attacks.\n\nOn Friday the governor of Ukraine's north-eastern Sumy region Dmytro Zhvytskyi said a Russian air strike had \"destroyed\" a hospital, wounding multiple people.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olena Zelenska tells Laura Kuenssberg about the human cost of the war", "The device was the biggest bomb to explode in mainland UK since World War Two\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the 1996 Manchester IRA bombing, police have said.\n\nWhile no-one was killed in the blast, about 250 people were injured in what was described as the UK mainland's largest bomb since World War Two.\n\nThe suspect was held at Birmingham Airport on Thursday night on suspicion of terrorism offences, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged over the attack on 15 June 1996.\n\nMany were injured by flying glass and debris\n\nThousands of shoppers and football fans had gathered in the city centre ahead of a Euro 96 match later that day between England and Scotland at Wembley Stadium in London.\n\nThe area was evacuated after police were alerted to a telephoned bomb threat.\n\nThe device detonated soon after in a lorry parked on Corporation Street, near the Arndale shopping centre, leading to a mushroom cloud rising over the city's skyline.\n\nAnother Euro 96 match was still held at nearby Old Trafford the following day despite the attack.\n\nMuch of central Manchester has been transformed in the years that have followed the bomb.\n\nThe bomb devastated much of the city centre\n\nA recent review of evidence produced \"new, albeit limited, investigative opportunities\", police said on the attack's 25th anniversary last summer.\n\nGMP said it was \"determined to hold those responsible for this attack to account regardless of the time passed\".\n\nThe suspect, who is in police custody, will be interviewed by officers from Counter Terrorism Policing for the North West (CTPNW).\n\nHead of investigations Det Supt Andrew Meeks said officers had been \"reinvestigating for several years\".\n\n\"Although thankfully no-one was killed during the 1996 Manchester bombing by the IRA, hundreds of people were left with injuries - many of which were life changing.\n\n\"Many more across Greater Manchester and the North West were affected by what happened on that day.\"\n\nCCTV cameras captured the lorry before the explosion\n\nDet Supt Meeks said police had \"always been committed to holding those responsible for the attack to account\".\n\nHe said there was \"a team of dedicated detectives re-examining the original case files and pursuing new lines of inquiry\".\n\nDet Supt Meeks added that officers were trying to update survivors with recent developments.\n\n\"Given the passage of time, and the number of people who were affected or injured by this atrocity, we sadly don't have the contact details for everyone so would encourage anyone who was affected that we haven't been able to reach to access the Major Incident Portal.\"\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.", "Members of the Royal Family stopped on their way back from a prayer service to look at tributes left for the Queen outside Balmoral on Saturday\n\nThe Queen will lie in state for four days before her funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19 September.\n\nThe public will be allowed to view the coffin during that time.\n\nBefore this, the Queen will be at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh for 24 hours from Monday 12 September, with people able to pay their respects.\n\nHer family, politicians and world leaders will attend her state funeral at 11:00 BST. It will be a bank holiday.\n\nThe Queen's final journey began on Sunday, with her oak coffin being carried by her Balmoral gamekeepers - her own staff bringing her to a hearse that would take her to Edinburgh.\n\nThe coffin is driving slowly to the Palace of Holyroodhouse for 16:00 BST.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, it will process to St Giles' Cathedral, with members of the Royal Family. There will be a service and the coffin will rest here for 24 hours, for people to pay their respects.\n\nThe following day, Princess Anne will accompany her mother's body as it is flown back to London. The Queen's coffin will be taken from Edinburgh Airport to Buckingham Palace via RAF Northolt.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, the coffin will be taken to Westminster Hall, arriving at 15:00 BST. Four clear days of lying in state will happen from Thursday, before the funeral.\n\nMonday 19th's state funeral will be followed by a procession from London to Windsor Castle. The Queen will be laid to rest at King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor.\n\nHer journey, beginning in simplicity, will end with the sombre grandeur of the first state funeral that many people will have seen - the last being Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.\n\nAhead of the funeral the new King will visit Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Prime Minister Liz Truss will accompany him.\n\nA period of national mourning will last until the day of the state funeral, the government has announced. The Royal Family will observe a further period of mourning for seven days afterwards.\n\nWestminster Abbey is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned - but there has not been a monarch's funeral service there since the 18th Century. Funerals for the Queen's father, grandfather and great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, in the 1900s, were all held at St George's Chapel, Windsor.\n\nHeads of state from across the world will be invited to join members of the Royal Family to remember the life and service of the Queen.\n\nSenior UK politicians and current and former prime ministers are also expected at the televised service.\n\nThere is no obligation for organisers to cancel planned events on the day of the funeral but government guidance suggests organisers of sporting fixtures or pre-planned events may wish to adjust timings to avoid clashing with the service or processions.\n\nSome events in the immediate aftermath of the Queen's death were cancelled or postponed.\n\nFootball matches in the Premier League, English Football League or in Scotland or Northern Ireland have been postponed until Tuesday, while all games in the Women's Super League, Women's Championship and Women's FA Cup have also been put on hold. A number of horse racing, golf, and boxing fixtures have also been called off.\n\nLarge-scale strike actions planned for next week were immediately cancelled, and the Trades Union Congress said it was postponing its annual conference in Brighton.\n\nThe King confirmed earlier on Saturday that the day of the funeral would be a bank holiday, when he was proclaimed as monarch at St James's Palace, London.\n\nIn his speech, he praised the Queen's \"unequalled reign\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Charles III is proclaimed King, in a ceremony broadcast for the first time\n\nThe King became the monarch after the death of his mother, but the meeting of the privy council of politicians, officials and clergy formally confirmed it.\n\nThe packed room, including all of the six living former British prime ministers, repeated the phrase. The proclamation was then read out on a balcony above Friary Court in St James's Palace.\n\nClerk of the Privy Council Richard Tilbrook proclaimed Charles \"King, head of the Commonwealth, defender of the faith\", before declaring \"God Save the King\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday evening, the King's car stopped on its way down the Mall and he and Camilla, the Queen Consort, got out to greet some of the thousands of well-wishers who lined the road down from Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere were joyful shouts of \"God Save the King\", as he and his wife accepted bunches of flowers and handshakes.", "Prince William has paid tribute to the Queen, saying the world has \"lost an extraordinary leader\" while he lost his \"Grannie\".\n\nThe new Prince of Wales said \"she was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life\".\n\nHe said he would \"honour\" his grandmother's memory \"by supporting my father, the king, in every way I can\".\n\nThe prince is now first in line to the throne after his father became king.\n\nThe Queen, the longest reigning monarch in British history, died peacefully aged 96 on Thursday at her Scottish estate in Balmoral.\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 princeandprincessofwales 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 statement, Prince William said: \"On Thursday, the world lost an extraordinary leader, whose commitment to the country, the realms and the Commonwealth was absolute. So much will be said in the days ahead about the meaning of her historic reign. I, however, have lost a grandmother.\"\n\nHe continued: \"She was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life. I knew this day would come, but it will be some time before the reality of life without Grannie will truly feel real.\"\n\nThe 40-year-old said that while he would \"grieve\" the loss of the Queen he also felt \"incredibly grateful\" to \"have had the benefit of The Queen's wisdom and reassurance\" his whole life.\n\n\"My three children have got to spend holidays with her and create memories that will last their whole lives,\" he added.\n\nHe added: \"My grandmother famously said that grief was the price we pay for love. All of the sadness we will feel in the coming weeks will be testament to the love we felt for our extraordinary Queen.\"\n\nMoments after William released his statement, it was announced that the Queen's funeral will be held on Monday, 19 September, at Westminster Abbey.\n\nKing Charles III was formally proclaimed as king earlier at a ceremony at St James's Palace in London.\n\nPrince William was the first to sign the Proclamation, carefully stepping forward to pick up the pen with his left hand before placing his signature on the historic record.\n\nOn Friday, the King Charles III announced that Prince William and his wife Catherine would be known as the Prince and Princess of Wales.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "In bewildering days like these, the United Kingdom would instinctively look to its Queen for reassurance. But this time, with the nation facing hard economic challenges amid constitutional and political upheaval, there is no calming presence from Her Majesty.\n\nThe new king and new prime minister, both only days into their roles, must find a way to guide an unsettled kingdom through troubling times.\n\nThe country is facing significant uncertainty with many households worried about the rising cost of living and the difficulties that winter might bring.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II once spoke of her responsibility in supporting the \"trusted framework of stability and continuity to ease the process of change\". But the framework is not as trusted as it once was.\n\nThere are questions about the values that underpin our governance, about what democracy and the rule of law should mean in a Britain adjusting to a new relationship with the wider world; what tolerance and fairness should look like in a country fearing severe hardship in a cost-of-living crisis; a kingdom unconvinced in some quarters that it even wants to remain as a single sovereign nation.\n\nThat is why Queen Elizabeth's death represents a hugely challenging moment for the country, for her son, the new king, and for his Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nIn the course of just two days, the UK witnessed a new king and prime minister\n\nOne might argue that we need Queen Elizabeth as much at her death as at any point in her long life. The keystone in the nation's architecture, the solid and permanent piece that held the country's image of itself in place, has been removed and cannot easily or swiftly be replaced.\n\nHer fingerprints are all over the carefully planned events of the coming days, of course. She sought to \"ease the process of change\" even after her passing, to ensure that her kingdom could see through the shock of her loss with conviction and confidence.\n\nBut after that? The mantle has now been draped across the shoulders of the next generation. Along with the throne, responsibility now belongs to King Charles III.\n\nIn his first public act as king, Charles ordered his car to stop outside the gates of Buckingham Palace on the public side of the black railings, stepped out and went to greet his people alone. It was a deliberate statement.\n\nWorking a crowd is second nature to Charles, but this was a monarch demonstrating that he intends to be approachable.\n\nHe shook hundreds of hands, chatting and smiling. One woman kissed his wrist, another his cheek. Charles did not seem in the least disconcerted. Indeed, one his security staff encouraged the crowd not to view events through their mobile phones, but to put them down and \"enjoy the moment\". The King, it seems, wanted nothing to get between him and the people he now rules. Their response was a spontaneous chorus of God Save the King.\n\nIt is a very different tone from that of his mother who always sought to keep private feelings separate from public duties. He, in contrast, appears to be a touchy-feely king, happy to show emotion. Lessons have been learned, perhaps, from the strains that followed the Royal Family's muted response to the death of Princess Diana in 1997.\n\nBut the immediate challenge for King Charles is to do what his mother was so good at - reassuring an anxious nation in times of change. His respect for her service in that regard was evident in his address to the nation, noting her unwavering dedication and devotion \"through times of change and progress, through times of joy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss\".\n\nAt the start of the Covid pandemic, in April 2020, the Queen reassured the nation\n\nHe will have watched as she assumed the role of \"comforter-in-chief\". In 1974, the year of the three-day week, roaring inflation, two general elections and an IRA bombing campaign on the British mainland, the Queen sought to heal divides and foster positivity.\n\n\"We hear a great deal about our troubles, about discord and dissension and about the uncertainty of our future,\" she told her people. \"My message today is one of encouragement and hope.\"\n\nIn 1978, another year of violence and discord in the United Kingdom, Elizabeth again sought to lift the spirits of her nation. \"It is far from easy to be cheerful and constructive when things around us suggest the opposite,\" she said. \"But to give up the effort would mean, as it were, to switch off hope for a better tomorrow. Even if the problems seem overwhelming, there is always room for optimism.\"\n\nShe encouraged the country to look to the timeless values which underpinned her own life, to remain resolute in the face of adversity; to embrace the new without betraying the principles of the past; to display humility and cheerfulness whenever possible.\n\nIt is worth reflecting on her advice to the UK 50 years ago, perhaps, on how one should face up to moments of unease. \"Goodwill is better than resentment, tolerance is better than revenge, compassion is better than anger, above all a lively concern for the interests of others as well as our own,\" she said.\n\nIt may sound glib, even corny, but Queen Elizabeth II would have encouraged the country to do what she always did - to keep calm and carry on.\n\nKing Charles needs to find his own script and style, but the challenge is similar and urgent.", "King Charles III described the Queen's death as an \"irreparable loss\"\n\nKing Charles III has praised the Queen's \"unequalled reign\" after being proclaimed king at a ceremony at St James's Palace.\n\nThe King became the monarch after the death of his mother, but a meeting formally confirmed it on Saturday.\n\nHe also approved the day of the Queen's funeral, Monday, 19 September, being a bank holiday.\n\nSpeaking before the Accession Council, the King said his mother's death had been an \"irreparable loss\".\n\nMeanwhile, senior MPs in the House of Commons, including Prime Minister Liz Truss, swore allegiance to the new monarch.\n\nMaking his address in the State Apartments of St James's Palace in London, King Charles said: \"It is the greatest consolation to me to know of the sympathy expressed by so many to my sister and brothers and that such overwhelming affection and support should be extended to our whole family in our loss.\"\n\nHe later spoke of the Queen's \"selfless service\", saying: \"My mother's reign was unequalled in its duration, its dedication and its devotion.\n\nKing Charles gave his speech in the Throne Room at St James's Palace.\n\n\"Even as we grieve, we give thanks for this most faithful life.\"\n\nThe King added he would \"strive to follow the inspiring example\" he was set by his mother in taking on the \"heavy responsibilities of sovereignty\".\n\nIt is the first time the historic ceremony, which dates back centuries, has been televised.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Charles III is proclaimed King, in a ceremony broadcast for the first time\n\nThe King himself was not present for the first part of the meeting when he was proclaimed monarch by the Accession Council, made up of senior politicians, judges, and officials.\n\nSix former prime ministers were in attendance at the accession ceremony\n\nClerk of the Privy Council Richard Tilbrook proclaimed Charles \"King, head of the Commonwealth, defender of the faith\", before declaring \"God Save the King\".\n\nThe packed room, including all of the six living former British prime ministers, repeated the phrase. The proclamation was then read out on a balcony above Friary Court in St James's Palace.\n\nThe new King paid warm tribute to his mother, but this was the point when Charles began to look forward to his own reign.\n\nBefore the Accession Council's ranks of senior politicians and public figures, King Charles dedicated the rest of his life to serving as monarch.\n\nIt was a mix of ritual, ornate language and constitutional practicality.\n\nCharles is now the head of state and here was the seamless and symbolic transfer from one reign to the next, with oaths and signatures.\n\nThe inkpot used had been given to him by his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.\n\nThe announcements also confirmed that the day of the Queen's state funeral would be a public holiday.\n\nBut here was the King publicly shouldering his new responsibilities, promising to follow in the Queen's example. It was the choreography of continuity.\n\nThe King greeted crowds as he arrived at Buckingham Palace from the ceremony\n\nJust before the ceremony inside, hundreds of people were allowed through from the Mall, into the palace's outdoor Friary Court, to witness the proclamation up on the balcony.\n\nThey brought their babies and children and carried bunches of flowers. Some brought their dogs on a walk, diverted to witness the moment.\n\nAfter the state trumpeters played a fanfare, the privy councillors who had left the ceremony and gathered outside raised their voices to say \"God Save the King\".\n\nCheers of \"hip-hip hooray\" were heard coming from people lining the roads both sides of the palace, and ceremonial guns fired close to nearby Green Park.\n\nAs senior figures from politics past and present filed away, senior Labour MP Harriet Harman described the ceremony inside as \"solemn\", both because of the death of the Queen and the weight of the occasion for the new King.\n\nThe Accession Proclamation was made on a balcony at St James's Palace\n\nThe second reading of the Accession Proclamation was also met with applause and cheers outside the Royal Exchange in London on Saturday.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon senior MPs took the oath or affirmed in the House of Commons.\n\nThree of the Queen's children and their families read tributes to the Queen as they returned from a church service.\n\nTaking her oath, the prime minister said: \"I swear by almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law, so help me God.\"\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, three of the Queen's children and their families viewed flowers and tributes left outside Balmoral after attending a prayer service at Crathie Kirk, near to the castle.\n\nOn their return to Balmoral they stopped their cars by the gates as they thanked well-wishers for coming to read the messages left for the Queen.\n\nThe Duke of York comforted his daughter Princess Eugenie as they read tributes to the Queen\n\nPrincess Anne was joined by her two younger brothers and their families as they looked at tributes outside Balmoral\n\nPrince Andrew was seen putting his arm around his daughter, Princess Eugenie, as she wiped a tear from her eyes, while the Countess of Wessex held Lady Louise's hand.\n\nAfter around 10 minutes the family returned to Balmoral Castle.", "Her reign saw the world change dramatically but she remained a constant presence in the lives of the people of the UK and Commonwealth.", "A gun salute at Hillsborough Castle has marked the Principal Proclamation of King Charles.\n\nMembers of the public have gathered in the Royal village over the weekend to pay their respects to the Queen.\n\nKing Charles will travel to Northern Ireland, with Camilla, the new Queen Consort, on Tuesday as part of a UK tour before the Queen's funeral on 19 September.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss is expected to accompany the King on his UK tour.\n\nVisitors are being warned of restrictions around Hillsborough Castle during the period of official mourning.\n\nParking is restricted and a one-way system is now in operation in the village.\n\nCharles became King immediately following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, but a historic meeting at St James's Palace formally confirmed his role on Saturday.\n\nThe King and Camilla will arrive in Belfast on Tuesday.\n\nThey will then travel on to Hillsborough Castle to view an exhibition on the Queen's long association with Northern Ireland.\n\nKing Charles will then meet Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, as well as other party leaders.\n\nHe is set to receive a message of condolence led by the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe King and Queen Consort will then meet leaders from all the major faiths in Northern Ireland before a service of prayer and reflection at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.\n\nShots rang out at Hillsborough Castle at 11:00 BST as a 21-gun salute by members of the 105th Regiment Royal Artillery at Hillsborough Castle marked Charles III being proclaimed as king.\n\nCrowds of people had flocked to the royal residence on free buses to pay their respects.\n\nA lone bagpiper played the national anthem as sash-wearing members of the Orange Order stood alongside families with young children, some of whom covered their ears amid the gunfire.\n\nHundreds of floral tributes of every colour lined the castle's gates, gleaming in the mid-morning sunshine.\n\nCarol McKeown and Lindsey Bell came to Hillsborough Castle with their daughters\n\nSisters, Carol McKeown and Lindsey Bell, who travelled from County Tyrone, said that it was like \"losing a family member for all of us\".\n\n\"There is no one like her, I can remember her in the 80s and to me, she has always looked the same, a grandmother figure for us all,\" Ms McKeown said.\n\nMs Bell also brought her daughters as it was \"important\" for them to be a part of history.\n\nThree serving soldiers, who cycled from Portadown to Hillsborough Castle on Saturday morning, said they felt it was their \"duty\" to attend.\n\nTheir cycling regalia, emblazoned with poppies, was the same used by their team who cycled the French battlefields in 2019 for charity.\n\nInfluential figures from Northern Ireland - Lord Nigel Dodds, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Dame Arlene Foster, Peter Robinson and Lady Chief Justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan - were among those attending the Accession Council at the palace in London.\n\nAfterwards, the Principal Proclamation was read from the balcony of the palace, announcing him as King Charles III.\n\nThe Queen's funeral will be held on Monday 19 September at Westminster Abbey in London.\n\nDuring the Accession Council, the King approved the day of the Queen's funeral becoming a bank holiday.\n\nMPs were then offered the opportunity to pledge their allegiance to the King in the House of the Commons.\n\nIt is understood that a similar opportunity will be presented to members of the Northern Ireland Assembly when it can be recalled from its current suspension.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI on Saturday, Sir Jeffrey said he was confident the King will continue to take a very keen interest in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP leader added: \"I think he will bring a continuing stability to our nation.\"\n\nMany people have been paying their respects to the Queen at Hillsborough Castle\n\nMany events this weekend have been postponed or cancelled, including Orange Order parades until after the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe order's grand secretary Rev Mervyn Gibson said it was the right thing to do.\n\n\"Simply because of the esteem in which the Queen was held - this is our monarch, this is our head of state,\" he said.\n\n\"This is someone who many of us loved and cherished that has passed away and it's fitting that we take these steps.\"\n\nA Catholic priest in west Belfast, Fr Martin Magill, said the Queen's visit to Dublin a decade ago showed her commitment to peace.\n\n\"Those were very significant moments - the speech in Dublin Castle, beginning in Irish, the very, very carefully worded, gracious speech,\" he said.\n\n\"Those things made a difference, as of course did the handshake with Martin McGuinness - symbolism here is very important.\"\n\nWhile people are welcome to pay their respects at Hillsborough Castle, the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has warned there are strict security rules in place.\n\nA park-and-ride facility has been put in place from the Eikon Centre, Halftown Road, Lisburn, and there is no public access to the castle other than via this service.\n\nTranslink said that on Sunday, the public shuttle bus services will operate from 16:00 to 20:00 BST from the Eikon Centre (subject to change).\n\nMore information and guidance can be found on the Cabinet Office mourning period guidance web page.\n\nFurther information on the public transport services is available on Translink's website.\n\nOn Sunday, the High Sheriff of Belfast, John Hussey, will be joined by the Lord Lieutenant for Belfast, Dame Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle, for a re-reading of the Accession Proclamation at City Hall at 15:00 BST.\n\nFollowing the re-reading of the proclamation, Belfast City Council members will hold a special meeting to pay tribute to the Queen.", "The couples went on an unexpected walkabout together in Windsor\n\nHeadline writers would have been thinking about \"Brothers in arms\" or maybe \"Brothers in grief\" for their coverage.\n\nThe sight of Princes William and Harry meeting the crowds together will become one of the stand-out and most unexpected images from what have been sombre days.\n\nWith their wives, Catherine and Meghan, they greeted people in Windsor, in a way that couldn't have been predicted last week, when the Sussexes returned to the UK.\n\nThe talk then was of feuds and unbridgeable differences between couples. They were said to be staying in houses close together on the Windsor estate, while emotionally many miles apart. The couple hadn't been seen together in public for more than two years.\n\nThat all changed on Thursday. If William and Harry were not planning to see each other, they were brought together in ways that couldn't have been predicted.\n\nIt already seems a long time ago, but as the news worsened about the Queen, and the country was checking for updates on their phones, the two brothers were both making rushed journeys to Balmoral.\n\nFamilies can fall out when there's a bereavement. Feelings are running high and are close to the surface. It's easy for old arguments to be brought back by grief.\n\nPrince Harry was given flowers by well-wishers\n\nBut losing a loved one can also bring unity, putting things into perspective and setting disagreements aside. It can be a time to come together.\n\nOf course, looking in from the outside, no one watching the TV pictures really knows what's happening. Was this only a show? Had they been told to send out this positive message?\n\nIt's going to be complicated and private between two brothers. And William and Harry have already faced the hard-to-measure sense of loss at an early age, with the death of their mother Diana.\n\nFor the waiting public, looking to show their own solidarity with the mourning Royal Family, they clearly warmed to the idea of William and Catherine, Harry and Meghan, appearing together. For a few minutes at least, the royal famous foursome were back. It tuned in to the public mood.\n\nAccording to royal sources, it was Prince William who had extended the invitation to Prince Harry and Meghan to go on this walkabout.\n\nEven if this is a moment of togetherness, there is no disguising that this is also a moment of great divergence. The brothers are on pathways about to take them in completely different directions.\n\nWilliam, now Prince of Wales, is now on a different path from his brother\n\nOn the death of the Queen, William became heir to the throne. He will be keenly aware of what now lies ahead. He has a new and much more important status than his brother.\n\nWilliam is now the Prince of Wales, the name that they both until yesterday used to call their father - that must seem strange enough in itself.\n\nWhen the reign of King Charles III was proclaimed at the Accession Council on Saturday, William was standing firmly behind the new monarch.\n\nIt's likely that the King and Camilla, now the Queen Consort, with William and Catherine will be the core group, almost a separate unit, at the heart of the monarchy. It was this foursome that often appeared together when Charles was standing in for his mother.\n\nPrince Harry is on a very different route, living with Meghan and his young family in California, with media ventures, charities and campaigns. They have to invent their own post-royal life, while still part of the Royal Family. They generate huge public interest, not always positive, and seem to live with a media tornado hovering above them.\n\nEven among the most carefully-choreographed steps of public mourning, there are still families and people falling out and making up.", "A bank holiday across the UK has been approved by King Charles III for the day of the funeral of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe new king confirmed the order at a ceremony in London proclaiming him as monarch.\n\nThe Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday 19 September.\n\nThe Queen, Britain's longest ever reigning monarch, died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate in Balmoral.\n\nThe state funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey, the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, and where Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere has not been a monarch's funeral service in the Abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen's mother was held there in 2002.\n\nWestminster Abbey is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's coronation in 1953, and where she married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nHeads of state from across the world will be invited to join members of the Royal Family to remember the life and service of the Queen.\n\nSenior UK politicians and former prime ministers are also expected to attend the service, which will be televised.\n\nIt is expected that certain aspects of daily life will be put on hold for the date of the state funeral, with some businesses and organisations choosing to close or halt their operations.\n\nThe Royal Mail has announced that its postal services will be suspended on the day, and some shops like Harrods have already said they plan to close.\n\nThe upcoming bank holiday is one of several ways in which life in the UK is temporarily being put on hold following the Queen's death.\n\nA period of national mourning is now in place and will last until the day of the state funeral, the government has announced.\n\nThere is no obligation for organisers to cancel planned events, but many that were due to happen in the immediate aftermath of the Queen's death have already been cancelled or postponed for a few days.\n\nFootball matches in the Premier League, English Football League or in Scotland or Northern Ireland have been postponed until Tuesday, while all games in the Women's Super League, Women's Championship and Women's FA Cup have also been put on hold. A number of horse racing, golf, and boxing fixtures have also been called off.\n\nLarge-scale strike actions planned for next week were immediately cancelled following the Queen's death, and the Trades Union Congress said it was postponing its annual conference in Brighton this weekend out of respect.\n\nOn the day of the state funeral, government guidance suggests organisers of sporting fixtures or pre-planned events may wish to adjust timings to avoid clashing with the service or processions.", "This is the moment history stops; for a minute, an hour, for a day or a week; this is the moment history stops.\n\nAcross a life and reign, two moments from two very different eras illuminate the thread that bound the many decades together. At each a chair, a desk, a microphone, a speech. In each, that high-pitched voice, those clipped precise vowels, that slight hesitation about public speaking that would never quite seem to leave her.\n\nOne moment is sun-dappled, though the British people were suffering through a terrible post-war winter. A young woman, barely more than a girl really, sits straight-backed, her dark hair pulled up, two strings of pearls around her neck. Her youthful skin is flawless, she is very beautiful. A life opens out ahead of her.\n\nShe pledges that life to her audience around the world. She tells them: \"I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone.\" And she asks for their company in the years to come.\n\nTwo moments from two eras - the Queen makes a broadcast on her 21st birthday, top, and on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe\n\nThe other speech is more formal. More than seven decades later, on the 75th anniversary of the day the war in Europe ended, she sits behind a desk, a picture of her father, the late King, in uniform, to her right.\n\nHer hair - still pulled up - is white now. She wears a blue dress, two brooches, three strings of pearls. The many decades have left their mark, but her eyes still sparkle and her voice is still clear. The desk is practically empty but for the photo and to the right, in the foreground, a dark khaki cap, with a badge on its front.\n\n\"All had a part to play,\" she says of a long-ago war.\n\nThe cap belonged to Second Subaltern Windsor, of the Auxiliary Territorial Service; the young Princess Elizabeth nagged her adoring father to allow her to join, so she could serve in uniform, even as the war that defined her - and for many decades her nation - drew to an end. Now, 75 years on, the cap has pride of place as she speaks to the nation on the anniversary of a great and heroic victory.\n\nService to the UK military - inspecting Grenadier Guards in 1952, and RAF crews in 1957\n\nThe cap is a simple reminder of what she admired most - service: the service she offered that golden day decades beforehand, the service she saw in her formative years as nation, Commonwealth and Empire gave life and limb so that others could be free; the service that she believed lay at the heart of the Crown she inherited and devoted her long life to.\n\nThree decades on from that vow of service, she would allow herself a rare moment of public introspection; \"Although that vow was made 'in my salad days when I was green in judgement',\" she told the Guildhall on her Silver Jubilee, \"I do not regret or retract one word of it.\"\n\nOver the decades she spoke little, and revealed even less, about herself in public. She - a child of the broadcast age - never gave an interview. Once or twice she would be filmed \"in conversation\" with a trusted friend, talking amicably about something uncontroversial, like the royal jewellery collection.\n\nHer words would be scoured for a hint of controversy or an opening into her character. But she was too careful - and her friends too loyal - for anything important to slip out.\n\nShe did not neglect the medium that came of age as she did. It was her decision to allow her coronation to be televised, her decision to televise the Christmas Broadcast, her decision to speak live to the nation after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. \"I have to be seen to be believed,\" she would say.\n\nService to the nation - being crowned in 1953, and with then Prime Minister Edward Heath at a concert in 1973\n\nBroadcast and newspaper coverage, the endless pictures of her in well-chosen gowns and dresses - these were part of what it was to be Queen, part of the job she had pledged her life to. Talking about her feelings publicly was not.\n\nAnd she came from a generation - and from a nation - that did not feel the need to share its feelings. The nation would change. She would not.\n\nHere fate and character would collide. It was her fate to take the Crown as the country moved into far-reaching change. But the Queen was open about her liking for tradition, for the ways things had always been done, and her dislike of change.\n\nHer heart was in the countryside, and there, with horses and dogs and amongst those who loved animals as she did, was the reassurance of a place that changed incrementally, if at all.\n\n\"I find that one of the sad things,\" she would say in the late 1980s, is \"that people don't take on jobs for life, they try different things the whole time.\"\n\nMonarch and monarchy fitted hand-in-glove; a sovereign who relished tradition leading an institution established upon it.\n\nA life-long love of the countryside - in Windsor Great Park with Prince Charles and Princess Anne in 1956, and with Prince Philip at a farm on the Balmoral Estate in Scotland in 1972\n\nBeyond the palace gates, a whirlwind of change would transform Britain. She came to the throne at a tipping point in British history. Victorious in - but exhausted by - war, the country was no longer a global, military or economic power.\n\nThe rise of trade unions, the collective provision of services and the creation of a universal welfare state signalled a sea-change in the organisation of state and economy. The stately withdrawal from Empire became a hurried exit.\n\nAs her reign progressed, the old order - Church and aristocracy, the gradations of class and knowing your place - crumbled. Financial success and celebrity overtook accident of birth as a measure of societal achievement.\n\nConsumer goods - fridges, washing machines, televisions and vacuum cleaners - transformed homes and social lives. Women joined the workforce; old working-class communities were swept away with the slums that housed them; a society once cohesive and homogeneous became mobile, atomised and diverse, uprooted from old certainties and loyalties.\n\nThere was some change at the Palace too, especially early in the reign - the end of the debutante \"season\" would mean the daughters of the \"best\" families would no longer be presented at court, fresh faces were seen among those invited to lunch and dinner, and television meant Britons could see their Queen and how she lived - first for the Christmas broadcast, then for a full-length documentary in the late 1960s.\n\nBut this was change with a very small \"c\"; as her seventh decade on the throne drew to a close, the rhythm of the monarchy remained one which would be recognisable from the first, one which her father or even her grandfather would be unsurprised by: Christmas and New year at Sandringham, Easter at Windsor, the long summer break in Balmoral, Trooping the Colour, Royal Ascot, the Investitures, the Changing of the Guard, Remembrance Sunday.\n\nChanging times - riding the London Underground in 1969, and preparing to deliver her televised Christmas message in 1967, the first to be delivered in colour\n\nWhen change pressed in all around, she resisted. Her fate was to inherit the crown as the country stood on the cusp of change, and to reign as change swirled around the palace. Her character dictated that she would not change with it, would not bend to fashion. That resistance, that deep appreciation - love, even - of tradition, was her greatest strength, and led to perhaps her greatest test and gravest crisis, as her family unravelled.\n\nFamily always came second to the Crown. When her first two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, were little more than toddlers, they were left behind - as she and her sister Princess Margaret had been left behind by their parents two decades earlier - as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh went on a six-month world tour.\n\nShe was not an unfeeling mother, but she was a remote one. The Crown and its responsibilities had come to her when she was just 25, and she took those responsibilities very seriously. Many decisions about the children were delegated to the duke.\n\nThree of her four children's marriages would end in divorce. She believed in marriage, it was part of her Christian faith and her understanding of what knitted society together. \"Divorce and separation,\" she once said, \"are responsible for some of the darkest evils in our society today.\"\n\nNo doubt that view, held by many in the late 1940s, mellowed as the years went by. But no parent relishes seeing their child's marriage fail. The Queen's self-proclaimed \"annus horribilis\" in 1992 saw the separation of the Duke and Duchess of York, the divorce of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips and the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"A low point in her life,\" wrote one biographer, not because of what had led to the rare public admission of tough times, \"but because of the lack of gratitude, even derision, with which her 40 years of dedication appeared to have been crowned.\"\n\nHer first decade had passed in a dazzle of adulation, at home and abroad. Vast crowds turned out for her on international tours. Back home, some proclaimed a new Elizabethan Age, although the Queen was clever enough to immediately disavow it.\n\nFamily time and personal loss - with Prince Philip and their four children in 1972, and looking at fire damage to Windsor Castle in 1992\n\nThe 1960s saw a slow cooling off - the Queen was more involved with her family, the novelty of a new monarch had passed, the generation of the post-war baby boom now coming of age was gripped by different passions than their parents. The 1970s and 80s saw no let-up in her service, but the focus of some Royalty enthusiasts - and the media - shifted to her children, their marriages and their partners.\n\nBy the mid-90s, the monarchy seemed to some to be out of touch with the popular mood; in the newspaper comment columns there was direct criticism of the Queen, and contemplation of the monarchy's future. Her reign at times seemed associated with another epoch. What was her place - and the monarchy's - in the new \"Cool Britannia\" and the informal style embraced by Tony Blair? How did the Palace - repository of tradition - fit in with the popular demand for change expressed in Labour's crushing election victory?\n\nJust months after that victory, one hot August night in Paris, came the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. A broiling carpet of flowers soon stretched out in front of Kensington Palace. The flag-pole above Buckingham Palace remained bare. Many in the nation found themselves desolate at the loss of the Princess.\n\n\"Show us you care, Ma'am\" bayed the Daily Express headline. \"Where is our Queen? Where is her flag?\" demanded the Sun. For five long days, the Queen remained in Balmoral, seemingly unaware of the spasm sweeping parts of the country. Perhaps, as the Palace would brief afterwards, it was to protect and console the young Princes William and Harry.\n\nBut given her character, that deep dislike of change appears to have driven the decisions taken at the time; Balmoral was not to be interrupted, no flag ever flew from Buckingham Palace in her absence, the Royal Standard never flew at half-mast.\n\nIt was a terrible misjudgement. She hurried back to the capital, back to Buckingham Palace. She stopped to look at the flowers piling up all around. \"We were not confident,\" one former official told a biographer, \"that when the Queen got out of the car, she would not be hissed and jeered.\" It was that bad.\n\nJoy and tragedy - the Queen with Prince Charles and his then-fiancée Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, and with Prince Philip among the floral tributes following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997\n\nShe had refused to broadcast at first, then yielded, then agreed to speak live. She spoke to the nation, just before the BBC Six O'clock news. She - who had once driven broadcast executives to despair with her wooden delivery - barely had time to prepare.\n\nHer performance was flawless, her speech brief but perfectly pitched. She spoke of \"lessons to be learned\"; she spoke \"as a grandmother\"; she spoke of the \"determination to cherish\" Diana's memory.\n\nIt was a triumph, pulled from the jaws of deep crisis. The poison swirling around the Royal Family, around the Palace and around the very institution of the monarchy, was drawn. Once in her reign - just once - fate and character had collided with near-disastrous consequences.\n\nThey would combine more happily in the Queen's international role. By the time of her death, she had not toured for many years. But for decades she was not only a global celebrity like no other, but also a subtle instrument of influence.\n\nNothing would compare to the first dazzling decade of her reign, before television made her image commonplace and her tours accessible from the living room. On her long 1954 tour of Australia, two-thirds of the country is thought to have turned out to see her; in 1961 two million people lined the road from the airport to the Indian capital Delhi; in Calcutta three-and-half million would stand and wait to see the daughter of the last Emperor.\n\nFate would dictate that she would oversee the long twilight of Empire, though not once did the Queen attend a flag-lowering ceremony. Many times in the 1950s and 60s, a member of the Royal Family would stand as the Union flag came down over a former colony, the national anthem playing one last time.\n\nA determination that something should emerge from the imperial family which she had pledged to serve, would mean that she would build a new association on the ashes of Britain's imperial legacy.\n\nIn palaces and houses dotted across the capital and the country, lived her blood family. Across the world was spread her territorial family - a group of wildly diverse nations, vast and tiny, rich and impoverished, republics and monarchies - that she charmed and cajoled and nudged to remember what bound them together, and what together they might achieve.\n\nInternational tours were taken on behalf of the government of the day; they were tools of foreign policy - if not explicitly, then on the understanding that the Queen's influence would be beneficial to the relationships between Britain and the places she visited.\n\nIt looked glamorous - the Royal Yacht, the Queen's Flight, banquets and galas - and before international air travel became commonplace, it was an extraordinary experience. But it was always hard work, long days and weeks of receptions, exhibitions, openings, lunches with officials, state dinners and speeches given and listened to patiently. Those who have observed a royal tour find it hard to imagine it is any fun for those at the heart of it.\n\nA global role - with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in at the waterfall where the Nile begins, in 1965, and greeted coming off the royal yacht Britannia by the Emir of Bahrain in 1979\n\nShe would rarely take a holiday outside the UK - travelling abroad meant work. Her foreign travel would mark the step-changes in Britain's relationship with the places she visited: post-war Germany in 1965; a liberalising China in 1986; Russia in 1994, once the regime that had murdered her relatives had been swept away.\n\nA trip to post-apartheid South Africa in 1995 she would call: \"One of the most outstanding experiences of my life\". President Nelson Mandela replied: \"One of the most unforgettable moments in our history.\"\n\nAnd no visit marked and sealed a changed relationship more than her trip to Ireland in 2011. Not for a century had a British monarch been to the south. When her grandfather had visited in 1911 the island of Ireland was one, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Violent revolt, partition and independence would follow.\n\nAfter World War Two came acts of violence against the existence of the partition border and then, for 30 terrible years, a brutal terrorist campaign in Northern Ireland and Britain against British rule, with harsh acts of repression by the British government which polarised opinion in the Republic.\n\nThere was never a right time for a royal visit, because of the distrust across the narrow stretch of water which separates Britain and Ireland. With the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and the establishment of a power-sharing assembly, came the end of Ireland's constitutional claim to the six counties that make up Northern Ireland.\n\nOn her state visit, extended by the Queen's wish, there was no escaping history. In the Garden of Remembrance, in the centre of Georgian Dublin, where all who fought for Ireland's independence are remembered and honoured, she laid a wreath and, unscripted and spontaneous, bowed her head to the men and women who had fought against British rule, an electrifying moment.\n\nAt dinner she would open her speech in the Irish language, winning nearly every Irish heart. In that speech she spoke the language, if not the words, of apology; \"With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can all see things which we wish had been done differently, or not at all.\"\n\nBefore the Ireland state visit one biographer would write that \"it was difficult to point to major achievements\" in her reign. That judgement would not hold afterwards. The four days of pitch-perfect words and actions helped sweep away centuries of ill-will and distrust. Perhaps no greater single service did the Queen give her Crown, or her country.\n\nIreland had haunted so many of her prime ministers. Her first, Winston Churchill, had spoken of the \"dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone\" rising again after World War One to bedevil British politics. One of her last, Boris Johnson, would grapple with the implications of the border within the island, and how to square that with the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nAll had the benefit of her ear, her experience, her perspective on British and world history. Her job in the weekly audiences she shared with the prime minister of the day was not to lobby for any individual cause, or to try to sway a government one way or another. She was there to advise, to encourage and to warn.\n\nAnd she was there to listen. All her prime ministers could be entirely confident that nothing they told her would escape. So she was the one person to whom they could freely talk who truly understood the machinery of state. For so many prime ministers, so often embattled, this was also a relief, an escape from watching their back and holding their tongue when around colleagues and rivals.\n\n\"They unburden themselves to me or tell me what's going on,\" she would say mid-reign. \"If they've got any problems, sometimes one can help in that way too. I think it's…as if one's sort of a sponge.\"\n\nHere she was too self-deprecating. Almost nothing broke the confessional silence around those audiences, apart from praise for the extraordinary effort the Queen put into her work. The red boxes containing state papers - in Whitehall she was known as Reader No. 1 - went everywhere with her, to Balmoral, on tour, on the royal train, even winched aboard the Royal Yacht.\n\nFor three hours a day, her private secretary estimated in the early 1970s, she read Foreign Office telegrams, reports of parliamentary proceedings, ministerial memoranda and cabinet minutes.\n\nAnd she remembered what she read, sometimes catching her prime ministers out with her grasp and her recall. \"I was astonished,\" wrote Harold Macmillan \"at Her Majesty's grasp of all the details sent in messages and telegrams.\"\n\nPolitically neutral, diplomatically useful - alongside former and current prime ministers in 1985, and with then US President Ronald Reagan in 1983\n\nThe Crown's political role had dwindled to almost nothing by the time she came to the throne. Two areas of discretion - where she as monarch had a say - survived: who to call to become prime minister and form a government, and when Parliament could be dissolved.\n\nEarly in her reign, before the Conservatives started electing their leaders, she exercised her judgement, amid some controversy, as to who she would call to form a government when a Conservative prime minister resigned between general elections.\n\nBut once the Conservatives started electing their leaders, that judgement was no longer called for. And over the decades, the very idea of the Palace becoming involved in such a decision became alien to British politics. The talk around closely fought elections was of \"protecting\" the Palace from having to make political decisions over who to call to form a government if there were no decisive winner.\n\nThe Queen never had reason to deny a dissolution of Parliament, and it would have been an extraordinary act to do so. She well understood the tightly circumscribed role she had inherited.\n\nAnd the Crown's political voice was almost silent too. Much - too much, really - has been read into what one biographer calls the \"truism\" that she got on better with Labour leaders than their Conservative counterparts. For all the social difficulties there may have been with Margaret Thatcher, the Queen would attend her funeral, an honour bestowed on a prime minister only once before - Winston Churchill.\n\nHer personal political belief may well have leaned towards the centre; she came of age at the creation of that peacetime monument to wartime struggle, the National Health Service, and as the state extended its responsibilities for citizens' welfare and education. The strife of the early 1980s - rocketing unemployment, riots in the great cities, budget cuts and the miners' strike setting communities against each other - marked the end of one vision of Britain.\n\nAn over-enthusiastic briefing by a Palace press officer to the Sunday Times in 1986 suggested unhappiness with the direction of government policy and what he said the Queen saw as the corrosion of the post-war political consensus. It was a brief glimpse into the thinking of a sovereign who believed that one of her roles was to unify an increasingly divided and disparate nation.\n\nAnd twice she stepped - very gingerly - into the debate over Scottish independence, once in a speech in the 1970s and once just before the referendum of 2014. Was this too political? To some nationalists, yes. But it was hardly surprising that she would urge a little caution on those preparing to decide on the break-up of her kingdom.\n\nDid her conservative character drive the way she carried out her political role? Perhaps, to some degree. But the last monarch to involve himself in political matters was her grandfather George V. By the time she took the throne, the political role had fallen away. Her institutional fate was to be a cipher, someone who did the bidding of others. That she would have understood from the start. Here, fate and character walked hand in hand.\n\nIt was this avoidance of any political controversy as head of state, and her refusal to bend the monarchy to the winds of fashion, that enabled her to triumph in the role that would earn her the love and respect of so many, as head of nation.\n\nThis is the great unwritten role of modern monarchy. This is where, unprotected by tradition and unprepared by precedent, character alone drove her reign.\n\nFormal and informal - in a carriage on her way to the state opening of Parliament in 2002, and laughing with Prince Philip in 2014\n\nHer grandfather laid the foundations for a monarchy that served rather than ruled the nation, but spent much of his time blasting birds from the skies. Her father's reign was decided for him by fate: he was thrust into a role he did not expect and wore military uniform for much of his time as King.\n\nAfter catastrophe and criticism in the 1990s, the monarchy's fortunes rose again. As disillusionment followed the high hopes for political change, as cynicism became entrenched and political leaders derided, an uncontroversial and never-too-fashionable Queen became a figure of incorruptible continuity to a nation buffeted by change, disappointment and division.\n\nThis was the nation's reward for her endless patience, for her refusal to emote in public, to share her thoughts, to lean left or right, to involve herself in fashionable causes or respond to the slings and arrows hurled at her and her family over the many decades.\n\nShe remained apart from all that not because of hierarchy but because she - with a prescience that still rather astonishes - never engaged in the superficial of the day-to-day, the back and forth of modern life.\n\nShe understood that the rhythm of monarchy - the traditions and ceremonies, the births and the weddings and the deaths - provided a comfort to those sometimes bewildered by the uprooting of the past, and served as a reminder that the drumbeat of life was shared across class, age and circumstance.\n\nAnd she understood that not everything in national life had to have an explicit purpose, that for a conservative nation in the throes of near-ceaseless change, the continuity she represented in person and in office had a value beyond measure.\n\nShe, who with intuition beyond her years, pledged a life of service so many decades ago, made the monarchy the repository of much that the nation loved of itself.\n\nShe could do that because her character reflected much of what Britons like to think of as the best of themselves; modest, uncomplaining, thrifty, intelligent if not intellectual, sensible, feet-on-the-ground, unfussy, a dry sense of humour with a great big laugh, slow to anger and always well-mannered.\n\n\"I am the last bastion of standards,\" she once said. She was not boasting of better manners or finer etiquette than others. She was explaining her role and her life. It was her life and her work to be the best of Britain. This was the service she gave.", "Prince William and his wife Catherine have been named the new Prince and Princess of Wales by King Charles III.\n\n\"Today, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru,\" said the King, who previously held the title.\n\nThe King made the comments in his first address to the nation following the death of the Queen, aged 96.\n\n\"With Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations,\" he said.\n\nHe added that they would help \"bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given\".\n\nThe pair will also take the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall titles, previously held by the King and Camilla, the new Queen Consort.\n\nThe King added that the Prince of Wales title was one he had \"been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty\".\n\nFollowing in the footsteps of Princess Diana, who died 25 years ago, Princess Catherine is said to \"appreciate the history\", but will \"want to look to the future as she creates her own path\", a source said.\n\nShe has become the first since Princess Diana to use the well-known title, one that was also previously Camilla's but which she never used.\n\nCatherine described Diana as \"an inspirational woman to look up to\" following her engagement to Prince William in 2010.\n\nPrincess Diana's title changed after her divorce from King Charles, and she became Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nIn 2010 Prince William spoke of how no-one was trying to fill his mother's shoes, and said Catherine would make her own destiny.\n\n\"There's no pressure because like Kate said it is about carving your own future. No-one is trying to fill my mother's shoes. What she did is fantastic.\n\n\"It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.\"\n\nReacting to the news Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"King Charles III has enjoyed a long and enduring friendship with Wales.\n\n\"Today, in his first public duty as monarch, he has bestowed the title of Prince of Wales to his eldest son William.\n\n\"We look forward to deepening our relationship with the new Prince and Princess.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said: \"A profound, moving address by His Majesty, King Charles III.\n\n\"We join him in thanks to Her Late Majesty. And we welcome the new Prince and Princess of Wales. God Save the King.\"\n\nKing Charles was crowned Prince of Wales in front of huge crowds at at Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, in 1969\n\nThe King was only 20 years old when he was crowned Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, in 1969.\n\nThe investiture was watched by a TV audience of millions around the world - however it is a title that has divided opinion in Wales.\n\nAn opinion poll of 1,020 people in June 2022, conducted by ITV and YouGov, suggested that 46% of people thought there should be another Prince of Wales, while 31% did not.\n\nFollowing the announcement Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"There will be time, in due course, for a public debate surrounding the title of the Prince of Wales.\n\n\"It is Plaid Cymru's long-held view that it should be the people's democratic right to have a final say on this matter in an independent Wales.\n\n\"For now, Plaid Cymru's thoughts are with the Royal Family as they grieve.\"\n\nWales' first minister said he \"looks forward\" to his relationship with the new Prince and Princess of Wales\n\nLeanne Wood, former leader of Plaid Cymru, said: \"Wales has no need for a prince\".\n\nOn Thursday evening former Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas told Newyddion S4C that it did not \"make any sense to a devolved democratic country like Wales to have a prince these days\".\n\nHe said: \"The prince of Wales... there's no constitutional role at all, there's no meaning to it in the constitution.\n\n\"And I think, although it won't happen this time, I think the title will disappear because it doesn't make any sense to a devolved democratic country like Wales to have a prince these days.\"\n\nHe added there needed to be a \"discussion in Wales about what should happen to the title Prince of Wales, and what use there is of the title.\"", "The Royal Mile is prepared for the arrival of the Queen's coffin\n\nMajor roads in the centre of Edinburgh have now closed as the city prepares to become a focal point for people mourning the death of the Queen.\n\nIn the coming days, her coffin will travel from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh - the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland.\n\nFrom here it will be taken in procession to St Giles' Cathedral, where the Queen will lie at rest for 24 hours, allowing the public to view her coffin.\n\nEdinburgh City Council said it was working with the Scottish government and Police Scotland to accommodate significant numbers of visitors wishing to pay their respects.\n\nOther disruption in the city centre includes the closure of Royal Mile Primary School, Abbeyhill Primary School and the Cowgate Early Years Centre on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nStreet litter bins have been removed from the length of the Royal Mile with people being urged to take litter home or use the next nearest bin.\n\nEdinburgh City Council has also issued a list of its current temporary road closures and more will be added in the coming days.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid outside Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh\n\nPeople are being advised to plan ahead and avoid any non-essential travel through the city centre, particularly the Old Town, during the period of mourning.\n\nThose wishing to take part in events are being advised to plan ahead and take account of weather conditions, limited facilities and the likelihood of spending long periods at the roadside.\n\nEdinburgh council leader Cammy Day said: \"Our city is highly experienced in handling major events, and we are working to safely accommodate the large crowds of visitors who will wish to pay their respects to Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family over the next few days.\n\n\"Given the scale and significance of these ceremonial events, we have to be prepared for significant disruption across the city, but particularly in the city centre.\"\n\nUp-to-date information on the preparations can be found on the Edinburgh City Council website.\n\nGuidance has also been issued by Buckingham Palace for members of the public wishing to leave floral tributes at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nMourners have been asked to give floral tributes to the wardens at the entrance to The Queen's Gallery.\n\nThose flowers will be laid on the forecourt grass in front of the North Turret of the Palace.", "Charles, the longest-serving heir to the throne in British history, is now King. His apprenticeship as heir, lasting 70 years, has made him the best-prepared and oldest new monarch ever to take to the throne.\n\nThe 73-year-old King was there throughout his mother's long reign, witnessing generations of world leaders come and go, including 15 UK prime ministers and 14 US presidents.\n\nAfter Queen Elizabeth II's remarkable, era-defining reign, what kind of King might we expect? And how will a prince used to speaking out on issues adapt to the neutrality of a monarch?\n\nAs King, Charles will no longer have his own passport or driving licence - or strong opinions in public. Being monarch supersedes the individual.\n\nIt is a case of different roles, different rules, believes leading constitutional expert Professor Vernon Bogdanor.\n\n\"He's known from his earliest days that his style will have to change. The public won't want a campaigning monarch,\" Prof Bogdanor says.\n\nKing Charles is well aware of the need to be less outspoken. \"I'm not that stupid. I do realise it's a separate exercise being sovereign,\" he said in a BBC interview in 2018. \"The idea that somehow I'm going to carry on exactly in the same way is complete nonsense.\"\n\nWhen a new monarch takes to the throne, the royal profile on the coins is switched to face in the opposite direction. Charles' reign will also have a different focus.\n\nThe country that King Charles will reign over is much more diverse than that inherited by his mother, and Prof Bogdanor anticipates that the new King will reach out to a multicultural, multi-faith Britain.\n\nHe expects him to try to act as a unifying force, making more visible efforts to connect with ethnic minorities and disadvantaged groups.\n\nOn a bike with members of the British Asian Trust as they start a sponsored ride at Highgrove House in Tetbury, Gloucestershire - June 2021\n\nProf Bogdanor also anticipates greater royal patronage of the arts, music and culture - more Shakespeare and less horse-racing.\n\nBut Sir Lloyd Dorfman, who worked with King Charles for many years on his Prince's Trust charity, doesn't foresee a complete halt to his involvement with issues such as climate change and organic farming.\n\n\"He's very knowledgeable, very effective. It's hard to imagine he'll give that up in a cliff-edge way on the day he becomes sovereign,\" suggests Sir Lloyd.\n\nThere has been much talk about the King preferring a \"slimmed-down\" monarchy. It's likely to mean a greater emphasis on a smaller core group of working Royals, with Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine at its centre.\n\nDespite this, the overriding message of the new reign will be continuity and stability, says royal commentator Victoria Murphy.\n\n\"Don't expect any huge, jarring differences. He will be very careful,\" she says.\n\nThe \"slimmed down\" Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, June 2022\n\nHistorian and author Sir Anthony Seldon believes King Charles has been fortified by being proved right over issues, such as warnings about climate change. From once being ridiculed, he now has an \"Attenborough-aura,\" says Sir Anthony.\n\nAt the climate change summit in Glasgow in 2021, for example, Charles was taken seriously by figures like US President Joe Biden, according to royal commentator and author Robert Hardman, who says his status on the world stage will serve him well as King.\n\n\"It wasn't just platitudes. The two of them sat down together in a corner and Biden was saying: 'You got all this going',\" he says.\n\n\"We've tended to think of the Queen as a constant in national life, but apart from her, he's been there longer than anybody in public life, longer than any politician,\" says Mr Hardman.\n\nBut what kind of character will we see in the new monarch?\n\nThose who have known him say deep down he is a rather shy, reserved person. A \"sensitive soul\" is one description.\n\nOfficial photograph to mark the prince's 18th birthday\n\nThere might be a trace of the lonely boy who complained of being bullied and isolated at school. \"They throw slippers all night long or hit me with pillows or rush across the room and hit me as hard as they can,\" he wrote in a letter home about being tormented in his school dormitory.\n\nHis wife Camilla, now Queen Consort, has described him as: \"Pretty impatient. He wants things done by yesterday. That's how he gets things done.\"\n\nShe told a TV interview for Charles's 70th birthday that below the rather earnest character that people see in public, there was a more playful side to him.\n\n\"They see him as a very serious person, which he is. But I would like people to see the lighter side of him. He gets down on his knees and plays with the children, reading Harry Potter to them and doing the voices,\" said Camilla.\n\nCharles with his grandson Prince Louis, during the Platinum Jubilee in June 2022\n\nCharles and Camilla laughing during the Braemar Highland Gathering on 3 September 2022\n\nCharles has become a relaxed and approachable figure when he's meeting the public, getting his audience onside with a few self-deprecating jokes. Perhaps that will change as monarch, but as Prince of Wales he developed an affable, grandfatherly style, with no standoffishness.\n\nFor a man in his 70s, the King shows no sign of slowing down.\n\nChris Pope, who worked with Charles on the Prince's Teaching Institute, describes the new King as a relentlessly busy, driven figure, a \"bundle of energy\" taking on a huge workload.\n\n\"He is genuinely passionate about the well-being of the next generation. You'll see that across a lot of the work he does,\" says Mr Pope.\n\nThe prince's charitable work includes protecting the heritage and preserving traditional craft skills - but at the same time encouraging innovation and change.\n\n\"He is always concerned that traditions are not lost, but that's not the same thing as saying we have to turn the clock back,\" says Mr Pope.\n\nThe new King's character seems to bring together those themes, which might be seen to be pulling in different directions, of wanting change while wanting to conserve. He's a kind of tweedy radical.\n\nAt Shipton Mill in Gloucestershire, which holds the HRH Royal Warrant and specialises in traditional milling, July 2020\n\nCharles addressing an Action on Forests and Land Use event on day three of the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, November 2021\n\nHe sometimes looks like a red-cheeked landowner who has stepped down from an 18th-Century painting. At other times he sounds like a frustrated reformer, annoyed at how some communities have been neglected and left behind.\n\nMuch will be made of inheriting a sense of duty from his mother, but King Charles has also inherited her religious faith and her strong sense of humour.\n\nHitan Mehta has worked with him since helping to set up the British Asian Trust in 2007.\n\n\"He is a humanitarian at heart. I think people underestimate how much he does care. He often talks about the world he's going to leave for his grandchildren. He does worry about it,\" says Mr Mehta.\n\nThis can mean direct calls to action. \"It must have been nine o'clock on a Friday night and I get a phone call from him saying: 'I've just heard about the floods in Pakistan. What are we doing?' It's not as if he's not a busy person. But he's heard of the problem and he's on it. He really does care,\" says Mr Mehta.\n\n\"This is a man who has dinner ridiculously late at night and then goes to his desk and will fall asleep on his notes,\" said Prince Harry about his father.\n\nCharles was born in Buckingham Palace in 1948\n\nCharles Philip Arthur George was born in Buckingham Palace on 14 November 1948. When the BBC announced his birth, it wasn't with news that the Queen had had a boy, but that his mother had been \"safely delivered of a prince\". Four years later, he became heir apparent.\n\n\"I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help,\" Charles said in a 2005 interview.\n\nHe's been the patron or president of more than 400 organisations and in 1976 he founded his own flagship charity, the Prince's Trust, using his severance pay from the Royal Navy.\n\nIt has helped almost 900,000 disadvantaged young people from some of the poorest parts of the country and given him an insight into a range of social problems.\n\nHis plans for the Prince's Trust to connect with what he called the \"hardest to reach in society\" didn't always go down well.\n\n\"The Home Office didn't think it was at all a good idea. It was quite difficult to get it off the ground,\" he told a BBC interview in 2018.\n\nHis work has drawn accusations of political interference and accusations of meddling, particularly around the so-called \"black spider memos\". Taking their name from Charles' spidery handwriting, these were private letters from Charles to government ministers from 2004 onwards.\n\nThe letters questioned the government's approach on issues such as farming, urban planning, architecture, education and even protecting the Patagonian toothfish.\n\nCharles, known for his public views on architecture, at his Poundbury village development, Dorset 1999\n\nA former cabinet minister on the receiving end of Charles' lobbying said he didn't feel under great pressure, but his memory of the new King is of someone with fixed opinions. He saw him as arriving with pre-set views which he wanted to pursue, rather than wanting to engage with opposing arguments.\n\n\"I didn't feel brow-beaten. He'd make his interventions and you'd get letters. He didn't assert, he didn't push, he wasn't discourteous,\" he says.\n\nReflecting on claims of interfering, in a 2006 interview, Charles said: \"If that's meddling, I'm very proud of it.\" But he acknowledged that he was in \"a no-win situation\".\n\n\"If you do absolutely nothing at all, stuff all, they're going to complain about that. If you try and get stuck in and do something to help, they'll also complain,\" he said.\n\nIn a later interview, he said that he had avoided party politics, but felt compelled to speak out on issues such as \"the conditions in which people were living\".\n\nFormer Labour minister Chris Mullin described in his diaries a briefing with Charles and how taken aback he was by his single-minded focus and his readiness to risk \"treading on official toes\".\n\n\"He comes back to the same point. How to widen the horizons of the young, especially the disaffected, the unlucky and even the malign. I confess I am impressed. This is a man who, if he chose, could fritter away his life on idleness and self-indulgence.\"\n\nCharles posing for an official portrait to mark his 70th birthday in the gardens of Clarence House\n\nHow much public support will King Charles have as his reign begins?\n\n\"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it,\" Charles has said.\n\nAccording to research carried out by YouGov in December 2021, he has been growing in popularity, with almost two-thirds of people seeing him in a positive light.\n\nBut opinion polls have consistently shown him to be less popular than his mother Queen Elizabeth II or his son Prince William, so there is a sizeable proportion of the public still to be won over. In particular his popularity is lower among younger people.\n\nVictoria Murphy says this could reflect the unsympathetic portrayals of Charles in TV shows and movies about his relationship with his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in a car crash in August 1997.\n\nThese might be a mix of fact and fiction, but they are a big influence.\n\n\"What's been really interesting over the last few years has been how large Diana continues to loom as a narrative around the Royal Family,\" Ms Murphy says.\n\nAs Charles has approached the throne, there has been an attempt to shift the public perception, says Professor Pauline Maclaran of the Centre for the Study of the Modern Monarchy at Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\nFrom the previous lampooning of him on comedy shows such as Spitting Image, he has been gradually repositioned as a more dignified figure, a \"sage\" with serious things to say about the environment, says Prof Maclaran.\n\nThe interests of the public might not always be so high-minded. And as head of the Royal Family he will have to contend with the intense global appetite for stories about Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and their relationship with the Royal Family.\n\nThe Prince was visibly upset at the funeral of his father, Prince Philip, in 2021\n\nWhere royal stories start to overlap with the soap opera of celebrity life isn't his natural territory.\n\nKing Charles faces other tough family decisions, such as the future role of Prince Andrew, or the lack of it, after the settlement deal that followed the sexual assault claims of Virginia Giuffre.\n\nOutside the UK, a major challenge will be to redefine a more modern relationship with the Commonwealth. As its new head, how can his visits to Commonwealth countries navigate the difficult legacies of colonialism and issues such as slavery?\n\nKing Charles has become head of state of 14 countries, as well as the UK. Some of these could want to become republics, while staying as Commonwealth members, and King Charles has already made clear he is ready for grown-up conversations about change.\n\nThere have been decisions already taken that have smoothed the path of his new reign. He must have been delighted when his mother intervened to say Camilla should use the title of Queen consort, rather than Princess.\n\nCamilla will be a vital support as he starts one of the highest profile roles in the world at an age when most people would have retired.\n\nThis moment, in all its daunting solemnity, has been waiting ahead of him all his life.\n\nFor King Charles, it's his time now.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "The nation's new monarch King Charles III travelled from Balmoral to London on Friday morning, following the death of his mother the Queen. Journeying alongside his wife, Camilla, the Queen Consort, the King flew from Aberdeen to RAF Northolt ahead of his televised address to the nation. On arrival at Buckingham Palace, he was greeted by thousands of well-wishers in a moving moment.", "At Windsor Castle the crowds who came to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II were surprised when William and Catherine, the new Prince and Princess of Wales, appeared through the gates with Prince Harry and Meghan.\n\nTogether, they viewed tributes left for Britain's longest-ever reigning monarch and greeted the crowds.\n\nIt was the first time the four of them have been seen together in more than two years.\n\nAt Crathie Kirk, a church near Balmoral in Scotland, the Queen's three younger children, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, were among the family members who viewed the floral tributes.\n\nHer Majesty's four granddaughters, Zara Tindall, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and Lady Louise Windsor, plus her eldest grandson Peter Phillips, were also there.\n\nEarlier in the day, King Charles III was formally proclaimed king, following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.\n\nKing Charles dedicated the rest of his life to serving as monarch at meeting of the Accession Council at St James' Palace in London.\n\nIn his address, he paid tribute to the Queen and spoke of the \"irreparable loss we've all suffered\".\n\nHe was accompanied by his wife, Camilla, the Queen Consort, and the heir to the throne, Prince William.\n\nThe ceremony was attended by political leaders including Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was only appointed into the role earlier this week.\n\nThe Labour leader Keir Starmer was also there alongside former prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Theresa May and John Major.\n\nThe Proclamation of Accession was signed by a number of dignitaries, including Lord President of the Council, Penny Mordaunt, and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nOutside, Garter Principal King of Arms, David Vines White, read the Principal Proclamation from the balcony overlooking Friary Court.\n\nPrince Michael of Kent, Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, were seen together as the Principal Proclamation was read from the balcony.\n\nThe Band of the Coldstream Guards saluted the the proclamation.\n\nOutside, members of the public listened to the proclamation.\n\nGun salutes took place in Hyde Park and above at the Tower of London, as the Principal Proclamation was read.\n\nA second Proclamation was read at the Royal Exchange in the City of London. State Trumpeters led a procession which included the Lord Mayor as well as various City officers.\n\nOfficials and elected members of the City of London Corporation doffed their hats.\n\nFollowing the ceremonies, King Charles III returned to Buckingham Palace. His coronation may not be for many months yet - some 16 months passed between the death of Queen Elizabeth's father and her coronation in June 1953.", "The Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday, after her coffin has been lying in state for the last four full days.\n\nHere is your guide to what will happen, day by day.\n\nMonday is the day of the Queen's state funeral. It is also a bank holiday in the UK.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state will end at 06:30 BST when the last people will file past her coffin. The doors to Westminster Abbey will then open at 08:00 ahead of the funeral.\n\nAt 10:44, the Queen's coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and it will be drawn by 142 sailors from the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III will walk behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nThe procession will be led by a massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force - numbering 200 musicians.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive at the Abbey at 10:52. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.\n\nAt around 11:55, the Last Post will sound, followed by a national two-minute silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12:00.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will travel in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. The King and senior royals will walk behind the coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will follow the procession by car. Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals.\n\nFrom there the coffin will be taken by a state hearse to Windsor. Shortly after 15:00, the hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nThe three-mile (5km) avenue will be lined with members of the armed forces.\n\nA committal service will then begin at 16:00. Attended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, it will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nAfter, the Queen will then be lowered into the royal vault.\n\nLater in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen will be buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "Queen Elizabeth II visited more than 20 African countries during her reign, which saw the British Empire come to an end and independence sweep the continent. A special link to Britain endured through the Commonwealth of Nations, which the Queen led. It was a close - and sometimes complicated - relationship between the British monarchy and post-colonial Africa.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth made a broadcast from the gardens of Government House in Cape Town, South Africa on her 21st birthday, dedicating her life to the service of the Commonwealth.\n\n\"Everywhere I have travelled in these lovely lands of South Africa… my parents, my sister and I have been taken to the heart of their people and made to feel that we are just as much at home here as if we had lived among them all our lives,\" she said.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth is seen here at Treetops Hotel in Kenya with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh in 1952. The day after this photo was taken, she heard the news that her father, King George VI, had passed away and she was to become Queen.\n\nThis was the first of two visits Queen Elizabeth made to Nigeria, in 1956, when it was still a British colony. The Queen is pictured here with Chief Oba Adenji-Adele II in Lagos. She also visited Calabar, Enugu, Jos, Kaduna, Kano and Port Harcourt.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II dances with Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president and a figurehead of the decolonisation movement during her visit in 1961, just four years after Ghana's independence. They danced to a high-life tune composed specially for the occasion called Welcome Your Majesty.\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are pictured with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, during a state visit in 1965. The emperor took refuge in the United Kingdom between 1936 and 1941 following the Italian occupation of his homeland and was restored to the throne in 1941 after British and Commonwealth troops defeated the Italians.\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Sudan's President El Tigani El-Mahi on the state drive from Khartoum Airport, also in 1965. Her visit to Sudan included an afternoon of camel racing and a trip to the construction site of the Roseires Dam on the Blue Nile, which was completed the following year.\n\nThe Queen with Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere at the start of a three-day state visit in 1979.\n\nEighteen years previously, Dr Nyerere had led the former British protectorate of Tanganyika to independence, becoming its first prime minister and later its first president. Over the years, he became increasingly anti-British and anti-European.\n\nNevertheless, the UK government regarded him as a major stabilising force in an increasingly turbulent region.\n\nZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was awarded an honorary knighthood by the Queen in 1994.\n\nBut as tensions grew between Zimbabwe and the UK government over the president's land reform programme and allegations of human rights abuses, Zimbabwe withdrew from the Commonwealth in 2003. Mr Mugabe was stripped of his knighthood in 2008.\n\nQueen Elizabeth is pictured arriving at Durban airport in 1995. She was on an official six-day visit to South Africa, which saw the best rainy season in 10 years, winning her the nickname Motlalepula, which means \"to come with rain\".\n\nThe Queen and South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, were said to have a close friendship. The Queen signed letters to President Mandela with \"Your sincere friend, Elizabeth R\" and apparently referred to him as \"Nelson\", while it's said that he called her simply \"Elizabeth\" in a break from royal protocol.\n\nThe Queen visited Nigeria for a second time in 2003. The country had been suspended from the Commonwealth over human rights abuses during Sani Abacha's military rule in 1995 and re-admitted in 1999 after a return to civilian rule. The Queen and President Olusegun Obasanjo are seen here at the official opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Abuja.\n\nOn her last trip to the continent, in 2007, Britain's longest-reigning monarch was met by one of Africa's longest-serving presidents, Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986. She had visited Uganda once before - on her first official state visit to Africa as Queen in 1954.\n• None Podcast: Who was Queen Elizabeth II to Africa?", "As the Chief Executive of BBC News I have the honour to write the closing message on this page of thousands of tributes to Queen Elizabeth II. And it’s a message of thanks to every single person who has taken the time to share their story.\n\nWhen the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, we at the BBC wanted to create a place where people could come together to share their tributes, their photos and recollections.\n\nThe response has been incredible. We have received thousands of touching stories of meeting the Queen, special moments, memories and messages of condolence.\n\nThank you to everyone - from all over the world - for coming together here in this virtual space for very real acts a of remembrance.\n\nLooking at the contributions, the common theme that emerges is that the Queen had a way of making each person she met feel like the most important person in that moment.\n\nThank you again for helping us remember a woman whose promise to serve her people was fulfilled through a life of duty, which touched so many people.", "Outside Buckingham Palace, there is a lovely atmosphere.\n\nA trip here wouldn't be for everyone, but for those who have decided it is for them, there is a thoughtful, quiet, polite, reflective mood.\n\nA big white flag with the Queen's image printed in the middle is being waved in front of me.\n\nDrifting overhead, a silver, heart-shaped balloon, liberated from its owner, intentionally or otherwise.\n\nThose in the crowd and those of us here observing them are witnessing first-hand the British constitution, florid in its decoration and freighted with history, exposed to a global sunlight like never before.\n\nThe interactions between what the 19th Century writer Walter Bagehot described as the \"dignified\" and \"efficient\" elements of a constitution - illustrated in the UK's model of governance.\n\nDignified referring to the monarchy, efficient to parliament.\n\nThe two, of course, interact - often in private, occasionally in public, such as at the State Opening of Parliament, when the monarch travels to Westminster to read out the government's planned new laws in the coming year.\n\nFor years, we called it the Queen's Speech.\n\nNext time, it'll be the King's Speech.\n\nBut those interactions between the Crown and parliament are vivid right now.\n\nCarved into the exterior stonework of the Palace of Westminster - the House of Commons and House of Lords - a king past, as a new one ascends.\n\nThe statue is of Henry II.\n\nInside, MPs have sworn their allegiance to King Charles III.\n\nSome seeking the help of God. Others the law.\n\nIn English. And, for a few, in Welsh.\n\nAt Buckingham Palace, audiences with the King for the new prime minister, her new cabinet and opposition party leaders.\n\nThe magnitude of these moments isn't lost on any of those caught up in them.\n\nJust as it isn't on the crowds outside, as the world watches.\n\nIn the coming days, the new head of state, the King, will visit Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.\n\nThe new head of government, the prime minister, will do too.\n\nEach introducing themselves to the country, in their new roles, at the same time.\n\nI'm told Liz Truss will attend a church service in each city; her role won't be that prominent.\n\nBut it strikes me at a time when there are strains on the architecture of the UK, those who argue nations within it might choose to go their own way one day, these visits carry a political value.\n\nThe Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland able to visibly illustrate that full job title so early in her tenure.\n\nBefore that, though, the arrival of the King here at Westminster on Monday, to address MPs and members of the House of Lords.\n\nAnother moment that will be quite a moment.", "The Queen's three younger children, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward were among family members who viewed floral tributes at the gates to Balmoral Castle.\n\nHer Majesty's four granddaughters Zara Tindall, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and Lady Louise Windsor, plus her eldest grandson Peter Phillips, were also there.\n\nSome family members appeared emotional as they read what people had written about the Queen.\n\nThe family waved to well-wishers as they stood at the gates to say goodbye, before walking back inside the castle grounds.", "Senior MPs including Prime Minister Liz Truss have sworn a new oath of allegiance to King Charles III in a special session of Parliament.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle opened proceedings by taking the oath, followed by Sir Peter Bottomley, the longest-serving MP.\n\nSir Keir Starmer and former PM Theresa May were also pledging allegiance.\n\nIn a rare Saturday sitting, MPs and peers gathered for a second day of tributes to the late Queen.\n\nMPs are sworn in after each general election so they can take their seat, speak in debates, vote and receive a salary.\n\nThe wording of the oath means MPs have already pledged their allegiance to the heirs and successors of the Queen, meaning they do not have to do it again at this point.\n\nSir Lindsay told MPs: \"There will be further opportunities for all honourable members to take the oath or make the affirmation following her late majesty's funeral.\n\n\"There is no procedural requirement to do so.\"\n\nMs Truss was foremost among those taking the pledge, speaking the words: \"I swear by almighty God, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law, so help me God.\"\n\nFollowing the taking of oaths, MPs took it in turns to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II and recount their memories of the late monarch.\n\nMany MPs used their speeches to tell amusing and at times emotional anecdotes about the Queen's wisdom, sense of humour and ability to put people at their ease.\n\nIn all, 321 MPs spoke in the two-day session.\n\nCommons Leader Penny Mordaunt made the final speech of the special two-day session, closing proceedings by praising the Queen's \"devotion to duty\" and public service.\n\n\"Our great Queen has entrusted us all with a living legacy of triumph and over tribulation, of cheerfulness over challenge, of dedication and determination,\" Ms Mordaunt said.\n\n\"She has left us, her values remain with us. Her example compels us to continued fidelity to our king and our country. God save the King.\"\n\nWrapping up, Sir Lindsay said a humble address - which is a message to the monarch - paying tribute to the King Charles would be presented to His Majesty.\n\nWith that Parliament was adjourned until after 21 September, during a period of national mourning.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was the first MP to take the oath\n\nMs Truss, who was invited to form a government by the late Queen on Tuesday, had her initial audience with King Charles on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister curtsied as she was ushered in by a royal aide for the first of what will be their regular weekly encounters.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, senior ministers attended the Accession Council at St James's Palace, where Charles was formally proclaimed sovereign.\n\nThe king has also received the prime minister, members of the cabinet and opposition leaders at Buckingham Palace for an audience with the monarch.\n\nA period of national mourning will last until the day of the Queen's state funeral on 19 September.\n\nAhead of the funeral, the new King will visit Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and Ms Truss will accompany him.\n\nLiz Truss introduced members of the cabinet to King Charles at an audience held in Buckingham Palace\n\nA spokesman said: \"The prime minister believes it is important to be present for what will be a significant moment of national mourning around the United Kingdom.\"", "William and Catherine, the new Prince and Princess of Wales, along with Harry and Meghan, are viewing tributes outside the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nIt's the first public appearance the royal couples have made together since the passing of the Queen.\n\nRead more on the BBC News Live page.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles III gave the following address to the nation and Commonwealth.\n\nI speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty the Queen - my beloved Mother - was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe to their mother; for her love, affection, guidance, understanding and example.\n\nQueen Elizabeth's was a life well lived; a promise with destiny kept and she is mourned most deeply in her passing.\n\nThat promise of lifelong service I renew to you all today.\n\nAlongside the personal grief that all my family are feeling, we also share with so many of you in the United Kingdom, in all the countries where the Queen was head of state, in the Commonwealth and across the world, a deep sense of gratitude for the more than 70 years in which my mother, as Queen, served the people of so many nations.\n\nIn 1947, on her 21st birthday, she pledged in a broadcast from Cape Town to the Commonwealth to devote her life, whether it be short or long, to the service of her peoples.\n\nThat was more than a promise: it was a profound personal commitment which defined her whole life.\n\nShe made sacrifices for duty. Her dedication and devotion as sovereign never wavered, through times of change and progress, through times of joy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss.\n\nIn her life of service we saw that abiding love of tradition, together with that fearless embrace of progress, which make us great as nations.\n\nThe affection, admiration and respect she inspired became the hallmark of her reign. And, as every member of my family can testify, she combined these qualities with warmth, humour and an unerring ability always to see the best in people.\n\nI pay tribute to my mother's memory and I honour her life of service. I know that her death brings great sadness to so many of you and I share that sense of loss, beyond measure, with you all.\n\nWhen the Queen came to the throne, Britain and the world were still coping with the privations and aftermath of the Second World War, and still living by the conventions of earlier times.\n\nIn the course of the last 70 years we have seen our society become one of many cultures and many faiths.\n\nThe institutions of the state have changed in turn. But, through all changes and challenges, our nation and the wider family of realms - of whose talents, traditions and achievements I am so inexpressibly proud - have prospered and flourished. Our values have remained, and must remain, constant.\n\nThe role and the duties of monarchy also remain, as does the sovereign's particular relationship and responsibility towards the Church of England - the Church in which my own faith is so deeply rooted.\n\nIn that faith, and the values it inspires, I have been brought up to cherish a sense of duty to others, and to hold in the greatest respect the precious traditions, freedoms and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government.\n\nAs the Queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, I too now solemnly pledge myself, throughout the remaining time God grants me, to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation.\n\nAnd wherever you may live in the United Kingdom, or in the realms and territories across the world, and whatever may be your background or beliefs, I shall endeavour to serve you with loyalty, respect and love, as I have throughout my life.\n\nMy life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities. It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others.\n\nThis is also a time of change for my family. I count on the loving help of my darling wife, Camilla. In recognition of her own loyal public service since our marriage seventeen years ago, she becomes my Queen Consort. I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much.\n\nAs my heir, William now assumes the Scottish titles which have meant so much to me. He succeeds me as Duke of Cornwall and takes on the responsibilities for the Duchy of Cornwall which I have undertaken for more than five decades.\n\nToday, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru, the country whose title I have been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty.\n\nWith Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given.\n\nI want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas.\n\nIn a little over a week's time we will come together as a nation, as a Commonwealth and indeed a global community, to lay my beloved mother to rest. In our sorrow, let us remember and draw strength from the light of her example. On behalf of all my family, I can only offer the most sincere and heartfelt thanks for your condolences and support. They mean more to me than I can ever possibly express.\n\nAnd to my darling Mama, as you begin your last great journey to join my dear late Papa, I want simply to say this: thank you. Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years.\n\nMay \"flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest\".", "The Bank of England has postponed a key decision on interest rates following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nIt said that \"in light of the period of national mourning\", the Monetary Policy Committee's decision would now be announced at midday on 22 September.\n\nIt follows moves by several public bodies to change their plans for the coming week after the death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch.\n\nThe Bank had widely been expected to increase rates on Thursday.\n\nEconomists had been predicting that the UK's central bank would raise rates to 2.25% - the highest level since December 2008.\n\nLast month, the Bank raised interest rates by the highest margin in 27 years in an attempt to keep soaring prices under control. It also predicted that the UK economy would fall into recession later this year.\n\nHigher interest rates can make borrowing more expensive, meaning people have less money to spend and prices will stop rising as quickly. However, some have question how effective UK rate rises can be when inflation is caused by global issues.\n\nEnergy prices climbed sharply when lockdown was lifted and the economy started to return to normal. They have increased further as Russia sharply cut its gas supplies to Europe. It has pushed up the price of gas across the continent, including in the UK, having a huge knock-on effect on consumers.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said a recession would \"overwhelmingly be caused by the actions of Russia and the impact on energy prices\".\n\nSpeaking in front of the Treasury Committee earlier this week, the Bank of England's governor, Andrew Bailey, defended its track record: \"The person going to put the UK in recession is Vladimir Putin, not the MPC [Monetary Policy Committee].\"\n\nHe also said the Bank would take Prime Minister Liz Truss's energy plan announcement \"into account\" when next deciding on interest rates.\n\nDuring her campaign, Ms Truss hit out at the Bank of England, accusing it of being slow to react to rising prices and protect vulnerable households.\n\nBut the new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has reiterated his \"full support for the independent Bank of England and their mission to control inflation, which is central to tackling cost of living challenges\".\n\nHe has also said that he and Mr Bailey would meet twice a week from now on to discuss the rising cost of living.\n\nPrices are rising at its fastest rate in 40 years, with inflation at 10.1%.\n\nOn Thursday, the prime minister has announced that the government would limit energy bill rises for all households for two years in an attempt to prevent widespread hardship.\n\nA typical household energy bill will be capped at £2,500 annually until 2024.\n\nAnalysts say the huge support scheme could cost up to £150bn, but announcing the package Ms Truss said \"extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures\".\n\nFurther detail is expected by the end of the month, as the chancellor is expected to set out costings in a \"fiscal event\", where he will outline the level of borrowing necessary and any new tax measures he deems necessary to fund the package of support.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrinces William and Harry were joined by Catherine and Meghan at Windsor as they viewed the tributes to the Queen and spent time talking to the crowd.\n\nThousands of people had gathered throughout the day outside the castle before the four arrived.\n\nAmanda Goldsmith was one of many who had come to Windsor to lay flowers, where she met the new Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"I shook William and Catherine's hands. She is so beautiful and was lovely. She spoke to me for ages.\n\nAmanda Goldsmith and husband Andrew Mitchell waited hours to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales\n\n\"I told them I was sorry for their loss and she said 'it's just not the same at the castle without the Queen'.\"\n\nMs Goldsmith, who had come from West Byfleet, in Surrey, with her husband Andrew Mitchell, said the Prince of Wales had commented on the flowers and cards left by children saying they were amazing.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex spent time speaking to those in the crowd\n\nOn Thursday Prince William and his brother Prince Harry had joined their father and other senior members of the Royal Family at Balmoral in Scotland as a statement was issued that the Queen was under medical supervision, before later that day it was announced that she had died.\n\nNow on the day that King Charles III was proclaimed King in a grand ceremony at St James's Palace, his sons were together in public outside Windsor, meeting some of the thousands who have been gathering since Thursday.\n\nFor many within the crowd the first sign that the royals were about to appear was when security placed barriers around the Cambridge Gate entrance and on Long Walk.\n\nThen suddenly there were cheers, children were raised on people's shoulders and everyone's phone was in the air to grab a picture as Princes William and Harry arrived with Catherine and Meghan.\n\nWilliam was made the Prince of Wales by his father, King Charles III\n\nThe last time William was joined in public by his brother at Windsor Castle was at the funeral of their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh in April last year.\n\nSilence then fell as the couples, united in grief, stopped to read the tributes, pointing out particular messages.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex held hands as they walked from the car and read the tributes, with Harry affectionately putting his hand on Meghan's back at one stage.\n\nApplause broke out again as the four royals then made their way to greet the waiting crowd, where they received dozens of bouquets.\n\nPriti Vyas, from Pinner, said she \"felt both happy and very emotional\" and was glad to have been able to speak to the Sussexes to give them her condolences.\n\nPriti Vyas said she could feel the \"warmth from Harry and Meghan\"\n\n\"We talked about the Queen, and Harry wanted to know if I had met her before,\" said Ms Vyas, adding that she had only seen her from a distance, once.\n\nShe said it had been lovely to speak to the couple, if only for a quick chat and that she had felt genuine \"warmth from them\".\n\n\"All four of them thanked me to be here waiting for them and I congratulated Kate and William.\n\n\"I just wish that their grandmother was here as well,\" she said.\n\nSukhjit Johal from Coventry also came to pay her respects and was glad to see the royals.\n\n\"Kate was bending to see all the children, if she heard anyone say her name she would turn round and try to talk to them - like the Queen did.\n\nSukhjit Johal and Julia were disappointed to not speak to the Royals\n\n\"They really seem to understand the nation has lost the Queen too - they're allowing us to grieve with them,\" she said, something she felt was \"really heartfelt\" when \"all of them are going through a deeper level of grief than the public\".\n\nJulia, from London, was close enough to catch a glimpse of the Prince of Wales and his brother.\n\nWhile William had appeared \"very sombre\" as his father was proclaimed King earlier in the day, she said he was smiling as he met the crowd.\n\n\"I could see Harry on the other side and he was reaching up high, trying to reach as many hands as possible.\"\n\nMoments before Prince William had met the crowd he had issued a tribute to his \"Grannie\", saying: \"She was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life\".\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales, with their children Prince George and Louis and Princess Charlotte moved to Windsor last month. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are living in the US, having left the UK in March 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's Gareth Gordon looks back at the Queen's relationship with Northern Ireland\n\nRoyalty in the 21st Century is more about symbolism than power, but the Queen knew the power of symbols in the cause of reconciliation.\n\nIn June 2012, she greeted thousands at Stormont for a Diamond Jubilee party.\n\nEarlier the eyes of the world focused on an historic handshake with Martin McGuinness at Belfast's Lyric theatre.\n\nThe Queen and the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin in May 2011\n\nThe four-second handshake between the former IRA leader and the British monarch appeared to usher in a new era in 40 years of troubled history.\n\nA year earlier, the Queen had broken new ground in Dublin, joining the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, to lay wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.\n\nQueen Elizabeth at the National Convention Centre, Dublin, in 2011\n\nGiven that the garden is dedicated to those who died fighting British rule, this was another occasion that, at one time, would have seemed unimaginable.\n\nThen the Queen went on to charm her Irish audience at a state banquet when she spoke in Irish, greeting them: \"A Uachtaráin agus a chairde\" (president and friends).\n\nThere were some small, republican protests, but during a visit to the English market in Cork, most people seemed more than ready to welcome the Queen on the first visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch since King George V in 1911.\n\nIf these scenes were a novelty in Cork, not so north of the border where the Queen was a frequent visitor over the decades.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrived by steam train to open the new Bellarena Station village in County Londonderry in 2016\n\nIn fact, she took her first flight in an aircraft in 1945 when, as a teenage princess, she accompanied her parents to Northern Ireland on a two-day visit.\n\nFour years later, Princess Elizabeth was back, together with her husband, Prince Philip.\n\nThe couple returned in 1953 after the Queen's coronation.\n\nInevitably, given the politics of Ireland, not everyone was a fan. In 1966, the Queen opened a new bridge across the River Lagan in Belfast named in her honour. But as her motorcade wound through the city, a protester dropped a brick from a high building onto the bonnet of the Royal car.\n\nWhen the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, the Troubles were at their height. The IRA threatened to give the monarch a \"visit to remember\".\n\nSpectators lined the shores of Belfast Lough to watch the Queen arrive on board the Royal Yacht Britannia. She made a special reference to Northern Ireland in her Christmas message that year.\n\n\"No-where is reconciliation more desperately needed than in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen visited Pat O'Connell's fish stall at the English Market in Cork in 2011\n\n\"That is why I was particularly pleased to go there. No-one dared to promise an early end to the Troubles but there is no doubt that people of goodwill in Northern Ireland were greatly heartened by the chance they had to share the celebrations with the rest of the nation and Commonwealth.\"\n\nShe often expressed sadness after atrocities committed during the Troubles. But the murder that hurt her most personally had to be the IRA's assassination of Earl Mountbatten, in 1979.\n\nThe earl was her husband's uncle. She appeared to refer implicitly to his loss many years later in her Dublin speech.\n\n\"It is a sad and regrettable reality that through history our islands have experienced more than their fair share of heartache, turbulence and loss,\" she said.\n\n\"These events have touched us all, many of us personally, and are a painful legacy. We can never forget those who have died or been injured, and their families.\n\n\"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy.\n\n\"With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.\"\n\nThe then Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid showed the Queen the site of the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh, as part of the Golden Jubilee Tour in 2002\n\nAs the Troubles raged, the Queen did not visit Northern Ireland at all during the 1980s.\n\nBut she returned in the 1990s - praising the Ulster Defence Regiment in Lisburn, opening another new bridge in Belfast and meeting church leaders in Armagh.\n\nIn 2000, she presented the Royal Ulster Constabulary with the George Cross, then later that decade watched dance and drama in Londonderry, and toured the site of the Omagh bombing.\n\nAt Stormont, she praised the progress made towards peace.\n\n\"Life has never been straightforward here, but I welcome the real sense of normality that has, over recent years, been returning to the lives of ordinary people, even if tempered from time to time by moments of disappointment and pessimism. You now have a better future for Northern Ireland in your grasp,\" she told politicians.\n\nThe Queen's trip to the Giant's Causeway in 2016 was her first visit to Northern Ireland's best known tourist attraction\n\nHer last visit to Northern Ireland ended up being in 2016 - she had been due to visit Northern Ireland for a two-day trip in October 2021 to coincide with the centenary but it was cancelled on medical advice.\n\nThis was perhaps when the public first became aware of concerns surrounding the then 95-year-old's health.\n\nThroughout her reign, the Queen remained painfully aware of the tragedies that beset Northern Ireland.\n\nBut she seemed to take heart from the knowledge that she could play an important role in helping people put the past in perspective and concentrating minds on what she hoped would be a brighter future.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nAll English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football has been postponed this weekend as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nTen Premier League and six Scottish Premiership fixtures were scheduled.\n\nEnglish Football League games were due to take place on Friday and Saturday, with six Women's Super League fixtures on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nEngland's National League, FA Trophy and grassroots football is also off.\n\nPlay will resume in England's cricket Test against South Africa on Saturday and the women's Twenty20 match between England and India will go ahead.\n• None At-a-glance: What's on and what's off this weekend\n\nGolf's PGA Championship will restart on Saturday after play was halted on Thursday.\n\nBritish horse racing will return on Sunday, with rugby union's Premiership season beginning on Saturday after two fixtures on Friday were postponed.\n\nBoxing's world title fight between Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields has been postponed with a provisional new date of 15 October, while all British Boxing Board of Control tournaments have been postponed for the weekend.\n\nSunday's Great North Run will go ahead as planned, with organisers saying it is \"an opportunity to come together and express our condolences while celebrating the life of our extraordinary Queen\", and that the event would be \"more subdued out of respect\".\n\nAnd next week's Davis Cup Finals tennis tournament in Glasgow, including Great Britain and the USA, will be played at Emirates Arena from 13 to 18 September.\n\nManchester City's Champions League game with Borussia Dortmund at Etihad Stadium on Wednesday will go ahead as planned, as will Manchester United's Europa League tie with FC Sheriff in Moldova next Thursday.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died on Thursday aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.\n\nThe government's national mourning guidance advised that cancelling fixtures was not obligatory, leaving the decision to individual sports.\n\nGovernment guidance for the day of the funeral also advised that cancellation was not obligatory, but suggested events could be rescheduled so that they do not clash with the timings of the service.\n\nCricket, golf and rugby to play on\n\nInternational, domestic and recreational cricket in England will go ahead on Saturday.\n\nIn golf, the PGA Championship will resume at 06:40 BST on Saturday and the event will now be contested over 54 holes rather than 72.\n\nThe rugby union Premiership match between Bristol and Bath has been moved from Friday evening to 17:30 BST on Saturday, while Sale v Northampton will be played on Sunday at 15:00 BST.\n\nAll other Premiership matches on Saturday and Sunday will go ahead as scheduled, but senior rugby in Wales has been suspended.\n\nFormula 1 held a minute's silence with all teams prior to practice on Friday for the Italian Grand Prix, with the race weekend to proceed as planned.\n\nAt the tennis US Open in New York, there was a moment of silence before the first women's semi-final match on Thursday with the first men's semi-final on Friday.\n\nIn rugby league, the Super League play-off between Catalans Dragons and Leeds is on Friday, with Huddersfield and Salford playing on Saturday. The Championship fixture between Sheffield Eagles and Dewsbury Rams has been postponed.\n\nThe British Elite Ice Hockey League said the weekend's season-opening games would go ahead as planned.\n\nThe Football Association said fixtures between 9 and 11 September are postponed, adding that as a \"long-standing patron\" of the FA the Queen \"has left a lasting and indelible legacy on our national game\".\n\nThe Premier League and EFL have confirmed that all fixtures will be rescheduled.\n\nWhile policing was not a factor in postponing this weekend's Premier League games, it is understood it could be a consideration in next weekend's games depending on state funeral arrangements.\n\nThere is confidence fixture congestion can be solved in the second half of the season and a meeting will be held next week to discuss the calendar with relevant bodies.\n\nThe Premier League took the decision to honour the Queen's \"extraordinary life and contribution to the nation\" and said updates on future fixtures during the period of mourning \"will be provided in due course\".\n\nThe Women's Super League season was to start this weekend with record ticket sales following England's Euro 2022 success - Spurs were due to host Manchester United at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and Chelsea were to take on West Ham at Stamford Bridge.\n\nIn Scotland, postponements include the Scottish Professional Football League, Scottish Women's Premier League and Scottish Highland and Lowland Football Leagues, as well as Women's Scottish Cup fixtures.\n\nBritish racing has been cancelled on Saturday but will resume on Sunday, while the St Leger at Doncaster has been put back 24 hours.\n\nChepstow is also set to go ahead on Sunday, but Musselburgh's meeting has been called off because of the Queen lying in state in Edinburgh.\n\nBritish Horseracing Authority chief executive Julie Harrington said the Queen had \"an enduring and unique\" relationship with the sport, and that the running of the St Leger - won by the Queen's horse Dunfermline in 1977 - would enable racing to \"pay its respects to Her Majesty\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tears and laughter as MPs and peers pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II\n\nPoliticians from both Houses of Parliament have gathered to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II and share their memories of the late monarch.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss described the Queen as one of the world's greatest-ever leaders, as she opened two days of special tributes in Parliament.\n\nMPs and ex-PMs paid their respects in personal speeches that aroused both tears and laughter in emotional scenes.\n\nA minute's silence was held to remember the Queen after 70 years on the throne.\n\nBoth Houses of Parliament are sitting on Friday and Saturday to allow politicians to pay tribute to the Queen, following her death on Thursday.\n\nFriday's proceedings in Parliament paused at 18:00 BST for MPs and peers to watch the new king, Charles III, deliver a televised address to the nation, his first as monarch.\n\nEarlier, King Charles III was greeted by crowds singing \"God save the king\" outside Buckingham Palace, where he held his first in-person audience with Ms Truss.\n\nOn Saturday, Ms Truss and senior ministers will attend the Accession Council at St James's Palace, where Charles will be formally proclaimed king.\n\nIn Parliament on Friday, MPs and peers from all sides, dressed in dark clothing, paid tribute to the Queen by sharing memories of their own encounters with her.\n\nThere have been many anecdotes about the Queen's wisdom, sense of humour and ability to put people at their ease.\n\nSome MPs laughed uproariously as former Prime Minister Theresa May recalled how mortified she was when the Queen caught her returning a dropped piece of cheese to a plate, as she helped prepare a picnic at Balmoral.\n\n\"I looked at her. She looked at me. And she just smiled. And the cheese remained on the table.\"\n\nBut the session began in solemn fashion, as Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle invited a packed Commons chamber to rise and observe a minute's silence.\n\nMPs stood for a minute's silence as they gathered for tributes to the Queen\n\nAs the silence ended, Sir Lindsay described the Queen as a \"devoted monarch\" who had seen 57 complete sessions of Parliament during her reign in a brief speech.\n\nMs Truss, who was appointed prime minister by the Queen just three days ago at Balmoral, paid tribute to her \"sheer humanity\", which she said had made her \"loved and admired\" all over the world.\n\nShe said her reign had been \"dignified but not distant\" and credited her with re-inventing the British monarchy for the modern age.\n\nThe Queen's successor, her eldest son King Charles III, now carried the \"awesome responsibility\" of the British crown, added the prime minister.\n\n\"The crown endures. Our nation endures. And in that spirit, I say God save the King.\"\n\nCheers of approval erupted from MPs, with some shouting \"God save the King\" from the side gallery in the moments after Ms Truss's speech concluded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss: Queen 'one of the greatest leaders the world has known'\n\nNext to speak was the leader of the Opposition, Labour MP Sir Keir Starmer, who reflected on the tumultuous political events of recent times and the extraordinary national change heralded by the Queen's death.\n\n\"When everything is spinning, a nation requires a still point, when times are difficult, it requires comfort, and when direction is hard to find, it requires leadership,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"The loss of our Queen robs this country of its stillest point, its greatest comfort, at precisely the time we need those things most.\"\n\nHe said the Queen had enjoyed a \"personal relationship with us all\", based on \"total commitment\" to duty and a \"deep devotion to the country, the Commonwealth, and the people she loved\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson - who offered the Queen his resignation as prime minister at Balmoral on Tuesday - reflected on that meeting, saying the late monarch \"was as radiant and as knowledgeable and as fascinated by politics as ever I can remember\".\n\nPraising the late monarch as \"Elizabeth the Great\", he recalled her \"humility\" and, like other former leaders, spoke of informal gatherings with the Royal Family, at Balmoral.\n\n\"Unlike us politicians, with our outriders and our armour-plated convoys, I can tell you as a direct eyewitness that she drove herself in her own car with no detectives and no bodyguard, bouncing at alarming speed over the Scottish landscape to the total amazement of the ramblers and the tourists we encountered.\"\n\nMrs May described her weekly prime ministerial meetings with the Queen as \"a conversation with a woman of experience and knowledge and immense wisdom\".\n\n\"They were also the one meeting I went to, which I knew it would not be briefed out to the media,\" Mrs May said, to laughter from MPs.\n\nHarriet Harman, who is known as Mother of the House, told MPs about the Queen's kindness after she lost her senior government role in 1998.\n\n\"My diary was empty, and my phone stopped ringing. My office was astonished to get a call from Buckingham Palace. No one else wanted to have anything to do with me, but the Queen wanted to see me.\n\n\"I was invited to take tea with the Queen for her to thank me for my service as secretary of state.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May shares an amusing story about how down-to-earth the Queen was\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford used his speech to draw attention to the Queen's well-known affection for Scotland, where she spent her final days at Balmoral Castle.\n\n\"The relationship between Scotland and the Queen was one of shared admiration,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"Indeed, whilst she was everyone's Queen, for many in Scotland, she was Elizabeth, Queen of Scots.\"\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said she was one of the few MPs to remember the Queen's coronation in 1953.\n\nThe veteran Labour MP shared fond memories of the Queen's sense of fun, and choked back tears as she hailed \"a remarkable person, a remarkable monarch\".\n\nMeanwhile in the Lords, the newly appointed leader of Parliament's upper house, Lord True, led tributes to the Queen, calling her an \"anchor of stability in a changing world\".\n\nEnding his moving tribute, Lord True looked poignantly at the sovereign's throne, where the Queen had sat for numerous state openings of Parliament, and said: \"Thank you, Ma'am. May you ever rest in peace as you will ever rest in our hearts.\"\n\nHis words were followed by those of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who spoke of the Queen's \"profound sense of being called by God\" and her dry sense of humour.\n\nAnd former Labour cabinet minister Lord Blunkett recalled how the Queen came to his aid after he ended up facing the wrong way as he knelt during a royal audience.\n\nThe blind peer said the Queen, in a \"careful and never patronising way\" managed to \"gently - by touching my arm - shift me round\".\n\nOn Saturday evening, Parliament will be postponed until after 21 September, during a period of national mourning.", "King Charles III has held his first audience with Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nVideo footage from inside a meeting between the British head of state and their prime minister is rare.\n\nThe King told Ms Truss that losing his mother was the day he had been dreading and that he must \"try and keep everything going\".", "The Queen was a big part of the community in the village near Balmoral, says the church minister Image caption: The Queen was a big part of the community in the village near Balmoral, says the church minister\n\nBalmoral, the Scottish castle where the Queen died, was the place where she \"enjoyed being normal\", according to royal historian Robert Lacey,\n\nSo it's no surprise that people in the nearby village of Ballater remember her with special affection.\n\n\"She was not just our Queen, she was a neighbour - and a big part of this community,\" says Rev David Barr at Glenmuick Church in the village.\n\nAlistair Cassie, who runs a hardware shop in Ballater and has a royal warrant for supplying Balmoral with its televisions, remembered being called to the castle to fix interference with the radio.\n\nThe Royal Banner of Scotland flies at half-mast at Balmoral Castle Image caption: The Royal Banner of Scotland flies at half-mast at Balmoral Castle\n\n\"I was walking along this corridor, and who did I meet but the Queen,\" he says. They chatted about her appreciation for the BBC Radio 2 presenter Jimmy Young.\n\nThe sprawling Balmoral Estate includes dozens of houses, many occupied by estate staff, and Cassie says at times the Queen would appear unannounced at someone's home, asking: \"How are you doing?\"\n\nGrant Harrold, a former butler to King Charles when he was Prince of Wales, says the Queen and Prince Philip would sometimes stay at a small cottage on the estate.\n\nHe says: \"From what I was told - I never witnessed it - she would be in the kitchen cooking away and he would lay the table, so it was very much a chance for them to be a normal couple.\"\n\nAlistair Cassie met the Queen on a formal visit - and unexpectedly in the corridor of the castle Image caption: Alistair Cassie met the Queen on a formal visit - and unexpectedly in the corridor of the castle", "There was joy as her family grew - here she is pictured with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, their son Archie and the duchess's mother Doria Ragland. But there were also continued strains on the family - including Prince Andrew's friendship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Prince Harry's growing disillusionment with life in the Royal Family", "Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech watched by the then taoiseach Enda Kenny in St Patrick's Hall at Dublin Castle in May 2011. The Queen extended her \"deep sympathy\" to all those who suffered in the turbulent history of Britain and Ireland", "The community of Ballater, less than eight miles from Balmoral, considered the Queen to be more of a friendly neighbour than a monarch.\n\nThe Royal Family have strong links with the local area, going back decades.\n\nButcher Brian Scott, of HM Sheridan which supplies Balmoral, said: \"She was a member of the community, more than just the Queen. She was a local to the village.\"\n\nThe grey skies and rain in Ballater the day after the Queen's death matched the sombre mood of the nation. However, the wet weather gave way to glimpses of sunshine.\n\nThe village went about its business as usual - albeit with a large media presence.\n\nPeople queued for buses to take their flowers to Balmoral\n\nPark-and-ride facilities were set up to take people by bus to Balmoral to pay their respects in an effort to tackle parking issues.\n\nAlmost everyone in the village seemed happy to speak when asked for their thoughts of the Queen, a sign of the high regard in which she was held there.\n\nFlowers have been laid in the centre of the village next to a picture of the Queen.\n\nBallater was badly hit by flooding in 2015 when the River Dee burst its banks during Storm Frank.\n\nThe Queen later met residents who had been impacted, and praised local efforts.\n\nOne of those she met was Brian Scott.\n\nButcher Brian Scott said the Queen always took an interest in local people\n\n\"She was very open, very willing to speak, asking questions, taking an interest,\" he said. \"She was a star, she liked a good laugh, she was a really nice person.\"\n\nHe added that everything about the village was royal, adding that King Charles helped to rebuild the village after the floods.\n\n\"Everything just kind of feels like it has gone pear-shaped,\" he said. \"Everybody in the village loved her. She will definitely be missed.\"\n\nAlistair Cassie runs a hardware shop in the village and provided Balmoral with its televisions.\n\n\"It was quite a contract and I was granted a royal warrant for my efforts,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\nHe said that on one occasion he bumped into the Queen while at the castle fixing a radio.\n\nHardware shop owner Alistair Cassie carried out work at Balmoral and had a royal warrant\n\n\"There was a tremendous interference on the radio, and it was caused by the police radios just squeezing the signal out,\" he said. \"So I was walking along this corridor and who did I meet but the Queen.\"\n\nAs they chatted she told him she enjoyed listening to Jimmy Young, the English disc jockey and radio personality.\n\n\"You needed to shy away if you saw the Corgis coming round the corner,\" he recalled.\n\n\"But she was very, very easy to talk to.\"\n\nMr Cassie was involved in the construction of a Jubilee cairn in Ballater featuring 60 stones from 30 hills.\n\n\"I was one of the guys who showed the Queen round,\" he said. \"I told her a few stories and she laughed. She had a great sense of humour, \" he said.\n\n\"She was lovely that day. She visited the schoolkids, they had a wee competition for her, and she spoke to a lot of the elderly people in the nursing home.\n\n\"It was a very social day and security were trying to rush her away because she had overstayed her time, but she took her time and spoke to everyone and that was a great thing to happen.\"\n\nHe said before royal security was as tight as today, the monarch would sometimes just appear at someone's house on the estate and say \"how are you doing?\".\n\nSpeaking about the Queen's death, he said: \"It's sad, but she had a wonderful life.\"\n\nFormer Royal butler Grant Harrold got to dance with the Queen at Balmoral\n\nGrant Harrold was a royal butler for King Charles from 2004 to 2011, when he was the Prince of Wales. He described the night he achieved a childhood dream of dancing with the Queen.\n\n\"It was a huge honour,\" said Airdrie-born Mr Harrold, who joined the royal household at the age of 26.\n\nMr Harrold, 44, had watched the Queen dancing on TV when he was just 15.\n\n\"One of my favourite memories was at Balmoral Castle where I actually did get to dance with her in the room I watched on this programme 11 years before,\" he said.\n\n\"It's one of those moments still to this very day I pinch myself and think 'Did that actually happen?'\n\n\"It was the ghillies ball where it wasn't unusual for the Queen to dance with family members and staff members and for me it was extraordinary. I was so nervous.\"\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip had a small cottage on the Balmoral Estate called Craig Gowan house.\n\n\"She called it her Highland paradise\", Mr Harrold told BBC Radio Four.\n\n\"It was very humble compared to the castle. It was described to me as that's where they would play Mr and Mrs and obviously that was where they could just be themselves.\n\n\"From what I was told - I never witnessed it - she would be in the kitchen cooking away and he would lay the table so it was very much a chance for them to be a normal couple.\"\n\nA book of condolence was opened at Glenmuick Church in Ballater\n\nThe Rev David Barr described the Queen as being \"compassionate and full of grace\"\n\nAt Glenmuick Church in Ballater a book of condolence has been opened. Rev David Barr said the church was open to allow to people to come in, sit and remember the Queen.\n\nHe said: \"She has been in this community for more than 30% of her life, as Queen and as a child. The Queen loved this place, the freedom.\n\n\"She was not just our Queen she was a neighbour, and a big part of this community. She was our anchor.\"\n\nChurch bells tolled in Ballater on Thursday evening when news of the Queen's death broke, with people stopping in their tracks and bowing their heads.\n\nRev Barr said: \"She was compassionate and full of grace. The Balmoral estate is a family - you lose one of your own.\n\n\"During the floods Her Majesty asked for a daily report. And she came here to thank individuals. And she was 90 at the time.\n\n\"She made you feel you were the only person in the world.\"\n\nIce cream parlour owner Cheryl Barr said the Queen \"gave her heart and soul\" to the community\n\nAcross from the church in the tight-knit community, the minister's daughter Cheryl Barr owns Shorty's ice cream parlour.\n\n\"You can feel the emotion from everybody around here,\" she said. \"She was a very powerful lady, but very gentle at the same time.\n\n\"She gave her heart and soul to our community - it's a great loss.\"\n\nCouncillor Geva Blackett, who represents Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside, said the Queen's death was a matter of great sadness locally but the strong links with the Royal Family would remain.\n\n\"She was one of the most remarkable people to ever have lived,\" she said. \"She is going to be incredibly missed.\"\n\nShe added: \"His Majesty also has very close links. He has been so involved over the years and given so much to the area.\"\n\nRobert Lacey, royal historian and author of the \"The Queen: A Life in Brief\", said Balmoral was a special place to the Queen.\n\n\"That she died in this corner of the United Kingdom where she enjoyed being normal is significant,\" he added.", "Israel often targets sites in Gaza it says are used to launch rockets against Israeli cities\n\nTwo Palestinian men accused of collaborating with Israel have been executed in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run interior ministry says.\n\nA statement did not name the men - it only gave their initials and age - but said they had given information that had led to the killing of Palestinians.\n\nThree others were also executed - on charges of murder.\n\nHuman rights groups have previously condemned such executions by Hamas - the militant group which runs Gaza.\n\nSince 2007 when they asserted control over Gaza, the Hamas-run authorities have carried out at least 27 executions, most recently in April 2017.\n\nThe two men accused of spying for Israel were arrested in 2009 and 2015 and \"convicted by a court of treason and conspiring with foreign parties\", the interior ministry statement said.\n\nFour were hanged and one was executed by firing squad because he was a policeman, it added.\n\nSecurity sources told the BBC that one of those executed was a Hamas policeman who used his weapon to kill his father-in-law and a 13-year-old girl after a family dispute last July.\n\nThe crime sparked protests in the Beit Lahia area, north of Gaza, during which houses and shops were burned.\n\nIsrael occupied the Gaza Strip during the 1967 Middle East war. In 2005, it withdrew its troops and some 7,000 settlers.", "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\nBritish number one Cameron Norrie reached the US Open fourth round for the first time with a composed victory over Denmark's 28th seed Holger Rune.\n\nNorrie maintained focus to win 7-5 6-4 6-1 after Rune, 19, complained the Briton was taking too much time to serve by aborting his ball toss.\n\nSeventh seed Norrie plays Russian ninth seed Andrey Rublev in the last 16.\n\nDan Evans could not join him after a 7-6 (13-11) 6-7 (3-7) 6-2 7-5 loss in four hours to 15th seed Marin Cilic.\n\n\"It is nice to be through in straight sets and not really playing my best tennis leading in to it,\" said Norrie, who has not dropped a set this week.\n\n\"I felt I definitely improved from my previous matches and I managed to stay way calmer than he was in the bigger moments.\n\n\"I don't know what was going on with him.\"\n• None 'We are both electric' - Medvedev ready for Kyrgios\n\nNorrie made his Grand Slam breakthrough with a memorable run to the Wimbledon semi-finals in July and, after another straight-set victory in New York, is quietly working his way through the US Open draw.\n\nThe 27-year-old left-hander, who was still ranked 74th in the world at the start of 2021, had never progressed past the third round at a major before his performance at the All England Club.\n\n\"Ticking that box to make the second week for the first time was huge for me. It was a big goal of mine to play well at Slams and play deep in Slams and to have these match-ups,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it does help going into the tournament, being ranked where I am, being seeded where I am.\"\n\nNorrie is the only British singles player left in the tournament after 20th seed Evans was beaten by Croatia's Cilic, who won the title in 2014.\n\nIn the men's doubles, Briton Neal Skupski and Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof, seeded second, beat Americans Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 to reach the last 16.\n• None Relive how Norrie reached the US Open last 16\n• None Serena Williams - the woman who changed the game\n\nCalm assurance on the court is one of Norrie's key strengths and this was another example of him locking in to get the job done without any fuss.\n\nRune, who is already earning a reputation for creating drama, began to get tetchy towards the end of the second set as his frustrations at the match slipping away from him grew.\n\nAfter spurning a break point as Norrie tried to serve out the second set at 5-4, Rune became agitated by the Briton stopping during his ball toss.\n\nHe remonstrated with umpire Timo Janzen, claiming Norrie was doing it with \"four, five, six\" seconds left on the 25-second shot clock and suggesting there should be a code violation issued to his opponent.\n\nRune said it was a \"bit of a distraction\", but did not think Norrie was doing it deliberately. Norrie later said he was not doing it on purpose.\n\n\"It is a bit annoying but I am not controlling the rules. I think you can do it a couple of times but 10-15 times is maybe too much,\" said Rune.\n\nNorrie ignored the issue and eventually served out for a two-set lead, before racing through the third in 29 minutes.\n\nEvans out after marathon effort against Cilic\n\nEvans was aiming to match his run to the fourth round in New York last year, which is the joint furthest he has ever been at one of the sport's four majors.\n\nThe 32-year-old has spoken about his liking for the North American hard-court swing, but to reach the last 16 again he faced a tough task against big-serving Cilic.\n\nThe former world number three has performed consistently well on the New York hard courts over the years - apart from a first-round exit last year when he retired injured - and also reached the French Open semi-finals this season.\n\nEvans was unable to take any of three set points in an intense opening tie-break where both players had numerous chances, before 33-year-old Cilic eventually got over the line with his seventh opportunity of the set to close it out after 81 minutes.\n\n\"It was a tough match and Marin probably played a bit better than me. I missed chances in the first and you never know what happens if you win the first set,\" said Evans.\n\nThere was also a bizarre moment when the Briton complained to the umpire about a heckler and many of the crowd chanted for the man to be kicked out.\n\nThe fan was not removed by security but left of his own accord a few games later.\n\n\"He was ruining everybody's day really. He was rude to Marin and then to me,\" said Evans.\n\n\"It was better for everyone he left because there were kids around and his language wasn't great. The match actually took off when he left.\"\n\nEvans, ranked 23rd in the world, recovered well from the disappointment of not winning the first set to break early in the second and, after Cilic fought back, raised his game again to edge another decided by a tie-break.\n\nCilic upped his standard in the third to a level which befitted his status as a former champion, leading Evans to say his opponent was \"hitting every single line\".\n\nThe Briton stayed in touch in a more even fourth but had to save a match point at 5-4 when his serve came under real pressure for the first time in the set.\n\nThen Cilic pounced on Evans' serve again at the next opportunity. A double fault put the Croat 30-0 ahead and he completed victory in three hours and 59 minutes when Evans pulled a forehand wide on the second match point.\n\n\"He served well and it was heavyweight versus lightweight in terms of serving,\" said Evans. \"It was difficult to put pressure and when I did he was unreturnable. He was too good.\n\n\"It's frustrating I played a guy who is very good here and has won the tournament, he played like he probably was playing then.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Steve Coogan chats to Nihal Arthanayake about British humour and cancel culture\n• None 'Policies we improvised became law within years': The creative force behind Alan Partridge talks about his cultural influences", "Nicola Sturgeon said that tackling the cost-of-living crisis would be \"front and centre\" in her plans.\n\nThe Scottish government will set out an emergency budget within two weeks of the new prime minister's fiscal plan, the first minister has said.\n\nLiz Truss is the pollsters' favourite to become the next Tory leader and UK prime minster.\n\nThe new leader will take office on Tuesday, the same day Nicola Sturgeon sets out her agenda for the year.\n\nMs Sturgeon has so far said tackling the cost-of-living crisis would be \"front and centre\" of her plans.\n\nHowever, opponents have accused her party of \"sleeping at the wheel\" while focusing on independence. Households across the UK are preparing for an 80% increase to energy bills this October.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would build on measures to support household budgets, including the Scottish Child Payment, the Carers Allowance Supplement and the Council Tax Reduction Scheme.\n\nSpeaking on Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, the first minister said the Scottish government would set out an emergency budget within two weeks of \"whatever budget or fiscal event the new prime minster has\".\n\nShe said the Scottish government was working on the assumption that this would happen at the end of September.\n\nThe first minister told Sky News she was \"profoundly concerned\" about the impact a new UK government budget would have on Scotland and the other devolved nations.\n\nMs Sturgeon has called for a freeze on energy prices\n\n\"Right now we are working within budgets that are effectively fixed and finite. They are not rising in line with inflation but the inflationary pressures are bearing down on our budget as they are on the household budgets of families across the country,\" she said.\n\n\"Any move - and this is a real risk - that would cut our budget within this financial year would obviously be of profound concern because it would have big implications for the National Health Service, for local authority budgets, for every aspect of our spending.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she did not agree with tax cuts as relief for families as they targeted those who were best off, and set out what she would like to see from Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak once the new Conservative leader is announced on Monday.\n\n\"Freeze energy prices first and foremost, come to an agreement then between government and the energy companies about how that is paid back over a longer period of time,\" she said.\n\n\"Effectively spread and share the burden of the soaring gas prices. Help businesses because businesses don't even have the limited protection of an energy price cap.\"\n\nAny new prime minister should also work to get more cash into the pockets of those who need it most and \"free up more spending ability\" for the devolved governments so they could protect public services, the first minister said.\n\n\"There's a package that a new prime minister could bring to bear and it would deliver real help and relief to millions across the UK,\" she added.\n\nThe first minister has also said she would seek to work constructively with the next prime minister, despite having traded attacks with both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak throughout the campaign.\n\nAnd she claimed an independent Scotland could have already passed an emergency budget, adding: \"Instead we are left wrestling with meeting the challenges of fair pay, household hardship and rising costs for public services without the tools we need to tackle them.\"\n\nScottish Labour has called on the Scottish government to introduce an emergency Cost of Living Act.\n\nThe legal changes the party wants to see include a temporary rent freeze, a ban on winter evictions and changes to laws on debt including fairer rules on earnings, arrestment and bankruptcy fees.\n\nScottish Labour's Neil Bibby said every party had a \"moral duty\" to back the plans.\n\nHe added: \"Scots expect their Parliaments to be focused on the issues that matter and their governments to use every power they have - but both the SNP and the Tories are asleep at the wheel.\"\n\nScottish Conservative Chairman Craig Hoy MSP said Ms Sturgeon had failed on a number of commitments including drug deaths, police funding and free school meals.\n\nHe said: \"The Scottish people want and deserve a government that focuses on their priorities. Instead, Scotland has to suffer an SNP administration which is obsessed with its own self-serving goal of breaking up the UK.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton accused the SNP of using the summer break to focus on independence.\n\nHe called for an emergency insulation programme, more funding for ferry services and said the government should prioritise NHS recruitment by offering staff annual leave guarantees, higher pay and better conditions.", "British troops have taken part in a military exercise with Swedish and Finnish armed forces as the war in Ukraine continues.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said Exercise Vigilant Knife would help all three nations' forces be effective in battle.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this year signed a mutual security deal with Sweden and Finland.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace also repeated the UK's support for the two nations' bid to join Nato.\n\n\"Whilst there is war in Europe, it is more important than ever to strengthen our international partnerships,\" he said.\n\n\"We welcome Finland and Sweden's application to join Nato and will continue to exercise together so we are ready to face shared security challenges.\n\n\"Exercise Vigilant Knife is an invaluable opportunity for UK personnel to develop their skills and experience of warfighting in cold weather conditions, enabling them to be effective on the battlefield alongside their Finnish and Swedish counterparts.\"\n\nThe command-post exercise took place in Rovaniemi and Rovajarvi, in northern Finland, between Monday and Friday.\n\nMr Johnson travelled to both Sweden and Finland to sign the mutual security deals in May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Boris Johnson says the UK and Sweden have made a \"solemn declaration\" to protect each other\n\nThe pacts added that both the countries would also help the UK in a crisis.\n\nThe outgoing prime minister said at the time the agreement would become the \"foundation of an intensification of our security and our defence relationship in other ways as well\".\n\nFollowing Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, Sweden and Finland submitted applications to join Nato, also in May.\n\nThe alliance's secretary general Jens Stoltenberg called it \"a historic moment, which we must seize\".\n\nOut of the 30 members of Nato, 23 have already ratified the membership.\n\nHowever, Turkey only agreed to offer approval if the two nations agreed to extradite people it regards as terror suspects.", "Dr Andrew Samuel was last seen off Kinloch on Rum in the Inner Hebrides\n\nA man who went missing at sea off the west coast of Scotland has been hailed by colleagues as an \"important and influential figure\" at his university.\n\nDr Andrew Samuel, a sociology lecturer at Abertay University, was last seen off Kinloch on Rum at about midnight on Tuesday.\n\nPolice confirmed a body had been found on Sunday morning.\n\nThe body has still to be formally identified, but police said Dr Samuel's family had been informed.\n\nDr Samuel went missing after leaving his yacht in a dinghy.\n\nAlthough he was last seen on Tuesday, an alarm was not raised until Thursday when he did not move his yacht to another location as planned.\n\nThe 59-year-old, from Fife, was a lecturer at the university for more than 20 years.\n\nColleagues described him as well-known, liked and respected, as well as an important and influential figure.\n\nProf Liz Bacon, the university's principal and vice-chancellor added: \"His research interests were in land reform, bothy culture and many other areas.\n\n\"He will be greatly missed by our staff, students and alumni and we are offering support to all in the university community at this sad time.\"\n\nOn Thursday, a search effort involved the Stornoway coastguard helicopter and Mallaig's RNLI lifeboat.\n\nThe dinghy thought to belong to Mr Samuel was found in the area.\n\nCoastguard rescue teams from Mallaig, Eigg, Muck, Kyle, Dunvegan and Portree were also involved.\n\nThe search was ramped up on Saturday with a police helicopter joining search efforts.\n\nPolice Scotland said there were no apparent suspicious circumstances and a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n• None Search ramped up for man missing in dinghy", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSarina Wiegman said she was \"proud\" of her England team for booking their place at the 2023 Women's World Cup with one game to spare after defeating Austria in their first match since winning Euro 2022.\n\nAlessia Russo - starting in place of Ellen White, who announced her retirement after Euro 2022 - set the Lionesses on their way with an instinctive finish before substitute Nikita Parris wrapped up victory with a fierce strike from inside the box.\n\n\"I'm very happy we have qualified,\" said Wiegman. \"I think again it was a hard game but coming out of Euros and not having that much rest, I am very proud of the team. It looked so easy but it was pretty hard.\"\n\nAsked about England being one of the favourites at the World Cup, Wiegman added: \"We knew that was going to be the case.\n\n\"But we are just trying to do the things that we have to do.\"\n\nEngland, who gave a debut to Lauren James as a late substitute, only needed a point to make sure of a place at next year's tournament in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nAustria were lively and caused problems, with Mary Earps producing a fine stop to deny Laura Feiersinger from equalising in the second half before Parris made it 2-0.\n\nBut England's small travelling fanbase marked the final whistle by singing \"We're all off to Australia\" as the Lionesses got the job done before their final game of the qualifying campaign against Luxembourg in Stoke on Tuesday (19:30 BST).\n• None Relive the action and reaction as England qualify for the 2023 World Cup\n\nEngland can start planning for next summer\n\nThe last time the Lionesses were in action, on 31 July, there were joyous scenes as they celebrated being crowned European champions in front of 87,192 at Wembley.\n\nOn Saturday, just a few dozen England supporters were inside the Stadion Wiener Neustadt to witness an 19th win in 21 games under Wiegman.\n\nThe Lionesses remain unbeaten under Wiegman, who was asked after the match if she could remember what is it like to lose.\n\n\"Of course you remember the defeats, but you never get bored with winning,\" she replied.\n\nThe England boss can now start planning for next summer's World Cup after a ninth win in nine qualifying games sent the Group D leaders eight points clear of second-placed Austria with one round of games remaining.\n\nEngland had scored 68 times without reply in their previous eight qualifying matches, and it did not take them long to add another as Russo produced a clever finish in the seventh minute after Lauren Hemp had connected with Alex Greenwood's cross.\n\nAustria, who will now compete in the play-offs, looked lively and caused problems after England made three changes to the side that started at Wembley.\n\nEarly in the second half, Earps was fortunate to escape after Julia Hickelsberger closed down the England keeper and got a touch before the ball rolled narrowly wide of the post.\n\nBut with Millie Bright and Leah Williamson once again dominant at the back, the team clocked up another clean sheet on their way to a victory that was confirmed by Parris' thumping finish.\n\nParris had only been on the pitch for a few minutes when she found the top left corner after being played in by Georgia Stanway.\n\nEngland have now joined the likes of defending world champions the United States - who they face in a friendly at Wembley on 7 October - Brazil, South Africa, Sweden and France at next year's World Cup, which will take place between 20 July and 20 August.\n\nWill it be another glorious summer for the Lionesses?\n\nThere is no doubt that White is a big loss, but Russo was busy and marked her start with a neat finish, which will help cement her place in Wiegman's starting plans.\n\nThe England head coach has 10 months to fine-tune her squad before much sterner tests next summer.\n\nBut Parris' important contribution after coming off the bench shows the depth and talent in the squad despite the loss of White and Jill Scott, who has also retired.\n\nOn a satisfying night for the Lionesses, 20-year-old forward James, sister of Chelsea and England defender Reece, made her debut when she replaced Ella Toone after 79 minutes.\n• None Attempt saved. Marina Georgieva (Austria Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Laura Wienroither (Austria Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Barbara Dunst (Austria Women) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Laura Feiersinger.\n• None Attempt blocked. Barbara Dunst (Austria Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Laura Feiersinger.\n• None Attempt missed. Bethany England (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Nikita Parris with a cross.\n• None Offside, England. Keira Walsh tries a through ball, but Nikita Parris is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Laura Feiersinger (Austria Women) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "At least 20 people, including women and children, have been killed and food aid destroyed after militants attacked several vehicles in Somalia's central Hiiraan region.\n\n\"They put a bomb while people were in the car and blew it up,\" the region's governor told the BBC Somali service.\n\nIslamist militant group al-Shabab has said it was targeting a government-affiliated armed group.\n\nSomalia is facing what experts call its worst drought in a decade.\n\nThreat from al-Shabab militants, who want to overthrow the central government, also continues to grow.\n\nThe al-Qaeda-linked group controls much of southern and central Somalia, but has been able to extend its influence into areas controlled by the government, which is based in the capital Mogadishu.\n\nTwo weeks ago its fighters stormed a hotel in the city and killed more than 20 people.\n\nThe governor of Hiiraan, Ali Jeyte Osman, said the death toll from Friday's attack could rise amid reports that up to 27 people had been killed.\n\n\"Some are injured and some ran away when the shooting started. The dead bodies are still being collected, including women and children,\" he said.\n\nMr Osman accused the militants of being at war with the civilian population in the region, accusing them of burning villages and destroying water wells.\n\nLocal clan leader Mohamed Abdirahman described the attack as horrible, adding that such an atrocity had never happed in the region before.\n\n\"These were innocent civilians who did nothing to deserve this,\" he was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.\n\nSomalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud vowed that his government would \"leave no stone unturned\" in the fight against \"terrorism\" in the country.\n\nIn a statement al-Shabab said the lorries it attacked were carrying food supplies for a group of local fighters who have been backing the government's offensive against them.\n\nAn ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia with the UN warning recently that worst was yet to come.", "Laura asked each of leadership rival guests about how they would handle the economy and plans for tax and spending, should they become prime minister.\n\nLiz Truss discussed her proposal to cancel the planned increase in corporation tax.\n\nThe tax on company profits is due to rise from 19% to 25% in April 2023 - a plan implemented by her predecessor and rival, former chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\n\"Last time we cut corporation tax we saw the revenues increase,\" she said.\n\nThe idea is that keeping taxes low increases economic growth, which means the tax take increases even though the rate is lower.\n\nThe economic think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned against this assumption saying: \"The effect would certainly not be big enough for the tax cut to pay for itself\".\n\nIn fact, Laura Kuenssberg put exactly this point to the would-be prime minister.\n\nThe IFS said that the fact that tax revenues had risen in 2019 despite lower headline rates of corporation tax did not provide evidence that cutting rates automatically raised more revenues - with other things going on such as the continuing recovery from the financial crisis.", "Mr Obama becomes the second president to win an Emmy.\n\nFormer president Barack Obama won the best narrator Emmy Award on Saturday for his Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks.\n\nThe Obamas' production company, Higher Ground, is behind the five-part series on national parks around the world.\n\nThe Emmy joins Mr Obama's two Grammy awards putting him halfway to becoming an Egot - someone with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.\n\nHe becomes only the second US president in history to win an Emmy.\n\nThe Netflix series showcases natural beauty spanning five continents, and features locations including Chilean Patagonia and Indonesia.\n\nOther contenders in the category for best narrator included David Attenborough, Lupita Nyong'o and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.\n\nAfter leaving office in 2017, the former president and his wife Michelle set up Higher Ground, striking a deal with Netflix said to be worth tens of millions of dollars.\n\nMr Obama won Grammy Awards for audio versions of his memoirs \"The Audacity of Hope\" and \"Dreams from My Father\".\n\nThe only other president to win an Emmy was Dwight Eisenhower, who won an honorary award in 1956 for becoming the first president to conduct a televised news conference.\n\nOnly 17 people have gained Egot status to date, including Mel Brooks, Whoopie Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn and Jennifer Hudson.", "UN inspectors arrived at the plant on Thursday\n\nThe Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine has lost its link to its last remaining main power line, the UN nuclear watchdog says.\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) added that the plant, Europe's largest, is now relying on a reserve line to supply power to Ukraine's grid.\n\nSeparately, Ukraine's state nuclear company said only one of the station's six reactors now remains in operation.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of repeatedly shelling the plant.\n\nInspectors from the IAEA arrived at the nuclear plant on Thursday amid security concerns.\n\nAfter inspecting it, the agency's chief Rafael Grossi said the integrity of the plant had been \"violated several times\".\n\nLocated in the city of Enerhodar in southern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is still being operated by Ukrainian staff. They have said Russian troops are using it as a military base and that workers are in effect held at gunpoint.\n\nThe IAEA said in its statement that its presence at the plant was a \"game-changer\" as it had received fast and reliable information about the latest development.\n\n\"The agency's experts were told by senior Ukrainian staff that the [Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's] fourth operational 750 Kilovolt (kV) power line was down,\" it said.\n\n\"The three others were lost earlier during the conflict.\"\n\nHowever, a 330/750 kV reserve line was delivering energy to the grid and could provide power to the plant if necessary, it added.\n\nThe IAEA noted that the main power line was also temporarily disconnected on 25 August.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian-appointed local officials said the latest cut was caused by \"technical problems\" resulting from shelling.\n\nSeparately, Ukraine's state-run nuclear power operator Enerhoatom said that the plant's reactor number five had to be switched off from the grid due to \"non-stop shelling by occupying Russian forces\".\n\nRussia has not commented on the statement.\n\nIn yet another development, the Russian defence ministry said it had thwarted an attempt on Friday evening by Ukrainian armed forces to seize the plant. It provided no evidence to back up its claim, which has not been verified.", "Strictly Come Dancing's new professional dancers are set to dazzle viewers with a special performance to kick-off the show later this month.\n\nNew additions Vito Coppola, Carlos Gu, Lauren Oakley and Michelle Tsiakkas will make their debut in a cinematic routine alongside the returning cast.\n\nIt will be part of the launch show airing on BBC One on 17 September.\n\nThe 20th series of the competition will have the show's largest ever professional dancer line-up.\n\nFifteen celebrities will be competing for the glitterball this year, including presenters Kym Marsh and Helen Skelton, former footballer Tony Adams, Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simonds, EastEnders actor James Bye and singer Matt Goss.\n\nJowita Przystal with new Strictly Come Dancing professional Carlos Gu\n\nIt is unknown which dancer each of the celebrity contestants will be partnered with yet, but Craig 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\nThis year's competition will see audiences return to Blackpool's Tower Ballroom after a two-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the BBC confirmed last week.\n\nExecutive producer Sarah James said the return to the \"iconic\" venue was the \"icing on the cake\".\n\nThe show will also feature themed weeks, including one about the BBC's 100th anniversary and viewer favourites such as Movie Week, Halloween Week and Musicals Week.\n\nLast year's contest was won by EastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis and her professional partner Giovanni Pernice.", "Nevermind is one of the best-selling albums of all time\n\nA US judge has dismissed a man's latest lawsuit against Nirvana over the band's iconic 1991 album cover which showed him naked as a baby.\n\nSpencer Elden, 31, said his appearance on the front of the Nevermind record constituted child sexual abuse.\n\nBut the judge said he had left it too late to claim he had been exploited.\n\nMr Elden's legal avenues are now all but exhausted as he cannot re-file the case, but his legal team told US media he would appeal against the ruling.\n\nThe lawsuit focused on a photograph of Mr Elden, which depicted him swimming naked in a pool towards a dollar bill pierced with a fish hook.\n\nHe argued that he had been unable to consent to the picture being used. He was seeking $150,000 (£130,000) in damages.\n\nPhotographer Kirk Weddle was among the defendants, as were former Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as Courtney Love, the widow of late singer Kurt Cobain.\n\nMr Elden filed his case in 2021, arguing that he was still within his rights to complain about the decades-old image because it had continued to cause him distress and lost earnings into adulthood.\n\nThe lawsuit was dismissed and then re-filed in January.\n\nThe Los Angeles judge ruled on Friday that Mr Elden lodged his case well beyond the 10-year statute of limitations.\n\nWelcoming the verdict, a defence lawyer said the case had been \"meritless\".\n\nThe defence had argued that Mr Elden had enjoyed being the \"Nirvana baby\", noting that he had re-enacted the photograph in later life.\n\nMr Elden's parents were paid $200 (£173) for the photo in 1991 by what was then a relatively unknown band.\n\nWorldwide sales of Nevermind went on to surpass 30 million, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.", "John Paul I's death was shrouded in controversy - and conspiracy theories\n\nPope John Paul I, who led the Roman Catholic Church for 33 days in 1978, has been beatified at the Vatican - the last step before sainthood.\n\nThousands gathered in St Peter's Square for the ceremony led by Pope Francis.\n\nLast year, Pope Francis credited the late Pope with the miracle cure of an Argentine girl. A second miracle is needed for the move to sainthood.\n\nDescribed as the \"smiling Pope\", John Paul I was the shortest-serving pope since 1605.\n\nJohn Paul I was born Albino Luciani, the son of a bricklayer in the Dolomite mountains in Italy.\n\nDuring his brief tenure, he defended the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to abortion and contraception but he also sought to reform institutions and root out corruption.\n\nPope Francis described him as someone who \"lived without compromise\".\n\nHis death caused much controversy - and conspiracy theories - due to two slightly differing accounts.\n\nThe Vatican said he was found dead by two nuns.\n\nInitially, however, it had said a priest had found him - uneasy with the fact that women had entered the Pope's private quarters.\n\nFor an individual to be beatified, a miracle needs to be attributed to prayers made to them after their death.\n\nThe miracle attributed to the now beatified Pope was the healing of an 11-year-old girl after her parents had prayed to Pope John Paul I.\n\nIn the last 1,000 years, just eight popes have been made saints.", "Many, many politicians want to become prime minister. It's the top job, the chance to be the boss, the one politician in the country that is guaranteed a place in the history books and everyone's living rooms on the telly.\n\nOn Monday we'll learn who is the new leader of the Conservative Party - and our next PM.\n\nOn our new show, starting this Sunday on BBC One, I'll be asking the two people vying for that responsibility - Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak - why they want the job.\n\nAnd given the extreme problems whoever walks through the No 10 door will have to solve - I'll be asking whether they have the answers to the nation's questions.\n\nThe next occupant of this famous address - and Larry the No 10 cat's future colleague - face a raft of challenges\n\nFirst - how on earth will they help families and firms keep the lights on in the next few months?\n\nBills aren't just squeezing consumers, demanding we all make some different choices, but are presenting costs that are simply impossible for many of us to pay.\n\nThis is not the same as general worries about making ends meet. This is the prospect of costs that some businesses and millions of households just won't be able to cope with.\n\nWe've all seen how parts of the NHS are pressed - struggling to provide anything like the level of care the public expects.\n\nMaking the right decisions or having a controversial conversation that does not involve additional spending will require political gumption, determination and perhaps a lot of luck.\n\nThat's even before considering multiple other issues like strikes on the railways, tensions with the EU over Northern Ireland and the push for a new referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nThere's a political challenge too. Many Conservatives acknowledge privately that the party is exhausted after more than a decade in power.\n\nAfter all the psychodrama of the Johnson years and the pressures of the pandemic there is a question over the party's real identity. Can his successor keep together different groups of voters with very different wants and needs?\n\nAnd like no other recent leader they will inherit a continuing war as well. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has changed the dial. It's put boosters on energy prices and shaken Europe's sense of security.\n\nBoris Johnson relished the role of being Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's diplomatic best friend and the two Tory contenders have both promised vigorous support.\n\nYet with the economic impact of the war becoming ever more acute is there a risk that support could fade?\n\nOlena Zelenska will also be on Sunday's programme\n\nUkraine's First Lady, Olena Zelenska - who is also on the show this Sunday - fears so.\n\nShe acknowledged the cost of living was \"very tough\" but said \"the prices are going up in Ukraine as well\".\n\nUnderlining the still perilous situation her country faces, she added: \"But in addition our people get killed… when you start counting pennies on your bank account or in your pocket, we do the same and count our casualties.\"\n\nOur 56th prime minister will seek to maintain Boris Johnson's level of support for Ukraine, but managing the impact of Putin's aggression and its profound effect on energy prices is at the top of a challenging list.\n\nMrs Zelenska shied away from making a political statement on the UK's next leader. She did wish them good luck - and there is no question that's something that they will need plenty of.", "The two contenders to become the next PM face questions about their cost of living policies - a day before the result of the Tory leadership contest.\n\nLiz Truss and Rishi Sunak will be asked about their proposals to solve pressing issues, including mounting energy bills, live on BBC One later.\n\nPresenter Laura Kuenssberg will also ask why they want the top job.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Truss has said she will set out \"immediate action\" on bills should she enter No 10 on Tuesday.\n\nVoting has now finished and the result of the Tory leadership contest will be announced on Monday - bringing to a close an eight-week battle for the keys to 10 Downing Street following Boris Johnson's resignation speech in July.\n\nThe Queen will receive Mr Johnson on Tuesday at Balmoral where he will formally tender his resignation.\n\nThis will be followed by an audience with the new Tory leader, where they will be invited to form a government.\n\nOn her new Sunday show, Kuenssberg will ask both Ms Truss and Mr Sunak how they will help families and businesses meet this rising cost over the winter months, the presenter said.\n\nMs Truss, widely considered to be the favourite to succeed Mr Johnson as prime minister, has not yet detailed exactly how she would help people pay their bills.\n\nBut writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the foreign secretary promised \"immediate action\" on energy bills and supply.\n\nMs Truss said she will take a \"two-fold\" approach to the crisis - offering immediate financial support for households and businesses while also trying to solve the problems exposed by the impacts of Covid and war in Ukraine.\n\nThe cost of living crisis and what should be done to tackle it has been one of the key dividing lines during the leadership contest.\n\nThe foreign secretary has said she would tackle the crisis by putting money back into people's pockets, such as by immediately reversing the National Insurance rise and suspending the green levy on energy bills.\n\nMr Sunak, meanwhile, has pledged to cut VAT on energy bills, a plan that would cost £5bn, and has unveiled a plan to find a further £5bn to help the poorest households.\n\nAs Boris Johnson packs up his premiership - on Monday, we will find out who is moving into No 10.\n\nThe new prime minister will enter Downing Street on Tuesday with one issue dominating the agenda: soaring energy bills - for households and businesses.\n\nLiz Truss is widely expected to win the Tory leadership contest - but she has not spelt out precisely what she would do to help people pay their energy bills.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, she promises \"immediate action\" on energy bills and energy supply, saying \"sticking plasters\" won't solve the fundamental problem.\n\nThe issue dominated the campaign - which saw Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak tear into each other's economic plans and the record of the government.\n\nMeanwhile, the outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it is time for the Tories to unite.\n\nEither way, by Tuesday, we will have a new prime minister facing formidable challenges. Their response to the energy bills crisis could define their time in office.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said neither Mr Sunak or Ms Truss had grasped the scale of the problems facing the country, warning a new Tory leader would not mark a \"new dawn\".\n\nSir Keir warned the \"centre is not holding\" and that things are \"falling apart\", stressing his own pragmatism and desire for progress on energy bills, the NHS and crime.\n\nHe wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"I came to politics after a long career. That makes me impatient.\n\n\"It also means I favour common-sense, practical solutions over ideological purity. If I were stepping into Downing Street this week, I'd ensure no-one would pay a penny more for their energy bill this winter.\"", "Passengers were unable to move their cars as the queues built up\n\nTravellers heading to the UK have suffered delays of up to six hours as they queued at the Port of Calais.\n\nFerry operators DFDS and P&O Ferries apologised for the long wait times at UK border controls on Saturday.\n\nPassengers shared their \"misery\" at being stuck in cars for hours heading back from mainland Europe, especially as some had children with them.\n\nDFDS said queues could reach two and a half hours at border controls on Sunday.\n\nA spokesperson earlier told BBC News: \"Calais was affected by 'the perfect storm' of summer volumes in combination with post-Brexit border checks, causing six hours of queuing.\n\n\"We worked together with partners to reduce the queues as quickly as we could.\"\n\nJo Van Herwegen, from Surrey, said she \"felt lucky\" to have water with her while she waited for five hours in the French heat with her two children.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, she said: \"It was little to do with the amount of people but with the poor layout and no traffic control.\n\n\"We were travelling back from Belgium and expected to be delayed, so arrived early.\n\n\"There weren't many cars but an hour later we had moved just two cars. The way this terminal is designed is the problem.\"\n\nPassenger Josh Williams added he was also stuck waiting in Calais for five hours on Saturday to get a ferry back to the UK.\n\nHe shared pictures of long lines of cars filled with families trying to get back to Dover ahead of the new school year starting for many in England next week.\n\nPeople at the port reported delays lasting nearly six hours\n\nLeanne Wood, from near York, and her two children arrived home in the early hours of Sunday morning because of the queues at Calais.\n\nShe said: \"We arrived early and the queues started forming but it was taking too long because there was no space for the cars.\n\n\"The reason for the delay seemed to be British passport control - they seemed to be on a 'go slow'.\n\n\"They knew there would be British families coming back but it was as though they wanted to create misery - to make a point.\"\n\nEarlier on Saturday afternoon, DFDS warned on social media the queues could potentially last for six hours for people travelling from Calais.\n\nP&O added extra vessels were used for passengers who had missed their booked sailings, to \"help with the passengers that have been stuck at border control\", as queues continued into the evening.\n\nThe issue appeared to be improved on Sunday, when DFDS said at 12:00 BST there were 45 minute queues at border control, and no waits at check-in.\n\nIt earlier said traffic at the ports in Dunkirk, in France, and Dover, in the UK, was \"free-flowing through check-in and border controls\" throughout the day.\n\nP&O Ferries tweeted that queues were at about an hour.\n\nBut DFDS went on to post just before 18:00 BST that although there were \"no queues at check-in\", there were currently \"queues of up to 150 minutes at border controls\" in Calais.\n\nIt added the Dunkirk port was now seeing waiting times of about 45 minutes too.\n\nAt the start of the school holidays in July there were long queues of traffic in Dover as people tried to get through French border control to head to mainland Europe\n\nPassenger Craig Price, from Essex, told the BBC he spent five hours at Calais Saturday afternoon after driving through Italy and France.\n\n\"We arrived at 3pm and got through at 8pm,\" he said.\n\n\"The design of the port does not seem able to cope with the need for French and UK border control,\" he said, adding that two-thirds of UK border control booths were manned.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Home Office and Border Force for comment.\n\nThere were similar wait times in Calais just days earlier on 24 August due to extra traffic arriving from the Eurotunnel.\n\nEurotunnel Le Shuttle passengers had to leave their vehicles and walk through an emergency service tunnel when the train's alarms went off.\n\nHave you been affected by delays at Calais? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A tribute was paid to Olivia Pratt-Korbel on the big screen at Goodison Park\n\nAn image of Olivia Pratt-Korbel who was shot dead in her Liverpool home has been displayed on the big screen at Goodison Park at the Merseyside derby.\n\nThe nine-year-old was shot and her mother was injured after a gunman chased a man into her home in Dovecot on 22 August.\n\nNeither men had links to her family.\n\nA minute's applause was also held nine minutes into the Everton v Liverpool game and fans sang Merseyside in tribute to the youngster.\n\nAn anti-knife and gun crime banner was unfurled in the Bullens Road stand at the Premier League game, which kicked off at 12:30 BST, stretching across Everton and Liverpool supporters.\n\nAs well as displaying Olivia's image on the big screen, it also featured an appeal by Merseyside Police for people with information on the incident to come forward, as well as two other recent fatal shootings in the city.\n\nOlivia died after being shot by a gunman chasing a man into her home\n\nSam Rimmer, 22, was shot in Dingle on 16 August while Ashley Dale, 28, was found with gunshot wounds in the back garden of her Old Swan home in the early hours of 21 August.\n\nThe Everton Fans' Forum urged both Blues and Reds \"to come together\" in unity and anyone with information to \"tell the authorities\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Keeping quiet is not an option.\"\n\nIt added: \"Enough is enough.\"\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\nIt comes after her family asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" to her funeral.\n\nThe service will take place at St Margaret Mary's in Dovecot on 15 September, according to a notice by Debbie Bennett Funeral Directors.\n\nThe notice posted on the funeral directors website said: \"Olivia will be sadly missed by all her family and friends.\n\n\"Funeral mass at St Margaret Mary's Church, Pilch Lane, Dovecot on Thursday 15th September at 11am, followed by a private burial.\"\n\n\"Family requested everyone to wear a splash of pink,\" it added.\n\nMore than £40,000 has been raised via a fundraising page for Olivia's family.\n\nShe died after she was shot in her home when a gunman chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into the property at about 22:00 BST.\n\nA post-mortem examination found her medical cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring the opening of Olivia's inquest on Tuesday, Liverpool Senior Coroner Andre Rebello said armed response officers found her with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\nHe said a police officer had \"scooped\" up Olivia and ran with her to try to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nOlivia's mother Cheryl was injured as she tried to shut the door, but the attacker fired more shots at the man he had pursued.\n\nShe is still receiving treatment for her injuries, police said.\n\nCCTV footage of the gunman fleeing the scene was released by police on Thursday as the investigation continues into her death.\n\nA 36-year-old man from Huyton and a 33-year-old from Dovecot were arrested on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder in relation to Olivia's death last week and have been released on bail.\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 CCTV image of the victim was released with permission from his family\n\nThe family of a Sikh priest \"left for dead\" in an attack more than two months ago have appealed for help to catch his attacker.\n\nThe unnamed 62-year-old man was left with life-changing injuries and has been in hospital since the attack in the centre of Manchester on 23 June.\n\nCCTV shows he was attacked on Tib Street, near to Hilton Street.\n\nThe family of the victim said the \"heinous act\" had \"left our hearts vacant\".\n\nPolice have released an image of a man they believe could help them with the investigation\n\nPolice were called to a report of a man found unconscious in the middle of the road shortly before 18:30 BST.\n\nCCTV footage of the incident has been released by police, with the backing of the victim's family.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has also released images of a man and a woman who it would like to talk to as part of its investigation.\n\nIn a statement, the victim's family said: \"Our loving and caring husband/father had his life tragically altered forever when a thug cowardly committed this heinous act, leaving him in a pool of blood with catastrophic permanent life-changing brain damage and walked away as if it was normal behaviour.\n\n\"A devoted husband and father who has lived, worked and supported a community in a city he has loved for 37 years and now cannot even leave the hospital.\"\n\nPolice also want to speak to a woman in connection with the incident\n\nThey said he was \"left for dead on the bustling streets of Manchester\".\n\nThe family said the victim \"could not say a single hateful or negative comment\" and \"taught those around him to practice kindness\".\n\n\"We have lost the life of the party, the light in amongst any darkness in our lives and the laughter and joy he brought home every day, has disappeared and left our hearts vacant,\" they said.\n\n\"We will sadly never get the man back who left for work that day and thought he would walk home to enjoy the nice weather.\n\n\"We appeal to anyone who knows anything or knows the offender to come forward.\n\n\"Please act today not out of hate but to stop this happening again to someone else and tearing another family apart, as we would not wish this anguish on anyone else.\"\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.", "Forensic investigators at one of the crime scenes in Weldon, Saskatchewan\n\nCanadian police have launched a huge manhunt for two men suspected of stabbing at least 10 people to death in a rampage that has shocked the nation.\n\nTwo suspects named as Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson are on the run and considered armed and dangerous.\n\nVictims were found in 13 locations in the remote indigenous community James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon.\n\nIt is one of the deadliest acts of mass violence Canada has seen. PM Justin Trudeau said it was \"heartbreaking\".\n\nAt least 15 others were injured in the killing spree, with police urging residents to be extremely vigilant as they conduct a search across one of Canada's largest and most remote regions.\n\n\"I am shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks today,\" Mr Trudeau said in a statement. \"Those responsible for today's abhorrent attacks must be fully brought to justice.\"\n\nAs news of the stabbings broke, a dangerous person alert was sent to all mobile phones across the provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta - an enormous region almost half the size of Europe.\n\nA state of emergency was declared in the James Smith Cree Nation - a community of about 2,000 residents north-east of the village of Weldon, which is home to just 200 people.\n\n\"Do not leave a secure location. Use caution allowing others into your residence,\" Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) warned people across the area.\n\nNumerous checkpoints have been set up and drivers have been urged not to pick up hitchhikers.\n\nRhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer for Saskatchewan RCMP said that some people may have been targeted, while others are believed to have been \"attacked randomly\".\n\nThe suspects were last seen by members of the public in Regina at about lunchtime on Sunday, and may be travelling in a black Nissan Rogue, Officer Blackmore said.\n\nThe relationship between Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30, is unclear, and the authorities have so far provided no further details.\n\nBut in May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted poster for Myles Sanderson accusing him of being \"unlawfully at large\" in the region.\n\nAt a news briefing on Sunday evening, police said there could be more injured people than the 15 they already knew about, who had taken themselves to hospital.\n\nPolice refused to speculate on the motive behind the attack, but Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations suggested that they could be drug related.\n\n\"This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the Chiefs and Councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,\" Mr Cameron said.\n\nThe suspects have been identified as Damien Sanderson (left) and Myles Sanderson\n\nThe first emergency call was made to police at 05:40 local time on Sunday morning in the provincial capital Regina, about 280km (173 miles) south of Weldon.\n\nThis was quickly followed by many more calls for help, developing into what police described as a \"rapidly unfolding event\".\n\nAnne Lindemann, a spokesperson for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, told local media that additional staff had been called in to deal with an \"influx of casualties\".\n\n\"They are considered armed and dangerous... If you see the suspects or their vehicle, do not approach them, immediately leave the area and call 911.\"\n\nLogan Stein, a local journalist, told the BBC that the region was extremely remote. He said that the attackers appeared to have gone door-to-door attacking locals.\n\nChakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson - one of the elected leaders that head up the region- told the Regina Leader Post that everyone in the community had been affected.\n\n\"They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we're all related here, so it's pretty hard,\" Mr Sanderson said. \"It's pretty horrific.\"\n\nWeldon resident Diane Shier said her neighbour, a man who lived with his grandson, was killed, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported.\n\nHe was described by another resident, Robert Rush, as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s.\n\n\"He wouldn't hurt a fly,\" Mr Rush was quoted as saying.\n\nAnother victim has been named as mother of two Lana Head. Her former partner Michael Brett Burns told local media that he was \"hurt for all this loss\".\n\nCanada's Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said he had reached out to community leaders to \"offer Canada's full support and any assistance that will be needed in the coming days\".", "A photographer took pictures of what appeared to be a barefoot and shirtless man at the apex of The Shard\n\nA 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of trespass after a person was seen climbing The Shard building in central London.\n\nMetropolitan Police officers were called to the 1,017ft-tall (310m) skyscraper at 05:38 BST.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade and the ambulance service also attended, and a number of cordons were put in place.\n\nTwo other men were detained on suspicion of causing public nuisance, the Met said.\n\nEarlier, Adam Lockwood, a man from Manchester known for a series of similar climbing stunts, posted a picture of himself on the top of the Shard on his Facebook page.\n\nThe climber was photographed as he made his way up the side of the skyscraper\n\nPolice were called to reports of a person climbing The Shard on Sunday morning\n\nEmergency services gathered at the base of The Shard\n\nFootage posted on social media appeared to show a figure scaling the exterior of the landmark, one of the biggest buildings in Europe.\n\nPrevious attempts to climb the 87-storey tower in Southwark include a group of protesters from Greenpeace in 2013.\n\nPaul Curphey and his partner Treasaidh were staying in a room on the 40th floor of the Shard, when they saw a man waving and climbing past their window at 06:00.\n\nMr Curphey, 52, said the man appeared to be having \"the time of his life\".\n\n\"My partner thought I had pulled all the stops out and managed to get a guy to bring a box of Milk Tray for her birthday.\"\n\nPaul Curphey was staying at the Shard with his partner when the man appeared, waving outside their 40th floor window\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.", "Twins Chelsea (left) and Christy Cawley died after what gardaí described as a \"traumatic\" incident\n\nEight-year-old twins - a boy and a girl - and an 18-year-old woman have died after a \"violent incident\" at a house in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) were called to the scene at the Rossfield estate in Tallaght in south-west Dublin at about 00:30 local time on Sunday.\n\nThe victims were twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley and their older sister Lisa Cash.\n\nTheir 14-year-old brother is in hospital with serious injuries.\n\nLisa Cash who died was a sister of twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley\n\nThe children's mother, a woman in her 40s who was not injured, has been released from hospital and is being supported by her family, said gardaí.\n\nA man in his early 20s was arrested at the scene and is being held at Tallaght Garda Station.\n\nGardaí are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident and believe the people involved are all known to each other.\n\nDetectives described the incident as \"violent, challenging and traumatic\".\n\nSome neighbours spoke of being woken up by the noise of screaming just after midnight.\n\nA fleet of emergency vehicles arrived at the scene in the early hours of the morning.\n\nThere was a sense of panic, which quickly turned to shock and grief with news that three young people had died.\n\nAs daybreak broke neighbours started leaving flowers at the scene as detectives examined the house and tried to find out exactly what happened.\n\nA message on one bunch of flowers said: \"Fly high little angels, our hearts are broken for you all.\"\n\nFianna Fáil councillor Charlie O'Connor said the community in Tallaght had been left in shock by what had happened.\n\n\"An event like this involving children, two of them very young, will have a deep effect on their peers, where people will go into school in the morning and find that their friends are not there,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to certainly think of the family and offer them deep sympathy.\n\nNeighbours and friends of the family left tributes close to the scene of the incident\n\n\"We have to think of the neighbours here, the wider community, the first responders and everybody who is going to be affected by this story.\"\n\nIrish national broadcaster RTÉ reported that the twins had recently started classes at St Aidan's Senior National School in Tallaght.\n\nIn a statement, principal Tomás Hayes said: \"As a school, our priority will be to take every step to ensure that the needs of our students and their families are met at this challenging time.\n\nA man, who police say is known to the three people who died, has been arrested\n\n\"We will be providing support to pupils and school staff to help them deal with this tragedy and have requested the support of the National Education Psychological Service.\"\n\nA neighbour told BBC News NI what she had witnessed in the aftermath of the incident.\n\n\"I woke up, heard a lot of commotion going on, voices screaming, saw flashing lights everywhere,\" she said.\n\nForensic officers were at the scene for much of Sunday\n\n\"This was all going on behind my house - it's just scary to think of, it's horrific.\"\n\nShe added: \"The kids would always be so nice and friendly, they would all say hello to you.\"\n\nThe scene remains sealed off and a forensic examination has been taking place.\n\nA first-floor window at the house where the incident happened was broken\n\nThe Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee said that the deaths were \"so awful and heart-breaking it is difficult to comprehend\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with the family and the local community as they deal with this unimaginable crime,\" she posted on Twitter.\n\n\"Gardaí and other services are supporting them at this difficult time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US man who stole a small aeroplane and threatened to fly it into a Walmart shop has been charged with grand larceny and making terroristic threats.\n\nThe man - named by police as Cory Wayne Patterson - was arrested after landing in a field, having circled near Tupelo, Mississippi, for hours.\n\nThe Walmart was evacuated while police spoke to him in mid-air.\n\nThe suspect worked at the local airport but was not believed to hold a pilot's licence, the city's police said.\n\nHowever, he is known to have received some flight instruction.\n\nMr Patterson is alleged to have stolen the Beechcraft King Air twin-engine aircraft shortly after 05:00 local time (10:00 GMT) before taking to the skies.\n\nThe small utility craft is capable of seating 10-11 people.\n\nShortly after taking control of the plane, the suspect phoned 911, saying he was planning to fly into a branch of Walmart.\n\nThe threat prompted an evacuation of the building and other nearby shops as officers warned of a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nJohn Quaka, the local chief of police, said negotiators managed to persuade Mr Patterson to safely land at the airport - a manoeuvre of which he had no experience - but that he then aborted this plan.\n\nNo details of the negotiators' conversation with the suspect, or his possible motives, have yet been made public.\n\nJust after 09:30, he posted an update on Facebook which \"in essence [...] said goodbye\", Chief Quaka added in his news conference.\n\nFlight-trackers monitored the plane as it charted an erratic course above the city and in the wider area.\n\nSoon afterwards, a live stream by a reporter of local television station WTVA showed the aircraft sitting stationary in a field.\n\nThere was confusion in the moments before the aircraft's landing, after radar contact was lost amid concerns that the vehicle was running out of fuel.\n\nMr Patterson was taken into custody soon after landing.\n\nIn addition to the charges of grand larceny and making terroristic threats, he also faces a federal-level investigation.\n\nState Governor Tate Reeves earlier tweeted his thanks to law enforcement officers for managing the situation with \"extreme professionalism\".", "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 minister in charge of the UK's Ukrainian refugee scheme has resigned, ahead of the next prime minister taking office.\n\nLord Harrington said the role was no longer required because a permanent system was now in place for arrivals.\n\nThe Tory peer said his work was \"essentially complete\" and the role was always meant to be temporary.\n\nThe move would allow the next leader to \"save on a ministerial post\" if they wanted to, he added.\n\nThe former Watford MP was appointed to the newly-created role in March, after criticism of UK efforts to house Ukrainian and Afghan refugees.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, he said initial criticism of the scheme was valid, adding there was \"chaos\" with visa applications taking four weeks to process - but this had since improved.\n\nIn a statement confirming his departure, he added the UK's sponsorship scheme for Ukrainian refugees had now \"set the blueprint\" for future programmes.\n\n\"I believe we now have a process and procedure in place that means there won't necessarily be the need for a minister like myself,\" he said.\n\nSince the Ukraine visa scheme was launched in March, 120,000 people have arrived in the UK.\n\nOutgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked Lord Harrington for welcoming the refugees after Russia invaded Ukraine in February.\n\nHe added on Twitter: \"Your wealth of experience in government will be sorely missed.\"\n\nLord Harrington has called on the next prime minister to double payments to families hosting Ukrainian refugees after six months to £700 a month, although he insisted his resignation was not related.\n\nAn official survey found some families had struggled with the cost of hosting, with a quarter looking to quit the scheme after six months or less.\n\nThe British Red Cross has also urged ministers to make payments to UK residents who have helped support family members fleeing Ukraine under a separate scheme.\n\nAny decision on increasing payments to host families will be made by either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss, who are running to be next Tory leader.\n\nThe winner of the contest will be announced on Monday, and replace Boris Johnson as prime minister the next day.", "Olivia died after being shot by a gunman chasing a man into her home\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder over the killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel.\n\nThe 34-year-old from Liverpool is being questioned by detectives from Merseyside Police.\n\nTwo other men, aged 29 and 41, have been detained on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nOlivia was shot when a gunman chased another man into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August.\n\nThe man arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder was detained in Runcorn in the early hours of Sunday and is being held in custody, police said.\n\nThe 41-year-old, from Knowsley, Merseyside, was also arrested in Runcorn.\n\nPolice said the 29-year-old man was arrested later after officers executed warrants at two addresses in the \"Liverpool area\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We still need the public's help in ensuring that we can a build a strong evidential picture so justice is served for Olivia and her family.\n\n\"I appeal for those who may have information - no matter how small - that could continue to help our inquiries, to contact us directly or anonymously and we will do the rest.\"\n\nInvestigators found the remains of several bullet casings in the garden\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest by a gunman who had chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into her home.\n\nNeither of the men who entered the home had any links to her family.\n\nHer mother Cheryl was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door on the attacker but he fired two more shots at the man he had pursued, Merseyside Police said.\n\nOn Tuesday, the opening of the inquest into Olivia's death heard how an armed police officer had tried to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nMerseyside Police had previously arrested two men on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder but released them on bail a week ago.\n\nOne of the men, aged 36, had been recalled to prison after breaching the terms of his licence.\n\nOn Saturday, a minute's applause was held in tribute to Olivia during the ninth minute of the Premier League match between Everton and Liverpool.\n\nThe Merseyside derby also featured a police appeal for information and an anti-knife and gun crime banner was unfurled, stretching across supporters from both clubs.\n\nOlivia was one of four people fatally shot or stabbed within one week in the region.\n\nHer funeral is due to take place at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot on 15 September and her family has asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" for the service.\n\nA crowdfunding page set up to support Olivia's family has raised more than £40,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Thomas denies the allegations from his former partner Ian Baum\n\nFormer Wales rugby star Gareth Thomas has admitted he did not tell his ex-partner he had HIV, but said he was never asked, according to High Court legal papers.\n\nThe ex-British and Irish Lions captain is being sued by his ex-partner Ian Baum for £150,000 in damages.\n\nMr Baum claims Mr Thomas hid his HIV status and failed to take reasonable care to ensure he did not pass it on.\n\nOne of those is that the TV personality removed labels from his HIV medication so his partner would not know what they were.\n\nHe has also been accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour to stop his HIV status becoming known.\n\nMr Thomas's legal team has submitted a 15-page document to the High Court responding to the allegations.\n\nThe document confirmed Mr Thomas and Mr Baum started a relationship a the end of 2013, and Mr Thomas said the couple did not have penetrative sex for the first four months because he had an injury.\n\nIt also said the issue of HIV was never discussed.\n\nGareth Thomas has admitted he did not tell a former partner that he had HIV, but said he was never asked\n\n\"It is denied that the defendant deliberately concealed his positive status, he was never asked by the claimant if he was HIV positive, and he never denied that he was,\" the document submitted by Mr Thomas's legal team said.\n\n\"It is admitted that the claimant did not expressly consent to the risk of HIV transmission from the defendant.\"\n\nMr Thomas, also known as Alfie, said while he knew he had the virus, he did not think he was able to pass it on.\n\n\"The defendant genuinely and reasonably believed that he could not transmit the condition to others whilst his CD4 count (a measure of immune function) was not at a dangerous level requiring medication.\n\n\"Whilst the defendant understands now that this was incorrect, it was a genuinely held belief at the material time.\"\n\nGareth Thomas disclosed he was HIV positive in 2019\n\nMr Thomas said Mr Baum was promiscuous and accused him of being \"blasé\" about catching HIV when he did reveal his own status, \"his attitude being that he was bound to get HIV sooner or later\".\n\nHowever in his submission to the court, Mr Baum said he was monogamous and faithful to Mr Thomas and did not have sexual intercourse with another person.\n\nMr Thomas also admitted he did remove labels from his HIV medication, but only to stop family members knowing what they were.\n\n\"The defendant denies that he ever told the claimant he was HIV negative, or lied about his HIV status,\" read the statement.", "Peter Coshan was last seen in Edinburgh on 11 August\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of a former Fettes College teacher have found the body of a man in Northumberland.\n\nFormer biology teacher Dr Peter Coshan, 75, has been missing since he was last seen in Edinburgh on 11 August.\n\nPaul Black, 63, and Paul McNaughton, 27, have been charged with Dr Coshan's murder.\n\nPolice said the body was found on land close to the A696 near the village of Kirkwhelpington on Sunday.\n\nThe body has not been formally identified, but Mr Coshan's family has been made aware.\n\nDet Supt Andrew Patrick, from Police Scotland's major investigation team, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Peter's family at this incredibly difficult time and we are continuing to provide them with support.\n\n\"I would like to take the opportunity to pass on our thanks to everyone who has come forward with information which has helped our investigation.\"\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of Dr Coshan said last week that they believed the Scottish Borders and Northumberland area were \"key\" to finding his body.\n\nThe body was found near Kirkwhelpington in Northumberland\n\nDr Coshan taught at the prestigious Fettes College from 1972 until his retirement in 2005.\n\nHe joined a year after former PM Tony Blair attended the private school from 1966 to 1971.\n\nThe former teacher was last seen in the Seafield Road area of Edinburgh, near Leith, 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\nWarm tributes were paid to Dr Coshan after his death.\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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak has signalled he believes he has lost the Tory leadership race, telling the BBC his job \"now is just to support a Conservative government\".\n\nSpeaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the ex-chancellor also said he would continue as an MP if he does not become prime minister next week.\n\nHowever, he did not rule out running again to be Conservative Party leader.\n\nThe winner of the contest to replace Boris Johnson as leader is due to be announced on Monday.\n\nThe following day Mr Johnson will tender his resignation to the Queen, and either Mr Sunak or Liz Truss will take over as prime minister.\n\nThroughout the eight-week long campaign Ms Truss has emerged as the frontrunner with her emphasis on immediate tax cuts contrasting with Mr Sunak's pledge to delay tax cuts until inflation is under control.\n\nMr Sunak has been highly critical of Ms Truss's economic plan, arguing it would put the UK's public finances in \"serious jeopardy\", leading to questions about how he would respond to a Truss-led government.\n\nAsked about his future plans, Mr Sunak said \"I look forward to supporting the Conservative government in whatever capacity.\"\n\nOn the possibility that he might stand in a future leadership race, he said: \"We've just finished this campaign. I'd say... I need to recover from this one.\"\n\nConfirming he would stay on as an MP, Mr Sunak said that it had been \"a great privilege\" to represent the North Yorkshire constituency of Richmond.\n\n\"I'd love to keep doing that as long as they'll have me.\"\n\nAppearing in the programme earlier, Ms Truss said she would announce her plan to deal with soaring energy costs within a week if were successful in her bid to become prime minister.\n\nShe added that support would need to go \"hand in hand\" with efforts to boost domestic energy supply.", "Grohl struggled to continue as he sang Times Like These\n\nFoo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl choked back tears as he played the band's first show since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March.\n\nThe star was singing Times Like These when he paused to collect his emotions on the lyric: \"It's times like these you learn to love again.\"\n\nEarlier, Grohl described Hawkins as his \"dear friend, bandmate and brother\".\n\nHe said of Hawkins \"no-one else could make you smile or laugh or dance or sing like he could\".\n\n\"And for those of you that admired him from afar, I'm sure you've all felt the same thing,\" Grohl added.\n\n\"So sing and dance and laugh and cry and scream and make some noise so he can hear us right now.\"\n\nHawkins had been Foo Fighters' drummer for 25 years\n\nGrohl was speaking as Foo Fighters topped the bill at an all-star concert in honour of Hawkins' life at London's Wembley Stadium.\n\nThe drummer was found dead in a hotel room in Colombia this March, shortly before Foo Fighters were due to play a festival in Bogotá. He was 50 years old.\n\nNo cause of death was announced, although a toxicology report showed traces of 10 substances in his body, including opioids, marijuana and anti-depressants.\n\nInvestigators did not say whether the mix of drugs was a factor.\n\nTaylor Hawkins was found dead in his hotel room in Colombia in March\n\nSaturday night's concert was the first of two gigs organised by the musician's wife and bandmates, with proceeds going to charities Music Support and MusiCares.\n\nSir Paul McCartney, Queen and AC/DC were among the rock royalty who showed up to pay tribute at Wembley; while Liam Gallagher opened the show with a fitting rendition of Oasis's Rock And Roll Star.\n\nSir Paul was a surprise addition to the line-up - giving a full-throttle rendition of The Beatles classic Helter Skelter, and duetting with Chrissie Hynde on Oh! Darling. \"A song I haven't performed since we recorded it 100 years ago,\" Sir Paul said.\n\nLiam Gallagher opened the concert, joined by Grohl on drums\n\nSir Paul said he was \"thrilled\" when Hawkins agreed to play on his last record\n\nBritish 12-year-old Nandi Bushell, who went viral after challenging Grohl to a drum battle during lockdown, also got to join her heroes onstage, taking Hawkins' place during Learn To Fly.\n\nGrohl introduced her as, \"one of the most badass drummers I've ever met in my life\".\n\nShe was one of several musicians to fill Hawkins' seat, including Blink-182's Travis Barker, Roger Taylor's son Rufus and Hawkins' 16-year-old son, Shane - who gave a thunderous performance of My Hero, on what can only have been an emotionally-charged night.\n\n\"If you could only see how many drum sets are back there,\" joked Grohl. \"It's like your local music store.\"\n\nIt was a family affair through and through. Dave Grohl's daughter Violet, who had known Hawkins all her life, also gave beautiful, sensitive readings of Jeff Buckley's Grace and Amy Winehouse's version of Valerie - while her dad watched proudly from the side of the stage.\n\nShane Hawkins briefly took his father's place behind the drum kit\n\nViolet Grohl, who has appeared on recent Foo Fighters albums, sang throughout the show\n\nThe concert also featured performances from some of Hawkins' favourite bands and musicians, including Metallica, Rush, Supergrass and Stewart Copeland of The Police.\n\n\"The last few days we have been asking ourselves the same question after every rehearsal: 'I wonder what Taylor would think of this - to see all of these amazing people together making music?'\" said Grohl at one point, again struggling to contain his emotions.\n\nThere can't be many drummers whose death would warrant a Stadium-sized tribute, let alone two (a second date will be played in LA next week) - but Taylor Hawkins was no ordinary drummer.\n\nHis energy and positivity and passion for life were on display every time Foo Fighters took to the stage. He wasn't just Dave Grohl's sideman, he was his equal - playing with a grin as wide as the Grand Canyon, and the power to match.\n\nSaturday night's concert was about capturing and celebrating that spirit. A gesture of love, instead of sadness. One that honoured his love of music, whether it was Jeff Buckley or George Michael.\n\n\"He was a musicologist,\" Grohl told the audience. \"He knew more about music than anyone I'd ever met in my life.\"\n\nThat focus on Hawkins' favourite songs made the concert more personal than most benefit shows, where bands only appear to promote their latest album.\n\nWembley Stadium was flooded with light - and the Hawk symbol that Hawkins had tattooed on his shoulder - as Queen played Love Of My Life.\n\nPop star Kesha tore into a sleazy version of T. Rex's Children Of The Revolution, while AC/DC's Brian Johnson lit up the stadium with muscular renditions of Back In Black and Let There Be Rock, accompanied by Grohl and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.\n\n\"Taylor I know you're watching,\" said Ulrich from the stage. \"I know you can hear this, I know you can feel this. We love you.\"\n\nThe metal legends were also joined by Justin Hawkins from The Darkness - one of the day's most unstoppable performers, who brought a cocksure swagger to songs like Van Halen's Hot For Teacher and Queen's Under Pressure.\n\nQueen - Hawkins' favourite band - also ran through a compact set of their biggest hits, including We Will Rock You and Somebody To Love, the latter ably assisted by a jump-suited Sam Ryder.\n\nGuitarist Brian May then led the crowd in an acoustic version of Love Of My Life, reflecting on the Freddie Mercury tribute concert that took place on the same stage 30 years ago.\n\n\"We said goodbye to Freddie in a style similar to this,\" he said, \"but I know Freddie would be very happy to use this song to honour Taylor\".\n\nSam Ryder, whose TikTok covers of Queen resulted in him becoming the UK's Eurovision entrant, finally got to sing with his heroes\n\nQueen were the first group Hawkins ever saw live, at the age of 10; and he would regularly step out from behind his kit to serenade Foo Fighters' fans with one of their songs.\n\nSomebody To Love was the last track he ever performed live, during a show in Argentina earlier this year.\n\nSome sections of the tribute veered into self-indulgence. Wolfgang Van Halen's finger-twisting guitar riffs left the audience unmoved, while Josh Homme should never be allowed to sing Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ever again.\n\nOhio band James Gang and Canadian prog rockers Rush laid bare the gulf between British audiences and disciples of US rock radio - although their technical skills were hard to deny.\n\nGrohl and Hawkins performing together earlier this year\n\nVideo tributes came from Elton John, Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, who told the story of how Hawkins would visit his local music shop and buy instruments for aspiring drummers.\n\n\"I love him and I miss him every day,\" he added.\n\n\"Taylor's music and his passion will be remembered for ever and ever and so should his warmth and kindness with every person who was ever lucky enough to meet him,\" said Eilish in her tribute.\n\nFans leaving the show said it had helped them heal.\n\n\"Everybody is devastated, still, that he's gone, but after that, I feel better\" said Jennifer, who flew in from California to see the show.\n\n\"There were a lot of tears, a lot of emotions, but I think the band loved it. They were rocking out for him.\"\n\n\"I think it was a release,\" agreed Sherilyn, who'd come from Norfolk with her partner, John. \"We were missing Taylor, that's for sure. I cried a lot. But everybody came together tonight. What more can you ask for?\"\n\nIt was a sentiment that Grohl echoed on stage.\n\n\"We hope that you guys felt the love from all of us and all of the performers,\" he said, before closing the show with Everlong.\n\n\"Because we felt it from you, for Taylor tonight.\"\n\nAll the performers took a bow as the show ended, shortly before 22:30 BST", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mourners lay flowers near the coffin of Mikhail Gorbachev\n\nThousands of people in Russia have paid their final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end.\n\nMany queued for hours to file past his coffin in a historic hall where previous Soviet leaders lay in state.\n\nBut the man who oversaw the breakup of the USSR was not given a state funeral.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin, who has called the end of the union the \"greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century\", did not attend.\n\nThe Kremlin's official explanation: No space in his schedule.\n\nAs people made their way inside the Columned Hall of the House of Unions, sombre music played - a huge black and white portrait of Mr Gorbachev hanging from the balcony.\n\nThe former president lay in an open coffin, flanked by a guard of honour.\n\nHis daughter and other family members sat there as people laid flowers. Soon, there was a sea of red carnations.\n\nIt was here that Mr Gorbachev's predecessors, Soviet leaders like Lenin, Stalin and Brezhnev, lay in state, too.\n\nMany Russians blame Mikhail Gorbachev for launching reforms that caused economic chaos and for letting the Soviet Union fall apart.\n\nFellow Nobel Laureate Dmitry Muratov led the coffin out on Mr Gorbachev's final journey to the cemetery\n\nBut in the streets around the Hall of Unions, long lines of Muscovites - young and old - queued up to pay their respects.\n\n\"Gorbachev gave us hope, helped us dream of liberty,\" Stanislav tells the BBC. \"I hope our society is not saying goodbye to liberty.\"\n\n\"This is a farewell to the person who has done his utmost to save the country from authoritarianism, from backwardness,\" says Olga, a pensioner and long-time Gorbachev fan.\n\nVeteran liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky was among them, saying: \"These people came to Gorbachev to say 'Thank you Mr Gorbachev. You gave us a chance, but we lost this chance'.\"\n\nAs the former leader's coffin was carried into the Novodevichy Cemetery, heading the funeral procession was his close friend and Nobel peace prize laureate Dmitry Muratov. The journalist held up a portrait of the late Soviet leader.\n\nLining the path to the grave were an assortment of wreaths - from Mr Gorbachev's family, his comrades, government departments and foreign embassies.\n\nWhen the coffin was lowered into the grave, a military band played the Russian national anthem and a gun salute rang out in his honour.\n\nHe was buried next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999.\n\nMikhail Gorbachev was widely acclaimed in the West, but reviled by many at home\n\nHe took power in 1985, introducing bold reforms and opening the USSR to the world.\n\nBut he was unable to prevent the collapse of the union in 1991, and many Russians blame him for the years of turmoil that ensued.\n\nOutside Russia, he was widely respected, with the UN Secretary General António Guterres saying he had \"changed the course of history\", and US President Joe Biden calling him a \"rare leader\".\n\nAmong those filing past the coffin on Saturday, was Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban - a close ally of Mr Putin's. No other foreign leaders were known to have attended.\n\nAnother Putin ally - his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev - showed up, later to berate the West for seeking to break up Russia.\n\nOthers included the ambassadors of the US, UK and Germany.\n\nIn fact, so many Russians were keen to pay their respects that the ceremony had to be extended.\n\nBut the fact that this was not a state funeral is a sign that the current Kremlin leadership has little interest in honouring Mr Gorbachev's legacy.\n\nIt was well known that Mr Putin and Mr Gorbachev had a strained relationship - their last meeting was reportedly in 2006.\n\nMost recently, Mr Gorbachev was said to have been unhappy with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, even though he had supported the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.\n\nHe is seen in the West as an architect of reform who created the conditions for the end of the Cold War in 1991 - a time of deep tensions between the Soviet Union and Western nations, including the US and Britain.\n\nHe was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 \"for the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West relations\".\n\nBut in the new Russia that emerged after 1991, he was on the fringes of politics, focusing on educational and humanitarian projects.\n\nGorbachev made one ill-fated attempt to return to political life in 1996, receiving just 0.5% of the vote in presidential elections.\n\nRonald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987", "Russia's main gas pipeline to Europe will not reopen as planned on Saturday, adding to concerns about energy supplies this winter.\n\nState energy firm Gazprom said it found a leak on Nord Stream 1, meaning it could be closed indefinitely.\n\nThe pipeline, which runs to Germany, has been shut for three days for what Gazprom described as maintenance work.\n\nEurope accused Russia of using its gas supplies to blackmail Europe amid the Ukraine conflict, which Moscow denies.\n\nEnergy prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine and scarce supplies could push up costs even further.\n\nThere are growing fears families in the EU will be unable to afford the cost of heating this winter.\n\nThe UK could also be affected. Although not reliant on Nord Stream 1 for its gas, the pipeline suspension could drive the cost of wholesale gas up further, which has been behind the spiralling rise in the energy price cap.\n\nFaisal Islam, the BBC's economics editor, described the indefinite closure of Nord Stream 1 as a very serious development, noting that Russia had kept supplies into Europe flowing even at the height of the Cold War.\n\nThe stand-off with Russia has forced countries to fill their own gas supplies, with Germany's stores increasing from less than half in June to 84% full today.\n\nAs a result, international gas prices have fallen in the past week, but remain high by normal standards.\n\nEurope is attempting to wean itself off Russian energy in an effort to reduce Moscow's ability to finance the war, but the transition may not come quickly enough.\n\nEU Council President Charles Michel said Russia's move was \"sadly no surprise\".\n\n\"Use of gas as a weapon will not change the resolve of the EU. We will accelerate our path towards energy independence. Our duty is to protect our citizens and support the freedom of Ukraine,\" he tweeted.\n\nMoscow denies using energy supplies as an economic weapon against Western countries supporting Ukraine.\n\nIt has blamed the sanctions for holding up routine maintenance of Nord Stream 1, but the EU says this is a pretext.\n\nGermany's network regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, said the country was now better prepared for Russian gas supplies to cease, but it urged citizens and companies to cut consumption.\n\nGazprom's announcement came shortly after the G7 nations agreed to cap the price of Russian oil in support of Ukraine.\n\nThe G7 (Group of Seven) consists of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.\n\nTheir introduction of a price cap means countries that sign up to the policy will be permitted to purchase only Russian oil and petroleum products transported via sea that are sold at or below the price cap.\n\nHowever, Russia says it will not export to countries that participate in the cap.\n\nThe gas pipeline stretches from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany and can carry up to 170 million cubic metres of gas a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG, whose majority shareholder is Gazprom.\n\nGermany had also previously supported the construction of a parallel pipeline - Nord Stream 2 - but the project was halted after Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nGazprom said the fault had been detected at the Portovaya compressor station, with the inspection carried out alongside workers from Siemens, the German firm that maintains the turbine.\n\nIt said that fixing of oil leaks in key engines was only possible in specialised workshops, which had been hindered by Western sanctions.\n\nHowever, Siemens itself said: \"Such leaks do not normally affect the operation of a turbine and can be sealed on site. It is a routine procedure within the scope of maintenance work.\"\n\nThis is not the first time since the invasion that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been closed.\n\nIn July, Gazprom cut off supplies completely for 10 days, citing \"a maintenance break\". It restarted again 10 days later, but at a much reduced level.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the Swiss capital Bern, an economist and energy analyst, Cornelia Meyer, said the gas shutdown would have a major impact on employment and prices.\n\n\"That really has huge ramifications for gas in Europe which is about four times more expensive than it was a year ago and this cost of living crisis will really soar because it's not just gas,\" she said. \"Gas becomes fertiliser and it's used in many industrial processes, so that will affect jobs, and it will affect costs.\"\n\nThis is no coincidence. Russia's state-controlled gas giant announced an indefinite extension to a three-day maintenance halt to flows of gas through the continent's key energy artery, hours after leading western finance ministers vowed to escalate sanctions on Russian oil.\n\nGazprom's official reason is that an oil leak has been found and the pipeline cannot work without German imports of technology, which are now subject to sanctions.\n\nFew observers believe, however, that this is anything other than an attempt essentially to blackmail Europe over supplies.\n\nThis is a very serious development. Even during the height of the Cold War, Russia kept supplies of its gas flowing into Europe.\n\nThis cut-off though - and the pointed attempt by Gazprom to blame the German energy giant Siemens for the malfunction - is the culmination of decades of dysfunction in the energy relationship between Russia and Germany.", "Liz Truss has said it is fair to give higher earners more money back through tax cuts, saying recent Tory policy has failed to grow the economy.\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful has pledged to reverse a National Insurance rise.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the cut would be a gain of £7.66 for households on the lowest incomes, but those on the highest incomes could gain more than £1,800.\n\nMs Truss said higher earners paid more tax, so would gain more from cuts.\n\n\"Of course, there are some people who don't pay tax at all,\" she told the BBC. \"But to look at everything through the lens of redistribution I believe is wrong because what I'm about is about growing the economy and growing the economy benefits everybody.\"\n\nMs Truss, who is the favourite to win against rival Rishi Sunak according to pollsters, said the economic debate over the past 20 years had been dominated by the issue of distribution of income.\n\nHowever, speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she said: \"What's happened is we have had relatively low growth so we've had not more than an average of 1% growth and that has been holding our country back.\"\n\nShe said \"it is fair\" to give higher earners more money back through tax cuts.\n\nBut Mr Sunak, speaking on the same programme, said it was right to \"focus the most help on the most vulnerable\".\n\nBoth candidates for Tory leader - and prime minister - are under pressure to announce measures to help households with the soaring cost of energy that has contributed to high levels of inflation.\n\nMs Truss has promised she will \"act immediately\" and announce a plan to deal with soaring energy costs within a week if she becomes prime minister on Tuesday. However she decline to give any details.\n\nEarlier in her campaign to succeed Boris Johnson, Ms Truss told the Financial Times she rejected \"handouts\" as a means of helping people cope with the rising cost of living.\n\nMr Sunak said he would target further energy payments at pensioners and the low-paid, beyond those he announced as chancellor.\n\nLiz Truss unapologetically embraced the message that her planned flagship National Insurance cut would benefit the richest to the tune of £1,000 or more, and the poorest barely. The answer we have become used to on such issues would be that this is only one part of a wider package.\n\nBut Ms Truss was making the point that she will not judge the success of a particular tax policy on whether it immediately benefits poorer households.\n\nOver the past 20 years or so, most Budgets have been accompanied by an analysis of the winners or losers, by income brackets.\n\nJudging such moves in this way would inevitably show many tax cuts in a bad light. In the case of an NI cut, that is because the very poorest do not pay and the richest will benefit across all their earned income.\n\nMs Truss says she wants to judge the appropriateness of such moves in other ways - such as whether they promote growth, investment and jobs. In this specific case, the NI rise also broke a manifesto pledge, which is another reason she judges it as \"fair\" to reverse it.\n\nThe challenge for her, should she win, is that the impact of a move such as this can be compared very quickly to the acute difficulties facing many millions of households.\n\nWhen households that on average have for decades spent roughly £1,000 a year on energy, then move to £3,500 and then £4,000 or £5,000, it is presentationally challenging to prioritise a tax cut that generates that amount of saving only for the richest 10% of the country.\n\nHer supporters will argue her energy plan will come first, this week, before the wider economic plan including NI. But if her energy plan comes up short for some average households, she will be under pressure to explain why she is effectively keeping back tens of billions for lower NI and cancelling a corporation tax rise.\n\nNational Insurance contributions rose by 1.25% in April to fund the NHS and social care. From next year, the extra tax will be rebranded as the Health and Social Care Levy.\n\nThe increase meant that, instead of paying National Insurance contributions of 12% on earnings up to £50,270 and 2% on anything above that level, it has increased to 13.25% and 3.25% respectively.\n\nIn July, the government raised the threshold on payments meaning employees can now earn £12,570 a year before paying National Insurance, up from £9,880 a year previously.\n\nStuart Adam, senior economist at the IFS, told the BBC: \"Tax cuts can help to stimulate economic growth but that would still leave two questions.\n\n\"One is, what Liz Truss would do in the short run to help households, given that tax cuts go mainly to the better off who aren't going to struggle the most.\n\n\"The second question is how you would pay for tax cuts, because while tax cuts can increase the growth of the economy, they don't do that by so much that the tax cuts pay for themselves.\"\n\nMs Truss also reiterated her plan not to go ahead with a rise in corporation tax on businesses which she said would be \"completely self-defeating\".\n\nMr Sunak, in his former role as chancellor, had announced the main tax rate for companies would rise from 19% to 25%.\n\nShe said: \"What I know is that putting up tax on business is not going to attract more businesses to invest in this country.\"\n\nMs Truss had suggested she might review the Bank of England's mandate.\n\nHowever, speaking to the BBC, she said she was a \"great believer in the independence of the Bank of England\".\n\n\"I think it was about three decades ago we stopped politicians making decisions about interest rates, so I'm not going to start saying what interest rates the Bank of England should be setting.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAston Villa manager Steven Gerrard hopes his side can use their draw against champions Manchester City as a foundation to kickstart their season.\n\nCity missed a chance to go top of the Premier League as Leon Bailey's equaliser earned Aston Villa an excellent draw at Villa Park, while the point took Villa out of the bottom three.\n\n\"No-one gave us any hope or any chance before a ball was kicked,\" said Gerrard.\n\n\"I'm really pleased and proud of what the players gave us and no-one can begrudge us a point, and it's a big point.\n\n\"But the players need to take that confidence moving forwards. You hope it's a foundation but it's only a big point if you reset and back it up against Leicester and Southampton.\n\n\"The danger is if you think you're moving in the right direction but don't reset. There has been a lot of external noise and rightly so, but it's now for me to lead even more and be stronger.\n\n\"We need to stick together and keep developing.\"\n\nThe league's top goalscorer Erling Haaland got his 10th goal in six games when he was in the right place at the back post to volley in Kevin de Bruyne's superb cross.\n\nAfter scoring in the 50th minute, Haaland had another two efforts saved by Villa keeper Emiliano Martinez and De Bruyne also hit the crossbar with a 22-yard free-kick.\n\nThose missed chances proved costly as Bailey struck a sweet first-time shot into the top corner from Jacob Ramsey's square pass to make it 1-1 in the 74th minute.\n• None Relive Aston Villa v Manchester City as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n• None Go straight to all the best Aston Villa content\n\nVilla thought they had scored a winner when Philippe Coutinho put the ball in the net off the underside of the bar.\n\nHowever, the assistant referee had already put his flag up for offside - even though Coutinho was actually onside - and some of the City players stopped before the ball went into the net.\n\nGerrard revealed he had spoken to the officials about the decision after the match, and they admitted they had made an error.\n\n\"I've spoken to the officials calmly, and given them enough time after and asked for their side of it,\" said Gerrard.\n\n\"The referee blew the whistle too soon. When something is so tight it's worth an extra bit of time and we could've scored a second goal.\n\n\"Fair play to the officials, they recognised that afterwards. It was nowhere near offside.\"\n\nVilla had only won one of their first five matches of the season and had been booed off after their last game at Villa Park, a 1-0 loss to West Ham.\n\nThe pressure was mounting on the former England midfielder after a 2-1 loss at Arsenal in midweek left Villa 19th in the table, but this point was enough to take them out of the relegation zone and to 17th.\n\nBut Gerrard, who called for his side to \"surprise the footballing world\", will be delighted with the spirit and fight his team showed to come back from a goal down as City, champions four times in the past five years, looked to claim their fifth win of the season.\n\nCity had 73% possession but Bailey scored with Villa's only shot on target, while Pep Guardiola will see this as two points dropped and will wonder how his team did not claim the win.\n\nThey would have moved above Arsenal, who play at Manchester United on Sunday, with a win, but instead are second, one point behind the Gunners.\n\nThe visitors should have gone ahead in only the fourth minute but England defender Kyle Walker shot wastefully wide with only Martinez to beat.\n\nHaaland, a £51m summer signing from Borussia Dortmund, had scored back-to-back hat-tricks in City's wins over Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest and only touched the ball 10 times in the first half.\n\nHowever, he showed his class within five minutes of the restart by scoring from close range after De Bruyne's cross had looped over Martinez.\n\nHaaland became a handful for the home defence and twice was denied by Martinez and also won a free-kick, which De Bruyne hit the bar with.\n\nVilla's equaliser came against the run of play but City still had chances to win it late on but Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden both missed opportunities as Villa held on for the draw.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Phil Foden tries a through ball, but João Cancelo is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Erling Haaland tries a through ball, but Ilkay Gündogan is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Rodri (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. Ollie Watkins tries a through ball, but Philippe Coutinho is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Manchester City 1. Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jacob Ramsey.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Lucas Digne (Aston Villa) 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", "A mural in Belfast shows the contenders for the job of PM\n\nPolitical turbulence has become the norm.\n\nI was born in 1980. I was in my late 20s before the country was governed by the fourth prime minister of my lifetime, Gordon Brown.\n\nOn Monday, we'll know the name of the next prime minister - the fourth in little over six years.\n\nEven the most optimistic backers of Rishi Sunak don't think he will win - they merely think the margin of defeat might not be quite as wide as some opinion polls have suggested.\n\nI hear, as expected, loads of Conservative Party members voted early: 14% in the first two days, a third in the first week.\n\nSupporters of Liz Truss are confident they have won, by a solid margin if not an overwhelming one.\n\n\"At no stage have we ever felt on the back foot,\" one member of the core campaign team told me.\n\nAnd the biggest jobs in a Truss administration have been allocated. We can expect to see Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.\n\nI'll write more in the coming days about the challenges the new government will face. Unsurprising spoiler - they are colossal.\n\nBut what about the political challenge for the new prime minister of gluing the Conservative Party back together?\n\nChanging leader when you're in office as a political party offers a great chance for renewal. But only after a public slanging match.\n\nLiz Truss's supporters believe she's been on the front foot throughout the campaign\n\nI hear plenty of Conservative donors are pretty hacked off. Many were drawn to the party by Boris Johnson and have seen month after month of squabbling.\n\nAnd remember Liz Truss trailed Rishi Sunak among Tory MPs - plenty of them are deeply sceptical of her, and a smaller proportion of the parliamentary party has openly endorsed her than backed David Cameron, Theresa May or Boris Johnson.\n\nPerhaps a couple of dozen Conservative MPs might be pretty much irreconcilable to the idea of her as leader, and some might be quite gobby about it.\n\nTeam Truss will hope that if they can be seen to deliver, some sceptics might be won over to the point where at least they keep quiet, even if they are not exactly gushing in their enthusiasm. And others will get on board.\n\nBut views among senior Conservatives about the capacity of the party to come together vary widely.\n\nOne, who is quite optimistic, quotes the 18th century writer Samuel Johnson: \"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.\"\n\nIt's a reference to the party's position in the polls - considerably behind Labour - and a hoped for instinct to focus on them.\n\nAnother senior figure points out that the debates between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have felt much less confrontational in recent weeks, something that was particularly noticeable in the final hustings at Wembley Arena the other night.\n\nBut others - some who backed Liz Truss, and some who backed Rishi Sunak - are much less optimistic.\n\nOne senior figure points out the party's poll ratings have plunged since Boris Johnson resigned and the campaign has raged, leaving plenty of MPs in marginal seats gloomy.\n\nThen there is the battalion of Sunak supporters in the parliamentary party.\n\nAnother long standing MP frets that Prime Minister Truss may not reach out to as many Sunak supporters and offer them jobs as might be wise, and that could entrench divisions in the party.\n\nAnd then, most importantly, there is the business of getting stuff done. Turning the promises into reality.\n\nThis, above everything else, is probably the biggest determining factor in holding the party together.\n\nThat's because, more to the point, it is likely to be how you, reading this, judge her - and so decide whether to re-elect her and the Conservatives at the next election, at some point in the next two and a bit years.\n\nAs for those promises, and the political challenges that await, I'll write again here tomorrow.\n• None How Truss won the race to become PM", "Wreckage and oil have been found where a private Cessna plane crashed into the Baltic Sea off Latvia's coast after a mysterious flight from southern Spain.\n\nThe Cessna, registered in Vienna, had been due to land in Cologne, Germany, but instead headed out into the Baltic.\n\nGerman businessman Peter Griesemann died - it was his private plane. German media say the other three victims were his wife, daughter and her boyfriend.\n\nGriesemann was prominent among organisers of the Cologne Carnival.\n\nThe Carnival's Facebook page has a mourning tribute to him. He was president of Blaue Funken (blue sparks) - one of the oldest carnival associations.\n\nWhen the Cessna 551 failed to respond to controllers' calls German and Danish fighter jets were sent to follow it, and later a Swedish helicopter searched for it.\n\nLatvia now has three small ships and a helicopter in the area of Sunday's crash.\n\n\"We found three parts of the plane, we think - experts will have to say,\" the Latvian maritime search and rescue service (MRCC) told the BBC.\n\nSpokesperson Liva Veita said there was no sign of those on board the Cessna. She also confirmed earlier reports that oil had been seen there.\n\nShe said two small Latvian naval ships and a coastguard vessel were at the crash site, north-west of Ventspils, as well as a Latvian border guards helicopter.\n\nA Latvian minesweeper could send down a robot submersible to locate the plane, she added.\n\nQuick Air, an air charter company based in Cologne, told Reuters news agency that the Cessna was Peter Griesemann's private plane. It confirmed his death and said three others were on board too, but did not identify them.\n\nThe Griesemann family, based in Cologne, own a holiday cottage in the Cádiz area of south-west Spain, German media report.\n\nOn Sunday a Danish ferry and two helicopters - from Lithuania and Sweden - conducted a search in vain in the Baltic.\n\nEarlier, Nato pilots and Swedish officials tracking the plane saw no-one in the cockpit.\n\n\"The aircraft was flying from Spain to Cologne, but during the flight the aircraft changed its flight route,\" the Latvian Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.\n\n\"Air traffic controllers were unable to communicate with the aircraft's crew,\" it said.\n\nThe FlightRadar24 data tracking website says the plane took off from the Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera at 12:56 GMT.\n\nAt 17:37 it was listed on FlightRadar24 as losing speed and altitude.\n\nGerman newspaper Bild says the plane reported cabin pressure problems after take-off and contact was lost after it cleared the Iberian peninsula.\n\nThe aircraft crashed \"when it ran out of fuel\", Sweden's search and rescue operation leader, Lars Antonsson, told AFP news agency.\n\nMr Antonsson said rescuers had \"no explanation at all\" and could \"only speculate\" about what had happened. \"But they [the people on board] were clearly incapacitated,\" he said.", "Russia wants to destroy the normal life of every European citizen, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.\n\n\"It is trying to attack with poverty and political chaos where it cannot yet attack with missiles,\" Mr Zelensky said in his regular address on Saturday.\n\nHe was speaking hours after Russia said that its main gas pipeline to Europe would not reopen as planned.\n\nEurope accused Russia of using its gas supplies to blackmail Europe amid the Ukraine conflict, which Moscow denies.\n\nEnergy prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February and scarce supplies could push up costs even further.\n\nThere are growing fears families in the EU will be unable to afford the cost of heating this winter.\n\nGovernments across the continent are contemplating what measures to take to alleviate the crisis.\n\nGermany - one of the countries worst affected by the Russian supply disruption - announced a €65bn (£56bn) package of help on Sunday.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz said Russia was no longer a reliable energy partner.\n\nThe stand-off with Russia has forced countries to fill their own gas supplies, with Germany's stores increasing from less than half in June to 84% full today.\n\nEurope is attempting to wean itself off Russian energy in an effort to reduce Moscow's ability to finance the war.\n\nRussia's state energy firm Gazprom announced on Friday the Nord Stream 1 pipeline could be closed indefinitely.\n\nThe pipeline, which runs to Germany, had been shut for three days for what Gazprom described as maintenance work and had been due to reopen.\n\nThe interruption of the service was \"sadly no surprise\", EU Council President Charles Michel said.\n\n\"Use of gas as a weapon will not change the resolve of the EU. We will accelerate our path towards energy independence. Our duty is to protect our citizens and support the freedom of Ukraine,\" he tweeted in response to Gazprom's announcement.\n\nMoscow denies using energy supplies as an economic weapon against Western countries supporting Ukraine.\n\nIt has blamed the sanctions for holding up routine maintenance of Nord Stream 1, but the EU says this is a pretext.\n\nGazprom's announcement came shortly after the G7 nations agreed to cap the price of Russian oil in support of Ukraine.\n\nThe G7 (Group of Seven) consists of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.\n\nTheir introduction of a price cap means countries that sign up to the policy will be permitted to purchase only Russian oil and petroleum products transported via sea that are sold at or below the price cap.\n\nHowever, Russia says it will not export to countries that participate in the cap.\n\nThe gas pipeline stretches from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany and can carry up to 170 million cubic metres of gas a day.\n\nThis is not the first time since the invasion that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been closed.\n\nIn July, Gazprom cut off supplies completely for 10 days, citing \"a maintenance break\". It restarted again 10 days later, but at a much reduced level.\n\nIn his address, President Zelensky said: \"This winter, Russia is preparing for a decisive energy attack on all Europeans.\"\n\nHe said only unity amongst European countries would offer protection.\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. Olena Zelenska tells Laura Kuenssberg about the human cost of the war\n\nThe economic impact of the war in Ukraine is tough on its allies, the country's first lady has told the BBC, but as Britons \"count pennies\", Ukrainians \"count casualties\".\n\nOlena Zelenska told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that if support for Ukraine was strong the crisis would be shorter.\n\nIn an interview recorded in Kyiv, she also said it was important to keep highlighting the human toll of the war.\n\nAnd Mrs Zelenska said while she rarely saw her husband, they talk every day.\n\nThe first lady, who has been married to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky since 2003, spoke to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg in Kyiv.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview to be broadcast on Sunday 4 September, Mrs Zelenska was asked what message she had for British people who are facing soaring energy bills in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the impact that has had on global gas and oil prices.\n\n\"I understand the situation is very tough. But let me recall that at the time of the Covid-19 epidemic, and it's still with us, when there were price hikes, Ukraine was affected as well.\n\n\"The prices are going up in Ukraine as well. But in addition our people get killed.\n\n\"So when you start counting pennies on your bank account or in your pocket, we do the same and count our casualties,\" she said.\n\nMrs Zelenska's comments follow Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suggestion while visiting Kyiv last month that households across Europe would have to endure the cost of living crisis and \"stay the course\" with Ukraine to counter Russia's aggression.\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\nPresident Zelensky has been praised for staying with his people following the Russian invasion\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\nMrs Zelenska told the BBC that it was hard for people outside Ukraine to understand the impact of the war on its people but it was important to share human stories about the toll the conflict was taking.\n\nShe said that many parents would have been moved by the story of a Ukrainian boy who was filmed crossing the Polish border in floods of tears last March.\n\n\"I think that fathers and mothers watching this video could not but break into tears. I always place myself in their situation and I think that everyone - every human in the world should feel the same,\" Mrs Zelenska said.\n\n\"That's why we have to tell these stories, to show these stories, because these are the faces of a war. Not the number of bombs dropped, not the amount of money spent, human stories - and there are a thousand stories like that around.\"\n\nMs Zelenska and her husband attended a public event together in May\n\nThe first lady, who comes from the same town as her husband and has known him since university, said she was \"insulted\" by people who said they were surprised at his transition from TV actor to wartime leader.\n\n\"He's the man I've always known. He wouldn't do anything else,\" she said.\n\nAsked whether she hoped to come to the UK after it was chosen to host the Eurovision Song Contest because Ukraine - which won the event this year - was deemed to be too unsafe, Ms Zelenska said she would \"love to go\" .\n\nBut she added it was a \"bitter feeling\" to accept the winners would not be next year's host.", "The sound of emergency alerts are occasionally ringing on mobile phones in Regina, warning of \"two adult male suspects\" who \"continue to be at large\".\n\nApart from that the city is quiet, with many shops shuttered for the long Labour Day weekend.\n\nSome families have gathered in Victoria Park, in the city's centre, to enjoy the final days of summer.\n\nCraig and Brenda, sitting in lawn chairs in the shade, called what happened a \"sad situation\".\n\n\"I've been staying home, but I ventured out today,\" said Brenda, \"I thought we'd be safe to do so. I thought I'd be ok here.\"\n\nSitting nearby, Deena Arthur called the attacks \"horrific\" and said it must be devastating for the families of those killed. \"It's on everyone's mind.\"\n\nShe said she hoped the two men are apprehended without being hurt - peacefully.\n\n\"They're not monsters, they're people,\" she said. \"Something has happened to them to make this happen.\"\n\nShe said the alerts that have been sent by police are good but is concerned that it makes people afraid who don't need to be.", "Priti Patel has urged the new commissioner to transform the Met\n\nThe Metropolitan Police must learn from the \"appalling mistakes of the past\", the home secretary has said.\n\nPriti Patel has written to incoming commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, urging a \"transformation\" of the force.\n\nIn the three-page letter, dated 2 September, she referred to several high-profile incidents which she said had \"affected public trust\".\n\nDame Cressida Dick quit as head of the Met in March following criticism over the handling of a number of scandals.\n\nAmong the high-profile controversies during her tenure was the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met Police officer.\n\nThat case, among other recent incidents, were referred to as evidence the force needs \"extensive reform\" by Ms Patel.\n\nShe wrote in the letter: \"Several recent high-profile incidents have affected public trust and confidence across communities particularly in London - raising serious questions about the culture and standards in the [Met].\"\n\nSir Mark, who will become the head of the service on 12 September, takes over at a difficult time for the Met, with a new home secretary likely to be appointed once either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak is appointed as the next prime minister.\n\nElsewhere in her letter, Ms Patel wrote: \"It is absolutely vital that trust and confidence is restored and that visible, responsive policing which cuts crime is at the forefront.\"\n\nShe added that she expected the new commissioner to \"promote better leadership and higher standards at every level throughout the force\", and said that the Met was \"failing to get the basics right\".\n\nMs Patel said the recruitment of 20,000 additional officers remained a \"key priority\" for the government, but also raised concerns that \"levels of police staff in the Met have not grown in line with the funding the government has provided\".\n\nDame Cressida quit as Britain's most senior police officer following criticism from London Mayor Sadiq Khan over her handling of racist, misogynist and homophobic messages shared by a group of officers based at Charing Cross police station.\n\nA report earlier this week by ex-chief constable of constabulary Sir Tom Winsor found Dame Cressida \"felt intimidated\" into quitting and was effectively \"constructively dismissed\" from her role by the mayor.\n\nMr Khan disputed the findings, saying the report by the former boss of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services was \"clearly biased and ignores the facts\".", "The managing director of Avanti West Coast is stepping down, the company has announced, amid a backlash over timetable cuts.\n\nThe rail firm said Phil Whittingham would leave on 15 September - the same day new train strikes will take place.\n\nServices between London and Manchester have been cut to a third, with the company blaming \"staffing issues\".\n\nManchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the firm should be in the \"last chance saloon\".\n\nMr Burnham has previously called for the company's licence to be revoked if services aren't restored - a decision only the government can take.\n\n\"This is England's most important railway line, linking its biggest cities, and every day that this chaos continues is a day when our economy in Greater Manchester is damaged and another day of misery for passengers,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nLast month, Avanti West Coast cut its timetable from three services an hour to one - blaming staffing issues.\n\nExplaining the timetable change at the time, Mr Whittingham said the \"current industrial relations climate\" had resulted in \"severe staff shortages in some grades through increased sickness levels, as well as unofficial strike action by Aslef members\".\n\nThe company said it currently had more drivers than before the pandemic but relied on staff working overtime in order to run a full timetable and keep up with training.\n\nThe union said the company needed to employ more drivers - and denied any accusation of unofficial strike action.\n\nIn a statement, Avanti apologised to customers for the \"enormous frustration and inconvenience\" caused by the reduced timetable.\n\nThe cuts to the timetable have prompted widespread criticism and frustration.\n\nMr Burnham said Mr Whittingham's departure revealed a serious management failure, and urged the government to \"stop playing politics\" regarding the country's widespread strike action.\n\nHe called on the UK's new prime minister, who will be announced on Monday, to \"reset\" the debate.\n\n\"We need to start fixing problems and working together, rather than this playing the politics and trying to demonise the trade unions.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"People deserve certainty and confidence that their train will run on time, and while the change of schedule was unavoidable, it should minimise the fallout for passengers.\n\n\"This is a prime example of why we need to modernise our railways, so passengers benefit from reliable timetables that don't rely on the goodwill of drivers volunteering to work overtime in the first place.\"\n\nFirst Rail boss Steve Montgomery said: \"Having led the team through the challenges presented by the pandemic over the last two years and into the recovery period, Phil leaves with the team ready for the challenges in delivering the future service requirements.\n\n\"I would like to thank Phil and wish him well in the future.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Aslef said its members at 12 operators - including Avanti West Coast - would take industrial action on 15 September.\n\nSeparately, the RMT union has announced two more national rail strikes later this month. Workers will walk out on 15 and 17 September in a long-running dispute about pay, jobs and conditions.", "Argentinian health officials announced their findings of Legionella bacteria as a suspected cause of death on Saturday\n\nHealth officials in Argentina have said that an infectious pneumonia outbreak which killed four people may have been caused by Legionnaire's disease.\n\nSeven other cases have been found, most at a clinic in the northern province of Tucuman where the deaths occurred.\n\nThe relatively rare lung disease is commonly linked to contaminated water or unclean air-conditioning systems.\n\nThe World Health Organisation was alerted earlier this week to the cluster of infections.\n\nDoctors trying to determine the cause of the flu-like symptoms ruled out Covid-19, flu and the hantavirus - a severe respiratory disease carried by rodents - after testing the patients in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman.\n\nOfficials said the symptoms first appeared in six cases related to the facility which developed between 18 and 23 August.\n\nLegionella bacteria - which causes the illness - is commonly found in water sources such as rivers and lakes which sometimes find their way into artificial water systems.\n\nAn estimated 10% of people who contract the disease die from complications arising from the infection.\n\nArgentinian Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said on Saturday that the authorities were working to ensure the clinic was safe for all.", "A man, believed to be in his 20s. was found with gunshot wounds and taken to hospital where he later died\n\nA 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a shooting in London.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers were called to Kensington High Street in West Kensington at about 02:00 BST.\n\nA man, believed to be in his 20s, was found with gunshot wounds and taken to hospital where he later died.\n\nHis next of kin have been informed. Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact officers.\n\nIt was the second shooting to take place in the capital over the weekend.\n\nOn Saturday, a 24-year-old man was taken to hospital after being shot in Hackney.\n\nWhile in Bow, a teenager was stabbed to death and another suffered serious injuries after a \"disturbance involving a large number of people\" in the early hours of Sunday.\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. Liz Truss promises to act immediately on bills and energy supply\n\nLiz Truss has promised to announce a plan to deal with soaring energy costs within a week if she becomes prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful, the favourite according to pollsters, told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg she would \"act immediately\" to help with bills.\n\nBut she offered no details, saying she would need time in office first in order to finalise exact proposals.\n\nHer rival Rishi Sunak said he would target further payments at the poorest.\n\nOne of the two contenders will be announced as the next Tory leader on Monday, and will replace Boris Johnson in Downing Street the next day.\n\nThey have come under pressure to spell out how they would protect households with rising bills, as well as give help to businesses, which are not covered by the domestic price cap.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Foreign Secretary Ms Truss said action on energy bills would be \"vital\" for people and the economy.\n\nShe added that further support would need to go \"hand in hand\" with a plan to boost domestic energy supplies, arguing the UK had become too dependent on international energy prices.\n\nMr Sunak said further energy payments, beyond those he announced as chancellor, should be targeted at pensioners and the low-paid.\n\nHe has argued his suggested cut to VAT on energy bills would also provide some help for all.\n\nHe also said he couldn't rule out the prospect of blackouts over the winter to ration supplies, as the situation was \"serious\" and \"every tool in the toolbox\" would be needed.\n\n\"Of course we don't want to be in that situation, but I think it's responsible not to rule it out,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says he can't solve the issue around energy bills for everyone\n\nMs Truss has promised to deliver around £30bn in tax cuts in an emergency Budget later this month if she wins, including a reversal of April's rise to National Insurance.\n\nPressed on whether richer people would benefit more from the cut, she said: \"The people at the top of the income distribution pay more tax - so inevitably, when you cut taxes you tend to benefit people who are more likely to pay tax.\"\n\nBut she added: \"To look at everything through the lens of redistribution I believe is wrong. Because what I'm about is growing the economy - and growing the economy benefits everybody.\n\n\"The economic debate for the past 20 years has been dominated by discussions about distribution. And what's happened is we've had relatively low growth\".\n\nBeyond his proposed cut to VAT on energy bills, Mr Sunak has taken a different approach, arguing permanent tax cuts should wait until inflation goes down.\n\nLabour's shadow attorney-general Emily Thornberry said it was \"extraordinary\" neither candidate had given a \"specific answer\" about their energy plans during the weeks-long leadership race.\n\nShe added that people were \"desperate\" for help, and those on middle incomes as well as the poorest would struggle with rising bills.\n\nHer party, along with the Liberal Democrats and the SNP, wants to freeze energy bills by paying energy companies to sell gas and electricity below market rates this winter.\n\nThe Lib Dems have said they will table a bill in Parliament next week on their plan - which will not be voted on, but could offer more detail of their proposals.\n\nMs Truss declined to say whether she might implement a price freeze, saying it would be wrong for her to give details of her plan before she is appointed.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged Ms Truss to \"cancel\" further energy rises and give \"substantial\" support to business.\n\nMr Johnson's successor will be announced at 12:30 BST on Monday, before taking office on Tuesday after being formally appointed by the Queen.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the winner will travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for the ceremony, rather than Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen has been suffering from mobility issues and it is understood the change was made to prevent the need for any last-minute rearrangements.", "Margaret Keenan, pictured here getting a booster, was the first person outside of trials to get an approved Covid jab\n\nMillions of people will be invited for their autumn Covid booster jab in England and Scotland next week, with care home residents the first to receive them.\n\nAlthough infections are falling, health bosses are predicting a resurgence of Covid and flu this autumn and winter.\n\nThey are urging those eligible to protect themselves from serious illness by getting vaccines against both.\n\nA recently approved vaccine against the Omicron variant will be used first.\n\nHowever, there is not enough of Moderna's \"bivalent\" vaccine to protect everyone aged over 50 so health officials say people should take whichever booster they are offered. These will be the vaccines used in the spring.\n\nThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced on Saturday that it had approved a second \"bivalent\" coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech for people aged 12 and over.\n\nThe groups who qualify for an autumn booster are:\n\nThe most vulnerable will be prioritised first.\n\nWales has already started offering Covid boosters to care home residents and staff.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the rollout will begin on 19 September targeting the same groups.\n\nCare home residents in Scotland will be offered a Covid booster first from Monday, followed by health and social care workers.\n\nEngland's autumn booster campaign starts on the same day, with 1.6 million care home residents, staff and housebound people the first to receive their top-up Covid jab.\n\nAlso from Monday, another four million people at highest risk - including over-75s and those with weakened immune systems - will be invited to book a vaccine appointment, with slots on offer at GP surgeries and pharmacies from the following week.\n\nCovid infection levels in the UK have been falling since the start of the July, with the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics showing around 1.7% of the population - around 1.1 million people - had the virus in the week to 23 August.\n\nThe number testing positive would be:\n\nThe ONS says it is monitoring Covid rates closely as children return to school across the UK.\n\nCases of Covid in hospital are also falling.\n\nBut health experts have warned the virus and flu are likely to make a comeback together during the autumn and winter for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nNHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard called on people \"to get the newly approved, next generation Covid vaccine when invited to do so, as well as your annual flu jab, to ensure you have maximum protection\".\n\nCovid and flu vaccines may be offered at the same appointment and both jabs are approved to be given at the same time. However, local health systems will organise the rollout in the way that suits them best.\n\nMore than 126 million Covid vaccines have been given by NHS staff and volunteers since the start of the vaccine programme in December 2020.", "The launch of Nasa's new Artemis I Moon rocket is facing a potentially lengthy delay after a second postponement.\n\nControllers tried and failed again on Saturday to get the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle to lift off. They were thwarted by a fuel leak.\n\nEngineers now want to inspect the rocket, and any repairs may need to happen in the workshop rather than on the launch pad.\n\nThe whole process is certain to lead to a setback of several weeks.\n\nIt means we may not see a third launch attempt before mid-October at the earliest.\n\nThe SLS is the most powerful rocket ever developed by the US space agency, and is designed to send astronauts and their equipment back to the Moon after an absence of 50 years.\n\nMuch of the enormous thrust comes from burning almost three million litres of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen in four big engines on the vehicle's underside.\n\nBut when controllers sent the command early on Saturday morning to fill the rocket's hydrogen tank, an alarm went off, indicating there was a leak.\n\nThe problem was traced to the connection where the hydrogen was being pumped into the vehicle.\n\nControllers tried a number of fixes, including allowing the hardware to warm up for short periods to reset the seal, but they were not successful.\n\nThe Artemis I mission is uncrewed, but Nasa's Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said the rocket's future role in human spaceflight meant extreme care was still required in its operation.\n\n\"This is an incredibly hard business. This is an initial test flight of this vehicle. As was said: we're going to fly when we're ready. And as part of this initial test flight, we're learning the vehicle; we're learning how to operate the vehicle,\" he told reporters.\n\nHis boss, Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson, agreed: \"I look at this as a part of our space programme, of which safety is the top of the list.\"\n\nBill Nelson and his Artemis managers are adamant SLS will not launch until it is ready\n\nThe leaky seal on the SLS could conceivably be fixed on the launch pad. But there are batteries in the termination system used to destroy the rocket in the event of a wayward launch that will require recertification beyond this coming week, and this can only be done in the workshop.\n\nRolling the vehicle back to the engineering building makes a third lift-off attempt before mid-October unlikely.\n\n\"In order to test our batteries, change out the batteries, we have to roll back,\" said Jim Free, Nasa's associate administrator for exploration systems development.\n\nSaturday's attempt to despatch the SLS rocket had been scheduled for the start of a two-hour window beginning at 14:17 local time (19:17 BST; 18:17 GMT).\n\nThe 100m-tall vehicle's objective is to hurl a human-rated capsule, called Orion, in the direction of the Moon, something that hasn't happened since Project Apollo ended in 1972.\n\nNasa had first tried to launch the rocket on Monday. That attempt was waved off when controllers couldn't be sure the four big engines at the base of the core-stage were at the correct operating temperature.\n\nFrustratingly, subsequent analysis indicated that a sensor was almost certainly outputting inaccurate readings. The power units, in all probability, were in absolutely the right condition to go fly.\n\nWhen the SLS does get away, it is sure to be a spectacular sight.\n\n\"It's gonna be 'shuttle on steroids',\" said Doug Hurley, who was the pilot on the very last shuttle mission in 2011.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former astronaut Doug Hurley: \"We're building on safe, capable designs\"\n\nThe former astronaut now works for Northrop Grumman who make the big white solid boosters on the sides of the SLS.\n\n\"What I always thought was the coolest thing about shuttle launches was you saw it lift off and it was well clear of the tower before you heard anything, and then it was even a little longer before you felt it,\" he explained.\n\n\"Thrust to weight-wise, SLS is pretty close to what shuttle was. Apollo's Saturn V rocket was drastically different. I never saw it in person but it lumbered clear of the pad. For shuttle, it seemed like it was clear in an instant, almost as soon as the boosters were lit. SLS should be the same,\" he told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: The upper-stage of the rocket will put the Orion capsule on a path to the Moon", "Mr Scholz (second left) announced the measures flanked by coalition allies\n\nGermany has announced a €65bn (£56.2bn) package of measures to ease the threat of rising energy costs, as Europe struggles with scarce supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe package, much bigger than two previous ones, will include one-off payments to the most vulnerable and tax breaks to energy-intensive businesses.\n\nEnergy prices have soared since the February invasion, and Europe is trying to wean itself off Russian energy.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was trying to destroy the normal life of every European citizen. In his nightly address on Saturday, he said Russia was preparing a \"decisive energy attack on all Europeans\", and only unity among European countries would offer protection.\n\nAnd in a BBC interview broadcast on Sunday, his wife Olena said that if support for Ukraine was strong the crisis would be shorter. She reminded Britons that while rising living costs were tough, Ukrainians were paying with their lives.\n\nAccording to website Politico, European Union officials have warned there is likely to be a crunch point in the coming months when countries start to feel acute economic pain while also still being asked to help the Ukrainian military and humanitarian effort.\n\nThere are already small signs of discontent, with protesters taking to the streets of the Czech capital Prague on Sunday, rallying against high energy prices and calling for an end to sanctions against Russia. Police said about 70,000 people, mainly from far-right and far-left groups were in attendance.\n\nMeanwhile, several hundred protesters gathered at Lubmin in north-eastern Germany, the terminal of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia.\n\nThey were calling for the commissioning of Nord Stream 2, a new pipeline which was about to go online but was blocked by the German government after the invasion.\n\nTwo days ago, Russia said it was suspending gas exports to Germany through the already operating Nord Stream 1 pipeline indefinitely.\n\nThe stand-off with Russia has forced countries like Germany to find supplies elsewhere, and its stores have increased from less than half full in June to 84% full today.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz told journalists Germany would get through the winter, adding that Russia was \"no longer a reliable energy partner\".\n\nHe said the government would make one-off payments to pensioners, people on benefits and students. There would also be caps on energy bills.\n\nSome 9,000 energy-intensive businesses would receive tax breaks to the tune of €1.7bn.\n\nA windfall tax on energy company profits would also be used to mitigate bills, Mr Scholz said.\n\nThe energy crisis has forced Germany to bring this coal-fired power station back onto the grid\n\nThe latest package brings the total spent on relief from the energy crisis to almost €100bn, which compares to about €300bn spent on interventions to keep the German economy afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCountries across Europe are considering similar measures.\n\nUK Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss has said she will announce a plan to deal with energy costs within a week if she becomes prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nAnd EU energy ministers are due to meet on 9 September to discuss how to ease the burden of energy prices across the bloc.\n\nA document released about the meeting says the agenda will include price caps for gas and emergency liquidity support for energy market participants, Reuters news agency reported.", "A view of the Klyuchevskaya mountains in the Kamchatka region\n\nRescuers in Russia's far east are launching a fresh attempt to reach three climbers stuck on a volcano, after nine of their tour group - all Russians - died heading for the summit.\n\nFive of the victims died in a fall, climbing above 4,000m (13,123ft) on Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Kamchatka.\n\nRussian media report that three are now sheltering from gale-force winds in a volcanologists' hut at 3,300m.\n\nThey have told rescuers by phone that they have fuel and food.\n\nTwo climbers are in the hut with a guide. A second guide was among the four who died on the mountainside, after five others had plunged to their deaths.\n\nThe group was 12-strong when it began the ascent of the 4,754m peak last Tuesday.\n\nThe active volcano is especially hazardous because of its height, the risk of eruptions, and its ice and rock falls.\n\nA rescue helicopter managed to land at 1,663m at the fourth attempt, defying the strong wind which is whipping up powder snow and hampering visibility.\n\nIt brought rescuers who now face a two-day climb to reach the hut, Lenta.ru website reports.\n\nIt is also a race against time, as a new storm is heading towards the volcano, where temperatures can drop to -14C (7F) at night.\n\nKlyuchevskaya Sopka - whose symmetrical cone towers high above the Kamchatka peninsula - is part of the natural Volcanoes of Kamchatka Unesco World Heritage site.\n\nThe volcano is considered sacred by some indigenous communities.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nVerstappen could clinch his second world title as soon as the Singapore GP later this month Max Verstappen's serene march to a second title continued with a comfortable victory in an eventful Dutch Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver had to pass Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes after a late safety-car period to take his 10th win in 15 races this year to extend his lead to 109 points. Hamilton was left fuming after Mercedes failed to change his tyres during the caution period. That left him vulnerable and allowed team-mate George Russell and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to pass him after the restart to take the other podium places. Hamilton, who briefly had slim hopes of a victory with about 20 laps to go, saw them evaporate in a situation remarkably similar to the way in which he lost his eighth world title in Abu Dhabi last year. He managed to hang on to fourth ahead of Red Bull's Sergio Perez, Fernando Alonso's Alpine and Lando Norris' McLaren. Ferrari's Carlos Sainz finished fifth on the road but was demoted to eighth after a five-second penalty for an unsafe pit stop release.\n• None Hamilton taken to 'breaking point' as win slips away Verstappen has won 10 grands prix in a season for the second successive year. With seven races remaining in 2022, he has a chance to eclipse the all-time record of 13 wins in a season held jointly by Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel Verstappen had been cruising to victory until a couple of caution periods in the final part of the race. Hamilton and Russell had moved past Leclerc using what was planned to be a one-stop strategy rather than the two used by Verstappen and Ferrari. Verstappen would have had to pass both Mercedes after his second stop but he was saved needing to by a bizarre sequence of events involving Yuki Tsunoda, driving for Red Bull's sister Alpha Tauri team. Tsunoda stopped on track after a pit stop saying a wheel was not on, but was told by the team that it was and to continue. He pitted, only to stop on track and force a virtual safety car. Verstappen used the VSC to pull in for his second stop and switched on to the hard tyre for what he expected to be the remainder of the race. Mercedes, who had already made what they expected to be their only stop at that point, took the opportunity of the VSC to stop again and fit medium tyres. When the VSC period ended, Hamilton began closing in on Verstappen, reducing his lead from 15.4secs to 10.7secs in six laps. But then with 16 laps to go there was a safety car when the engine in Valtteri Bottas' Alfa Romeo failed and he stopped on the pit straight. Verstappen pitted again for soft tyres, putting him behind both Mercedes but on better tyres, and then a lap later, as the field was directed through the pits, Russell made the call to do the same, while Mercedes did not change Hamilton's mediums. That left Verstappen right behind Hamilton for the restart on much grippier tyres, and he swept around the Mercedes at the first corner after the restart to take back control of the race. Hamilton swore on the radio to his team, saying he could not believe how much they had messed him up, as first Russell and then Leclerc passed him and deprived him of the podium place it appeared he had earlier locked away. Verstappen's second home win in as many years since Zandvoort returned to the calendar last year sent a capacity crowd of 105,000 wild, on a weekend that was effectively a festival devoted to worshipping a national hero. \"We had to push the whole race,\" said Verstappen. \"Of course with the virtual safety car, making the right calls is always a bit of a question mark but it worked out really well once we got back to the soft tyres. We had great pace again. \"I had a good run in the restart [after the full safety car period], we had a bit more top speed and that helps to attack into Turn One and from there onwards we had really good balance in the car again. \"It's always special to win your home grand prix, this year I had to work for it even more. An incredible weekend.\" Ferrari mechanics scramble to fit the left-rear tyre to Sainz's car at his opening pit stop Ferrari had started the race with Leclerc and Sainz in second and third, but the team that a few races ago had designs on the title had yet another bad afternoon. Sainz's race unravelled at his first pit stop, when the team did not have his left rear tyre ready - team boss Mattia Binotto said the call for him to pit had been made too late, when he was in the final corner, and did not give the mechanics time to ready the tyres. And Leclerc was demoted to what was looking to be a fourth place by Mercedes' strong race pace and one-stop strategy. The late safety car, and Mercedes' decision not to change Hamilton's tyres, gave him a second chance, though, and he followed Russell past the seven-time champion to take third. \"To be honest, much better [than third] was difficult to do,\" said Leclerc. \"We were a little unlucky with the VSC. I don't know if this would have changed anything, Max was too quick today. \"As I said in Spa, the gap [in the championship] is now really big, we will take it race by race and try to maximise our potential and let's see what's possible.\" Leclerc may not be giving up the title fight yet, but Verstappen, it seems, is likely to clinch it when F1 goes to Asia after the next race in Italy this coming weekend. If he leaves the following race in Singapore with a lead of 138 points or more, he is world champion. Leaving Japan a week later, it needs only to be 112. It is coming, the only question is when.\n• None How to fool the opposition effectively in sport?: Sideways delves into the world of deception\n• None The raw and honest story of Paul Gascoigne and his turbulent life", "For two minutes today the drumming will cease, the pipers will fall silent, the march of boots on procession routes will still.\n\nFor two minutes today, at the end of the funeral service in Westminster Abbey, before the national anthem is heard, before the coffin is taken away for committal and burial at Windsor, there will be silence.\n\nA reign of seven decades will come to a close. For 10 rather bewildering days we have spoken of the Queen and the new king as if they could somehow both be with us.\n\nToday that long week of transition comes to an end.\n\nIn the earliest years of her reign, a new Elizabethan Age was proclaimed by some. Such was the excitement over the young queen, the marvels of technology and the new prosperity, after the grinding grey of the depression years, the sacrifice of World War Two and the hard road of recovery after it.\n\nShe - wise in her earliest decades to fickle fashion - dismissed all that talk. But if this was not an age - and who are we to contradict her? - then it was an era, the Elizabethan Era.\n\nOver decades of wrenching change, she was constancy, for a largely still-conservative country. That profile on the stamps, that voice at Christmas, that bowed head on Remembrance Sunday.\n\nToday the door swings shut on that.\n\nIt swings shut too on \"Prince\" Charles, on his many decades as Prince of Wales.\n\nHis staff always bridled at the idea of him as an understudy or apprentice, pointing to his decades of achievement, of carving out a distinct role.\n\nThe Unseen Queen showed a side of Her Majesty that was kept out of sight, but never disappeared\n\nHis challenge, once Royal Mourning is over, is in part to enjoy - and show that he enjoys - the role of monarch.\n\nHis mother understood that part of the job was to rally people - to take people's minds off bills and dull jobs and complaining relatives, to entertain and divert and sometimes delight.\n\nThat he did good work as prince, transforming so many lives for the better, is unquestionable. But often, alongside, the impression given was that things were grim, that there was a lot of cause for complaint. The word \"appalling\" seemed to come up a lot.\n\nNow the door swings shut on that. Britons want to see the best of themselves reflected in their sovereign.\n\nAnd, as the silence stretches out across Westminster, across the capital and the country, the door swings shut on Elizabeth, on the woman known to so many and never really known at all, on the little girl known to her grandpa as Lilibet.\n\nIn The Unseen Queen, the BBC's beautiful documentary of family-filmed footage of the young princess, Lilibet prances and dances, pranks and laughs. Her eyes shine with laughter. And they shine with love, for her father, the king who would die so early, and her husband Prince Philip, who would be by her side for so long.\n\nOver the decades that prancing, dancing, loving girl and young woman was by necessity put out of sight. This past week have come reminders from friends and confidantes, and those members of the public she let into the secret, that Lilibet was always there.\n\n\"You always hope that future generations will find them interesting,\" she said of the family films, \"and perhaps be surprised that you too were young once\".\n\nNo-one should be too surprised. Because in her final months, that youthful Elizabeth, that Lilibet, returned to public view with that playful gleam in her eye, drawing a marmalade sandwich from her handbag.\n\nThe handbag is closed. The gleam is now a memory. And today the door swings shut.", "Londoners Ayissa Khan and Samir Dwesar said to each other: \"Let's do it!\"\n\nPeople have been coming to London from all over the UK and much further afield to queue for hours and pay their final respects to the Queen. BBC News has been speaking to some about what motivated them.\n\nMourners were warned to brace themselves for a very lengthy wait. But that didn't deter those gathering at the rear of the miles-long queue to pay their respects on Saturday.\n\nAs the crowds filed into Southwark Park in south-east London to begin their long procession to Westminster Hall, a large LED sign left them in no doubt what they were letting themselves in for.\n\n\"WAIT TIME FROM THIS POINT MINIMUM 14 HOURS,\" it read.\n\nCompared to the previous day - when the park had been closed to new arrivals after reaching capacity and wait times had reached 24 hours - this would be, after all, a relatively brisk wait.\n\nAssiya Khan from west London and Samir Dwesar from Croydon, both 32, joined the queue just after 11:00 BST on Saturday. They had originally planned to turn up in the middle of the night when they anticipated the queue would drop - but when they checked the official tracker at 02:00 and 04:00, the predicted wait time had not fallen.\n\n\"Then BBC News flashed up saying it had dropped to 14 hours,\" says Assiya. \"So we just said, let's do it.\"\n\nBut neither mind how long they end up standing in line. \"It's all part of the experience,\" says Samir.\n\nIt was, after all, a clear, bright, dry early autumn day - perfect conditions for standing outdoors for hours.\n\nFriends Claire and Emma came from north-east England with a suitcase of body warmers and thermal leggings\n\nAnd still the mourners kept coming at a rate of 2,000 an hour. Throughout the morning, the park grew visibly fuller.\n\nThose arriving were clearly anticipating a long stay - most were in warmer clothes than would be expect for the daytime in London in mid-September, with lots of parkas, hats and big jumpers.\n\nClaire Thomas, 46, and friend Emma Hughes, 29, travelled down from Newcastle and Sunderland respectively and with them was a wheelie suitcase full of body warmers, thermal leggings and the like.\n\nClaire's rucksack was filled with provisions to keep their energy levels up - \"fruit, sweets energy bars - lots of sugar and protein,\" said Emma purposefully.\n\nBut none would have prepared to stand until the early hours unless this was a meaningful occasion for them. Behind every face in the queue was a different story of some kind of connection to the late monarch, however great or small.\n\nJacqueline Pearsons said seeing the Queen evoked memories of her late mother\n\nAs she waited to collect the wristband that would give her access to the queue, Jacqueline Pearsons, 51, from north London, brushed a tear from her eye.\n\nThis was an emotional occasion for her, she explained. Her mother, who died two-and-a-half years ago, had been a great fan of the late Queen, having attended her coronation in 1953.\n\n\"So every time I saw the Queen, she brought back memories of my mum,\" said Jacqueline. \"And now she's gone as well. So this feels like something I have really got to do.\"\n\nAs word reached the rear of the queue that the King and the Prince of Wales had made a surprise visit to mourners further down the line, those at the back were appreciative of the gesture.\n\n\"They're doing what their mum and grandmother did,\" says Sarah Mellor, 44, from Chorley, Lancashire. \"I've got so much respect for that - it must be really hard when you lose your mum at 73.\"\n\nMichael travelled overnight from Georgia in the US to pay his respects to \"the mother of this country\"\n\nAnd as they prepared to wait in line into the early hours, many of those standing in line said it was a small sacrifice to make.\n\nMichael Tropp, a self-described Anglophile from Atlanta, Georgia, had arrived from the US in the morning on a nine-hour overnight flight. The Queen's death was a moment in history that he'd felt compelled to honour.\n\n\"For 70 years she's been the mother of this country,\" he said. \"There will never be anything like this again in my lifetime.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nMathias Pogba has been detained and placed under formal investigation over an alleged plot to extort money from his brother, French international Paul.\n\nFour other people have also been placed under formal investigation for extortion and criminal association, judicial sources told news agencies Reuters and Agence France-Presse.\n\nMathias Pogba's lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, said his client is innocent.\n\nHe told French broadcaster BFMTV: \"We are going to challenge this decision.\"\n\nMathias Pogba, 32, has admitted he was behind a video that appeared online last month promising \"revelations\" about the 29-year-old Juventus midfielder.\n\nFrench prosecutors opened a judicial investigation earlier this month after former Manchester United player Paul said he was the target of extortion and threats from an organised gang.\n\nHe filed a complaint with Turin prosecutors on 16 July claiming he was the target of a 13m euro (£11.29m) blackmail plot.\n\nA World Cup winner with France in 2018, Pogba moved to Juventus on a free transfer this summer after leaving Manchester United.\n\nMathias Pogba is also a professional footballer who has been capped by Guinea and played for clubs across Europe including Crewe, Wrexham, Crawley and Partick Thistle.\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", "In a pine forest at the edge of Izyum the stench of death filled the air as a mass exhumation got under way.\n\nThe earth is giving up its secrets. Ukrainian officials believe war crimes have been committed, which they are determined to document.\n\nAround 100 Ukrainian emergency service workers wearing blue plastic coverings dug into the earth, opening makeshift graves.\n\nThey are trying to establish the cause of death of hundreds of people buried in a forest at the edge of the city, recently liberated by advancing Ukrainian forces.\n\nIzyum, invaded in April, was used by Russia as a key military hub to supply its forces from the east.\n\nThe exhumation was conducted mostly in silence, as police and prosecutors looked on. One officer put his head in his hands. Another walked away.\n\nKharkiv regional prosecutor Olexander Ilyenkov says there is no doubt war crimes have been committed here.\n\n\"In the first grave, there is a civilian who has a rope over her neck. So we see the traces of torture,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said almost everyone died because of Russian soldiers.\n\n\"Some of them were killed, some were tortured, some were killed because of Russian Federation air and artillery strikes.\"\n\nSome graves were marked with a name, but most only had numbers\n\nUkraine was determined to show this disturbing sight to the world. Convoys of international journalists were brought to watch on.\n\nThe burial ground - beside an existing cemetery - contains row after row of graves, marked by crude wooden crosses.\n\nNames were written on a few, but most were marked only by a number. The burials here were carried out under the orders of the Russians when they were in control.\n\nUkrainian police say there are 445 new graves at the site, but some contain more than one body. It's unclear how all of them died. Many are said to be civilians, women and children among them.\n\nProsecutors say some were killed by Russian shelling and others were victims of a Russian airstrike on an apartment block in March, in which 47 people were killed.\n\nOfficials say one grave contained around 20 soldiers, some with their hands bound and one with a noose around his neck. The body of a man in military uniform was exhumed and zipped into a white body bag.\n\nAs the graves were opened there were sporadic explosions in the distance as the security forces worked to de-mine the area.\n\n72-year-old Hryhorii came to the burial site today to see the grave of his wife, Ludmilla. He told us she was killed on 7 March during heavy shelling in Izyum.\n\nHryhorii's wife is buried at the site\n\nHe first had to bury her in the yard of their home, then she was reburied in August. Now her remains will be disturbed once again.\n\nIt's only now, since the Russians have been pushed out, that Ukraine can carry out detailed investigations here, and can determine how many victims the occupiers left behind.\n\nA woman who lived opposite the forest told us Russians troops had kept locals away from the cemetery.\n\nA local man named Maxim appeared at the burial site, asking journalists to record his account of torture.\n\nHe said he was detained by the Russians in early September, and released by Ukrainian forces when they arrived in Izyum last Saturday (10 September).\n\nHe showed us the marks on his wrists caused by handcuffs, and said he had been subjected to electric shocks.\n\nA senior advisor to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC evidence of torture was found in some areas recently retaken by Ukrainian forces.\n\n\"We saw wildly frightened people who were kept without light, without food, without water, and without the right to justice,\" Mykhailo Podolyak said.\n\nKharkiv prosecutor Mr Ilyenkov said several similar burial sites had been found in areas recently retaken by Ukrainian forces.\n\nUS national security spokesman John Kirby said reports of the graves in Izyum were \"horrifying\" but \"in keeping with the kind of depravity and the brutality with which Russian forces have been prosecuting this war against Ukraine\".\n\n\"We're going to continue to actively support efforts to document war crimes and atrocities that Russian forces commit in Ukraine and to assist national and international efforts to identify and hold Russians accountable,\" he added.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron condemned \"in the strongest possible terms\" what he described as the \"atrocities\" committed in Izyum.\n\nBritish lawyer Nigel Povoas, who specialises in the prosecution and investigation of major international and transnational crime and who has just returned from Izyum, told the BBC's Newshour he would not be surprised if the exhumations revealed evidence of war crimes.\n\n\"I think that the early signs at the moment - although it's very very early - is that some of the bodies have died from shelling or malnutrition and a lack of healthcare,\" he said. \"But as normal bodies are tested and the cause of death determined, I would expect there to be also evidence of torture and executions, because it follows a pattern of what's been happening in the occupied territories.\"", "Protests have broken out at the funeral of a woman who died after being arrested by Iran's morality police.\n\nMahsa Amini, 22, died on Friday, days after eyewitnesses said she was beaten in a police van in Tehran - allegations denied by police.\n\nSome women at the ceremony reportedly removed their headscarves in protest at the compulsory wearing of hijabs.\n\nMourners chanted \"death to the dictator\", with videos showing police later firing on a crowd.\n\nThe funeral took place in Ms Amini's hometown, Saqez, in the western province of Kurdistan.\n\nAccording to videos published on social media, locals gathered very early in the morning to prevent Iranian security forces rushing through the burial in secret to avoid protests.\n\nReports suggested that some angry protesters marched toward the local governor's office to protest about the death. According to videos received and verified by the BBC Persian Service, the security forces opened fire on protesters.\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 Shayan Sardarizadeh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were also reports of injuries and arrests. In videos published on Twitter, security forces can be seen guarding the governor's office and arresting protesters trying to get close to the building.\n\nA picture of Ms Amini's gravestone was published on social media. It reads: \"You didn't die. Your name will be a code [rallying call].\"\n\nMs Amini was arrested on Tuesday by the morality police for allegedly not complying with the strict dress code on head coverings.\n\nAccording to eyewitnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van and slipped into a coma later.\n\nIranian police denied the allegations, saying she had \"suffered a sudden heart failure\".\n\nEbrahim Raisi, Iran's hardline president, has asked the ministry of the interior to launch an investigation into the death.\n\nKasra Hospital in Northern Tehran said in a statement that Ms Amini was admitted on 13 September showing \"no vital signs\".\n\nThe statement was later removed from the hospital's social media after hardline social media accounts accused hospital staff of being \"anti-regime agents\".\n\nIranian TV also aired CCTV footage of Ms Amini under arrest. Human rights activists accused state TV of censoring the footage to create a false story.\n\nAccording to Netblocks, a watchdog organization that monitors cybersecurity and internet governance, the internet connection has been disrupted in various locations in Iran since news of Ms Amini's death came out, including in the capital, Tehran, and Saqez.\n\nMany users said they could not upload videos on Instagram or send content over WhatsApp.\n\nIranian state-controlled Sharq newspaper reported that Tehran's very low internet speed disrupted the stock market on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by NetBlocks 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\nSince the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, women have been legally required to wear modest \"Islamic\" clothing. In practice, this means women must wear a chador, a full-body cloak, or a headscarf and a manteau (overcoat) that covers their arms.\n\nIn recent years, Iran has seen several campaigns against the compulsory hijab, but a crackdown by Iran's morality police on women accused of not complying with the dress code has caused opponents of the policy to call for action.\n\nRecently, the head of Iran's judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejeie, suggested that foreign powers are behind the campaign, instructing intelligence agencies to find the \"hands behind the naked veil\".\n\nEarlier in the summer, President Raisi also promised to crack down on the \"promotion of organized corruption in the Islamic society\", directly referring to the campaign.\n\nIn recent months, Iranian state TV has showed televised confessions of women arrested for not following the strict dress code.\n\nMany Iranians blame the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, for the crackdown. A speech by him is being shared on social media in which he praises the role of the morality police and the way it operates.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSon Heung-min ended his goal drought with a scintillating 13-minute hat-trick as Tottenham ruthlessly punished Leicester's latest defensive horror show.\n\nThe South Korea striker responded to Antonio Conte's decision to drop him to the bench after a barren start to the season by coming on to curl home two fantastic strikes and slot home a late third.\n\nSpurs trailed to Youri Tielemans' early penalty but took advantage of the Foxes' failings at set-pieces as Harry Kane and Eric Dier nodded home from corners to turn the game around.\n\nJames Maddison's fabulous first-time finish briefly drew Leicester level again, but Wilfried Ndidi's mistake allowed Rodrigo Bentancur to steer Tottenham back in front before substitute Son stole the show.\n• None Follow reaction to Spurs v Leicester and the rest of Saturday's Premier League fixtures\n• None Go straight to the best Leicester City content\n\nVictory maintained Spurs' unbeaten start to the Premier League season as they climbed to second, level on points with leaders Manchester City.\n\nLeicester, meanwhile, remain at the foot of the table, still searching for their first win, despite having led in four of their seven matches thus far.\n\nAs at all Premier League games this weekend, fans observed a minute's silence for the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and a 70th-minute round of applause in honour of her 70-year reign.\n\nSon had failed to score in eight games in all competitions for Spurs so far this season but it was still a brave decision from boss Conte to drop last season's joint-Golden Boot winner.\n\nIn fairness, he could not have asked for better opposition to open his account, given the brittleness of the Foxes' backline but the quality of his first two strikes stood out.\n\nBoth were curled into the top corner from the edge of the box - the first with his right foot, the second with his left - as the 30-year-old proved the old adage that form is temporary but class permanent.\n\nEven an erroneous offside flag could not deny him the match ball as VAR replays showed he was just onside when he strode clear to beat Danny Ward for his third goal and Spurs' sixth.\n\nWhile Son's stunning cameo will hog the headlines, there was plenty more for Conte to be pleased about after seeing his side record a seventh successive win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nFive different players provided assists, with Ivan Perisic's dead-ball delivery complementing Dejan Kulusevski's crosses from open play, while Bentancur contributed his first goal for the club.\n\nBut they will need to cut out defensive lapses such as Davinson Sanchez's needless challenge on James Justin that handed Leicester their early lead, Tielemans tucking home at the second attempt after VAR spotted Hugo Lloris had encroached off his line in saving the initial spot-kick.\n\nWhen it comes to defensive debacles, however, no top-flight team is a patch on Leicester, who have now lost 4-2, 5-2 and 6-2 on the road this season, conceding a league-high 22 goals overall.\n\nIt is not a new phenomenon either - they have kept just two clean sheets in 19 games, conceded 25 set-piece goals since the start of last season and dropped 11 points from winning positions this term alone.\n\nWhile boss Brendan Rodgers, enduring the longest losing league run of his career after six successive defeats, said earlier this week the club's hierarchy had been \"very supportive\", that patience surely has a limit after a haul of just one point from seven games.\n\nThe dithering Ndidi's error to help Bentancur put Spurs 3-2 up at a vital juncture of the game characterised their lack of confidence, while deadline-day signing Wout Faes endured a chastening debut.\n\nUntil Son's introduction and Leicester's collapse, the Foxes arguably created as many chances as the hosts in the first hour, with Lloris notably saving well from Maddison and Patson Daka with the game in the balance.\n\nBut the Foxes' talented attackers, even the again excellent Maddison, who brilliantly swept home Timothy Castagne's cross to make it 2-2, simply cannot cancel out the volume of goals shipped at the other end.\n\nIt could have been more too. A Daka own goal was ruled out for a foul by Sanchez on Ward, who also tipped a header from the Spurs defender onto the bar later in the first half.\n• None Attempt saved. James Maddison (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n• None Attempt saved. Youri Tielemans (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Maddison.\n• None Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 6, Leicester City 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg following a fast break.Goal awarded following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rodrigo Bentancur.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 5, Leicester City 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Kane tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rodrigo Bentancur (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. 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", "How long until a robot is doing your chores? , published at 00:37 29 August How long until a robot is doing your chores?", "Ukrainian and international investigators have been collecting evidence of war crimes\n\nThe European Union presidency has called for an international tribunal over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe call, from the Czech Republic which currently holds the rotating presidency of the bloc, came after the discovery of hundreds of graves in Izyum, a town recently liberated by Ukrainian troops.\n\nMany are said to be civilians, women and children among them.\n\n\"We stand for the punishment of all war criminals,\" Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said.\n\nUkraine says it believes war crimes have been committed in Izyum, where 59 bodies have been exhumed so far - with more expected from the graves in a forest at the edge of the city.\n\n\"In the 21st Century, such attacks against the civilian population are unthinkable and abhorrent,\" Mr Lipavsky said.\n\n\"We must not overlook it. We stand for the punishment of all war criminals,\" he said.\n\n\"I call for the speedy establishment of a special international tribunal that will prosecute the crime of aggression.\"\n\nIn his regular address on Saturday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said investigators had discovered new evidence of torture used against the people buried in Izyum, in Kharkiv region.\n\n\"More than 10 torture chambers have already been found in the liberated areas of Kharkiv region, in various cities and towns,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nHe said the Russians would have to answer \"both on the battlefield and in courtrooms\".\n\nOn Thursday, EU Commission President chief Ursula von der Leyen said she wanted Mr Putin to face the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nRussia claims it is fighting to de-Nazify Ukraine, in a conflict it still refers to as a \"special military operation\" rather than a war.\n\nIt has not commented on the burial sites at Izyum. Moscow has previously denied targeting civilians.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin failing on all his strategic military objectives - Radakin\n\nThe discovery of the burial sites came as Ukrainian troops continue their counter-offensive in the country's north-east, after successfully recapturing territory from Russia in recent days.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukrainian counter-offensives would not change Russia's military plans in the east of Ukraine.\n\nThe UK defence ministry says Russia is intensifying attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.\n\n\"As it faces setbacks on the front lines, Russia has likely extended the locations it is prepared to strike in an attempt to directly undermine the morale of the Ukrainian people and government,\" it said in its daily assessment of the conflict.\n\nBut Mr Putin is failing \"on all his military and strategic objectives\" in Ukraine, UK Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC on Sunday.\n\nAdm Radakin, however, urged caution as \"the likely result with all of this is that it's going to grind on for a long time.\n\n\"And that's why there's a wishfulness when people jump to conclusions that either President Putin is weak and his power base might be undermined, or that Ukraine has gained some ground and there's been a magnificent action in the north-east.\n\n\"But it doesn't automatically lead on to easy victories elsewhere.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Dean leading Queen's funeral says it will be \"deeply personal\"\n\nThe Queen's state funeral will be \"deeply personal\" and \"difficult for the family to navigate\", the Dean of Westminster has said.\n\nThe Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, who will lead Monday's ceremony, said it will be a family funeral at its heart.\n\nHe added that it will also be a celebration of the late monarch's \"extraordinary life\" and an \"opportunity for us all to mourn\".\n\nSome 500 dignitaries will attend the service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nDr Hoyle told BBC News that the Abbey is a place where Queen Elizabeth II took the promises that \"defined her life\", including her marriage to the late Prince Philip in 1947 and her coronation in 1953.\n\n\"The Abbey shaped her life, she talked about the Abbey with great affection.\" he said.\n\nSome 2,000 people will attend the service on Monday, with presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens among 500 dignitaries travelling across the world to be there, as millions watch the events unfold on television.\n\nThousands of people have travelled to London since the announcement of the Queen's death, with more expected to line the streets as her coffin is moved from Westminster Hall to the Abbey.\n\nThe Dean says the Abbey is a place \"where we try to mark the moments of celebration and sorrow\"\n\nThe Dean said that the funeral will be \"very visual\", with Westminster Abbey providing the setting to focus people's grief.\n\n\"One of the things we are trying to do is to take all that emotion, all that interest, all the care that we can see in the queue for the lying-in-state, that we can see in the parks where people are laying flowers and feel we have managed in the Abbey to provide a focus for that,\" Dr Hoyle told BBC News.\n\n\"We've given the grief somewhere to go\".\n\nIt will be the first time in more than 260 years that a sovereign's funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey. The last was King George II's in 1760 with more recent funerals tending to be at Windsor.\n\nThe Queen Mother's funeral was held at the Abbey in 2002.\n\n\"This is a gathering place for the nation and for the Commonwealth,\" the Dean added.\n\n\"This is the place where we try to mark the moments of celebration and sorrow.\"\n\nAsked whether he was nervous at leading the service, Dr Hoyle said: \"If I sit still for too long and start thinking about the significance of the moment and the eyes that are on you then yes, honestly of course I am.\n\n\"There's a huge sense of privilege - what an extraordinary place to be at a moment like this.\"\n\nHe highlighted that he had a \"wonderful\" group of people working with him to organise the historic ceremony and added: \"This place steps up on these occasions.\"\n\nHundreds of people have been involved in the preparations inside the massive place of worship, working through the night as they put in 19 and 20-hour shifts to stage the sombre ceremony.\n\nDr Hoyle was in New York when he learned the Queen had died and so \"had to come home very quickly\", said the job of planning the funeral was \"huge\".\n\nOn planning for the funeral, he said: \"There's an enormous amount to do, it's been a really busy week\".\n\nHe added that the scale of Monday's service was almost unprecedented, even for Westminster Abbey.", "A planned meeting between Liz Truss and US President Joe Biden before the Queen's funeral has been cancelled, Downing Street has said.\n\nNo 10 said a \"full bilateral meeting\" between the PM and Mr Biden would instead take place at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.\n\nIt is thought holding the talks after the period of national mourning would allow more wide-ranging discussions.\n\nMs Truss met her counterparts from New Zealand and Australia on Saturday.\n\nThe prime minister held informal talks with Jacinda Ardern and Australian premier Anthony Albanese at Chevening House in Kent.\n\nAnd Number 10 confirmed Ms Truss will see Irish Taoiseach [prime minister] Micheál Martin, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, and Polish President Andrzej Duda at Downing Street on Sunday.\n\nAlthough she met Mr Biden when she was foreign secretary, next week's UN meeting with him in New York will be Ms Truss's first as UK prime minister.\n\nMonday's funeral will be one of the biggest diplomatic events of recent years, with some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries expected to attend.\n\nIt is providing Ms Truss with an opportunity to meet foreign counterparts less than two weeks after taking office.\n\nBut Downing Street had stressed that talks this weekend would not be formal bilateral meetings because of the official 10-day mourning period following the death of the Queen.\n\nIt would not be issuing summaries of the discussions as would normally happen after the PM's meetings with foreign leaders, No 10 added.\n\nAs a former foreign secretary, Liz Truss is not exactly new to rubbing shoulders with world leaders.\n\nShe'll see a lot of them over this weekend.\n\nMeeting them as prime minister, though, is different and the first meeting with the US president is always the biggest for a new PM.\n\nWhen Liz Truss and Joe Biden do sit down, it will be closely scrutinised for any indications of the health, or otherwise, of the \"special relationship\".\n\nI'm told that holding it after the official mourning period means it can be much more focused on business rather than reflecting on the Queen.\n\nThere is a lot of business to tackle.\n\nJoe Biden is no fan of Liz Truss's approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol, for a start.\n\nThe US has suggested it is \"not conducive\" to the other not-so-small matter of a trade deal.\n\nAll this will have to wait though, until later in the week.\n\nIn advance of her talks with Ms Truss, Ms Ardern said the death of the Queen would be the \"focus of conversation\", and they were also likely to discuss Ukraine and the UK's free trade agreement with New Zealand. announced last October.\n\nIt was thought the meeting between Ms Truss and Mr Albanese focused on trade, after the signing of a deal between the UK and Australia in December.\n\nMs Truss also held a phone call with the President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, on Saturday in which he expressed his condolences on the death of the Queen.\n\nThe meeting with the Irish Republic's prime minister comes at a time of strained relations with the EU over post-Brexit checks in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK is refusing to apply some of the checks it signed up to in the Brexit withdrawal deal, prompting a series of lawsuits from the EU.\n\nLiz Truss met Joe Biden in Glasgow last November, when he attended the COP 26 climate summit\n\nMr Martin has expressed concern about legislation Ms Truss introduced as foreign secretary enabling the UK to alter the legal commitments it signed up to in the exit treaty in 2019.\n\nMs Truss is expected to meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for talks at the UN meeting in New York next week.\n\nThe state funeral service in Westminster Abbey on Monday is expected to be attended by hundreds of foreign dignitaries, including politicians and royalty.\n\nSyria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Russia and Belarus have not been invited - whilst Iran, North Korea and Nicaragua have been asked to only send a senior diplomat.\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping is on the guest list for the funeral ceremony but is not thought likely to attend.\n\nA Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday that no decision had been made on whether they would be sending a delegation, although press reports have suggested China's vice-president will attend.\n\nMs Truss is expected to have a phone call with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman on Saturday evening.\n\nThe de facto ruler's invitation to the Queen's funeral has sparked protests from human rights campaigners. A declassified CIA report concluded that he had authorised the murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi - allegations denied by the crown prince.", "People across the UK have observed a national moment of reflection to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe minute's silence was held ahead of the Queen's state funeral on Monday. The funeral, held in Westminster Abbey in London, will be screened in parks, squares and cinemas across the UK.", "US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden travelled to Stansted airport in London\n\nUS President Joe Biden has arrived in London ahead of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday.\n\nMr Biden is among some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries coming to London for a gathering of world leaders not seen for decades.\n\nThe prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand are already in the UK.\n\nControversy surrounds some of the guests invited, such as Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.\n\nAs well as Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, other Commonwealth leaders expected to attend include Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe. India will be represented by President Droupadi Murmu.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Trudeau sign a book of condolence at Lancaster House in London\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron, Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Italian President Sergio Mattarella are among the other world leaders expected to attend.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe will also be present.\n\nMany of the guests are expected to pay their respects to the Queen at her lying-in-state in Westminster Hall and sign a book of condolence at Lancaster House.\n\nBut the focus will be a formal state reception hosted by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace on Sunday.\n\nFor many leaders, it will be their only chance to meet collectively and engage in some diplomacy.\n\nSome of the guests invited to attend the funeral have, however, raised eyebrows.\n\nThe extension of an invitation to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammed Bin Salman (known as MBS) has proved controversial.\n\nSaudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman last visited the UK in 2018 when he met the Queen at Buckingham Palace\n\nHe is accused of ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018 - an accusation the Crown Prince and his government deny.\n\nThe fiancée of Mr Khashoggi, Hatice Gengiz, said he should not be allowed to attend the event and that it was a stain on the memory of the Queen.\n\nAnother invitation which has led to criticism is that for China's President Xi Jinping, due to accusations of crimes against humanity levelled at the Chinese government.\n\nBut it will not be President Xi attending the funeral. Instead, Vice President Wang Qishan will travel to the UK.\n\nRepresentatives from Russia, Belarus, Myanmar, Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan have not been invited.\n\nIran, North Korea (DPRK) and Nicaragua have only been invited to send ambassadors, rather than heads of state.", "The Crown of Scotland (l) on Her Majesty's coffin in Edinburgh was replaced by the Imperial State Crown in London\n\nKing Charles has done two things simultaneously this week that reveal much about what kind of reign he aspires to. First, he has led the nation in the ritualising of its sorrow - a sorrow that has been quietly expressed and subdued but it is nonetheless real. And second he has signalled to us in the clearest terms possible that this is a reign that will put the future of the Union - the integrity of the United Kingdom itself - at the heart of its concerns.\n\nIn choosing to visit Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff, as well as return to London, King Charles has demonstrated how fully the Royal Family and household have understood the nature of the United Kingdom as a Union state - a partnership of nations.\n\nEverywhere he went there were gestures of respect and, indeed, affection for the distinctiveness of each of the three devolved nations. And in that, as in much else, he is following what he called, in Northern Ireland, the \"shining example\" set by his mother.\n\nWe saw the coffin of the Queen for the first time as it slipped through the gates of Balmoral in its glass-sided hearse. She is the first reigning monarch to die in Scotland in nearly 500 years. \"I have to be seen to be believed,\" she had famously remarked in life; now she was performing the same service in death.\n\nThe cortege made its way slowly through royal Deeside, slowing down to pass through towns and villages, where the people know her not just as the Queen, but as their neighbour. She had known this landscape since she was a child: Aboyne, Ballater, Banchory, Peterculter, through Aberdeen to Bridge of Muchalls, Stonehaven and south to the Scottish capital. They stood by the side of the road as the cortege passed, in quiet contemplation.\n\nWhat was the symbolism of this measured progress through the green spaces, the little neighbourhoods, she loved, if not to say: \"I am rooted here; this has been my home.\"\n\nFor that's what Balmoral was - a private home and not a royal residence. She made no secret of the fact that she loved it more than any place in the world. It was where she found respite from the burdens of state and the unyielding gaze of the public.\n\nThe new Queen Elizabeth with a young Prince Charles at Balmoral in September 1952\n\nI have been struck all week by that gaze. It has followed the new King and those closest to him throughout. Other than a brief time at Highgrove spent in quiet contemplation, King Charles and the Queen Consort have spent almost every waking hour since the Queen died in the public eye. This, at a time when they and their family are carrying what must be an intense private sorrow. This is a family on whose grief the eyes of the world intrude. Duty calls them to sublimate their private sorrow to the imperatives and demands of public ritual\n\nThis, too, is surely the legacy of the late Queen - it is the steadfastness and constancy with which she adhered to her idea of public service, now visible in her son.\n\nCrowds gathered in the streets of Edinburgh's magnificent old town as her coffin was taken to lie in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the monarch's official residence in Scotland. You could sense the intimacy and informality of that journey from Balmoral gradually yielding to the rituals of statehood and official mourning.\n\nHistory seeps from every stone of that house. This was where the Queen's ancestor King James VI of Scotland learned, in the middle of the night, that he had inherited the throne of England on the death of the first Elizabeth, thus uniting the two kingdoms under one Crown for the first time. In that sense, the Queen was brought to lie in rest in the building that could be said to be the birthplace of the first Kingdom of Great Britain.\n\nThe Royal Household's attention to the sensibilities and distinctiveness of the three devolved nations of the UK has been striking, not just this week, but for many years. When, in 1999, the Queen opened the first Scottish Parliament in 300 years, she gave permission for the then presiding officer to refer to her by what he called her proper title - Elizabeth, Queen of Scots.\n\nMother and son sharing a laugh at the Braemar Highland Gathering in 2012\n\nShe, herself, when she was in Scotland, referred to her son and heir not as the Prince of Wales but as the Duke of Rothesay, his Scottish title. When they took the Queen's coffin to lie in rest at St Giles' Cathedral, they placed upon it the Crown of Scotland, the centrepiece of the Scottish crown jewels. It is 500 years old, the oldest surviving royal crown in Britain and Ireland, made for the Queen's ancestor King James V.\n\nConsider the symbolism - it is a gesture toward the distinctiveness of Scotland and its historic nationhood.\n\nWhat have we learned about the kind of reign that the King aspires to? This week, above all, he has sought visibility; like his mother he wants to be seen, to forge a strong link between Crown and people. It was those moments outside, in the street, among the people crowding to see him, hands stretched out to take his, that he seemed to come alive. These were the moments - moments of easy informal engagement - that seemed to energise and excite him.\n\nWe watched him at Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland, being addressed by Sinn Fein leaders who do not recognise the legitimacy of his Crown in their country. And yet they spoke to him with sympathy for his loss, and spoke with immense warmth about his late mother.\n\nIn May 2022's election, for the first time, nationalist Sinn Fein won most seats to the Northern Ireland Assembly\n\nAlex Maskey, the Sinn Fein speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a man who was twice interned without trial during the Troubles, stood in the Throne Room at Hillsborough and spoke directly to the British King of the leadership qualities of his late mother.\n\nHe also praised the role those qualities had played in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. He said she had deployed gestures that seemed small, but which had an enormous impact in promoting reconciliation. King Charles replied that he would seek to follow what he called his mother's \"shining example\" in bringing together \"those whom history has separated\".\n\nKing Charles with Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker, Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein - and the party's Vice President Michelle O'Neill\n\nThe last leg of his tour was to the country whose title, he said, he had borne with pride for more than half a century: the title Prince of Wales, one he now passes to his own heir. His relationship with Wales is intimate. As a student he learned Welsh here, and spoke Welsh at his investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969.\n\nHere, bilingualism is part of the distinctive character of the country. He and the Queen Consort attended a Service of Prayer and Reflection for the life of Queen Elizabeth, at which the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, read from the First Book of Kings in Welsh. It incudes the verse: \"And now, Oh Lord, you have made your servant King.\"\n\nLlandaff Cathedral, where, the service took place, is almost 1,000 years old. It was rebuilt after being bombed in the Cardiff blitz. It connects us - and the Royal Family - to the great shared British experience of the World War Two. Queen Elizabeth's visit here in 1960 marked its restoration, a symbol of the long recovery from war and its aftermath that characterised the early years of her reign.\n\nQueen Elizabeth, too, hugged the devolved nation close. She made multiple visits to the Scottish Parliament, and attended every opening of the Welsh Assembly and Senedd.\n\nBut among the cheers from the crowds Charles encountered in Wales, there were also boos and chants of \"Not my King\". This dissent was an echo of pockets of anti-monarchy protests in other places throughout the week.\n\n\"I think the biggest danger to the union is arrogance around its continuation,\" Laura McAllister, professor of public policy at Cardiff University told me the day before the King's visit to Cardiff. \"I suspect the monarchy has got perhaps even greater sensitivity than politicians to this because there's a real sense of understanding the cultural and political heritages of each of the nations is very different,\" she said.\n\nIn Cardiff, King Charles smiled with members of the public after a service at Llandaff Cathedral in memory of his mother\n\nThe Queen received a similar welcome when she visited the village of Treherbert on her birthday in April 1989\n\nShe said the Queen had reflected that in her remarks when she was opening the National Assembly and then the Senedd and expected King Charles to do the same.\n\nAnd he did. Here, too, he spoke of his late mother's - and his own - affection for the country. Perhaps more telling there was the gesture toward the distinctiveness of the character of the country. On the floor of the Senedd, he replied to a motion of condolence from members of the assembly in both languages.\n\n\"Through all the years of her reign,\" he said, \"the land of Wales could not have been closer to my mother's heart. I know she took immense pride in your many great achievements - even as she also felt with you deeply in time of sorrow.\n\n\"It must surely be counted the greatest privilege to belong to a land that could inspire such devotion. I am resolved to honour that selfless example, in the spirit of the words by which I have always tried to live my own life: 'Ich Dien, I Serve'.\"\n\nWhen his mother came to the throne in 1952, the integrity of the United Kingdom was a given. It is telling that King Charles has chosen, as the first act of his reign, to tour the devolved nations. For the landscape is changing.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, a party that seeks to lead Northern Ireland out of the Kingdom and into the Republic, is now the biggest single party. In Scotland, support for independence remains a little below 50 per cent, and has much higher support among the young.\n\nThe early decades of Queen Elizabeth's reign were characterised by the long, slow contraction of British imperial power overseas and, in the end, the dissolution of the Empire - an outcome that would have shocked and dismayed earlier generations.\n\nIt was her leadership that transformed the Empire into the Commonwealth. Most of its members chose to become republics. Fourteen Commonwealth realms remain, in which King Charles becomes head of state, including Jamaica, Australia and New Zealand. King Charles will be alert to the possibility that that process could resume, with the potential that some of those realms will also become republics.\n\nHe will also be alert to the possibility that his own reign could come to be defined by the loosening of the bonds that have traditionally held the Union together.\n\nQueen Elizabeth was a powerful force for unity. She came to embody much of the character of Britain itself. We looked at her and saw a set of values - though each of us would have defined those values differently - around which the country cohered. She was the last living royal link with WW2, perhaps the founding shared experience of the modern British identity.\n\nKing Charles III enters Buckingham Palace for the first time as the new monarch, accompanied by the Queen Consort\n\nWhat will happen to that legacy, to the way of being British that she reflected back to us, when this period of mourning is over and she begins to slip into the middle distance of our collective memory?\n\nThat the new king inherits a powerful legacy of public affection for his mother has been clear this week. But the enthusiasm of those who turned out in Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, London and across the country will not disguise for long the strains that the country is under.\n\nKing Charles signalled to us this week that he intends to put the future of the Union at the heart of his reign. The Royal household will not make the mistake of seeing those crowds as incontrovertible proof that the Union is secure. We can expect this to be a reign that will hug the devolved nations of the Kingdom close.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "A climber known as France's \"Spider-Man\" has marked his 60th birthday by scaling a 48-storey skyscraper in Paris without any safety gear.\n\nAlain Robert climbed the Tour TotalEnergies in the Défense business district using no ropes or harness.\n\n\"I want to send people the message that being 60 years old is nothing. You can still do sport, be active, do fabulous things,\" he told Reuters news agency.\n\nAfter reaching the top of the tower he was reportedly arrested.\n\nMr Robert has climbed the Tour TotalEnergies numerous times before. This time, it took him just 60 minutes to reach the top, news site Defense 92 reports.\n\n\"I promised myself several years ago that when I would reach 60, I would climb that tower again because 60 symbolises retirement age in France and I thought that was a nice touch,\" he said after the climb.\n\nFrance's age of retirement has since risen to 62 and the government aims to raise it further.\n\nMr Robert added that the aim of the climb was also to raise awareness of global warming, according to Reuters.\n\nMr Robert is known for climbing tall buildings worldwide. His daring feats include reaching the top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building.\n\nHe usually does his stunts without prior notice or permission and has been arrested a number of times.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Crown of Scotland (l) on Her Majesty's coffin in Edinburgh was replaced by the Imperial State Crown in London\n\nKing Charles has done two things simultaneously this week that reveal much about what kind of reign he aspires to. First, he has led the nation in the ritualising of its sorrow - a sorrow that has been quietly expressed and subdued but it is nonetheless real. And second he has signalled to us in the clearest terms possible that this is a reign that will put the future of the Union - the integrity of the United Kingdom itself - at the heart of its concerns.\n\nIn choosing to visit Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff, as well as return to London, King Charles has demonstrated how fully the Royal Family and household have understood the nature of the United Kingdom as a Union state - a partnership of nations.\n\nEverywhere he went there were gestures of respect and, indeed, affection for the distinctiveness of each of the three devolved nations. And in that, as in much else, he is following what he called, in Northern Ireland, the \"shining example\" set by his mother.\n\nWe saw the coffin of the Queen for the first time as it slipped through the gates of Balmoral in its glass-sided hearse. She is the first reigning monarch to die in Scotland in nearly 500 years. \"I have to be seen to be believed,\" she had famously remarked in life; now she was performing the same service in death.\n\nThe cortege made its way slowly through royal Deeside, slowing down to pass through towns and villages, where the people know her not just as the Queen, but as their neighbour. She had known this landscape since she was a child: Aboyne, Ballater, Banchory, Peterculter, through Aberdeen to Bridge of Muchalls, Stonehaven and south to the Scottish capital. They stood by the side of the road as the cortege passed, in quiet contemplation.\n\nWhat was the symbolism of this measured progress through the green spaces, the little neighbourhoods, she loved, if not to say: \"I am rooted here; this has been my home.\"\n\nFor that's what Balmoral was - a private home and not a royal residence. She made no secret of the fact that she loved it more than any place in the world. It was where she found respite from the burdens of state and the unyielding gaze of the public.\n\nThe new Queen Elizabeth with a young Prince Charles at Balmoral in September 1952\n\nI have been struck all week by that gaze. It has followed the new King and those closest to him throughout. Other than a brief time at Highgrove spent in quiet contemplation, King Charles and the Queen Consort have spent almost every waking hour since the Queen died in the public eye. This, at a time when they and their family are carrying what must be an intense private sorrow. This is a family on whose grief the eyes of the world intrude. Duty calls them to sublimate their private sorrow to the imperatives and demands of public ritual\n\nThis, too, is surely the legacy of the late Queen - it is the steadfastness and constancy with which she adhered to her idea of public service, now visible in her son.\n\nCrowds gathered in the streets of Edinburgh's magnificent old town as her coffin was taken to lie in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the monarch's official residence in Scotland. You could sense the intimacy and informality of that journey from Balmoral gradually yielding to the rituals of statehood and official mourning.\n\nHistory seeps from every stone of that house. This was where the Queen's ancestor King James VI of Scotland learned, in the middle of the night, that he had inherited the throne of England on the death of the first Elizabeth, thus uniting the two kingdoms under one Crown for the first time. In that sense, the Queen was brought to lie in rest in the building that could be said to be the birthplace of the first Kingdom of Great Britain.\n\nThe Royal Household's attention to the sensibilities and distinctiveness of the three devolved nations of the UK has been striking, not just this week, but for many years. When, in 1999, the Queen opened the first Scottish Parliament in 300 years, she gave permission for the then presiding officer to refer to her by what he called her proper title - Elizabeth, Queen of Scots.\n\nMother and son sharing a laugh at the Braemar Highland Gathering in 2012\n\nShe, herself, when she was in Scotland, referred to her son and heir not as the Prince of Wales but as the Duke of Rothesay, his Scottish title. When they took the Queen's coffin to lie in rest at St Giles' Cathedral, they placed upon it the Crown of Scotland, the centrepiece of the Scottish crown jewels. It is 500 years old, the oldest surviving royal crown in Britain and Ireland, made for the Queen's ancestor King James V.\n\nConsider the symbolism - it is a gesture toward the distinctiveness of Scotland and its historic nationhood.\n\nWhat have we learned about the kind of reign that the King aspires to? This week, above all, he has sought visibility; like his mother he wants to be seen, to forge a strong link between Crown and people. It was those moments outside, in the street, among the people crowding to see him, hands stretched out to take his, that he seemed to come alive. These were the moments - moments of easy informal engagement - that seemed to energise and excite him.\n\nWe watched him at Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland, being addressed by Sinn Fein leaders who do not recognise the legitimacy of his Crown in their country. And yet they spoke to him with sympathy for his loss, and spoke with immense warmth about his late mother.\n\nIn May 2022's election, for the first time, nationalist Sinn Fein won most seats to the Northern Ireland Assembly\n\nAlex Maskey, the Sinn Fein speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a man who was twice interned without trial during the Troubles, stood in the Throne Room at Hillsborough and spoke directly to the British King of the leadership qualities of his late mother.\n\nHe also praised the role those qualities had played in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. He said she had deployed gestures that seemed small, but which had an enormous impact in promoting reconciliation. King Charles replied that he would seek to follow what he called his mother's \"shining example\" in bringing together \"those whom history has separated\".\n\nKing Charles with Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker, Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein - and the party's Vice President Michelle O'Neill\n\nThe last leg of his tour was to the country whose title, he said, he had borne with pride for more than half a century: the title Prince of Wales, one he now passes to his own heir. His relationship with Wales is intimate. As a student he learned Welsh here, and spoke Welsh at his investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969.\n\nHere, bilingualism is part of the distinctive character of the country. He and the Queen Consort attended a Service of Prayer and Reflection for the life of Queen Elizabeth, at which the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, read from the First Book of Kings in Welsh. It incudes the verse: \"And now, Oh Lord, you have made your servant King.\"\n\nLlandaff Cathedral, where, the service took place, is almost 1,000 years old. It was rebuilt after being bombed in the Cardiff blitz. It connects us - and the Royal Family - to the great shared British experience of the World War Two. Queen Elizabeth's visit here in 1960 marked its restoration, a symbol of the long recovery from war and its aftermath that characterised the early years of her reign.\n\nQueen Elizabeth, too, hugged the devolved nation close. She made multiple visits to the Scottish Parliament, and attended every opening of the Welsh Assembly and Senedd.\n\nBut among the cheers from the crowds Charles encountered in Wales, there were also boos and chants of \"Not my King\". This dissent was an echo of pockets of anti-monarchy protests in other places throughout the week.\n\n\"I think the biggest danger to the union is arrogance around its continuation,\" Laura McAllister, professor of public policy at Cardiff University told me the day before the King's visit to Cardiff. \"I suspect the monarchy has got perhaps even greater sensitivity than politicians to this because there's a real sense of understanding the cultural and political heritages of each of the nations is very different,\" she said.\n\nIn Cardiff, King Charles smiled with members of the public after a service at Llandaff Cathedral in memory of his mother\n\nThe Queen received a similar welcome when she visited the village of Treherbert on her birthday in April 1989\n\nShe said the Queen had reflected that in her remarks when she was opening the National Assembly and then the Senedd and expected King Charles to do the same.\n\nAnd he did. Here, too, he spoke of his late mother's - and his own - affection for the country. Perhaps more telling there was the gesture toward the distinctiveness of the character of the country. On the floor of the Senedd, he replied to a motion of condolence from members of the assembly in both languages.\n\n\"Through all the years of her reign,\" he said, \"the land of Wales could not have been closer to my mother's heart. I know she took immense pride in your many great achievements - even as she also felt with you deeply in time of sorrow.\n\n\"It must surely be counted the greatest privilege to belong to a land that could inspire such devotion. I am resolved to honour that selfless example, in the spirit of the words by which I have always tried to live my own life: 'Ich Dien, I Serve'.\"\n\nWhen his mother came to the throne in 1952, the integrity of the United Kingdom was a given. It is telling that King Charles has chosen, as the first act of his reign, to tour the devolved nations. For the landscape is changing.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, a party that seeks to lead Northern Ireland out of the Kingdom and into the Republic, is now the biggest single party. In Scotland, support for independence remains a little below 50 per cent, and has much higher support among the young.\n\nThe early decades of Queen Elizabeth's reign were characterised by the long, slow contraction of British imperial power overseas and, in the end, the dissolution of the Empire - an outcome that would have shocked and dismayed earlier generations.\n\nIt was her leadership that transformed the Empire into the Commonwealth. Most of its members chose to become republics. Fourteen Commonwealth realms remain, in which King Charles becomes head of state, including Jamaica, Australia and New Zealand. King Charles will be alert to the possibility that that process could resume, with the potential that some of those realms will also become republics.\n\nHe will also be alert to the possibility that his own reign could come to be defined by the loosening of the bonds that have traditionally held the Union together.\n\nQueen Elizabeth was a powerful force for unity. She came to embody much of the character of Britain itself. We looked at her and saw a set of values - though each of us would have defined those values differently - around which the country cohered. She was the last living royal link with WW2, perhaps the founding shared experience of the modern British identity.\n\nKing Charles III enters Buckingham Palace for the first time as the new monarch, accompanied by the Queen Consort\n\nWhat will happen to that legacy, to the way of being British that she reflected back to us, when this period of mourning is over and she begins to slip into the middle distance of our collective memory?\n\nThat the new king inherits a powerful legacy of public affection for his mother has been clear this week. But the enthusiasm of those who turned out in Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, London and across the country will not disguise for long the strains that the country is under.\n\nKing Charles signalled to us this week that he intends to put the future of the Union at the heart of his reign. The Royal household will not make the mistake of seeing those crowds as incontrovertible proof that the Union is secure. We can expect this to be a reign that will hug the devolved nations of the Kingdom close.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNeal Maupay opened his account for Everton to earn their first Premier League win of the season with victory over West Ham at Goodison Park.\n\nMaupay, who joined from Brighton for £15m in August, turned on Alex Iwobi's pass and smashed the ball past Lukasz Fabianksi as it sat up on the bounce.\n\nThe hosts had chances to extend their lead, with the impressive Demarai Gray having an effort saved by Fabianksi.\n\nWest Ham, whose tally of three goals is the joint fewest in the top flight, were toothless in attack.\n\nMichail Antonio could only direct a header straight at Asmir Begovic, while Said Benrahma's effort came back off a post.\n\nEverton climb to 13th in the table, while West Ham remain in the relegation zone in 18th.\n\nEverton get their reward as Hammers fall short\n\nAfter losing their opening two games, Everton are unbeaten in five league games, but victory was elusive before West Ham's arrival in Merseyside.\n\nEverton started brightly and Gray provided a constant threat down the left, testing Fabianski thanks to a fierce effort with minimal backlift and often beating his man and flashing crosses across the box.\n\nEverton have struggled in front of goal themselves - only West Ham and Wolves have managed fewer league goals this season - but Maupay, playing his second game, provided the cutting edge with an excellent finish.\n\nWest Ham had a quick turnaround following their Europa Conference League win at Danish side Silkeborg IF on Thursday, and their performance appeared lacklustre.\n\nAlthough they 14 shots - double the number Everton managed - it was not until Maupay's goal that the Hammers seemed to spark into life.\n\nAntonio should have done more with his header before Benrahma's effort caught Begovic and the Everton defence by surprise as it hit the woodwork.\n\nFive league defeats from seven games will be a concern for West Ham manager David Moyes, whose side host fellow strugglers Wolves in their next match on 1 October.\n• None Gianluca Scamacca (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Dwight McNeil (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Maxwel Cornet (West Ham United) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexander Iwobi (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Vitalii Mykolenko.\n• None Attempt saved. Maxwel Cornet (West Ham United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Declan Rice. 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", "George and Charlotte will attend the funeral of their great-grandmother, the Queen\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte will join more than 2,000 guests at the Queen's funeral in Westminster Abbey.\n\nNine-year-old George and his sister, seven, will form part of a procession with the Royal Family, following the coffin as it enters the church.\n\nBefore the service a bell will toll every minute for 96 minutes, marking the length of the Queen's life.\n\nTowards the end of the service, the Last Post will be played before the nation observes a two-minute silence.\n\nWith world leaders and dignitaries gathered in the 13th Century church for the service at 11:00 BST, the King and Queen Consort will lead the procession behind the Queen's coffin.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales will walk ahead of George and seven-year-old Charlotte, who called the Queen \"Gan Gan\", followed by their uncle and aunt, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nGeorge and Charlotte's younger brother Louis, four, is not expected to attend.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be brought in procession from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey\n\nThe Order of Service shows a service filled with traditional church music and readings from the Bible, with a sermon from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.\n\n\"I am the resurrection and the life,\" will be the reading as the royal procession arrives in the abbey, in a service which the Queen helped to plan.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss will read a lesson, with prayers from religious leaders including Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster.\n\nThe funeral will hear praise for the Queen's long reign, with the Dean of Westminster, David Hoyle, commending her \"long life of selfless service\".\n\nMore than 2,000 guests will gather in Westminster Abbey\n\nThe abbey says this will be the first funeral of a monarch held here since the 18th Century, although there have been more recent funerals for the spouses of monarchs.\n\nThe music at this historic service will be in keeping with the Queen's faith and tastes. There will be pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams, JS Bach and Edward Elgar.\n\nNew pieces have been composed by Judith Weir and Sir James MacMillan, a leading Scottish composer, whose music featured prominently in the service of thanksgiving at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.\n\nBaroness Scotland, secretary general of the Commonwealth, will deliver one of the readings, which are interspersed with hymns including The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended and Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.\n\nThe Lord's My Shepherd will be sung, as it was when the Queen married Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey in 1947.\n\nAs the state funeral comes to an end, the Last Post will be played, followed by a two-minute silence and a lament from the Queen's piper.\n\nAfter the funeral ends at midday in Westminster, a committal service will follow at 16:00 at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nThis more intimate setting will include personal touches and private connections. The service includes the Russian Kontakion of the Departed, a hymn Prince Philip had chosen for his own funeral last year.\n\nOne of the Bible readings - \"I saw a new heaven and a new earth\" - was also read at the funeral of the Queen's father and grandparents.\n\nThere is music composed by Sir William Henry Harris, an organist who taught the Queen to play the piano.\n\nAnother poignant lament will be played by a piper and the committal service will end with the lowering of the Queen's coffin into the royal vault, accompanied by the words: \"Go forth upon thy journey from this world, O Christian soul.\"\n\nThe bells of Westminster Abbey will later be rung - but muffled - as is tradition following the funeral of a sovereign.", "A 28-year-old man has been charged with a public order offence after allegedly leaving the queue of mourners to approach the Queen's coffin on Friday.\n\nMuhammad Khan, from Tower Hamlets in east London, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said he was charged under the Public Order Act.\n\nThe live video feed of Westminster Hall cut away when the incident occurred at around 22:00 BST.\n\nA statement from the Met Police said: \"Muhammad Khan, 28, of Barleycorn Way, Tower Hamlets, was charged on Saturday, September 17, with an offence under Section 4A of the Public Order Act; behaviour intending to cause alarm, harassment or distress.\n\n\"He will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday, September 19.\"\n\nHe is the second person to be charged with committing an offence while in the queue to see the Queen lying in state.\n\nA 19-year-old man was charged after allegedly exposing himself and pushing into mourners from behind as they waited in the line at Victoria Tower Gardens on Wednesday.\n\nAdio Adeshine was charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order. He will appear at Southwark Crown Court on 14 October.\n\nThe late Queen Elizabeth II will remain in Westminster Hall until the day of her funeral on Monday.", "John Kerry - seen here with the then-Prince of Wales in 2021 - says the King knows the climate issue \"inside out\"\n\nPresident Biden's climate envoy has told the BBC he hopes King Charles will continue his work on global warming.\n\nJohn Kerry told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he would welcome the King's involvement because he \"has the ability... to leverage the kind of action we need now on a global basis\".\n\nHe said the monarch had \"indicated\" he wanted to maintain his passion for the environment \"in the appropriate way\".\n\nAnd Mr Kerry said he hoped the King would visit the next UN climate summit.\n\nSpeaking from the US, the former Secretary of State told Laura Kuenssberg he had been invited to see the then-Prince of Wales in Scotland to discuss the climate crisis but the meeting was cancelled following the death of the Queen.\n\nBut Mr Kerry said he \"very much\" hopes the King will continue to push the arguments for radical action to tackle climate change \"within the constitutional process\".\n\n\"There's no question in my mind, that it is not a standard multilateral issue or bilateral issue, there is a threat to the entire planet, a threat to all of our nations and he understands it as well as anybody on the planet,\" he said.\n\n\"He's been consistent on this issue, beginning in his teenage years and carrying on in many different iterations and he's for real, believe me.\n\n\"He knows the issue inside out, backwards and forwards and he's been a leader.\"\n\nMr Kerry said the King had discussed wanting to be \"relevant and try to be engaged\" and that he hoped he would continue to be active on environmental issues.\n\n\"He is an enormously important convener and somebody who has the ability to be able to leverage the kind of action we need now on a global basis.\n\n\"This challenge is as significant as any threat we've ever faced,\" he told the BBC.\n\nJohn Kerry represented the US at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year\n\nMr Kerry was appointed President Joe Biden's special envoy for climate in January 2021 - the first time such a role has existed within the White House.\n\nHe has spoken in recent months about the impact of the war in Ukraine on efforts to limit global heating to 1.5C by 2030 - with countries facing the simultaneous challenges of sourcing alternatives to Russian gas supplies while also needing to cut their CO2 emissions.\n\nMr Kerry told Laura Kuenssberg the lesson from the conflict in Ukraine is that \"you do not want to be a prisoner of your energy source\" adding that Europe \"wants to liberate itself\" from its dependency on Russian gas.\n\nHe added it would be \"terrific\" if the King could come to the COP climate change summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh in November - adding that he thought His Majesty would like to be able to attend.\n\nMr Kerry said that he thought next gathering would see a \"raising of ambition\" by countries which had been unable to sign up at the COP26 summit in Glasgow last year to steps to limit the planet's temperature increase to 1.5C.\n\n\"We can get there but it's going to take a gigantic effort moving forward,\" he said.\n\nSunday with Laura Kuenssberg is on BBC One from 09:00 BST on Sunday 18 September or you can catch it on BBC iPlayer", "King Charles III has said he is \"deeply touched\" by the support he has received from across the world, ahead of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe King said he and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were \"moved beyond measure\" by everyone who took the trouble to pay their respects.\n\n\"As we prepare to say our last farewell, I wanted simply to take this opportunity to say thank you,\" he said.\n\nThe state funeral service at Westminster Abbey began at 11:00 BST.\n\nSome 2,000 people are attending the ceremony, including 500 presidents, prime ministers, and foreign royals from around the world.\n\nThe King is leading the nation in mourning for its longest-reigning monarch.\n\nIn a written message issued by Buckingham Palace, the King said: \"Over the last 10 days, my wife and I have been so deeply touched by the many messages of condolences and support we have received from this country and across the world.\n\n\"In London, Edinburgh, Hillsborough and Cardiff we were moved beyond measure by everyone who took the trouble to come and pay their respects to the lifelong service of my dear mother, the late Queen.\n\n\"As we all prepare to say our last farewell, I wanted simply to take this opportunity to say thank you to all those countless people who have been such a support and comfort to my family and myself in this time of grief.\"\n\nThis photograph of the Queen at Windsor Castle was taken in May this year\n\nAn unseen portrait of the Queen has also been released by Buckingham Palace on the eve of her funeral.\n\nThe photograph, taken by Ranald Mackechnie ahead of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations in May, shows the monarch beaming brightly at the camera in her Windsor Castle home.\n\nShe is wearing a blue dress, her favourite three-strand pearl necklace, pearl earrings and her aquamarine and diamond brooches - an 18th birthday present from her father George VI in 1944 which she also wore on the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020.\n\nKing Charles held a reception at Buckingham Palace on Sunday evening for heads of state attending the funeral. Later, at 20:00, a national minute's silence was observed at homes and doorsteps across the UK.\n\nMany thousands of people have queued this week to see the Queen's lying-in-state, which ended at 06:30 on Monday. The queue was closed to new entrants shortly after 22:40 on Sunday.\n\nAt 10:44, her coffin was taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles walked behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them were the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte are also attending the Queen's funeral.\n\nArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who will give the sermon, told the BBC people could expect \"a great deal of grandeur and pomp\" from the service but he also hoped it would help the Queen's family \"find a measure of comfort amidst the glare of publicity\".\n\n\"In the readings and the prayers, it will be something that, again, I pray will fit the Queen's character and person. You'll think not just this was a service fit for a Queen, this was a service fit for this person,\" he added.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will be drawn in a walking procession from the Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals as the procession moves slowly through the streets of the capital.\n\nParliament officials said they were confident the bell would ring out during the procession after investigating a \"minor technical issue\" which prevented it from striking on Sunday, following the national minute's silence.\n\nGun salutes will also fire every minute from Hyde Park during the procession and people can watch in person from designated viewing areas along the route.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, at about 13:00, the coffin will be transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. There, the Queen's coffin will enter St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nAttended by a smaller congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nAt a private family service later, the Queen will be buried alongside her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n\nHave you camped out all night along the funeral route? Share your experiences by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Queen Consort has paid tribute to the Queen, recalling her \"wonderful blue eyes\" and saying she would \"always remember her smile\".\n\nCamilla told the BBC how Queen Elizabeth II carved out her own role for many years in the \"difficult position\" of being a \"solitary woman\" in a male-dominated world.\n\nOn the eve of her Platinum Jubilee in February, the Queen endorsed the then-Duchess of Cornwall to be known as Queen Consort when the time came.", "King Charles with head bowed at his mother's coffin\n\nKing Charles with Princess Anne and Princes Edward and Andrew have held a silent vigil around the Queen's coffin.\n\nWearing military uniform, they stood with their heads bowed for about 10 minutes as the public filed past.\n\nPrince Andrew wore his uniform for the occasion, despite being stripped of his military titles.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II will lie in state at Westminster Hall until her funeral on Monday.\n\nAfter the vigil ended, members of the public applauded them as they left Westminster Hall.\n\nOther members of the Royal Family, including the Queen Consort, Camilla, the Countess of Wessex and Michael of Kent, watched from the gallery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe King, with his brothers and sister, also observed a vigil for the Queen as she lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh earlier this week.\n\nUntil Friday, Prince Andrew had not worn military uniform at the events marking his mother's death, unlike his siblings who are working Royals with military titles.\n\nAn exception allowing Prince Andrew to wear military uniform was made for the vigil.\n\nThe 62-year-old stepped down as a working royal in 2019 after a Newsnight interview that addressed his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Duke of York was later stripped of his military titles.\n\nPrior to the vigil, Prince Edward thanked the public for their support, saying: \"We have been overwhelmed by the tide of emotion that has engulfed us and the sheer number of people who have gone out of their way to express their own love, admiration and respect to such a very special and unique person who was always there for us.\n\n\"And now, we are there for her, united in grief.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Queen's grandchildren, including the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, will also observe a vigil by the late monarch's coffin.\n\nAt King Charles' request, Prince Harry will wear a military uniform for the occasion, like his brother Prince William, in line with the exception made for his uncle Prince Andrew.\n\nIt will be the first time Prince Harry has been seen in military uniform since stepping back as a senior royal in 2020.\n\nMourners filed past the royals as they stood in silent vigil around the coffin at Westminster Hall\n\nA special exception was made to allow Prince Andrew to wear his uniform after he was stripped of his military titles earlier this year\n\nThe Queen's daughter, Princess Anne, accompanied her mother's coffin as it travelled from Scotland to London\n\nThe Queen Consort, the Countess of Wessex and the Duke of Kent were among the royals at Westminster Hall\n\nMourners wanting to see the Queen lying in state have been warned of long waits and cold temperatures overnight\n\nThe Queen's death has touched many across the globe, and thousands of mourners joined a five miles (8km) long queue across London to pay their respects.\n\nShe was the longest serving monarch in British history, and the queue to see her lying-in-state at Westminster Hall currently has a wait time of at least 24 hours, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said.\n\nBut despite the official statement, people have told the BBC they were able to get through the queue from Southwark Park to Westminster Hall in 12 hours overnight.\n\nThe Queen died aged 96 last Thursday at her Scottish estate in Balmoral.", "'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'", "Police and protesters in Belgrave Road on Sunday afternoon\n\nFifteen people have been arrested in an operation to \"deter further disorder\" in Leicester.\n\nThere was large-scale unrest on Saturday amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities.\n\nPolice said it had been sparked by an \"unplanned protest\". Another protest involving about 100 people followed on Sunday.\n\nLeicestershire Police said there had been no further disorder overnight.\n\nThe force added that all 15 people arrested on Sunday remained in custody.\n\nLeicester's elected mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, said he and community leaders were \"baffled\" by the events, saying they had been \"fanned by some very distorted social media\" and \"a lot of people who came in from outside\".\n\nDuring Sunday's protest people congregated on Belgrave Road, with members of the crowd telling the BBC they were on the streets as a result of the recent unrest.\n\nOfficers closed the road and some of the crowd briefly tried to push through police lines, complaining they were being prevented from marching.\n\nLater, the protesters walked along Green Lane Road, in the North Evington area, followed by officers.\n\nThere was also a police presence on Humberstone Road, with several nearby streets closed off.\n\nThe force said in a statement: \"Officers became aware of groups of young men gathering on Sunday afternoon in the North Evington area of the city.\n\n\"Officers spoke to them and took steps, including putting in place a temporary police cordon, to minimise harm and disturbance to communities.\"\n\nPolice had said they wanted to avoid a repeat of Saturday night's confrontations, and that dispersal powers would be used to break up any further gatherings.\n\nThe force has also issued a warning about misinformation and rumours, and urged people to be careful about what they shared on social media.\n\nLater on Sunday, police closed several side streets in the Humberstone Road area\n\nSir Peter said: \"It got fanned by some very distorted social media. And then fuelled by a lot of people who came in from outside as well as some young local lads who seemed to feel it was appropriate to frighten and disturb this peaceful city.\n\n\"I've seen a selection of the social media which is very, very distorted - some of it completely lying - about what had been happening between different communities.\n\n\"I also know there was also a concerted attempt on Saturday to bring people from as far as Birmingham, to ship them across to have a bit of a 'set-to' in Leicester.\n\n\"All of those things taken together seem to have escalated the celebration of a cricket match into something that for the city is very disturbing indeed.\n\n\"I don't want to minimise the impact but there is no obvious local cause for this at all.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to police for \"stamping on it quickly\".\n\nMr Soulsby added he and community leaders were \"confident Leicester is resilient enough to be able to return to normal relations very soon\".\n\nCommunity leaders in the city have called for \"peace and engagement\".\n\nProtesters could also been seen moving down Green Lane Road, flanked by police\n\nSanjiv Patel, who represents Hindu and Jain temples across Leicester, said he was deeply saddened and shocked by the recent disturbances.\n\nHe said: \"We are horrified and deplore what was going on [on Saturday] and across the last two weeks.\n\n\"Across the Hindu and Jain community and with our Muslim brothers and sisters and leaders we are consistently saying 'calm minds, calm heads'.\"\n\nHe added: \"Violence is not a solution to anything. This has to be a time for peace, calm and engagement.\"\n\nSuleman Nagdi, of the Leicester-based Federation of Muslim Organisations, told the BBC: \"What we have seen on the streets is very alarming.\n\n\"There have been problems in the community since the India and Pakistan cricket match and while that game often sparks gatherings they have not in the past turned this ugly.\n\n\"We need calm - the disorder has to stop and it has to stop now. There are some very dissatisfied young men who have been causing havoc.\n\n\"We need to get the message out that this must end and try to do this through parents and grandparents talking to their sons.\"\n\nTwo men were arrested after Saturday's disorder - one on suspicion of conspiracy to commit violent disorder and another on suspicion of possession of a bladed article.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of people could be seen on the streets in footage filmed on Saturday\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UN's nuclear watchdog (IAEA) says Ukraine's huge Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has begun receiving power from the national grid once again.\n\nShelling in the area damaged power lines connected to the plant.\n\nAll six of its reactors are in a state of cold shutdown, but the plant needs external power to cool its reactors and defend against the risk of a meltdown.\n\nThe IAEA says the situation of the plant, which is held by Russian forces, has improved but remains precarious.\n\nA team of nuclear experts from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) travelled to Zaporizhzhia, Europe's largest nuclear plant, at the beginning of the month.\n\nThe trip followed increasing calls from Ukraine and the international community for a safety inspection following reports of shelling.\n\nRussia and Ukraine both blamed each other for the shelling of the facility in south-east Ukraine.\n\nAfter the IAEA's first inspection, the agency announced it would maintain a permanent presence in order to monitor the situation.\n\nMembers of the team at the site on Saturday learnt that one of the four main external power lines damaged by shelling had been repaired, allowing electricity to be received directly from the national grid, the IAEA tweeted on Saturday.\n\nFurther east in Ukraine, the discovery of mass graves in Izyum has led the European Union presidency to call for an international tribunal for war crimes to be carried out.\n\nHundreds of bodies have been discovered buried in a forest at the edge of the city, which recently came under the control of Ukraine after Russian forces retreated.\n\nMany are said to be civilians, women and children among them.\n\nUkraine says it believes war crimes have been committed.\n\n\"In the 21st Century, such attacks against the civilian population are unthinkable and abhorrent,\" said Jan Lipavsky, foreign minister of the Czech Republic which holds the EU's rotating presidency.\n\n\"We must not overlook it. We stand for the punishment of all war criminals,\" he wrote in a tweet. \"I call for the speedy establishment of a special international tribunal that will prosecute the crime of aggression.\"\n\nFighting raged on Saturday in the divided eastern region of Donetsk, which is mostly under the control of Russian-backed separatists.\n\nThe separatist mayor of Donetsk city said four people had been killed by Ukrainian government shelling of a central district while the Donetsk region's Ukrainian governor accused Russian forces of shelling a thermal power plant in Mykolaivka, disrupting drinking water supplies in the area.\n\nUkrainian troops are continuing their counter-offensive in the country's north-east, after successfully recapturing territory from Russia in recent days, the UK's defence ministry says. It adds that Russia has established a defensive line protecting one of its main supply routes from Belgorod, near its border with Ukraine.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukrainian counter-offensives would not change Russia's military plans in the east of Ukraine.", "The Duke of York has paid tribute to the Queen, saying he will \"treasure forever\" his mother's \"love for a son\".\n\nPrince Andrew praised the Queen's compassion, care and confidence, saying he will hold his mother close to his heart with deep \"love and gratitude\".\n\nIt was an \"honour and privilege\" to serve the Queen, he added, praising her devotion to the nation.\n\nPrince Andrew, 62, has taken part in the vigils next to his mother's coffin in recent days, alongside his siblings.\n\nIn a statement the Queen's third child said: \"Dear Mummy, Mother, Your Majesty, three in one.\"\n\n\"Your people show their love and respect in so many different ways and I know you are looking on honouring their respect.\n\n\"Mummy, your love for a son, your compassion, your care, your confidence I will treasure forever. I have found your knowledge and wisdom infinite, with no boundary or containment.\"\n\nHe said he will miss the Queen's \"insights, advice and humour\".\n\nThe Duke of York added: \"As our book of experiences closes, another opens, and I will forever hold you close to my heart with my deepest love and gratitude, and I will tread gladly into the next with you as my guide.\"\n\nHe finished by saying: \"God Save The King.\"\n\nAndrew accompanied his tribute with photo taken by society photographer Cecil Beaton of his mother holding him as a new-born in March 1960.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II holding Prince Andrew during an outing in the grounds at Balmoral, Scotland\n\nPrince Andrew (second from left) took part in the vigil with King Charles, Princess Anne and Prince Edward at Westminster Hall this week\n\nHe stepped down as a working Royal in 2019 after a controversial Newsnight interview that addressed his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He was later stripped of his military titles.\n\nPrince Andrew had not worn military uniform at the events marking his mother's death, but an exception was made on Friday for a vigil around the Queen's coffin. as it lies in state at Westminster Hall.", "eBay is removing sales listings for wristbands for the queue to see the Queen lying-in-state in London.\n\nSellers were offering the paper coloured bands, which mark mourners' place in the queue as memorabilia.\n\nThe bands are marked as non-transferable and do not guarantee entry into Westminster Hall to file past the Queen's coffin.\n\nA spokesperson for the auction website said: \"These items are against our policies and we are removing them.\"\n\nA few of the wristbands remained on the site under the header \"new listing\" on Sunday morning but did not link to an active auction or buy-it-now page.\n\nSome used wristbands were attracting bids of up to £70,000 before they were removed, the Guardian has reported. However, it is not known whether the bids were genuine.\n\neBay allows tickets to past events such as concerts or sports fixtures to be sold as memorabilia. However its policy states it may prohibit the sale of tickets to events that are free to the public.\n\nIts policy also says tickets for yet-to-take place events such as concerts, festivals, sports or theatre cannot be listed on the site.\n\nThese listings are no longer active on eBay\n\nPeople are being warned not to travel to join the queue to \"avoid disappointment\".\n\nA decision about what time the line to see the lying in state at Westminster Hall with be closed is expected to be taken this afternoon, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) tweeted.\n\nGovernment officials also said the current wait time is at least 13 hours.\n\nPublic viewing of the Queen lying in state will officially close at 06:30 BST on Monday, four and a half hours before the late monarch's state funeral is due to begin at Westminster Abbey.\n• None People told not to set off to view Queen's coffin", "The Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday, after her coffin has been lying in state for the last four full days.\n\nHere is your guide to what will happen, day by day.\n\nMonday is the day of the Queen's state funeral. It is also a bank holiday in the UK.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state will end at 06:30 BST when the last people will file past her coffin. The doors to Westminster Abbey will then open at 08:00 ahead of the funeral.\n\nAt 10:44, the Queen's coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and it will be drawn by 142 sailors from the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III will walk behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nThe procession will be led by a massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force - numbering 200 musicians.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive at the Abbey at 10:52. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.\n\nAt around 11:55, the Last Post will sound, followed by a national two-minute silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12:00.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will travel in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. The King and senior royals will walk behind the coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will follow the procession by car. Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals.\n\nFrom there the coffin will be taken by a state hearse to Windsor. Shortly after 15:00, the hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nThe three-mile (5km) avenue will be lined with members of the armed forces.\n\nA committal service will then begin at 16:00. Attended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, it will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nAfter, the Queen will then be lowered into the royal vault.\n\nLater in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen will be buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "Queues are likely at London Underground and train stations on Monday as people travel to see the Queen's funeral.\n\nMonday will see one of the UK's biggest transport operations with more than a million people expected to travel to the capital, Transport for London said.\n\nMajor London train stations are staying open all night, with extra services being put on - some through the night.\n\nHowever, railway lines between Slough and Paddington have been blocked due to overhead wire damage.\n\nThe problem is affecting services run by Great Western Railway, Heathrow Express and the Elizabeth Line, and is disrupting travel from Heathrow Airport and Reading into London.\n\nNetwork Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy has warned that trains will be \"extremely busy\", particularly in London on Monday afternoon and evening following Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral.\n\n\"To help us provide the best possible experience and avoid lengthy queues at stations we're asking people not to rush home after the funeral and the processions, but to take their time and experience London on this memorable day,\" he said.\n\nTransport staff will be around to help elderly or vulnerable passengers and are advising people to keep an eye on the most up-to-date travel information.\n\nOn Sunday, footfall at London stations was up 10% from a week earlier, but some stations saw even bigger rises with Waterloo and Charing Cross up by more than 20%.\n\nAndy Byford, commissioner of Transport for London (TfL) said: \"The day of the funeral will be one of the busiest, biggest, challenges TfL has ever faced,\"\n\nHe said the capital had seen \"huge numbers of additional passengers\" since the Queen died at Balmoral on 8 September, but demand will \"reach a climax\" on Monday.\n\nHe said: \"We're ready for probably one of the busiest days Transport for London has ever faced...we're preparing for potentially a million people just within the footprint of the royal palaces and Hyde Park.\"\n\nLondon train stations including Victoria, Waterloo, Charing Cross and Euston will be open throughout the night across the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThree Tube stations - Westminster, St James's Park and Hyde Park Corner - will be closed for most of Monday morning to avoid being overcrowded.\n\nSome stations will also have stationary \"welfare trains\" so people have somewhere to shelter at all hours. Many shops, restaurants and toilets will remain open in train stations as well.\n\nLNER, which is not running \"night trains\", has already announced an Azuma train will be stationed at London King's Cross station all night, with staff on-hand to assist.\n\nAvanti is also putting on extra charter services to help ease congestion between Manchester and London. Four extra services will run on Monday.\n\nTransport for London has set up a special control centre in Southwark\n\nTfL says it will invite customers on its services to observe the two-minute silence at around 11:55 on Monday.\n\nTfL says buses will pull over for it, if it is safe and practical to do so, and switch their engines off. The Underground, Overground and other rail services in London will also invite passengers to take part but services will continue to run.\n\nAs it will be a bank holiday, peak travel restrictions have been lifted.\n\nAlthough trains and Tubes have been busy in the past few days, particularly in central London around mourning events, overall passenger usage remains below pre-Covid levels.\n\nMany commuters and business people are thought to have stayed away from the city centre.\n\nAnyone who bought Anytime, Off-Peak, or Super Off-Peak train tickets can get full refunds during the mourning period if the tickets were bought before the Queen's death was announced.\n\nRoad closures and diversions are expected to continue for several days after Monday, as event infrastructure is removed, TfL said.\n\nNational Highways is also warning people to allow extra time travelling in out of London, as motorways and major roads will be very busy.\n\nMotorists are advised to avoid central London because of road closures.\n\nMotorway service stations will remain open, although there might be reduced levels of services at some locations on Monday.\n\nHeathrow Airport has also warned people to take public transport instead of driving to the airport on Monday because of road closures around Windsor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mourners greeted by King and Prince William in queue\n\nKing Charles and the Prince of Wales have made a surprise appearance to meet people queuing to see the Queen lying in state.\n\nThey thanked those who had been waiting through the night, with Prince William telling a child: \"You're over halfway.\"\n\nHe also said how much it meant to his family that so many were queuing.\n\nOrganisers have now announced that the accessible queue has reached full capacity and has permanently closed, with all time slots allocated.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has asked people not to attempt to join that queue.\n\nAs the King and William walked up and down the queue on Saturday, there were cheers of God Save the King, God Save the Prince of Wales and hip hip hooray.\n\nThe King, referring to the cold temperatures overnight, told one person waiting in the queue: \"I hope you didn't get too frozen.\"\n\nAnyone hoping to pay their respects has until 06:30 BST on Monday when the lying-in-state will end.\n\nBut the queue will be closed well before this so that people do not join the line and fail to reach Westminster Hall in time.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said he was sorry people had had to wait for so long\n\nOne woman in the queue told the Prince of Wales she had been queuing for 13 hours already. He replied: \"Thirteen hours? You're looking very good on 13 hours.\"\n\nThose waiting in Lambeth, south London, told the pair the wait was \"worth it\" but William said he was sorry they had had to wait for so long.\n\nThe prince commented to one person waiting that their trainers were a good choice of footwear for the queue.\n\nSeveral people cried after meeting Prince William, and one woman told him: \"You'll be a brilliant king one day.\"\n\nKing Charles left around 20 minutes after arriving and was driven back to Buckingham Palace, but his son stayed longer to speak to more people.\n\nThe beginning of King Charles's reign has seen the Royal Family take part in several walkabouts and meetings with the public.\n\nThis unscheduled walkabout gave us a glimpse of a more approachable, literally hands-on style of monarchy.\n\nThe King seemed keen to show his gratitude for those who were queuing for such a long time to pay their respects for his mother.\n\nIt was sending a visible message of recognising the public mood and responding to those emotions.\n\nWhere the King met the queue wasn't far from the memorial to those who died during the Covid pandemic. And this moment has tapped into many people's own memories of bereavements.\n\nThe King's visit brought a warm reaction from the crowd who passed on their own condolences. \"Sorry for your loss,\" said one well-wisher.\n\nThe crowd queuing the along the Thames also reflected this informal style, calling out to the Prince of Wales: \"William, William.\"\n\nHe thanked them for waiting for so long. But they didn't seem to mind.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, the Earl and Countess of Wessex met crowds outside Buckingham Palace, shaking their hands and thanking them for their support.\n\nThe Queen's youngest son could be heard asking mourners where they had come from and whether they were making their way to Green Park to lay flowers.\n\nThe pair had been at a lunch held inside the palace by the King and Queen Consort for governors-general from Commonwealth countries.\n\nRepresentatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu were among those present, along with the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nPrince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, took time to speak to people outside Buckingham Palace\n\nThe Prince of Wales, his brother the Duke of Sussex and their cousins stood guard around the Queen's coffin on Saturday evening, a day after their parents held their own vigil at Westminster Hall.\n\nPrince Harry was given permission by the King to wear military uniform for the ceremony.\n\nPrince Andrew was also allowed to wear his military uniform as he stood guard on Friday. The 62-year-old stepped down as a working royal in 2019, after a Newsnight interview about his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe prince was later stripped of his military titles.\n\nDuring the vigil, Harry stood at the foot of the coffin, with William at the head. They were joined by their cousins Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn.\n\nAhead of the vigil, Beatrice and Eugenie paid tribute to their \"dear Grannie\", saying: \"It has been the honour of our lives to have been your granddaughters and we're so very proud of you.\"\n\nSaturday is the third full day the Queen's coffin will lie in state in Westminster Hall, where she will remain until the morning of the funeral, on Monday.\n\nThe funeral will then take place at Westminster Abbey at 11:00, after which she will be laid to rest alongside the Duke of Edinburgh in the Royal Vault in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe King spoke to people in the queue before returning to Buckingham Palace\n\nForeign dignitaries are travelling to London ahead of Monday's funeral, which will be one of the biggest diplomatic events of recent years, with some 500 heads of state and other dignitaries expected to attend.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese laid flowers in Green Park, central London, before meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Mr Albanese said it was a \"great honour\" to represent Australia and commemorate \"a life well-lived\".\n\nCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a book of condolences in Lancaster House and issued a statement in which he said he benefitted from the Queen's \"counsel, her thoughtfulness, her curiosity, her sense of humour, and the engagement that showed a deep, deep and abiding interest in and love for Canadians\".\n\nThe book was also signed by New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern who afterwards spoke of what she called the Queen's incredible connection to her country.\n\nThe Prince of Wales told children in the queue they were \"over halfway\"\n\nThe King also met the heads of the armed forces at Buckingham Palace on Saturday and visited the Metropolitan Police's headquarters, New Scotland Yard.\n\nA senior Metropolitan Police officer described the Queen's funeral as \"the largest single policing event [the force] has ever undertaken\".\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the \"hugely complex\" operation surpasses the London 2012 Olympics - which saw up to 10,000 police officers on duty each day.\n\nThe arrivals of the Royals provided a welcome break for those in the queue\n\nLate on Friday night, police arrested a man who left the line of mourners inside Westminster Hall and approached the coffin. He was arrested under the Public Order Act and taken into custody.\n\nPeople who wish to pay their respects virtually can watch a BBC live stream and a dedicated queue tracker has been published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nA national one-minute silence will take place at 20:00 on Sunday.", "The star only had six songs left to perform when the concert was called off.\n\nLady Gaga was forced to halt the final show of her Chromatica Ball tour in Florida after a fierce storm descended.\n\nThe star was approaching the end of her show when lightning started to strike around Miami's Hard Rock Stadium.\n\n\"We just got to stop the show for a minute,\" she told the 65,000 fans at the show, advising them to \"really calmly move to the inside area\".\n\nAlthough she had hoped the storm would pass, the concert ultimately had to be called off.\n\nThe star later posted a tearful apology to fans on her Instagram account.\n\n\"We really tried to finish the show tonight in Miami but we couldn't because even when the rain stopped there was lightning striking right down to the ground so close to us,\" she said, still wearing her stage outfit, and wiping rain from her face.\n\n\"I don't know what I would do if anything happened to anybody in the audience or to any member of my crew.\"\n\nThe singer then picked up a bouquet of roses that a fan had tossed onto the stage and said she would \"cherish them forever\".\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 ladygaga 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 Hard Rock Stadium is home to American football team Miami Dolphins and only has a partial roof.\n\nBefore the show was cancelled, fans gathered under the sheltered portion of the venue and sang Gaga's hit Rain On Me - punctuated by terrifying claps of thunder.\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 Lady Gaga Now 🧠 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 Lady Gaga Now 🧠\n\nAlthough they later made their way back to their seats, organisers decided it was unsafe for the concert to go ahead.\n\nGaga, who had about six songs left to perform, took to the stage to announce the cancellation, saying: \"I don't want to put your life in danger\".\n\n\"Get home safely, God bless you and thank you for coming to the show,\" she said, before taking a final bow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by Lady Gaga Now 🧠\n\nFans who attended the show said Gaga was \"clearly upset\" by the cancellation.\n\n\"It was surreal and really sad when she came out and told us to go home,\" wrote one on Reddit. \"You could tell how heartbroken she was.\"\n\nThe Hard Rock stadium posted a statement on Twitter, reading: \"Tonight's Lady Gaga show couldn't continue after a show pause at 10:50 pm in the interest of fan safety due to inclement weather that included lighting. Thank you for your understanding.\"\n\nThe Chromatica Ball tour began in Dusseldorf, Germany, in July before visiting Sweden, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Japan and North America.\n\nWith a setlist including Bad Romance, Poker Face, Born This Way, Edge Of Glory and Stupid Love, the show has won rave reviews for its combination of dramatic set-pieces and a running narrative about surviving trauma.\n\nThe Guardian called it a \"hit-stacked show that also creates an intimate human connection\"; while Rolling Stone magazine said it served as \"a reminder that she's one of the greatest living musical performers\".\n\nThe Miami show was the last stop on Gaga's Chromatica Ball world tour.\n\nThe tour was confined to just 20 shows, with several rest days between concerts to help Gaga cope with the medical condition fibromyalgia.\n\nThe condition often leaves her in chronic pain, and resulted in the cancellation of the last 10 dates of her previous world tour in 2018.\n\n\"It took so much in my heart to get back to a place where I could perform and be healthy,\" she said on Instagram after the Miami concert.\n\n\"Part of why I decided not to finish the show was because I am healthy. It's a healthy decision for all of you and for myself as well. So I love you... and I'll see you next time on stage.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A rehearsal for the state funeral was held overnight on Thursday\n\nQueen Elizabeth II made personal additions to plans for her funeral day, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nAmong the touches requested by the Queen is the playing of a lament by her piper.\n\nThe state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday is likely to be one of the biggest single ceremonial events staged in Britain since World War Two.\n\nA national two-minute silence will be held as the service draws to a close just before midday.\n\nThe order of service, with its choice of music and readings, is expected to reflect more of the Queen's personal choices for the funeral.\n\nPalace aides said the Queen had been consulted on all the arrangements.\n\nAmong those who have confirmed their attendance at the state funeral, which starts at 11:00 BST, are US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nAlongside royalty, politicians and world leaders will be 200 people who were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours, including those who helped with the response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA former police officer awarded the George Cross after being shot at 15 times is also among those due to attend the state funeral.\n\nTony Gledhill, 84, said: \"I'm incredibly moved to be involved.\"\n\nThe official organiser of Monday's events, the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, said his role was \"both humbling and daunting\".\n\nHe said the solemnity of the last few days of mourning and the constitutional process was the \"envy of the world\".\n\nThe duke, who took on the hereditary position in 2002, said Monday's service would aim to \"unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths\".\n\nEvents on Monday will begin with the funeral procession, which will see the Queen's coffin conveyed from Westminster Hall, where she is lying in state, to the nearby Abbey.\n\nPrince Harry the Duke of Sussex and his brother William, the new Prince of Wales, will once more walk side-by-side behind the Queen's coffin during the procession.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be carried on the gun carriage that was used for the funerals of Edward VII, George V, George VI and Sir Winston Churchill. It will be pulled by 142 Royal Navy sailors.\n\nTowards the end of the service, the Last Post will be played, followed by a national two-minute silence. The conclusion of the state funeral, expected at 12:00, will be marked by a lament played by the Queen's piper.\n\nAfter the Abbey service, the Queen's coffin will be carried in a further procession to Wellington Arch - led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and members of NHS staff.\n\nIt will then be conveyed to Windsor by road, before a committal service takes place at 16:00 at St George's Chapel, led by the Dean of Windsor and with a congregation including the Royal Family and some of the Queen's personal staff.\n\nAs the Queen's coffin is lowered into the royal vault, the Archbishop of Canterbury will read a blessing and the Queen's piper will play a lament.\n\nThe Crown Jeweller will be in attendance to collect the crown from the Queen's coffin and convey it back to the Tower of London.\n\nA final private burial service for close family members will be held at 19:30.\n\nThe Queen will be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, where she will rest with her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year.\n\nThe skies over London will be quiet during the two-minute silence, as Heathrow airport stops all departures and arrivals for 30 minutes from 11:40.\n\nSeparate changes to operations at the airport will ensure silence overhead during the ceremonies in Windsor.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast a special programme for Monday's funeral from 08:00 to 17:00 on BBC One and iPlayer.\n\nHow will you be watching the funeral? Do you have any specific plans? Email: yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The stabbing took place on Great Windmill Street\n\nA 24-year-old man has been charged in connection with the stabbing of two police officers in central London on Friday.\n\nMohammed Rahman is accused of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nOne of the officers suffered what have been described as \"life-changing\" injuries to her arm in the attack near Leicester Square.\n\nAnother officer suffered neck wounds but is expected to recover fully.\n\nThe two officers - both attached to the Met's Central West Command Unit responsible for policing Westminster - were carrying out routine duties and not part of the wider policing operation in place following the death of the Queen.\n\nRahman will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Monday.", "People who wish to view Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state have been told it is too late to set off now to see it.\n\nWith the event being closed at 06:30 BST on Monday, ahead of the funeral, organisers say they will have to close the queue at some point, so do not want people to travel and be disappointed.\n\nA minute's silence was observed across the UK at 20:00 to mourn the Queen.\n\nAnd King Charles has been hosting world leaders at a Buckingham Palace reception ahead of Monday's funeral.\n\nUS President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern were among those who attended the event.\n\nSome of foreign guests, including President Biden and his wife Jill, also paid their respects to the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall during the day.\n\nA rainbow was seen over Westminster Abbey, the location of the Queen's funeral, on Sunday evening\n\nOn the final full day of the Queen's lying-in-state, the waiting time in the queue is currently estimated to be eight hours - with the end point now at Hay's Galleria near London Bridge.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Culture said a decision will be taken later on when entry to the queue will close as it reaches final capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, in a TV tribute, Camilla, the Queen Consort, said the Queen \"carved her own role\" when she took on the role in 1952 as a time when the world was dominated by men.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pre-recorded interview was broadcast on BBC One, as part of an hour-long programme called Eve of the State Funeral, which preceded the national silence.\n\nBig Ben was struck once to mark the start of Sunday's minute's silence at 20:00 BST, and again to mark its end.\n\nEvents and moments of reflection have also taken place across the UK during the day include an open-air prayer service at the Kelpies, near Falkirk, where 96 lanterns - one for each year of Her Majesty's life - were lowered into the pool of reflection at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth II Canal.\n\nWith final preparations ongoing for Monday's state funeral at Westminster Abbey, the government has compiled a list of screenings for those wishing to see the ceremony in a public setting.\n\nFor those staying at home or on the move during the day, the BBC will provide full coverage of the funeral across television, radio, iPlayer and BBC Sounds. A special programme will be on air from 08:00 until 17:00 on BBC One, BBC Two and iPlayer.\n\nThe Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, spoke to BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme about the vast number of people who are working to make sure the state funeral goes smoothly.\n\n\"It is enormous, it's actually over 10,000 people,\" Adm Radakin said. That will include up to 6,000 members of the Army, Royal Navy and RAF taking part in Monday's procession in London and Windsor, who have been taking part in overnight rehearsals.\n\nFormer Archbishop of York John Sentamu also recalled a touching letter the Queen wrote to him four weeks after Prince Phillip's burial.\n\nAccording to Lord Sentamu, in the letter she thanked him for the flowers and prayers, and said: \"When you are grieving someone you deeply love, it isn't easy when you are having to do it in public.\"", "Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the headquarters of New Scotland Yard on Saturday\n\nCrowds have gathered outside the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in a rally against racism and police brutality.\n\nIt followed the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old unarmed black man, Chris Kaba, by a Met officer on 5 September.\n\nMembers of Mr Kaba's family, who have accused the force of racism, joined protesters along with politicians.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating, and will look at whether race was a factor.\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke at the gathering, as did the MP for Streatham Bell Ribeiro-Addy.\n\nJeremy Corbyn was at the rally outside New Scotland Yard\n\nVideos posted from Saturday's protests show a crowd of people on London's embankment chanting: \"What do we want? Justice.\"\n\nThe protest in central London was one of many taking place in the UK, including in Brighton, Oxford, Southampton, Coventry, Leamington Spa, Manchester, Taunton, Hassockfield, and Cardiff, as part of a National Day of Action organised by the Justice for Chris Kaba campaign.\n\nChris Kaba's cousin Sheeda told the crowd: \"We know we are not alone and we are so grateful\"\n\nMr Kaba died after a single shot by a firearms officer at the Met, who has since been suspended from duty.\n\nHe had been involved in a police pursuit after the car he was driving was flagged on an automatic camera system indicating it had been involved in an offence.\n\nMr Kaba's family have accused the Met of racism.\n\nThe IOPC said it had been in contact with Mr Kaba's family regarding the investigation, which is expected to take six to nine months to complete.\n\nBut Mr Kaba's family has called for the investigation to be concluded swiftly.\n\nHis cousin, Jefferson Bosela, said: \"We won't be waiting years for this. We want justice as soon as we can.\"\n\nDaniel Machover, a lawyer speaking on behalf of the family, described the timeframe as \"unacceptably long and lacking urgency\".\n\nChris Kaba, who was due to become a father, died in the early hours of 6 September about two hours after he was shot\n\nThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the IOPC \"must go wherever the evidence takes them\".\n\nHe added: \"I fully understand the grave concerns and impact of Chris Kaba's death on black Londoners across our city, and the anger, pain and fear it has caused across our communities - as well as the desire for justice and change.\n\n\"The IOPC have confirmed to me that they are fully committed to carrying out a thorough and comprehensive investigation to establish all of the facts - with all key findings made public.\n\n\"I'm clear that the independent investigation must be fearless and leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Amanda Pearson said: \"We continue to fully support the IOPC investigation as they work to establish the facts and try to answer the many questions Mr Kaba's family and others have around his tragic death.\n\nA coroner's inquest into the death is due to open on 4 October.\n\nCrowds gathered outside the Met headquarters with placards and loudhailers\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: Grieving a loved one in public not easy, Queen told Sentamu\n\nGrieving someone you love deeply is not easy to do in public, the Queen once said, the former Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu has revealed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Sentamu recalled the words in a \"most wonderful letter\" the Queen wrote to him after Prince Philip died last year.\n\nHe added his thoughts were with King Charles and the Royal Family who \"are grieving publicly\".\n\nDr Sentamu also said the Queen did not want a \"long, boring\" funeral service.\n\nAppearing on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, he told of how he has been involved in preparing for the service for the past 17 years.\n\nThe Queen's funeral is taking place at Westminster Abbey at 11:00 BST on Monday.\n\nSome 500 leaders and dignitaries from the UK and around the world will be among the thousands of guests expected to attend the ceremony.\n\n\"You're not going to find boredom, but you're going to be lifted to glory as you hear the service\", he said.\n\nDr Sentamu said mourners can expect the funeral to be a traditional service.\n\n\"The hearts and people's cockles will be warmed, but at the same time, there will be a moment of saying this is a funeral service,\" he said.\n\nDr Sentamu spoke of how the Queen comforted him through prayer when he went to ask for permission to step down as Archbishop of York in 2018.\n\nHe said: \"I went with a huge burden of matters that maybe one day will be revealed.\n\n\"I knelt down, and I said 'Your Majesty, please pray for me.' So I put my hands together and she put hers outside mine, and we were silent for three minutes. At the end she said 'Amen'.\n\n\"When I got up, the burden had lifted.\"\n\nRecalling the letter the Queen had written to him after Prince Philip's died, Dr Sentamu said she was \"thanking me for the flowers, the prayers and then ended by saying 'when you are grieving someone you deeply love, it isn't easy when you have to do it in public'\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of people can be seen on the streets in footage filmed at the scene\n\nLarge-scale disorder broke out in Leicester on Saturday, with police and community leaders calling for calm.\n\nOfficers tried to hold back crowds amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities.\n\nPolice said two arrests had been made, and that the trouble flared up after \"an unplanned protest\".\n\nIt is the latest of several incidents, including violence after an India and Pakistan cricket match on 28 August.\n\nA significant police operation will remain in the area in the coming days.\n\nSuleman Nagdi, of the Leicester-based Federation of Muslim Organisations told the BBC: \"What we have seen on the streets is very alarming.\n\n\"There have been problems in the community since the India and Pakistan cricket match and while that game often sparks gatherings they have not in the past turned this ugly.\n\n\"We need calm - the disorder has to stop and it has to stop now. There are some very dissatisfied young men who have been causing havoc.\n\n\"We need to get the message out that this must end and try to do this through parents and grandparents talking to their sons.\"\n\nSanjiv Patel, who represents Hindu and Jain temples across Leicester, said he was deeply saddened and shocked by Saturday night's disorder.\n\nHe said: \"We have lived in harmony in the city for many decades but over the past few weeks it is clear there are things that need to be discussed around the table to get out what people are unhappy about.\n\n\"Resorting to violence is not the way to deal with this.\n\n\"We are horrified and deplore what was going on (yesterday) and across the last two weeks.\n\n\"Across the Hindu and Jain community and with our Muslim brothers and sisters and leaders we are consistently saying 'calm minds, calm heads'.\"\n\nHe warned people to be wary of disinformation on social media.\n\nHe added: \"Violence is not a solution to anything. This has to be a time for peace, calm and engagement.\"\n\nPolice said one man was detained on suspicion of conspiracy to commit violent disorder and another on suspicion of possession of a bladed article.\n\nLeicestershire's chief constable was among the police officers on the ground\n\nLeicester city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said: \"I don't think anyone saw the confrontation (on Saturday) as a likely outcome and police had been given reassurance things were calming down a lot.\n\n\"Things got very nasty indeed last night and I am very worried on behalf of the people who were caught up in it and I was impressed by the way police responded to it - it can't have been an easy task.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's mostly young men in their late teens and early 20s and I have heard suggestions people have come in (to the city) from outside looking for an opportunity to have a set-to.\n\n\"It's very worrying for people in the areas where this has happened.\"\n\nSir Peter said it was important community leaders continued to try to de-escalate the situation but he acknowledged it was a challenge to get through to young people.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday night, Leicestershire Police's temporary chief constable Rob Nixon said in a video: \"We've had numerous reports of an outbreak of disorder in parts of the East Leicester area of the city.\n\n\"We have got officers there, we are taking control of that situation, there are additional officers that are en route, and dispersal powers, and stop and search powers have been authorised.\n\n\"Please do not get involved, we are calling for calm.\"\n\nPolice said they were \"taking control\" of the situation\n\nCommunity leaders from East Leicester were on the ground with officers, and were calling for calm and encouraging people to go home, the force added.\n\nIn the early hours on Sunday, police said the situation was calming and \"under control\", and large number of searches had been carried out.\n\n\"Several incidents of violence and damage have been reported to the police and are being investigated,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are aware of a video circulating showing a man pulling down a flag outside a religious building on Melton Road, Leicester.\n\n\"This appears to have taken place while police officers were dealing with public disorder in the area. The incident will be investigated.\"\n\nA woman who witnessed Saturday's disturbances said there were people wearing balaclavas or with masks over their faces, and with hoods pulled up.\n\nShe told the BBC they were \"just everywhere, it was like crowds walking away from a football match\".\n\n\"There were police blocking the road; officers literally stood shoulder to shoulder blocking Uppingham Road,\" she said.\n\nFootage online showed police attempting to hold back crowds as objects including bottles were thrown.\n\nA resident from Green Lane Road said what she witnessed on Saturday evening was \"very intimidating\".\n\n\"The whole situation seemed really out of control,\" she said.\n\n\"The police were there but it didn't seem like they had a great handle on things.\n\n\"People were still feeling very scared, unsure and uncertain, and with everything else that's gone on recently, there's also a lot of tension building up in the few weeks that we've had this happen and unfold.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is no longer expected to attend the Queen's funeral, a UK Foreign Office source says.\n\nThe source, quoted by Reuters, said the change was made by the Saudis.\n\nHuman rights groups had criticised the decision to invite the Crown Prince, who is Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler.\n\nThe prince, known as \"MBS\", has been accused by Western intelligence of ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.\n\nHe denies the accusation. But he has been seen as something of a pariah in the West and has not been to Britain since the murder inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says.\n\nSources close to the Saudi Embassy earlier confirmed that the Crown Prince would be visiting London this weekend.\n\nBut Prince Turki al-Faisal, another senior Saudi royal, is expected to attend the funeral instead, the Foreign Office source said.\n\nHuman rights groups said the invitation to Mohammed Bin Salman represented the whitewashing of an appalling Saudi human rights record.\n\nAn invitation to China also caused controversy, because of Beijing's treatment of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang. China has confirmed that it is sending its Vice-President, Wang Qishan, to the funeral.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II \"carved her own role\" after she came to the throne, Camilla, the Queen Consort, has said in a personal TV tribute to her.\n\nCamilla recalls the Queen's \"wonderful blue eyes\" and her \"unforgettable smile\", in the BBC programme.\n\nIt was broadcast shortly before a national minute's silence held across the UK on Sunday at 20:00 BST.\n\nShe also said the Queen \"has been part of our lives forever\".\n\nThe Queen Consort was four when Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in 1952 and she tells the documentary: \"I'm 75 now and I can't remember anybody except the Queen being there.\"\n\nRemembering the monarch, Camilla described \"those wonderful blue eyes... when she smiles they light up her whole face\".\n\n\"I will always remember that smile.\"\n\nThe Queen Consort's tribute to her late mother-in-law was shown in a special hour-long BBC One programme at 19:00 on Sunday.\n\nIn it, she told how her mother-in-law had carved out her own role for many years from the \"difficult position\" of being a \"solitary woman\" in what was a male-dominated world.\n\n\"There weren't women prime ministers or presidents. She was the only one so I think she carved her own role.\"\n\nThe Queen Consort, who had known the monarch for decades, said the Queen had a clear demarcation between her public duties and private life, highlighting her summer breaks at Balmoral in Scotland as a moment for \"her enjoyment\".\n\n\"Although she was probably working, you know with her red boxes throughout, she could have her family to stay, she could do the things she loved,\" she said.\n\nShe also spoke of how the late Queen saw the funny side of a shoe mishap on the Queen Consort's wedding day in 2005.\n\n\"I probably wasn't firing on all cylinders, quite nervous and, for some unknown reason, I put on a pair of shoes and one had an inch heel and one had a two-inch heel,\" Camilla said.\n\n\"I was halfway down in the car before I realised... she could see and laughed about it and said, 'Look, I'm terribly sorry'.\"\n\nShe added that the Queen had a \"good sense of humour\".\n\nAhead of Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark her 70 years on the throne earlier this year, Queen Elizabeth had said it was her \"sincere wish\" that the then-Duchess of Cornwall would become known as Queen Consort when Charles became King.\n\nThat ended years of debate over what she would become known as.\n\nThe Queen also called on the public to support her daughter-in-law and son when he became the new monarch.\n\nSpeaking about his wife during his first speech as monarch, King Charles said: \"I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much.\"\n\nEvents and moments of reflection have taken place across the UK on Sunday. Near Falkirk, Scotland, 96 lanterns - one for each year of Her Majesty's life - were lowered into the pool of reflection at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth II Canal at 19:30.\n\nOn the final full day of the Queen's lying-in-state, thousands have continued to queue as the government warned people not to travel to avoid disappointment if it closed before they could enter the hall.\n\nMembers of the public will be able to see the coffin at Westminster Hall until 06:30 on Monday.", "One of Russia's most popular singers, Alla Pugacheva, has called on the Russian authorities to declare her a \"foreign agent\", in solidarity with her strongly anti-war husband Maxim Galkin.\n\nA showbiz star too, he was labelled a \"foreign agent\" on Friday after condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine.\n\nOn social media Pugacheva called her husband \"a true incorruptible Russian patriot, who wants... an end to our lads dying for illusory aims\".\n\nShe has been a big star for decades.\n\nShe said the Kremlin's \"illusory aims\" in Ukraine \"make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult\".\n\nGalkin, a comedian, TV presenter and singer, wanted \"prosperity for his motherland, peace, free speech\", she added.\n\nThe label \"foreign agent\" has been applied by the Russian government to various media organisations, campaign groups and individuals openly critical of Kremlin policies.\n\nAlla Pugacheva has been a musical megastar here for decades. First, in the Soviet Union, where she began her career in the 1960s; then, after the fall of the USSR, in Russia.\n\nShe is a hugely popular and well-respected artist, which makes her public comments about Russia's offensive in Ukraine big news.\n\nHer assertion that \"our lads are dying for illusory aims that make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult\" is likely to infuriate the Kremlin.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether it will have any effect on Russian public opinion over what the Kremlin still calls its \"special military operation\".\n\nPugacheva and Galkin went to Israel in late March, a month after the Russian invasion, and Pugacheva returned to Russia late last month with her children.\n\nIn early September President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of Galkin: \"Our paths have clearly diverged - he has made very bad statements.\"\n\nGalkin condemned Russian troops' alleged atrocities and said there could be no justification for the Ukraine invasion.\n\nPresident Putin greeted Alla Pugacheva in the Kremlin in December 2014\n\nArtemy Troitsky, a leading figure in Russian music who left the country in 2014 because of his opposition to Vladimir Putin and now lives in Estonia, told the BBC Pugacheva's intervention was significant.\n\n\"Alla Pugacheva is the biggest pop star in Russia in the past almost 50 years,\" he said.\n\n\"Her fame is monumental and she's a legendary figure. I think this is something that many people have expected her to do some time ago because her husband, Maxim Galkin, he's made his anti-war statements already many times and several months ago.\n\n\"I think this is her first ever strong political statement and this in itself, of course, is quite shocking for the people in Russia. I think she's not the only one who may turn the public opinion. The obvious wrongdoings of the Russian army and the offensive of the Ukrainian army and the worsening economic situation and so on, all those factors they work against Putin and against the war.\n\n\"But I think that morally and emotionally this statement of Alla Pugacheva is maybe one of the most strong efforts in these directions.\"\n\nRussia says it is fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine - a claim widely dismissed - and that it is threatened by the Nato alliance's strong relations with Ukraine.\n\nThe actual civilian death toll is believed to be thousands higher. Tens of thousands of combatants have been killed or injured.\n\nRussia, a global energy supplier, is locked in an economic struggle with the West which imposed sweeping sanctions in response to the invasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin failing on all his strategic military objectives - Radakin", "People have queued along the River Thames to pay their respects to the Queen\n\nThe queue of people patiently waiting to pay their respects to the Queen as she lies in state in Westminster Hall has become a talking point around the world. The people populating its five-mile length are willing to shuffle slowly along for between nine and 24 hours, sometimes overnight. The fact that it all works is down to a team of crowd science experts and a professor from Cumbria.\n\nIt has become known, simply, as The Queue.\n\nThose watching its calm progress towards our former monarch - and it makes for strangely compulsive viewing - marvel at both its length and the stoic patience of those in it.\n\nIt is idiosyncratically British, they say. Who else would willingly join a queue that lasts longer than the average working day? And it comes with its own ecosystem. There is a live online queue tracker, coloured wristbands, toilets.\n\nThat it works is down to, among others, Prof Keith Still, from Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria, who has been teaching and advising on crowd science for 30 years.\n\nPlanning for something like The Queue takes \"decades\", he says.\n\nThe Queue passes landmarks such as Tower Bridge\n\nHe has provided analysis and advice and reviewed plans for not only The Queue, but also the Queen's journey from Balmoral through Aberdeen, where he was born.\n\nAsked if he ever anticipated The Queue could reach five miles long, he replies, swiftly: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe Queen was so loved, and reigned for so long, it was clear to him she was bound to have more people wanting to pay their respects than the 200,000 who gathered for the Queen Mother.\n\n\"You always plan for what might arrive and then five times that, and 10 times that,\" he says.\n\nProf Keith Still has been advising on crowd science for 30 years\n\nThe Queue is remarkable for mostly being good humoured. There have been few reports of queue jumping or problems. As Prof Still puts it: \"The crowd itself is looking after people within it.\"\n\nWhile this may be due to the sombre occasion, human nature and the psychology of queuing behaviour must also be considered, he says. People need to know what is happening in advance, to have their expectations set and to be kept constantly informed and updated and, in The Queue, they have had that.\n\nPerceived fairness is also important, with VIP lanes visually separate so it does not appear someone has just turned up and walked straight through.\n\n\"So long as people know what's happening, what's expected of them, how long it's going to take, they no longer face the uncertainty,\" he says. \"And it keeps the crowd very much on your side.\"\n\nWristbands and zones make sure people feel secure in their place while queuing\n\nPeople are happy if they know what is happening, even if the update is to say the update is coming.\n\n\"It's as soon as that information flow stops that you get a degree of uncertainty and people start behaving as individuals rather than as a collective,\" he says.\n\nThe Queue's temporary closure on Friday afternoon briefly concerned him. People were already on their way to join the end. \"When they announced that the queue had stopped I thought 'you're just going to create another queue of people waiting to join the queue',\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queue even attracted former England captain David Beckham\n\nBut this was \"already in the contingency plan\" and the closure was quickly reconsidered and The Queue extended out beyond Bermondsey.\n\nThe longer the queue, the more facilities you need to provide. As well as information, the crowd needs toilets, food, drinks, shelter and medical care.\n\n\"Eight hours might be acceptable for most people but 10, 12 - where's the limit of human endurance when standing for that length of time? These are all factored in,\" Prof Still says.\n\nThis is the scene which greets people at the end - the Queen lying in state\n\nHe does not think he could have stood for that length of time himself, not with arthritic hips. \"At 63, I can walk my dog for about 4km and that's it, I'm knackered for the rest of the day,\" he says.\n\nBut he trusts The Queue and has faith in the handful of his Masters students from Manchester Metropolitan University who took over from him in the team managing its planning.\n\nThese things are \"always a significant team effort\", he says.\n\n\"It's never just one person.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the Queen told her she had to \"just get on with it\" when asked for advice about being both a leader and a new mother.\n\nIn 2018, Ms Ardern became only the second elected head of government to give birth while in office.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she also reiterated a belief that New Zealand would one day become a republic.\n\nMs Ardern is one of hundreds of leaders in London ahead of the Queen's funeral.\n\nAppearing on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, she was shown footage of her first meeting with the Queen, which took place when she was pregnant.\n\nAsked about the conversation during that meeting, Ms Ardern said: \"One of the things on my mind alongside being a new prime minister was being a prime minister and a mum.\n\n\"And when you think about leaders who have been in that position..., there were so few to look to.\n\n\"So I said to her, 'How did you manage?', and I remember she just said, 'Well, you just get on with it'. And that was actually probably the best and most factual advice I could have.\"\n\nPrince Andrew and Prince Edward were both born after the Queen took the throne. The only other elected leader to give birth in office was Benazir Bhutto, who served as prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996.\n\nMs Ardern gave birth to daughter Neve Te Aroha in June 2018, returning to work in early August of that year.\n\nMs Ardern, who previously lived in London, said she hadn't been surprised \"at all\" by the size of the public's response to the Queen's death.\n\n\"I've seen what London looks like day-to-day, and what it feels like day-to-day, the hustle and bustle,\" she said.\n\n\"And to see it just stand still, but do so so poetically, is a very moving thing to witness. The Queen was here for her people, and now her people are there for her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand's PM says \"it makes sense\" that dignitaries attending the Queen's funeral should be bussed to Westminster Abbey\n\nShe added that she had been surprised by the widespread discussion of the news that many world leaders will be bussed to the funeral instead of being allowed to take their own cars.\n\n\"I have to be honest, I'm interested that there's so much fuss about it,\" she said. \"Back in New Zealand, I often get our ministers to carpool in a van. So this just makes good sense.\"\n\nMs Ardern was also asked about recent comments in which she said she thought it was \"likely\" that New Zealand would become a republic in her lifetime.\n\n\"Even the Queen herself has observed and acknowledged the evolution over time in our relationships,\" she said.\n\n\"So my observation is that there will continue to be an evolution in our relationship. I don't believe that it will be quick or soon, but over the course of my lifetime.\"\n\nShe also said that the process of becoming republic was not one she had \"any intent of instigating\".\n\nShe added that there would \"still be bonds between us as Commonwealth nations and still things to be gained through those relationships\".", "The Princess of Wales (L) received Olena Zelenska in Buckingham Palace\n\nUkraine's first lady Olena Zelenska has said Queen Elizabeth II \"shared the values Ukraine stands for today\".\n\nAfter an audience with the Princess of Wales at Buckingham Palace, Ms Zelenska said the late Queen had \"repeatedly\" said words of support for Ukraine - which is fighting a war with Russia.\n\nMs Zelenska visited Westminster Hall to see the Queen lying in state before her meeting with Catherine.\n\nWorld leaders have been arriving in London ahead of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe lying-in-state ended at 06:30 BST, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to see the coffin.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Zelenska said she was in the UK paying her respects to the Queen \"on behalf of all Ukrainians\".\n\n\"They know that the Queen shared the values that Ukraine stands for today: freedom, the right to one's own home, language, culture and country,\" she said. \"We have repeatedly heard words of support from her.\"\n\n\"On Independence Day, she wished us better times in this extremely difficult year,\" she said. \"In an address to the British Parliament, she spoke about supporting Ukraine.\n\n\"It is very important for us to know that such a world leader of an epoch, a leader with an impeccable reputation and morals, was with us.\"\n\nMs Zelenska's visit to the UK comes after her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, signed a book of condolence for the Queen at the British embassy in Kyiv.\n\nThe UK's ambassador in Kyiv, Melinda Simmons, said she was \"deeply honoured\" by the president's gesture \"given all else that is happening in [Ukraine] at this time\".\n\nMs Zelenska previously met Catherine and Prince William during an official visit to the UK in 2020 with her husband.\n\nUS President Joe Biden also saw the lying in state on Sunday and said the \"world is better\" because of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nPresident Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill, said Britons \"were fortunate to have had her for 70 years - we all were\".\n\nHe also joined other world leaders in signing a book of condolences at Lancaster House.\n\nUS President Joe Biden signed a book of condolence at Lancaster House\n\nLeaders from across the Commonwealth, of which the Queen served as head for the entirety of her reign, will also attend the funeral, including Canada's Justin Trudeau, New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern and Australia's Anthony Albanese.\n\nOther world leaders to have accepted invitations to the funeral include Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin and President Michael Higgins, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian President Sergio Mattarella and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nBut Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is no longer expected to attend the funeral, a UK Foreign Office source says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Queen's grandchildren take part in the historic vigil\n\nThe Queen's eight grandchildren, including the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, have stood vigil around her coffin as she lies in state at Westminster Hall.\n\nAt King Charles's request, Prince Harry wore military uniform, for the first time since 2020.\n\nPrince Harry has worn civilian clothes at public events since the Queen died.\n\nIt is the first time in history that the grandchildren of a monarch have taken part in the ceremony.\n\nThe King's sons William and Harry were joined by Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall, the children of Princess Anne, as well as Prince Andrew's daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, and Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, who are Prince Edward's children.\n\nAt 44, Peter Philips is the oldest of the Queen's grandchildren, while the youngest, James, Viscount Severn, is 14.\n\nIn silence and with their heads bowed, the eight cousins stood at different points around the coffin as crowds continued to file past.\n\nPrince William stood at the head of the Queen's coffin with his brother at the opposite end.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex, the parents of Louise and James, looked on from a platform facing the coffin.\n\nThe grandchildren's vigil started at 18:01 BST and lasted for just under 15 minutes.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Queen's children, including the King, took part in a similar vigil, standing guard for about 10 minutes.\n\nAhead of the vigil, Beatrice and Eugenie paid tribute to their \"dear Grannie\", saying: \"It has been the honour of our lives to have been your granddaughters and we're so very proud of you.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, they said the Queen was \"our matriarch, our guide, our loving hand on our backs leading us through this world\" and that they already miss her \"terribly\".\n\nThey went on: \"Thank you for making us laugh, for including us, for picking heather and raspberries, for marching soldiers, for our teas, for comfort, for joy.\n\n\"You, being you, will never know the impact you have had on our family and so many people around the world.\n\n\"The world mourns you and the tributes would really make you smile. They are all too true of the remarkable leader you are.\"\n\nThe pair told the Queen they were \"so happy you're back with Grandpa\" and added that \"our dear Uncle Charles, the King, will continue to lead in your example as he too has dedicated his life to service\".\n\nThis was another poignant image, mixing the grandeur of a public ceremony with the intimacy of personal family memories. The Queen's grandchildren were standing vigil around her coffin, with the queue of people flowing either side of them.\n\nThe people who had queued for many hours, bringing their own memories, shared the big silence of Westminster Hall with the royal grandchildren.\n\nPrince Harry wore a Blues and Royals uniform and wearing the same uniform, on the other side of the coffin, was his brother Prince William.\n\nPrincess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie took their place in the vigil. In a tribute this afternoon they'd talked of the loss of \"our dearest grannie\".\n\nWith the tap-tap-tap of a soldier's sword on the stone, time was up. They finished their vigil and followed Prince William back out of the hall.\n\nThe vigil on Saturday was the first time Prince Harry had been seen in military uniform since stepping back as a working royal in 2020.\n\nHe served two tours in Afghanistan as part of the Army. He now lives in California with his wife Meghan and their two children.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex was wearing the Blues and Royals No 1 uniform, the same uniform as his brother.\n\nPrince William has completed more than seven years of full-time military service, including three-and-a-half years as a search and rescue pilot.\n\nPrince Harry stood at the opposite end of the coffin to his brother, the Prince of Wales\n\nPrince Andrew was also allowed to wear his military uniform as he stood guard on Friday. The 62-year-old stepped down as a working royal in 2019, after facing questions over his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe prince was later stripped of his military titles.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Prince William and his father King Charles went to Lambeth, south London to shake hands and greet people queuing to view the Queen lying in state.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex conducted their own walkabout outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall until her funeral on Monday.\n\nThe queue to see the coffin stretches as far as Southwark Park and has previously seen wait times of over 24 hours. Officials have warned that the queue will be closed before 06:30 BST on Monday, so that people do not join the line and fail to reach Westminster Hall in time.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, organisers announced that the accessible queue has reached full capacity, with all time slots now allocated.", "These were the last Ukrainian troops in a UN peacekeeping mission\n\nThe 250 Ukrainian troops with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo have returned home to help fight Russian forces.\n\nWhen the withdrawal of Ukraine's aviation unit was announced in March, diplomats warned it could leave the UN mission seriously short of helicopters.\n\nThese are vital in the fight against the various rebel groups based in the thick forests of eastern DR Congo.\n\nThe eight Ukrainian helicopters made up about a third of the UN fleet.\n\nSince the Russian invasion in February, Ukraine had already pulled out its troops from the other UN peacekeeping mission where they had been deployed.\n\nJacques Ndjoli, who serves on DR Congo's parliamentary defence committee, told the BBC the withdrawal was relatively serious, however he pointed out that bringing peace to the country was primarily the responsibility of the Congolese army.\n\nAs the Ukrainians left DR Congo, the Brazilian commander of the UN force, Gen Marcos da Costa, said \"their 10 years of immense contribution\" was greatly appreciated.\n\nThe UN mission in DR Congo, Monusco, is already under pressure in the country.\n\nIt is widely criticised for failing to do enough to restore peace in the east, where numerous armed groups have operated for three decades, killing, raping and looting the region's rich minerals resources such as gold and diamonds.\n\nIn July, 36 people, including four UN peacekeepers, died when protesters ransacked UN buildings in cities in eastern DR Congo.\n\nAfter 22 years in the country, the mission is supposed to be winding down but no date has been set for its operations to end.\n\nIt is one of the largest and most expensive of the UN's 12 peacekeeping missions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "David Hoyle, the Dean of Westminster Abbey, led the service\n\nBuckingham Palace has released the order of service for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt has also published an order of service for St George's Chapel, Windsor, where there will be a further ceremony later.\n\nThe Westminster Abbey service pays tribute to the Queen's \"remarkable reign and lifetime of service\", it said.\n\nThe service is being led by the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle MBE, who will also be pronouncing the blessing.\n\nIt began on Monday at 11:00 BST and the BBC is broadcasting live coverage of the ceremony on television, radio and iPlayer.\n\nThe tenor bell tolled every minute for 96 minutes, reflecting the years of Queen Elizabeth II's life.\n\nMembers of foreign royal families, heads of state, and overseas government representatives were received at the Great West Door by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and were conducted to their seats in the Lantern.\n\nPlayed by Matthew Jorysz, Assistant Organist, Westminster Abbey, and the sub-organist. The service is being sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey and the Choir of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, under the direction of James O'Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers.\n\nTrumpet Major Julian Sandford is leading the State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry, and the organ is being played by Sub-Organist Peter Holder.\n\nThe Procession of Religious Representatives moved to places in the Nave and the Sacrarium.\n\nThe Royal Family was received at the Great West Door by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.\n\nThey were conducted to their seats in the Lantern, where they remained seated until the Queen's coffin entered the Abbey.\n\nAll stood as the Procession of the Coffin entered the Abbey.\n\nThe Choir of Westminster Abbey and the Choir of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, sang\n\nDuring the Sentences the Procession of the Coffin moved through the Abbey\n\nHER MAJESTY'S COFFIN surmounted by The Imperial State Crown, The Orb and The Sceptre and borne by the Bearer Party\n\nThe Countess of Wessex and Forfar, The Earl of Wessex and Forfar\n\nThe Princess of Wales, The Prince of Wales\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex, The Duke of Sussex\n\nPrince Michael of Kent, The Duke of Kent\n\nHousehold of The former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall: Private Secretary, Principal Private Secretary, Equerry, Master of the Household\n\nHousehold of The Prince and Princess of Wales: Equerry\n\nThe Dean of Westminster gave the bidding\n\nIn grief and also in profound thanksgiving we come to this House of God, to a place of prayer, to a church where remembrance and hope are sacred duties. Here, where Queen Elizabeth was married and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth, and from the nations of the world, to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer.\n\nWith gratitude we remember her unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. With admiration we recall her life-long sense of duty and dedication to her people. With thanksgiving we praise God for her constant example of Christian faith and devotion. With affection we recall her love for her family and her commitment to the causes she held dear.\n\n\"Now, in silence, let us in our hearts and minds recall our many reasons for thanksgiving, pray for all members of her family, and commend Queen Elizabeth to the care and keeping of almighty God.\n\nO merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth, and believeth in him, shall not die eternally; who hast taught us, by his holy Apostle Saint Paul, not to be sorry, as men without hope, for them that sleep in him: We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our sister doth; and that, at the general Resurrection in the last day, we may be found acceptable in thy sight; and receive that blessing, which thy well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee, saying, Come, ye blessed children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, our mediator and redeemer. Amen.\n\nThe day thou gavest, Lord, is ended, the darkness falls at thy behest; to thee our morning hymns ascended, thy praise shall sanctify our rest.\n\nWe thank thee that thy Church unsleeping, while earth rolls onward into light, through all the world her watch is keeping, and rests not now by day or night.\n\nAs o'er each continent and island the dawn leads on another day, the voice of prayer is never silent, nor dies the strain of praise away.\n\nThe sun that bids us rest is waking our brethren 'neath the western sky, and hour by hour fresh lips are making thy wondrous doings heard on high.\n\nSo be it, Lord; thy throne shall never, like earth's proud empires, pass away; thy kingdom stands, and grows for ever, till all thy creatures own thy sway.\n\nThe Right Honourable the Baroness Scotland of Asthal KC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, read the first lesson:\n\nNow is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15: 20-26, 53-end\n\nA specially commissioned piece was sung by the choir. It was a setting of Psalm 42 to music composed by the Master of The King's Music, Judith Weir:\n\nLike as the hart desireth the water-brooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : when shall I come to appear before the presence of God? My tears have been my meat day and night: while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God? Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; In the voice of praise and thanksgiving: among such as keep holy-day. Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul : and why art thou so disquieted within me? Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance.\n\nLet not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. John 14: 1-9a\n\nAll sang the hymn 'The Lord's my shepherd' - which was was also sung at Prince Philip and the Queen's wedding in 1947:\n\nThe Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want; he makes me down to lie in pastures green; he leadeth me the quiet waters by. My soul he doth restore again, and me to walk doth make within the paths of righteousness, e'en for his own name's sake. Yea, though I walk through death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill; for thou art with me, and thy rod and staff me comfort still. My table thou hast furnished in presence of my foes; my head thou dost with oil anoint, and my cup overflows. Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me; and in God's house for evermore my dwelling place shall be. Psalm 23, attributed to Jessie Seymour Irvine (1836-87) harmony by David Grant (1833-93) descant by William Baird Ross (1871-1950)\n\nThe sermon was delivered by the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan.\n\nMy soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars, Where stands a wingèd sentry All skilful in the wars: There above noise, and danger, Sweet Peace sits crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files. He is thy gracious friend, And (O my soul, awake!) Did in pure love descend, To die here for thy sake. If thou canst get but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress, and thy ease. Leave then thy foolish ranges, For none can thee secure, But One who never changes, Thy God, thy Life, thy Cure. From Songs of Farewell, Hubert Parry (1848-1918), by Henry Vaughan (1621-95)\n\nThe Reverend Mark Birch, Minor Canon and Precentor, lead the prayers from the High Altar:\n\nIn confidence and trust, let us pray to the Father.\n\nThe Reverend Dr Iain Greenshields, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said:\n\nLet us give thanks to God for Queen Elizabeth's long life and reign, recalling with gratitude her gifts of wisdom, diligence, and service. O God, from whom cometh everything that is upright and true: accept our thanks for the gifts of heart and mind that thou didst bestow upon thy daughter Elizabeth, and which she showed forth among us in her words and deeds; and grant that we may have grace to live our lives in accordance with thy will, to seek the good of others, and to remain faithful servants unto our lives' end; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nMs Shermara Fletcher, Principal Officer for Pentecostal and Charismatic Relations, Churches Together in England, said:\n\nConfident in God's love and compassion, let us pray for all those whose hearts are heavy with grief and sorrow. Almighty God, Father of all mercies and giver of all comfort: deal graciously, we pray thee, with those who mourn, that casting every care on thee, they may know the consolation of thy love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Bishop of London and Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal, said:\n\nLet us pray for His Majesty The King and all the Royal Family; that they may know the sustaining power of God's love and the prayerful fellowship of God's people. Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless our most gracious Sovereign Lord King Charles, Camilla The Queen Consort, William Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family: endue them with thy Holy Spirit, enrich them with thy heavenly grace; prosper them with all happiness; and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe Reverend Canon Helen Cameron, Moderator of the Free Churches Group, said:\n\nIn recognition of Queen Elizabeth's service to this United Kingdom, let us rejoice in her unstinting devotion to duty, her compassion for her subjects, and her counsel to her ministers; and we pray for the continued health and prosperity of this Nation. O almighty God, whose will it is that all thy children should serve thee in serving one another: look with love, we pray thee, on this Nation. Grant to its citizens grace to work together with honest and faithful hearts, each caring for the good of all; that, seeking first thy kingdom and its righteousness, they may possess all things needful for their daily sustenance and the common good; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nHis Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, said:\n\nLet us give thanks for Queen Elizabeth's commitment to the Commonwealth throughout her reign, for her service and dedication to its peoples, and for the rich bonds of unity and mutual support she sustained. Almighty and everlasting God, hear our prayer for the Commonwealth, and grant it the guidance of thy wisdom. Inspire those in authority, that they may promote justice and the common good; give to all its citizens the spirit of mutual honour and respect; and grant to us all grace to strive for the establishment of righteousness and peace; for the honour of thy name. Amen.\n\nThe Most Reverend and Right Honourable Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, said:\n\nWe give thanks to God for Queen Elizabeth's loyalty to the faith she inherited through her baptism and confirmation, and affirmed at her coronation; for her unswerving devotion to the Gospel; and for her steadfast service as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy household the Church in continual godliness; that through thy protection she may be free from all adversities, and devoutly given to serve thee in all good works, to the glory of thy name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nLet us pray that we may be given grace to live as those who believe in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, and the resurrection to eternal life. Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening into the house and gate of heaven, to enter into that gate and dwell in that house, where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light; no noise nor silence, but one equal music; no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession; no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity; in the habitation of thy glory and dominion, world without end. Amen. John Donne (1572-1631)\n\nThe choir sang 'O Taste and see how gracious the Lord is', composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams for the Queen's Coronation in 1953.\n\nIn confidence and hope, let us pray to the Father in the words our Saviour taught us, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nAll stood to sing the hymn Blaenwern:\n\nLove divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesu, thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; suddenly return, and never, never more thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray, and praise thee, without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. Finish then thy new creation, pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation, perfectly restored in thee, changed from glory into glory till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise! Charles Wesley (1707-88) William Rowlands (1860-1937) arranged by James O'Donnell\n\nThe Commendation, given by the Archbishop of Canterbury:\n\nLet us commend to the mercy of God, our maker and redeemer, the soul of Elizabeth, our late Queen. Heavenly Father, King of kings, Lord and giver of life, who of thy grace in creation didst form mankind in thine own image, and in thy great love offerest us life eternal in Christ Jesus; claiming the promises of thy most blessed Son, we entrust the soul of Elizabeth, our sister here departed, to thy merciful keeping, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, when Christ shall be all in all; who died and rose again to save us, and now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, in glory for ever. Amen.\n\nGo forth, O Christian soul, from this world, in the name of God the Father almighty, who created thee; in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who suffered for thee; in the name of the Holy Spirit, who was poured out upon thee and anointed thee. In communion with all the blessed saints, and aided by the angels and archangels and all the armies of the heavenly host, may thy portion this day be in peace, and thy dwelling in the heavenly Jerusalem. Amen.\n\nAnthem - the choir sings Romans 8: 35a, 38b-end, composed for this Service by Sir James MacMillan CBE (b 1959)\n\nWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Alleluia! Amen.\n\nThe Dean of Westminster pronounced the Blessing:\n\nGod grant to the living grace; to the departed rest; to the Church, The King, the Commonwealth, and all people, peace and concord, and to us sinners, life everlasting; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.\n\nAs the service came to a close, all remained standing as The Last Post was sounded by the State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry from the steps of the Lady Chapel.\n\nA two-minute silence was observed across the UK, followed by The Reveille sounded by the State Trumpeters.\n\nAll remained standing as the congregation sung the National Anthem, God Save The King:\n\nGod save our gracious King, long live our noble King, God save The King. Send him victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us: God save The King. Thy choicest gifts in store on him be pleased to pour, long may he reign. May he defend our laws, and ever give us cause to sing with heart and voice: God save The King! Arranged by Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)\n\nAll remained standing as The Queen's Piper, Warrant Officer Class 1 (Pipe Major) Paul Burns, played Sleep, dearie, sleep.\n\nAll remained standing as the Coffin and Processions left the church.\n\nThe Sub-Organist played Fantasia in C minor BWV 562, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).\n\nThe procession of the coffin\n\nAllegro maestoso (Sonata in G Op 28) by Edward Elgar was played after the Service.\n\nLater in the afternoon, the bells of the Abbey are rung fully-muffled by the Westminster Abbey Company of Ringers in a peal of Stedman Caters, comprising 5096 changes.", "Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and friends from across the globe were among the 2,000 guests at the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHere's who was in the abbey, and where they were seated.\n\nClosest to the Queen's coffin were her four children and their spouses. King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, sat alongside the Princess Royal and her husband, the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sat directly behind the King while the Prince and Princess of Wales sat across the aisle from them.\n\nAll of the Queen's eight grandchildren sat in the front two rows, days after they stood together in vigil at the lying-in-state. Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, seven, were the Queen's only great-grandchildren to attend the service.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife the Duchess of York was in the second row next to her daughter Princess Eugenie.\n\nShe sat next to the Queen's nephew, the Earl of Snowdon. The earl, David Armstrong-Jones, is the son of the Queen's late sister, Princess Margaret and the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.\n\nHis sister Lady Sarah Chatto, who was close to the Queen, was also at the service with her husband Daniel Chatto and her two sons.\n\nOther members of the Queen's family sat in the first few rows included her cousins, the Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent.\n\nSome of the Queen's god children were also there including Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer.\n\nClose friends also attended. Ladies-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey and Dame Mary Morrison, were seen arriving alongside Angela Kelly, the Queen's personal dresser and one of her closest confidents.\n\nThe Queen Consort's children were invited - Laura Lopes, second from left, and Tom Parker Bowles.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary were alongside other cabinet ministers. All of the UK's surviving former prime ministers were also seated in the quire of the abbey.\n\nIn the middle row was Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson, Philip May, Theresa May, David Cameron, and Samantha Cameron.\n\nIn the front row were Sarah Brown, Gordon Brown, Cherie Blair, Sir Tony Blair, Lady Norma Major and Sir John Major.\n\nAll monarchs were invited to the funeral and the vast majority flew to London for it.\n\nDenmark's Queen Margrethe II - now the only female monarch in the world - sat opposite King Charles close to the coffin.\n\nOther kings and queens from The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Norway and Belgium also attended - as did the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.\n\nIt also marked the first international visit for the Emperor and Empress of Japan since they ascended the throne three years ago.\n\nMalaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah were seated behind King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government were thought to have been in the abbey.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and his wife Jill were sat in the 14th row behind the Polish president Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda.\n\nThe president of France, Emmanuel Macron, was with his wife Brigitte. Mr Macron, who met the Queen three times, had said that she had been \"a friend of France, a kind-hearted queen, who has left a lasting impression on her country and her century\".\n\nOther heads of government who were there included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is among those not invited\n\nRepresentatives from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan were not invited. This is because the UK does not have full diplomatic relations with these countries.\n\nNo-one from Russia, Belarus and Myanmar was invited either.\n\nDiplomatic relations between the UK and Russia have all but collapsed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was \"not considering\" attending the funeral.\n\nThe invasion was launched partially from the territory of Belarus. And the UK has significantly scaled back its diplomatic presence in Myanmar since a military coup last year.\n\nNorth Korea (DPRK) and Nicaragua were invited to send only ambassadors, not heads of state.\n\nHuman rights groups had criticised the decision to invite Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The prince has been accused by Western intelligence of ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Prince Turki Bin Mohammed al Saud attended the funeral instead.\n\nGraphics by Mark Bryson, additional reporting by Daniel Rosney and the Visual Journalism team", "Liz Truss has announced she will limit energy bill rises for all households until the next election\n\nPeople in Wales still face a \"difficult winter\" despite Liz Truss's announcement the government will cap average household energy bills at £2,500 a year, a charity has warned.\n\nThe support will last for two years, starting in October.\n\n\"The announcement will provide some reassurance... However, this alone will not solve the cost of living crisis,\" Citizens Advice Cymru said.\n\nIt added low income and vulnerable households would still struggle.\n\nThe prime minister's two-year plan supersedes the existing energy price cap, and is in addition to the announced £400 energy bills discount for all households.\n\nJacqui Cadogan, from Caldicot, Monmouthshire, was among those who had been calling for an energy price cap.\n\n\"People are struggling and we're hearing about all these big companies that are making billions of pounds in profit,\" she said prior to the PM's announcement.\n\nShe had started turning plugs off and had bought sleeping bags, a tent and tea lights for winter, adding: \"I'm just preparing. Worst-case scenario. I just want to be ready for anything.\n\nBusinesses are also getting a support package, but only for six months.\n\nOwners have been calling for urgent help for Welsh businesses, warning they may not survive the winter.\n\nBridgend-based doughnut bakery WhoCult said its electricity costs had trebled in recent months.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said many businesses faced a \"cliff edge\" as energy deals ended.\n\nPeter's Pies Managing Director Mike Grimwood was among those who had called for a unit cap price for businesses such as his, based in Bedwas, Caerphilly county.\n\nHe called the situation \"pretty stark\" prior to the announcement, adding: \"There's only one thing we can do - emergency price increases are being warned to our customers.\"\n\nOther costs, including ingredients, have risen by 33%, he said.\n\n\"We are talking to all our customers and saying this a question of business survival.\"\n\nPeter's Pies delivers baked products to consumers around Wales and further afield\n\nScott Magill, the owner and founder of WhoCult Coffee and Donuts in Bridgend, said \"urgent help\" was needed. He had seen energy costs treble recently to £3,000 a month, just as the company expanded with a new shop in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"I think a lot of businesses won't be able survive this winter,\" Mr Magill said.\n\n\"We have tightened our belt in many departments, but the cost of ingredients has gone up, the cost of electric has gone up, and something has got to give.\"\n\nThe business opened just before the Covid-19 pandemic, developing from a small doughnut outlet to a larger cafe and its own bakery.\n\nMr Magill also runs a T-shirt printing company on the same site.\n\nWhile it has been a success and takings are up, the rising cost of ingredients and energy means it has become harder to make a profit.\n\n\"We have only recently noticed the rise in the energy cost, I would say in the last three to five months. That's especially since having this bakery, this bakery is only one year old,\" Mr Magill said.\n\n\"Unfortunately the cost of the rising electric, apart from turning off the odd plug, there is not much more we can do. A lot of equipment needs to stay on all day, every day, unfortunately. With us now making more doughnuts with a second store, they are in use more than normal.\"\n\nThere is concern over how small businesses will survive the winter without help\n\nRed Flag Alert, which monitors the financial health of firms, said tens of thousands of businesses risked going under because of rising costs.", "Sport has paid tribute after Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died aged 96.\n\nMessages poured in from sporting governing bodies and personalities after her death was announced on Thursday.\n\nA minute's silence was held at Manchester United, Arsenal, West Ham and Hearts' European matches.\n\nAnd in horse racing, the sport closely linked to Her Majesty, she was described as its \"greatest supporter\".\n• None At-a-glance: What's on and what's off this weekend\n• None In pictures: Sporting memories of the Queen\n\nAscot, the racecourse most deeply connected with the Queen, paid tribute to one of the sport's leading advocates.\n\nThe Berkshire venue is famed for its royal meeting and procession from nearby Windsor Castle, with the Queen having enjoyed many high-profile victories at the track - not least when Estimate won the Gold Cup in 2013.\n\nSir Francis Brooke, Her Majesty's representative at the track, said: \"The nation mourns the loss of a much loved and respected monarch. The world of racing has lost one of its greatest supporters.\n\n\"We at Ascot are privileged to have so many memories of Her Majesty, the Queen, at this, her racecourse, including some wonderful victories in the royal colours.\"\n\nNicky Henderson, who trained racehorses for the Queen and Queen Mother, added: \"Racing has lost its best friend and greatest patron, the country has lost its Queen - but she was more than a Queen. The country has lost somebody who was its greatest servant. She was absolutely the greatest.\n\n\"She knew horses inside out, so it was always a pleasure to be able to talk and discuss horses - and lots of other things as well. Her loss is immeasurable. It is an emotional day and I am very emotional.\"\n\nSir Michael Stoute, trainer of Estimate, said: \"It was an honour and also a great pleasure to train for the Queen because she had such a formidable knowledge of the horse.\"\n\nAP McCoy, the 20-time champion jump jockey and knighted in 2016, said the Queen had an \"irreplaceable presence\" while fellow jockey Frankie Dettori described it as the \"honour of a lifetime\" to ride for the Queen and \"a greater honour to have known such a remarkable person.\"\n\nSandy Dudgeon, senior steward of the Jockey Club, said: \"She was such a wonderful supporter of the sport of horse racing throughout her life, including as our patron, and we will feel her loss most deeply indeed.\"\n\nAll Premier League clubs posted individual messages paying their respect to the Queen and the Premier League said it was \"deeply saddened\" by her death.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with the Royal Family and everyone around the world mourning the loss of Her Majesty,\" the league said.\n\nEnglish Football League chair Rick Parry added: \"On behalf of the league and its clubs, we join the rest of the nation and people across the world in mourning the passing of our Queen, Elizabeth II.\"\n\nWest Ham United fans sang 'God Save The Queen' at the end of a minute's silence at London Stadium before their Europa Conference League win against Romanian side FCSB.\n\nEngland men's and women's captains Harry Kane and Leah Williamson described the Queen as an \"amazing inspiration\" and \"a light so bright, she gave us hope when there seemed to be none\".\n\nFormer England captain David Beckham said the Queen \"served her country with dignity and grace\".\n\nManchester United and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo mourned the \"irreplaceable loss with the country that I've learned to call home\".\n\nBrazil legend Pele said: \"I have been a great admirer of Queen Elizabeth II since the first time I saw her in person, in 1968, when she came to Brazil to witness our love for football and experienced the magic of a packed Maracana. Her deeds have marked generations.\"\n\nSeven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton said the Queen was an \"inspiring and iconic\" leader.\n\n\"Since the sad news yesterday, I've been reflecting on her incredible life. She was a symbol of hope for so many and she served her country with dignity, dedication and kindness,\" he said.\n\n\"She was truly like no other and I'm grateful to have lived during her time. Her legacy will be long-lasting and her passing deeply felt.\"\n\nFIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said: \"The Queen was undoubtedly one of the most respected heads of state ever to have lived, and I send my condolences, and those of the entire FIA community, to the Royal Family and all of the citizens of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.\n\n\"Motorsport, and especially Formula 1, has its heart in the United Kingdom, and the Royal Family has, over the years, given great support and patronage to the sport.\n\n\"For this we thank them, and those events taking place around the world this weekend will undoubtedly be undertaken in honour of Her Majesty.\"\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board said it was \"deeply saddened at the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II\".\n\nECB chair Richard Thompson said: \"I'm sure I speak for everyone in the game when I say how truly sad I am to hear of the Queen's passing. Her Majesty has been such a great supporter of the game and was always so vocal of her and her late husband's enjoyment around the sport.\n\n\"Her dedication to her country will never be forgotten. For her service and her selflessness over her extraordinary reign, we owe her a debt that can never be repaid.\"\n\nRoyal and Ancient Golf Club captain Peter Forster said: \"Although not a golfer, Her late Majesty's 70-year patronage of the Club was a great honour for its Members.\n\n\"We hold His Majesty The King and all The Royal Family in our thoughts at this time of mourning.\"\n\nThe 2018 European Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn, of Denmark, said:\"Living most of my adult life in England I'm deeply saddened by the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. An inspiration to so many all over the world. Rest in peace, Your Majesty.\"\n\nUS Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick tweeted his sympathies and fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood added: \"Rest in Peace Your Majesty, you will be forever in our hearts.\"\n\nInternational Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said the world had lost \"a great supporter of sport and the Olympic movement\".\n\n\"Her Majesty was the only head of state to declare open two editions of the Olympic Games and was already present at the Olympic Games London 1948,\" he said.\n\n\"As patron of the British Olympic Association, she provided invaluable advice and help to the Olympic community.\"\n\nRugby Football League chair Simon Johnson said the governing body was grateful to the Queen for her support of the game.\n\n\"On behalf of the RFL and the whole Rugby League family, I express our deepest and most sincere condolences on the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The whole sport is in deep mourning at this extremely sad news,\" he added in a statement.\n\n\"Rugby League was honoured to have her as our patron until 2016, and throughout her long reign, Her Majesty's sense of duty and commitment, her spirit and wisdom has been an example to all of us.\n\n\"We give grateful thanks for Her Majesty's constant and positive influence on our communities over many generations.\n\n\"We send our deepest sympathy and most sincere condolences to the Royal Family including the RFL patron, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. Our clubs and players at all levels will display their respect to Her Majesty wherever rugby league is played in the coming days.\"\n\nDominic McKay, chairman of European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) - which oversees the Heineken Champions Cup and European Challenge Cup competitions - paid tribute on behalf of the organisation.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that all of us at EPCR have learned of the passing of HRH Queen Elizabeth II. We stand with our leagues, unions, clubs and beyond to honour Her Majesty and her inspirational life.\n\n\"Queen Elizabeth II was a monarch who embodied steadfastness, dignity and faithful public service and was greatly admired, respected and loved by people around the world.\"\n\nEngland Rugby said: \"On behalf of the rugby union community in England, all at the Rugby Football Union are very saddened to hear of the death of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II and offer our condolences to the whole Royal Family at this time.\"\n\nScottish Rugby said it was \"deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen and offered its condolences to the whole Royal Family\", while the Welsh Rugby Union added: \"We send the sincere and heartfelt condolences of Welsh rugby to the Royal Family after the passing of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II.\n\n\"Our Royal Patron for over 50 years graced our national stadium many times. We thank The Queen for years of service on this profoundly sad day.\"\n\nIrish Rugby added: \"The IRFU express our condolences to the Royal Family on the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our sympathies are with our friends in the Home Unions and their supporters.\"\n\nSwiss legend Roger Federer said her \"elegance, grace and loyalty to her duty will live on in history\" while another icon of the sport, Rafael Nadal, expressed his \"deepest condolences\".\n\nThe All England Club, which had the Queen as patron for 64 years, said her four visits to Wimbledon were special moments \"marked with enthusiasm and affection from spectators, players and colleagues alike\".\n\nIn 1977, in her Silver Jubilee Year, the Queen presented the women's singles trophy to Britain's Virginia Wade.\n\nLawn Tennis Association chief executive Scott Lloyd said in a statement: \"Her Majesty dedicated her life to public service throughout her 70-year reign. She was universally admired and respected throughout the country and supported many charities and organisations unstintingly.\n\n\"She graciously gave up her time to open our own National Tennis Centre at Roehampton and meet our British players in 2007. Her loss will be felt across the country and throughout the Commonwealth.\n\n\"Our sport joins the rest of the country in sending our sincere condolences to the Royal Family.\"\n\nFour-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah led the tributes from athletics, writing: \"The Queen was loved all over the world and meant so much to so many.\n\n\"Meeting her was one of the greatest honours of my life. We will remember her for her warmth and dedication to the British people throughout her reign.\"\n\nFormer Olympic and world 100m champion Linford Christie said \"Thank you for always showing me kindness\", while current British sprinter Adam Gemili added \"I really didn't think I'd feel this sad. Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth II. Thank you for all you did\".\n\nBritish Cycling and a number of prominent teams and riders also paid their respects, with six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy writing: \"I share the sadness and sorrow of all Britons and many others around the world in mourning the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.\"\n\nHoy, who was knighted in 2009, added: \"I had the pleasure of meeting Her Majesty on a number of occasions and always admired her tremendous dedication and absolute commitment to her role, as well as the generosity and compassion she offered to all those she met.\n\n\"Her Majesty the Queen devoted her life to our country, guiding us through so many historically significant moments with great leadership.\"\n\nBritish heavyweight boxers Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua issued brief statements on their respective social media accounts.\n\nFury posted a picture with the words \"Thoughts & prayers with my Queen tonight, may God be with you\", while Joshua wrote simply: \"Rest in peace\".", "This summer was the hottest on record in Europe, according to data from EU satellite monitoring.\n\nA series of extreme heatwaves and a long running drought saw June, July and August shatter the previous high mark for temperature.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service said the data showed August in Europe was the warmest on record by \"a substantial margin.\"\n\nGlobally, the researchers say August was the third warmest yet recorded.\n\nIt will come as no surprise to anyone who experienced this summer's intense heat across the continent that the temperature record across Europe has been broken by a large margin.\n\nAccording to data from Copernicus, this year saw a new record for both the summer as a whole and for the month of August.\n\nThe summer was 0.4C warmer than the previous record, only set last year.\n\nAugust was a whopping 0.8C warmer than the same month in 2018.\n\nFires were common in many places including here in Portugal\n\n\"An intense series of heatwaves across Europe paired with unusually dry conditions, have led to a summer of extremes with records in terms of temperature, drought and fire activity in many parts of Europe, affecting society and nature in various ways,\" said Freja Vamborg, a senior scientist with the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"The data shows that we've not only had record August temperatures for Europe but also for summer, with the previous summer record only being one year old.\"\n\nIn the UK, temperatures reached a new high of 40.3C, recorded in Coningsby in Lincolnshire on July 19. It was a significant leap over the previous record of 38.7C set in 2019.\n\nThese extremes were also seen in many other countries with 64 different areas of France experiencing record highs, while temperatures in Portugal reached 47C in July.\n\nEurope also experienced the worst drought conditions in 500 years.\n\nAround the globe the high temperatures in August persisted widely, with drought conditions also affecting China.\n\nDrought across Europe was the worst in 500 years\n\nBut it wasn't a uniform picture - many areas had significant downpours resulting in flooding.\n\nAs we've seen most recently in Pakistan, wetter than average conditions have triggered huge floods, leading to loss of life and property.\n\nThe satellite data also shows that it was wetter than average over most of Scandinavia and in parts of southern and south eastern Europe, where a \"derecho\" storm brought extreme winds and rain.\n\nClimate scientists say that both extreme heat and wet conditions are to be expected in a warming climate where emissions of warming gases from human activities have driven up temperatures by over 1.1C at present.", "On Friday, the nation continued to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II with flowers and tributes to the UK's longest-reigning monarch.\n\nMessages, flowers and flags were left outside Buckingham Palace, the London residence of the late Queen.\n\nPeople also paid their respects outside Windsor Castle.\n\nAs word spread of the death of the Queen on Thursday, people gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace and took pictures of the Queen's home, where the flag flew at half-mast.\n\nSome climbed up the Queen Victoria Memorial and unfurled flags.\n\nNews of the monarch's death was posted at the gates of Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen died peacefully at Balmoral Castle on Thursday afternoon and, despite the wet weather, flowers were soon left by the gates.\n\nWindsor Castle was the Queen's much-loved home. Locals here saw her as their neighbour.\n\nA minute's silence was held ahead of the Europa Conference League football match between West Ham United and FCSB at the London Stadium on Thursday night.\n\nAt another of the Queen's residences, the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, mourners also laid flowers and paid their respects. One bouquet had a simple message.\n\nA huge electronic billboard that overlooks London's Piccadilly Circus displayed an image of the Queen. Digital advertising space in High Streets and at bus stops also showed pictures of the Queen.", "Mourners have assembled outside Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who has died aged 96.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "The backlog in hospital treatment continues to grow with nearly one in eight people now waiting for operations or other types of care in England.\n\nThe newly-released NHS England data shows there were 6.84 million people on the waiting list at the end of July.\n\nIt is a record number - before the pandemic there were 4.2 million waiting for treatment.\n\nThere were slight improvements in emergency care with ambulance and A&E waits decreasing.\n\nBut both services are still a long way from meeting their targets though.\n\nClose to three in 10 people waited longer than four hours in A&E in August, while ambulance crews continued to struggle to respond to 999 calls within their target times.\n\nThe new figures illustrate the scale of the challenge facing new Prime Minister Liz Truss and her Health Secretary Therese Coffey.\n\nMs Truss has promised to put the NHS on a \"firm footing\" and the government is expected to unveil a plan for the health service next week.\n\nIt will cover England only as health is devolved.\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, a health think tank, said the figures showed what a \"monumental challenge\" the government faces. \"The new prime minister inherits an NHS in a critical condition,\" he added.\n\nThe data also includes information on two-year waits, which the government had promised to eliminate by the end of July.\n\nAt the start of the year there were more than 22,000 people who had been waiting more than two years with another 50,000 getting close to that mark.\n\nThere are currently nearly 2,900 people who have been waiting more than two years, but NHS England said the vast majority of these were either people who had chosen to wait or were complex cases that needed more time to assess.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Sir Stephen Powis said it showed \"significant progress\" was being made.", "Her reign saw the world change dramatically but she remained a constant presence in the lives of the people of the UK and Commonwealth.", "The new PM Liz Truss has pledged to \"deliver on the energy crisis\"\n\nNew Prime Minister Liz Truss will unveil plans to limit energy bill rises on Thursday, spending billions to protect people from soaring prices.\n\nTypical household energy bills could be capped at around £2,500 a year, with firms also likely to get some relief.\n\nIt is unclear how long the support will last, but the government is expected to borrow at least £100bn to pay for it.\n\nCurrently, a typical household's annual gas and electricity bill is due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 in October.\n\nExperts and charities have warned that without help with soaring energy bills, lives will be at risk this winter, as people struggle to afford basic day-to-day living costs.\n\nHowever, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition pressure group estimates that if the energy price cap is frozen at £2,500, 6.9 million UK households will still be in fuel poverty this winter - up from 4.6 million last winter.\n\nThe recent increase in consumers' bills follows sharp rises in wholesale gas prices largely due to the conflict in Ukraine, which has reduced supplies of Russian gas.\n\nAhead of the announcement, Ms Truss said she knew families and firms were worried about \"how they are going to make ends meet this autumn and winter\".\n\n\"Putin's war in Ukraine and weaponisation of gas supply in Europe is causing global prices to rise - and this has only made clearer that we must boost our long-term energy security and supply,\" she said.\n\nShe pledged to \"tackle the root cause of these problems, so that we are not in this position again\".\n\nTo limit the amount customers' bills go up by, the government is expected to compensate energy firms for the difference between the wholesale price for gas and electricity they pay and the amount they can charge customers.\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Do you have any questions for our experts? Get in touch.\n\nCustomers will not be expected to repay the help, with the huge support package due to be funded by the government borrowing about £100bn.\n\nThe final sum will depend on the cost of energy on the international energy markets - which can be extremely volatile - as well as whether additional support is offered to the most vulnerable households.\n\nBut Labour said the government should extend a windfall tax on gas and oil company profits to pay for the package - with leader Sir Keir Starmer warning that working people will be footing the bill for \"vast\" energy firm profits under her plans.\n\nEd Miliband, the shadow secretary for climate change, told the BBC on Thursday: \"We know that the energy companies are making excess profits of £170bn over the next two years\n\n\"I cannot understand - apart from ideology and dogma - why the first port of call should not be [taxing] these excess profits.\"\n\nThe government is, however, planning a shake-up of the energy market, the BBC has learned. Following a series of meetings with officials, energy companies - mainly in the nuclear and renewables sector - have agreed in principle to accept new long-term contracts at fixed prices well below current rates, BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt said.\n\nMost accept that the profits they are making currently are not sustainable during a national crisis, he added.\n\nHowever, Mr Miliband said accepting \"slightly lower prices now\" would mean \"much higher prices\" in future and be a \"terrible deal for billpayers\".\n\nRocketing prices are leaving households facing eyewatering energy bills. Several councils are considering setting up \"warm banks\" - community spaces for people who cannot afford winter heating - while some teachers are warning of cuts to staff, school trips or courses to cover rising costs.\n\nEvery household in the UK is already due to be given a one-off £400 discount on their fuel bills from October - a move announced by Ms Truss's defeated leadership rival Rishi Sunak while he was chancellor.\n\nAnd £650 will be paid to more than eight million low-income households who receive benefits or tax credits, alongside further payments to pensioner households and disabled people.\n\nThe current price cap - set by Ofgem and which limits the maximum amount domestic customers can be charged for each unit of energy - is due to increase in October. It will mean a typical household will pay £3,549 a year for their energy.\n\nUnlike households, businesses are not protected by an energy price cap. Many are currently facing even sharper rises in energy bills than households, which could lead to firms going under or cutting their wage bills by firing staff.\n\nBut firms are also expected to receive some relief under the new plan.\n\nThe system to support business could be more complex than that for households and is likely to be reviewed more often. According to reports, it could see the government force energy firms to offer specific reductions on the unit price of the energy used by firms.\n\nBusiness groups have welcomed the plan, although the British Chambers of Commerce warned \"it remains to be seen\" whether it goes far enough in providing the support that firms need.\n\nAbdul Shahid, who runs the Masala restaurant in Derby city centre, said his business needed help \"now, not three months later\".\n\n\"Our energy bills have more than doubled in many cases and all of our ingredients have gone up as well,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"We are definitely thinking about shutting our doors, it's very stressful.\"\n\nRosemary Brown, director of Bluebell Dairy, a luxury ice cream maker, said her energy costs had jumped from £35,000 a year to £80,000. That would rise to £225,000 a year if she renewed tomorrow, she added.\n\n\"We need help with capping the energy costs for the immediate future. We also strongly need to see some investment from the government in renewable energy so that 12 months along the line we've got systems in place.\"\n\nIf businesses are included, that could see the overall cost of the government support package rise to well above £100bn.\n\nThe cost of UK government borrowing is currently at its highest level for eight years, with the yield on 10-year bonds rising above 3%. The rise in yield indicates investors' anticipation that the government will have to borrow more in future. It also means any future borrowing will be more expensive.\n\nHowever, some economists have suggested that plans to cap energy bills could mean that increases in the cost of living will peak earlier and be \"significantly lower\" than previously forecast.\n\nThe cost of living is currently rising at its fastest rate in 40 years, with prices 10.1% higher than the same time last year. The rise is largely driven by the sharp rise in energy prices.\n\nInvestment bank Goldman Sachs said that a cap on household energy bills could see inflation peak at 10.8% in October, rather than the 14.8% forecast before. It also sees prices falling more quickly as well, with inflation slowing to 2.4% by December 2023.\n\nThe Bank of England also said the plan could slow rising prices.\n\nHowever, both cautioned that there was uncertainty around what exactly the plan will look like and what would happen once any cap is lifted.\n\nEconomists also expect the UK to fall into a recession despite Ms Truss' energy support plan - albeit a shorter and less severe one.\n\nThe Bank of England predicted the UK will enter a recession later this year - with the Bank's governor Andrew Bailey saying there is little that can be done to stop that happening.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Truss is also reportedly set to announce she is scrapping the ban on fracking which was introduced in 2019 over concerns it was causing earth tremors.\n\nThe controversial gas extraction technique involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure solution at a rock layer to release the gas inside.", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There was joy as her family grew - here she is pictured with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, their son Archie and the duchess's mother Doria Ragland. But there were also continued strains on the family - including Prince Andrew's friendship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Prince Harry's growing disillusionment with life in the Royal Family", "The Queen has postponed an online meeting of the Privy Council after being advised to rest by doctors, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe palace said that after \"a full day\" on Tuesday the monarch, 96, had accepted the medics' advice.\n\nIn a break in tradition she met outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his successor Liz Truss in Balmoral, in Aberdeenshire.\n\nThe Queen has suffered from mobility issues in recent times.\n\nThe monarch remains at Balmoral and the latest advice does not involve a hospital stay.\n\nShe had been due to hold the Privy Council virtually on Wednesday evening, during which Ms Truss would have taken her oath as First Lord of the Treasury and her new cabinet ministers would have been sworn into their roles.\n\nThe Privy Council is a formal body, mainly made up of senior politicians, which advises the Queen.\n\nIn a statement a Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"After a full day yesterday, Her Majesty has this afternoon accepted doctors' advice to rest.\n\n\"This means that the Privy Council meeting that had been due to take place this evening will be rearranged.\"\n\nDuring her 70-year reign the Queen has typically had an audience with her new prime minister at Buckingham Palace.\n\nIt is understood the decision for Ms Truss and Mr Johnson to travel to Scotland was taken to provide certainty for the new prime minister's diary.\n\nPhotographs of the monarch, carrying a walking stick, and Ms Truss were published shortly after their meeting on Tuesday.\n\nBeyond Buckingham Palace saying the Queen pulled out on the advice of her doctors after a \"full day yesterday\", there is no further official commentary on her health.\n\nThe decision to hold the Privy Council meeting online on Wednesday was itself part of changed arrangements because of ongoing problems with the Queen's mobility.\n\nThe monarch showed her determination in carrying out her constitutional duty in appointing a new PM on Tuesday.\n\nBut the decision to call off the meeting, at relatively short notice, will raise fresh concerns about the fragility of the Queen's health.\n\nAs head of state, it is the Queen's duty to appoint the prime minister who leads the government.\n\nThe Queen has been taking her traditional summer break in Scotland with family and guests. She usually stays at the estate from August to October.\n\nAs well as ongoing mobility issues in recent months, the monarch had Covid in February.\n\nIn the past seven months, Buckingham Palace has tended to confirm the Queen's attendance at public engagements on the day, depending on how she is feeling.\n\nDuring this period she has missed several high-profile engagements, including the State Opening of Parliament, the Platinum Jubilee Concert and the commemorative Derby.\n\nAs head of state it is the Queen's duty to appoint the prime minister", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's death a huge shock to the nation and the world - Prime Minister Truss\n\nPoliticians from across the UK have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II who has died at the age of 96.\n\nLeading the mourning, the new Prime Minister Liz Truss said the Queen had been \"the rock on which modern Britain was built\".\n\n\"Britain is the great country it is today because of her,\" she added.\n\nMs Truss met the Queen earlier this week in Scotland when she was appointed prime minister.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, she said the Queen had been \"determined\" to continue carrying out her duties.\n\nShe said the nation should now come together to help the new monarch King Charles III \"bear the awesome responsibility that he now carries for us all\".\n\nMs Truss was informed of the Queen's death at 16:30 BST by senior civil servant Simon Case while she was working in Downing Street, her official spokesman has said\n\nShe spoke to the King shortly after making her statement.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the country would \"always treasure Queen Elizabeth II's life of service and devotion to our nation and the Commonwealth\".\n\n\"Above the clashes of politics, she stood not for what the nation fought over, but what it agreed upon.\n\n\"So as our great Elizabethan era comes to an end, we will honour the late Queen's memory by keeping alive the values of public service she embodied.\"\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said the Queen had \"exercised a calm and steadying influence over our country\".\n\nHe added that she had given people's lives a \"sense of equilibrium\" during her 70 years on the throne and maintained \"unwavering devotion to the UK\".\n\nHe also said she had provided \"advice and the benefit of long experience to 15 prime ministers during her reign\".\n\nParliament is expected to meet on Friday from midday and Saturday from 14:00 to pay tribute to the Queen.\n\nAll six living former prime ministers have also sent their condolences and shared memories of the Queen.\n\nMs Truss was officially appointed as the UK's 56th prime minister after her meeting with the Queen on Tuesday\n\nMs Truss's predecessor Boris Johnson tweeted that the Queen would be remembered for her \"deep wisdom, and historic understanding, and her seemingly inexhaustible but understated sense of duty\".\n\n\"Relentless though her diary must have felt, she never once let it show, and to tens of thousands of events - great and small - she brought her smile and her warmth and her gentle humour - and for an unrivalled 70 years she spread that magic around her kingdom.\n\n\"She seemed so timeless and so wonderful that I am afraid we had come to believe, like children, that she would just go on and on.\"\n\nTheresa May tweeted: \"On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Her Majesty reminded us to 'never give up, never despair'.\n\n\"It was an address that captured not just the national spirit, but Queen Elizabeth's spirit - a sense of quiet determination, of courage, of faith and of hope in the future.\"\n\nQueen Elizabeth with Theresa May, one of the 15th prime ministers who served during her reign\n\nDuring her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth held weekly meetings with the prime minister of the day.\n\nRecalling these conversations during an interview with the BBC, Mrs May said the Queen was \"immensely knowledgeable\" adding: \"Many people don't realise how much work the Queen put into her red boxes, to understand the issues of the day, what was going on in government and around the rest of the world.\"\n\nSir John Major - who served as prime minister between 1990 and 1997 - echoed Mrs May's thoughts describing the Queen as \"exceptionally well briefed\".\n\n\"On foreign affairs, she would often say if there was a difficulty of a foreign leader 'Well, I met him many years ago' or even 'I knew his father'.\"\n\nSir John said the meetings were not always serious and often filled with \"a great deal of gossip... those meetings with the Queen were always the better part of a prime minister's week\".\n\nDavid Cameron described the Queen as \"the world's most experienced diplomat\" and said he was \"fortunate\" to have been able to call on her knowledge during his time in office.\n\nGordon Brown said the Queen was a \"compassionate, dedicated, wonderful public servant and nobody will ever forget the contribution she made to our country.\n\n\"She was a peacemaker, she brought people together, she listened to people.\"\n\nSir Tony Blair - who was prime minister between 1997 and 2007 - said: \"We have lost not just our monarch but the matriarch of our nation, the figure who more than any other brought our country together, kept us in touch with our better nature, personified everything which makes us proud to be British.\"\n\nHe recalled his last meeting with the Queen when he said she had been on \"sparkling form\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the Queen represented \"duty and courage, as well as \"warmth and compassion\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon praised the Queen's life as \"one of extraordinary dedication and service\".\n\nThe Queen died at her Balmoral estate in Scotland and Ms Sturgeon said she hoped it would be \"a source of comfort to her family that she spent her final days in a place that she loved so much\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said the Queen had \"firmly upheld the values and traditions of the British Monarchy\" and offered his \"deepest condolences\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lindsay Hoyle interrupts MPs to make a statement on the health of the Queen\n\nPM Liz Truss has said the thoughts of people across the UK are with the Queen and her family, following concerns over the monarch's health.\n\nIn a statement, Buckingham Palace said the Queen was under medical supervision.\n\nThe news interrupted a Commons debate, where the PM's plan to limit energy bills was being discussed.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened to say that the \"thoughts and prayers\" of MPs were with the Queen's family.\n\nMinutes before both Ms Truss and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had been informed of the news and had left the chamber.\n\nMs Truss later tweeted: \"The whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime.\n\n\"My thoughts - and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom - are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time.\"\n\nHer words were echoed by other politicians.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir said he was \"deeply worried\" by the news and that he joined \"everyone across the United Kingdom in hoping for her recovery\".\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"All of us are feeling profoundly concerned at reports of Her Majesty's health.\n\n\"My thoughts and wishes are with the Queen and all of the Royal Family at this time.\"\n\nMark Drakeford - the first minister of Wales - said he was concerned to hear the news and that he sent his \"best wishes to Her Majesty and her family on behalf of the people of Wales\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey tweeted: \"The whole nation's thoughts and prayers are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family as we all hope and pray for her full recovery.\"\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron said he was \"deeply concerned by the news this afternoon from Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"I send my heartfelt thoughts and prayers to Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family at this worrying time.\"\n\nTony Blair - Labour prime minister from 1997 to 2007 - also said he was \"deeply concerned\" by the news and that his \"thoughts and prayers\" were with the Queen and her family.\n\nMs Truss was officially appointed as the UK's 56th prime minister after her meeting with the Queen on Tuesday\n\nOn Wednesday, an online meeting between senior politicians and the Queen was postponed.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Queen had been advised to rest after \"a full day\" on Tuesday during which she met the outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson and his successor Ms Truss.\n\nBBC political editor Chris Mason says: \"It's been a busy week for the monarch with that handover of power, her playing that crucial constitutional role in the resignation of one prime minister and the assumption of office of another.\n\n\"And we've also known in terms of her interactions with political leaders that they have dialled down a little bit, certainly in terms of the physical exertions required of her to perform them have dialled down in recent months.\n\n\"The overriding impression here at Westminster is the same it will be around the country - one of deep concern from our political leaders and politicians more broadly.\"", "Nicola Sturgeon announced a freeze on rent in Scotland earlier this week to help with the cost of living crisis\n\nScotland's first minister has said the public should not have to pay the full cost of new plans to tackle soaring energy bills.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said oil and gas firms should also contribute to the massive costs of the plan unveiled by new prime minister Liz Truss.\n\nShe also said the proposals meant bills would still rise from their current levels.\n\nEnergy bills for the average household will be capped at £2,500 from October.\n\nThe support will last for two years, Ms Truss told the Commons, with additional help also being given to businesses, saying \"this is the moment to be bold\".\n\nA typical household's gas and electricity bill had been due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 at the start of next month.\n\nGas prices have soared this year, largely due to the conflict in Ukraine which has reduced supplies of Russian gas.\n\nSpeaking at first minister's questions, Ms Sturgeon described the prime minister's plan as \"very belated\".\n\nAnd while she welcomed the proposals, she said they still meant bills would be rising from their current levels next month.\n\nThe first minister said: \"If we go back to the spring of this year, average energy bills were around £1,200 so people are seeing soaring energy costs because of a broken energy market and the utter incompetence of this UK government.\n\n\"As things stand all of the costs of what has been announced today are going to fall on consumers and taxpayers when oil and gas companies making windfall profits should be making a contribution.\n\n\"So I think we can see whose side the UK government is on\".\n\nBills for the average household will be capped at £2,500 from October\n\nIt is thought the energy bill scheme could cost up to £150bn, with Ms Truss saying that \"extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures\".\n\nIt will see the UK government compensate energy firms for the difference between the wholesale price for gas and electricity they pay and the amount they can charge customers.\n\nBusinesses will also have their bills capped, but only for six months.\n\nThe final cost of the scheme will depend on the cost of energy on the international energy markets, which can be extremely volatile.\n\nThe money to cover the support will be borrowed by the government, which will add to the UK's already large debt pile - but Ms Truss has rejected calls for a windfall tax on gas and oil company profits to pay for the package.\n\nThe government will, however, launch a new oil and gas licensing round as early as next week, which is expected to lead to over 100 new licences for the North Sea.\n\nThe move is part of efforts to ensure the UK exports more energy than it imports by 2040.\n\nMs Truss announced the energy bills plan two days after becoming prime minister\n\nA new Energy Supply Taskforce will also start negotiating long-term contracts with suppliers that would reduce the price they charge and increase the security of supply.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said the intervention by the UK government was on a \"monumental scale\" and significantly bigger than the Covid furlough scheme.\n\nHe said: \"This support will provide vital help for families up and down the country at this very difficult time.\n\n\"The prime minister's package will also support Scottish businesses, as well as schools, hospitals and the other public buildings we all depend on.\"\n\nBut Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the plan did not go far enough, adding: \"Let's be clear - this is not an energy price freeze.\n\n\"There is not enough support for businesses and charities and there is no windfall tax meaning households and businesses will pay in the long term, not companies making record profits.\"", "Tens of thousands of businesses are at risk of going under without government support because of soaring energy bills, according to insolvency experts.\n\nRed Flag Alert, which monitors the financial health of firms, told the BBC previously profitable companies are experiencing significant losses.\n\nAmong those that survive, many will be forced to make workers redundant, the consultancy said.\n\nFirms are waiting to hear if they will get help with their energy bills.\n\nOn Thursday the government, led by new Prime Minister Liz Truss, is expected to announce significant financial support for households facing an 80% rise in the energy price cap in October.\n\nBusinesses are not covered by the cap, however, and Red Flag is warning that more than 75,000 larger firms that are high energy users are at risk of insolvency or are likely to lay off staff without government support.\n\nThe government's plan is expected to include some relief for businesses - but details are not yet known.\n\nAccording to Red Flag, many firms will face a choice between paying wages or paying energy bills.\n\n\"Businesses can't absorb these costs and they're going to be forced very quickly into a decision about headcount or being able to pay energy bills,\" said chief economist Nicola Headlam. \"That's going to be the reality and it's coming down the track very quickly.\"\n\nAccording to Red Flag Alert, there are 355,000 companies with a turnover higher than £1m that are designated as high energy users - industries such as steel, glass, concrete, and paper production. Of those, the company estimates 75,972 are at risk of insolvency, and they estimate 26,720 of them could fail because of energy costs. That is in addition to the 26,000 insolvencies they had already predicted this year.\n\n\"That is a colossal number of people whose businesses will fail, without a large-scale support package from the government\", said Ms Headlam. \"That's more than during the pandemic, and more than in any other recession.\n\n\"A business turning over a million pounds two years ago would have spent around 8% of that on energy costs and made profits of around £90,000.\n\n\"If the cost of energy doubles to 16%, that instantly wipes out profitability, and they're straight into a scenario where it threatens the viability of the business within a year.\"\n\nBeyond the large, energy-intensive companies, smaller companies with turnover under £1m, were also at risk of failure, Red Flag Alert said. It highlighted the hospitality sector where firms face a triple threat of increasing energy bills, higher supply and staffing costs, and a fall-off in consumer spending, squeezed by inflation.\n\nThat is certainly the case for James Greenhalgh, who runs Flamingos Coffee House in Leeds, and a bar in the city too. The combined energy bill for both is due to leap from £1,500 to around £10,000 from the beginning of October.\n\n\"That's more expensive than our wage bill. That's just catastrophic,\" said Mr Greenhalgh.\n\n\"It's an extinction event for many businesses like mine,\" said Mr Greenhalgh.\n\n\"I've been speaking to so many similar businesses in Leeds and everyone's in the same situation - considering whether to try and battle through, mothball sites over the winter and hope things improve, or whether it's game over.\"\n\n\"The only thing I can do is wait to see what help the government will give. I can't innovate out of it. I can't put prices up because our customers don't have the money.\"\n\nWithout rapid government help, Mr Greenhalgh said he would have to close one of his sites, and make staff redundant.\n\n\"If the government had stepped in two months ago, it would have made a much bigger difference. The delays this summer have slammed customer confidence\", he added.\n\nRed Flag Alert calculates businesses overall will need £100bn a year in support to tackle the rise in energy bills.\n\nWhile hospitality is not included in that figure, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, restaurateur Martin Williams warned that thousands of smaller firms in the industry were also at risk.\n\nThe boss of the Gaucho steakhouse chain urged the government to consider energy bills help, as well as VAT cuts and business rates reform.\n\n\"There needs to be some confidence and that can only come from government support by the prime minister and the chancellor,\" he said.\n\nHowever the government is already under pressure over how it will finance a promised package of support for households, while sticking to promises to cut taxes.\n\nMs Truss is understood to be planning to borrow up to £100bn to to limit the expected sharp rise in energy bills for households and firms.\n\nRight now, the annual energy bill for a typical household is £1,971. From 1 October, however, that is due to rise 80% - to £3,549. It is understood that the plans will see a typical household energy bill rise to £2,500 instead - about £1,000 less than expected, but still about £500 more than at present.\n\nAs well as households, businesses are also expected to receive some help. Many firms are currently facing even sharper rises than households and many fixed-rate deals for business expire this October, exposing thousands of firms to full costs that could rise by four or five times or more.\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Truss pledged to \"deliver on the energy crisis\".", "Apple has unveiled the iPhone 14, with emergency satellite connectivity and car crash detection technology, at a launch event in the US.\n\nThe company revealed four versions of the new handset at its Cupertino headquarters, with an audience attending in person for the first time since the pandemic.\n\nIt also showed off a new extreme sports wearable - the Watch Ultra.\n\nThe event focused on next generation iPhone, Watch and AirPod products.\n\nApple CEO Tim Cook was on stage at the Steve Jobs theatre inside the tech giant's California campus - but the presentation itself was entirely pre-recorded.\n\nApple Watch Series 8 has a number of new features, including car crash detection, temperature sensors for tracking ovulation cycles and a new low-power mode option.\n\nPeople have been cautious about menstrual trackers since changes were made to abortion legislation in the US and there are concerns that data about periods could be used by law enforcement. Apple says the data on its devices will be encrypted and only accessible via a passcode or biometrics.\n\n\"We are taking our commitment to women's health even further,\" said Jeff Williams, chief operating officer at Apple.\n\nApple said a new automatic retrospective ovulation notification could help those who are trying to conceive.\n\nIf activated, the new watch can monitor body temperate every five seconds overnight, and detect tiny changes which can signal ovulation.\n\nAnother new feature is car crash detection. Using sensors, the watch will be able to identify a severe crash and will automatically connect its wearer with emergency services, provide their exact location and notify emergency contacts.\n\nThe Series 8 now also features a low power mode, a feature borrowed from the iPhone, that promises up to 36 hours of battery life on a full charge.\n\nThe Apple Watch Series 8 is priced from $399 in the US, £419 in the UK.\n\nSwim-proof, dust-proof and crack-resistant - Apple has announced its rival to the likes of Garmin, Polar and other rugged watchmakers.\n\nUltramarathoner Scott Jurek from Born to Run appeared in the presentation for the new watch, which focused on a larger face design for extreme sports use.\n\nAll Ultra watches have up to 36 hours battery life on a single charge and an extended battery life of 60 hours, with Apple promising enough power for its customers to complete an ultra-triathlon which includes swimming, cycling and running.\n\nThe Apple Watch Ultra is priced from $799 in the US, £849 in the UK.\n\nApple CEO Tim Cook told the BBC it was \"good to be back\" in person\n\nThe company is releasing the iPhone 14 in two sizes, the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14 Plus.\n\nThe new handsets are capable of sending an emergency call for help via satellite. The phone will display the whereabouts of passing satellites overhead and demonstrate how to point the device at them correctly.\n\nIt can take from 15 seconds to a few minutes to send a basic message.\n\n\"The investment to add satellite capability should not be underestimated,\" said Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight.\n\n\"It will likely have taken Apple years to put all the pieces of the puzzle in place, including a commercial agreement with satellite provider Globalstar, and the creation of the infrastructure needed to pass messages to the emergency services.\"\n\nTech analyst Paolo Pescatore said he believed the innovation was good news for consumers \"in hard-to-reach areas\".\n\n\"It is encouraging to see providers starting to get serious about using satellite - ultimately reliable and robust connectivity is still highly sought-after among all users,\" he said.\n\nThe tech giant announced a new 12-megapixel camera, capable of taking photos of fast-moving subjects, and the company claims a 49% improvement in low-light capturing.\n\nThe front camera also included auto-focus for the first time, to help sharpen selfies.\n\nAccording to Apple, iPhone users took more than three trillion photos in the last 12 months.\n\nThe iPhone 14 is priced from $799 (US), £849 (UK).\n\nThe biggest change in iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max design is the top of the screen which is now a pill shaped cut-out.\n\nA feature called the Dynamic Island has replaced the black notch, which many iPhone users complain about - and it can change shape depending on what notifications there are.\n\nThe other big change is that the handset can always remain on.\n\nWhen the phone is not in use, the screen dims and the refresh rate is lowered.\n\nThe handset comes in a deep purple colour alongside black, silver and gold.\n\nThe iPhone 14 Pro is priced at $999 (US), £1099 (UK).\n\nAirPods Pro are easier to find than their predecessors. Each pair comes with a new system for finding individual lost earphones, which play a chime when dropped outside of the case.\n\nAdditionally, the case itself gets its own speaker, which will play a louder sound when prompted by the Find My app.\n\nThe new AirPods Pro are priced at $249 (US), £249 (UK).\n\nBeing here in person, among an enthusiastic crowd of Apple fans, certainly made for a more interesting launch than recent years. But nothing was announced today that is going to revolutionise the tech industry.\n\nMuch of Apple's new tech seems ideal if you find yourself in some kind of peril on a regular basis. The new iPhone 14 will be able to send texts by satellite when off the grid. The Ultra Watch design is chunky with extra-long battery life - the company says this is perfect for multi-day remote trips. Apple also announced a new crash detection system on new watches and phones, which will alert the emergency services when it detects an impact. The strategy here is pretty clear. Apple is continuing to pitch its hardware as a health and safety aid. Not surprisingly, Tim Cook describes the products as \"essential\".\n\nBut in reality these are interesting but fairly niche updates - features that users will hope they will never have to use.", "Lloyd Austin told allies their support for Ukraine should be long-lasting\n\nThe US has approved nearly $2.7bn (£2.3bn) in new aid for Ukraine and allies, including $675m in weapons for Ukraine as it battles Russia.\n\nDefence Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the arms package at a meeting with dozens of fellow ministers at the US air base in Ramstein, Germany.\n\nThe US has already pledged about $13bn in military aid for Ukraine.\n\nThe Biden administration said on Thursday it had earmarked $2bn in long-term assistance in the form of investments to bolster the security of Ukraine and 18 of its neighbours, including both Nato members and non-members at risk of future Russian aggression.\n\nIt said it would notify Congress of the aid plan.\n\nUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as his colleague urged Ukraine's allies to commit to supporting the country for as long as necessary and be prepared to adapt the type of support offered.\n\nIn Kyiv, Mr Blinken said that the aid would be delivered at a \"pivotal\" moment during the war, with Ukrainian operations against Russian forces \"proving effective\".\n\nHe also vowed that the US and its allies would \"continue to exert that pressure until the aggression ceases and Ukraine is fully sovereign and independent\".\n\nPresident Joe Biden wants to end America's \"forever wars\", but he is pumping billions of dollars into one that could grind on for a long time.\n\nAfter six months, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is entering a challenging new phase. Europe is facing a hard winter of high prices and fuel shortages because of the fallout from sanctions against Moscow and President Vladimir Putin's suspension of Russian gas supplies.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive in the south of the country to try to break a stalemate on the battlefield and convince struggling allies it's worth staying the course.\n\nSecretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Kyiv was designed to underline that message by emphasising the Americans are committed to seeing this through.\n\nFor Washington, of course, the stakes are bigger than Ukraine. The Biden administration - and a bipartisan majority in Congress - believes the Russian invasion threatens to rip up the rules of the liberal global order largely established by the US after World War Two.\n\nDespite that, President Biden's long game is not directed at a fast and decisive Ukrainian victory. His arms shipments have been calibrated by the fear that tensions could escalate into direct conflict with Russia.\n\nSome analysts and lawmakers have described the goal as preventing defeat rather than powering a win, and demanded the president be more aggressive. Others have said a win isn't possible and urged him to press for a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement.\n\nThe administration argues that Russia isn't serious about finding a diplomatic solution and Ukraine doesn't have the leverage to press for one.\n\nIn Washington, US President Joe Biden held a call with a number of US allies - including UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - in which they reiterated their collective support for Ukraine.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country's military had recently carried out successful attacks against Russian forces which control large areas of Ukraine in the south and the east - and retaken settlements near the north-eastern city of Kharkiv. While in Kyiv, Mr Blinken received a briefing from Ukrainian officials on the counter-offensive.\n\nHe did not give details but both Ukrainian and pro-Russian officials report fighting around Balakleya, 60km (38 miles) south-east of Kharkiv.\n\nA US-made 155mm M777 towed howitzer in action in the Kharkiv region this summer\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says there are signs Ukraine is making real military progress. Western-supplied long-range artillery and rockets are helping to target Russian supply lines and command centres.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin denied reverses on Wednesday, saying: \"We have not lost anything and will not lose anything.\"\n\nRussia says it is fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine - a claim widely dismissed - and that it is threatened by the Nato alliance's strong relations with Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olena Zelenska speaks about the human cost of the war\n\nRussia, a global energy supplier, is locked in an economic struggle with the West which imposed sweeping sanctions in response to the invasion.", "Molly McKibben testing the water in Poland before the World Championships begin\n\nThe paddleboard explosion has been hard to miss.\n\nDuring the summer months especially, no self-respecting beach in the UK would be complete without people pumping up their inflatable boards on the sand.\n\nIt is officially \"a thing\" but for one young teenager from Northern Ireland, it has become much more than that.\n\nMolly McKibben is in Poland for the Stand Up Paddling (SUP) World Championships which get under way on Thursday.\n\nThe 17-year-old Bangor girl is the first person from Northern Ireland to take part in the competition, and she is the only junior on the GB team.\n\nMolly is still involved in taekwondo but her focus is on paddleboarding for now\n\nLike many people, Molly first got into paddleboarding during lockdown.\n\nThe Glenlola Collegiate pupil said going from lots of sport to no sport was a big thing for her.\n\n\"I had been playing hockey for school and it stopped. Taekwondo is a contact sport so it stopped.\n\n\"Paddleboarding was something you could do in lockdown as it is in the open and you could do social distancing.\n\n\"It came at the right time and I instantly loved it. It got me through lockdown.\n\n\"Sport was my get away from school work. I have being doing sport from such a young age - I have been doing taekwondo from the age of five.\"\n\nMolly is no stranger to sport on the world stage - in 2019, she competed in the WITF Taekwondo championships and won her category.\n\nOver the next few days, she will be facing the best paddlers in the world in her age group, with every continent represented.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has its own Molly - Caoimhe Byrne is also blazing a trail in Poland.\n\nMolly travelled to the Baltic Sea resort of Gdynia a few days before the competition to get the lay of the sea.\n\nIt has also given her the opportunity to meet some of the SUP heroes she follows on social media.\n\n\"Seeing all the professional athletes in person is pretty awesome,\" she said.\n\n\"They are competing for their country but they are willing to stop and chat and are full of advice.\"\n\nAmerican Fiona Wylde is a star of the SUP world\n\nShe was particularly delighted to meet the current world champion, the American Fiona Wylde.\n\nThey had a lot to talk about - they share a love of the sport and they both have Type 1 diabetes.\n\nMolly was diagnosed with the serious condition - in which a person's blood sugar level gets too high because they cannot make the hormone insulin - four years ago.\n\n\"It's been a wild journey - the transition from not having a medical condition to having something you are having to control every day,\" she said.\n\n\"Once you get an understanding of diabetes, sport is a big help. When young people get the diagnosis, they think: 'This is it, I'm going nowhere.'\n\n\"I want to make people aware that Type 1 diabetes is not going to stop you from doing what you want.\"\n\nMolly will also compete at an event in London next week\n\nHer mum Claire, who is in Poland with Molly as chief kit carrier and cheerleader, says the diagnosis came as a shock.\n\n\"There's still a lot of misconceptions about diabetes,\" says Ms McKibben.\n\n\"It's completely random, can happen to anybody and the fact Molly continues on with her life and does so much with it, she's a good role model for younger people who maybe wonder how this is going to affect their ability to do the sports they enjoy.\"\n\nMs McKibben said paddleboarding lifted Molly up at a time when \"there was really very little else\", but she never imagined it would lead her to this point.\n\n\"I had no idea there was anything other than just paddleboarding for a little bit of fun,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know there was racing involved.\"\n\nMolly McKibben and Iain McCarthy have been familiarising themselves with conditions in Gdynia ahead of their races\n\nIain McCarthy is the founder of Molly's hometown club SUP Hub NI and he is also competing in the championships.\n\nHe said that prior to Covid, paddleboarding was already the world's fastest growing water sport.\n\n\"Covid has just put that on rocket fuel,\" said English-born Mr McCarthy. \"What we are seeing now is a wide catch.\n\n\"There's the recreational side, the mental health benefit side, the physical side and then there is the sport itself and that element is not going to be for everyone.\n\n\"But it is something that people can do as an alternative to whatever else they might do, or supplementary to whatever sport they might play.\"\n\nMr McCarthy said it was evolving as a sport with professional athletes crossing over into SUP from other disciplines and the holy grail for the entire community was for paddleboarding to be made an Olympic sport like surfing and kayaking.\n\nHe said he spotted Molly's talent a mile off and she has had to train hard to compete at this level.\n\n\"We have backed her to do this because it's important for people in our local community to have this experience, to talk about these types of events, to see what they are up against, meet other paddlers from around the world, get hints and tips,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognise we are not the greatest in the world, but exposure to this community is only going to help us grow and develop the community back home.\"", "Life expectancy is declining sharply in some countries\n\nDecades of progress in terms of life expectancy, education and economic prosperity have begun unravelling since the pandemic, a new UN report says.\n\nOver the past two years, nine out of 10 countries have slid backwards on the UN's Human Development Index.\n\nCovid-19, the war in Ukraine and the impact of climate change are blamed for putting global development in reverse.\n\nThe Human Development Index was launched in 1990 in an effort to look beyond GDP as a measure of well-being.\n\nSwitzerland sits at the top of the index this year with a life expectancy of 84 years, an average of 16.5 years spent in education and median salary of $66,000.\n\nAt the other end of the scale is South Sudan where life expectancy is 55, people spend just 5.5 years in school on average and earn $768 a year.\n\nSetbacks in a majority of the 191 countries included in the index, especially in life expectancy, have taken development levels back to those seen in 2016, reversing a 30-year trend.\n\nIn the US, for example, life expectancy at birth has dropped by more than two years since 2019. In other countries the decline is much higher.\n\nOver the years since the index was introduced, many countries have faced crises and slid backwards, but the global trend consistently moved upwards. Last year was the first time the index declined overall since calculations began and this year's results solidified that downward trend.\n\nThe impact has been uneven though. Two-thirds of rich countries rebounded last year while most others continued to decline.\n\nThis year's index is based on data from 2021. \"But the outlook for 2022 is grim,\" says Achim Steiner, one of its authors, who points out that more than 80 countries are facing problems paying off their national debt.\n\n\"Eighty countries being one step away from facing that kind of crisis is a very serious prospect,\" he says.\n\n\"We are seeing deep disruptions, the tail end of which will play out over a number of years.\"", "Two government departments have been reprimanded by a watchdog for not responding to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests on time.\n\nIt is the first time in seven years the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued an FOI enforcement notice.\n\nThe Department for International Trade (DIT) had the worst response rate across all government departments.\n\nAction was also taken against the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).\n\nThe ICO is an independent watchdog. Its central aim is to promote openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.\n\nIt has issued this latest action against the DIT and BEIS for what it calls \"persistent failures\" to respond.\n\nIt said the action comes as it renews its approach to regulating the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which commits to taking action against public authorities with consistently poor performance.\n\nJohn Edwards, the Information Commissioner, said: \"Accountability and transparency in the work of public authorities is fundamental to democracy and it is the ICO's role to ensure that people's right to access information is protected.\n\n\"I advise public authorities to take note and learn lessons from the action we have taken today, as we will be making greater use of our powers under the Act to drive good practice and compliance.\"\n\nFOI consultant Martin Rosenbaum told the BBC this was a welcome decision.\n\n\"It is the kind of firm and determined action which has been badly needed to tackle serious failings on FOI in government departments.\n\n\"It should make it clear to the public authorities with the worst records on FOI compliance that there are limits to what they can get away with.\n\nIf the new Commissioner continues to show much greater determination and effectiveness in enforcing the FOI Act, it will make a big difference to improving how the system can work in practise for the public benefit,\" he said.\n\nThe ICO said DIT was late answering more than half of requests from January to March.\n\nThe department's response times declined in 2021 despite no significant increase in requests or known resource issues at the department.\n\nThe ICO said the delays were \"simply due to internal process failings, rather than more significant problems\".\n\nThe department has been told it must respond to any outstanding requests older than 20 working days within 35 calendar days of the enforcement notice.\n\nIt should also publish an action plan formalising measures to mitigate any future delays.\n\nFailure to comply with the notice could lead to the department being found in contempt of court, it has been warned.\n\nA DIT spokesperson said: \"We are fully committed to our transparency obligations and responded to over 500 FOI requests received last year.\n\n\"We continue to evaluate and improve our internal processes and will respond to the ICO in due course.\"\n\nBEIS was told to improve its performance, after it \"consistently failed to respond to a significant number of the information access requests received within the statutory time limit\".\n\nBEIS has had a 55% increase in requests since 2020, but the ICO found the department's internal procedures were the cause of many responses being delayed, as well as the volume increases.\n\nThe ICO said that because of mitigations by BEIS and its positive engagement with the watchdog, it was only issued with a practice recommendation rather than an enforcement notice.\n\nBut the regulator said an enforcement notice could be issued if performance does not improve.\n\nA BEIS spokesperson said: \"We are committed to handling requests in a timely way while managing this alongside tackling the energy crisis and driving economic growth, and we are engaging with the ICO's office on the next steps.\"", "Some of the UK's biggest strikes have been called off after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nUnions representing Royal Mail postal workers and rail staff said that \"out of respect for her service to the country and her family\" they had chosen to cancel immediate strike action.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.\n\nSome shops have announced temporary closures as a mark of respect.\n\nThe planned strike action by postal workers on Friday 9 September and RMT rail worker walkouts on 15 and 17 September has been suspended.\n\nThe train drivers' union Aslef has also postponed a strike planned for 15 September.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said train timetables would be normal now that strikes were not going ahead.\n\nA spokesperson from the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said it welcomed the decision by the RMT to call off next week's strike action at a time of \"national mourning\".\n\n\"The whole railway family is united in sending our condolences to the Royal Family,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nNetwork Rail has confirmed that train services will run as normal next week.\n\nIt will also look at any scheduled weekend engineering works that fall within the \"laying in state period\" and scale it back. Works might be postponed if they prevent people from travelling to London to pay their respects.\n\nThe RMT union intends to reschedule the strikes, but has not yet decided when. It would need to give two weeks' notice of any action, as would the Aslef union.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said that his union joined the \"whole nation in paying its respects\" to Queen Elizabeth.\n\n\"We express our deepest condolences to her family, friends and the country,\" he added.\n\nTrain drivers' union Aslef said: \"In light of the sad news of Queen Elizabeth II's death, Aslef is postponing its industrial action on 15 September. We express our deepest condolences to her family, friends and the country.\"\n\nThe TSSA rail union has also cancelled planned industrial action for September and said it would be \"respecting the period of public mourning\".\n\nThe Trades Unions Congress said it would postpone its annual congress until later this autumn following the death of the Queen.\n\nA spokesman said it was \"as a mark of respect\" and recognised \"her many years of dedicated service to the country\".\n\nStaff in the CWU, which represents postal workers, had been on strike on Thursday. But the union cancelled Friday's planned walkout after the Queen's death was announced.\n\nCWU general secretary Dave Ward said the action had been cancelled, \"following the very sad news of the passing of the Queen, and out of respect for her service to the country and her family\".\n\nWorkers across a range of industries including BT call centre staff, Openreach engineers, railway workers and barristers have walked out in recent weeks in pay disputes as wages fail to keep up with soaring prices.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association said that planned barristers' demonstrations next week had been cancelled \"out of respect\".\n\nBut it added that there had been \"no movement\" from the government so industrial action would continue.\n\nShops such as Selfridge's, which was granted a royal warrant in 2001, closed early on Thursday and it said it would remain shut on Friday before reopening this weekend. Toy store chain The Entertainer will also be closed on Friday and offered its \"sincere condolences\" to the Royal Family.\n\nBetting shops Betfred and William Hill have said they will close on Friday.\n\nTourist attraction Legoland Windsor is also closed on Friday. The theme park said those who were due to visit would receive an email about their booking.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nGraham Potter had been Brighton manager since May 2019 Chelsea have appointed Graham Potter as their new manager following the sacking of Thomas Tuchel. Potter has left fellow Premier League club Brighton to take up the role and has signed a five-year deal with the Blues. The 47-year-old said he was \"incredibly proud and excited to represent Chelsea\". Potter's first game in charge will be an away derby with fellow west London club Fulham on Saturday at 12:30 BST. His assistant Billy Reid, first-team coaches Bjorn Hamberg and Bruno, goalkeeping coach Ben Roberts and assistant head of recruitment Kyle Macaulay will join him at the Chelsea, who have paid Brighton in excess of £21m in compensation.\n• None Chelsea news and fan views in one place\n• None 'Chelsea and Potter both gambling on each other' \"We are thrilled to bring Graham to Chelsea,\" said the Stamford Bridge club's chairman Todd Boehly. \"He is a proven coach and an innovator in the Premier League who fits our vision for the club. \"Not only is he extremely talented on the pitch, he has skills and capabilities that extend beyond the pitch which will make Chelsea a more successful club. \"He has had a major impact at his previous clubs and we look forward to his positive impact at Chelsea. \"We look forward to supporting him, his coaching team and the squad in realising their full potential in the coming months and years.\" Former Ostersunds FK and Swansea City manager Potter led Brighton to a ninth-place finish last season, the club's highest ever top-flight finish. He has guided them to fourth in the table this season after winning four, drawing one and losing one of their six Premier League games. Chelsea decided to sack Tuchel, who won three trophies in 20 months at Stamford Bridge, with the Blues sixth in the top flight following a summer in which they spent £255.3m in the summer transfer window. \"I am very excited to partner with Chelsea's new ownership group and look forward to meeting and working with the exciting group of players and to develop a team and culture that our amazing fans can be proud of,\" said Potter. He also offered a \"sincere thanks\" to Brighton, including chairman Tony Bloom, for their support during his spell of just more than three-years at the club. Brighton Under-21 coach Andrew Crofts has taken over as Brighton's interim head coach, while attacking midfielder Adam Lallana will be part of his coaching set up. \"I am very disappointed that Graham will be leaving us,\" said Bloom. \"He has done exceptionally well over the past three-and-a-bit seasons, he is an exceptional head coach and an exceptional person. He will be hugely missed at our football club. \"He leaves an excellent legacy for his successor with the club in its highest ever position, and on the back of leading us to our highest finish in the club's history last season. \"I would like to thank Graham, Billy, Bjorn, Bruno, Ben and Kyle for their work here, and wish them all the very best for the future. \"While our attention is now on appointing Graham's successor as head coach our immediate focus, of course, is on Saturday's game at Bournemouth and supporting Andrew Crofts as interim head coach.\" Brighton under Potter in the Premier League A former full-back in the Football League with Stoke, West Brom and York, Potter began his managerial career with Ostersunds FK in 2010, guiding them from the fourth tier of Swedish football to the first, winning the 2017 Swedish Cup and reaching the knockout stages of the Europa League. He then took charge of Swansea City in June 2018, spending one season with the Championship side before joining Brighton in May 2019 following Chris Hughton's dismissal. Potter went on to guide the club to 15th, 16th as well as the ninth-place finish in his three full seasons in charge.\n• None You can now get Chelsea news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea 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 Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "Workers at Royal Mail have announced further strikes in a dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nStaff in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are already set to walk out on Thursday this week.\n\nThey will now also strike for 48 hours on 30 September and 1 October - the latest move in a worsening dispute.\n\nThe CWU said its 115,000 members did not support an \"imposed\" 2% pay rise. Royal Mail says the union rejected an offer worth up to 5.5%.\n\nCWU general secretary Dave Ward 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\n\"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\nHe highlighted the £400m the company had returned to shareholders in the last year, saying \"our members won't accept pleads of poverty from the company\".\n\nRoyal Mail's latest adjusted operating profit for the year to March was £416m, up from £344m previously, but the company says it is currently losing £1m a day.\n\nA spokesperson from Royal Mail apologised to customers for the inconvenience and reiterated that it was now a parcels business.\n\n\"We must adapt old ways of working designed for letters,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Strike action has weakened our financial position and is threatening the long-term job security of our postmen and women,\" they added.\n\n\"The CWU has a responsibility to recognise the reality of the situation Royal Mail faces as a business and to engage urgently on the changes required.\"\n\nRoyal Mail said it was doing all it could to \"minimise any delays\". On 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\nA range of workers including Openreach engineers, BT call centre staff, railway workers and barristers have walked out in recent weeks as wages fall further behind soaring inflation of about 10%.", "Crowds witnessed the union jack lowered at Buckingham Palace, while the Royal Banner of Scotland at Holyroodhouse was also lowered to half-mast.\n\nThe flag on the roof of No 10 Downing Street, too, flew at half-mast as a mark of respect to the monarch.", "Liz Truss became prime minister on 6 September 2022, replacing Boris Johnson who was in post for slightly more than three years.\n\nShe was not the first choice of Conservative MPs - but she was the clear winner in a ballot of Tory members, who had the final say.\n\nTruss has been a government minister since 2012, and held cabinet posts under David Cameron, Theresa May and Johnson, most recently as foreign secretary.\n\nA Remain supporter at the 2016 EU referendum, who began her political journey at Oxford University as a Liberal Democrat, she is now an enthusiastic Brexiteer who has vowed to get back to traditional tax-cutting Tory values.\n\nTruss, who has two children, was elected to Parliament as MP for South West Norfolk in 2010 after serving as deputy director of think tank Reform.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Therese Coffey: Things said on social media don't worry me\n\nIt's 08:00 in the morning and the second most powerful woman in Westminster is giving one of her first interviews in her new role at the apex of government.\n\nAs she's grilled about her new job, she suddenly seems distracted as she grabs for her mobile phone.\n\n\"I've just realised my alarm is going off on my phone,\" says Therese Coffey, live on LBC Radio. \"You're getting a bit of Dr Dre.\"\n\nThe unmistakable staccato opening keys of Dr Dre's 1999 hit Still D.R.E. ring out as Ms Coffey chuckles and admits \"it's just an eight o'clock alarm\". She regains her composure and the interview continues.\n\nMeet the new health secretary and deputy prime minister - a music and football-loving Tory MP with a reputation for partying as hard as she works.\n\nA long-time ally of new Prime Minister Liz Truss, Ms Coffey has been given one of the most challenging briefs in government: fixing the multiple crises afflicting the NHS.\n\nIn her first speech as prime minister, Ms Truss said putting \"our health service on a firm footing\" was one of her three early priorities.\n\nThe fact Ms Truss has appointed one of her strongest supporters to that role indicates how seriously the prime minister is taking this particular priority.\n\nWith 6.6 million people in queues for treatment, NHS backlogs - as well growing ambulance waiting times and staff vacancies - will be at the top of her to-do list.\n\nHer plan to sort it out? \"My focus is on A, B, C, D,\" Ms Coffey told the BBC. \"That stands for ambulances, backlogs, care and doctors and dentists.\"\n\nFocusing on social care and freeing up space in hospitals \"is going to be critical\", she said.\n\nGiven her cabinet experience as work and pensions secretary, Ms Coffey will believe she's up to the task entrusted to her by Ms Truss.\n\nClose friends since they were elected as Tory MPs in 2010, Ms Truss and Ms Coffey have risen through the political ranks together.\n\nTheir friendship has proved fruitful for their political careers.\n\nBoth attended Oxford University, with Ms Coffey studying chemistry (as former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did) and cutting her political teeth in the Oxford Union debating society.\n\nMs Coffey was born in 1971 in Lancashire and educated in Liverpool. She has attributed her Conservative political persuasions to her experiences of growing up in the city during the 1970s and 80s.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Political Thinking podcast in 2020, Ms Coffey criticised the Labour Militant council of the 1980s and said the rest of the country \"seemed to be getting on rather well\" under the prime minister at the time, Mrs Thatcher.\n\nAt the start of her professional life, Ms Coffey worked in several roles for confectionary giant Mars and as a finance manager at the BBC.\n\nElected for the safe Tory seat of Suffolk Coastal, her parliamentary career began in 2010. Since then, she has served in the governments of Theresa May, Boris Johnson and now Ms Truss.\n\nBefore becoming deputy PM, her most prominent role was secretary of state at the Department for Work and Pensions, a post she held from September 2019 until this week.\n\nIn that role her mettle was tested in September last year, when she defended the scrapping of a £20 weekly uplift to Universal Credit payments introduced during the pandemic.\n\nIn remarks criticised as out of touch, Ms Coffey said benefits recipients could make the money back by working two extra hours a week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Therese Coffey defended the phasing-out of the Universal Credit uplift\n\nWhen she was linked with a senior role in Ms Truss's government, Ms Coffey and her voting record on certain issues came under renewed scrutiny.\n\nA practising Catholic, Ms Coffey has previously voted against extending abortion care, saying earlier this year she would \"prefer that people didn't have abortions but I am not going to condemn people that do\".\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service has called the new health secretary's record on abortion rights \"deeply concerning\". But Ms Coffey told the BBC abortion access already available in England and Wales will continue while she was in post.\n\nSimilarly controversial was her row with Manchester United star Marcus Rashford last year, after he forced the government to extend its free school meal voucher scheme.\n\nOn his campaign, Rashford tweeted: \"When you wake up this morning and run your shower, take a second to think about parents who have had their water turned off during lockdown.\"\n\nIn reply, Ms Coffey posted on Twitter: \"Water cannot be disconnected though.\"\n\nExpressing concern at her response, Rashford urged MPs to \"put rivalries aside\" and help struggling households.\n\nYet Ms Coffey has insisted she doesn't pay much attention to social media. When asked about social media posts circulating about her, the health secretary said: \"I don't tend to look at social media.\"\n\nSuch comments, she said, do not worry her.\n\nMs Coffey seems comfortable with the unconventional political persona she has cultivated.\n\nIn Westminster, her karaoke nights are the stuff of legend, with Ms Truss known to be a regular attendee in the past.\n\nMs Coffey's enthusiasm for karaoke was on full display at the Tory conference in October last year, when she was filmed belting out a version of (I've Had) The Time Of My Life and other pop anthems.\n\nFootball - namely Liverpool FC - is another of her passions. She is a regular at Anfield - Liverpool FC's stadium - and even followed the team to Paris to watch their defeat to Real Madrid in the Champions League final earlier this year.\n\nShe was also pictured alongside Ms Truss at Wembley, where they cheered on England's Lionesses in their Women's Euro 2022 victory against Germany.\n\nMs Truss and Ms Coffey were at Wembley to watch the Euro 2022 final\n\nOther pictures of Ms Coffey have been less flattering. One, taken at a Spectator magazine party in 2015, showed her toking a large cigar and swilling a glass of champagne.\n\nBut despite the occasional gaffe, Ms Coffey has been described in glowing terms by her colleagues.\n\nNadine Dorries, the former culture secretary, has said \"nothing ever goes wrong\" in a department led by Ms Coffey, and friends in Westminster cite the new deputy PM's tireless work ethic.\n\nUnmarried with no children, Ms Coffey is a private person. She's never been shy about showing her loyalty to Ms Truss though.\n\nHer tweet marking Ms Truss's elevation to prime minister was a case in point.\n\n\"Brilliant news that @trussliz is now our prime minister,\" Ms Coffey wrote.\n\nIt was a retweet of a post shared by Ms Coffey almost exactly 10 years ago to celebrate the promotion of a friend to a junior ministerial role. The friend was Liz Truss.\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 Thérèse Coffey #PutinMustFail 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.", "The Queen was a big part of the community in the village near Balmoral, says the church minister Image caption: The Queen was a big part of the community in the village near Balmoral, says the church minister\n\nBalmoral, the Scottish castle where the Queen died, was the place where she \"enjoyed being normal\", according to royal historian Robert Lacey,\n\nSo it's no surprise that people in the nearby village of Ballater remember her with special affection.\n\n\"She was not just our Queen, she was a neighbour - and a big part of this community,\" says Rev David Barr at Glenmuick Church in the village.\n\nAlistair Cassie, who runs a hardware shop in Ballater and has a royal warrant for supplying Balmoral with its televisions, remembered being called to the castle to fix interference with the radio.\n\nThe Royal Banner of Scotland flies at half-mast at Balmoral Castle Image caption: The Royal Banner of Scotland flies at half-mast at Balmoral Castle\n\n\"I was walking along this corridor, and who did I meet but the Queen,\" he says. They chatted about her appreciation for the BBC Radio 2 presenter Jimmy Young.\n\nThe sprawling Balmoral Estate includes dozens of houses, many occupied by estate staff, and Cassie says at times the Queen would appear unannounced at someone's home, asking: \"How are you doing?\"\n\nGrant Harrold, a former butler to King Charles when he was Prince of Wales, says the Queen and Prince Philip would sometimes stay at a small cottage on the estate.\n\nHe says: \"From what I was told - I never witnessed it - she would be in the kitchen cooking away and he would lay the table, so it was very much a chance for them to be a normal couple.\"\n\nAlistair Cassie met the Queen on a formal visit - and unexpectedly in the corridor of the castle Image caption: Alistair Cassie met the Queen on a formal visit - and unexpectedly in the corridor of the castle", "The government plans to move nuclear and renewable electricity generators to lower price contracts to cut bills, Prime Minister Liz Truss has said.\n\n\"Renewable and nuclear generators will move on to contracts for difference, to end the situation where electricity prices are set by the marginal price of gas,\" Truss told Parliament.\n\nThe price paid to these companies is often set by the most costly generator.\n\nThat is currently hugely expensive gas.\n\nMoving nuclear and renewable generators onto lower-priced contracts \"will mean that generators are receiving a fair price reflecting their cost of production, further bringing down the cost of this intervention,\" Truss said.\n\nThe government will ask renewable and nuclear generators to take up new 10 or 15-year contracts at fixed prices well below the current rates, sources familiar with the discussions say.\n\nLiz Truss says she won't introduce a windfall tax on energy companies, but she will need to address the issue of their huge profits.\n\nThe energy market consultancy Cornwall Insight estimates energy prices are likely to be more than £40bn higher because of the fact that some electricity generators are being paid based on the hugely inflated gas price.\n\nThat is a particularly pressing issue when the government is planning to spend tens of billions of pounds of taxpayers' money subsidising the nation's energy bills.\n\nPaying renewable energy companies less than the market price for gas would mean a very significant reduction in revenues for them, at least in the medium term.\n\nYet RenewableUK, the industry body which represents most of the wind power companies in this group, has accepted this approach in principle.\n\n\"We're keen to work collaboratively with the government\" on the issue, RenewableUK's CEO Dan McGrail said.\n\n\"It makes no sense to allow the exorbitantly expensive cost of gas to set the price for the whole of the electricity market\", he said.\n\nRenewableUK represents most of the biggest renewable businesses in the UK including Orsted, Scottish Power, SSE, RWE and EDF.\n\nIt confirms its members have had a \"series of discussions\" with the government on the issue and says it is waiting for the government to \"take a position\".\n\nSo, why might they accept this huge potential hit to profits?\n\nRenewableUK says it is because the companies recognise it isn't fair for consumers to face such high prices at a time of national crisis.\n\nThose close to the discussions say they are probably also being offered a generous long-term price to reflect the short-term loss of profits.\n\nShadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday that such long-term fixed-price contracts would have the effect of ensuring huge profits for electricity companies for years to come.\n\n\"This is a proposal from (energy industry trade association) Energy UK, and let's be clear about this proposal: This would lock in massive windfall profits for these electricity generators.\n\n\"Let me explain why: what Energy UK have said is we'll accept slightly lower prices now, so we can have much higher prices over the following 15 years.\n\n\"This would be a terrible deal for the British people, a terrible deal for billpayers.\n\n\"It is much better - if there are these unexpected windfalls, and there are - the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, is not to do some dodgy deal with these companies, but to do a windfall tax.\n\nLiz Truss may be ideologically opposed to windfall taxes but paying private companies billions of pounds in excess profits from the public purse is also a political liability.\n\nThe companies know that if a solution isn't found she might deicide she has to hold her nose and impose such a tax, and that if she does, she might go after the billions of profits the companies have already made.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Lovely to have you with us\" - headmaster greets the Cambridge children\n\nThe Cambridge \"gang\" have started a new chapter together, walking hand-in-hand with their parents on the first day at their new school.\n\nPrince George, nine, Princess Charlotte, seven, and Prince Louis, four, are all starting at Lambrook School, in Berkshire, after the family's recent move to Windsor.\n\nFor little Louis, in summer uniform, it was his very first day at school.\n\nOn the settling-in day, the duke referred to his children as \"all the gang\", ushering them up the steps of the private school.\n\nHeadmaster Jonathan Perry was on hand to greet the young royals, shaking each of them by the hand and saying it was \"lovely to have you with us\".\n\nAsked if they were excited, all three replied \"yes\" and Prince William said they were \"all looking forward to it\" and had \"lots of questions\".\n\nThe siblings showed no obvious signs of nerves as they walked confidently into Lambrook in the sunshine holding their parents' hands.\n\nEarlier, they had been forced to dodge the showers after pulling up in the school's grounds. Parents arriving later were hit by torrential rain.\n\nAs the family walked towards the school entrance in front of two cameras, they could be heard laughing and Prince William was seen stroking Prince Louis' hair reassuringly.\n\nThe children's first full day is on Thursday, the official start of term.\n\nThe Cambridge children are all smiles on the way to their new school\n\nThis will be a privileged education. Annual fees for all three children will be more than £53,000.\n\nThe school sits in 52 acres of Berkshire countryside close to Ascot Racecourse. It has a nine-hole golf course and swimming pool as well as bees, chickens and pigs for pupils to look after.\n\nSome children are boarders at the school but, for now, the Cambridges will be day pupils.\n\nIn 1990, his parents Prince Charles and Princess Diana accompanied William on his first day at Ludgrove Preparatory School near Wokingham, Berkshire\n\nIn 2017, Prince George started at Thomas's Battersea in London\n\nPrincess Charlotte was greeted by one of the teachers at Thomas's Battersea on her first day in 2019\n\nMarking a first day at school has become a royal rite of passage.\n\nEarlier, a single photographer and one TV camera filmed the Cambridge family as they arrived at Lambrook. The footage was then shared across a number of media organisations.\n\nLimiting the number of cameras and journalists is a way of protecting the children from the public glare. The hope is that a managed glimpse into life at Lambrook will afford the family some privacy at school from now on.\n\nIt was very different when William started school.\n\nIn the late-80s and mid-90s, he faced a barrage of cameras as he started nursery and then school, always accompanied by his mother and often his father. To cries of \"William\" or \"Diana\" those nervous, first steps into school were a major media event.\n\nWhen he started Eton in 1995, cameras were even allowed to follow him as he walked to his first lesson. Such access just would not happen now. These milestones are still recorded but royal children are no longer as exposed on these significant days.\n\nPrince William's sister-in-law, the Duchess of Sussex, recently discussed her concerns about her son Archie attending school in the UK during an interview with US magazine The Cut.\n\nMeghan said she would not have been able to pick up Archie from school in the UK \"without it being a royal photo call with a press pen of 40 people snapping pictures\" and said that was something she had a problem with.\n\nThe Editors' Code of Practice, the rules from the Independent Press Standards Organisation newspapers and magazines follow, prevents photographing children at school.\n\nGeorge, Charlotte and Louis can stay at Lambrook until they are 13 years old. The school says its aims to create \"happy and thoughtful young adults who are global citizens\".\n\nLambrook has some royal history, with two of Queen Victoria's grandsons, Prince Christian Victor and Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, having been pupils.\n\nDuring their time at the school, Queen Victoria used to travel from Windsor Castle to watch them in plays and cricket matches.", "Ukraine's President Zelensky said he has \"good news\", claiming the recapture of several settlements from Russia.\n\nRumours have swirled for days about a possible breakthrough in the eastern Kharkiv region, but with no word from Ukrainian officials.\n\nMr Zelensky declined to name which places had been retaken, saying that \"now is not the time to name\" them.\n\nSeparately, US officials said Ukraine was making \"slow but meaningful progress\" against Russian forces.\n\nSpeaking in his nightly video address to Ukrainians, President Zelensky said there was \"good news\" about the rumoured success of Ukrainian troops.\n\n\"I think every citizen feels proud of our soldiers,\" he said, naming specific military units and applauding their bravery in combat.\n\nBut he said: \"Now is not the time to name the settlements to which the Ukrainian flag returns.\"\n\nUkraine has tightened its operational security in recent weeks, sharing few details about a widely expected counter-offensive in the east and south.\n\nUkrainian soldiers have launched an offensive south-east of Kharkiv, towards the eastern region of Donetsk, over which Russia has maintained substantial military control since the war began six months ago.\n\nSome reports suggest Ukrainian forces may be a few dozen kilometres from the city of Izyum, an important link in Russia's military supply chain.\n\nSpeaking at an event in the United States, Colin Kahl - the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy - suggested that Ukrainian forces were performing better than Russian troops in some areas.\n\n\"It is early days. I think the Ukrainians are making slow but meaningful progress. And we'll see how things pan out,\" he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\n\"But I certainly think things are going better on the Ukrainian side right now in the south than is true on the Russian side.\"\n\nIn its nightly update, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Wednesday that it had \"repelled all Russian attacks\" in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions - but that both sides continued to exchange artillery and air strikes, damaging a dozen different places.\n\nPresident Zelensky also said on Wednesday that Ukraine's national budget next year would be that of a country at war - with more than a trillion hryvnia ($27bn; £23.5bn) spent on defence.\n\nBut he promised key social provisions such as pensions would be maintained.\n\nHowever, \"it is necessary to reduce as much as possible all non-critical expenses\", he warned - \"all that does not help defence, does not help the economic development of the country, social and cultural provision of our people\".\n\nSeparately, US and UN observers raised concerns over the fate of civilians in Ukraine as the war continues.\n\nA senior UN human rights official said the organisation was concerned about the displacement of people in Ukraine - and particularly the fate of children.\n\n\"There have been credible allegations of forced transfers of unaccompanied children to Russian-occupied territory, or to the Russian Federation itself,\" warned Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights.\n\nHer agency is concerned that Russia has created \"a simplified procedure\" to provide those children with Russian citizenship, and potentially have them adopted into Russian families, she said.\n\nSuch moves would breach the Geneva Convention, she added.\n\nThe US, also on Wednesday, said it was concerned about a similar forced movement of Ukrainians - but of adults.\n\nThe State Department accused the Kremlin of having lists of Ukrainians to be forced into areas of the country under Russian control as part of what it calls \"filtration operations\".\n\n\"Filtration is a dehumanising word, describing a massive campaign that the Kremlin has launched to imprison, to forcibly deport or disappear those Ukrainian citizens Moscow decides could be a potential threat,\" spokesman Vedant Patel said.\n\n\"Victims of filtration are given no choice but to submit or face dire consequences.\"\n\nHe described the system as a large-scale and advanced operation involving technology such as facial recognition and phone tracking - and said the US had evidence linking Kremlin officials to the project.\n\nHowever, Russia's UN Ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, said Ukrainians travelling to Russia merely went through a registration procedure.", "Liz Truss pledged to \"crack down\" on Mark Drakeford's \"negativity\" during her leadership campaign\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford made his feelings towards Boris Johnson abundantly clear after a meeting with the former prime minister in 2020.\n\nWith the cameras rolling, an S4C documentary recorded him saying: \"Dear me, he really, really is awful.\"\n\nThe aside gave a clear indication of how Mr Johnson was viewed in Welsh government HQ.\n\nDuring his time in office the relationship between Cathays Park and Downing Street was frosty, with long-running tensions over Brexit, post-EU funding and the best way to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAnd months would go by without the two leaders sharing a conversation.\n\nSo can we expect things to improve with Liz Truss now occupying No 10?\n\n\"Much there will depend on the kind of relationship that the new prime minister wants to have,\" said Prof Richard Wyn Jones from the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University.\n\n\"During the Johnson premiership that relationship was very, very poor.\n\n\"Does Liz Truss want to reset, or is she going to continue with this rather aggressive attitude which actually she showed during the campaign?\"\n\nAt the leadership hustings in Cardiff at the beginning of August, Ms Truss described Mr Drakeford as a \"low-energy version of Jeremy Corbyn\".\n\nShe also accused him of being \"ashamed of our history\" and vowed to \"crack down on his negativity about Wales and about the United Kingdom\".\n\nEarlier in the campaign she had described Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as an \"attention-seeker\", and pledged to \"ignore\" her.\n\nBut - more diplomatically - the new prime minister has committed to working with the Welsh government to develop economic opportunities in Wales.\n\n\"There's an old saying isn't there: you campaign in poetry and you govern in prose,\" said former Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones.\n\n\"You say one thing to energise people, and then when you need to deliver you get cracking.\n\n\"When Liz Truss gets a mandate of her own from the electorate, as both Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford have, then perhaps she can take whatever attitude she wants towards them.\n\n\"She was only elected by the Conservative Party, the Scottish and Welsh governments were elected by the people of those countries and that of course means there should respect for both those countries from Liz Truss.\n\n\"The worst possible thing that any UK government can do is try to run all over Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\"\n\nA commitment by Liz Truss to back an M4 relief road could irritate Welsh ministers\n\nMr Jones also acknowledges that the Welsh government has a responsibility to help build a constructive relationship.\n\nFollowing Ms Truss' leadership victory the first minister tweeted his congratulations, adding that \"we now need to work together, with urgency\" to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nMr Drakeford's comments were \"good to see\", according to the Conservative MS for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Sam Kurtz.\n\n\"An arm of friendship is being extended and I hope there will be cooperation now.\n\n\"Of course they're going to disagree on political matters but it's important they can cooperate on the issues that are so important at the moment.\n\n\"With the challenges ahead, the cost of living crisis and the hard winter to come, the relationship must get better.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Liz Saville Roberts says the UK government has lacked respect for ministers in Wales\n\nBut according to Mr Kurtz's boss in the Senedd, the Tory group leader Andrew RT Davies, Mark Drakeford \"needs to recognise that we are one country - the UK, Wales, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland pulling together in the face of economic pressures that all households are facing\".\n\nHe added: \"The Welsh government and Mark Drakeford need to get on with dealing with the pressures in our NHS, delivering on the education system and delivering on our economy in Wales, rather than having political, constitutional battles with the government here in Westminster.\"\n\nHowever constitutional wrangling is likely to continue, and Ms Truss's commitment during her campaign to press ahead with the M4 relief road scheme - scrapped by ministers in Cardiff - is one example of how the Welsh government's patience could be tested.\n\nPlaid Cymru believe that when it comes to devolution Ms Truss' government will seek to \"turn back the clock\".\n\nThe party's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, said she would like to see \"far greater respect\" between the UK government and the Welsh government.\n\nHowever, the \"lack of respect\" shown by some in Westminster towards devolution \"does not bode well for any form of nation-building\", she warned.\n\nWelsh Secretary Robert Buckland could help improve relations between London and Cardiff\n\nProf Richard Wyn Jones suggested that for electoral reasons Ms Truss' government may decide to turn away from the \"muscular unionism\" strategy of recent years.\n\n\"The polls now are so negative for them, especially in Wales, that you might have thought that they might want to rethink and try and rebuild some of their support in Wales.\"\n\nSir Robert Buckland, re-appointed this week as Welsh secretary, will have a key role to play in building the relationship between the two administrations.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Wednesday his relationship with Sir Robert was \"off to a reasonable start\".\n\n\"I think he is a better appointment than certainly some of the ones we've had in the past,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"He will genuinely try to build bridges if he's allowed to by Liz Truss.\"", "The pound has plummeted to its lowest level against the US dollar since 1985.\n\nSterling fell 0.64% to $1.145 on Wednesday afternoon - a level not seen in 37 years.\n\nThe Bank of England said a weaker outlook for the UK economy as well as a stronger dollar were putting pressure on sterling.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey also warned that little could be done to stop the UK falling into a recession this year as the war in Ukraine continued.\n\nHe added that it would \"overwhelmingly be caused by the actions of Russia and the impact on energy prices\".\n\nThe Bank expects the economy to shrink in the last three months of 2022 and keep shrinking until the end of 2023.\n\nThe warning comes ahead of a government plan to limit a sharp rise in energy bills.\n\nIt is understood that a typical energy bill could be capped at around £2,500, with new Prime Minister Liz Truss set to announce the details on Thursday.\n\nCurrently, a typical household's gas and electricity bill is due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 in October.\n\nEnergy prices climbed sharply when lockdown was lifted and the economy started to return to normal. They have increased further as Russia sharply cut its gas supplies to Europe.\n\nIt has pushed up the price of gas across the continent, including in the UK, having a huge knock-on effect on consumers.\n\nSpeaking in front of the Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday, Mr Bailey said \"sadly\" a recession remained the most likely outcome in the UK.\n\nWhen asked by MPs if there was much that the central bank could do to stop it, he said: \"Insofar as the war is having this huge effect, the answer to that would be no.\"\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said a recession would \"overwhelmingly be caused by the actions of Russia and the impact on energy prices\".\n\nThe Bank predicted a UK recession last month as it raised interest rates by the highest margin in 27 years in a bid to keep soaring prices under control.\n\nHigher interest rates can make borrowing more expensive, meaning people have less money to spend and prices will stop rising as quickly. But there is a limit as to how effective UK rate rises can be when inflation is caused by global issues.\n\nDefending its recent moves, Mr Bailey added: \"The person going to put the UK in recession is Vladimir Putin, not the MPC [Monetary Policy Committee].\"\n\nHe said the Bank would take the new prime minister's energy plan announcement \"into account\" when deciding on interest rates next week.\n\nDuring her campaign, Ms Truss hit out at the Bank of England, accusing it of being slow to react to rising prices and protect vulnerable households.\n\nBut on Wednesday, the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng reiterated his \"full support for the independent Bank of England and their mission to control inflation, which is central to tackling cost of living challenges\".\n\nHe also said he and Mr Bailey would meet twice a week from now on to discuss the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nOther economists also expect the UK to fall into a recession despite Ms Truss's energy support plan - albeit a shorter and less severe one.\n\nBut some suggested on Wednesday that plans to cap energy bills could mean that increases in the cost of living will peak earlier and be \"significantly lower\" than previously forecast.\n\nThe cost of living is rising at its fastest rate in 40 years, at 10.1%, with food, fuel and energy prices all up.\n\nInvestment bank Goldman Sachs said a cap on bills for households could see inflation, which tracks how the cost of living changes over time, peak at 10.8% in October, rather than the 14.8% it forecast before. It then expects inflation to slow to 2.4% by December 2023.\n\nDeutsche Bank, HSBC and the Bank of England's own chief economist, Huw Pill, also believe the plan could slow price rises.\n\nBut there is uncertainty around what exactly the plan will look like and what would happen once any cap is lifted.\n\nMr Pill also said it was too soon to say how it might affect interest rates, which have gone up for the last six months in a row as the Bank tries to calm prices.\n\nOthers say that capping energy prices at their current level would still leave many people struggling.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, four in 10 adults who pay energy bills are already finding it \"very or somewhat difficult to afford them\".\n\nAnd the End Fuel Poverty Coalition pressure group estimates that if the energy price cap is frozen at £2,500 this October, 6.9 million UK households will still be in fuel poverty this winter - up from 4.6 million last winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Worried about energy bills? The BBC's Colletta Smith tells you - in a minute - about four discounts and payments that could help\n\nThere are also concerns about the cost of Ms Truss's plan, with research firm Capital Economics describing the support package as an \"effective but expensive sticking plaster\".\n\nMany expect the government to borrow at least £100bn, adding to the UK's already-high debt pile. This would come as Ms Truss attempts to push through a promised £30bn of tax cuts.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chancellor said higher borrowing will be \"necessary\" in the short term to help people with bills.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC's Today programme: \"The big question here is: 'Is it going to be £100bn? What is the exit strategy from supporting bills?'\n\n\"My guess is it might end up being an awful lot more than that unless we react quite quickly to make it a better [energy] system,\" he said, adding that the plan would benefit affluent people more than the less well off.\n\nOn the other side of the House of Commons just before the PMQs battle, was perhaps the more important Commons appearance. Governor Andrew Bailey and his team, confirming that there was not much they can do to stop a recession, blaming it on the Kremlin, and acknowledging that the UK is facing an historically unprecedented energy shock. It is heading to be three or four times worse for households than the hit to incomes in the 1970s' oil shock.\n\nAt the same time the Bank welcomed the end of the summer uncertainty over energy bills, and anticipate that it will be big enough to prevent inflation spiralling higher. However Governor Bailey also acknowledged there were specific UK factors driving jittery markets, in addition to the strong dollar, especially the UK's extra reliance on gas. As Chief Economist Huw Pill put it, that dependence is not going to change quickly, so the only real question is \"who covers that cost?\". With sterling falling again today, to a 37 year low against the dollar, there are concerns in the markets that the PM and Chancellor will hope to contain tomorrow.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: From the scene of Canada stabbings suspect arrest\n\nThe suspect in a stabbing spree in Canada which left 10 people dead and 19 injured has died after being captured by police.\n\nMyles Sanderson, 32, experienced \"medical distress\" after the arrest on a motorway in the province of Saskatchewan following a high-speed chase and died later, police say.\n\nThey gave no details. An unnamed official earlier said that Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries.\n\nThree are in a critical condition.\n\nIt is not clear what prompted Sunday's mass killings which encompassed 13 separate crime scenes. Both suspects - Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien, 31 - are dead.\n\nMost of those killed in the rampage - and the suspects themselves - were from the James Smith Cree Nation, an indigenous community.\n\nPolice found Damien's body on Monday and are investigating whether his brother killed him.\n\n\"This evening our province is breathing a collective sigh of relief,\" Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said on Wednesday night.\n\nShe said police had received a report earlier in the day of Myles Sanderson stealing a vehicle from outside a property. The householder was not injured during the theft.\n\nPolice gave pursuit as Sanderson fled at speeds of 150km/h (93mph).\n\nThey forced his vehicle into a ditch and officers found a knife in it as they arrested him, said the police chief.\n\nHe was taken into custody at around 15:30 local time (22:30 BST) and taken to a hospital in Saskatoon, where he was pronounced dead, she added.\n\nNews of Sanderson's capture came soon after an alert was sent to Canadian mobile phone users warning people near the town of Wakaw to \"seek immediate shelter/shelter in place\" because a man armed with a knife had been seen driving a stolen white Chevrolet Avalanche in the area.\n\nCBC News reports that Sanderson had broken into a woman's rural property at around 14:00 local time on Wednesday.\n\nThe woman spotted Sanderson walking up to her front door, so she locked it and took refuge in a bathroom in her bedroom, her son told the Canadian broadcaster.\n\nSanderson kicked down the front door and went into the bedroom, telling the woman he would not hurt her and asking her to come with him, but she refused, according to her son.\n\nThe suspect took the woman's car keys, along with her mobile phone, water and a soft drink and cigarettes, the son said. The woman called police through a landline, reports CBC.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the parents of the brothers had appealed for their surviving son to turn himself in.\n\n\"I want to apologise for my son, my sons,\" their mother said in an interview with CBC News.\n\n\"We don't know the whole story, but I want to apologise to everybody that was hurt and affected by this terrible situation.\"\n\nMyles Sanderson had been facing charges of first-degree murder.\n\nCanada's parole board said on Tuesday that it would review why he had been released early from prison while serving a four-year sentence for several violent crimes.\n\nIn February, the board said he would \"not present an undue risk\" and that his release would \"contribute to the protection of society\" by facilitating his rehabilitation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSaskatoon police earlier confirmed they had been searching for Myles Sanderson since May, when he stopped meeting his assigned caseworker and was classified as \"unlawfully at large\".\n\nParole documents show he had a decades-long criminal record, including 59 criminal convictions since he was 18 for assault, threats and robbery.\n\nAccording to court papers, Sanderson had stabbed two of the victims killed in Sunday's rampage - his in-laws, Earl Burns and Joyce Burns - seven years earlier.\n\n\"I want to know the reasons behind the [parole] decision,\" Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told reporters. \"I'm extremely concerned by what occurred here.\"\n\nAt an emotional news conference on Wednesday, relatives of the victims spoke of their \"horror\".\n\nMark Arcand, chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council, said his sister, Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns, died protecting her three children.\n\n\"One of the young boys was hiding behind a highchair watching the whole thing happen,\" he said.", "The group of women worked together to find out the identity of this man, who subjected them to brutal interrogations\n\nA Russian police officer's takeaway food order was the breakthrough clue which helped a group of women, who had been terrorised by him, reveal his true identity. For the first time, a BBC investigation tells the story of how they tracked him down.\n\nThe women, mostly aged between 19 and 25, had attended a rally in Moscow in March against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They were quickly rounded up by officers and put in the back of a police van.\n\nMost of them didn't know each other, but despite the circumstances the atmosphere was upbeat. They even set up a Telegram group chat as they travelled across the city to Brateyevo police station.\n\nWhat happened next was far worse than they anticipated.\n\nOver the next six hours they suffered verbal and physical abuse that, in some cases, amounted to torture - one woman says she was repeatedly starved of oxygen when a plastic bag was put over her head.\n\nMarina (top right) and Anastasia (bottom right) - and in the police van (left)\n\nThe abuse was carried out by the same unnamed plain-clothes officer - tall, athletic, dressed in a black polo neck. In their group chat, they gave him the nickname the \"man in black\".\n\nTwo of the women, Marina and Alexandra, secretly recorded audio on their phones. In one, the officer can be heard shouting about his \"total impunity\".\n\nBut if his aim was to intimidate them into silence, he would fail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to the “man in black” shouting insults at Marina and Alexandra while he assaults them\n\nAfter their release, the women discussed on the Telegram group how they could work out who he was.\n\n\"If we just kept on living like it didn't happen, if we just published the [recordings] and laid low… most likely, they would think they can do it again and that they would be completely unpunished,\" says 22-year-old student Marina.\n\nHis image was seared in their memories, but they could find no sign of him on police websites. And with no name to go on, social media was a dead end. After more than a fortnight of searching, they were close to giving up.\n\nAnd then the women had a breakthrough.\n\nIn late March, there was a massive data leak from the popular Russian food delivery app Yandex Food. The group had an idea.\n\nThey began raking through the data to see if there had been any orders to Brateyevo police station over the past year. They discovered there had - by nine different customers. Could one of them have been the \"man in black\"?\n\nMost of the Yandex data only included first names and a phone number. The group of women used these to find several social media profiles for staff at the police station, but no photos resembled their interrogator.\n\nFinally they came to one of the last names on the list: Ivan. A popular Russian name, so one of the most difficult to pin down. Ivan's phone number, however, did reveal a trail online - six classified adverts from the Russian trading website Avito.ru. But most of the adverts only gave them the information they already knew - a first name.\n\nOne, however - for a Skoda Rapid car sold 10 minutes' drive from Brateyevo police station, posted in 2018 - included the seller's full name: Ivan Ryabov.\n\nWith a surname, they could search for a picture. And almost immediately, 19-year-old Anastasia came across one she recognised.\n\n\"I started crying. I could not believe… that I managed to do it.\"\n\nShe sent the picture to Marina, Alexandra, and others in the Telegram group, who agreed they had found their \"man in black\".\n\nThey hope this will finally prompt the authorities to open a criminal investigation.\n\nThe audio recordings give a chilling insight into the women's abuse.\n\nRyabov can be heard telling Marina to answer his questions before \"I take off my boot and smash you on the head with it.\"\n\nFor 14 minutes, Marina says she was shouted at and kicked by Ryabov - a pistol in her face.\n\nBBC Eye Investigations tells the story of how these young Russian women came together to expose the identity of their torturer and his commanding officer.\n\nAnastasia, waiting outside, remembers hearing the sound of screaming and blows. When she, too, refused to co-operate with the questioning, she says Ryabov beat her over the head with a water bottle, emptied its contents over her, and then pulled a plastic bag over her soaking head where he held it against her nose and mouth for 30-40 seconds at a time.\n\n\"You think to yourself - how much longer can I take this?\" she says.\n\nAlexandra, 26, also managed to record her abuse, and in her audio we hear Ryabov boast of his total impunity. \"You think we're going to get in trouble for this? Putin told us to kill all of [your type]. That's it! Putin's on our side!\"\n\nHe then threatens to kill her himself, adding: \"And then they'll give me a bonus for it too.\"\n\nAt least 11 of the detainees say they experienced physical abuse at the hands of the \"man in black\".\n\nWhen the women publicly released the audio recorded on their phones earlier this year, one Russian politician called for action - but the country's Investigative Committee deemed there to be \"insufficient evidence\" to warrant opening a criminal investigation into the case.\n\nThe women also wanted to know who had authority over Ryabov that day - and why that person wasn't stopped.\n\nAnastasia had always felt another man - who the women dubbed the \"man in beige\" - was in charge that evening. Though he wasn't present inside Room 103 - where the women were terrorised - \"all communication took place through him\", she says.\n\nOne of the detainees had secretly filmed him in the station waiting room. But the shaky video wasn't much to go on.\n\nA grab from the video of the \"man in beige\"\n\nThe BBC obtained an arrest report from 6 March, which was signed by the police station's acting head: Lieutenant Colonel AG Fedorinov.\n\nWe then found a local newspaper report from 2012 which mentions an Alexander Georgievich Fedorinov, with an accompanying photograph which seemed to match his image.\n\nBut because the photo was 10 years old, the BBC used facial recognition software to double-check - and found images matching the \"man in beige\" in the video were linked to a social media account in the name of Alexander Fedorinov. That same account was tagged in an online advert for job vacancies at Brateyevo police station.\n\nThe BBC put the allegations - that police officer Ivan Ryabov initiated and participated in the abuse of detainees, and that this abuse in some cases amounted to torture - to both Ryabov and Fedorinov, and to Russia's Investigative Committee. There was no response.\n\nBy uncovering the identity of their abuser, Marina, Anastasia and Alexandra hope that some form of justice and accountability will emerge.\n\n\"We want to make… it possible for the law to affect them,\" says Marina. \"No one can do this to another person, even if he is a government official.\"", "Pharmacists will be able to sell the tablets over the counter\n\nWomen experiencing vaginal dryness as a result of the menopause can now buy a treatment over the counter in the UK.\n\nEstradiol tablets, sold under the brand name Gina10, were previously offered on prescription only.\n\nThey will be available to women over the age of 50 who have not had a period for more than a year, as part of hormone replacement therapy treatment (HRT).\n\nPharmacists have been offered training to identify who needs the tablets.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) made the decision as part of a strategy to make menopause treatment more accessible for women.\n\nEstradiol tablets treat vaginal symptoms caused by a lack of oestrogen, such as dryness, soreness, itching, burning and uncomfortable sex.\n\nThe product is inserted into the vagina rather than taken by mouth.\n\nMHRA chief healthcare quality and access officer Dr Laura Squire called the move a \"landmark reclassification for millions of women in the UK\".\n\n\"In reaching this decision, we have seen positive support from a wide range of people, including many women aged 50 years and above who could benefit from this decision,\" she said.\n\nThe MHRA hopes the move will relieve pressure on front-line NHS services and give women more freedom in choosing treatments that work for them.\n\nDr Paula Briggs, a consultant in sexual and reproductive health at Liverpool Women's Hospital, said 50-80% of women going through the menopause experienced vaginal dryness but often put it down to ageing.\n\n\"Yet it can be easily treated. Most women can use this new treatment and they should be offered it routinely,\" she said.\n\nThere has been a number of issues with HRT supplies during the past few months, and emergency measures were brought in such as prescribing limits and swaps.\n\nMadelaine McTernan was brought in to oversee a government taskforce to deal with distribution but has now returned to her original role overseeing vaccines ahead of an autumn Covid booster rollout.\n\nThe government says supply issues have improved but stock of about 12 products, including some gels and creams, remains low.\n\nWomen unable to obtain HRT medication have reported migraines, back pain and hot flushes, with some turning to the black market to find the treatments they need.", "This is the moment history stops; for a minute, an hour, for a day or a week; this is the moment history stops.\n\nAcross a life and reign, two moments from two very different eras illuminate the thread that bound the many decades together. At each a chair, a desk, a microphone, a speech. In each, that high-pitched voice, those clipped precise vowels, that slight hesitation about public speaking that would never quite seem to leave her.\n\nOne moment is sun-dappled, though the British people were suffering through a terrible post-war winter. A young woman, barely more than a girl really, sits straight-backed, her dark hair pulled up, two strings of pearls around her neck. Her youthful skin is flawless, she is very beautiful. A life opens out ahead of her.\n\nShe pledges that life to her audience around the world. She tells them: \"I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone.\" And she asks for their company in the years to come.\n\nTwo moments from two eras - the Queen makes a broadcast on her 21st birthday, top, and on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe\n\nThe other speech is more formal. More than seven decades later, on the 75th anniversary of the day the war in Europe ended, she sits behind a desk, a picture of her father, the late King, in uniform, to her right.\n\nHer hair - still pulled up - is white now. She wears a blue dress, two brooches, three strings of pearls. The many decades have left their mark, but her eyes still sparkle and her voice is still clear. The desk is practically empty but for the photo and to the right, in the foreground, a dark khaki cap, with a badge on its front.\n\n\"All had a part to play,\" she says of a long-ago war.\n\nThe cap belonged to Second Subaltern Windsor, of the Auxiliary Territorial Service; the young Princess Elizabeth nagged her adoring father to allow her to join, so she could serve in uniform, even as the war that defined her - and for many decades her nation - drew to an end. Now, 75 years on, the cap has pride of place as she speaks to the nation on the anniversary of a great and heroic victory.\n\nService to the UK military - inspecting Grenadier Guards in 1952, and RAF crews in 1957\n\nThe cap is a simple reminder of what she admired most - service: the service she offered that golden day decades beforehand, the service she saw in her formative years as nation, Commonwealth and Empire gave life and limb so that others could be free; the service that she believed lay at the heart of the Crown she inherited and devoted her long life to.\n\nThree decades on from that vow of service, she would allow herself a rare moment of public introspection; \"Although that vow was made 'in my salad days when I was green in judgement',\" she told the Guildhall on her Silver Jubilee, \"I do not regret or retract one word of it.\"\n\nOver the decades she spoke little, and revealed even less, about herself in public. She - a child of the broadcast age - never gave an interview. Once or twice she would be filmed \"in conversation\" with a trusted friend, talking amicably about something uncontroversial, like the royal jewellery collection.\n\nHer words would be scoured for a hint of controversy or an opening into her character. But she was too careful - and her friends too loyal - for anything important to slip out.\n\nShe did not neglect the medium that came of age as she did. It was her decision to allow her coronation to be televised, her decision to televise the Christmas Broadcast, her decision to speak live to the nation after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. \"I have to be seen to be believed,\" she would say.\n\nService to the nation - being crowned in 1953, and with then Prime Minister Edward Heath at a concert in 1973\n\nBroadcast and newspaper coverage, the endless pictures of her in well-chosen gowns and dresses - these were part of what it was to be Queen, part of the job she had pledged her life to. Talking about her feelings publicly was not.\n\nAnd she came from a generation - and from a nation - that did not feel the need to share its feelings. The nation would change. She would not.\n\nHere fate and character would collide. It was her fate to take the Crown as the country moved into far-reaching change. But the Queen was open about her liking for tradition, for the ways things had always been done, and her dislike of change.\n\nHer heart was in the countryside, and there, with horses and dogs and amongst those who loved animals as she did, was the reassurance of a place that changed incrementally, if at all.\n\n\"I find that one of the sad things,\" she would say in the late 1980s, is \"that people don't take on jobs for life, they try different things the whole time.\"\n\nMonarch and monarchy fitted hand-in-glove; a sovereign who relished tradition leading an institution established upon it.\n\nA life-long love of the countryside - in Windsor Great Park with Prince Charles and Princess Anne in 1956, and with Prince Philip at a farm on the Balmoral Estate in Scotland in 1972\n\nBeyond the palace gates, a whirlwind of change would transform Britain. She came to the throne at a tipping point in British history. Victorious in - but exhausted by - war, the country was no longer a global, military or economic power.\n\nThe rise of trade unions, the collective provision of services and the creation of a universal welfare state signalled a sea-change in the organisation of state and economy. The stately withdrawal from Empire became a hurried exit.\n\nAs her reign progressed, the old order - Church and aristocracy, the gradations of class and knowing your place - crumbled. Financial success and celebrity overtook accident of birth as a measure of societal achievement.\n\nConsumer goods - fridges, washing machines, televisions and vacuum cleaners - transformed homes and social lives. Women joined the workforce; old working-class communities were swept away with the slums that housed them; a society once cohesive and homogeneous became mobile, atomised and diverse, uprooted from old certainties and loyalties.\n\nThere was some change at the Palace too, especially early in the reign - the end of the debutante \"season\" would mean the daughters of the \"best\" families would no longer be presented at court, fresh faces were seen among those invited to lunch and dinner, and television meant Britons could see their Queen and how she lived - first for the Christmas broadcast, then for a full-length documentary in the late 1960s.\n\nBut this was change with a very small \"c\"; as her seventh decade on the throne drew to a close, the rhythm of the monarchy remained one which would be recognisable from the first, one which her father or even her grandfather would be unsurprised by: Christmas and New year at Sandringham, Easter at Windsor, the long summer break in Balmoral, Trooping the Colour, Royal Ascot, the Investitures, the Changing of the Guard, Remembrance Sunday.\n\nChanging times - riding the London Underground in 1969, and preparing to deliver her televised Christmas message in 1967, the first to be delivered in colour\n\nWhen change pressed in all around, she resisted. Her fate was to inherit the crown as the country stood on the cusp of change, and to reign as change swirled around the palace. Her character dictated that she would not change with it, would not bend to fashion. That resistance, that deep appreciation - love, even - of tradition, was her greatest strength, and led to perhaps her greatest test and gravest crisis, as her family unravelled.\n\nFamily always came second to the Crown. When her first two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, were little more than toddlers, they were left behind - as she and her sister Princess Margaret had been left behind by their parents two decades earlier - as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh went on a six-month world tour.\n\nShe was not an unfeeling mother, but she was a remote one. The Crown and its responsibilities had come to her when she was just 25, and she took those responsibilities very seriously. Many decisions about the children were delegated to the duke.\n\nThree of her four children's marriages would end in divorce. She believed in marriage, it was part of her Christian faith and her understanding of what knitted society together. \"Divorce and separation,\" she once said, \"are responsible for some of the darkest evils in our society today.\"\n\nNo doubt that view, held by many in the late 1940s, mellowed as the years went by. But no parent relishes seeing their child's marriage fail. The Queen's self-proclaimed \"annus horribilis\" in 1992 saw the separation of the Duke and Duchess of York, the divorce of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips and the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"A low point in her life,\" wrote one biographer, not because of what had led to the rare public admission of tough times, \"but because of the lack of gratitude, even derision, with which her 40 years of dedication appeared to have been crowned.\"\n\nHer first decade had passed in a dazzle of adulation, at home and abroad. Vast crowds turned out for her on international tours. Back home, some proclaimed a new Elizabethan Age, although the Queen was clever enough to immediately disavow it.\n\nFamily time and personal loss - with Prince Philip and their four children in 1972, and looking at fire damage to Windsor Castle in 1992\n\nThe 1960s saw a slow cooling off - the Queen was more involved with her family, the novelty of a new monarch had passed, the generation of the post-war baby boom now coming of age was gripped by different passions than their parents. The 1970s and 80s saw no let-up in her service, but the focus of some Royalty enthusiasts - and the media - shifted to her children, their marriages and their partners.\n\nBy the mid-90s, the monarchy seemed to some to be out of touch with the popular mood; in the newspaper comment columns there was direct criticism of the Queen, and contemplation of the monarchy's future. Her reign at times seemed associated with another epoch. What was her place - and the monarchy's - in the new \"Cool Britannia\" and the informal style embraced by Tony Blair? How did the Palace - repository of tradition - fit in with the popular demand for change expressed in Labour's crushing election victory?\n\nJust months after that victory, one hot August night in Paris, came the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. A broiling carpet of flowers soon stretched out in front of Kensington Palace. The flag-pole above Buckingham Palace remained bare. Many in the nation found themselves desolate at the loss of the Princess.\n\n\"Show us you care, Ma'am\" bayed the Daily Express headline. \"Where is our Queen? Where is her flag?\" demanded the Sun. For five long days, the Queen remained in Balmoral, seemingly unaware of the spasm sweeping parts of the country. Perhaps, as the Palace would brief afterwards, it was to protect and console the young Princes William and Harry.\n\nBut given her character, that deep dislike of change appears to have driven the decisions taken at the time; Balmoral was not to be interrupted, no flag ever flew from Buckingham Palace in her absence, the Royal Standard never flew at half-mast.\n\nIt was a terrible misjudgement. She hurried back to the capital, back to Buckingham Palace. She stopped to look at the flowers piling up all around. \"We were not confident,\" one former official told a biographer, \"that when the Queen got out of the car, she would not be hissed and jeered.\" It was that bad.\n\nJoy and tragedy - the Queen with Prince Charles and his then-fiancée Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, and with Prince Philip among the floral tributes following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997\n\nShe had refused to broadcast at first, then yielded, then agreed to speak live. She spoke to the nation, just before the BBC Six O'clock news. She - who had once driven broadcast executives to despair with her wooden delivery - barely had time to prepare.\n\nHer performance was flawless, her speech brief but perfectly pitched. She spoke of \"lessons to be learned\"; she spoke \"as a grandmother\"; she spoke of the \"determination to cherish\" Diana's memory.\n\nIt was a triumph, pulled from the jaws of deep crisis. The poison swirling around the Royal Family, around the Palace and around the very institution of the monarchy, was drawn. Once in her reign - just once - fate and character had collided with near-disastrous consequences.\n\nThey would combine more happily in the Queen's international role. By the time of her death, she had not toured for many years. But for decades she was not only a global celebrity like no other, but also a subtle instrument of influence.\n\nNothing would compare to the first dazzling decade of her reign, before television made her image commonplace and her tours accessible from the living room. On her long 1954 tour of Australia, two-thirds of the country is thought to have turned out to see her; in 1961 two million people lined the road from the airport to the Indian capital Delhi; in Calcutta three-and-half million would stand and wait to see the daughter of the last Emperor.\n\nFate would dictate that she would oversee the long twilight of Empire, though not once did the Queen attend a flag-lowering ceremony. Many times in the 1950s and 60s, a member of the Royal Family would stand as the Union flag came down over a former colony, the national anthem playing one last time.\n\nA determination that something should emerge from the imperial family which she had pledged to serve, would mean that she would build a new association on the ashes of Britain's imperial legacy.\n\nIn palaces and houses dotted across the capital and the country, lived her blood family. Across the world was spread her territorial family - a group of wildly diverse nations, vast and tiny, rich and impoverished, republics and monarchies - that she charmed and cajoled and nudged to remember what bound them together, and what together they might achieve.\n\nInternational tours were taken on behalf of the government of the day; they were tools of foreign policy - if not explicitly, then on the understanding that the Queen's influence would be beneficial to the relationships between Britain and the places she visited.\n\nIt looked glamorous - the Royal Yacht, the Queen's Flight, banquets and galas - and before international air travel became commonplace, it was an extraordinary experience. But it was always hard work, long days and weeks of receptions, exhibitions, openings, lunches with officials, state dinners and speeches given and listened to patiently. Those who have observed a royal tour find it hard to imagine it is any fun for those at the heart of it.\n\nA global role - with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in at the waterfall where the Nile begins, in 1965, and greeted coming off the royal yacht Britannia by the Emir of Bahrain in 1979\n\nShe would rarely take a holiday outside the UK - travelling abroad meant work. Her foreign travel would mark the step-changes in Britain's relationship with the places she visited: post-war Germany in 1965; a liberalising China in 1986; Russia in 1994, once the regime that had murdered her relatives had been swept away.\n\nA trip to post-apartheid South Africa in 1995 she would call: \"One of the most outstanding experiences of my life\". President Nelson Mandela replied: \"One of the most unforgettable moments in our history.\"\n\nAnd no visit marked and sealed a changed relationship more than her trip to Ireland in 2011. Not for a century had a British monarch been to the south. When her grandfather had visited in 1911 the island of Ireland was one, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Violent revolt, partition and independence would follow.\n\nAfter World War Two came acts of violence against the existence of the partition border and then, for 30 terrible years, a brutal terrorist campaign in Northern Ireland and Britain against British rule, with harsh acts of repression by the British government which polarised opinion in the Republic.\n\nThere was never a right time for a royal visit, because of the distrust across the narrow stretch of water which separates Britain and Ireland. With the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and the establishment of a power-sharing assembly, came the end of Ireland's constitutional claim to the six counties that make up Northern Ireland.\n\nOn her state visit, extended by the Queen's wish, there was no escaping history. In the Garden of Remembrance, in the centre of Georgian Dublin, where all who fought for Ireland's independence are remembered and honoured, she laid a wreath and, unscripted and spontaneous, bowed her head to the men and women who had fought against British rule, an electrifying moment.\n\nAt dinner she would open her speech in the Irish language, winning nearly every Irish heart. In that speech she spoke the language, if not the words, of apology; \"With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can all see things which we wish had been done differently, or not at all.\"\n\nBefore the Ireland state visit one biographer would write that \"it was difficult to point to major achievements\" in her reign. That judgement would not hold afterwards. The four days of pitch-perfect words and actions helped sweep away centuries of ill-will and distrust. Perhaps no greater single service did the Queen give her Crown, or her country.\n\nIreland had haunted so many of her prime ministers. Her first, Winston Churchill, had spoken of the \"dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone\" rising again after World War One to bedevil British politics. One of her last, Boris Johnson, would grapple with the implications of the border within the island, and how to square that with the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nAll had the benefit of her ear, her experience, her perspective on British and world history. Her job in the weekly audiences she shared with the prime minister of the day was not to lobby for any individual cause, or to try to sway a government one way or another. She was there to advise, to encourage and to warn.\n\nAnd she was there to listen. All her prime ministers could be entirely confident that nothing they told her would escape. So she was the one person to whom they could freely talk who truly understood the machinery of state. For so many prime ministers, so often embattled, this was also a relief, an escape from watching their back and holding their tongue when around colleagues and rivals.\n\n\"They unburden themselves to me or tell me what's going on,\" she would say mid-reign. \"If they've got any problems, sometimes one can help in that way too. I think it's…as if one's sort of a sponge.\"\n\nHere she was too self-deprecating. Almost nothing broke the confessional silence around those audiences, apart from praise for the extraordinary effort the Queen put into her work. The red boxes containing state papers - in Whitehall she was known as Reader No. 1 - went everywhere with her, to Balmoral, on tour, on the royal train, even winched aboard the Royal Yacht.\n\nFor three hours a day, her private secretary estimated in the early 1970s, she read Foreign Office telegrams, reports of parliamentary proceedings, ministerial memoranda and cabinet minutes.\n\nAnd she remembered what she read, sometimes catching her prime ministers out with her grasp and her recall. \"I was astonished,\" wrote Harold Macmillan \"at Her Majesty's grasp of all the details sent in messages and telegrams.\"\n\nPolitically neutral, diplomatically useful - alongside former and current prime ministers in 1985, and with then US President Ronald Reagan in 1983\n\nThe Crown's political role had dwindled to almost nothing by the time she came to the throne. Two areas of discretion - where she as monarch had a say - survived: who to call to become prime minister and form a government, and when Parliament could be dissolved.\n\nEarly in her reign, before the Conservatives started electing their leaders, she exercised her judgement, amid some controversy, as to who she would call to form a government when a Conservative prime minister resigned between general elections.\n\nBut once the Conservatives started electing their leaders, that judgement was no longer called for. And over the decades, the very idea of the Palace becoming involved in such a decision became alien to British politics. The talk around closely fought elections was of \"protecting\" the Palace from having to make political decisions over who to call to form a government if there were no decisive winner.\n\nThe Queen never had reason to deny a dissolution of Parliament, and it would have been an extraordinary act to do so. She well understood the tightly circumscribed role she had inherited.\n\nAnd the Crown's political voice was almost silent too. Much - too much, really - has been read into what one biographer calls the \"truism\" that she got on better with Labour leaders than their Conservative counterparts. For all the social difficulties there may have been with Margaret Thatcher, the Queen would attend her funeral, an honour bestowed on a prime minister only once before - Winston Churchill.\n\nHer personal political belief may well have leaned towards the centre; she came of age at the creation of that peacetime monument to wartime struggle, the National Health Service, and as the state extended its responsibilities for citizens' welfare and education. The strife of the early 1980s - rocketing unemployment, riots in the great cities, budget cuts and the miners' strike setting communities against each other - marked the end of one vision of Britain.\n\nAn over-enthusiastic briefing by a Palace press officer to the Sunday Times in 1986 suggested unhappiness with the direction of government policy and what he said the Queen saw as the corrosion of the post-war political consensus. It was a brief glimpse into the thinking of a sovereign who believed that one of her roles was to unify an increasingly divided and disparate nation.\n\nAnd twice she stepped - very gingerly - into the debate over Scottish independence, once in a speech in the 1970s and once just before the referendum of 2014. Was this too political? To some nationalists, yes. But it was hardly surprising that she would urge a little caution on those preparing to decide on the break-up of her kingdom.\n\nDid her conservative character drive the way she carried out her political role? Perhaps, to some degree. But the last monarch to involve himself in political matters was her grandfather George V. By the time she took the throne, the political role had fallen away. Her institutional fate was to be a cipher, someone who did the bidding of others. That she would have understood from the start. Here, fate and character walked hand in hand.\n\nIt was this avoidance of any political controversy as head of state, and her refusal to bend the monarchy to the winds of fashion, that enabled her to triumph in the role that would earn her the love and respect of so many, as head of nation.\n\nThis is the great unwritten role of modern monarchy. This is where, unprotected by tradition and unprepared by precedent, character alone drove her reign.\n\nFormal and informal - in a carriage on her way to the state opening of Parliament in 2002, and laughing with Prince Philip in 2014\n\nHer grandfather laid the foundations for a monarchy that served rather than ruled the nation, but spent much of his time blasting birds from the skies. Her father's reign was decided for him by fate: he was thrust into a role he did not expect and wore military uniform for much of his time as King.\n\nAfter catastrophe and criticism in the 1990s, the monarchy's fortunes rose again. As disillusionment followed the high hopes for political change, as cynicism became entrenched and political leaders derided, an uncontroversial and never-too-fashionable Queen became a figure of incorruptible continuity to a nation buffeted by change, disappointment and division.\n\nThis was the nation's reward for her endless patience, for her refusal to emote in public, to share her thoughts, to lean left or right, to involve herself in fashionable causes or respond to the slings and arrows hurled at her and her family over the many decades.\n\nShe remained apart from all that not because of hierarchy but because she - with a prescience that still rather astonishes - never engaged in the superficial of the day-to-day, the back and forth of modern life.\n\nShe understood that the rhythm of monarchy - the traditions and ceremonies, the births and the weddings and the deaths - provided a comfort to those sometimes bewildered by the uprooting of the past, and served as a reminder that the drumbeat of life was shared across class, age and circumstance.\n\nAnd she understood that not everything in national life had to have an explicit purpose, that for a conservative nation in the throes of near-ceaseless change, the continuity she represented in person and in office had a value beyond measure.\n\nShe, who with intuition beyond her years, pledged a life of service so many decades ago, made the monarchy the repository of much that the nation loved of itself.\n\nShe could do that because her character reflected much of what Britons like to think of as the best of themselves; modest, uncomplaining, thrifty, intelligent if not intellectual, sensible, feet-on-the-ground, unfussy, a dry sense of humour with a great big laugh, slow to anger and always well-mannered.\n\n\"I am the last bastion of standards,\" she once said. She was not boasting of better manners or finer etiquette than others. She was explaining her role and her life. It was her life and her work to be the best of Britain. This was the service she gave.", "\"Gasmageddon\" is bearing down on Europe this winter.\n\nIt may sound like the stuff of nightmares. But this is no science fiction.\n\nThe number of households facing energy poverty has doubled across the EU, according to financial services provider Allianz.\n\nGas shortages could drive up retail prices by 200%. Three-quarters of companies in the bloc's economic powerhouse, Germany, say they're experiencing \"severe strain\" from spiralling energy prices. In the UK, energy bills have gone up 80%.\n\nThe word \"recession\" is whispered everywhere.\n\nVladimir Putin is not only using conventional military weapons in Ukraine, he is also weaponising energy to try to intimidate the West, as he seeks to readjust the balance of power in Europe to Russia's favour.\n\nOn Wednesday, he railed: \"We will not supply anything at all if it is contrary to our interests. No gas, no oil, no coal, no fuel oil, nothing.\"\n\nSqueezing the EU had looked to the Kremlin like a piece of cake. The bloc relied on Russia for 40% of its gas and a third of its oil before Mr Putin invaded Ukraine. Big EU powers Germany and Italy were even more dependent.\n\nThe Russian president has been switching gas supplies on and off at whim for months and the colder months are fast approaching. Even countries traditionally less reliant on Russian energy, such as France, Spain and non-EU UK, are affected by the volatility and price hikes on the global energy markets.\n\nWith businesses threatened with bankruptcy and vulnerable voters facing a choice of paying for food or fuel this winter, political and social tensions have soared alongside prices.\n\nPrague saw mass demonstrations last weekend, with angry crowds protesting against the cost of living crisis and demanding an end to sanctions against Russia.\n\nBear in mind that the Czech Republic has, till now, always been hawkish towards Russia and outspoken about the need to defend Ukraine. But the economic pain at home is biting hard.\n\nAs they did at the start of the Covid crisis, EU countries tried to find their own, national, solutions.\n\nSpain slapped limits on air conditioning in public buildings and Germany tried to discourage people from using their cars by reducing fares on public transport, while in Italy, a Nobel prize-winning physicist sparked a furious cultural debate, suggesting people could cook pasta with the heat off to save energy and cost.\n\nA number of member states have hastily assembled financial packages to help struggling households and/or businesses. Their aim: both to reduce energy consumption and to keep costs down for consumers.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz has become fond of peppering his (German-language) news conference with the English words of the song You'll Never Walk Alone, popularised by Gerry and the Pacemakers.\n\nBut the focus now is on finding a European solution. And not a few EU figures, French President Emmanuel Macron included, have said they'd love the UK to be part of a plan. More on that later.\n\nThe drive for the common EU approach is manifold. In part, it comes from the same post-Covid crisis realisation that as part of a single market, when the economies of some member states suffer, it pulls everyone down.\n\nThere's also an appreciation that there's strength in numbers. Countries such as Italy and Germany have been busy trying to find alternative energy suppliers - in Algeria and the UAE, for example. But if the EU as a whole, with its economic clout, makes the energy deal, the conditions are likely to be more favourable.\n\n\"We have to achieve that we only pay the world market price, rather than a higher price,\" said Mr Scholz on Wednesday. His Belgian counterpart, Alexander De Croo, pointed out that gas prices in Europe are currently double those in Asia and 10 times as much as in the US.\n\nEU purchasing power would also avoid one member state trying to outbid another in their scramble for energy. Not a good look when it comes to EU unity.\n\nThere is, too, a very sincere desire in the EU to stop pouring energy money into Russia's war chest.\n\nIt's true, the majority of member states have drastically reduced their reliance on Russia by now. But as one very irritated EU diplomat pointed out to me, sky-high energy prices mean EU countries still pay almost the same daily amount of money to Moscow, although they currently receive so much less.\n\n\"Putin has to be roaring with laughter at us,\" he said.\n\nEU energy ministers have been summoned to an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday to discuss a raft of proposals to jointly combat the crisis.\n\n\"Russia is manipulating our energy markets,\" tweeted EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, \"[but] we have the economic strength, the political will and unity to keep the upper hand.\"\n\nEU countries have already reached agreements on reducing Russian oil imports and Russian gas reliance. The Commission established joint gas purchasing capabilities back in April and planned sufficient energy storage ahead of this winter.\n\nBut EU leaders are far from united in their priorities or energy planning. Unanimous or immediate agreement is unlikely on Friday. Germany is still iffy about capping Russian gas prices, for example. Poland wants all extra-EU gas sources to have a price cap.\n\nAnd there are other tricky issues such as if/when to decouple the gas and electricity markets (a similar debate rages in the UK) and how to ensure consumers understand the long-term need to change habits and consume less energy, even if governments intervene to keep prices lower.\n\nEuropean Green parties are also extremely uneasy about the EU rush to replace Russian fossil fuel supplies with others elsewhere.\n\nThe German Green Party is a senior government coalition partner. Its co-chair, Robert Habeck, is deputy prime minister and economics minister.\n\nHe's been travelling cap in hand to the United Arab Emirates, keen as keen for fossil fuel deals - an irony not lost on his opponents.\n\nGerman Green MEP Ska Keller admitted to me that yes, Green politicians had big plans, \"but then governing happens.\"\n\nShe insisted that polls in Germany indicate voters understand that the Greens are being \"responsible and pragmatic\" in a time of energy crisis, but that they haven't forgotten the climate emergency.\n\nEuropean Commission energy spokesman, Tim McPhie, is quick to underline when that it comes to energy, there are \"short-term fixes and longer term fixes\". The EU Green Deal and climate goals are a huge source of pride in Brussels.\n\nMr McPhie says long-term European security is not about replacing Russian gas with gas from somewhere else - it's about renewables' energy efficiency.\n\nAnd what about that invitation for UK co-operation on energy that I mentioned earlier, repeated to me again this week by the French Europe Minister, Laurence Boone?\n\nHer predecessor, Nathalie Loiseau, says that in these times of crisis, co-operation makes more sense than post-Brexit \"splendid isolation\".\n\nBut while it could make economic sense for the UK to join together with the EU to try to benefit from lower prices on the global market, new PM Liz Truss, even if tempted, might find that co-operation politically awkward with some parts of her Conservative party.\n\nThere is, though, an aspect of energy and the EU that Prime Minister Truss won't be able to ignore. And that's to do with Northern Ireland.\n\nThe island of Ireland has a single electricity market, interconnected to Great Britain, says Mary Starks, former director at GB energy regulator Ofgem, now energy specialist at Flint.\n\nBut the Republic of Ireland is an EU member state, theoretically subject to EU common energy regulations.\n\n\"So what this means for both Northern Ireland and the Republic will come into focus at some point,\" says Ms Starks.\n\nAnd if wholesale energy prices are successfully reduced on one side of the Channel, but not the other?\n\nMs Starks told me that normally, energy flows very freely across electricity and gas interconnectors, but if the EU, for example, managed to lower prices before the UK, then Brussels would \"need to take steps to ensure its cheaper power and gas did not 'leak' to the UK\".\n\nWhile Ms Starks says it would be highly unlikely that the EU would shut the interconnectors unilaterally, there would have to be some sort of regulation of trading and flows, in order to prevent leakage.\n\nAnd that would necessitate dialogue.", "Nick Brown MP has been administratively suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation into a complaint.\n\nHe is one of the party's longest-serving MPs but will now sit as an independent until reinstated.\n\nThe Newcastle upon Tyne East MP says he doesn't know the nature of the complaint but was co-operating with the investigation.\n\nMr Brown served as chief whip under five Labour leaders including Tony Blair, Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer.\n\nHis suspension from Labour Party membership will lead to the automatic precautionary suspension from the Parliamentary Labour Party in accordance with party rules.\n\nMr Brown was first elected as an MP in 1983 and went on to serve as a minister between 1997 and 2010.\n\nLast year, Labour adopted a new complaints process, set up in the wake of controversy over anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nA 2020 Equalities and Human Rights Commission report into how the claims were handled recommended that the party put in place \"long-term arrangements for independent oversight of the complaint handling process\".\n\nParty members backed creating this new system at its annual conference in 2021.", "The mother and father of 24-year-old Chris Kaba - who was shot dead by police in south London - have accused the Metropolitan Police of racism.\n\nChris Kaba was killed in a residential street in Streatham Hill on Monday night following a police chase.\n\nThe police watchdog, the IOPC, is investigating the incident. A spokesman for the Met said the force is \"co-operating fully\" as the IOPC carries out a \"thorough and independent investigation\".", "Top row, left to right: Christian Head, Thomas Burns, Lana Head. Bottom row, left to right: Gregory Burns, Robert Sanderson, Wesley Petterson\n\nA 62-year-old former first responder who was killed as she tried to help others and a kind-hearted 77-year-old widower are among the victims of a violent rampage in Canada that left 10 people dead and a nation in shock.\n\nPolice have released the full list of those killed in the stabbings in the province of Saskatchewan on 4 September.\n\nNine of the 10 victims are from James Smith Cree Nation, an indigenous community with nearly 3,500 members.\n\nOne victim, Wesley Petterson, is from Weldon, a quiet farming town nearby of about 200 people.\n\nLocals described Mr Petterson, the oldest of the victims at 78 years old, as a \"lovely\" man who was devoted to his community. Neighbour Ruby Works said she had been left devastated by his death.\n\n\"I couldn't even catch my breath,\" she told the Canadian broadcaster CBC, saying she was still in shock.\n\n\"If someone needed a hand, he helped. He was a kind-hearted man,\" Ms Works added about the man she had known since childhood and had looked on as an uncle.\n\n\"He didn't deserve this,\" she said. \"Both communities are destroyed. All lives are shattered.\"\n\nWeldon resident Robert Rush described Mr Petterson as a gentle man who \"wouldn't hurt a fly\".\n\nMr Rush added that Mr Petterson's adult grandson had been in the basement at the time of the attack. \"He stayed down there until they were gone,\" Mr Rush said.\n\nAnother of those killed was named as 61-year-old Gloria Burns.\n\nA former first responder, she had worked at the James Smith Cree Nation health clinic and her brother, Darryl Burns, said she \"had devoted her life to helping people\".\n\nFrom left to right: Gloria Burns, Carol Burns, Bonnie Burns and Earl Burns Sr\n\nMs Burns was killed in the attack after responding to initial calls for aid and while trying to help others in her home, her brother said.\n\n\"For her to go into a situation like this where [she was] helping people, even though it cost her life ... that's who she was,\" Mr Burns told CBC.\n\n\"She died helping people. And we have to pick up that torch and carry it.\"\n\nGregory Burns, 28, and his mother, Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns, 48, were also killed.\n\nIn a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Bonnie's brother, Mark Arcand, who is also chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council, described his sister as a matriarch who loved taking care of her four children.\n\n\"Mama bear took care of her cubs,\" Mr Arcand said.\n\nHe said Bonnie died outside of her home after she ran out to help her son Gregory, who was stabbed first. Another one of her sons, 13-year-old Drayson, was also stabbed but survived.\n\n\"How could somebody do this to women and children?\" he said. \"Words can't express the pain that we are feeling.\"\n\nGregory's father and Bonnie's husband, Brian, wrote on Facebook: \"It's hard when my boys cry at night for their mom.\"\n\nThomas Burns, 23, and Carol Burns, 46, were also among the victims identified.\n\nPolice said they would not identify or confirm the relationships of those killed.\n\nAnother victim, mother-of-two Lana Head, has been identified by her former partner, Michael Brett Burns.\n\nHe told local media that she had worked as a security guard at Northern Lights Casino and had also been a commissionaire officer.\n\nThe 49-year-old lived in James Smith Cree Nation and leaves behind two daughters, Sable, 31, and Sage, 30. Just hours before the attack she had posted on social media that she had \"so many good memories to cherish\".\n\nFriends and family paid tribute to Ms Head. In a post to her Facebook page, one friend recalled her \"sweet demeanour and caring ways\".\n\nIn a tribute to Ms Burns, Michael Brett Burns wrote that she will be \"missed dearly\".\n\n\"I just hurt and tonight I cry alone,\" he added.\n\nChristian Head, 54, was also among the victims listed by police.\n\nA veteran, Earl Burns Sr, was also killed in the attack. He had been a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.\n\nVeteran Voices of Canada paid tribute to Mr Burns Sr, 66, in a social media post, writing that he \"gave his life to save his wife and grandchildren during the terrible attack\".\n\nPolice also identified Robert Sanderson, 49, as one of the victims.\n\nChakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson - one of the region's elected leaders - told the Regina Leader Post that everyone in the community had been affected.\n\n\"They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we're all related here, so it's pretty hard,\" Mr Sanderson said. \"It's pretty horrific.\"\n\nIndigenous rights groups in Canada have urged the federal government to provide support to the communities.\n\nDarryl Burns echoed that call, telling reporters that the local community was in chaos as it tried to come to terms with the \"massacre\".\n\n\"I know deep down we need healing and forgiveness. That's one of the things my sister taught. And that's one of the things I will carry out in her name,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liz Truss announces energy price guarantee for next two years\n\nNew Prime Minister Liz Truss will limit energy bill rises for all households for two years as the new prime minister tries to prevent widespread hardship.\n\nA typical household energy bill will be capped at £2,500 annually until 2024.\n\nThe huge support scheme could cost up to £150bn, but Ms Truss refused to put a figure on it, saying \"extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures\".\n\nBusinesses will get help, with prices capped for six months, a shorter period of protection than many had hoped for.\n\nThe help will be for everyone in England, Scotland and Wales with equivalent assistance for Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there are concerns the measures are not targeted enough, with no additional support for the most vulnerable. As a result, millions are still expected to be in fuel poverty this winter.\n\nThe energy price cap - the highest amount suppliers are allowed to charge households for every unit of energy they use - had been due to rise to £3,549 for a typical household from October.\n\nTo limit the amount customers' bills go up by, the unit price will be capped, although household energy bills will vary according to how much gas and electricity they use.\n\nThe government will compensate energy firms for the difference between the wholesale price for gas and electricity they pay and the amount they can charge customers.\n\nCommenting on what steps households should now take, Greg Jackson, chief executive and founder of Octopus Energy, said firms were still working through the details and customers should \"sit tight and wait to hear from their energy supplier\".\n\n\"Nothing will change until 1 October and we'll be in touch with everyone before then.\"\n\nThe dramatic state intervention will be funded by government borrowing, adding to the UK's already large debt pile. The total cost of the support will depend on the cost of energy on the international energy markets, which can be extremely volatile.\n\nThis comes after Ms Truss rejected calls to extend a windfall tax on gas and oil company profits to pay for the package.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the refusal to fund it with a windfall tax showed she was \"driven by dogma\" and \"it's working people who will pay for that\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Ed Davey accused the government of bringing in a \"phony freeze\" while \"refusing to properly tax the eye-watering profits of oil and gas companies.\"\n\n\"This will still leave struggling families and pensioners facing impossible choices this winter as energy bills almost double,\" he said.\n\nMs Truss argued it was \"the moment to be bold\".\n\n\"We are facing a global energy crisis, and there are no cost-free options,\" she said.\n\nGas prices have soared this year, largely due to the conflict in Ukraine which has reduced supplies of Russian gas.\n\nExperts and charities warned that without help with soaring energy bills, lives would have been at risk this winter, with people struggling to afford basic day-to-day living costs.\n\nCitizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty, told the BBC the package will provide \"much-needed relief for millions\" but said she was concerned it is not going to reverse the trends it was seeing. \"We're seeing problems turn up in the summer, which we would normally expect to be winter.\"\n\nMs Truss also outlined plans \"to make sure we have security of [energy] supply for the long-term\".\n\nThis includes issuing new oil and gas exploration licences for the North Sea and lifting the ban on fracking for shale gas \"where there is local support for it\".\n\nIn addition the government will:\n\nThe decision to lift the ban on fracking will be controversial. The practice was halted in 2019 - as outlined in the Tory Party 2019 manifesto - amid opposition from environmentalists and local concerns over earth tremors.\n\nThe scheme to limit energy costs for businesses will also cover public sector groups like schools and charities. It will be in place for six months though it will be reviewed in three month's time \"to consider where this should be targeted to make sure those most in need get support\".\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) welcomed the help but said the announcement was \"sparse on detail\".\n\n\"Small businesses' instant reaction is that this is not enough information, yet, for them to plan,\" said Martin McTague, chairman of the FSB.\n\nDowning Street said the price cap would boost economic growth and curb inflation by as much as 5%. The rate at which prices rise is currently at a 40-year high of 10.1%, largely driven by soaring energy prices.\n\nThe energy plan is a huge emergency intervention in keeping with the pandemic rescue package. It will lessen the anticipated pain in households and businesses, but not eliminate it. The recession the economy is heading for should be shallower.\n\nBut these are the headlines of what the plan promises. It is unprecedented for an announcement of this size, to have so few details on the mechanisms involved, and no details on the costs. There is much up for grabs. Some allowance could be given for the fact the administration is only two days old.\n\nBut it is clear from our reporting up and down the country that more businesses that have closed could have been saved if this package had come more quickly. And the uncertainty for business will not be settled until the actual unit price of energy is announced.\n\nThe size of the intervention, which looks well in excess of £100bn, looks likely to raise questions about whether the PM can deliver her complete programme of promised immediate tax cuts. Much will depend on negotiations with renewables producers and a plan to buy gas on long-term contracts. There is a long queue of nations currently doing the same.\n\nExpect to see the new PM in Oslo, Ottawa and the Gulf before long. The plans for long-term production reflect a strategic decision not to be dependent on imported energy, that will take some time to come to fruition. The idea, however, is to address the root cause of a problem years in the making.", "We're now ending our live coverage of the arrest and death of the main suspect in the stabbing spree that claimed the lives of 10 people in Canada on Sunday.\n\nMyles Sanderson died after experiencing \"medical distress\" after his arrest on Wednesday, police said, without giving further detail.\n\nThey also declined to comment further on how his brother Damien, who is accused of helping in the murders, died earlier this week.\n\nHis body was found on Monday, and police say they suspect his brother may have killed him.\n\nOur live coverage was provided by Max Matza, Holly Honderich, Jessica Murphy, Nadine Yousif, Robin Levinson-King and Grace Conley, and edited by Rebecca Seales.", "The Queen with Joe and Jill Biden last year at the G7 summit in Cornwall, England\n\nWorld leaders and dignitaries have been paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96.\n\nThey have honoured her deep sense of duty and her resilience, as well as the Queen's sense of humour and kindness.\n\nFrance's Emmanuel Macron led the tributes, remembering \"a kind-hearted queen\" who was \"a friend of France\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden first met Her Majesty 40 years ago and described her as \"more than a monarch - she defined an era\".\n\nRemembering his visit to the UK in 2021 as president, Mr Biden said \"she charmed us with her wit, moved us with her kindness, and generously shared with us her wisdom\".\n\n\"Queen Elizabeth II was a stateswoman of unmatched dignity constancy who deepened the bedrock of the Alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States. She helped make our relationship special,\" Mr Biden added.\n\nUS President Biden, watched by his wife Dr Jill Biden and UK Ambassador Karen Pierce, signs the condolence book at the British Embassy in Washington DC\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping offered \"sincere sympathies to the British government and people\" following the Queen's death, adding: \"Her passing is a great loss to the British people.\"\n\nCanada - where Queen Elizabeth was head of state - has seen 12 prime ministers during her reign.\n\nAn emotional Justin Trudeau - who has known the Queen for decades, first meeting her as a child when his father was prime minister - said she had \"an obvious deep and abiding love for Canadians\".\n\n\"In a complicated world, her steady grace and resolve brought comfort to us all,\" the prime minister said, adding that he would miss their \"chats\" where she was \"thoughtful, wise, curious, helpful, funny and so much more\".\n\n\"She was one of my favourite people in the world, and I will miss her so,\" he said, holding back tears.\n\nHer Majesty met Canada's Justin Trudeau several times, including earlier this year at Windsor\n\nFlags have been lowered to half-staff around the world - including at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the Queen's \"empathy and ability to connect with every passing generation, while remaining rooted in the tradition that truly mattered to her, was an example of true leadership\".\n\nQueen Margrethe II of Denmark, now the world's only reigning female monarch, wrote to King Charles to express her condolences.\n\n\"She was a towering figure among the European monarchs and great inspiration to us all,\" she wrote.\n\nShe called the Queen's 70-year reign in difficult and positive times an \"unprecedented and remarkable achievement\".\n\nKing Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands - who is Queen Elizabeth's fifth cousin - said he and Queen Maxima remembered the \"steadfast and wise\" monarch with \"deep respect and great affection\".\n\nSweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, also a distant relative to Her Majesty, said: \"She has always been dear to my family and a precious link in our shared family history.\"\n\nSpain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia, who have long called Queen Elizabeth Aunt Lilibet said they will \"miss her dearly\".\n\nAnd Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde said she was \"an extraordinary personality... who, throughout her reign, showed dignity, courage and devotion\".\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz paid tribute to the Queen's \"wonderful humour\" and said in a statement that \"her commitment to German-British reconciliation after the horrors of World War Two will remain unforgotten\".\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled his \"memorable meetings\" with the monarch during two UK visits.\n\n\"I will never forget her warmth and kindness,\" he tweeted. \"During one of the meetings, she showed me the handkerchief Mahatma Gandhi gifted her on her wedding. I will always cherish that gesture.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia's King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent their condolences, with the king describing her as \"a role model for leadership that will be immortalised in history\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth II and India's Narendra Modi at Buckingham Palace in 2015\n\nAs monarch for seven decades, Queen Elizabeth lived through times of extraordinary change, and this was reflected in several tributes.\n\nMr Macron observed that she \"embodied the British nation's continuity and unity for over 70 years\" and former US President Barack Obama observed that she lived \"through periods of prosperity and stagnation - from the Moon landing to the fall of the Berlin Wall\".\n\nJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed his \"deep sorrow\". \"The death of the queen, who led Britain through turbulent times in the world, is a great loss not only for the British people but also the international community,\" he told reporters.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins honoured the Queen's \"extraordinary sense of duty\", which he said would \"hold a unique place in British history\".\n\n\"Her reign of 70 years encompassed periods of enormous change, during which she represented a remarkable source of reassurance to the British people,\" he said in a lengthy statement.\n\nIreland's Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, spoke of her reign as one of \"historic duration\" and described the Queen's passing as \"the end of an era\".\n\n\"Her dedication to duty and public service were self-evident and her wisdom and experience truly unique,\" Mr Martin said in a statement. He also recalled her \"many gracious gestures and warm remarks\" during a state visit to Ireland in 2011.\n\nAntónio Guterres, the UN's secretary-general, said Queen Elizabeth was \"a reassuring presence throughout decades of sweeping change, including the decolonisation of Africa and Asia and the evolution of the Commonwealth\".\n\nIn a statement, he paid tribute to \"her unwavering, lifelong dedication to serving her people. The world will long remember her devotion and leadership\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth visited Australia 16 times - here she greets excited crowds in Sydney in 1970\n\nQueen Elizabeth visited Australia - another Commonwealth nation where she was head of state - 16 times, the only reigning monarch to head down under.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese noted that many had never known a world without her.\n\n\"Though the noise and tumult of the years, she embodied and exhibited a timeless decency and an enduring calm,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"She celebrated our good times, she stood with us in the bad. Happy and glorious, but steadfast too.\"\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said she was woken to the news of the monarch's death by a police officer shining a torch into her bedroom at 04:50 to wake her up.\n\n\"She was extraordinary... The last days of the Queen's life captures who she was in so many ways, working to the very end on behalf of the people she loved,\" Ms Ardern said.\n\nQueen Elizabeth with New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, in 2018\n\nQueen Elizabeth II met 13 US presidents - beginning with Dwight D Eisenhower- during her reign.\n\nBarack Obama said the Queen had \"captivated the world\" with a \"reign defined by grace, elegance and a tireless work ethic\".\n\n\"Time and again, we were struck by her warmth, the way she put people at ease, and how she brought her considerable humour and charm to moments of great pomp and circumstance,\" Mr Obama, who met the Queen on several occasions, said in a statement.\n\nDonald Trump said he would \"never forget Her Majesty's generous friendship, great wisdom, and wonderful sense of humour\".\n\nAnd another former president, George W Bush, reflected fondly on the time he spent having tea with Her Majesty and her corgis, describing her \"great intellect, charm and wit\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth with Laura Bush, Prince Philip and George W Bush at the White House in 2007\n\nIsrael's President, Isaac Herzog, also acknowledged the enormous change the Queen saw throughout her reign, but said that throughout this, she \"remained an icon of stable, responsible leadership and a beacon of morality, humanity and patriotism\".\n\nWhile the Queen did not visit Israel, Princes Charles, Edward, William and the late Prince Philip - whose mother is buried in Jerusalem - did.\n\n\"Queen Elizabeth was a historic figure: she lived history, she made history, and with her passing, she leaves a magnificent, inspirational legacy,\" President Herzog wrote.\n\nKing Abdullah II of Jordan said his country \"mourns the passing of an iconic leader\". He said the Queen, who visited Jordan in 1984, was \"a beacon of wisdom and principled leadership… a partner for Jordan and a dear family friend\".\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that it was with \"deep sadness\" that he learned of \"this irreparable loss\".\n\nAnd Russian leader Vladimir Putin who met the Queen several times and once reportedly kept her waiting for 14 minutes, sent his \"deepest condolences\" to King Charles III.\n\n\"The most important events in the recent history of the United Kingdom are inextricably linked with the name of Her Majesty,\" Mr Putin wrote in a statement. \"\n\nFor many decades, Elizabeth II rightfully enjoyed the love and respect of her subjects, as well as authority on the world stage.\"\n\nRussia currently has heavy economic sanctions imposed on it by Western nations, including the UK, because of its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPrince Philip, followed by the Queen, and Jordan's King Hussein and Queen Noor visiting the Petra archaeological site in 1984\n\nAfrican leaders also shared tributes for Queen Elizabeth - who knew many of them well and, as the head of the Commonwealth, was sympathetic to their cause.\n\nKenyan President-elect William Ruto praised her \"historic legacy\" and said Kenyans would \"miss the cordial ties she enjoyed\" with the country.\n\nKenya, a former British colony that became independent in 1963, was a very special place for the monarch. For a start, it was where she became Queen. The young princess, then just 25 years old, was on holiday there when her father, King George VI, died in his sleep in 1952.\n\nPresident Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, which is one of the newest nations to join the Commonwealth, said: \"The Queen was a great friend of Africa and Africa showed her affection in return.\"\n\nAnd Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo tweeted that his country had fond memories of the two visits the Queen made, remarking on \"her friendliness, elegance, style and sheer joy she brought to the performance of her duties\".\n\nHer first trip to Ghana, also a former British colony, was controversial and there were concerns for the monarch's safety. Five days earlier, bombs had gone off in the capital, Accra, but the Queen was not deterred, in part because she had already cancelled a previous visit when she became pregnant with Prince Andrew.\n\nKenya was always a special place for Queen Elizabeth - shown here alongside President Daniel arap Moi during a state visit in 1983", "A malaria vaccine with \"world-changing\" potential has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.\n\nThe team expect it to be rolled out next year after trials showed up to 80% protection against the deadly disease.\n\nCrucially, say the scientists, their vaccine is cheap and they already have a deal to manufacture more than 100 million doses a year.\n\nThe charity Malaria No More said recent progress meant children dying from malaria could end \"in our lifetimes\".\n\nIt has taken more than a century to develop effective vaccines as the malaria parasite, which is spread by mosquitoes, is spectacularly complex and elusive. It is a constantly moving target, shifting forms inside the body, which make it hard to immunise against.\n\nLast year, the World Health Organization gave the historic go-ahead for the first vaccine - developed by pharmaceutical giant GSK - to be used in Africa.\n\nHowever, the Oxford team claim their approach is more effective and can be manufactured on a far greater scale.\n\nTrial results from 409 children in Nanoro, Burkina Faso, have been published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases. It shows three initial doses followed by a booster a year later gives up to 80% protection.\n\n\"We think these data are the best data yet in the field with any malaria vaccine,\" said Prof Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at the university.\n\nThe team will start the process of getting their vaccine approved in the next few weeks, but a final decision will hinge on the results of a larger trial of 4,800 children due before the end of the year.\n\nThe world's largest vaccine manufacturer - the Serum Institute of India - is already lined up to make more than 100 million doses a year.\n\nProf Hill said the vaccine - called R21 - could be made for \"a few dollars\" and \"we really could be looking at a very substantial reduction in that horrendous burden of malaria\".\n\nHe added: \"We hope that this will be deployed and available and saving lives, certainly by the end of next year.\"\n\nMalaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for millennia and mostly kills babies and infants. The disease still kills more than 400,000 people a year even after dramatic progress with bed nets, insecticides and drugs.\n\nThis malaria vaccine is the 14th that Prof Katie Ewer has worked on at Oxford as \"this is not like Covid where we have seven vaccines straight away that will work... it's much, much harder\".\n\nShe told the BBC it was \"incredibly gratifying\" to get this far and \"the potential achievement that this vaccine could have if it's rolled out could be really world-changing\".\n\nThe currently approved vaccine - made by GSK - shares similarities with the one developed in Oxford.\n\nBoth target the first stage of the parasite's lifecycle by intercepting it before it gets to the liver and establishes a foothold in the body.\n\nThe vaccines are built using a combination of proteins from the malaria parasite and the hepatitis B virus, but Oxford's version has a higher proportion of malaria proteins. The team think this helps the immune system to focus on malaria rather than the hepatitis.\n\nThe success of the GSK vaccine has partly paved the way for Oxford to be optimistic of having their vaccine out next year - such as by assessing how feasible a vaccination programme in Africa would be.\n\nIt is hard to give a direct comparison of the two vaccines. GSK's has gone through large real world trials whereas Oxford's data may appear more effective due to being given just ahead of the peak malaria season in Burkina Faso.\n\nProf Azra Ghani, chair in infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College London, said the trial results were \"very welcome\", but warned it would take money to get vaccines in arms.\n\n\"Without this investment, we risk losing the gains that have been made over the last decades and witnessing a rising tide of malaria resurgence,\" Prof Ghani said.\n\nGareth Jenkins, from the charity Malaria No More UK said: \"Today's R21 vaccine results from Oxford's renowned Jenner Institute are another encouraging signal that, with the right support, the world could end child deaths from malaria in our lifetimes.\"", "Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.\n\nShe died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, where she had spent much of the summer.\n\nThe Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.\n\nHer son King Charles III said the death of his beloved mother was a \"moment of great sadness\" for him and his family and that her loss would be \"deeply felt\" around the world.\n\nHe said: \"We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much-loved mother.\n\n\"I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.\"\n\nDuring the coming period of mourning, he said he and his family would be \"comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which the Queen was so widely held\".\n\nThe King and his wife, Camilla, now Queen Consort, will return to London on Friday, Buckingham Palace said. He is expected to address the nation.\n\nSenior royals had gathered at Balmoral after the Queen's doctors became concerned about her health earlier in the day.\n\nAll the Queen's children travelled to Balmoral, near Aberdeen, after doctors placed the Queen under medical supervision.\n\nHer grandson and now heir to the throne, Prince William, and his brother, Prince Harry, also gathered there.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss, who was appointed by the Queen on Tuesday, said the monarch was the rock on which modern Britain was built, who had \"provided us with the stability and strength that we needed\".\n\nSpeaking about the new King, she said: \"We offer him our loyalty and devotion, just as his mother devoted so much, to so many, for so long.\n\n\"And with the passing of the second Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country, exactly as Her Majesty would have wished, by saying the words 'God save the King'.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby - spiritual leader to the Church of England of which the monarch is supreme governor - expressed his \"profound sadness\".\n\nHe said his \"prayers are with the King and the Royal Family\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's death a huge shock to the nation and the world - Prime Minister Truss\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's tenure as head of state spanned post-war austerity, the transition from empire to Commonwealth, the end of the Cold War and the UK's entry into - and withdrawal from - the European Union.\n\nHer reign spanned 15 prime ministers starting with Winston Churchill, born in 1874, and including Ms Truss, born 101 years later in 1975.\n\nShe held weekly audiences with her prime minister throughout her reign.\n\nAt Buckingham Palace in London, crowds awaiting updates on the Queen's condition began crying as they heard of her death.\n\nThe union flag on top of the palace was lowered to half-mast at 18:30 BST and an official notice announcing the death was posted outside.\n\nOn the Queen's death, Prince William and his wife, Catherine, became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall.\n\nThe official notice read: \"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.\"\n\nThe Queen was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, in Mayfair, London, on 21 April 1926.\n\nFew could have foreseen she would become monarch but in December 1936 her uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated from the throne to marry the twice-divorced American, Wallis Simpson.\n\nElizabeth's father became King George VI and, at age 10, Lilibet, as she was known in the family, became heir to the throne.\n\nWithin three years, Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Elizabeth and her younger sister, Princess Margaret, spent much of wartime at Windsor Castle after their parents rejected suggestions they be evacuated to Canada.\n\nAfter turning 18, Elizabeth spent five months with the Auxiliary Territorial Service and learned basic motor mechanic and driving skills. \"I began to understand the esprit de corps that flourishes in the face of adversity,\" she recalled later.\n\nThrough the war, she exchanged letters with her third cousin, Philip, Prince of Greece, who was serving in the Royal Navy. Their romance blossomed and the couple married at Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947, with the prince taking the title of Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nShe would later describe him as \"my strength and stay\" through 74 years of marriage, before his death in 2021, aged 99.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh was at the Queen's side for more than six decades of reign, becoming the longest-serving consort in British history in 2009\n\nTheir first son, Charles, was born in 1948, followed by Princess Anne, in 1950, Prince Andrew, in 1960, and Prince Edward, in 1964. Between them, they gave their parents eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth was in Kenya in 1952, representing the ailing King, when Philip broke the news that her father had died. She immediately returned to London as the new Queen.\n\n\"It was all a very sudden kind of taking on and making the best job you can,\" she later recalled.\n\nElizabeth was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953, aged 27, in front of a then-record TV audience estimated at more than 20 million people.\n\nSubsequent decades would see great change, with the end of the British Empire overseas and the Swinging '60s sweeping away social norms at home.\n\nThousands gathered outside Buckingham Palace after the death was announced\n\nCharles, as the Prince of Wales, delivered the Queen's speech on behalf of his mother for the first time in May\n\nElizabeth reformed the monarchy for this less deferential age, engaging with the public through walkabouts, royal visits and attendance at public events.\n\nHer commitment to the Commonwealth was a constant - she visited every Commonwealth country at least once.\n\nBut there were periods of private and public pain.\n\nIn 1992, the Queen's \"annus horribilis\", fire devastated Windsor Castle - a private residence as well as working palace - and three of her children's marriages broke down.\n\nAfter the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car accident in Paris in 1997, the Queen drew criticism for appearing reluctant to respond publicly.\n\nThere were questions about the monarchy's relevance in modern society.\n\n\"No institution… should expect to be free from the scrutiny of those who give it their loyalty and support, not to mention those who don't,\" she acknowledged.\n\nElizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in Mayfair, London, on 21 April 1926, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York\n\nAs a 21-year-old princess, Elizabeth had vowed to devote her life to service.\n\nReflecting on those words decades later, during her Silver Jubilee in 1977, she declared: \"Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it.\"\n\nThat same commitment to serving was made 45 years later in a thank you letter to the nation on the weekend of her Platinum Jubilee in June.\n\nThe milestone was celebrated with a mix of state ceremonies and a colourful festival of all things British, as well as lively street parties.\n\nAlthough the Queen's health kept her from some events, she said: \"My heart has been with you all.\"\n\nIn a moment met with cheers from huge crowds in the Mall, she was joined by three generations of her family on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the finale of a pageant.\n\nOn her Platinum Jubilee, the Queen delighted crowds by appearing on the balcony with three generations of her family\n\nKing Charles, aged 73, becomes head of state in 15 Commonwealth realms, including the UK.\n\nHe and his wife, Camilla, are at Balmoral alongside his siblings, Princess Anne, and Princes Andrew and Edward.\n\nThey are accompanied by Edward's wife, Sophie, as well as Princes William and Harry.\n\nWilliam's wife, Catherine, remained at Windsor with their children - George, Charlotte and Louis - as it has been their first full day at a new school.\n\nPrince William drove a group of senior royals - including Prince Andrew and Prince Edward - to Balmoral\n\nPrince Harry arrived at Balmoral later to join other senior royals\n\nThe Royal Family has now entered a period of mourning. In the coming days, much of national life will be put on hold.\n\nOfficial engagements will be cancelled and union flags will be flown at half-mast on royal residences, government buildings, across the Armed Forces and on UK posts overseas.\n\nMembers of Parliament will pay tribute to the Queen and take an oath to King Charles.\n\nThere will be church bells tolling and gun salutes as local and national organisations and charities organise ways to pay their respects, with commemorative events and books of condolence.\n\nA state funeral for the Queen is expected in the next two weeks.\n\nForeign leaders have paid tribute to the Queen, with US President Joe Biden recalling how she stood in solidarity with the US in their \"darkest days\" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.\n\nTo France's president, Emmanuel Macron, she was a \"kind-hearted Queen\" and \"friend of France\".\n\nFor Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, the Queen was a constant in Canadians' lives and one of his \"favourite people in the world\".\n\nWhat are your memories of the Queen? Share your tributes and reflections by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Graham Potter: Chelsea set to appoint Brighton boss as manager in next 24 hours Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nGraham Potter started his playing career at Birmingham City in 1992 Graham Potter is set to be appointed Chelsea manager in the next 24 hours, ending his three-year spell with Brighton. Potter, 47, spoke to Chelsea owner Todd Boehly on Wednesday night after Thomas Tuchel was sacked and has reached a verbal agreement with the club. Potter was at Brighton's training ground on Thursday morning but did not lead the team's session. Chelsea hope to name a new manager before Saturday's game away to Fulham. The club, currently sixth in the Premier League, has also held talks with former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino and Sporting Lisbon head coach Ruben Amorim about the vacant role. Brighton are planning a press conference on Friday ahead of Saturday's trip to Bournemouth, but it is not clear who will speak to the media. Former Ostersunds FK and Swansea manager Potter led Brighton to a ninth-place finish last season, the club's highest ever top-flight finish. A former full-back in the Football League with Stoke, West Brom and York, Potter began his managerial career with Ostersunds FK in 2010, guiding them from the fourth tier of Swedish football to the first, winning the 2017 Swedish Cup and reaching the knockout stages of the Europa League. He then took charge of Swansea City in June 2018, spending one season with the Championship side before joining Brighton following Chris Hughton's dismissal. Potter, who has been tipped as a future England boss, has led Brighton to fourth in the table this season after winning four, drawing one and losing one of their six Premier League games. Brighton under Potter in the Premier League He was appointed in May 2019 and has taken the club to 15th, 16th as well as the ninth-place finish in his three seasons in charge. With his brand of attacking and tactically-flexible football, Potter guided Ostersunds FK to three promotions in five seasons. He took them to Sweden's top division for the first time, followed by a first major trophy and a spot in the Europa League. Former Borussia Dortmund and Paris St-Germain boss Tuchel was sacked despite bringing three trophies to Stamford Bridge in 20 months. However, the team has lost three times already this season after the new owners spent £255.3m in the summer transfer window. It is an interesting dynamic at Brighton and Hove Albion, as ordinarily when a coach departs, it follows a poor run or a major fall-out and a new manager would take over a struggling team. Graham Potter led the Seagulls to their highest ever position in the top flight and their highest ever points total. He would depart with the team fourth in the table. A tough act to follow. However, he also arrived at a club with a plan and a strategy with excellent people already in place. That hasn't changed. Brighton are regarded as a forward-thinking, open-minded club with a highly successful owner who supports the cub. Succession planning has been a key to their success over the last 15 years and that won't change now. It would undoubtedly be a blow to lose one of the best coaches in the country or possibly Europe, but any new face will have been considered carefully and have the right credentials and ethos to give them the best chance of further success.\n• None You can now get Chelsea news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea 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 Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool were thrashed by Napoli in their first Champions League Group A game on a night to forget in Italy.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side were 3-0 down at half time but it could easily have been more as Alisson saved a penalty and Virgil van Dijk made a goalline block.\n\nPiotr Zielinski put Napoli ahead from the spot in the fifth minute after Victor Osimhen had hit the post.\n\nAndre-Frank Anguissa and Giovanni Simeone extended Napoli's lead, before Zielinski scored again after the break.\n\nIt was a terrible opening half from Liverpool as Joe Gomez struggled to deal with Osimhen and was relieved when the Napoli forward trudged off with an injury before half-time.\n\nHis replacement, Simeone, needed just three minutes to score on his Champions League debut as Liverpool looked shell-shocked by the home side's relentless forward approach.\n\nThere were chances for the visitors - Van Dijk had a header well saved, Mohamed Salah struck an effort at the goalkeeper and a teasing cross bounced dangerously off Harvey Elliott's knee at the back post.\n\nBut Liverpool were sloppy in possession - even Salah mis-controlled a good pass from Trent Alexander-Arnold when well-placed in the box - and their defensive mistakes were punished by an expressive Napoli side.\n\nAny hope of a second-half comeback were over when Zielinski chipped a finish over Alisson from close range to make it 4-0 and though Luis Diaz curled in for an immediate response and came close with a diving header, Liverpool were deservedly beaten.\n\nDeadline-day signing Arthur Melo came on for his debut late in the second half and fellow midfielder Thiago returned from injury to make a brief cameo, but Liverpool will head home having now won just two of their last seven matches in all competitions.\n• None Go straight to all the latest Liverpool news and views\n• None You can now get Liverpool news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n\nFrom the very first minute, Liverpool were on the back foot in Naples.\n\nOsimhen gave them an early warning when he rounded Alisson and fired against the post from a tight angle.\n\nNapoli, though, needed only five minutes to take the lead when Zielinski coolly slotted in his penalty after handball against James Milner.\n\nA typical Klopp side would have been expected to bounce back immediately, but this season Liverpool have looked tired, demotivated and seriously out of form.\n\nWhat followed instead was only humiliation as the hosts were ruthless, while Liverpool made numerous mistakes and struggled to get a stronghold of the game with talisman Salah having several poor touches.\n\nOsimhen ran the struggling Gomez ragged and Napoli could have scored at least another two goals, were it not for a goalline clearance from Van Dijk to deny Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and a penalty save from Allison to thwart Osimhen after the lively frontman had been caught by Van Dijk.\n\nFormer Fulham midfielder Anguissa doubled Napoli's lead in style as a quick one-two ripped apart Liverpool's defence, before Kvaratskhelia set up Simeone's third.\n\nWhen the whistle finally blew for the break, Klopp sprinted straight down the tunnel.\n\nThe last time Liverpool conceded three goals in the first half of a Champions League game was in October 2014 when they lost 3-0 to Real Madrid.\n\n\"That's an embarrassing 45 minutes,\" former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said on BT Sport,\n\nLiverpool at least improved in the second half but Napoli remained in complete control.\n\nThe impressive Zielinski added the fourth two minutes after the restart and Diaz's curling effort in the 49th minute was no consolation for the disappointing six-time European champions.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Arthur (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Diogo Jota.\n• None Attempt saved. Alessio Zerbin (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by André-Frank Zambo Anguissa.\n• None Offside, Napoli. André-Frank Zambo Anguissa tries a through ball, but Giovanni Simeone is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Giovanni Simeone (Napoli) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alessio Zerbin. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool 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 Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "Various arrests have been made in connection with Olivia's death but nobody has yet been charged\n\nPolice investigating the shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool have arrested another suspect during raids on three properties.\n\nMerseyside Police said a 29-year-old man was held on suspicion of assisting an offender in the West Derby area earlier.\n\nSearches of three properties in the suburb are continuing.\n\nOlivia was shot when a gunman chased another man into her home in Dovecot on 22 August.\n\nA 34-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool has been released on conditional bail.\n\nThree other men, aged 29, 34 and 41, held on suspicion of assisting an offender, have also been bailed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Pratt-Korbel was described by her mother as \"her little shadow\"\n\nThe schoolgirl was shot in the chest after convicted burglar Joseph Nee, who was being chased by a gunman, ran into her home.\n\nHer mother, Cheryl Korbel, was injured as she tried to the shut the door but the attacker fired more shots.\n\nNeither of the men who entered the home had any links to the family.\n\nThe force appealed for information from the public and said the investigation was \"ongoing\", adding detectives needed to \"build up a strong evidential picture\".\n\nMs Korbel, who was shot in the wrist, has called on those responsible for her daughter's murder to come forward.\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel's family say they do not want to see another family suffer\n\nOlivia's father, John Francis Pratt, also said his daughter's death could not be in vain as he remembered her as a \"real bright spark who loved to laugh\".\n\nThe schoolgirl's funeral is due to take place at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot on 15 September and her family has asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" for the service.\n\nA fundraising page set up to help with funds for the family has raised more than £40,000.\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.", "As news has spread, the crowds have grown significantly outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nMany people have come alone to take in the moment, while others have come in groups with friends.\n\nAustralian Chloe Hogan pictured with her two friends outside Buckinham Palace Image caption: Australian Chloe Hogan pictured with her two friends outside Buckinham Palace\n\nAustralian Chloe Hogan made her way to the palace after hearing the news about the Queen's health in her family group chat down. She says: \"I think it's quite scary that we don't know what's going to happen.\" The Queen is also the monarch of Australia.\n\nChloe adds: \"I think if anything did happen Australians would be just as devastated as when Princess Diana died, the exact same thing.\n\n\"It would be devastating, and everyone would be like people in the UK would be.\"\n\nFacing the Queen Victoria monument Liran Shufman, from Italy, is joining dozens of people taking a picture of a rainbow.\n\nThe 40-year-old says the rainbow is hopefully sign that the Queen will return to good health.\n\nLiran Shufman, from Italy takes a picture of the rainbow that appeared outside the palace Image caption: Liran Shufman, from Italy takes a picture of the rainbow that appeared outside the palace", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Kaba's parents, Prosper Kaba and Helen Nkama, are demanding answers from the Met\n\nNo firearm was found at the scene after a man was shot dead by police in south London, it has emerged.\n\nChris Kaba, 24, died after a police pursuit of a car ended in Streatham Hill on Monday night.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said no \"non-police issue firearm\" had been found following a detailed search of the car and surrounding area.\n\nMr Kaba's family has accused the Met Police of being \"totally racist\".\n\nThe IOPC said an Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera indicated the vehicle was linked to a firearms incident in the previous days.\n\nThe Audi was hemmed in by two police cars in narrow residential street Kirkstall Gardens before one round was fired from a police weapon at about 22:00 BST.\n\nThe IOPC said CPR was immediately given by officers and support requested from the ambulance service but Mr Kaba later died in hospital.\n\nA spokesman said: \"A detailed search of the scene and surrounding area was completed last night. No non-police issue firearm has been recovered from the vehicle or the scene.\"\n\nForensic examinations will be completed on Mr Kaba's car and some of the police vehicles involved in the incident, the watchdog said.\n\nChris Kaba was due to become a father at the time of his death\n\nMr Kaba, who was due to become a father, was a rapper known as Madix or Mad Itch and was part of the MOBO-nominated drill group 67.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC before the IOPC's statement, father Prosper Kaba said: \"For us, it is totally racist and criminal and we want all the community, especially the minority community, to see this as a racism case.\"\n\nMother Helen Nkama, speaking through tears, said: \"My heart is broken. I am speechless.\"\n\nIn a statement released through the charity Inquest, the family said they wanted \"a homicide investigation into the death from the outset\" and they do not want \"any delay as has happened in other fatal shootings\".\n\n\"We are devastated; we need answers and we need accountability. We are worried that if Chris had not been black, he would have been arrested on Monday evening and not had his life cut short,\" the statement added.\n\nChris Kaba, known as Madix or Mad Itch 67, was a 24-year-old drill rapper\n\nThe Met Police said it understood the incident was \"extremely concerning to the local community\".\n\nCommander Alexis Boon, from the Met, said: \"I understand that this incident is extremely concerning and I would like to reassure the community that the Met is co-operating fully with the IOPC as they carry out a thorough and independent investigation.\"\n\nIn a tweet, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said his thoughts were with \"all those affected by this awful incident\".\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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End of twitter post by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem, said: \"We recognise that there is community concern following this incident and we appreciate that questions will remain around how Mr Kaba tragically ended up being fatally shot following an attempted vehicle stop.\n\n\"We are working hard to piece together all of the circumstances and we want to reassure the community that these questions will be answered in due course.\n\n\"However, it will take some time before our investigation is able to uncover all of the facts.\"\n\nPolice say the chase ended in Kirkstall Gardens\n\nThe pastor of a church which Mr Kaba attended as a child said there were discussions in the community about organising a vigil.\n\nReverend Siaa-Liane Mathurin, of New Park Road Baptist Church, said: \"Chris came to the church when he was little. He was from round here, he lived just over the road.\n\n\"The community are scared. I've had young people come to me asking 'why did they shoot him?' There are families who didn't send their kids to school today.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination, which will determine a provisional cause of death, is set to take place.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Newspapers across the country ran historic front pages to commemorate the Queen\n\nThe UK's newspapers have published their first editions since the Queen's death. Here are their historic front pages.\n\nThe Times, the Guardian, the i, and the Daily Star all mark the moment with the same colourised portrait from the Queen's coronation in 1953.\n\nThe Guardian lets the striking picture of the newly-crowned monarch stand alone - other than her name and dates of her reign - while the Times adds the words: \"A life in service.\"\n\nThe Times' back cover carries a quotation from the Queen's Christmas broadcast in 1957, the first to be televised: \"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else: I can give you my heart and my devotion to all these old islands, and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nIn its lead story, reporter Valentine Low says \"history will deliver its verdict in the fullness of time but it is hard to conceive of her being remembered as anything other than one of the greatest monarchs in our history\".\n\nElsewhere, Low recalls how the Queen - \"with a twinkle in her eye\" - once advised a local dignitary \"during some tour or other\" not to talk to the Times' royal correspondent: he was from the Times, she said, and would only put him in the paper.\n\nThe Sun reminds readers just how different the world was 70 years ago - it was just seven years after World War Two, Britain still had an empire, and the Beatles were five years away from even meeting, it says.\n\nIts front page carries a black and white portrait of the Queen in her later years with a still, gentle smile. \"We loved you ma'am,\" the caption reads.\n\nThe Daily Express strips the colour from its front page and declares: \"Our beloved Queen is dead\".\n\nIts editorial says while some question the institution of the monarchy, almost everyone could admire how she \"harnessed the grandeur of the Crown to elevate the country's unsung heroes\".\n\nThe Guardian points out that her reign saw some of the greatest changes in industrial, economic, technical and social development of any era. It says, therefore, that it is difficult to see her name being bestowed, as Queen Victoria's was to the Victorians, as the \"defining symbol of an age\".\n\n\"Instead she played, largely impeccably, the part of a modern constitutional monarch, a symbolic figurehead with a right to be consulted and to advise and warn political leaders privately,\" it says.\n\nThe Daily Star recasts its red masthead in black and says in its frank editorial: \"You may have noticed that we are traditionally not a royalist newspaper and there are plenty in the family we're not so fond of. But you couldn't help admire how the Queen did her duty, got on with her job and never complained.\"\n\nThe Daily Mirror decides against a headline, instead simply saying: \"Thank you\". The paper's Paul Routledge remembers the joy of the Queen's coronation in 1953, with bunting strung across the houses and food that had just stopped being rationed.\n\n\"We didn't see it on the telly, even though this was the first time it had been televised,\" he says - no one in his street had a TV yet.\n\nThe Financial Times abandons business news for its front page, dedicating it almost entirely to a beaming Queen. It describes her death as a \"watershed moment in the life of the nation\".\n\n\"Our hearts are broken,\" the Daily Mail says. It chooses a photograph of then-Princess Elizabeth, taken in 1952, looking straight into the camera with a determined gaze.\n\nRecounting the moments before her death was announced, the paper says the mood on-screen on the BBC was \"as solemn as a Bible\".\n\n\"Auntie was slipping into full fig funeral mode,\" the paper's Jan Moir writes.\n\n\"He [Huw Edwards] was speaking very, very slowly, but with exactly the layer of gravelly Welsh gravitas the occasion demanded. And then, in the most simple and perfectly judged moment after he relayed the sad details, the National Anthem was played as an official portrait of the young Queen filled the screen.\"", "Our colleagues at Radio 5 Live have been hearing views on the government's plans to tackle energy prices from people around the country.\n\nSusan lives near a fracking site in Lancashire, she's concerned about the government's plans to lift the ban on fracking.\n\n\"I've experienced huge methane emissions, earth tremors and the disruption that comes with a fracking site,\" she says.\n\n\"For me, health and peace of mind are far greater value [than cheaper energy costs].\"\n\nSusan is concerned about the government's plans for fracking Image caption: Susan is concerned about the government's plans for fracking\n\nPhilip in Croydon would like to see the government nationalise \"all sources of oil and gas in UK territories\".\n\n\"We've nationalised the pain, so nationalise the profits,\" he says.\n\n\"If we take control of our own national resources, we could have a proper domestic energy market... we should look after our own people first.\"\n\nRonnie in Hemel Hempstead believes there's \"hypocrisy\" in the government's plan to borrow money.\n\nHe says when David Cameron came into power \"we were told borrowing at the levels being spoken about would destroy our grandchildren's futures\".\n\n\"We were told the borrowing [Labour were proposing at the lest general election] they were talking about would lead the country to economic ruin, but when the Tories want to borrow at this level now, it's fine.\"", "As Liz Truss traversed the UK racking up the votes to defeat Rishi Sunak, in the same towns where she wooed the membership hustings, including in leafy apparently affluent areas, the size of the challenge she was vying to inherit was getting notably worse.\n\nThe situation on the ground has deteriorated for ordinary households and businesses, as prices continued to surge yet higher. And at the same time there has been an ominous turn in the markets for British government borrowing and in currency markets.\n\nThe combination of these two changes alter the reality of the situation she now takes on as prime minister. The question is how much it changes the immediate solutions she has promised as campaigner.\n\nFrom Durham to Derbyshire and Stoke-on-Trent and beyond, the stories we have reported on in many local communities show the real life depths of this cost of living crisis, even at current energy prices.\n\nThe surge in food prices is breaking the charitable model of food banks and food pantries that have emerged in almost every town and city.\n\nNot only has demand surged, turning many of last year's food charity donors into recipients of support, but supplies are now a problem.\n\nMany of these projects are reliant on surplus food stocks from supermarket supply chains. But supermarkets facing massive inflationary pressures, trying to avoid passing on all of those price hikes to consumers, have been trimming surplus stock, meaning there is less tinned goods available for donations.\n\nDemand up hugely, at a time when supply is a problem. This is just one manifestation of out-of-control inflation.\n\nJo Yendole from Stone Community hub says some people have stopped using hot water\n\nWe visited a facility in Stone, Staffordshire. Jo Yendole who helps run Stone Community hub said: \"One of the guys who's on licence from prison, sort of struggling to maintain his flat and the cost of his flat actually said he would prefer to go back to prison because it was easier because he just couldn't see how we were going to afford to live.\n\n\"And another lady who she was she's talking about the cost of gas and an energy prices said she'd completely turned her boiler off and wasn't using any hot water and was boiling a kettle. The gas price is not even affordable in the summer for her\".\n\nAt a pantry in Matlock, Derbyshire, which offers subsidised food at about a tenth of supermarket prices, Beverley Parker from Rural Action Derbyshire told me people were returning fresh food, because they could not afford refrigeration costs.\n\n\"We've heard of people switching off their fridges and freezers because they can't afford the electricity. You're risking your own health and that of your family, by eating food that hasn't been stored correctly.\n\n\"A lot of people are choosing to either get rid of their cars or not use them. Public transport in the countryside is limited at best. So we've we've even heard of people walking six miles from the food bank, and then six miles back home, because they can't afford the bus fare.\"\n\nAt another community hub in Peterlee, County Durham, I met dual-income working families who had started to grow their own vegetables and heard the co-ordinators tell of clients pre-emptively cancelling energy bill direct debits. Much of this happened even before the move in prices up to £3,549.\n\nWhile the energy companies have tried to pre-empt the arrival of Liz Truss with a ready to go plan to cancel the rise in the energy cap, that might not require upfront borrowing, there are still huge amounts of support being relied upon, even at existing bills.\n\nOne energy company boss, former government fuel poverty tsar Derek Lickorish who is chairman of Utilita, told me the reality for the poorest customers. A typical £50 on prepayment meters which would ordinarily last 12 days in winter, might only last two days from January.\n\n\"Liz Truss has said that she intends to solve this problem, and I welcome that. This is a war footing to my mind. It will affect government borrowing.\n\n\"If we don't, we're going to have major problems with customers having unaffordable bills. There'll be huge mental health problems, we will see businesses going broke, we'll see people losing their jobs and they want to have disposable income to spend with businesses. It really is Armageddon, if we don't deal with this, and that's what we've got to get on with it\".\n\nSo as we head towards some version of the energy companies tariff deficit fund being announced imminently by the new prime minister, she faces further pressure from the markets.\n\nThe dollar has been strong as the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, has indicated a sharper rise in interest rates. But sterling has fallen notably against the dollar and the euro.\n\nLong-term borrowing costs for the government have topped 3%, setting the floor for borrowing for mortgages and for businesses.\n\nThe government will have to work closely with the Bank of England\n\nThese are jitters rather than a crisis. In that context it was notable to see both Ms Truss and her likely Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, row back from her early campaign rhetoric criticising the Bank of England.\n\nThe government and Bank will need to work very closely together in the coming months.\n\nAn important difference with the pandemic bailout is there can be no expectation that the Bank will buy up most of the issuance of extra government borrowing. The Bank has already indicated it will do the opposite soon as part of \"reverse QE\". If the government needs to borrow more, it will have to find buyers for the debt among pension funds, insurers and foreign buyers, and pay a high price.\n\nIf the PM wants to abide by her campaign promises to make tens of billions of tax cuts, and help launch an energy bailout for both households and businesses, at a time when energy prices in markets could go yet higher, borrowing will have to go up in the first instance.\n\nBut if she does not help both sectors, disposable income will drain from the economy, and many small businesses will simply go bust, hiking up unemployment too.\n\nThe new prime minister already faced a very tricky balancing act between inflation and recession. The past month means the room for manoeuvre has got even smaller. Given this hand, Rishi Sunak may not end up regretting his loss.", "Energy bills have been rising for households across Europe as prices have been driven up by worries about gas and oil supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIndividual countries, and the European Union (EU), have announced support schemes for consumers.\n\nIn 2021, the EU imported 40% of its gas from Russia - so many of its member states are exposed to high energy prices.\n\nIn response, the EU is introducing:\n\nIt includes a cap on gas and electricity prices for households and some businesses from early next year.\n\nThe government will pay December's monthly gas bill for all households and small-to-medium businesses.\n\nIn September and October, all taxpayers received a one-off energy payment €300. There has been extra help for people on benefits.\n\nGermany is trying to cut energy consumption by:\n\nA windfall tax on energy companies will be applied from December 2022 to the end of June 2023.\n\nIn January, the government forced the state-owned energy provider, Électricité de France (EDF), to cap price rises at 4% for a year.\n\nIt says it will cap rises in gas and electricity at 15% for 2023, as part of a €45bn (£39bn) scheme to support households and businesses.\n\nFrance had already announced a one-off €100 (£84) payment last year to 5.8 million households receiving energy vouchers.\n\nThe government plans to reduce energy consumption by 10% by:\n\nThe government is planning a windfall tax on energy companies in the 2023 budget.\n\nFrance is cutting the temperature in public swimming polls by 1C\n\nItaly is expecting to spend about €49.5bn (£42bn).\n\nIts measures include a €200 (£169) one-off payment to people earning €35,000 (£29,600) a year or less, and a 20% tax credit for all energy-intensive companies experiencing a 30% rise in prices.\n\nThe Italian government is also trying to reduce gas consumption by:\n\nThe government is planning a windfall tax on energy companies in 2023.\n\nSince November, electricity and gas prices for households have been capped at January 2022 levels - up to a certain amount of consumption. Any extra use will be charged at market rates.\n\nThe government is also offering a discount of €190 on energy bills in November and December to all households.\n\nThere is a one-off energy allowance of €1,300 to those on lower incomes.\n\nVAT on energy bills and tax on petrol and diesel have also been cut.\n\nThe Dutch government is also introducing:\n\nIt is expecting to spend €15.5bn (£13.5bn) on these measures.\n\nThe Dutch government is advising households and business to cut consumption, including by turning down heating by 1C.\n\nThe government is planning a windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nSpain has cut VAT on energy bills and reduced tax on electricity.\n\nSpain and Portugal have introduced a price cap for gas - which will last for one year and aims to halve gas bills for 40% of customers in the two countries.\n\nThere is also a one-off payment of €200 euros for people in Spain who earn less than €14,000 a year and are not already receiving benefits.\n\nSpain's measures are expected to cost about €27bn (£23bn).\n\nThe government has an energy-saving plan which includes limiting air conditioning in public buildings and shops in the summer and keeping heating to 19C in the winter.\n\nIt wants shops to close their doors when the heating is on and says they should switch off lights after 22:00.\n\nThe government is introducing a windfall tax on energy companies and banks over the next two years.\n\nIt has announced plans for an energy price support package for households, worth 26.8bn zlotys (£4.8bn).\n\nIt incudes freezing energy prices for 2023 at this year's level, with a limit of 2,000 kWh per year for most households.\n\nThere will be higher thresholds for households with people with disabilities and for families with three or more children.\n\nThe government has abolished VAT on food, gas and fertilizer and reduced it on petrol, diesel and energy bills.\n\nThere is also a new mandatory 10% electricity saving for national and local government public administrations.\n\nHouseholds that reduce electricity use by 10% in 2023 compared with 2022, will be rewarded with an additional discount.\n\nNorway has set a maximum price that households should pay for their energy - anything over this, the government will pay 80% of the bill.\n\nA new package of loans and subsidies for businesses was announced in September. This will cover companies that spend more than 3% of revenue on power costs.\n\nThe government has also proposed new taxes on onshore wind and hydropower energy, to redistribute some of the huge increase in profits over the past year.\n\nThe UK government has brought in a cap on the price of a unit of energy until April 2023, which will mean the typical household bill for gas and electricity will be £2,500 a year.\n\nThis is being extended to April 2024, but typical bills will be capped at £3,000 a year.\n\nThere will be more support for those on benefits and for pensions households.\n\nThe government brought in a windfall tax on UK oil and gas firms' profits which is expected to raise £5bn a year. This is being increased and extended.\n\nPreviously, the government introduced an energy bill discount of £400 for every household with some extra support for people on benefits.\n\nThe UK government launched a public information campaign on how to save energy in November, which was later than other countries in Europe.", "The body of a captured British man who died in detention has been returned by Russia with signs of \"possible unspeakable torture,\" Ukraine says.\n\nPaul Urey, aged 45, is reported to have died in detention in July after being captured by pro-Russian separatists.\n\nHe was being held captive in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) breakaway region of Ukraine.\n\nThe UK has previously described Mr Urey as an aid worker and said Russia must face responsibility for his death.\n\nUkraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said \"Russians\" had now returned his body with \"signs of possible unspeakable torture,\" giving no further details.\n\nHe went on to condemn the detention and torture of civilians as a war crime, vowing to \"identify perpetrators of this crime and hold them to account\".\n\nMr Urey, from Warrington, Cheshire, was detained at a checkpoint near the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia in April and accused of being a mercenary.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the reports of his death, Mr Urey's mother said she had been \"so upset\" when she heard of her son's plans to go to Ukraine.\n\n\"Part of me thinks maybe he just, because of how ill he was, maybe he wanted to go and die there doing something,\" she said.\n\nIf proven, evidence of torture could potentially contradict earlier claims by Russian-backed officials that Mr Urey died in captivity on 10 July as a result of underlying health conditions and \"stress.\"\n\n\"He died of acute coronary insufficiency aggravated by pulmonary and brain edema,\" Russian state news agency Tass quoted one official, Natalya Nikonorova, as saying at the time.\n\nHe was also in a \"depressed psychological state due to indifference to his fate in his homeland\", another official claimed.\n\nIn July the UK Foreign Office summoned the Russian ambassador over reports of Mr Urey's death in detention, for which it said Russia must bear full responsibility.\n\nLiz Truss, who was then foreign secretary and is now prime minister, said he had been captured while undertaking humanitarian work.\n\n\"He was in Ukraine to try and help the Ukrainian people in the face of the unprovoked Russian invasion,\" she said.", "A judge in Argentina has charged a man and his girlfriend with attempting to kill Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner last week.\n\nFernando Sabag Montiel, 35, and his girlfriend Brenda Uliarte, 23, deny involvement in the failed attack, when a gun was pointed at the politician.\n\nThe gunman's weapon jammed and the vice-president was not hurt in the incident in the capital Buenos Aires.\n\nBut a judge said the actions of the two suspects were planned and co-ordinated.\n\nThe charges are preliminary and can still be modified.\n\nThe incident happened on Thursday 2 September as Ms Fernández de Kirchner, 69, greeted supporters outside her home.\n\nA small crowd had gathered to show its backing for the vice-president, who is currently on trial for corruption, when a man pointed a handgun at her head.\n\nThe moment was captured on video.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gun jams as it's aimed at Argentina's vice-president\n\nThe gun did not fire, but Argentina's President, Alberto Fernández, later said it had been loaded with five bullets. \"Cristina is still alive because, for some reason yet to be confirmed, the gun ... did not fire,\" he said in a televised address.\n\nPresident Fernández described it as \"the most serious incident since the return of democracy\" in 1983.\n\nFernando Sabag Montiel, who was born in Brazil but has lived in Argentina since he was a child, was arrested at the scene minutes after the incident.\n\nLawyers for Ms Fernández de Kirchner said they did not think he had acted on his own and on Sunday police detained Fernando Sabag Montiel's girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte.\n\nMr Sabag Montiel reportedly told investigators that \"Brenda had nothing to do with it and nor did I\".\n\nBut on Wednesday, Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti accused Ms Uliarte and Mr Sabag Montiel of \"having attempted to kill\" the vice-president.\n\nArgentine media report that the indictment alleges that the two suspects had been in possession of the firearm which was seized at the scene of the attack since 5 August.\n\nInvestigators are still trying to establish the motive behind the attack on Ms Fernández de Kirchner, a left-wing politician who, while immensely popular with her supporters, has alienated many during her years as one of Argentina's most influential politicians.\n\nBefore she became vice-president in 2019, she served as Argentina's president from 2007 to 2015 and as first lady from 2003 to 2007.", "Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor and replaced by Jeremy Hunt after his mini-budget resulted in financial turbulence and a revolt from Tory MPs.\n\nHe has become Britain's second shortest-serving chancellor, lasting just 38 days in the role.\n\nThe long-time ally of Prime Minister Liz Truss, seen as her political soulmate, was appointed to the role on 6 September.\n\nSpeaking before Mr Kwarteng became chancellor, one friend told the Times that he and Ms Truss were a bit like \"Batman and Robin\", adding: \"They are both slight social misfits, amiable geeks, and have strong views which are in tune with each other.\"\n\nHe took over at Number 11 Downing Street at a critical time for the UK economy, with millions looking to him for help with soaring winter energy bills.\n\nAn Old Etonian who became the first black Conservative cabinet minister in 2021, he read classics and history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has a PhD in economic history. He is also a past winner of notoriously tough BBC quiz show University Challenge.\n\nFamily: Married to solicitor Harriet Edwards with one daughter\n\nMr Kwarteng's parents came to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960s. He was born in East London in 1975, the same year as Ms Truss.\n\nHis economist father and barrister mother gave him a traditional Ashanti first name, meaning \"born on Sunday\", when he was actually born on a Monday. He told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast his parents stayed silent on the matter when he jokingly pulled them up on it.\n\nThe Church was a strong part of his mother's life and she was a lifelong Conservative voter.\n\nHe was just three years old when Margaret Thatcher came to power, and she would remain prime minister until his GCSE year. He has said in the past that his mother deeply admired Mrs Thatcher as someone \"who wanted to rely on their own efforts\" and has described himself as a \"pragmatic Thatcherite\".\n\nHe attended the exclusive private school Eton College after winning a scholarship there, and went on to graduate with a double first from Cambridge University in classics and history.\n\nOne well-known anecdote about the young Kwasi Kwarteng harks back to his admissions interview for Trinity College. The self-confident 17-year-old told the tutor, who had arrived late and hadn't conducted many of these interviews before: \"Don't worry, sir - I'm sure you'll do very well.\"\n\nHe was part of the Cambridge team which won University Challenge in 1995, although he generated headlines for uttering a swearword after he buzzed in and forgot the answer to a question.\n\nHe has since questioned how much being good at quizzes \"relates to anything in what people call 'real life'\".\n\nKwasi Kwarteng appeared in the winning team for Trinity College, Cambridge, on University Challenge in 1994-95\n\nHe attended Harvard University in the United States on a Kennedy Scholarship, before returning to the University of Cambridge to complete a PhD in economic history in 2000.\n\nDuring his second stint at the university, Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now head of the V&A Museum, joked that then roommate Mr Kwarteng was \"quite ungovernable and dishevelled\".\n\nHe worked as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and a financial analyst at banks including JP Morgan in the City of London and got involved in Conservative politics as chairman of the Bow Group think tank.\n\nHe has remarked that \"politics was always something I was drawn to\", and he made his first attempt to become an MP in 2005. He stood as the Conservative candidate for Brent East at the general election, but came third. There was also an unsuccessful run for the London Assembly in 2008.\n\nHowever, he became part of the \"class of 2010\", a cohort of politicians entering Westminster for the first time that year. He was elected as MP for Spelthorne in Surrey and entered Parliament the same time as future colleagues Ms Truss, Priti Patel and Sajid Javid.\n\nHis maiden speech in the House of Commons came with some comments he described as \"controversial\", when he used the opportunity to criticise the former Labour government led by Gordon Brown and how it tackled the 2008 financial crisis.\n\n\"They have not once accepted any blame for what happened and they seem to think that we can just sail on as before,\" he said, also setting out the view that \"wealth creation is the most important element in getting us out of this recession\".\n\nAlthough Mr Kwarteng was tipped to become the Conservatives' first black cabinet member as early as 2006, he spent eight years as a constituency MP before he became a minister.\n\nHe backed Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and in 2017 became a ministerial aide to the then Chancellor Philip Hammond, before becoming a junior minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union.\n\nMr Kwarteng also co-authored the book Britannia Unchained with several Tory MPs, including Ms Truss. In the 2012 text, they claimed: \"Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.\" He has since distanced himself from this view.\n\nMr Kwarteng has used his spare time to write several books and pamphlets on topics from Mrs Thatcher's final six months in office to the British Empire and its legacy.\n\nHe has argued that \"the debate around Black Lives Matter and imperialism or colonialism has a cartoon-like view of history\", and has said he thinks that view is true on both sides of the issue.\n\nMr Kwarteng was a supporter of Boris Johnson who put him on the ministerial fast-track as energy minister in 2019.\n\nHe worked there for more than a year before becoming business secretary 18 months later.\n\nThe ascent has been described as a \"reward\" for his backing of Mr Johnson during the race for party leadership.\n\nThe realities of the pandemic and the soaring cost of energy, however, meant that his views on state intervention in industry moderated.\n\n\"There's nothing [better] to convert someone from being a radical free marketeer to seeing the virtues of government action than making them an energy minister,\" he said at a 2019 Conservative party conference event.\n\nThat same year, he married solicitor Harriet Edwards, having previously dated former Home Secretary Amber Rudd.\n\nHis political partnership with Ms Truss, a fellow member of the 2010 intake of MPs, paid dividends when she asked her close ally to serve as chancellor.\n\nBut the mini-budget he unveiled on 23 September spooked financial markets and prompted a drop in the value of the pound.\n\nAmid warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of England stepped in to buy government bonds in a bid to stabilise their value.\n\nThe chancellor said he had listened to criticism - including from within his party - and there was a U-turn on a plan to abolish the 45p rate of income tax for top earners.\n\nBut market turbulence continued, causing speculation that the government would announce a further reversal on its tax-cutting plans.\n\nThe day before his ejection from Number 11 Downing Street, Mr Kwarteng said \"our position hasn't changed\" - and that he would \"absolutely\" still be in his job a month later.", "The Queen was seen on Tuesday when she appointed Liz Truss as prime minister at Balmoral\n\nThe Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral after doctors became concerned for her health, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nAll the Queen's children have gathered at her Scottish estate near Aberdeen.\n\n\"Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen's doctors are concerned for Her Majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision,\" a statement said.\n\nThe Queen is \"comfortable\", it added.\n\nIt is very unusual for Buckingham Palace to put out a statement like this - it is usually unwilling to provide a commentary on the 96-year-old monarch's medical matters, which are seen as private.\n\nHer son, Prince Charles, is at Balmoral with his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nHer grandson, the Duke of Cambridge, other sons, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex, and his wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, arrived at Aberdeen airport just before 16:00 BST.\n\nPrince William drove them alone in a car together to the Queen's Scottish estate, a journey of about 40 miles (64km).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer daughter Princess Anne was already in Scotland undertaking engagements and is in Balmoral.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has remained in Windsor with her children on their first full day at school.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex is travelling separately to Balmoral. A spokeswoman said his wife Meghan was not accompanying him. The US-based couple had been in the UK to attend a charity function.\n\nThere are clearly pressing concerns for the Queen's health - much more explicitly put than before and without any reference to this only being about difficulties with mobility.\n\nThere are also warnings against unfounded speculation, such as that she might have had a fall. And on Tuesday she was photographed smiling as she appointed new Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nBut from the last-minute cancellation of what would only have been a virtual meeting of the Privy Council - of senior ministers - there is no mistaking the fragility of the Queen's health.\n\nMs Truss said the \"whole country\" would be \"deeply concerned\" by the news.\n\n\"My thoughts - and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom - are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time,\" she added.\n\nPrince William drove the group of royals - including Prince Andrew and Prince Edward - to Balmoral\n\nThe Queen appointed Ms Truss as prime minister at Balmoral, instead of travelling to London for the event.\n\nDuring her 70-year reign the Queen has typically had an audience with her new prime minister at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said: \"My prayers, and the prayers of people across the [Church of England] and the nation, are with Her Majesty The Queen today.\n\n\"May God's presence strengthen and comfort Her Majesty, her family, and those who are caring for her at Balmoral.\"\n\nThe Queen is also head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the country was \"wishing her well, and sending our best to the Royal Family\".\n\nThe White House said US President Joe Biden had been briefed and that his and First Lady Jill Biden's thoughts were \"solidly and squarely with the Queen today and her family\".\n\nNews of the Queen's ill-health came as MPs heard details of the government's new plan to help households and businesses with energy costs in the House of Commons.\n\nChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Nadhim Zahawi entered the Commons and spoke to Ms Truss. Notes were then passed to the Commons speaker and Labour front bench. The palace statement came minutes later.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was \"deeply worried\", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sent her thoughts and wishes to the Queen.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford sent his best wishes on behalf of the people of Wales.\n\nThe monarch has been on a summer break at her Scottish home since July.\n\nBarriers have been placed outside one of the entrances to the estate.\n\nMeanwhile, a subdued crowd gathered at Buckingham Palace, the monarch's official London residence, under dark skies and with rain showers forecast.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Mackay said that the responsibility did not all rest on him\n\nFormer minister Derek MacKay said he takes his share of responsibility for the failure to deliver two ferries for Calmac's west coast routes.\n\nThe former MSP was speaking to Holyrood's Public Audit Committee which is looking at why the vessels are years late and over budget.\n\nHe denied that the contract was awarded to Port Glasgow-based Ferguson shipyard for political reasons.\n\nMr Mackay resigned in 2020 amid a scandal over messages to a teenage boy.\n\nHolyrood is holding an inquiry into delays and overspends at Ferguson Marine, which is still building the two ferries.\n\nThe Glen Sannox and as-yet-unnamed 802 will be at least five years late when they finally come into service.\n\nCosts have risen hugely from £97m to £250m.\n\nThere are questions over why the contract was awarded to Ferguson Marine despite concerns over its suitability.\n\nThese were raised by CMAL (Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited), which buys ferries for ferry operator CalMac. Both organisations are owned by the Scottish government.\n\nAnyone who hoped for a \"mea culpa\" from Derek Mackay will be disappointed.\n\nThere was no abject apology for the ferry fiasco.\n\nNo finger pointed at Nicola Sturgeon or his erstwhile colleagues in the SNP.\n\nInstead the former transport minister was right on message.\n\n\"I'll take my share of responsibility\", he said at the outset.\n\nBut for the next hour, he made clear his view that he'd done nothing wrong.\n\nThe contract for the two failed ferries was awarded without a \"Builder's Refund Guarantee\", which would have protected taxpayers' money if the whole project failed, ran late or went over budget.\n\nBut Mr Mackay insisted this wasn't his choice.\n\nInstead, he claimed officials asked for authorisation to proceed with the contract - and spelled out ways in which the risks were reduced.\n\nThere was \"regretability\", he said, that the ferries hadn't been delivered.\n\nBut his evidence suggests the needs of Ferguson shipyard and its workforce may have been put ahead of the people who matter more.\n\nThat's the residents of island communities, who're still waiting for their lifeline ferries.\n\nMr Mackay had not been seen in the Scottish Parliament since he stood down as finance secretary and resigned from the SNP more than two years ago. He finally left Holyrood at last year's election.\n\nAppearing before the Public Audit Committee, Mr Mackay said: \"I recognise the catastrophic failure at Fergusons to complete the vessels on time and on budget. That is deeply regrettable.\n\n\"What I don't regret is protecting the workforce.\"\n\nThe former transport minister said he did not think there was a political agenda, or that the decision was rushed at all.\n\nThere was a \"methodical approach\" to procurement, he said.\n\n\"I recognise the failure of it but it was made with the best of intentions,\" he said. The decision was about \"getting the vessels built in Scotland and ensuring the future of the yard\", Mr Mackay said.\n\nHe told the committee that ministers \"don't ordinarily sign contracts\" and it would have been officials from CMAL - who led the procurement process - who physically signed off the contract.\n\nEarlier this year, an Audit Scotland report highlighted how the deal was approved by ministers in 2015 without the normal financial safeguards being in place.\n\nMr Mackay said that \"of course\" he was concerned about an initial lack of a Builder's Refund Guarantee (BRG) but there was mitigation in the submission to him, with reassurances.\n\n\"I considered the advice, I was satisfied with the advice, therefore I informed my private office to proceed,\" he added.\n\nMr Mackay recalled that one of the key comments in the submission was that Ferguson's was the \"best deal that could be negotiated\" and that the yard had a \"track record of delivery\".\n\nThe former minister left the committee room through an alternative exit, avoiding waiting journalists.\n\nCommittee convener Richard Leonard later said the hearing brought clarity to some central issues but there were still major differences in the versions of events stretching back to February 2015.\n\nHe said: \"We have today decided to invite the first minister to give evidence at a future meeting to help us get to the bottom of what has gone badly wrong with the delivery of ferries 801 and 802 for the Clyde and Hebrides.\n\n\"We will also consider any further next steps necessary to be able to report to parliament on our findings.\"", "Chris Heaton-Harris is the MP for Daventry\n\nSinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said she told the new secretary of state that the absence of an executive in Northern Ireland was no longer tolerable.\n\nMs O'Neill said the government needed to stop \"pandering\" to the DUP.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said Sinn Féin \"need to grow up\".\n\nAfter meeting Chris Heaton-Harris, Ms O'Neill accused the government of being \"in hock\" to the right-wing European Research Group (ERG).\n\nThe new secretary of state also met DUP leaders on Thursday. However, he did not meet representatives of Alliance, the Ulster Unionist Party or the SDLP. Mr Heaton-Harris said he looked forward to meeting \"all political parties\" in the coming days.\n\nSpeaking after meeting him in Dungannon, Ms O'Neill said: \"There must be a deal. We must find a way forward.\n\n\"We have a new prime minister and a new secretary of state but it's still the Tory party; different people at the helm but it's still the Tory party.\n\n\"My focus and I suppose my message to the new secretary of state this morning was very clear: 'It's get down to business; work with others, find an agreed way forward.\n\n\"'Bring that certainty and stability that is required. Get an executive up and running and stop pandering to the DUP.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris and the new minister of state at the Northern Ireland office, Steve Baker, are past chairmen of the pro-Brexit group ERG within the parliamentary Conservative Party.\n\n\"The ERG have been dictating the pace and bringing a very toxic influence to our local politics,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said she welcomed the secretary of state's \"warm words\" about the restoration of the executive being his priority, but added that that had not been the case with the Conservative party to date\n\n\"So, regardless of who's there, that's a feature. My concern is that I stand up for people here and the people want an executive up and running.\n\n\"They want us to put money into their pockets to help them get us through this nightmare of a cost-of-living crisis.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey said Mr Heaton-Harris and Mr Baker \"understand the difficulties we face at this time and the challenges we need to overcome\".\n\n\"I'm sure the secretary of state will share our view that decisive action needs to be taken to address those problems so that the political institutions can be restored here,\" the DUP leader said.\n\nHe said his party was committed to helping the people of Northern Ireland, unlike Sinn Féin who he said \"need to grow up.\"\n\nHe said there was a prospect of renewed negotiations but a \"change of stance by the European Union\" was required.\n\n\"When they talk about respecting the Belfast Agreement, that means, in article 1 of that agreement, respecting Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom - because that's what the people of Northern Ireland support.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris was in Dungannon for his first official visit to Northern Ireland.Heaton-Harris makes first visit as NI Secretary\n\nHe was criticised for only holding meetings with Sinn Féin and the DUP on the first day of his visit.\n\nHowever, UUP leader Doug Beattie will meet Mr Heaton-Harris on Tuesday.\n\nHe said next week's meeting gave him time \"to go to him with our concerns and our proposals to get the executive up and running again\".\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said he wanted to \"deliver enough pressure\" to get an executive restored and resolve the dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIn a statement, he said, \"It has been brilliant to be out and about in Northern Ireland today, and to talk to people about how we can deliver for the people of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris explained that the UK government was currently faced with a \"range of challenging issues\" including finding a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol and the rising cost of living.\n\nFollowing the announcement by the prime minister of a energy support package he said he had been speaking to his Cabinet colleagues to ensure that support would be delivered in Northern Ireland \"as soon as possible.\"\n\nAt his first NI Questions on Wednesday Mr Heaton-Harris said the best way forward was to have a functioning executive.\n\nMs Truss told the Commons the Northern Ireland Executive must return - and at the end of next month the new secretary of state will have to decide what to do if this does not happen.\n\nNew secretary of state Chris Heaton-Harris speaks to the press in Dungannon\n\nIf Stormont has not returned by 28 October, a 12-week period will be triggered during which he will have to call a fresh assembly election, unless the government instead chooses to push back the deadline.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Heaton-Harris said he would \"work with everybody\" to resolve problems over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nHe also told the Commons that he wanted to negotiate a solution with the EU but that the UK government would legislate at Westminster if this did not happen.\n\nHe called on the DUP to return to power sharing as soon as possible. But he is seen by some as an ally of the party because of his support for Brexit and his desire to change the protocol.\n\nSinn Féin's Conor Murphy, who met Mr Heaton-Harris alongside Ms O'Neill, earlier said he would encourage him to meet all Northern Ireland parties.\n\nHe said: \"We will deal with any British secretary the way we've dealt with previous ones. British government policy in Ireland is the problem and particularly in relation to the protocol and other issues affecting Brexit.\n\n\"We need to see them back in proper negotiations with the EU so the benefits of the protocol can be felt here and we stop suffering the full effect of Brexit as is happening right across Britain at this moment.\"\n\nDUP MP Sammy Wilson said the outcome of what Ms Truss's government does about the protocol was \"the most important thing\".\n\n\"Until that is dealt with, people will find that their cost of living goes up even more than the rest of the UK, due to additional costs which the protocol is imposing on goods coming into Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"The cost of living issues are not going to be dealt with by Stormont - Stormont doesn't have the money.\n\n\"It is going to come from Westminster so we'll be looking out for what's announced today in terms of energy help for people and then of course later on when the government brings its budget.\"\n\nMeanwhile, SDLP MP Claire Hanna has described the appointments of Mr Heaton-Harris and Mr Baker as \"concerning\".\n\n\"It is fair to say Liz Truss has appointed two men known for being very much associated with having a very hardline Brexit view and they're former chairs of the ERG (European Research Group),\" she said.\n\n\"I would suggest it is that ERG ideology that has got Northern Ireland into the place we're in. Six years of not properly acknowledging, understanding and processing the realities of Brexit with the geography we have.\n\n\"We do think it is a concerning appointment - there are optimistic interpretations that she's sending a hardliner in to look tough and to do the deal but at the moment it doesn't send a good signal about her willingness to work with people who do not support a hardline Brexit and to work with the EU,\" she added.", "The Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral for their silver wedding anniversary in 1972\n\nThe Queen's love of her home in Balmoral in Royal Deeside was well known.\n\nShe spent most summers at the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire, usually with her beloved husband Philip and family by her side.\n\nSurrounded by countryside, Balmoral Castle is where she spent many a happy holiday - from visiting with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary as a small child, to the final months of her life.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip with children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Charles (left to right) in the grounds of Balmoral in 1960\n\nShe hosted numerous royal garden parties there and enjoyed watching events at the nearby Braemar Highland Games with other members of the Royal Family.\n\nShe spent much of Prince Philip's last years with him at Balmoral - they remained there together during lockdown and spent their 73rd wedding anniversary there in November 2020.\n\nBalmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when the estate and its original castle were bought from the Farquharson family by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband. The house was then found to be too small and the current Balmoral Castle was commissioned.\n\nBalmoral Castle has been a residence of the Royal Family since 1852\n\nThe castle itself is an example of Scottish baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Environment Scotland as a category A listed building. The new castle was completed in 1856 and the old castle demolished shortly afterwards.\n\nIt remains private property of the Queen and is not part of the Crown Estate.\n\nIt is a working estate, including grouse moors, forestry and farmland, as well as managed herds of deer, Highland cattle, and ponies.\n\nThe Royal Family were at Balmoral when Princess Diana died on 31 August 1997 and it initially became the focus of the aftermath.\n\nAfter attending a private service at Crathie Church, the Queen and the Royal Family stop to look at floral tributes left for Princess Diana, at the gates of Balmoral Castle, in September 1997\n\nThe Sunday morning after her death, the Queen and Princes Charles, William and Harry attended a church service at nearby Crathie Kirk.\n\nOn their way home they viewed the floral tributes and messages left by the public.\n\nHere are some more images of the Queen and her family at Balmoral over the years:\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary on the way back to Balmoral after attending church at nearby Crathie in September 1932\n\nThe Royal Family during a visit to Balmoral Castle in 1951, Princess Elizabeth is with her children Prince Charles (left) and Princess Anne\n\nQueen Elizabeth II with her children Charles (right) and Anne, posing in Balmoral in 1952\n\nThe Queen plays with Prince Charles and Princess Anne at the castle windows in 1952\n\nThe Queen watches her son Prince Charles driving in a toy car on the grounds of Balmoral Castle\n\nPresident Eisenhower with the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral Castle in September 1959\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in a field with Highland cattle at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen at the writing desk in her study at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip in the study at Balmoral in 1976\n\nQueen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with theirs three sons, Edward, Charles and Andrew for their 32nd wedding anniversary at Balmoral on 20 November 1979\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip on holiday at Balmoral Castle in 2005\n\nThe Queen and members of the Royal Family break into laughter as they watch the tug-of-war during the Braemar Gathering in 2006\n\nThe Queen attends a garden party at Balmoral Castle in 2012\n\nThe Queen signs a message at Balmoral that was carried in the Commonwealth baton ahead of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games\n\nThe Queen arrives at Crathie Kirk with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in August 2019\n\nThe Queen inspects the Balaklava Company, 5 Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland at the gates at Balmoral, as she takes up summer residence at the castle in August 2021\n\nChildren from Crathie Primary School present the Queen with a card at the Balmoral Estate's cricket pavilion in October 2021\n\nQueen Elizabeth receiving the new prime minister, Liz Truss, in the drawing room at Balmoral on Tuesday\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Police say the suspect in a stabbing in Canada that left 10 dead and 18 others injured has died after he was captured by police.", "Cary Yan (50) and Gina Zhou (34) bribed politicians to try and create a special zone in the Marshall Islands, US prosecutors say\n\nA Chinese couple plotted to set up a mini-state on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, bribing MPs and officials along the way, US prosecutors say.\n\nThe man and woman tried to persuade lawmakers to set up a \"Semi-Autonomous Region\" (SAR) on a remote atoll.\n\nSuch a zone would have expanded foreign access to the Pacific nation, which was administered by the US until 1979.\n\nThe Marshall Islands government is yet to fully address the accusations, despite calls from opposition parties.\n\nBut US authorities say the defendants - Cary Yan and Gina Zhou - undermined the island nation's sovereignty.\n\nTheir efforts saw bills supporting the SAR's creation debated in the Marshall Islands' parliament in 2018 and 2020, US prosecutors say.\n\nProsecutors allege several Marshall Island lawmakers, unidentified in the charge sheet, voted for the bills after receiving bribes ranging from US$7,000 to $22,000 (£6,100 to £19,000).\n\nThe pair were detained in Thailand in 2020 and extradited to the US last week.\n\n\"Yan and Zhou's bribes blatantly flouted the sovereignty of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and its legislature,\" said US Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York.\n\nThe Marshall Islands, a chain of islands located between Hawaii and Australia, gained independence in 1979 after being under US administration for four decades.\n\nIt remains a key strategic base for Washington in the Pacific, where the US has some security alliances in place but China is seeking to expand its influence.\n\nProsecutors say the two defendants operated a New York-based NGO through which they paid and liaised with Marshall Islands officials.\n\nStarting in 2016, they contacted island representatives in a bid to create a SAR on the Rongelap atoll - an area abandoned following US hydrogen bomb testing in the 1950s.\n\nUS authorities say Mr Yan and Ms Zhao aimed to \"significantly change the laws on the island\", such as by cutting taxes and relaxing immigration restrictions, to attract foreign investment.\n\nThey allege the pair wined and dined at least six Marshall Island officials and lawmakers, paying for flights and hotels in New York as well as in Hong Kong, where the officials attended a conference promoting the SAR.\n\nOne official who accepted money then appointed Mr Yan as a special adviser to the Marshall Islands. The pair also became naturalised Marshall Island citizens.\n\nIn 2018, lawmakers who had taken bribes introduced a bill supporting the proposed SAR into parliament, US prosecutors say.\n\n\"The defendants offered and provided a series of bribes and other incentives to obtain the support of legislators for the bill,\" the US Justice Department indictment sheet reads.\n\nHowever, the bill failed to pass in parliament after firm opposition from the island's then president, Hilda Heine. Ms Heine around that time had accused opponents of working on China's behalf and attempting to secure the atoll to turn it into a \"country within a country\".\n\nBut Ms Heine lost the 2019 general election. A new parliament in 2020 then passed a resolution which endorsed the concept of the SAR - paving the way for a new bill to establish it.\n\nHowever later that year Mr Yan and Ms Zhao were detained in Thailand. They have been charged in the US with foreign corruption, money laundering and bribery offences.\n\nOn Monday, former president Ms Heine added her voice to those demanding the Marshall Islands government address the issue.\n\n\"What is the Nitijela [parliament] and the government going to do about this big black eye for Marshall Islands?\" she asked, according to local media.", "Supporters of Mr Ruto have taken to the streets to celebrate the ruling\n\nKenya's Supreme Court has ruled that William Ruto was properly elected president, dismissing several petitions seeking to annul the result of the 9 August election.\n\nHis rival, Raila Odinga, and others had alleged there had been massive fraud.\n\nBut in a scathing ruling, the judges said some of the petitioners had falsified evidence.\n\nMr Ruto garnered 50.5% of the vote in the closely fought election against 48.8% for Mr Odinga.\n\nThe 55-year-old will be sworn in as the country's fifth president next week.\n\nFollowing the ruling, Mr Ruto said he would extend a hand of friendship to his political opponents, and praised the judiciary and the electoral commission for upholding the \"will of the people\".\n\nDespite being the current deputy president, Mr Ruto was not backed by the outgoing President, Uhuru Kenyatta, who instead campaigned for his former rival, Mr Odinga.\n\nBut Mr Ruto said he would be speaking to both men shortly and promised that his government would look after them in retirement.\n\n\"We are not enemies, we are Kenyans. Let us unite to make Kenya a nation of which everyone shall be proud to call home,\" he said.\n\nIn a recorded message, Mr Kenyatta congratulated the leaders who had been elected in the general elections but didn't mention Mr Ruto by name.\n\nThe president, who has clashed with the judiciary several times in the past, expressed his misgivings about the Supreme Court ruling, but said he would abide by it.\n\n\"The process of handing over is in progress... it is my intention to oversee a smooth transition to the next administration,\" Mr Kenyatta said.\n\nThe eight petitions challenging the elections were all dismissed.\n\nThe court found some were based on forged documents and \"sensational information\", Chief Justice Martha Koome said in a unanimous decision on behalf of the seven judges.\n\nNo credible evidence that the electronic voting transmission system had been tampered with by a supposed \"middle man\" was presented, she said.\n\nMs Koome also said that Mr Ruto had met the constitutional threshold of garnering 50%+1 of votes cast.\n\nThe ruling ends a protracted election dispute that started after polls closed last month, leading to widespread uncertainty across the country, in case of a repeat of previous outbreaks of election violence.\n\nMr Odinga's team had used the dissent of four of the seven electoral commissioners - who disowned the poll results because they had fallen out with the chairman - to bolster his case.\n\nBut while noting the \"dysfunction\" of the commission in managing its internal affairs, the court said it was not convinced that the claims of the chairman running a one-man show was enough to undermine the election.\n\n\"Are we to nullify the outcome of an election on the basis of a last-minute boardroom rupture whose details remain scanty?\" the judges asked.\n\nThe judges also reprimanded lawyers and petitioners who filed falsified documents in court - a rebuke meant to deter spurious petitions in the future.\n\nThe ruling prompted celebrations in Mr Ruto's home area of the Rift Valley and parts of the Central Province where his running mate hails from.\n\nIn Mr Odinga's stronghold of Kisumu, there was a subdued atmosphere. Streets were deserted and some businesses closed for the day.\n\nKenyans will now be watching the political repercussions of Mr Ruto's win for the main players.\n\nMr Odinga has now lost five elections. At 77 it's hard to see how he will run again or even if he will remain active in opposition politics, though his statement lambasting Monday's ruling says he will continue with the \"struggle for transparency, accountability and democracy\".\n\nAs for outgoing President Kenyatta, who worked hard to prevent his deputy from succeeding him, it will be interesting to see if their relationship remains strained.\n\nMost importantly, Kenya has shown that it can resolve elections disputes without resorting to the violence we have seen in the past.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak on his future as an MP: \"I don't plan on going anywhere.\"\n\nRishi Sunak says he will stand again to be an MP at the next general election, despite losing to Liz Truss in the Conservative leadership election.\n\nThe former chancellor got 43% of the votes to Ms Truss's 57%.\n\nHe is not expected to be in Ms Truss's cabinet - and there has been speculation he will quit politics.\n\nBut he told BBC Political Editor Chris Mason he hoped to continue serving his constituents \"not just in the immediate future but also at the next election\".\n\nThe 42-year-old, who has been MP for Richmond, in North Yorkshire, since 2015, also said the new Tory leader and prime minister would have his \"full support\".\n\nAsked if he would accept a ministerial job from Ms Truss, he said: \"It is just not something I'm thinking about.\"\n\nDuring the campaign, the two candidates strongly disagreed on each other's economic proposals.\n\nHowever, asked whether he would support his new leader's plans, he said: \"Liz has said very clearly that she is going to provide support for households during winter and that's a good thing.\n\n\"Many people are gong to struggle and it is right they are going to get some help through that\".\n\nHe said the eight-week long leadership campaign had \"obviously highlighted differences\" but he insisted that \"there's far more that unites us\".\n\nTheir disagreements were \"in the past\" and it was now time to \"look forward\", he added.\n\nReflecting on his own future he said he was \"absolutely\" still interested in a career in politics.\n\n\"I am very committed to my constituents in North Yorkshire... and as long as they will have me I plan to keep serving them not just in the immediate future but also at the next election.\"", "Twins Chelsea (left) and Christy Cawley and their sister Lisa Cash were killed in their home on Sunday\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering three of his siblings in their home in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAndy Cash, 24, of Rossfield Avenue in Tallaght in south-west Dublin, was charged on Monday night.\n\nEight-year-old twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley and 18-year-old Lisa Cash died after they were attacked in the early hours on Sunday.\n\nThe defendant appeared at a special sitting of Dublin District Court at about 21:00 local time on Monday.\n\nGarda (Irish police) Robert Whitty told the court that the accused replied \"no comment\" when he was charged with the murders.\n\nA defence solicitor requested a psychological assessment for his client and solitary confinement for him in custody.\n\nThe judge said that was a matter for the prison governor.\n\nThe defendant was remanded in custody and is due to appear before Cloverhill District Court in County Dublin by videolink on Friday.", "Nevermind is one of the best-selling albums of all time\n\nA US judge has dismissed a man's latest lawsuit against Nirvana over the band's iconic 1991 album cover which showed him naked as a baby.\n\nSpencer Elden, 31, said his appearance on the front of the Nevermind record constituted child sexual abuse.\n\nBut the judge said he had left it too late to claim he had been exploited.\n\nMr Elden's legal avenues are now all but exhausted as he cannot re-file the case, but his legal team told US media he would appeal against the ruling.\n\nThe lawsuit focused on a photograph of Mr Elden, which depicted him swimming naked in a pool towards a dollar bill pierced with a fish hook.\n\nHe argued that he had been unable to consent to the picture being used. He was seeking $150,000 (£130,000) in damages.\n\nPhotographer Kirk Weddle was among the defendants, as were former Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as Courtney Love, the widow of late singer Kurt Cobain.\n\nMr Elden filed his case in 2021, arguing that he was still within his rights to complain about the decades-old image because it had continued to cause him distress and lost earnings into adulthood.\n\nThe lawsuit was dismissed and then re-filed in January.\n\nThe Los Angeles judge ruled on Friday that Mr Elden lodged his case well beyond the 10-year statute of limitations.\n\nWelcoming the verdict, a defence lawyer said the case had been \"meritless\".\n\nThe defence had argued that Mr Elden had enjoyed being the \"Nirvana baby\", noting that he had re-enacted the photograph in later life.\n\nMr Elden's parents were paid $200 (£173) for the photo in 1991 by what was then a relatively unknown band.\n\nWorldwide sales of Nevermind went on to surpass 30 million, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.", "Government documents, advice and experts repeatedly warned ministers about Rwanda's poor human rights record, the High Court has been told.\n\nCampaigners are challenging the Home Office's plan to send some cross-Channel migrants to Rwanda.\n\nA second stage to the case is expected to take place in October before the High Court gives its ruling.\n\nIn written submissions, lawyers flagged repeated instances of government concerns about the country.\n\nThe High Court was told the home secretary and government, including the Foreign Office and Downing Street, were \"themselves aware of, and appear to have had serious concerns, over Rwanda's present and historic human rights record\".\n\nThe lawyers said: \"Those concerns were articulated repeatedly by public officials.\"\n\nThey said that in many instances the government had publicly criticised Rwanda for its human rights record, adding: \"That was precisely why Rwanda was initially ruled out as a potential candidate for partnership in the planned migration policy.\n\n\"These concerns identified within the UK government about Rwanda's human rights record are not properly or accurately reflected in [government papers defending the scheme].\"\n\nSpeaking in court, Raza Husain QC, for the migrants, said: \"We make no bones about our submission that Rwanda is a one-party authoritarian state that does not tolerate political opposition. It is a regime that repeatedly imprisons tortures and murders those its thinks is its political opponents.\n\n\"Those who protest or dissent from government directives, including refugees, are faced with police violence.\n\n\"All of those observations are drawn from our own government officials.\"\n\nIn their submissions, the challengers said Home Secretary Priti Patel had broken the law by failing in her duty to take into account what the government's own officials had previously reported.\n\nIf she had considered those concerns, argue the claimants, the risks of sending anyone to Rwanda \"would have been obvious to her\".\n\nThe five-day hearing is possibly one of the largest and most complex ever challenges to a government policy.\n\nGovernment lawyers are expected to begin a defence of the Rwanda plan in court on Wednesday. In written submissions to the court, the Home Office says that ministers have the power to send migrants to Rwanda - and nobody would be at risk of abuse under the agreement between the nations.\n\nThe government has said its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will discourage them from crossing the English Channel.\n\nThe policy is aimed at people who arrive in the UK through what ministers call \"illegal, dangerous or unnecessary methods\", such as on small boats or hidden in lorries, when they could have claimed asylum in another safe country - such as France.", "Tory voters have chosen Liz Truss as their new leader and she will become prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nAs widely expected, the South West Norfolk MP beat Rishi Sunak to become leader of her party, Sir Graham Brady has announced.\n\nShe is due to go to Balmoral within 24 hours and be sworn in as the UK prime minister after Boris Johnson formally resigns.\n\nLive: Liz Truss to be next UK prime minister", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA heavy burden of responsibility falls immediately upon the shoulders of any new prime minister, often causing a silent quiver of nerves. For Liz Truss, self doubt does not form part of her lexicon.\n\nPeople who have met her in recent days say she is relishing the ride and is brimming with self-confidence.\n\nBut even the UK's new prime minister might admit in private that what she describes as \"eye-watering\" energy bills will present her with a hefty challenge, unprecedented since her hero Margaret Thatcher assumed office nearly half a century ago.\n\nWhen Lady Thatcher moved into Downing Street in 1979, the country had a good idea of their new prime minister. She had been leader of the opposition for four years.\n\nWhile Truss has been a cabinet minister for eight years, she has had a lower profile than Thatcher. And even those who know the foreign secretary are wondering what instincts she will follow.\n\nWill we see the return to the fore of the pragmatist who moved seamlessly from the Remain camp to the warm embrace of the Brexiteers? Or will she govern in the mode of her leadership campaign - a lady not for turning, in the words of Thatcher, who will focus on tax cuts?\n\nOver the past few days, BBC Newsnight has been speaking to people who know Truss to assess whether her past can tell us about her future. The consensus seems to be that we will see Liz Truss turning to both sides of her political past to guide her thinking.\n\nOver the weekend Truss announced that within a week of taking office, she will outline an emergency plan to help people with those energy bills. But in a \"fiscal event\" later this month, her new chancellor will outline a \"broader package\" that will hold fast to her campaign pledges.\n\nBaroness Morgan of Cotes, who entered parliament with Truss in 2010 and who served with her in cabinet, says we will see the two sides of the new prime minister's character in response to the energy crisis.\n\n\"I think that there'll be a combination of approaches,\" Baroness Morgan tells Newsnight. \"I think people are going to find it's quite hard to pigeonhole Liz in many ways.\"\n\nPaul Goodman, editor of the ConservativeHome website and someone who knew Truss during his time as an MP, says the new PM will need to put the UK on a war footing to both meet the energy crisis and to shore up her political support.\n\n\"The key to Liz Truss over many years has been her adaptability,\" he says. \"So although she has this reputation as an ideologue and she has very clear ideological roots - originally as a Liberal Democrat - she is somehow the darling of Leavers who in the referendum was a Remainer.\n\n\"She is the champion now of the Tory right, having once been a Liberal Democrat. And she's presented herself in this election as the new kid on the block when she's actually been in cabinet for the best part of 10 years. So she has extraordinary powers of reinvention and recovery.\"\n\nLiz Truss campaigned for Remain during the EU referendum, but quickly backed Brexit after the vote\n\nBut there could be political trouble in embracing strong state support to help people with energy bills. \"The difficulty for her would be this: among the people who elected her are a large body of people who want a different approach,\" Goodman says.\n\n\"So she would have to fall back for support on the body in the Conservative party that didn't vote for her, while irritating, if not angering, some of those that did. And that's going to be a very difficult political horse to ride.\"\n\nAn unlikely political mentor sees a more ideological figure. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, the former Labour defence secretary, encouraged Truss to pursue a political career when she was head of government relations at Cable & Wireless, where he served as a board member.\n\n\"Liz is somebody who gets on well with people,\" Robertson said. \"She has become much more ideological since the days when I would meet her occasionally in the House of Commons… I think she's going to turn out to be quite an ideological fixed-view person in No 10.\"\n\nRobertson knew her as a conventional budding politician who had attended Oxford and who would soon enter the world of Westminster think tanks. That conventional path was pursued in parliament when Truss followed David Cameron's lead in supporting Remain in the referendum.\n\nThe careers of many Tory Remainers were destroyed by that referendum. But it was the making of Truss.\n\nIn the aftermath of the referendum she intuited what would happen at the time when it was a genuinely open question about what sort of Brexit we'd end up with. \"The Leavers will win because they care more,\" she told friends.\n\nThat was a political judgment which led her to make an emotional commitment - she would throw her lot in with that side, lock stock and barrel.\n\nMr Goodman says her change of tack is more complicated than a simple case of a pivoting politician. \"My memory of the time is of a certain vibe emanating from Liz Truss which is: 'What's all this got to do with me? I'm trying to get on my with my job as [environment secretary] and this referendum seems to me a massive distraction from it.'\"\n\nHe added: \"So I don't feel it was just about pleasing the powers that be. But what happened then shows her powers of adaptability.\"\n\nChanging her mind is constant theme for Truss, who was an active Liberal Democrat at university. But her passion for politics, influenced by her left-wing activist parents as a child, has also been constant.\n\nTruss's success has led to something of a family split. Her mother Priscilla has put family ties before politics and is enthusiastically supporting her daughter. But her father John, a maths professor, is less reconciled to the idea of his daughter as a Tory prime minister, according to her friends.\n\nBut Liz Truss does take one core gift from her father into Downing Street: a passion for maths. And anyone invited to an interview with the prime minister had better expect a tricky maths challenge.", "A photographer took pictures of what appeared to be a barefoot and shirtless man at the apex of The Shard\n\nA 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of trespass after a person was seen climbing The Shard building in central London.\n\nMetropolitan Police officers were called to the 1,017ft-tall (310m) skyscraper at 05:38 BST.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade and the ambulance service also attended, and a number of cordons were put in place.\n\nTwo other men were detained on suspicion of causing public nuisance, the Met said.\n\nEarlier, Adam Lockwood, a man from Manchester known for a series of similar climbing stunts, posted a picture of himself on the top of the Shard on his Facebook page.\n\nThe climber was photographed as he made his way up the side of the skyscraper\n\nPolice were called to reports of a person climbing The Shard on Sunday morning\n\nEmergency services gathered at the base of The Shard\n\nFootage posted on social media appeared to show a figure scaling the exterior of the landmark, one of the biggest buildings in Europe.\n\nPrevious attempts to climb the 87-storey tower in Southwark include a group of protesters from Greenpeace in 2013.\n\nPaul Curphey and his partner Treasaidh were staying in a room on the 40th floor of the Shard, when they saw a man waving and climbing past their window at 06:00.\n\nMr Curphey, 52, said the man appeared to be having \"the time of his life\".\n\n\"My partner thought I had pulled all the stops out and managed to get a guy to bring a box of Milk Tray for her birthday.\"\n\nPaul Curphey was staying at the Shard with his partner when the man appeared, waving outside their 40th floor window\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 Environment Agency said the pollution was \"short term\" and did not expect it to last more than 72 hours\n\nPeople are being advised not to swim at 24 beaches in Devon and Cornwall because of bacterial pollution.\n\nThe Environment Agency blamed heavy rain for the problem, \"as we have seen over the last couple of days\".\n\nIt said the pollution was \"short term\" and did not expect it to last more than 72 hours.\n\nBeaches affected include North Sands in Salcombe and Goodrington near Paignton, both in Devon, as well as Summerleaze in Bude, Cornwall, said the agency.\n\nNorth Sands in Salcombe is among those affected\n\nAn agency spokesperson said there were a \"number of factors that can influence the quality of bathing waters\", including wind, sunlight, rain and tide.\n\n\"Sources of the bacteria can include water draining from agricultural and urban land during periods of heavy rain, as we have seen over the last couple of days,\" they said.\n\n\"Short term pollution cases are where we expect the pollution to last for no more than 72 hours.\"\n\nIt follows pollution warnings in August at more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in England and Wales after heavy rain overwhelmed sewer systems.\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.", "Barristers in England and Wales are starting an indefinite, uninterrupted strike, in an escalation of industrial action over pay which began in April.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association (CBA) walkout is likely to worsen existing court delays, with tens of thousands of cases already waiting to go to trial.\n\nThe CBA wants a 25% rise in legal aid fees for representing defendants who could not otherwise afford lawyers.\n\nBut Kirsty Brimelow, who chairs the CBA, says it is an attempt to \"hold up the criminal justice system from complete collapse\".\n\nAlthough the all-out strike formally starts on Monday, members of the CBA have staged intermittent walkouts since the end of June, escalating to week-long strikes on alternate weeks throughout August.\n\nBarristers will hold a series of rallies in support of the strike on Tuesday, gathering outside the Supreme Court in London and at court buildings in Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds.\n\nAt least 7,000 criminal cases go to Crown Court judges every month. So it's plain to see that if barristers strike, the historically high backlog and delays will grow.\n\nJust over a week ago, a judge at the Old Bailey warned that serious trials for murder could be postponed for a year if they don't start on time due to the strike.\n\nElsewhere, there are murder trials due to start or continue in Northampton and Luton, to pick just two locations.\n\nMinisters say the strike is irresponsible - but criminal barristers respond that they're the ones really concerned about the health of justice.\n\nFigures show that their numbers are reducing year-on-year - and that can be seen in the statistics.\n\nIn the first three months of this year, 370 scheduled trials, for which victims, defendants and witnesses had prepared, were put off because of a shortage of prosecution and defence lawyers - and 48 because of a lack of judges.\n\nThe government has offered a 15% rise from the end of September, which the CBA has rejected, saying it would not kick in soon enough or apply to existing cases.\n\nIt says the criminal justice system has been run down by years of underfunding, with some junior barristers making less than the hourly minimum wage and more than a quarter having quit the profession in the past five years.\n\n\"Barristers have stopped soldiering on through downtrodden courts,\" said Ms Brimelow, who called for \"proper investment in barristers who deliver the justice\".\n\n\"This is not a 'world-class justice system', as set out as the vision of the Ministry of Justice. It is not even a functioning justice system,\" she added.\n\nAt the end of June the courts backlog in England and Wales stood at 58,973 cases, having almost doubled since 2019.\n\nAccording to Ministry of Justice figures, 6,235 court hearings were disrupted by the strikes between 27 June and 5 August, including 1,415 trials.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice rejects applying the fee rise to existing cases, saying it would \"cost a disproportionate amount of taxpayers' money\".\n\nMinisters say a typical criminal barrister would earn £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\nMs Dines reiterated the government's view that the move to an all-out strike \"is an irresponsible decision that will only see more victims face further delays and distress\".\n\nIs your court case delayed as a result of the strike? Are you a barrister taking part? 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• None Criminal barristers vote to go on all-out strike", "Olivia died after being shot by a gunman chasing a man into her home\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder over the killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel.\n\nThe 34-year-old from Liverpool is being questioned by detectives from Merseyside Police.\n\nTwo other men, aged 29 and 41, have been detained on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nOlivia was shot when a gunman chased another man into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August.\n\nThe man arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder was detained in Runcorn in the early hours of Sunday and is being held in custody, police said.\n\nThe 41-year-old, from Knowsley, Merseyside, was also arrested in Runcorn.\n\nPolice said the 29-year-old man was arrested later after officers executed warrants at two addresses in the \"Liverpool area\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We still need the public's help in ensuring that we can a build a strong evidential picture so justice is served for Olivia and her family.\n\n\"I appeal for those who may have information - no matter how small - that could continue to help our inquiries, to contact us directly or anonymously and we will do the rest.\"\n\nInvestigators found the remains of several bullet casings in the garden\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest by a gunman who had chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into her home.\n\nNeither of the men who entered the home had any links to her family.\n\nHer mother Cheryl was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door on the attacker but he fired two more shots at the man he had pursued, Merseyside Police said.\n\nOn Tuesday, the opening of the inquest into Olivia's death heard how an armed police officer had tried to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nMerseyside Police had previously arrested two men on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder but released them on bail a week ago.\n\nOne of the men, aged 36, had been recalled to prison after breaching the terms of his licence.\n\nOn Saturday, a minute's applause was held in tribute to Olivia during the ninth minute of the Premier League match between Everton and Liverpool.\n\nThe Merseyside derby also featured a police appeal for information and an anti-knife and gun crime banner was unfurled, stretching across supporters from both clubs.\n\nOlivia was one of four people fatally shot or stabbed within one week in the region.\n\nHer funeral is due to take place at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot on 15 September and her family has asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" for the service.\n\nA crowdfunding page set up to support Olivia's family has raised more than £40,000.\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 survivor of the attack speaks to media outside the court on Monday\n\nEight suspects have gone on trial in Paris for links to a deadly lorry attack in the southern French city of Nice in 2016 which killed 86 people.\n\nThe suspects - who face between five years and life imprisonment - are accused of helping the attacker get weapons, and of logistical support.\n\nProceedings will be broadcast live to many of those affected by the attack.\n\nThis trial is the latest legal process over attacks of terrorism that have rocked the country since 2015.\n\nThe attacker himself was shot dead after driving a lorry into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, injuring more than 400.\n\nMohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, ploughed through a crowd of some 30,000 people who had been enjoying a fireworks display on France's national day.\n\nCareering through the coastal city's seafront boulevard Promenade des Anglais for more than 2km, the 31-year-old's victims included 15 children.\n\nThe so-called Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the massacre, but French investigators never found any proof that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had links with them.\n\nThe deadly attack came less than a year after the Paris attacks of November 2015 in which 130 people died - the worst peace-time attack the country has ever seen.\n\nA special French terrorism court built to deal with that attack is also being used in this latest trial over the attack in Nice.\n\nBut this trial is different, because it lacks any defendants accused of taking part in the attack itself - only defendants accused of aiding the attacker.\n\nThere are at least 865 civil plaintiffs who will take part, and nearly 250 of those will testify.\n\n\"The fact that the sole perpetrator is not there will create frustration. There will be many questions that no one will be able to answer,\" a lawyer for a victims' association taking part in the trial. said.", "Boris Johnson's successor as UK prime minister will be revealed later when either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak is named next Conservative leader.\n\nThe winner of the leadership contest, tipped by pollsters to be Ms Truss, will be announced at 12:30 BST before entering office on Tuesday.\n\nThe new PM will inherit a flagging economy, with inflation at a 40-year high and soaring energy bills.\n\nMs Truss has promised to \"act immediately\" to help with energy costs.\n\nUnveiling details of a support package will be one of her first acts as prime minister, with an announcement pencilled in for Thursday.\n\nEnergy industry sources expect the incoming government to freeze energy prices, a possible move not denied by Ms Truss's team.\n\nAccording to BBC political editor Chris Mason, Ms Truss has been working on her energy package for weeks, based on discussion with oil and gas producers.\n\nShe also plans to deliver £30bn in tax cuts through an emergency Budget later this month, arguing the UK's tax burden is behind sluggish growth.\n\nMs Truss's expected chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has argued her tax-cutting agenda will boost business investment and economic growth.\n\nWriting in the Financial Times, he blamed \"economic managerialism\" for years of low growth, adding \"we need to be decisive and do things differently\".\n\nMr Sunak, the former chancellor, criticised her tax-cutting plans during the weeks-long contest, arguing they would jeopardise the public finances.\n\nThe seven-week leadership contest brings to an end Mr Johnson's turbulent three years in office, and has seen the candidates regularly attack each other's policies as well as the Tories' record in government.\n\nMr Johnson was forced out in July by a ministerial revolt over a string of scandals, just over two-and-a-half years after leading the Tories to a landslide victory at the 2019 election.\n\nOn his final day in office, Mr Johnson will speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the telephone. He is expected to deliver a farewell speech upon leaving office on Tuesday, before the handover of power takes place.\n\nDowning Street also anticipates further resignations from the government, from ministers who do not expect to be part of Liz Truss's administration, Chris Mason says.\n\nThere aren't many people around Westminster predicting anything other than Liz Truss being named the new prime minister.\n\nEven Rishi Sunak's closest allies talk of him not losing by much, rather than winning.\n\nIf Ms Truss is named the victor just before lunchtime, one issue will define her early weeks in power: the cost of living.\n\nShe is planning a significant intervention this week, where tens of billions of pounds will be committed to helping with rising bills and inflation. That will include tax cuts and help for families and businesses. Expect her to also talk about an energy strategy to protect the UK against further turbulence in years to come.\n\nAfter weeks of talking to Conservative members, the new prime minister will have to start talking to the country immediately. And the stakes are high, for voters are worried about their bills most of all. But also for the Conservative Party, worried about its future.\n\nAs one senior Tory put it to me last night: \"If we get energy right, Starmer is beatable. If we don't, we're out.\"\n\nMs Truss is yet to offer details of her cost-of-living support plan beyond saying she will temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills and reverse the rise in National Insurance introduced during Mr Johnson's tenure.\n\nMr Sunak announced payments of £15bn as chancellor, including £400 payments for all households, but both contenders have said further support will be required after cost predictions rose further over the summer.\n\nLabour and the SNP have followed the Liberal Democrats in urging the government to freeze energy prices through multi-billion pound subsidies, while the Greens have suggested nationalising the UK's five biggest suppliers.\n\nMs Truss did not rule out a freeze on Sunday, but has previously described Labour's proposals as a \"sticking plaster\" and argues more needs to be done to help the UK boost its domestic sources of energy.\n\nShe has said any further support would have to go \"hand in hand\" with efforts to boost nuclear energy, fracking for shale gas and more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC looks back at the two final candidates and their memorable campaign moments\n\nThe leadership race began in July, when the original field of 11 contenders for the Tory leadership was whittled down to two in a series of Tory MP ballots, with the final pair going into a run-off to be decided by the membership, which stands at about 160,000.\n\nAlthough Mr Sunak had the most support among Tory MPs, he has trailed Ms Truss in opinion polls of the party grassroots.\n\nBBC political editor Chris Mason says that uniting the Conservative party will be one of the new PM's tasks, with one long-standing MP expressing worries that as prime minister, Ms Truss might not reach out to as many Sunak supporters and offer them jobs as might be wise, and that could entrench divisions in the party.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the next Tory leader will travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland to be appointed by the Queen, rather than at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen has been suffering from mobility issues and it is understood the change announced last week was made to prevent the need for any last-minute rearrangements.", "Wreckage and oil have been found where a private Cessna plane crashed into the Baltic Sea off Latvia's coast after a mysterious flight from southern Spain.\n\nThe Cessna, registered in Vienna, had been due to land in Cologne, Germany, but instead headed out into the Baltic.\n\nGerman businessman Peter Griesemann died - it was his private plane. German media say the other three victims were his wife, daughter and her boyfriend.\n\nGriesemann was prominent among organisers of the Cologne Carnival.\n\nThe Carnival's Facebook page has a mourning tribute to him. He was president of Blaue Funken (blue sparks) - one of the oldest carnival associations.\n\nWhen the Cessna 551 failed to respond to controllers' calls German and Danish fighter jets were sent to follow it, and later a Swedish helicopter searched for it.\n\nLatvia now has three small ships and a helicopter in the area of Sunday's crash.\n\n\"We found three parts of the plane, we think - experts will have to say,\" the Latvian maritime search and rescue service (MRCC) told the BBC.\n\nSpokesperson Liva Veita said there was no sign of those on board the Cessna. She also confirmed earlier reports that oil had been seen there.\n\nShe said two small Latvian naval ships and a coastguard vessel were at the crash site, north-west of Ventspils, as well as a Latvian border guards helicopter.\n\nA Latvian minesweeper could send down a robot submersible to locate the plane, she added.\n\nQuick Air, an air charter company based in Cologne, told Reuters news agency that the Cessna was Peter Griesemann's private plane. It confirmed his death and said three others were on board too, but did not identify them.\n\nThe Griesemann family, based in Cologne, own a holiday cottage in the Cádiz area of south-west Spain, German media report.\n\nOn Sunday a Danish ferry and two helicopters - from Lithuania and Sweden - conducted a search in vain in the Baltic.\n\nEarlier, Nato pilots and Swedish officials tracking the plane saw no-one in the cockpit.\n\n\"The aircraft was flying from Spain to Cologne, but during the flight the aircraft changed its flight route,\" the Latvian Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.\n\n\"Air traffic controllers were unable to communicate with the aircraft's crew,\" it said.\n\nThe FlightRadar24 data tracking website says the plane took off from the Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera at 12:56 GMT.\n\nAt 17:37 it was listed on FlightRadar24 as losing speed and altitude.\n\nGerman newspaper Bild says the plane reported cabin pressure problems after take-off and contact was lost after it cleared the Iberian peninsula.\n\nThe aircraft crashed \"when it ran out of fuel\", Sweden's search and rescue operation leader, Lars Antonsson, told AFP news agency.\n\nMr Antonsson said rescuers had \"no explanation at all\" and could \"only speculate\" about what had happened. \"But they [the people on board] were clearly incapacitated,\" he said.", "The sound of emergency alerts are occasionally ringing on mobile phones in Regina, warning of \"two adult male suspects\" who \"continue to be at large\".\n\nApart from that the city is quiet, with many shops shuttered for the long Labour Day weekend.\n\nSome families have gathered in Victoria Park, in the city's centre, to enjoy the final days of summer.\n\nCraig and Brenda, sitting in lawn chairs in the shade, called what happened a \"sad situation\".\n\n\"I've been staying home, but I ventured out today,\" said Brenda, \"I thought we'd be safe to do so. I thought I'd be ok here.\"\n\nSitting nearby, Deena Arthur called the attacks \"horrific\" and said it must be devastating for the families of those killed. \"It's on everyone's mind.\"\n\nShe said she hoped the two men are apprehended without being hurt - peacefully.\n\n\"They're not monsters, they're people,\" she said. \"Something has happened to them to make this happen.\"\n\nShe said the alerts that have been sent by police are good but is concerned that it makes people afraid who don't need to be.", "The soaring cost of living is one of the big issues facing the new prime minister\n\nLiz Truss, the UK's next prime minister, will arrive in Downing Street to an overflowing in-tray of potential problems - an all-consuming cost of living crisis, dire warnings about the state of the NHS, and an ongoing war in Ukraine.\n\nSeven BBC correspondents identified some of the biggest questions No 10's latest occupant will have to tackle.\n\nThe new prime minister won't actually be able to solve fully their biggest challenge - the cost-of-living crisis. And it's got notably worse during the leadership campaign. At its core is the problem that energy, especially gas, is not flowing normally. This is primarily because of the Ukraine conflict and the conscious actions of the Kremlin. Prices spiked further recently, as European nations stored up gas for the winter.\n\nThe overall result is energy prices most people will find unaffordable. The extent, timing, and targeting of help - which will stretch into tens of billions of pounds just for households - are the key judgements the new prime minister will face.\n\nOther prices - especially for food - are also surging, which could lead the inflation rate beyond 15%. All that is before the impact of further falls in the value of Sterling. Meanwhile, interest rates are on the rise, not just for families, but also for companies and the government itself. It is a toxic economic cocktail, and will require judicious, credible, and timely interventions.\n\nNHS workers have threatened to strike over pay, as the cost of living crisis follows the pandemic\n\nNHS performance has been deteriorating for the best part of a decade, but the pandemic has exacerbated its problems even further. Record numbers are on hospital waiting lists - nearly one in eight people are currently waiting for treatment. Meanwhile, emergency services are warning patients are being harmed because of delays responding to 999 calls and long waits in A&E.\n\nThere is the threat of industrial action, with unions unhappy with pay. And all this is happening ahead of winter, with the prospect of flu and Covid circulating at high levels for the first time. Part of the problem hospitals are facing is the inability to discharge patients when they are medically fit to leave because of a lack of social care places.\n\nThe government does have a plan for social care - the care cap - but that is about protecting people's assets rather than providing more funding for services. Even then, there has been debate about whether the government is right to increase national insurance to pay for it, in part because of rising inflation.\n\nBoris Johnson offered Ukraine early political and military support. The new prime minister is expected to maintain that approach and is likely to be willing to provide Ukraine with more weapons as the conflict progresses.\n\nBut as time goes by, the new prime minister may face a growing challenge of convincing doubters at home and abroad that the economic price of supporting Ukraine is worth it. With rising energy costs exacerbating the cost-of-living crisis, the PM will have to persuade voters that their financial discomfort is needed to defend Ukraine.\n\nThere will also be a big job of diplomacy to protect the pro-Ukraine alliance across Europe. There may well be countries that want to seek an accommodation with Russia and end the fighting to help secure their energy supplies.\n\nAfter months of infighting, uniting the Conservative party is the main political challenge. And party unity will face an early test: the privileges committee investigation into whether Boris Johnson misled MPs over Downing Street parties.\n\nIf the committee of MPs recommends a punishment for Mr Johnson, MPs will need to vote on it. The prime minister will have to decide whether to let Tories vote how they want, or whether to instruct them to vote a certain way. Whipping them to vote for a sanction could anger those who support Boris Johnson, but the opposite approach risks accusations of trying to cover up wrongdoing.\n\nWhy does Tory infighting matter when there are pressing concerns, like the cost of living? Firstly, because governments with divided parties can struggle to pass policies that matter to people's lives. Secondly, it can be hard - as Mr Johnson discovered - to land your messages with the public if ministers spend more time on the airwaves trying to defend various behavioural issues, rather than policies.\n\nThe next PM will quickly face a conundrum over the Northern Ireland protocol. Talks with the EU all but ground to a halt after the government introduced a bill to give UK ministers powers to override parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party declared it won't form a power-sharing government at Stormont until the protocol is changed, arguing it damages Northern Ireland's position within the UK. The key date is 28 October, the deadline for restoring government at Stormont.\n\nAfter that date, the government will either have to call a fresh assembly election, draw up legislation for a new deadline, or begin taking more decisions for Northern Ireland from Westminster. The PM will also have to bear in mind that most Northern Irish politicians want the protocol to remain and won't shy from laying blame at the door of Downing Street.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is proposing to hold a second independence referendum in October 2023\n\nTheresa May made the trip to Scotland on her first full day in office. Boris Johnson arranged his meeting within a week. It's not clear whether the new prime minister will be in quite the same hurry to go at a time when Nicola Sturgeon is pressing for an agreement to hold another independence referendum, in 2023.\n\nIn October, the UK Supreme Court will be asked to consider whether or not Holyrood has the power to hold IndyRef2 without Westminster's consent. The weight of legal opinion suggests the answer may be no but if the case goes the other way, the PM would face a big call: allow the vote to go ahead or take active steps to stop it.\n\nIn resisting Scottish independence, any prime minister must be careful not to choose an approach that risks undermining support for the union further.\n\nIn the midst of a gas price crisis, the new prime minister will very rapidly have to make decisions on energy that could set us on course to make, or break, the UK's commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.\n\nWill they prioritise the push for more renewables against the demands from some that they look again at the fossil fuels that already warm our planet? Should new oil and gas projects be greenlighted in the North Sea? Will the new leader give any encouragement to the UK fracking industry?\n\nAs part of the net zero strategy, the government has committed to decarbonise the generation of electricity by 2035. For that to happen there will need to be a massive expansion in renewable energy. Offshore wind is already a British success story, but the fastest renewable projects from conception to completion are on land - solar and onshore wind.\n\nBoth are currently stymied by the planning process. Could that be simplified to speed up the transition to renewables? Early indications are that the answer will be no.", "Mr Scholz (second left) announced the measures flanked by coalition allies\n\nGermany has announced a €65bn (£56.2bn) package of measures to ease the threat of rising energy costs, as Europe struggles with scarce supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe package, much bigger than two previous ones, will include one-off payments to the most vulnerable and tax breaks to energy-intensive businesses.\n\nEnergy prices have soared since the February invasion, and Europe is trying to wean itself off Russian energy.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was trying to destroy the normal life of every European citizen. In his nightly address on Saturday, he said Russia was preparing a \"decisive energy attack on all Europeans\", and only unity among European countries would offer protection.\n\nAnd in a BBC interview broadcast on Sunday, his wife Olena said that if support for Ukraine was strong the crisis would be shorter. She reminded Britons that while rising living costs were tough, Ukrainians were paying with their lives.\n\nAccording to website Politico, European Union officials have warned there is likely to be a crunch point in the coming months when countries start to feel acute economic pain while also still being asked to help the Ukrainian military and humanitarian effort.\n\nThere are already small signs of discontent, with protesters taking to the streets of the Czech capital Prague on Sunday, rallying against high energy prices and calling for an end to sanctions against Russia. Police said about 70,000 people, mainly from far-right and far-left groups were in attendance.\n\nMeanwhile, several hundred protesters gathered at Lubmin in north-eastern Germany, the terminal of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia.\n\nThey were calling for the commissioning of Nord Stream 2, a new pipeline which was about to go online but was blocked by the German government after the invasion.\n\nTwo days ago, Russia said it was suspending gas exports to Germany through the already operating Nord Stream 1 pipeline indefinitely.\n\nThe stand-off with Russia has forced countries like Germany to find supplies elsewhere, and its stores have increased from less than half full in June to 84% full today.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz told journalists Germany would get through the winter, adding that Russia was \"no longer a reliable energy partner\".\n\nHe said the government would make one-off payments to pensioners, people on benefits and students. There would also be caps on energy bills.\n\nSome 9,000 energy-intensive businesses would receive tax breaks to the tune of €1.7bn.\n\nA windfall tax on energy company profits would also be used to mitigate bills, Mr Scholz said.\n\nThe energy crisis has forced Germany to bring this coal-fired power station back onto the grid\n\nThe latest package brings the total spent on relief from the energy crisis to almost €100bn, which compares to about €300bn spent on interventions to keep the German economy afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCountries across Europe are considering similar measures.\n\nUK Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss has said she will announce a plan to deal with energy costs within a week if she becomes prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nAnd EU energy ministers are due to meet on 9 September to discuss how to ease the burden of energy prices across the bloc.\n\nA document released about the meeting says the agenda will include price caps for gas and emergency liquidity support for energy market participants, Reuters news agency reported.", "China has become the first country to approve an inhaled Covid vaccine.\n\nMade by CanSino, it has similar ingredients to its injected vaccine, using a harmless adenovirus as a carrier for the genetic code that teaches the body how to fight Covid.\n\nInhaled as a fine mist, Convidecia Air can provide good protection after just one breath, the company says.\n\nOther researchers, including teams in the UK and the US, have been investigating nasal spray vaccines.\n\nScientists say these may give added immunity in the lining of the nose and upper airways, where Covid typically enters the body.\n\nThe National Medical Products Administration of China granted CanSino approval for its inhaled vaccine to be used as a booster dose.\n\nIt can top up protection in those who have previously had a jab, trials suggest.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest Covid vaccine booster programme has begun in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nInfections are falling around the UK - but health bosses predict a resurgence of Covid and flu this autumn and winter.\n\nThey are urging those eligible to protect themselves from serious illness by being vaccinated against both.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia has warned that it will not resume gas supplies along a key pipeline to Europe until sanctions are lifted.\n\nMoscow has blamed Western countries for its decision not to reopen the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after it was shut for three days for maintenance.\n\nWhen asked if supplies would resume pumping if sanctions were eased, a Kremlin spokesman said: \"Definitely\".\n\nGas prices soared on Monday due to mounting concerns over energy supplies.\n\nThe Dutch month-ahead wholesale gas price, a benchmark for Europe, was up as much as 30% in early trading on Monday. Prices in the UK rose as much as 35% before winding back to £4.50 per therm.\n\nWholesale prices have been very volatile in recent weeks. They fell sharply last week when Germany announced that its gas storage facilities were filling up faster than expected.\n\nEurope has accused Russia of using gas supplies to blackmail European countries because of the Ukraine conflict.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday: \"Pumping problems arose because of sanctions imposed against our country and against a number of companies by Western states, including Germany and the UK.\n\n\"There are no other reasons that would lead to problems with pumping.\"\n\nLast week, state energy firm Gazprom said that an oil leak in a turbine on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was behind the closure.\n\nBut this has been disputed by the European Union and Siemens itself, the German firm which maintains the turbine.\n\n\"Such leaks do not normally affect the operation of a turbine and can be sealed on site. It is a routine procedure within the scope of maintenance work,\" Siemens said in a previous statement.\n\nWhile the UK is not reliant on Nord Stream 1 for its gas, the Kremlin's decision to squeeze supplies to Europe has driven up the overall cost of wholesale gas.\n\nThe overall increase has been behind the spike in the energy bill price cap for consumers in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nMr Peskov criticised European leaders for the surge in bills: \"It is obvious that Europe is getting worse for people, entrepreneurs, companies, to live and work: less money is being earned, the standard of living is falling,\" he said.\n\nLiz Truss, who will become the UK's prime minister on Tuesday, has promised to announce a plan to deal with high energy bills soon after she enters office.\n\nHowever, UK businesses are not protected by a price cap and, last week, the British Chambers of Commerce warned firms would \"close their doors this winter\" if they were not given support with soaring bills.\n\nEnergy expert Bill Farren-Price told the BBC's Today programme that the \"crunch moment\" would come later in the year if demand is particularly high for gas and is going to exceed what can be imported.\n\nHe added that looking at action on energy bills would be the top priority for the incoming prime minister.\n\nA number of European governments have revealed plans to help businesses and consumers cope with surging energy costs. On Sunday, Germany announced a €65bn (£56.2bn) package which includes one-off payments to the most vulnerable and tax breaks to energy-intensive firms.\n\nOver the weekend, Sweden and Finland also announced multi-billion pound packages to support energy companies.\n\nOther European ministers have accused Russia of using energy supplies as an economic weapon against those supporting Ukraine. Moscow has denied it is deliberately restricting exports in the run-up to winter.\n\nEuropean governments are convinced Russia has weaponised the gas markets, by restricting supplies in order to push up prices.\n\nThis makes life harder for businesses and consumers, and tests their own commitment to supporting Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.\n\nBut we know that Russia makes huge sums from exporting oil and gas, so how can it afford to do this, especially when it has a war to pay for?\n\nWell for a start, with prices sky-high, it can make the same amount of money from selling much less gas than would ordinarily be the case.\n\nSecondly, gas sales are much less important to Russia financially than oil exports. But Europe really needs Russian gas, because it has limited alternatives.\n\nSo the gamble Moscow may be making is that while turning off the taps could ultimately hit its own revenues, its opponents will suffer a great deal more.\n\nThe pipeline had been due to reopen on Saturday but Gazprom made the announcement on shutting the pipeline on Friday shortly after the G7 nations agreed to cap the price of Russian oil in support of Ukraine.\n\nThe introduction of a price cap means countries that sign up to the policy will be permitted to purchase only Russian oil and petroleum products transported via sea that are sold at or below the price cap.\n\nBut Russia says it will not export to countries that participate in the cap.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said that Russia's actions could not only risk leading to a \"war winter\", but could potentially have a knock-on effect on businesses and its wider economy.\n\nThe Nord Stream 1 pipeline stretches from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany and can carry up to 170 million cubic metres of gas a day.\n\nIt is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG, whose majority shareholder is Gazprom.\n\nThis is not the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine that the pipeline has been closed.\n\nIn July, Gazprom cut off supplies completely for 10 days, citing \"a maintenance break\". It restarted again 10 days later, but at a much reduced level.\n\nOn Monday, the Opec+ group of oil producing nations has announced a small cut to its output at its monthly meeting.\n\nIts members, which includes Russia, said production would be reduced by 100,000 barrels per day in October, reversing an increase the group now says was for September only.\n\nAnalysts said the trim - announced following recent falls in crude oil prices - was largely symbolic.", "At just 42, Rishi Sunak is the youngest prime minister in modern times - taking the record held by his old boss David Cameron, who was 43 when appointed.\n\nHis rise to the top has been fast. He only became MP for Richmond in North Yorkshire in 2015 and joined the Cabinet in 2019.\n\n\"I showed up and people were surprised,\" Mr Sunak said about being selected to represent Richmond, with its overwhelming white population. But his \"Yorkshire values\" of hard work resonated with people and he won them over by showing an interest in what mattered to them, he said. Seven years on and he has made history as the UK's first British Asian prime minister.\n\nMr Sunak joined Boris Johnson's cabinet in 2019 as chief treasury to the secretary working with chancellor Sajid Javid, and his career rocketed from there.\n\nA self-confessed \"huge Star Wars fan\" with a sizeable collection of lightsabers, he tweeted a photo of himself and his \"Jedi Master\" Mr Javid at a screening of The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. A few months later, the apprentice became the master when he replaced Mr Javid as chancellor, and was plunged into pandemic crisis planning and budgeting.\n\nFor quite a few people, Mr Sunak appeared to be a reassuringly steady hand at the tiller as chancellor.\n\nWhen he pledged to do \"whatever it takes\" to help people through the pandemic in the spring of 2020 - and unveiled support worth £350bn - his personal poll ratings went through the roof.\n\nBut the UK continued to be buffeted by stormy economic weather, and Mr Sunak himself had to deal with the fallout of being fined by police for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street in June 2020.\n\nIn July, he resigned from the cabinet, saying he felt his own approach to the economy was \"fundamentally too different\" to that of the PM, Boris Johnson. The move was instrumental in ousting Mr Johnson, which some of the former PM's allies will not have forgotten.\n\nJust 16 weeks later, he has become leader himself.\n\nHis appointment as PM came on the day millions celebrated Diwali, and as a practising Hindu he has said one of his proudest career moments was lighting ceremonial diyas (oil lamps) outside 11 Downing Street while chancellor. A traditional Hindu red bracelet, meant for good luck and protection, could be seen on his wrist when he posed on the steps of 10 Downing Street for the first time as UK leader.\n\nFamily: Married to businesswoman Akshata Murty with two daughters\n\nThere is no denying that Mr Sunak's wealth is a world away from that of most. Together, he and his wife Akshata Murty have an estimated worth of more than £700m - a sum which supersedes the personal wealth of King Charles III.\n\nCritics of Mr Sunak have raised the question of whether the millionaire can grasp the scale of the cost-of-living squeeze facing struggling households.\n\nIn April, the finances of Mr Sunak and his family came under intense scrutiny, with the tax affairs of his wife - the daughter of Narayana Murthy, Indian billionaire and co-founder of IT services giant Infosys - placed in the spotlight. Headquartered in Bangalore, Infosys reported revenues of more than $11.8bn (£9bn) in 2019, $12.8bn in 2020, and $13.5bn in 2021. The company's latest annual report shows Ms Murty owns a 0.9% stake in Infosys.\n\nShe announced in April she would start paying UK tax on this income to relieve political pressure on her husband.\n\nMr Sunak's appointment as prime minister has made his own wealth and tax affairs a hot topic again. He has been tight-lipped about his personal wealth and maintains that he has never benefited from funds based in tax havens.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether he and his family will split their time between Downing Street and the £4.5m five-bedroom townhouse in South Kensington, London where they currently reside.\n\nThe Sunaks are understood to own a further three properties: a Grade II-listed manor house in the village of Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, in his Richmond constituency, was bought for £1.5m in 2015. The couple also own a flat in South Kensington and a penthouse apartment with views of the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California.\n\nMr Sunak won the approval of 202 Tory MPs to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt says his colleagues find him \"very personable\", but also someone who is \"very clear and certain in what he thinks\".\n\nFor example, in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum - in which he campaigned to Leave - he was called into Downing Street and asked for his support to remain in the EU but he refused.\n\n\"He said 'No, I think Brexit is the right thing to do' - which is quite a thing for a newly elected MP to say to Downing Street.\"\n\nMr Sunak told the Yorkshire Post he believed leaving the EU would make the UK \"freer, fairer and more prosperous\".\n\nHe said changing immigration rules was another key reason for his Leave vote: \"I believe that appropriate immigration can benefit our country. But we must have control of our borders.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak says that when it comes to helping the most vulnerable \"that's what I did\".\n\nBefore entering politics Mr Sunak was an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs and then worked for two multibillion dollar hedge funds.\n\nHis supporters hope his eye for statistics and data will be an asset in making the right economic decisions.\n\nMr Sunak's parents came to the UK from east Africa and are both of Indian origin.\n\nHe was born in Southampton in 1980, where his father was a GP, and his mother ran her own pharmacy.\n\n\"In terms of cultural upbringing, I'd be at the temple at the weekend - I'm a Hindu - but I'd also be at [Southampton Football Club] the Saints game as well on a Saturday - you do everything, you do both.\"\n\nIn the interview he said he had been fortunate not to have endured a lot of racism growing up, but that there was one incident that had stayed with him.\n\n\"I was just out with my younger brother and younger sister, and I think, probably pretty young, I was probably a mid-teenager, and we were out at a fast food restaurant and I was just looking after them. There were people sitting nearby, it was the first time I'd experienced it, just saying some very unpleasant things. The 'P' word.\n\n\"And it stung. I still remember it. It seared in my memory. You can be insulted in many different ways.\"\n\nHowever, he said he \"can't conceive of that happening today\" in the UK.\n\nHe attended the exclusive private school Winchester College and worked as a waiter at a Southampton curry house during his summer holidays. He has attracted criticism from Labour for donating more than £100,000 to his former school, to fund bursaries for children who could not afford to attend it.\n\nAfter finishing school he went on to Oxford to study philosophy, politics and economics, before studying for an MBA at Stanford University in California. There he met his wife, and the couple have two daughters.\n\nDuring the previous leadership campaign, he often mentioned his daughters in the context of climate change. Answering a question on climate change during a BBC TV debate, Mr Sunak said he took \"advice from my two young daughters, who are the experts of this in my household\".", "Strike action is expected to affect services in Craigavon, Coleraine and parts of Belfast\n\nMaintenance workers at the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) have begun strike action over pay.\n\nThe trade union Unite said the dispute involves about 300 of its members and would remain in place for four weeks.\n\nNIHE said that based on previous experience, the dispute could affect maintenance services in Craigavon, Coleraine and north and west Belfast.\n\nIt said it hoped to minimise disruption to its tenants and emergency repairs would be carried out.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, regional officer for Unite, Michael Keenan, said members are \"among the most vulnerable in society\".\n\n\"These people are desperate, this is why they're taking this action.\n\n\"Our members are among the lowest paid in Northern Ireland - they're visiting food banks, they just can't afford to work and that's why they've been forced into taking action.\"\n\nUnite says the strike could have a \"severe impact\" on tenants\n\n\"We will contact tenants directly about postponements of scheduled repair works and tenants can continue to report repairs as normal through our usual channels.\n\n\"We will monitor the impact on tenants on a daily basis as the strike action continues.\"\n\nThe Housing Executive said pay was subject to national collective bargaining arrangements.\n\nIt added: \"The pay award of 2021/22 for all Housing Executive staff was collectively agreed at a national level and the pay increases have already been implemented.\"\n\nIt said discussions were ongoing over a local claim submitted by Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (Nipsa) and Unite in June.\n\nMr Keenan, from Unite, said the blame for the strike \"rests entirely with the Housing Executive\".\n\n\"Everybody understands that inflation is biting into people's wages and people can't afford to heat their homes or buy food - understanding that doesn't put food on the table.\"", "John Paul I's death was shrouded in controversy - and conspiracy theories\n\nPope John Paul I, who led the Roman Catholic Church for 33 days in 1978, has been beatified at the Vatican - the last step before sainthood.\n\nThousands gathered in St Peter's Square for the ceremony led by Pope Francis.\n\nLast year, Pope Francis credited the late Pope with the miracle cure of an Argentine girl. A second miracle is needed for the move to sainthood.\n\nDescribed as the \"smiling Pope\", John Paul I was the shortest-serving pope since 1605.\n\nJohn Paul I was born Albino Luciani, the son of a bricklayer in the Dolomite mountains in Italy.\n\nDuring his brief tenure, he defended the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to abortion and contraception but he also sought to reform institutions and root out corruption.\n\nPope Francis described him as someone who \"lived without compromise\".\n\nHis death caused much controversy - and conspiracy theories - due to two slightly differing accounts.\n\nThe Vatican said he was found dead by two nuns.\n\nInitially, however, it had said a priest had found him - uneasy with the fact that women had entered the Pope's private quarters.\n\nFor an individual to be beatified, a miracle needs to be attributed to prayers made to them after their death.\n\nThe miracle attributed to the now beatified Pope was the healing of an 11-year-old girl after her parents had prayed to Pope John Paul I.\n\nIn the last 1,000 years, just eight popes have been made saints.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: It is very nice to be back in the UK - Meghan\n\nIn her first speech in the UK since stepping down as a \"working royal\", the Duchess of Sussex told a young audience of her own struggle for self-belief.\n\nMeghan recalled her nervousness at the same One Young World summit eight years ago and having a \"pinch-me moment, where you just go: 'How am I here?'\"\n\nShe described her sense of self-doubt at being alongside world leaders when: \"I was the girl from Suits.\"\n\nPrince Harry accompanied her at the youth summit in Manchester.\n\nThis was the first visit to the UK by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex since the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and the first public address in the UK by Meghan since the couple's move to the United States.\n\nIt's also a visit that follows a strongly-divided reaction to an interview with Meghan last week, which re-opened claims of family tensions.\n\n\"It is very nice to be back in the UK,\" she began her keynote address at the One Young Summit in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall - after an earlier welcome from the city's mayor Andy Burnham.\n\nPrince Harry accompanied Meghan to the speech in Manchester\n\nIn a speech that side-stepped any controversy, the duchess described her own imposter-syndrome feelings when she attended the 2014 version of the event, when she was a TV actress and before meeting Prince Harry.\n\n\"I wasn't sure that I belonged. I was so nervous. I doubted myself and I wondered if I was good enough to even be there,\" she told her audience of young leaders from more than 190 countries.\n\n\"I was so overwhelmed by this experience. I think I even saved my little paper place card that said my name on it. Just proof that I was there,\" Meghan told the audience.\n\n\"I'm thrilled that my husband is able to join me here this time,\" she said, at an event with fees of over £3,000 for delegates, which organisers say are mostly funded by scholarships or charity partners.\n\nShe told the young delegates: \"You are the ones driving the positive and necessary change needed across the globe.\"\n\nCritics accuse the couple of still relying on royal connections to promote their new careers in the US\n\nMeghan's speech followed a coruscating address from the pop star Bob Geldof, who warned the young leaders not to turn into \"creeps\" if they were ever in power.\n\nThe Sussexes had travelled by train from London to Manchester for the first of a series of events on their UK visit.\n\nBut it's not known whether the duke and duchess will meet other members of the Royal Family this week, including the Queen, who is in Balmoral and due to hold an audience on Tuesday with the new prime minister.\n\nSources say an open invitation remains for a meeting with Prince Charles, although not one specifically issued for this week.\n\nThere is no confirmation about whether Prince Harry and Meghan will meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - with both couples near each other on the Windsor estate.\n\nBut there will be a trip to Germany to support plans for next year's Invictus Games for injured veterans and they will make an appearance at the WellChild Awards, celebrating the achievements of seriously-ill children, which will be held in London on Thursday.\n\nThe visit to the UK follows a blizzard of publicity surrounding Meghan's US interview with New York magazine The Cut and the first episodes of her Spotify podcast series.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the Queen will have an audience with the new UK PM at Balmoral, not Buckingham Palace\n\nPrince Harry has also been involved in a legal wrangle over the level of security provided to him and his family when visiting the UK. The prospect of a tell-all memoir from the prince also hovers in the background.\n\nMeghan's magazine interview, conducted in the sunshine of her Californian mansion, strongly divided opinion - with her supporters seeing it as a further account of why she needed to escape the pressures of life within the Royal Family.\n\nShe said she upset the \"dynamic of the hierarchy\" of the Royal Family \"just by existing\" - and suggesting unresolved disputes she said it \"takes a lot of effort to forgive\".\n\nBut her vociferous critics accused her of \"delusion\", seizing on quotes such as Meghan recounting being told that her marriage to Harry was greeted in South Africa with rejoicing the same as \"when Mandela was freed from prison\".\n\nThere were also accusations that having left their lives as working royals, they were still relying on that connection to promote their new careers and media ventures in the US.\n\nThis will be the couple's first visit to the UK since the Platinum Jubilee, when they attended events including a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nBut despite high levels of public interest that had been a low-key trip, with them staying out of the limelight for what was a celebration of the life of the Queen.\n\nTheir latest trip to the UK is against the background of further concerns about the health of the 96-year-old monarch.\n\nThe Queen has had to pull out of attending events such as the Braemar highland games and for the first time in her reign she has switched the location of the audience with a new prime minister, which will now be in Balmoral rather than Buckingham Palace.\n\nThree years ago when she appointed Boris Johnson, a photo of Prince Harry and Meghan was visible behind the Queen's handshake with her new PM. Much has changed for all of them since then.", "A new hierarchy of road-users means a driver in a car, van or lorry has a greater responsibility to watch out for others\n\nMore than three-fifths of UK motorists have not read recent updates to the Highway Code, according to the AA.\n\nThe motoring group's survey of 13,327 members suggested 8,090 (61%) drivers had not read changes made in January.\n\nSome 6,972 motorists had heard about the new rules but had not read them yet, while 1,118 drivers were completely unaware of the changes.\n\nThe new guidance gives pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders greater priorities on the road.\n\nVehicles should give at least 1.5m (4ft 11in) space when overtaking cyclists, and 2m (6ft 7in) for horses.\n\nDrivers and other road users should give way to pedestrians crossing at road junctions, and are not allowed to cut across vulnerable users when exiting a junction.\n\nThe Highway Code now advises cyclists to ride in the centre of lanes on quieter roads, in slower-moving traffic and when approaching junctions.\n\nA hierarchy of road-users was also introduced, meaning a driver in a car, van or lorry now has a greater responsibility to watch out for others.\n\nMary Williams OBE, chief executive of road safety charity Brake, described the changes as \"crucial\" because they \"better protect those most at risk, such as people walking and cycling\".\n\n\"Every 22 minutes someone is killed or seriously injured on UK roads,\" she told the BBC, adding \"more must be done\" to promote new guidance so \"all road users understand our shared responsibility to reduce deaths and serious injuries\".\n\nMs Williams also urged \"drivers in particular\" to look at the updated code and \"do their bit to put safety first by looking out for vulnerable road users\".\n\nDuncan Dollimore, head of campaigns and advocacy at Cycling UK, said the changes are positive for all road users, but particularly those who are \"vulnerable\" such as cyclists.\n\n\"Sadly, these changes will be of limited benefit if the public aren't aware of them,\" he told the BBC. \"Due to inaccurate reporting of the new rules when they came into effect, there was initially some confusion\".\n\n\"The Department for Transport is now promoting a campaign to communicate the changes, however this really needs to be part of a long-term, well-funded awareness campaign,\" he said, adding that Cycling UK had created an online toolkit on the new rules.\n\nThe UK government said the changes would enhance safety for all road users.\n\nWhen asked to pick five correct statements from the new Highway Code from a list of 10, the majority of respondents answered correctly.\n\nTim Rankin, managing director of AA Accident Assist, said the group was \"concerned that so many still haven't read the rules\".\n\nHe said: \"While we are pleased that many of the changes can be successfully recalled, we'd like more drivers to know the rules outright so they can keep themselves and others safe.\n\n\"It is in everyone's interest to take every measure that helps avoid collisions and remove confusion from the road, so we urge those that still haven't read the updated code to do so as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe changes to the Highway Code also state:", "New Prime Minister Liz Truss used her victory speech to pledge to \"deliver on the energy crisis\" by dealing with bills as well as supplies.\n\nA freeze on energy bills is understood to be one of a number of options being worked on to help struggling households to cope with soaring costs.\n\nIt is expected that energy suppliers will be able to take out government-backed loans to subsidise bills.\n\nEnergy bosses have been meeting with government officials on the matter.\n\nA £100bn plan to freeze household bills was proposed by energy companies last month.\n\nUnder the proposal, bills would be subsidised and the current price cap of £1,971 for a typical family would be maintained for two years.\n\nThe BBC understands that a similar scheme will be used to limit the energy price increases being experienced by small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nAnd bigger companies may be offered tax breaks to help them through the period of high prices.\n\nMs Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak with 57% of party member votes to become the new Conservative leader.\n\nSpeaking after the announcement, she said: \"I will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people's energy bills but also dealing with the long-term issues we have on energy supply.\"\n\nIn response, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"There can be no justification for not freezing energy prices.\n\n\"There's a political consensus that needs to happen. She needs to ask the question, how she's going to pay for that? Labour made it clear, it needs to be a windfall tax on oil and gas companies.\"\n\nMs Truss's team is understood to have been working on a support package for energy bills \"for weeks\". An announcement on what they will do is pencilled in for this Thursday.\n\n\"Lots of measures have been considered, some have progressed and some have not,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nBusiness groups welcomed Ms Truss's appointment but urged her to take \"big bold action\" to help firms who, unlike households, are not protected by an energy price cap.\n\nFederation of Small Businesses chairman Martin McTague said soaring energy bills \"must be addressed urgently.\"\n\nAnd Tony Danker, the director general of the Confederation of British Industry, said he was \"hopeful\" that businesses would receive help.\n\n\"The cliff edge that's coming on new energy contracts [for businesses] are astronomical, and need smoothing,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm pretty hopeful this week that not only will the new prime minister tackle energy bills for households, she'll also look at businesses too.\"\n\nA freeze of the energy price cap - the limit on how much gas and electricity can cost in England, Scotland and Wales - would not necessarily require upfront government funding.\n\nIn an article for the Financial Times, Ms Truss' close ally Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said a government led by her would borrow more to help people through \"exceptionally difficult times\" during the energy price shock.\n\nMr Kwarteng - tipped to be named chancellor by Ms Truss - suggested he would look at the UK's rules on government borrowing and spending - called fiscal rules - to see if they still worked for the economy.\n\nThe Treasury is allowed to suspend its fiscal rules in the event of a \"significant negative shock to the UK economy\".\n\nHowever, Mr Kwarteng sought to reassure markets that the UK had space to borrow more and that it would be done in a \"fiscally responsible way\".\n\nDuring the leadership race, Ms Truss said she would reverse a 1.25% rise in National Insurance and would suspend an increase in corporation tax - the measures will cost a combined £30bn.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the National Insurance cut would be of greater benefit to higher earners rather than those on lower income.\n\nDuring an interview with the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Ms Truss said it was fair to give higher earners more money back through tax cuts. and recent Tory policy had failed to grow the economy.\n\nA plan to freeze energy bills for households is striking in its simplicity for those facing a tough winter - until you start considering how it can be funded, and other details.\n\nIt is likely to ultimately cost billions of pounds, and that may need to be paid back either through you paying extra on bills for the next decade, or through taxation if the government picks up the tab, or through extra borrowing.\n\nThey would seem to be main options, given Liz Truss has been clear that she is not keen on a windfall tax on energy companies' profits.\n\nAnd, remember, the price cap only covers domestic bills in England, Wales, and Scotland. Will there be anything similar for billpayers in Northern Ireland who have also seen the cost of heating and lighting homes rise? What about small businesses, who are also seeing bills surge?\n\nWe should not expect answers yet. We should wait for a policy announcement first.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the IFS, said \"simply cutting taxes, cutting National Insurance contributions for example, is not a strategy for growth\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme these measures would come on top of the billions the government would have to spend to help with energy bills.\n\n\"We'll have not just extremely high borrowing in the short run but also additional inflationary pressure,\" he said.\n\nLast month, Labour said the government should freeze household energy bills, outlining a £29bn plan that would stop the energy price cap going up for all homes.\n\nAt the time, Ms Truss dismissed the proposal as a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nThe Lib Dems have called for a price cap rise in October - which will take the typical household energy bill from £1,971 to £3,549 - to be scrapped. It proposed that the cost be covered by a windfall tax on energy company profits.\n\nMs Truss did not rule out a freeze during her Sunday interview with Laura Kuenssberg, but there is still a lack of clarity about how it could be funded.\n\nDerek Lickorish, chairman of pay-as-you-go energy supplier Utilita, said he and other industry bosses had been calling for a freeze to the energy price cap \"for some time\".\n\n\"We recognise it's going to be very expensive but if we don't the economy is going to crash and consumers won't know what to do, they won't know where to turn to for help,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.", "Forensic investigators at one of the crime scenes in Weldon, Saskatchewan\n\nCanadian police have launched a huge manhunt for two men suspected of stabbing at least 10 people to death in a rampage that has shocked the nation.\n\nTwo suspects named as Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson are on the run and considered armed and dangerous.\n\nVictims were found in 13 locations in the remote indigenous community James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon.\n\nIt is one of the deadliest acts of mass violence Canada has seen. PM Justin Trudeau said it was \"heartbreaking\".\n\nAt least 15 others were injured in the killing spree, with police urging residents to be extremely vigilant as they conduct a search across one of Canada's largest and most remote regions.\n\n\"I am shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks today,\" Mr Trudeau said in a statement. \"Those responsible for today's abhorrent attacks must be fully brought to justice.\"\n\nAs news of the stabbings broke, a dangerous person alert was sent to all mobile phones across the provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta - an enormous region almost half the size of Europe.\n\nA state of emergency was declared in the James Smith Cree Nation - a community of about 2,000 residents north-east of the village of Weldon, which is home to just 200 people.\n\n\"Do not leave a secure location. Use caution allowing others into your residence,\" Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) warned people across the area.\n\nNumerous checkpoints have been set up and drivers have been urged not to pick up hitchhikers.\n\nRhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer for Saskatchewan RCMP said that some people may have been targeted, while others are believed to have been \"attacked randomly\".\n\nThe suspects were last seen by members of the public in Regina at about lunchtime on Sunday, and may be travelling in a black Nissan Rogue, Officer Blackmore said.\n\nThe relationship between Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30, is unclear, and the authorities have so far provided no further details.\n\nBut in May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted poster for Myles Sanderson accusing him of being \"unlawfully at large\" in the region.\n\nAt a news briefing on Sunday evening, police said there could be more injured people than the 15 they already knew about, who had taken themselves to hospital.\n\nPolice refused to speculate on the motive behind the attack, but Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations suggested that they could be drug related.\n\n\"This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the Chiefs and Councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,\" Mr Cameron said.\n\nThe suspects have been identified as Damien Sanderson (left) and Myles Sanderson\n\nThe first emergency call was made to police at 05:40 local time on Sunday morning in the provincial capital Regina, about 280km (173 miles) south of Weldon.\n\nThis was quickly followed by many more calls for help, developing into what police described as a \"rapidly unfolding event\".\n\nAnne Lindemann, a spokesperson for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, told local media that additional staff had been called in to deal with an \"influx of casualties\".\n\n\"They are considered armed and dangerous... If you see the suspects or their vehicle, do not approach them, immediately leave the area and call 911.\"\n\nLogan Stein, a local journalist, told the BBC that the region was extremely remote. He said that the attackers appeared to have gone door-to-door attacking locals.\n\nChakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson - one of the elected leaders that head up the region- told the Regina Leader Post that everyone in the community had been affected.\n\n\"They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we're all related here, so it's pretty hard,\" Mr Sanderson said. \"It's pretty horrific.\"\n\nWeldon resident Diane Shier said her neighbour, a man who lived with his grandson, was killed, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported.\n\nHe was described by another resident, Robert Rush, as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s.\n\n\"He wouldn't hurt a fly,\" Mr Rush was quoted as saying.\n\nAnother victim has been named as mother of two Lana Head. Her former partner Michael Brett Burns told local media that he was \"hurt for all this loss\".\n\nCanada's Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said he had reached out to community leaders to \"offer Canada's full support and any assistance that will be needed in the coming days\".", "The singer celebrated her victory in a rare update to her Instagram page\n\nPop star Adele is one step closer to EGOT status, after winning an Emmy for her TV concert special, Adele: One Night Only.\n\nThe term refers to stars who've won the grand slam of US awards - an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, covering TV, music, film and theatre respectively.\n\nAdele's Emmy adds to her 15 Grammys and Oscar for the Bond theme Skyfall.\n\n\"I'm pleased as punch!\" said the star on receiving her latest prize. \"Trust me to officially have an EGO.\"\n\nThe 34-year-old posed with her latest statue in a pair of Instagram photos, adding a laughing emoji to her message.\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\nOne Night Only won the Emmy for best outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) at Sunday night's Creative Emmy Awards - which precedes the main Emmys ceremony next week.\n\nThe show combined a warts-and-all Oprah Winfrey interview with a performance at Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory, attended by stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ava DuVernay, Selena Gomez, Drake, Kris Jenner and Ellen DeGeneres.\n\nIt won four other prizes at the Emmys, for direction, sound mixing, lighting design and camerawork.\n\n\"Big up to everyone involved,\" said Adele. \"@griffithobservatory thank you for letting me sing up on your mountain and big love to all the other nominees.\"\n\nThose other contenders were Dave Chappelle's controversial comedy special The Closer, the much-hyped Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, Norm Macdonald's Nothing Special and One Last Time: An Evening With Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga.\n\nAdele's show was one of five shows to win five prizes at the weekend ceremony, alongside Stranger Things, Euphoria, The White Lotus and Peter Jackson's four-part Beatles documentary Get Back.\n\nThe latter also moves Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr one step closer to EGOT status - needing just a Tony Award to complete the collection.\n\nEminem also became an EGO, thanks to his participation in this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show, which picked up three awards, including one for outstanding live variety special.\n\nRuPaul won a seventh consecutive Emmy for hosting his reality juggernaut RuPaul's Drag Race. That brings his total of trophies to 12 - the most for any black performer in Emmy history.\n\nRuPaul's drag race is currently in its 14th series in the US\n\nActor Nathan Lane won his first ever Emmy, after a record seven nominations without a win for guest roles in shows like Modern Family, Frasier and The Good Wife.\n\nThe Birdcage star picked up his trophy for playing Greek deli owner Teddy Dimas in the Disney/Hulu comedy series Only Murders In The Building. The show is also up for best comedy series at next week's Primetime Emmy ceremony, while comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short are both nominated for best lead actor for their roles in the crime caper.\n\nStranger Things' awards included recognition for music supervisor Nora Felder, who made Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill as a recurring motif of the fourth series - inadvertently sending it to number one around the world.\n\n\"A lot of people are relating to the song,\" she told reporters backstage. \"I think children are having to go through lots of feelings of isolation. The song allows them to kind of express how they're feeling.\"\n\nSquid Game's Lee You-mi became the first Korean performer to win best guest actress in a drama series, for her heart-breaking portrayal of Ji-yeong (aka Player 240) in Netflix's dystopian thriller.\n\n\"I'm so very happy,\" she said, joking that her trophy felt \"very heavy\".\n\n\"It almost feels like a sense of heavy responsibility that I haven't practised,\" she added, through a translator. \"I want to be able to do more with it moving forward.\"\n\nLi-You Mi (left) plays Ji-yeong in Squid Game, Netflix's most-streamed show of all time\n\nThe late Chadwick Boseman also won a posthumous award for reprising his Black Panther role of T'Challa on Disney's animated series What If…?\n\nThe award was accepted by his widow, Simone Boseman.\n\nHBO's ferocious family drama Succession is the front-runner for the main ceremony, which takes place on 13 September. The show received 25 nominations in total, including acting nods for almost all of the main cast - Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, J Smith Cameron, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun, Kieran Culkin, and Matthew McFayden.\n\nFootball comedy Ted Lasso and comedy-drama The White Lotus came in joint second with 20 nods each.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "BBC reporters were out and about in Redcar, North Yorkshire this morning - one of the so-called Red Wall constituencies that switched from Labour to the Conservatives in the 2019 election.\n\nThey asked people what they think Liz Truss should do when she becomes prime minister.\n\nPaul Wigham, who is retired, says: \"Hoping, desperately hoping for some help, for the young ‘uns, for people whose electricity power and gas prices have just got ridiculous. I’m expecting some very serious actions.\"\n\nJudy Sharples, 59 – works in a residential home for profoundly deaf and disabled people Image caption: Judy Sharples, 59 – works in a residential home for profoundly deaf and disabled people\n\nJudy Sharples works in a residential home for profoundly deaf and disabled people. She says she wants to be able to live comfortably and not struggle to pay bills.\n\n\"We’re going to end up sitting in blankets like they did in the 50s and 40s,\" she says. \"It’s not on... I don’t think anybody can sort it out unless they all start working together.\"\n\nRetail worker Christopher Carter says he wants honesty from the government about why energy prices are \"going through the roof\".\n\nHe believes it's because the government has failed to provide alternative energy sources. \"They’ve been in charge for 12 years. They’ve done nothing with nuclear, they’ve pulled back the solar benefit, they pulled back wind and the planning permissions,\" he says.\n\nRhona, aged 91, thinks Liz Truss will do a good job: \"I’m sure she will but there’s a terrible mess everywhere.\"\n\nAngela says Truss needs to sort out the energy crisis because it affects low-paid workers, like herself.\n\n\"I haven’t got much confidence,\" she says, \"they say they’re going to do one thing and then U-turn and do something else\".", "One critic likened the courts IT system problems with the Post Office Horizon scandal\n\nAn IT system is causing key information about court cases in England and Wales to change or disappear and is putting justice at risk, the BBC has been told.\n\nOne legal adviser revealed how he entered a driving ban in the system, called Common Platform, only to later discover the result had changed.\n\nStaff say warnings about alleged faults, describing it as \"fundamentally flawed\", have been ignored.\n\nThe government said there was no evidence justice is being compromised.\n\nCommon Platform was built to replace outdated software in the criminal courts with one system which allows judges, lawyers, the CPS and courts to access case information in one place.\n\nThe new system, which started going live in 2020 and has a £300m budget, is being used in 136 courts in England and Wales - equivalent to 60% of the total - with the rest due to adopt it by early next year.\n\nJames (not his real name) is a magistrates' court legal adviser - a lawyer whose job it is to provide legal advice to lay magistrates and manage proceedings in the court.\n\nUnder the new Common Platform regime, he is also responsible for entering the results of cases into the system.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme he correctly entered the results of a case in which a man was to be banned from driving only to discover later the result had changed.\n\n\"The results that appeared on Common Platform were not the results we imposed,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a good job we remembered the case otherwise it would have been missed.\n\n\"That's scary because this person wouldn't have been disqualified, they'd have been on the road - a threat to others.\"\n\nNumerous other court staff also told the BBC of instances in which key information disappeared, including pleas entered and the case result.\n\nFile on 4 has also been given details of a case in which an individual was held in prison for days longer than they should have been, after a Common Platform-related fault.\n\nThe PCS union, which represents court staff, claims repeated warnings about faults have been ignored by the courts service - which prompted legal advisors and court associates in the magistrates' court to vote to take strike action over the system starting on 10 September.\n\nJames is among those who said he has warned the court service about faults with Common Platform.\n\nHe likens the way it has handled the roll-out of Common Platform to the Post Office IT scandal - which saw more than 700 branch managers given criminal convictions due to faults in the Horizon software.\n\nHe said: \"I remember watching the programme on the Horizon system for the Post Office, thinking 'that's what we've got - there's a system that's changing things and not reflecting the truth.' It makes me feel quite sick thinking about it.\n\n\"You feel so helpless because you report it and nobody wants to know.\"\n\nProfessor Alan Woodward, an IT expert and visiting professor at the University of Surrey, urged the court service to pause its roll-out and engage with the concerns being raised.\n\n\"Everybody was telling sub-postmasters it was their fault and only many years later did the Post Office admit actually the software was in error\", he said.\n\n\"People know software is not infallible. You've got to bring them [staff] along with you - demonstrate and prove to them it is actually working.\"\n\nA HM Courts and Tribunal Service spokesperson said: \"Common Platform is fundamental to modernising the court system - replacing out of date systems not fit for purpose and freeing up court staff for the work they can add most value to.\n\n\"It has already successfully managed over 158,000 criminal cases and there is no evidence that Common Platform is compromising justice or putting parties at risk.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with staff to support them through this transition and want to thank all the judges, court staff and others who have contributed to its design and implementation.\"\n\nIn response to parallels being drawn with the Post Office Horizon scandal a HMCTS spokesperson added: \"We have never ignored concerns that are raised and in July 2021 we took action to pause the rollout of Common Platform as we addressed issues that users were facing.\"", "Liz Truss has risen from the obscurity and loneliness of being an opposition councillor on a Labour-dominated local authority, to the biggest job of them all.\n\nThere is more than a smidgen of ambition splashing around Westminster, and more than a few around here allow themselves to dream of becoming prime minister.\n\nFor Liz Truss, that ambition becomes reality tomorrow.\n\nI first came across her 13 years ago when I was a political reporter for BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nShe served on Greenwich Council, in south-east London, and fought an unwinnable parliamentary seat in the 2001 general election. At the 2005 general election, she came a distant second in a Labour-leaning marginal. Yet ahead of the 2010 general election, she had become the Conservative candidate for a safe Tory seat, South West Norfolk.\n\nBut all hell broke loose when an affair she had had with then Conservative MP Mark Field was exposed.\n\nIt became the basis of a tussle between David Cameron's modernising zeal and his desire to reshape the image of the party, and local activists who felt emasculated and hoodwinked.\n\nBut Liz Truss was to prove, as she has done repeatedly since, that she is a political survivor. She emerged from that skirmish to become a Conservative MP, and now rises to be prime minister having been a minister for a decade.\n\nOne long-standing former Greenwich councillor recalled to me that back in her town hall days Liz Truss was notably quiet during full council meetings, but got stuck into her committee work.\n\nShe has talked about it quite pointedly - telling the ConservativeHome website that being on the council's planning committee amounted to \"hours of my life I will never get back\".\n\nBut these apprenticeships for high office are admired by her supporters, and helped her relate to the voluntary party in a way Rishi Sunak simply couldn't.\n\nHe was never a councillor and landed the plum Conservative seat of Richmond, in the Yorkshire Dales, without having to try to persuade the unpersuadable in seats glued to their Labour loyalties.\n\nPerhaps their contrasting CVs go some way to explaining their very different approaches to the campaign: Liz Truss relishing the scrap, Rishi Sunak appearing more hesitant at times - and at others more uncomfortable - to get stuck into the noisier, sometimes grubbier side of politics.\n\nBut elation and back stories only get you to now. Liz Truss is confronted by the gargantuan task of government.\n\nThings will feel different. Very different. They are bound to - Boris Johnson was the very definition of a primary colours, performance prime minister. But she inherits the same challenges he was confronted by.\n\nGoverning when millions are confronted by unpayable bills. Governing during a war in Europe and in the aftermath of a pandemic. And governing a party that's already been in power for 12 years.\n\nAs I reported yesterday, we can expect to see Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly - but these appointments won't be announced until tomorrow, when Ms Truss formally takes office.\n\nThen there will be Prime Minister's Question Time, on Wednesday.\n\nThe Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's team are well aware of not making the same mistake - as they saw it - as Rishi Sunak did in his BBC debate with Liz Truss in late July, when he was accused of \"mansplaining\".\n\nThey are hopeful that Sir Keir's experience of taking on Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long Bailey, during the Labour leadership contest, proves he can be effective in debate without being accused of patronising.\n\nWe can expect an announcement from the new government on help with energy bills within days, likely on Thursday.\n\nThere will be very little if any honeymoon period for Liz Truss, as the country clamours for answers to huge questions the caretaker government of Boris Johnson in recent months felt unempowered to take on.\n\nAs you can read from my colleagues, there is inflation, Ukraine, energy security, the NHS with winter approaching, the contrails of Brexit and... a general election that isn't far away.\n\nThe Conservatives have consistently been some way behind Labour in the polls all year. And there has to be an election by January 2025 at the latest.\n\nPolitics is being reset, but it will continue to be competitive, noisy and unpredictable.\n\nWhile many things change, some never do.\n• None How Truss won the race to become PM", "Argentinian health officials announced their findings of Legionella bacteria as a suspected cause of death on Saturday\n\nHealth officials in Argentina have said that an infectious pneumonia outbreak which killed four people may have been caused by Legionnaire's disease.\n\nSeven other cases have been found, most at a clinic in the northern province of Tucuman where the deaths occurred.\n\nThe relatively rare lung disease is commonly linked to contaminated water or unclean air-conditioning systems.\n\nThe World Health Organisation was alerted earlier this week to the cluster of infections.\n\nDoctors trying to determine the cause of the flu-like symptoms ruled out Covid-19, flu and the hantavirus - a severe respiratory disease carried by rodents - after testing the patients in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman.\n\nOfficials said the symptoms first appeared in six cases related to the facility which developed between 18 and 23 August.\n\nLegionella bacteria - which causes the illness - is commonly found in water sources such as rivers and lakes which sometimes find their way into artificial water systems.\n\nAn estimated 10% of people who contract the disease die from complications arising from the infection.\n\nArgentinian Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said on Saturday that the authorities were working to ensure the clinic was safe for all.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss promises to act immediately on bills and energy supply\n\nLiz Truss has promised to announce a plan to deal with soaring energy costs within a week if she becomes prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful, the favourite according to pollsters, told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg she would \"act immediately\" to help with bills.\n\nBut she offered no details, saying she would need time in office first in order to finalise exact proposals.\n\nHer rival Rishi Sunak said he would target further payments at the poorest.\n\nOne of the two contenders will be announced as the next Tory leader on Monday, and will replace Boris Johnson in Downing Street the next day.\n\nThey have come under pressure to spell out how they would protect households with rising bills, as well as give help to businesses, which are not covered by the domestic price cap.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Foreign Secretary Ms Truss said action on energy bills would be \"vital\" for people and the economy.\n\nShe added that further support would need to go \"hand in hand\" with a plan to boost domestic energy supplies, arguing the UK had become too dependent on international energy prices.\n\nMr Sunak said further energy payments, beyond those he announced as chancellor, should be targeted at pensioners and the low-paid.\n\nHe has argued his suggested cut to VAT on energy bills would also provide some help for all.\n\nHe also said he couldn't rule out the prospect of blackouts over the winter to ration supplies, as the situation was \"serious\" and \"every tool in the toolbox\" would be needed.\n\n\"Of course we don't want to be in that situation, but I think it's responsible not to rule it out,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says he can't solve the issue around energy bills for everyone\n\nMs Truss has promised to deliver around £30bn in tax cuts in an emergency Budget later this month if she wins, including a reversal of April's rise to National Insurance.\n\nPressed on whether richer people would benefit more from the cut, she said: \"The people at the top of the income distribution pay more tax - so inevitably, when you cut taxes you tend to benefit people who are more likely to pay tax.\"\n\nBut she added: \"To look at everything through the lens of redistribution I believe is wrong. Because what I'm about is growing the economy - and growing the economy benefits everybody.\n\n\"The economic debate for the past 20 years has been dominated by discussions about distribution. And what's happened is we've had relatively low growth\".\n\nBeyond his proposed cut to VAT on energy bills, Mr Sunak has taken a different approach, arguing permanent tax cuts should wait until inflation goes down.\n\nLabour's shadow attorney-general Emily Thornberry said it was \"extraordinary\" neither candidate had given a \"specific answer\" about their energy plans during the weeks-long leadership race.\n\nShe added that people were \"desperate\" for help, and those on middle incomes as well as the poorest would struggle with rising bills.\n\nHer party, along with the Liberal Democrats and the SNP, wants to freeze energy bills by paying energy companies to sell gas and electricity below market rates this winter.\n\nThe Lib Dems have said they will table a bill in Parliament next week on their plan - which will not be voted on, but could offer more detail of their proposals.\n\nMs Truss declined to say whether she might implement a price freeze, saying it would be wrong for her to give details of her plan before she is appointed.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged Ms Truss to \"cancel\" further energy rises and give \"substantial\" support to business.\n\nMr Johnson's successor will be announced at 12:30 BST on Monday, before taking office on Tuesday after being formally appointed by the Queen.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the winner will travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for the ceremony, rather than Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen has been suffering from mobility issues and it is understood the change was made to prevent the need for any last-minute rearrangements.", "The long-running complaint concerned children's data - particularly their phone numbers and email addresses.\n\nSome reportedly upgraded to business accounts to access analytics tools such as profile visits, without realising this made more of their data public.\n\nInstagram's owner, Meta, said it planned to appeal against the decision. It is the third fine handed to the company by the regulator.\n\n\"We adopted our final decision last Friday and it does contain a fine of €405m [£349m],\" Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said.\n\nA Meta official told BBC News: \"This inquiry focused on old settings that we updated over a year ago and we've since released many new features to help keep teens safe and their information private.\n\n\"Anyone under 18 automatically has their account set to private when they join Instagram, so only people they know can see what they post and adults can't message teens who don't follow them.\n\n\"While we've engaged fully with the DPC throughout their inquiry, we disagree with how this fine was calculated and intend to appeal it.\n\n\"We're continuing to carefully review the rest of the decision.\"\n\nThe DPC regulates large technology companies with European headquarters in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt has never given such a large fine for a breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.\n\nBut last year, it fined WhatsApp €225m, while Luxembourg's data authority fined Amazon a record €746m.\n\nNational Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) child-safety-online policy head Andy Burrows said of Instagram's fine: \"This was a major breach that had significant safeguarding implications and the potential to cause real harm to children using Instagram.\n\n\"The ruling demonstrates how effective enforcement can protect children on social media and underlines how regulation is already making children safer online.\n\n\"It's now over to the new prime minister to keep the promise to give children the strongest possible protections by delivering the Online Safety Bill in full and without delay.\"", "Caryl James: \"It would have been impossible for me to travel to a course in Swansea or anywhere else\"\n\nStudents enrolled on a new nursing degree course have welcomed the opportunity to learn close to home.\n\nOn Monday, Aberystwyth University in Ceredigion welcomes 53 students to the new course which is partly in Welsh.\n\nHealth support worker Caryl James, from nearby Bow Street, said, as a single mother, studying for a degree course away from home was never an option.\n\n\"Getting a place on the course is amazing. I was really chuffed. I cried when I heard I had a place,\" she said.\n\nMs James, who also works as a phlebotomist alongside nurses at Bronglais Hospital in the town, said qualifying as a nurse had always been an ambition.\n\n\"But being a single mother, it would have been impossible for me to travel to a course in Swansea or anywhere else, so having the chance to do the course in Aberystwyth makes everything easier,\" she said.\n\n\"It feels like I'm stepping in to somebody else's life.\"\n\nAnna Stevens: \"This is more than just a new chapter for me. I feel like it's a new life\"\n\nFellow fresher Anna Stevens, from Penrhyncoch, said studying for such a degree would have been impossible while she had been an unpaid carer for her disabled son.\n\nBut, since Philip became an adult, she has received funding to enable carers to look after him.\n\n\"This is more than just a new chapter for me. I feel like it's a new life,\" she said.\n\n\"It's just surreal to have the opportunity to do this, and it's on my doorstep, which is amazing.\"\n\nMs Stevens, who also has a daughter in secondary school, said becoming a nurse would be a way of repaying the community that has helped her.\n\n\"This feels like my opportunity to give back, to give to my community and to make a difference to people as well,\" she said.\n\nThe university has been awarded the contract by Health Education and Improvement Wales which provides support to NHS Wales' organisations, with the majority of the students drawn from across the region.\n\nAbout half are Welsh speakers who will be able to study part of their degree in Welsh as part of a drive to increase the number of those speaking the language in health and care sectors.\n\n\"This is a boost for our NHS, benefitting the recruitment and retention of nurses both locally and regionally,\" said university vice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure.\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: Canadian police tell stabbing suspects to turn themselves in\n\nTwo murder suspects are still at large after 10 people were stabbed to death in one of the worst acts of violence in Canada's recent history.\n\nMyles Sanderson, 30, and Damien Sanderson, 31, have been charged with murder, despite not being arrested.\n\nThe attacks - which left another 18 people injured - happened in a remote region of Saskatchewan on Sunday.\n\nIn the city of Regina, where the suspects were last seen, families are in mourning and communities on edge.\n\nThere are no obvious signs of a manhunt here - except for the sound of emergency alerts ringing on mobile phones warning of \"two adult male suspects\" who \"continue to be at large\".\n\nThe city is quiet, with many shops shuttered for the Labour Day long weekend.\n\nIn Victoria Park in the city centre, families called the attacks \"horrific\" and \"sad\". \"It's on everyone's mind,\" Deena Arthur told the BBC.\n\n\"They're not monsters, they're people. Something has happened to them to make this happen.\"\n\nAnother woman said the stabbings have left her \"stomach in knots\". She wonders how something like this could happen in Canada.\n\nThe killings have rocked the typically peacefully prairie province of Saskatchewan, with police investigating 13 separate crime scenes.\n\n\"This kind of violence, or any kind of violence has no place in our country,\" said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday.\n\nHe said that \"tragedies like these have become all too commonplace\" - adding that Saskatchewanians and Canadians would be there for each other in \"times of difficulty and anguish\".\n\nMany of the victims were residents of the remote James Smith Cree Nation, home to about 2,000 people - leaving members of Canada's indigenous community especially shaken. A state of emergency was declared in Saskatchewan.\n\nAs news of the stabbings broke, a dangerous person alert was sent to all mobile phones across the provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta.\n\nNumerous checkpoints have been set up and drivers have been urged not to pick up hitchhikers. Officers from the three provinces are involved in the search.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau called the spate of killings \"horrific and heartbreaking\".\n\nThe suspects have been identified as Damien Sanderson (left) and Myles Sanderson\n\nCanadian media have identified some of the victims - though no official details have been provided by authorities.\n\n\"Mostly we're all related here, so it's pretty hard,\" Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson - one of the elected leaders in the region - told the Regina Leader Post.\n\nThe leader of Saskatchewan's opposition party, the New Democratic Party's Carla Beck, told the BBC the incident had \"shaken\" the residents of a \"tight-knit community\".\n\nSaskatchewan's Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they had been searching for Myles Sanderson for more than three months.\n\nIn May 2022 the 30-year-old stopped meeting with his parole officer and since then has been classified as \"unlawfully at large\".\n\nPolice have not indicated a motive - but said they believe some victims were targeted, while others were random.\n\nChief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations suggested the attacks could be drug-related.\n\n05:40 - local time on 4 September (11:40 GMT) - police receive the first call about a stabbing in the James Smith Cree Nation. More calls start coming in within minutes\n\n07:12 - police tell the public to seek immediate shelter and issue a Dangerous Persons Alert\n\n07:57 - police reveal the names, descriptions and pictures of the two suspects\n\n08:20 - the Dangerous Persons Alert is extended to the whole Saskatchewan province\n\n11:25 - the search for the suspects is further widened to the neighbouring provinces of Manitoba and Alberta\n\n12:07 - police alert the public that the suspects' vehicle had been spotted in Regina, the provincial capital", "US Open: Rafael Nadal stunned by Frances Tiafoe in fourth round Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFrances Tiafoe (right) had lost his previous two meetings with Rafael Nadal Coverage: 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 Rafael Nadal has been beaten in a Grand Slam for the first time in 2022, losing to Frances Tiafoe in the US Open fourth round. American Tiafoe thrilled the home crowd with a 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-3 win over four-time champion Nadal in New York. The defeat ended the Spaniard's bid for a record-extending 23rd major singles title. Nadal led the fourth set 3-1 before Tiafoe hit back, winning five games in a row to secure his quarter-final spot. He will face Russian ninth seed Andrey Rublev for a place in the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows. Tiafoe, seeded 22nd, threw his racquet to the floor and covered his face in disbelief as his victory was confirmed by a netted Nadal backhand. After thanking the crowd he covered his face with his towel, taking in the atmosphere on a raucous Arthur Ashe Stadium. \"Something special happened today,\" the 24-year-old said on court. \"I don't know what to say, I'm so happy. He's one of the greatest of all time and I played unbelievable.\" Nadal has never looked settled in New York this year but that is not to take anything away from Tiafoe, who played a clever match. Nadal's loss and the defeat for 2014 champion Marin Cilic who was beaten in five sets by Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz means there will be a first-time Grand Slam winner in Sunday's final. Alcaraz, 19, came through 6-4 3-6 6-4 4-6 6-3 in three hours and 53 minutes with the clock striking 02:24 in New York, a couple of minutes short of the latest-ever finish at Flushing Meadows. He will take on Italian 11th seed Jannik Sinner who also needed five sets to get past unseeded Belarusian Ilya Ivashka 6-1 5-7 6-2 4-6 6-3.\n• None Nadal not sure when he will play again after loss\n• None Norrie's run at US Open ends in last 16 Rafael Nadal was competing at his first US Open since 2019 Nadal went into this match with a 22-0 record in Grand Slams this year, having won the Australian Open and French Open titles before withdrawing from Wimbledon after his quarter-final victory with an abdominal injury. That injury restricted his build-up to the US Open with Nadal arriving at Flushing Meadows having played only once since, a defeat by Borna Coric in Cincinnati. He has struggled for fluency in New York, particularly in his second-round match against Fabio Fognini, and showed similar nerves on serve against Tiafoe. Having changed his ball toss to protect the injury that ended his Wimbledon campaign, Nadal looked shorn of speed and confidence on his serve, and was broken by Tiafoe at 3-3 in the opener. After losing the first set, Nadal disappeared off court with the physiotherapist for eight minutes and appeared to have strapping added to his wrists. Although his serve never clicked - he finished with nine double faults to nine aces - he was able to take advantage of one poor Tiafoe service game at 5-4 in the second, being gifted the set by a Tiafoe double fault. The third set mirrored the first, Tiafoe breaking for a 4-3 lead with a fine backhand winner, and the American delighted his home crowd as he closed it out with an ace. Nadal appeared reinvigorated in the fourth set and was helped by Tiafoe becoming distracted as the roof closed during his service game at 2-1 down. Nadal broke serve but Tiafoe, helped by two Nadal double faults, responded instantly, and produced some excellent counter-punching to break twice more on his way to clinching victory. Despite the defeat, Nadal could still move to the top of the men's rankings after the tournament following defending champion Daniil Medvedev's loss to Kyrgios on Sunday. Spain's Alcaraz and Norway's Casper Ruud would need to reach the final at least to have a chance to become the world number one. Frances Tiafoe had previously never gone beyond the fourth round in New York Tiafoe has endured some difficult losses in recent weeks, squandering strong positions against Taylor Fritz and Nick Kyrgios, but he showed no signs of nerves against Nadal. He has spoken before about the difficulties he and his family overcame together and his more unusual route into tennis. His father worked on a construction crew developing the Junior Tennis Champions Centre (JTCC) in Washington. With his mum working night shifts as a nurse, Tiafoe and his brother were often at the JTCC for long periods of time and subsequently developed their tennis skills on the courts there. He previously reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in 2019 but the win over Nadal is the biggest in his career to date. \"Honestly when I first came on the scene I wasn't ready for it mentally and mature enough,\" he said on court. \"I've been able to develop and I have a great team around me. \"I'm happy I won in front of my mum, my dad, my girlfriend and my team and to have them see what I did.\"\n• None How to fool the opposition effectively in sport: Sideways delves into the world of deception\n• None The raw and honest story of Paul Gascoigne and his turbulent life", "Liz Truss on a visit to Brussels in March\n\nIt's polite, of course, to congratulate the new leader of a neighbour and ally.\n\nBut the tone of EU leaders' messages to Liz Truss - seen here in Brussels as a hardliner on Brexit, and a hawk when it comes to Russia - reveals a lot more than a superficial \"well done\".\n\nUrsula von der Leyen, the European Commission chief, tweeted that the UK and EU were partners, facing current challenges together - but that she hoped as prime minister, Liz Truss would be \"constructive\", respecting agreements previously reached between the two sides.\n\nMEP Nathalie Loiseau, France's former Europe minister, was more direct, tweeting: \"I hope she will refrain from making things more difficult between the EU and the UK.\"\n\nPoliticians in Eastern Europe, meanwhile, who openly applaud the UK for its tough stance towards the Kremlin, were unreservedly warm.\n\nEstonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas tweeted a photo of her alongside Liz Truss during her time as British foreign secretary, saying: \"I'm confident our partnership will only grow.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut does Liz Truss actually need to worry about what EU leaders think of her?\n\nThe answer is very much yes. EU relations are a pressing issue for the incoming prime minister. The reason: despite the political separation of Brexit, pressing events in the rest of Europe can have, and are having, a considerable real-time impact back in the UK.\n\nWhen countries with a big economy like Germany, in its current hurried attempt to find alternatives to Russian energy, bids aggressively for Norwegian gas - a source the UK already relies on - that affects prices, and potentially even UK access to supplies.\n\nThe EU as a whole is now trying to find a common means of stabilising energy prices across the bloc. Analysts predict that will have quite an impact on the energy market - at least if EU countries, with their contrasting priorities, ever manage to reach an agreement.\n\nAs foreign secretary, Liz Truss promised to be \"robust\" with the French authorities to stop the rising number of refugees and other migrants trying to reach the UK across the English Channel. But being too assertive, or combative vis-à-vis Paris, is unlikely to guarantee that French co-operation needed from Calais.\n\nRelations weren't helped this summer when Liz Truss retorted that the \"jury was out\" on French President Emmanuel Macron, after she was asked if he was a friend or a foe to the UK.\n\nFrance's Europe Minister Laurence Boone recently commented that the next UK prime minister would need to be judged by their actions in office, rather than their words on the campaign trail.\n\nBut - off the record - European politicians view Ms Truss's words as a political gaffe, \"ill-befitting the future leader of one of the world's most powerful nations\", as a senior EU figure said to me. \"Here in Europe, the jury is out on Liz Truss,\" he added.\n\nConflict over the post-Brexit agreement with the EU on Northern Ireland is another likely flashpoint for the UK's incoming prime minister, with potentially huge and immediate consequences. The issue is complex, but the impact can be summed up in three simple words.\n\nEssentially, 10 days from now, we could see the introduction of costly trade barriers, imposed by the EU on the UK.\n\nSomething Liz Truss's rival Rishi Sunak warned loudly against, because of the huge pressure the UK economy is already under.\n\nOn 15 September, all eyes in Brussels will be firmly fixed on Liz Truss.\n\nThat's the day by which the UK is legally obliged to respond to infringement proceedings launched by the EU - alleging that the UK has failed to honour its commitments under the Brexit treaty on Northern Ireland signed by Boris Johnson and the EU - known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIf Liz Truss turns up the heat much further, the EU says it will respond first with targeted sanctions against the UK, eventually looking at suspending the entire post-Brexit trade deal, if no negotiated agreement can be found.\n\nSo, how might the UK's brand-new prime minister respond?\n\nShe could attempt to dial down the temperature with Brussels. But many EU figures I've spoken to are cynical.\n\nTake this blunt comment from a high-level diplomat from one of the EU's most influential countries: \"Ms Truss has shown she's keen to play to the political gallery at home. She cleverly utilised opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol and to the EU itself in the Eurosceptic right of her [Conservative] party, to garner support to become leader.\n\n\"Of course, as you say in English, the proof will be in the pudding once she settles into 10 Downing Street. But we Europeans are pragmatists, not political fantasists. Brexit was politicised from the start. That's unlikely to stop with Liz Truss.\"\n\nThe concern in Brussels is that within days of becoming UK prime minister, Liz Truss could choose to temporarily suspend parts of the protocol by triggering Article 16 of the Treaty.\n\nThat article may be triggered if either side believes the protocol is provoking \"serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that are liable to persist\" in Northern Ireland or diversion of trade.\n\nLiz Truss and the Johnson government she served have long said there were fundamental problems with the protocol, adversely affecting politics and society in Northern Ireland. They often threatened to trigger Article 16, and this summer they provoked outrage in Brussels and very much in Dublin when they introduced a bill in the UK parliament to override most of the core parts of the protocol unilaterally.\n\nThat bill is now going to the House of Lords - where it's expected to have a bumpy reception.\n\nMany in the EU suspect Ms Truss could be tempted to use Article 16 as a stop gap until the bill becomes law in the UK.\n\nGiven it is an international treaty agreed by both sides, Brussels says unilateral action to change the protocol is unacceptable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss says the UK government's proposed Northern Ireland Protocol changes are \"within international law\".\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Maroš Šefčovič, said on Friday that the EU would never walk away from the negotiating table. But he accused the UK of \"not engaging in any meaningful way\" with Brussels since February and of dismissing proposals and compromises the EU had offered to address issues with the protocol in Northern Ireland.\n\nIreland's prime minister, Taoiseach Mícheál Martin, says he'd welcome a meeting with Liz Truss early in her premiership: \"I think relationships are very important and I've always in my political life worked to build relationships with people. And the Irish-British relationship is particularly important.\"\n\nLiz Truss's team insists she prefers a negotiated outcome with the EU. The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill has been described by UK government figures as \"an insurance policy\".\n\nEU leaders say they view it as a loaded gun on the negotiating table.\n\nThe mood in Brussels and across European capitals is not optimistic.\n\n\"Germany is far more impatient with the UK under [Chancellor Olaf] Scholz than with [Angela] Merkel,\" a senior EU diplomat said to me.\n\nBerlin is also concerned about Liz Truss and her position on the crisis in Ukraine.\n\nTo date, European countries and the UK have worked well together over targeted sanctions against Moscow and sending weapons to help the Ukrainian military.\n\nBut splits have surfaced inside the EU as to how far military support should go and to what extent the aim should be to \"humiliate\" Russia into an unconditional surrender.\n\nLiz Truss has been more outspoken publicly than even the Ukrainians, suggesting back in April that Russia should be driven back to its pre-2014 borders.\n\nAs I mentioned at the start of this blog, EU members Poland and the Baltic States - geographically so close to Russia and feeling threatened by Russian President Vladimir Putin - agree wholeheartedly with Liz Truss's \"teach-Russia-a-lesson sentiment\", as one diplomat put it to me.\n\nBut big EU powers France, Germany and Italy say they are concerned that a cornered Vladimir Putin could lash out, possibly resorting to nuclear or biological weapons.\n\n\"I hope Liz Truss will be mindful and measured,\" a seasoned European figure told me.\n\n\"She hopefully won't fan the flames of European allies with extremist positions.\"", "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.", "The draft rules would have required foreigners to report romantic relationships with Palestinians within 30 days\n\nIsrael has dropped a controversial demand for foreigners visiting the occupied West Bank to report romantic links with Palestinians within 30 days.\n\nRevised rules also on foreigners living in, or wanting to, visit the territory remove a quota for university lecturers and students from abroad.\n\nThe Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, described them as \"racist measures\".\n\nIsrael says restrictions on travel into the West Bank are for security reasons.\n\nThe US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides said he had \"aggressively engaged\" with the Israeli government and continued \"to have concerns with the published protocols\".\n\nEuropean diplomats previously said they had brought up concerns \"at the highest level\" with the Israeli authorities.\n\nMr Shtayyeh has called on the US and EU to apply diplomatic pressure to make further changes.\n\nThe procedures affect thousands of foreign spouses, as well as Palestinians living in the diaspora, businesspeople, academics and volunteers.\n\nA senior source at the Co-ordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), the unit of the Israeli ministry of defence responsible for Palestinian civil affairs, told me they were intended \"for the convenience of foreigners\" and would allow requests for more long-term visas.\n\nIsrael captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War and continues to occupy it.\n\nIn February, Cogat published a lengthy document titled \"Procedure for entry and residence of foreigners in the Judea and Samaria area\" - using the biblical term that Israel uses to refer to the West Bank. It was meant to replace a four-page one.\n\nIsrael says the restrictions are necessary for its security\n\nHowever, petitions to the High Court delayed the rules from taking effect.\n\nThe updated document has removed a requirement for a foreigner starting a relationship with a Palestinian from the West Bank to tell Israeli authorities in writing within 30 days.\n\nThe revised draft adds new categories of work permits for teachers and doctors and removes a limit of 100 visiting lecturers and 150 students at Palestinian universities.\n\nIt also allows for the extension of foreigners' visas from 90 days to 180 days.\n\nIn addition, it now gives a route for nationals of Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, South Sudan and Morocco - all countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel - to apply for an entry permit, which it did not before.\n\nDespite the changes, Ambassador Nides raised questions \"regarding Cogat's role in determining whether individuals invited by Palestinian academic institutions are qualified to enter the West Bank, and the potential negative impact on family unity\".\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 Ambassador Tom Nides 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 new arrangements - which affect many Americans with dual nationality - have complicated recent discussions on Israel joining the US visa-waiver programme.\n\nThe new rules do not apply to those visiting Israel as well as Palestinian-controlled parts of the West Bank, nor Jewish settlements. In such cases, entry involves the Israeli immigration authorities.\n\nAs the basis for its authority, Cogat cites the Oslo Accords, interim peace agreements reached in the 1990s, which required Israeli approval to grant residency to foreign spouses and children of Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza, and approve visitor permits.\n\nHowever, Israeli lawyer Leora Bechor, who petitioned the High Court over the rules on behalf of the non-governmental organisation HaMoked, argues that it is \"in direct violation\" of these agreements in the way it deals with the Palestinian population registry.\n\n\"Instead of the Palestinian Authority determining which foreigners will receive Palestinian IDs, as required by the Oslo Accords, Israel appropriates that right under the new policy, designing a host of requirements so onerous that no foreign spouse can meet them,\" she says.\n\nShe says that many demands for change in the new document \"were completely ignored\" and that \"tight restrictions\" continue to affect all aspects of Palestinian civil society.\n\nThey new rules were published late on Sunday and are due to take effect on 20 October for a pilot period of two years.\n\nIsraeli officials say that further amendments are possible and that there are ongoing discussions with the Palestinian Authority, foreign diplomats and others.", "Edward Vines wrote to Emily Maitlis and her mother from prison\n\nA man who has an \"obsession\" with broadcaster Emily Maitlis has been given an eight-year prison sentence for repeatedly writing to her.\n\nEdward Vines was found guilty of attempting to breach a restraining order by writing to Ms Maitlis and her mother from prison.\n\nThe restraining order was originally made 20 years ago, and the court heard Vines had persistently breached it.\n\nJudge Mark Watson said Vines had \"made it plain\" he would not stop trying to speak to the journalist.\n\n\"You are 52 years of age and you are a highly intelligent and articulate man,\" the judge told Vines.\n\n\"You are tortured, in my judgement, by your preoccupation with Emily Maitlis. It is an obsession from which you are unable to escape.\"\n\nThe judge said Edward Vines was \"unable to escape\" his obsession\n\nThe letters were not read to the court but the judge said they did not contain \"threats or abuse\".\n\n\"They were an outpouring of emotions on your behalf,\" the judge said to Vines.\n\nHe was convicted by a jury of eight counts of attempting to breach a restraining order.\n\nThe court heard the letters did not actually reach Ms Maitlis and her mother because they were intercepted by staff at Nottingham Prison.\n\n\"The restraining order is meaningless to you,\" said the judge.\n\n\"The only thing stopping you from contacting Ms Maitlis is the protection given to her by your continued imprisonment.\"\n\nVines has allegedly offended again since his trial\n\nProsecution barrister Ian Way said Vines had breached or attempted to breach the restraining order 20 times since it was originally made in 2002.\n\nVines has previously been given prison sentences of four months, 18 months, 45 months, and three years, but his latest sentence is the longest.\n\nThe judge told Vines that he will serve half of the eight-year sentence in prison before being released on licence.\n\nBefore sentencing him, the judge asked Vines if he wanted to say anything in mitigation.\n\nVines said that he does not \"cause any nuisance to anybody\" in prison.\n\n\"I'm the most innocent and unobtrusive prisoner in prison that there can be, and I'm told that,\" he said.\n\nHe also said that he \"can't feel guilty\" because there had been no victim personal statements from Ms Maitlis and her mother.\n\n\"I'm oblivious to what's going through their minds,\" he said.\n\nThe court heard that Vines has allegedly offended again since being convicted at his most recent trial in July, by writing to Ms Maitlis's mother.\n\nHe is due to appear at Mansfield Magistrates' Court on 15 September in relation to this.\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.", "Twins Chelsea (left) and Christy Cawley died after what gardaí described as a \"traumatic\" incident\n\nEight-year-old twins - a boy and a girl - and an 18-year-old woman have died after a \"violent incident\" at a house in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) were called to the scene at the Rossfield estate in Tallaght in south-west Dublin at about 00:30 local time on Sunday.\n\nThe victims were twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley and their older sister Lisa Cash.\n\nTheir 14-year-old brother is in hospital with serious injuries.\n\nLisa Cash who died was a sister of twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley\n\nThe children's mother, a woman in her 40s who was not injured, has been released from hospital and is being supported by her family, said gardaí.\n\nA man in his early 20s was arrested at the scene and is being held at Tallaght Garda Station.\n\nGardaí are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident and believe the people involved are all known to each other.\n\nDetectives described the incident as \"violent, challenging and traumatic\".\n\nSome neighbours spoke of being woken up by the noise of screaming just after midnight.\n\nA fleet of emergency vehicles arrived at the scene in the early hours of the morning.\n\nThere was a sense of panic, which quickly turned to shock and grief with news that three young people had died.\n\nAs daybreak broke neighbours started leaving flowers at the scene as detectives examined the house and tried to find out exactly what happened.\n\nA message on one bunch of flowers said: \"Fly high little angels, our hearts are broken for you all.\"\n\nFianna Fáil councillor Charlie O'Connor said the community in Tallaght had been left in shock by what had happened.\n\n\"An event like this involving children, two of them very young, will have a deep effect on their peers, where people will go into school in the morning and find that their friends are not there,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to certainly think of the family and offer them deep sympathy.\n\nNeighbours and friends of the family left tributes close to the scene of the incident\n\n\"We have to think of the neighbours here, the wider community, the first responders and everybody who is going to be affected by this story.\"\n\nIrish national broadcaster RTÉ reported that the twins had recently started classes at St Aidan's Senior National School in Tallaght.\n\nIn a statement, principal Tomás Hayes said: \"As a school, our priority will be to take every step to ensure that the needs of our students and their families are met at this challenging time.\n\nA man, who police say is known to the three people who died, has been arrested\n\n\"We will be providing support to pupils and school staff to help them deal with this tragedy and have requested the support of the National Education Psychological Service.\"\n\nA neighbour told BBC News NI what she had witnessed in the aftermath of the incident.\n\n\"I woke up, heard a lot of commotion going on, voices screaming, saw flashing lights everywhere,\" she said.\n\nForensic officers were at the scene for much of Sunday\n\n\"This was all going on behind my house - it's just scary to think of, it's horrific.\"\n\nShe added: \"The kids would always be so nice and friendly, they would all say hello to you.\"\n\nThe scene remains sealed off and a forensic examination has been taking place.\n\nA first-floor window at the house where the incident happened was broken\n\nThe Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee said that the deaths were \"so awful and heart-breaking it is difficult to comprehend\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with the family and the local community as they deal with this unimaginable crime,\" she posted on Twitter.\n\n\"Gardaí and other services are supporting them at this difficult time.\"", "A date for a person's funeral cannot be confirmed until after their death has been registered\n\nFunerals in Northern Ireland are at risk of delay unless laws to ease the death management process are extended, Stormont has been warned.\n\nThe legislation was introduced during the Covid pandemic to allow electronic certification instead of paper-based.\n\nBut without a functioning government it will expire on 24 September.\n\nBBC News NI has seen a letter from the National Association of Funeral Directors to Stormont's finance department.\n\nIn it, the association's chief executive officer, Jon Levett, said allowing the deadline to lapse would have a \"significantly negative effect\" on how deaths are certified and processed in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt would mean a return to an in-person and paper-based system from 25 September.\n\nMr Levett warned that would lead to \"more pressure on our medical colleagues to complete the various forms\".\n\nAnd he added that it \"will create increased pressure on funeral directors to ensure all relevant paperwork\" is processed on time.\n\nThe letter continued: \"With each of these individual processes, any issues that may arise will not be easily corrected.\n\nConor Murphy says officials are exploring how to introduce new legislation \"as promptly as possible\"\n\n\"We are convinced this would have a significantly negative effect on the death management process, which would inevitably lead to delays in allowing families to bury their loved one.\"\n\nWhen someone dies, a date for the funeral cannot be confirmed until after the death has been registered.\n\nThe association said it recognised that without a functioning government at Stormont it may be difficult to extend the legislation.\n\nBut Mr Levett added that it was \"vitally important\" to do so in order to avoid \"the kind of delays being experienced in England and Wales\", where the emergency Covid legislation was not retained after March 2022.\n\nIn response, Northern Ireland Finance Minister Conor Murphy said it had been his intention to extend the laws for another six months, with the agreement of other ministers.\n\nBut he added: \"It does not look like this will be possible as there is currently no functioning assembly and the provisions will therefore fall.\"\n\nHe said he understood how beneficial changes to the system had proved over the past two years and that officials were exploring how to introduce new legislation \"as promptly as possible\".", "Peter Coshan was last seen in Edinburgh on 11 August\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of a former Fettes College teacher have found the body of a man in Northumberland.\n\nFormer biology teacher Dr Peter Coshan, 75, has been missing since he was last seen in Edinburgh on 11 August.\n\nPaul Black, 63, and Paul McNaughton, 27, have been charged with Dr Coshan's murder.\n\nPolice said the body was found on land close to the A696 near the village of Kirkwhelpington on Sunday.\n\nThe body has not been formally identified, but Mr Coshan's family has been made aware.\n\nDet Supt Andrew Patrick, from Police Scotland's major investigation team, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Peter's family at this incredibly difficult time and we are continuing to provide them with support.\n\n\"I would like to take the opportunity to pass on our thanks to everyone who has come forward with information which has helped our investigation.\"\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of Dr Coshan said last week that they believed the Scottish Borders and Northumberland area were \"key\" to finding his body.\n\nThe body was found near Kirkwhelpington in Northumberland\n\nDr Coshan taught at the prestigious Fettes College from 1972 until his retirement in 2005.\n\nHe joined a year after former PM Tony Blair attended the private school from 1966 to 1971.\n\nThe former teacher was last seen in the Seafield Road area of Edinburgh, near Leith, 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\nWarm tributes were paid to Dr Coshan after his death.\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\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. Liz Truss promised to \"deliver\" a Tory victory at the next general election\n\nLiz Truss has promised to deal with surging energy costs and to cut taxes, after she won the Tory leadership contest to become the next PM.\n\nHer plan, set to be announced on Thursday, is likely to include a freeze on energy bills - though precisely how it would work is still unclear.\n\nMs Truss will be formally appointed by the Queen at Balmoral Castle later, after a final speech by Boris Johnson.\n\nThe 47-year-old, the UK's third woman PM, will then appoint her cabinet.\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Truss promised a \"bold\" programme of tax cuts to grow the flagging economy and to prevent the UK tipping into recession.\n\nShe will officially take the reins of power on Tuesday, bringing Mr Johnson's turbulent premiership to an end less than three years after the Conservatives' resounding election victory in 2019.\n\nMs Truss's most pressing decision as premier will be how best to shield households and businesses from the soaring international price of energy.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Truss told party activists at London's Queen Elizabeth II conference centre she would \"deliver on the energy crisis\" by dealing with bills and boosting the UK's domestic energy sources.\n\nUnder her plans, it is understood energy firms would be able to take out government-backed loans, which they would use to freeze or lower customers' bills.\n\nThe loans would be repaid from bills over the next 10-20 years.\n\nScottish Power, which proposed government-backed loans, has estimated that freezing bills for two years could cost nearly £100bn.\n\nSmall business are also expected to be offered some energy bill relief, though the details may not be included in Thursday's announcement.\n\nThere will be very little if any honeymoon period for Liz Truss, as the country clamours for answers to huge questions the caretaker government of Boris Johnson in recent months felt unempowered to take on.\n\nAs you can read from my colleagues, there is inflation, Ukraine, energy security, the NHS with winter approaching, the contrails of Brexit and... a general election that isn't far away.\n\nThe Conservatives have consistently been some way behind Labour in the polls all year. And there has to be an election by January 2025 at the latest.\n\nPolitics is being reset, but it will continue to be competitive, noisy and unpredictable.\n\nMs Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak with 57% of the vote, a narrower win than expected.\n\nThose predicted to join her top team include Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, former leadership rival Suella Braverman as home secretary and James Cleverly as foreign secretary.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said they would step down as senior ministers once Ms Truss becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Ms Truss on her victory and said she had the right plan to \"unite our party\".\n\nMs Truss paid tribute to her \"friend\" Mr Johnson in her victory speech, adding he would be \"admired from Kyiv to Carlisle\" for his record in office.\n\n\"Boris, you got Brexit done, you crushed Jeremy Corbyn, you rolled out the vaccine and you stood up to Vladimir Putin,\" she said.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the outgoing and incoming prime ministers are expected to travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for the handover of power, rather than Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen has been suffering from mobility issues and it is understood the change was made to prevent the need for any last-minute rearrangements.\n\nMs Truss has promised £30bn in tax cuts in an emergency Budget later this month, having blamed the tax burden for the UK's sluggish growth.\n\nHer proposed cuts include reversing the rise in National Insurance under Mr Johnson's tenure, temporarily ditching green levies on energy bills, and scrapping a planned rise to corporation tax.\n\nAs well as the domestic agenda, her in-tray also includes continuing to support Ukraine after its invasion by Russia and repairing a fractious relationship with the EU over Northern Ireland.\n\nFormer chancellor Rishi Sunak, who attacked her economic plans during the campaign, told the BBC he would offer her his \"full support\".\n\nHe said he will stand again to be an MP at the next general election, but is not expected to be in Ms Truss's cabinet.\n\nLabour has called on Ms Truss to expand the windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies to part-fund a six month freeze to domestic prices.\n\nThe party followed the Liberal Democrats earlier this summer in backing a freeze, along with the SNP.\n\nMs Truss, however, has ruled out further windfall taxes, saying during the campaign it \"sends the wrong message to international investors\".\n\nSpeaking earlier, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to work with Ms Truss to deliver a freeze, saying there was cross-party agreement on the idea.\n\nHe criticised her approach on the economy, arguing she had talked more in her campaign about cutting taxes for businesses than the cost of living crisis.\n\n\"That shows that not only is she out of touch, but that she's not on the side of working people,\" he added.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Breakfast Ms Truss's reported plan was not a freeze on energy bills but a loan and said instead energy companies should pay via a one-off tax on profits.\n\n\"What they are saying is families and pensioners should be paying for this for years to come,\" he said.\n\nSNP leader and Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon called for the price freeze to include businesses, which are not normally covered by the UK's energy price cap, and extra cash support.", "A man in his 80s was arrested on suspicion of assault, police said\n\nA police force has referred itself to a watchdog after a man in his 80s was arrested following a clash that left a police officer with a cut to her face.\n\nPolice initially went to the wrong address after being called to Potton, Bedfordshire at 05:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe force said officers were approached by a man holding a \"wooden implement\" and an \"altercation ensued\" in which the officer was injured.\n\nThe arrested man has been released under investigation.\n\nIn a series of tweets, the force said the uniformed officers were walking away from the property when the incident happened.\n\nThey called for back up and \"several other units arrived\".\n\n\"Before further units arrived, an altercation ensued where one of our officers tried to take the wooden implement from the resident, during which [the officer] sustained a cut to her face.\n\n\"A man in his 80s was arrested on suspicion of assault on an emergency worker,\" the force said on Twitter.\n\nThe man was taken into custody and has been released under investigation.\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 Bedfordshire Police 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\nDet Ch Supt Julie Henderson, from Bedfordshire Police, said: \"We understand the concerns regarding this incident and are carrying out our own internal review.\n\n\"We have also voluntarily referred ourselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct for full openness and transparency and to ascertain if there is any learning to be taken forward.\n\n\"Over the coming days the welfare of all those involved will be our primary concern.\"\n\nThe force later tweeted to clarify what was meant by the term \"wooden implement\", saying: \"This was not a walking stick: we are describing it as something similar in size and shape to a rounders bat.\n\n\"It isn't a rounders bat, but is a wooden stick of that sort of size and shape.\"\n\nIt said officers had initially parked outside the wrong address and approached it but did not enter.\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.", "Various arrests have been made in connection with the shooting death of Olivia Pratt-Korbel\n\nPolice will identify those responsible for the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel with the help of the local community, an assistant chief constable has said.\n\nMerseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Chris Green said already \"the community has stepped forward\".\n\nNine-year-old Olivia was killed as her mother tried to stop a gunman entering their house in Liverpool on 22 August.\n\nA 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHe remains in custody and police were granted a further 36 hours on Monday night to continue questioning him.\n\nThe same extension was also granted regarding two men, aged 29 and 41, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nA fourth man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender on Sunday night is also being questioned.\n\nOlivia's death was one of three fatal shootings within a week in the city.\n\nAppealing for information, Mr Green said: \"The community's been rocked and shocked by what has happened. Our thoughts and prayers go the families of the three people who have been killed over the last two weeks.\n\n\"But the community has stood strong and stepped forward.\n\n\"The response we have seen, whether it's providing information or just being resolute in a collective ambition to make sure that those individuals in our communities who are engaged in organised crime - the intimidation, the violence, the use of firearms - they've got no place in our society.\n\n\"The community has stepped forward and together we'll identify those responsible.\"\n\nA tribute was paid to Olivia on the big screen at Goodison Park on Saturday\n\nHe said dashcam footage, CCTV and other pieces of intelligence had been submitted by members of the public.\n\nMr Green continued to appeal for information but said community support had already allowed officers to \"make investigative decisions and take action\"\n\nPolice previously arrested two men, aged 33 and 36, on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder before releasing them on bail.\n\nThe child was shot in the chest by a gunman who had chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into her home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at about 22:00 BST.\n\nNeither of the men who entered the home had any links to her family.\n\nHer mother Cheryl Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door on the shooter.\n\nDuring the opening of Olivia's inquest on 30 August, Liverpool Senior Coroner Andre Rebello said armed response officers found her with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\nHe said a police officer had \"scooped\" up Olivia and ran with her to try to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nMerseyside Police has appealed for the public to come forward with information\n\nBut she was pronounced dead in hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of her death was a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nA minute's applause was held nine minutes into the Everton v Liverpool game on Saturday.\n\nAn anti-knife and gun crime banner was unfurled in the Bullens Road stand at the Premier League game stretching across both Everton and Liverpool supporters.\n\nOlivia's funeral is due to take place at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot on 15 September and her family has asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" for the service.\n\nA crowdfunding page set up to support Olivia's family has raised more than £40,000.\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.", "Donald Trump's Florida home was searched as part of an investigation into his handling of classified material\n\nA judge has granted Donald Trump's demand for a \"special master\" to oversee the case into his handling of classified materials.\n\nMr Trump is being investigated for allegedly taking documents with him when he left the White House.\n\nBut the \"special master\" is an independent lawyer who decides if any of the records are covered by attorney-client or executive privilege.\n\nThe move is seen as a blow to prosecutors and a win for Mr Trump.\n\nThe former president had asked for the special master to be appointed, while prosecutors had strongly opposed it - and the appointment is likely to slow down the justice department's ongoing criminal investigation.\n\nThat is because the judge has banned the government from reviewing or using the seized materials for its investigation until the special master's independent review has been completed.\n\nDepartment of Justice officials previously said that documents stored at former President Donald Trump's Florida home were likely to have been concealed as part of an effort to obstruct an FBI investigation.\n\nThe authorities say these documents should have been handed over to the National Archives - which US presidents are legally obliged to do upon leaving office.\n\nMr Trump, meanwhile, denies any kind of wrongdoing, arguing that as president he had declassified all the documents, and that they were kept securely at his Mar-a-Lago home.\n\nThe Department of Justice resisted Mr Trump's request saying that any presidential records seized in the FBI's 8 August search of Mar-A-Lago \"belong to the United States, not to the former president\".\n\nIt is not clear how long the special master's review will take.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers have argued some of the documents are covered by attorney-client privilege - a part of US law that allows people to keep conversations with their lawyers private.\n\nHis legal team have also claimed \"executive privilege\" over the documents, which allows presidents to keep certain communications under wraps.\n\nHowever, some legal experts argue that these moves are merely a tactic to delay proceedings - since the documents have already been looked at.\n\nBefore the decision was handed down, law professor and US constitutional law expert Aziz Huq told the BBC the demand for a special master was simply \"throwing sand in the gears\".\n\n\"It's unclear why a special master is required. A special master is usually used before the government sees the underlying material, and here the government has seen them,\" the former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.\n\nFormer federal prosecutor and former deputy attorney general for New York, E Danya Perry, said: \"What really strikes me here is it's too late... you can't unscramble the egg or put the genie back in the bottle. These documents have been reviewed.\"", "Benjamin Mendy is accused of raping women at his Cheshire mansion\n\nA young woman tearfully told detectives how she woke up in bed with Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy raping her, a court has heard.\n\nThe 28-year-old denies charges of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault.\n\nChester Crown Court was played a police interview in which the woman, who was 19 at the time, said she went to the footballer's house in Cheshire after a night out in Manchester in July 2021.\n\nShe said she fell asleep alone but \"woke up to find Ben on top of me\".\n\nThe woman said in the interview played to the jury she had been drinking champagne with Mr Mendy, his friends and other young women at China White night club.\n\nShe then returned to the footballer's mansion in Mottram St Andrew, near Prestbury.\n\nAfter spending time in the swimming pool, she said she became sleepy and went up to a top floor bedroom.\n\nShe changed out of the bikini she had brought with her and into her underwear and fell asleep, alone, in the double bed, the court heard.\n\nBreaking down in tears, she said: \"I woke up to find Ben on top of me, but I was on my side. It was horrific, I was on my period.\n\n\"I remember five seconds of it and him putting a towel under me.\n\n\"I remember saying, 'No. I'm on my period'.\"\n\nLouis Saha Matturie, 41, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault\n\nThe woman, who described herself as \"out of it\" or \"6/10\" drunk, is asked if there was \"any chance\" Mr Mendy could have thought she wanted to have sex with him that night.\n\nShe replied: \"No, because I don't know him that well.\"\n\nThe woman told how two or three months before the alleged rape she had sex with Mendy \"like a one-night thing\", but that she was sober and it was consensual.\n\nUnder cross-examination, Eleanor Laws QC, defending, suggested her account of what happened, waking up to find Mr Mendy raping her, was the \"exact same\" allegation made by her friend, who the footballer is also accused of raping the same evening.\n\nThe witness replied: \"I have not spoken to her.\"\n\nMr Mendy denies the rape, in the early hours of 24 July 2021, along with the rape of two other young women over the same 24-hour period.\n\nHe also denies five other counts of rape, one attempted rape and a sexual assault, all relating to seven young women, between October 2018 and August last year.\n\nHis co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault, relating to eight young women.\n\nProsecutors have described Mr Mendy as a \"predator\" who they claim turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game.\n\nIt is alleged Mr Matturie, Mr Mendy's friend and fixer, had the job of finding young women for sex.\n\nBoth men deny any offences and maintain if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.\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 major fireworks event has been cancelled \"for the foreseeable future\" with organisers blaming rising costs.\n\nCardiff's Sparks in the Park usually takes place in Coopers field every year on 5 November and has run for 40 years.\n\nBut Cardiff Round Table said rising costs and \"organisational burdens\" over the past few years has made it no longer viable for its group of volunteers.\n\nIt has appealed for more volunteers to help the event return in the future.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"Unfortunately, over the past few years we have faced escalating costs and organisational burdens, the same as so many of us have been feeling.\n\n\"As a purely volunteer driven event, where all profits raised are donated to local charities and good causes, it is no longer feasible for us to put on an event of this scale.\n\n\"We will always be ready to help run a fireworks event for the community, the main aim of which is to be enjoyable and safe.\n\n\"So, if you or someone you know would like to volunteer to help us get Sparks in the Park back up and running, please let us know.\"", "Damien Sanderson (left) was found dead but Myles Sanderson is still at large\n\nCanadian police have found the body of one of two brothers wanted for a mass stabbing attack that left 10 people dead and 18 injured in the province of Saskatchewan on Sunday.\n\nAn officer said Damien Sanderson, 31, had injuries that did not appear self-inflicted - but gave no details.\n\nHe was found at the James Smith Cree Nation, the indigenous community where most of the victims lived.\n\nSanderson's brother Myles is at large and dangerous, police say.\n\nThe stabbing spree has rocked the usually peaceful province, with police investigating 13 different crime scenes.\n\nThe suspects' motives remain unknown. Both were charged with murder, despite not being arrested.\n\nOn Monday police said Damien Sanderson's body had been found \"in a heavily grassed area in proximity to a house that was being examined\".\n\nHis injuries were \"not believed to be self-inflicted at this point\", police Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore told reporters.\n\nHis 30-year-old brother might also have sustained injuries and police have warned the public he might seek medical assistance. But police did not say whether he was responsible for his brother's death.\n\nMyles Sanderson, who was previously known to the police, is described as having an \"extensive and lengthy criminal record\" dating back a number of years.\n\nOn Monday evening, chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents all 74 First Nations of Saskatchewan, urged residents to report with any information about the attacks,\n\n\"Someone out there knows something,\" he said in a statement. \"We beg you to come forward for the sake of the families.\"\n\nIn Regina, the province's capital where the suspects were last seen alive, communities are on edge.\n\nBut in the city centre on Monday evening, there were no obvious signs of a manhunt. The city was mostly quiet as families gathered to enjoy the Labour Day holiday, the unofficial end to summer.\n\nEvery so often, that calm was interrupted by alerts ringing on mobile phones, warning of two adult male suspects, and then just one, still on the run.\n\n\"Every time a new alert is broadcast… the families and communities are holding their breath for fear of new fatalities or injuries,\" Mr Cameron said.\n\n\"This kind of violence, or any kind of violence has no place in our country,\" said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nHe said that \"tragedies like these have become all too commonplace\" - adding that Saskatchewanians and Canadians would be there for each other in \"times of difficulty and anguish\".\n\nMany of the victims were residents of the remote James Smith Cree Nation, home to about 2,000 people - leaving members of Canada's indigenous community especially shaken. A state of emergency was declared in Saskatchewan.\n\nCanadian media have identified some of the victims, although no official details have been provided by authorities.\n\nSaskatchewan's 1.2 million residents are scattered across 250,000 square miles. Clusters of tight-knit communities, separated by stretches of highways, dot the flat expanse of farmland. Most places feel remote.", "Prime Minister Liz Truss is understood to be planning to borrow billions to limit the expected sharp rise in energy bills for households and firms.\n\nIt is understood that a typical energy bill could be capped at around £2,500 with full details expected on Thursday.\n\nCurrently, a typical household's gas and electricity bill is due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 in October.\n\nThe government's plans to subsidise bills means that customers will not be expected to repay the support.\n\nIt is unclear how long the government support will last, but the overall government support package is expected to total around £100bn.\n\nThe ultimate figure will depend on gas and energy price movements in the highly volatile international energy markets as well as how much additional support is offered to the most vulnerable.\n\nMs Truss has pledged to \"deliver on the energy crisis\" - with details expected to be announced on Thursday.\n\nEnergy bosses have insisted for some time that a government-backed superfund from which they could borrow to subsidise bills \"is the only game in town\".\n\nHowever, the government is understood to be reluctant to see money added to customer bills for up to 20 years so energy companies could pay back the loans.\n\nIt is also thought to be reluctant to add the cost to general taxation, given their pledges to be a tax cutting government.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng - tipped to be the new chancellor - has already indicated the government is prepared to borrow to support the economy.\n\nThis would be consistent with Ms Truss' position that the UK needs to break free of the Treasury's strict spending rules.\n\nNevertheless, the estimated £100bn is a sizeable sum to borrow at the same time as cutting taxes and boosting spending on defence and it could end up costing more than that, given the fluctuating price of wholesale gas.\n\n\"One of the dangers here is that it could even be more expensive than £100bn,\" said Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, contrasting it with the Covid-prompted furlough scheme, which cost £60bn-£70bn.\n\n\"There has to be a risk that energy prices stay high for a long time, perhaps even up to three or four years,\" he said. \"Then this starts being baked into public spending long-term.\"\n\nThe cost of UK government borrowing hit its highest level for eight years on Tuesday, with the yield on ten-year bonds rising above 3%. That reflects the market's expectation that the government will have to borrow more and means any future borrowing will be more expensive.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan to borrow to support energy bills was only one you would adopt \"if you can't think of anything else\" because it amounted to subsidising everybody's gas use, when the higher price suggested there was not enough gas available. That could lead to rationing, he suggested, and would mean high-income households would benefit by a much larger amount than those at the lower end.\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Get in touch.\n\nGovernment sources say that over time, new energy supply measures - such as cutting the link between renewable sources and the gas price - will lower costs while a growing economy will shrink the proportion of overall debt to the size of the economy.\n\nBusinesses are also expected to be offered some relief in the plan set to be announced on Thursday.\n\nUnlike households, businesses are not protected by an energy price cap. Many fixed-rate deals for business expire this October, exposing thousands of firms to full costs that could rise by four or five times or more. Thousands would go bust or cut their wage bills by firing staff.\n\nThe precise mechanism to help business may be more complicated and would be reviewed more frequently but reports suggest it could see the government mandate energy firms to offer specific reductions on the unit price of the energy businesses use.\n\nIncluding businesses could easily push the cost of the government's energy plan over £100bn.\n\nAlex Veitch of the British Chambers of Commerce said: \"It is encouraging that the government is seriously considering the support it can give to businesses during these very difficult times.\n\n\"But it remains to be seen whether these plans will go far enough in offering the help that many firms so desperately need.\"\n\nCraig Beaumont from the Federation of Small Businesses said: \"This commitment looks very promising, and arguably the best reassurance that small businesses need that some form of help with bills will follow - not just for households.\n\n\"The scope and reach of the help is going to be absolutely crucial to save hundreds of thousands of small businesses this winter.\"", "Charlotte said she could not believe how much money was spent on her card while she was at the gym\n\nA woman has described how criminals raided her gym locker, stole her wallet and went on an £8,000 shopping spree while she was exercising.\n\nCharlotte, from west London, who did not want her full name published, told the BBC how she felt blamed by her bank and made to feel like a \"criminal\".\n\nShe believes thieves accessed her card PIN via the phone app, but Santander said she must have disclosed it.\n\nThe bank has apologised to her and refunded her money.\n\nCharlotte went to exercise at a Virgin Active gym in Chiswick after work on 24 August when all of her belongings, including her bank cards and phone were stolen.\n\nDespite having padlocked her locker, she arrived back to find it empty. Two other gym-goers also had their lockers raided, she said.\n\n\"I was completely stuck, I just froze\", she told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme.\n\nCharlotte was told the thieves spent £700 in London's Selfridges store\n\nWhen she used a friend's phone to call Santander she said the operator was slow to respond or take action, which caused her to panic.\n\n\"Obviously you want a sense of urgency at that point from the person handling the call and you want to be reassured everything had been stopped and I was not getting that from this call handler at all,\" she said.\n\nCharlotte said she was told her card had been used to make about £8,000 worth of purchases from her current account, with goods bought from the Apple store at Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush, the Apple store in Regent Street, and Selfridges on Oxford Street - all within 90 minutes.\n\nHaving initially believed her savings account would be safe, she was then told the thieves had also transferred her £10,000 of life savings into her current account.\n\n\"I thought 'that's everything. I've lost everything',\" she said. \"I just couldn't believe how much damage they had done.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"violated\" and \"distressed\", but assumed Santander would refund the money as she believed she had been defrauded.\n\nHowever, she said she was left \"broken\" when she received a call from the bank a few days later and learnt that while Santander had managed to stop some of the purchases, she would still be £5,000 out of pocket.\n\n\"I was very rudely and bluntly told 'you will not be getting your money back. It's your fault because they've used your PIN',\" she said.\n\n\"I was also accused of writing my PIN down and keeping it on a bit of paper in my bag.\n\n\"I was just left absolutely broken because all that hope that I had, that I was clinging onto just suddenly melted away. It was heartbreaking.\n\n\"I just didn't know how I suddenly went from being the victim of something horrible to being made to feel like the criminal.\"\n\nShe said she then took to social media to raise awareness of her experience, and spent the next week \"frantically trying to prove my innocence\".\n\nAfter that she received a phone call from a senior Santander staff member, who \"apologised wholeheartedly\" and \"held her hands up\".\n\n\"They said they failed me,\" she said.\n\nCharlotte accused Santander of making a \"catalogue of errors\", which included calling her mobile phone after it had been stolen when it was likely to have been in the hands of criminals.\n\nShe said while she was not certain how the thieves accessed her PIN, she believes they accessed it via her personal banking app. Santander, like some other high street banks, carry PINs in their apps behind security details.\n\nShe also believes criminals accessed the changing rooms due to a fault in the gym's security barriers that day, which meant people without passes could enter.\n\nSantander apologised for initially \"incorrectly declining her refund request and for the customer service she received\", and it has paid her £750 in compensation.\n\nHowever, it said its \"security logs\" showed there had been \"no compromise with our mobile banking app\".\n\nVirgin Active said it was assisting police with their inquiries and \"fully investigating all of the circumstances around the brief failure of the access gates\".\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.", "Top YouTuber Jimmy \"MrBeast\" Donaldson filled a shopping centre in the US with thousands of fans, on Sunday, at the opening of his first burger restaurant.\n\nDonaldson is one of the most popular people on the video-sharing platform, with more than 100 million subscribers.\n\nHe used that fame to open MrBeast Burger in 2020, which delivers from more than 1,000 locations worldwide.\n\nAnd now he has a physical restaurant, at which fans queued for hours for a burger - and a chance to meet him.\n\nThe restaurant opened in the American Dream mall, in East Rutherford, New Jersey.\n\nAfter it had been open for two hours, Donaldson shared a video of the number of people waiting in line - which he estimated at more than 10,000.\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\nDonaldson is part of a growing trend of stars who made their names online moving into the food industry but ignoring the traditional model of brick-and-mortar restaurants.\n\nCelebrities have begun instead linking their names to food-delivery services operating out of the kitchens of other businesses\n\nFor example, in the beginning of 2022 fans in London could have a MrBeast Burger delivered to them from Shoreditch, in the east of the city - where it was made in the kitchen of a different burger joint, Dirty Bones.\n\nThe options are more plentiful for those in the US, where diners can order macaroni cheese bearing the name of TikTok content creator Larray, esports team FaZe Clan is selling sub-style sandwiches, and even Mariah Carey is getting in on the action with her own cookie brand.\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\nThis is not the first time Donaldson has forayed into food but it may be the most profitable.\n\nIn January, he launched his own chocolate company, with a mass giveaway campaign.\n\nAnd in April, he claimed the business had given away $1.3m (£1.1m) in chocolate.\n\nIn 2021, he launched a philanthropy-themed YouTube channel, which has more than 10 million subscribers.\n\nAnd he now has a licensed charity that functions as a food bank to feed communities across the US.\n\nMeanwhile, the day after MrBeast Burger's grand opening, Donaldson claimed he had broken the world record for the most burgers sold in a single day.\n\nBut he may have to hold off on calling himself the burger king just yet, because Guinness World Records has taken to Twitter to ask for proof.\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.", "Smoking is now banned within 15m of hospital buildings in Scotland\n\nSmoking outside hospitals is now banned under new legislation.\n\nAnyone caught lighting up within 15m of a hospital building in Scotland could be fined up to £1,000.\n\nThe regulations become law from Monday, and apply to all NHS hospital settings used for patient treatment and care.\n\nThe new rule follows a voluntary smoke-free policy introduced at hospitals in 2015 and is the latest step in the Scottish government's plan to create a tobacco-free Scotland by 2034.\n\nFines for the new offence will range from a fixed penalty notice of £50, or a fine of up to £1,000 should the case end up in court.\n\nThe rule applies to NHS hospital settings used for patient treatment and care, and includes a ban on smoking beneath overhanging structures.\n\nSheila Duffy from Ash Scotland hopes it will prevent tobacco smoke being drawn in through windows, doorways and vents.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"It has effects on the blood, it has effects on the lungs and it interferes with people getting well, which is what they are in there to do.\n\n\"There are newborns and people who are ill in hospitals and this measure is about creating cleaner air for their stay and making sure that they get out as healthy as possible.\n\n\"This is a toxic substance. It is preventable and is not a welcome addition to the indoor air in hospitals.\"\n\nShe also hopes the prospect of fines will make people change their habits.\n\n\"A fine would absolutely be a last resort and I think it would be a failure if we got to fines,\" she said. \"We need people to understand and respect this as they have the indoor restrictions.\"\n\nHospital authorities - those who are already responsible for enforcing indoor smoke-free legislation - will implement the new rules.\n\nIf a facility has persistent problems, environmental health officers can be asked to intervene and issue a fixed penalty notice.\n\nPublic health minister Maree Todd said: \"Everyone knows that smoking is bad for our health and hospital patients in particular should be protected from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke.\n\n\"This new law is the latest step in our bold plan to make Scotland tobacco-free by 2034, building on our dedicated stop-smoking services and early intervention measures to stop youngsters picking up the habit altogether.\n\n\"Anyone looking to quit can contact the NHS QuitYourWay Helpline or speak to their local pharmacy to discuss the range of help available.\"", "The attack is the first on an embassy in Afghanistan since the Taliban swept to power\n\nTwo Russian embassy staff are among at least six people killed in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul, Russian and Taliban officials say.\n\nGuards shot the attacker dead as he approached the entrance to the consular section, officials said.\n\nA number of other people were reported to have been wounded. The Islamic State group said it was behind the attack.\n\nThe attack is the first on a foreign mission in Afghanistan since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021.\n\nEarlier, a Taliban official said at least 10 people had been injured. Russia's state-owned news agency RIA reported that a diplomat and an embassy security guard had been wounded.\n\nOther media reports put casualty figures higher. As well as the embassy staff, four Afghans waiting for consular services were killed, police said.\n\nA Taliban fighter stands guard in front of the embassy after the blast\n\n\"This morning, an explosion took place at the Russian embassy in Kabul - four people and two employees of the Russian embassy were killed, and a number of Afghans were injured,\" a statement from the Taliban police chief's spokesman in Kabul said.\n\nIt added the suicide bomber had been spotted by Taliban personnel guarding the embassy as he approached people gathered in front of the building.\n\n\"He was identified by security and targeted, which caused a blast,\" the spokesman said.\n\nRussia's foreign ministry said \"an unknown militant set off an explosive device near the entrance to the consular section\".\n\n\"Without any doubt, we are talking about a terrorist act, which is absolutely unacceptable,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow.\n\nSpeaking from hospital, survivors of the attack spoke of the chaos in its aftermath.\n\n\"I went to the Russian embassy to get a visa. We were sitting outside,\" a man called Faiz Mohammad told Reuters. \"The consul came and we showed him our papers, he guided us towards the entrance door of the embassy. Suddenly the blast occurred and I fell on the ground.\"\n\nAnother man called Wahidullah was close by: \"I heard a huge blast. Later I didn't understand what happened to me, I just remember the blast threw me out on the street. My hands and legs were not working, then my cousin ran toward me and brought me to this hospital.\"\n\nAhmad Samir, a boy who suffered head injuries in the blast, said \"there were so many injured people around, everyone was fleeing the site\".\n\nRussia is one of the few countries to maintain a diplomatic presence in Afghanistan. Moscow does not officially recognise the Taliban's government - no country does. However the two sides have discussed possible Afghan purchases of commodities like wheat, gas and oil from Moscow.\n\nViolence in Afghanistan has greatly declined since the Taliban returned to power - under its 20-year campaign to drive US-led forces from Afghan soil many attacks were carried out by Taliban militants themselves.\n\nHowever security has been deteriorating in recent months. A string of deadly bomb blasts has mainly targeted mosques and minority communities, many claimed by the militant Islamic State group who see the Taliban as not radical enough.\n\nLast week, a suicide bomber struck one of western Afghanistan's biggest mosques, killing at least 18 people, including an influential imam who supported the Taliban.", "Mr Thomas denies the allegations from his former partner Ian Baum\n\nFormer Wales rugby star Gareth Thomas has admitted he did not tell his ex-partner he had HIV, but said he was never asked, according to High Court legal papers.\n\nThe ex-British and Irish Lions captain is being sued by his ex-partner Ian Baum for £150,000 in damages.\n\nMr Baum claims Mr Thomas hid his HIV status and failed to take reasonable care to ensure he did not pass it on.\n\nOne of those is that the TV personality removed labels from his HIV medication so his partner would not know what they were.\n\nHe has also been accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour to stop his HIV status becoming known.\n\nMr Thomas's legal team has submitted a 15-page document to the High Court responding to the allegations.\n\nThe document confirmed Mr Thomas and Mr Baum started a relationship a the end of 2013, and Mr Thomas said the couple did not have penetrative sex for the first four months because he had an injury.\n\nIt also said the issue of HIV was never discussed.\n\nGareth Thomas has admitted he did not tell a former partner that he had HIV, but said he was never asked\n\n\"It is denied that the defendant deliberately concealed his positive status, he was never asked by the claimant if he was HIV positive, and he never denied that he was,\" the document submitted by Mr Thomas's legal team said.\n\n\"It is admitted that the claimant did not expressly consent to the risk of HIV transmission from the defendant.\"\n\nMr Thomas, also known as Alfie, said while he knew he had the virus, he did not think he was able to pass it on.\n\n\"The defendant genuinely and reasonably believed that he could not transmit the condition to others whilst his CD4 count (a measure of immune function) was not at a dangerous level requiring medication.\n\n\"Whilst the defendant understands now that this was incorrect, it was a genuinely held belief at the material time.\"\n\nGareth Thomas disclosed he was HIV positive in 2019\n\nMr Thomas said Mr Baum was promiscuous and accused him of being \"blasé\" about catching HIV when he did reveal his own status, \"his attitude being that he was bound to get HIV sooner or later\".\n\nHowever in his submission to the court, Mr Baum said he was monogamous and faithful to Mr Thomas and did not have sexual intercourse with another person.\n\nMr Thomas also admitted he did remove labels from his HIV medication, but only to stop family members knowing what they were.\n\n\"The defendant denies that he ever told the claimant he was HIV negative, or lied about his HIV status,\" read the statement.", "Nandi Bushell, 12, said Taylor Hawkins was one of her role models and called his death \"a tragedy\"\n\nA 12-year-old drummer said she had mixed emotions performing at Wembley Stadium as part of a memorial concert for Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.\n\nNandi Bushell, from Ipswich, joined the band onstage and took Hawkins' place on the drum stool for Learn To Fly.\n\nHawkins died earlier this year while the band were in South America.\n\nNandi said: \"It was amazing to play Wembley, but at the same time it was really sad.\"\n\nShe was one of many musicians to fill Hawkins' seat on Saturday in London, including Blink-182's Travis Barker, Foo Fighters' bandleader Dave Grohl and Hawkins' 16-year-old son, Shane.\n\nTaylor Hawkins, who died aged 50 in March, had drummed with the Foo Fighters since 1997\n\nAll the performers took a bow as the show ended, shortly before 22:30 BST\n\nThe young drummer, who goes to school in Ipswich, went viral after challenging Dave Grohl to a drum battle during lockdown.\n\nGrohl introduced her as \"one of the most badass drummers I've ever met in my life\".\n\nShe met Hawkins last year, and performed the song at Wembley with a set of drumsticks he had given her.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on Monday, she said: \"It was an incredible experience and so fun and exciting, but it was a tragedy that Taylor died because he was an amazing musician,\" she said.\n\n\"He was really warm and friendly and it's such a tragedy he died because he was just the nicest person.\n\n\"It was so much fun. He was a role model ever since I was eight years old because I absolutely love the Foo Fighters.\n\n\"He was an amazing drummer.\"\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 Nandi Bushell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nandi Bushell jammed with Lenny Kravitz when she was nine years old\n\nJustin Hawkins from Lowestoft band The Darkness was at Wembley alongside Wolfgang Van Halen and Grohl to sing Van Halen's Hot For Teacher.\n\nAnd the frontman also joined Queen to sing Under Pressure, which featured Darkness drummer Rufus Taylor, who is the son of Queen drummer Roger Taylor.\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 The Darkness 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 2 by The Darkness\n\nEurovision runner-up Sam Ryder, from Maldon in Essex, also performed during the Queen section. He sang Somebody To Love - 30 years after George Michael sang it at the old Wembley for the 1992 Freddie Mercury tribute concert.\n\nRyder praised the audience for their participation - writing \"when the crowd understands the assignment\" on an Instagram post.\n\n\"What a beautiful and moving celebration of such a wonderful human. Thank you for everything, Taylor,\" he wrote, ahead of announcing the release date for his debut album.\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 samhairwolfryder 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. 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If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Rishi Sunak has signalled he believes he has lost the Tory leadership race, telling the BBC his job \"now is just to support a Conservative government\".\n\nSpeaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the ex-chancellor also said he would continue as an MP if he does not become prime minister next week.\n\nHowever, he did not rule out running again to be Conservative Party leader.\n\nThe winner of the contest to replace Boris Johnson as leader is due to be announced on Monday.\n\nThe following day Mr Johnson will tender his resignation to the Queen, and either Mr Sunak or Liz Truss will take over as prime minister.\n\nThroughout the eight-week long campaign Ms Truss has emerged as the frontrunner with her emphasis on immediate tax cuts contrasting with Mr Sunak's pledge to delay tax cuts until inflation is under control.\n\nMr Sunak has been highly critical of Ms Truss's economic plan, arguing it would put the UK's public finances in \"serious jeopardy\", leading to questions about how he would respond to a Truss-led government.\n\nAsked about his future plans, Mr Sunak said \"I look forward to supporting the Conservative government in whatever capacity.\"\n\nOn the possibility that he might stand in a future leadership race, he said: \"We've just finished this campaign. I'd say... I need to recover from this one.\"\n\nConfirming he would stay on as an MP, Mr Sunak said that it had been \"a great privilege\" to represent the North Yorkshire constituency of Richmond.\n\n\"I'd love to keep doing that as long as they'll have me.\"\n\nAppearing in the programme earlier, Ms Truss said she would announce her plan to deal with soaring energy costs within a week if were successful in her bid to become prime minister.\n\nShe added that support would need to go \"hand in hand\" with efforts to boost domestic energy supply.", "The world's second-largest country by surface but relatively small in terms of population, Canada punches above its weight in economic terms.\n\nA federation of former British colonies, Canada follows the British pattern of parliamentary democracy. Ties with the US are now vital, especially in terms of trade, but Canada often goes its own way.\n\nBoth English and French enjoy official status, and mainly French-speaking Quebec - where pressure for full sovereignty has abated in recent years - has wide-ranging cultural autonomy. Indigenous peoples make up around 4% of the population.\n\nCanada is one of world's top trading nations - and one of its richest. Alongside a dominant service sector, Canada also has vast oil reserves and is a major exporter of energy, food and minerals.\n\nJustin Trudeau - son of Pierre Trudeau, who dominated Canadian politics in the 1970s - won a third election victory for his Liberal Party in the September 2021 federal elections.\n\nIt is Trudeau's second minority government. The results were little changed from the 2019 federal election.] The Liberals won the most seats at 160; as this fell short of the 170 seats needed for a majority in the House of Commons, they formed a minority government with support from other parties.\n\nThe Liberals set a record for the lowest vote share of a party that would go on to form government, winning 32.6% of the popular vote, while losing the popular vote to the Conservatives as they did in 2019.\n\nThe Conservatives led by Erin O'Toole won 119 seats, two fewer than their result in 2019, and continued as the official opposition.\n\nToronto's CN Tower - used for TV and radio broadcasts - is an internationally renowned Canadian landmark\n\nCanada has a long history of public broadcasting and a lively commercial media sector. The public Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) runs national radio and TV networks in French and English, as well as services for indigenous people in the north.\n\nThe Canadian media are free to present a wide range of views and opinions. Quotas exist for broadcasts of Canadian material.\n\nAfter lengthy debate, Ottawa was chosen as Canada's capital by Queen Victoria in 1857\n\nKey dates in the history of Canada:\n\n15,000-20,000 before present - North America's first humans migrate from Asia.\n\n11th Century - Norse explorers reach North America, establishing the first known European settlement in the Americas on Newfoundland.\n\n1497 - Italian-born navigator John Cabot reaches the coasts of Newfoundland and Cape Breton.\n\n1534 - Jacques Cartier explores the St Lawrence river, and claims the shores of the Gulf of St Lawrence for France.\n\n1600s - Fur trade rivalry between the French, English and Dutch; the Europeans exploit existing rivalries between local peoples to form alliances.\n\n1627 - Company of New France established to govern and exploit \"New France\" - France's North American colonies.\n\n1670 - Hudson's Bay Company established by London traders. The company holds trading rights for regions whose rivers drain into Hudson Bay.\n\n1756 - Seven Years' War begins between New France and the larger and economically-stronger British colonies. After early French successes, Quebec falls in 1759 and the British advance on Montreal.\n\n1763 - Under the Treaty of Paris, Britain acquires all French colonies east of the Mississippi including New France, which becomes the colony of Quebec.\n\n1774 - The Quebec Act recognises the French language and Roman Catholicism in the colony.\n\n1776 onwards - Loyalist refugees from the American War of Independence settle in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Ontario.\n\n1800s - Immigration picks up. Thousands of newcomers from England, Scotland and Ireland arrive each year.\n\n1812-14 - War of 1812 between the US and Britain, largely over the effects on the US of British blockades of French ports. There are naval battles on the Great Lakes and a US attack on York, now Toronto. But the US fails to realise its plans to invade Canada.\n\n1837-38 - Armed rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada, caused by disaffection with the ruling elites, poverty and social divisions.\n\n1867 - British North America Act unites Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Dominion of Canada.\n\n1870 - Manitoba becomes fifth province, followed by British Columbia and Prince Edward Island.\n\nThe promise of gold lured tens of thousands to the Yukon in northwest Canada\n\n1896-99 - Klondike Gold Rush: Some 100,000 prospectors migrate to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada.\n\n1898 - The Yukon is split off from the North West Territories to become a separate territory\n\n1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan become provinces of Canada.\n\n1914-18 - World War One: Canadian forces play a key role in the fighting in France, particularly in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917.\n\n1939-45 - World War Two: Canadian forces are active in Italy, Europe, the Atlantic and elsewhere. Canadian troops play important roles in many key battles including the 1942 Dieppe Raid, 1943 Allied invasion of Italy, the Normandy landings and Battle of Normandy, and Battle of the Scheldt in 1944.\n\n1947 - Canada is declared to be of equal status with Great Britain within the Commonwealth.\n\n1949 - Canada becomes a founder member of Nato. Newfoundland, until then a British dominion, becomes a province of Canada.\n\n1963 - Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), a militant Quebec separatist group established. It carries out a sustained bombing campaign between 1963-70 in its bid to create an independent, socialist Quebec.\n\n1965 - New Canadian flag is adopted, replacing one incorporating the British flag.\n\n1967 - Expo 67 in Montreal provides impetus to Canadian national identity. French President Charles de Gaulle visits and causes diplomatic incident when he declares \"Vive le Quebec libre\" - Long live free Quebec.\n\n1968 - Pierre Trudeau of the Liberal party wins elections and governs until 1984, with the exception of a nine months in 1979-80. Parti Quebecois (PQ) is formed to push for complete independence for Quebec.\n\nMontreal 1970: Canadian soldiers are sent in as part of the security crackdown against the FLQ militant separatist group\n\n1970 - October Crisis: FLQ separatists kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross. Canadian armed forces are deployed across Quebec. Cross is freed but during talks, Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte is kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ, leading to a drastic loss of support for the group.\n\n1980 - A referendum on the separation of Quebec is defeated.\n\n1982 - The UK transfers its remaining final legal powers over Canada, which adopts its new constitution, including a charter of rights.\n\n1991 - Canadian forces participate in the Gulf War following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.\n\n1992 - Canada, US and Mexico finalise the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).\n\n1995 - A referendum in Quebec narrowly rejects independence by a margin of only 1%.\n\n1999 - Territory of Nunavut (meaning \"our land\" in the Inuit language) is created in northern Canada - the first Canadian territory to have a majority indigenous population.\n\n2002 - Canada sends first contingent of regular troops to Afghanistan as part of the post-Taliban stabilising mission.\n\n2003 - Canada opts not to join the US-led coalition against Iraq, sparking fierce domestic political debate.\n\n2006 - Parliament agrees that the Quebecois should be considered a \"nation\" within Canada.\n\nSuspected ringleader of Islamic extremist group is jailed for life for plot to bomb Toronto stock exchange.\n\n2014 - Canada launches a mission to map the Arctic seabed, in support of its bid to extend its territory up to the North Pole.\n\nTwo Islamist-inspired terrorist attacks - one in Quebec and one at Parliament Hill in Ottawa - leave two Canadian soldiers dead.\n\n2017 - French-Canadian student Alexandre Bissonnette is charged over the shooting of six Muslims at a Quebec mosque.\n\nGovernment says it will pay compensation to thousands of indigenous people who were taken from their families as children to be brought up by primarily white middle-class families decades ago.\n\n2018 - US, Canada and Mexico reach a new trade deal - the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) - to replace Nafta.\n\n2023 - Canada sees its worst wildfire season on record, with thousands evacuated from threatened towns and about 15m hectares (37m acres) of land burnt.\n\nFounded by the French in 1608, Quebec City is one of North America's oldest European settlements", "A mural in Belfast shows the contenders for the job of PM\n\nPolitical turbulence has become the norm.\n\nI was born in 1980. I was in my late 20s before the country was governed by the fourth prime minister of my lifetime, Gordon Brown.\n\nOn Monday, we'll know the name of the next prime minister - the fourth in little over six years.\n\nEven the most optimistic backers of Rishi Sunak don't think he will win - they merely think the margin of defeat might not be quite as wide as some opinion polls have suggested.\n\nI hear, as expected, loads of Conservative Party members voted early: 14% in the first two days, a third in the first week.\n\nSupporters of Liz Truss are confident they have won, by a solid margin if not an overwhelming one.\n\n\"At no stage have we ever felt on the back foot,\" one member of the core campaign team told me.\n\nAnd the biggest jobs in a Truss administration have been allocated. We can expect to see Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.\n\nI'll write more in the coming days about the challenges the new government will face. Unsurprising spoiler - they are colossal.\n\nBut what about the political challenge for the new prime minister of gluing the Conservative Party back together?\n\nChanging leader when you're in office as a political party offers a great chance for renewal. But only after a public slanging match.\n\nLiz Truss's supporters believe she's been on the front foot throughout the campaign\n\nI hear plenty of Conservative donors are pretty hacked off. Many were drawn to the party by Boris Johnson and have seen month after month of squabbling.\n\nAnd remember Liz Truss trailed Rishi Sunak among Tory MPs - plenty of them are deeply sceptical of her, and a smaller proportion of the parliamentary party has openly endorsed her than backed David Cameron, Theresa May or Boris Johnson.\n\nPerhaps a couple of dozen Conservative MPs might be pretty much irreconcilable to the idea of her as leader, and some might be quite gobby about it.\n\nTeam Truss will hope that if they can be seen to deliver, some sceptics might be won over to the point where at least they keep quiet, even if they are not exactly gushing in their enthusiasm. And others will get on board.\n\nBut views among senior Conservatives about the capacity of the party to come together vary widely.\n\nOne, who is quite optimistic, quotes the 18th century writer Samuel Johnson: \"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.\"\n\nIt's a reference to the party's position in the polls - considerably behind Labour - and a hoped for instinct to focus on them.\n\nAnother senior figure points out that the debates between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have felt much less confrontational in recent weeks, something that was particularly noticeable in the final hustings at Wembley Arena the other night.\n\nBut others - some who backed Liz Truss, and some who backed Rishi Sunak - are much less optimistic.\n\nOne senior figure points out the party's poll ratings have plunged since Boris Johnson resigned and the campaign has raged, leaving plenty of MPs in marginal seats gloomy.\n\nThen there is the battalion of Sunak supporters in the parliamentary party.\n\nAnother long standing MP frets that Prime Minister Truss may not reach out to as many Sunak supporters and offer them jobs as might be wise, and that could entrench divisions in the party.\n\nAnd then, most importantly, there is the business of getting stuff done. Turning the promises into reality.\n\nThis, above everything else, is probably the biggest determining factor in holding the party together.\n\nThat's because, more to the point, it is likely to be how you, reading this, judge her - and so decide whether to re-elect her and the Conservatives at the next election, at some point in the next two and a bit years.\n\nAs for those promises, and the political challenges that await, I'll write again here tomorrow.\n• None How Truss won the race to become PM", "Scottish actress and newspaper critic Kate Copstick was mugged near her home in London\n\nAn actress was attacked outside her home by two men in balaclavas who stole £8,500 in charity money she had raised.\n\nKate Copstick, from Glasgow, was a short distance from her property in Shepherd's Bush, London, when the men ran after her on Saturday.\n\nThe 66-year-old said they put her in a chokehold and kicked her to the ground while trying to grab her bag.\n\nIt contained an envelope of money for the charity Mama Biashara which helps women in poverty in Kenya.\n\nMs Copstick has worked as an actress, presenter and comedian, working on children's TV shows Playschool and No.73 in the 1980s and ChuckleVision in the 1990s.\n\nShe is also a veteran comedy critic for The Scotsman newspaper.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC about the incident over the weekend, she said she was walking down the street when she heard people running towards her.\n\nAs she turned, she said she saw men wearing balaclavas and dressed entirely in black.\n\n\"I ended up on the ground and they just wouldn't let go until they ripped the back pack off me,\" she told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme.\n\n\"My phone was on the ground, there were little bits of cash on the ground, my bank cards - but they wouldn't let go.\"\n\nMs Copstick set up the charity Mama Biashara in 2008 and works with Kenyan women who face extreme poverty.\n\nIt gives small grants to women who are able to set up businesses and has also built a children's home and supported water-harvesting solutions in regions hit by drought.\n\nHowever Ms Copstick said she had experienced problems sending money to the country, which was why she was carrying cash.\n\nShe was due to travel to the country on Monday and has gone ahead with her journey - though she added: \"I won't be walking home for quite some time.\"\n\nMs Copstick said she reported the matter to police. Meanwhile a fundraising page set up by friends following the incident has since raised more than £11,500.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they attended at about 20:30, and inquiries into the circumstances continue, \"including work to secure any viable CCTV evidence\".\n\nAnyone with information on the incident has been urged to contact them via 101.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries have said they will step down when Liz Truss becomes prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nThe BBC has been told Ms Dorries was asked to stay on but wants to return to writing books.\n\nMs Patel announced her decision in a letter to outgoing PM Boris Johnson in which said she would give Ms Truss her support from the backbenches.\n\nThe Witham MP said being home secretary had been \"the honour of my life\".\n\nMs Truss had been expected to remove Ms Patel from the position when she begins announcing her new ministerial team.\n\nHowever, Ms Patel - who has served as home secretary since 2019 - insisted leaving government was \"her choice\".\n\nShe also said it was \"vital\" that Ms Truss backed \"all aspects\" of the policies she had put in place on illegal migration.\n\nWriting to Mr Johnson, Ms Patel said: \"Britain had always been a beacon for freedom and democracy and I have been proud to work with you over the last three years to make that light shine brighter.\n\n\"All this has been achieved despite the relentless efforts of our political opponents and left-wing activists, lawyers and campaigners.\"\n\nAt one stage this summer, Priti Patel considered a leadership bid of her own. At least a dozen colleagues pressed her to do so.\n\nAnd some who would have supported her began to declare for other candidates. She - like the final two in the contest - was one of the most senior members of Boris Johnson's government.\n\nInsiders suggest she didn't discern any abilities in them that she didn't possess herself. So she endorsed neither of them - a potentially career-limiting move.\n\nWhile she would have been happy to stay at the Home Office, the rumours that Suella Braverman would replace her were solidified by sources close to Liz Truss.\n\nAt that point, Priti Patel probably decided to jump before she was pushed - though she sent her resignation pointedly to the current Prime Minister, not his successor.\n\nThus the process of transition in government has begun.\n\nAnd the speculation is whether Sunak supporter Dominic Raab may now follow suit.\n\nMs Dorries, who has been a strong ally of Mr Johnson, is stepping down after leading the culture department since 2021.\n\nIn the role, she championed the controversial Online Safety Bill which aims to introduce rules about how platforms such as Facebook and Twitter should deal with harmful content.\n\nBefore joining the cabinet, Ms Dorries wrote a series of novels including the best-selling Four Streets based on her experience of growing up in Liverpool.\n\nBBC politics editor Chris Mason said the Mid Bedfordshire MP had considered staying on as culture secretary but had decided to return to writing books.\n\nHours earlier, Ben Elliot resigned as Conservative co-chairman following Liz Truss's election as party leader.\n\nMr Elliot oversaw a huge increase in donations to the party from wealthy individuals after his friend Boris Johnson gave him the role in 2019.\n\nBut he has also faced questions over his business interests and fundraising methods.\n\nLast week, Labour urged Ms Truss and her then leadership rival Rishi Sunak to sack Mr Elliot if they became PM.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation, Mr Elliot said it had been a \"huge honour and privilege\" to serve the Conservative Party.\n\n\"I would like to thank Boris Johnson for appointing me, and wish Liz Truss every success in leading our great country, particularly given the challenges of the winter ahead,\" he added.\n\nBen Elliot reportedly wants to give Liz Truss freedom to appoint her own party chair\n\nA friend of Mr Elliot told the Daily Mail he wanted to give Ms Truss - who had earlier been announced the winner of the contest to succeed Mr Johnson as Tory leader and PM - the freedom to appoint her own party chair.\n\nThe nephew of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Mr Elliot was educated at Eton and is known for being well-connected.\n\nHis company, Quintessentially, helps provide its wealthy clients with all the trappings of a luxury lifestyle - from yacht hire and holiday booking to private concerts with pop stars.\n\nBut last year, he was warned by a lobbying regulator to keep his private business interests and public role as Tory co-chairman separate.\n\nThe Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL) had begun an investigation following reports suggesting Quintessentially had arranged access to top politicians for clients.\n\nThe watchdog found the company \"had not been engaging in consultant lobbying activity\" but said he should be \"cautious\" and ensure his two roles remain separate.\n\nMr Elliot's spokesman said at the time: \"The registrar has made clear that Quintessentially does not lobby government and therefore does not need to register as a lobbyist.\"", "A doctor who was sacked for raising patient safety concerns has won a case against England's hospital regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).\n\nOrthopaedic surgeon Shyam Kumar worked part-time for the CQC as a special adviser on hospital inspections, but Manchester Employment Tribunal found that he was unfairly dismissed.\n\nHe had reported concerns regarding inadequate hospital inspections, staff bullying and serious patient harm.\n\nMr Kumar, who has been awarded compensation, says his concerns were ignored.\n\n\"The whole energy of a few individuals in the CQC was spent on gunning me down, rather than focusing on improvement to patient safety and exerting the regulatory duties,\" he said.\n\nBetween 2015 and his dismissal in 2019, Mr Kumar wrote to senior colleagues at the CQC with a number of serious concerns.\n\nThey included a hospital inspection, at which he claims patient safety was significantly compromised when a group of whistleblowing doctors was prevented from discussing their concerns.\n\nMr Kumar said, on many occasions, he reported concerns about a surgeon at his own trust, Morecambe Bay, who had carried out operations that were \"inappropriate\" and of an \"unacceptable\" quality and harmed patients.\n\nHe warned the CQC that the trust management wanted to bury it \"under the carpet\". The tribunal noted that his concerns were found to be justified and the surgeon eventually had conditions placed on his licence to practise.\n\nAt an earlier Manchester hearing, the CQC's barrister, Tim Holloway, put it to Mr Kumar that his claim the regulator had ignored his concerns was \"fanciful\".\n\nMr Kumar said: \"I was perceived as a troublemaker within the CQC, or as a thorn in their side. That's what I believe. And they just ignored it. And finally, people got involved.\" he said.\n\nThe tribunal's judgement confirmed that the safety issues Mr Kumar raised played a significant role in his dismissal.\n\n\"It is very clear that the emails and concerns raised by Mr Kumar had a material impact on the decision to disengage him,\" it said.\n\nMr Kumar says he is relieved about the verdict, adding: \"From a personal point of view, I feel vindicated.\"\n\nThe CQC said: \"We accept the tribunal findings and have learnt from this case. We have already improved many of our processes and will continue to review these based on the findings to ensure we make any further necessary changes.\"\n\nThe British Medical Association said: \"Rather than punishing those who bravely speak up, the system should be supporting them, so that steps can be taken to improve safety for both staff and patients.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People gathered at the family's home in Tallaght on Monday evening to release balloons in memory of the victims\n\nA vigil has been held for three siblings who died after they were attacked at their Dublin home in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nEight-year-old twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley and 18-year-old Lisa Cash were killed in the Rossfield estate in Tallaght.\n\nOn Monday evening a large crowd gathered outside the house.\n\nBalloons were released and candles were lit in memory of the trio as songs were played.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's one of the worst incidents I've come across,\" says Garda Commissioner Drew Harris\n\nGardaí (Irish police) are continuing to question a man in his 20s over the deaths.\n\nTeenager Lisa Cash had been looking after her brother and sister when a man known to them entered their home and killed them.\n\nIreland's police chief has described the killings as dreadful and traumatic.\n\nTwins Chelsea (left) and Christy Cawley died after what gardaí described as a \"traumatic\" incident\n\nGarda Commissioner Drew Harris said the incident had had a profound impact on both the community in the area and the police force.\n\nLisa Cash, Chelsea and Christy Cawley's 14-year-old brother is still in hospital with serious injuries.\n\nTheir mother, who is in her 40s and was not injured, has been released from hospital and is being supported by her family, gardaí said.\n\nThe Rossfield estate in Tallaght is usually a hive of activity but Monday afternoon was different.\n\nPeople came and went quietly from the house where Chelsea, Christy and Lisa were killed.\n\nJust around the corner, Chelsea and Christy's schoolmates returned for their first day back after the summer break but the twins were not there.\n\nFamily members have put up a sign outside the house: \"Our three angels. Our best friends. We will never forget.\"\n\nHearts in this community are broken, and hurt like this will take a long time to heal.\n\nThe man who was arrested remains at Tallaght Garda Station and gardaí said they were not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident.\n\nIt is believed a man travelled to the house in south-west Dublin by taxi before becoming violent.\n\nGardaí from the armed support unit used tasers and sprays to subdue the man, according to Irish national broadcaster RTÉ.\n\nLisa Cash, who also died, was a sister of twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley\n\nCommissioner Harris said that gardaí responded quickly when neighbours reported the incident.\n\nHe commended the officers involved, saying they showed great courage, fortitude and professionalism.\n\nA post-mortem examination of Lisa Cash has been conducted, with further examinations on the bodies of Christy and Chelsea Cawley expected to take place on Monday.\n\nThe principal of St Aidan's Community School, Kevin Shortall, paid tribute to former pupil Lisa Cash, who completed her final exams last year.\n\n\"The amount of teachers that reached out yesterday with stories about Lisa - she was so highly regarded and a lovely young girl,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nMr Shortall said Lisa was a \"great friend, great big sister\" and would be fondly remembered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Cash was a talented, beautiful young lady, says her former school principal\n\nHe said the school had put a critical incident plan in place and would provide spaces for people to \"be together and grieve\".\n\nDermot Richardson, a Sinn Féin councillor for the area, described the incident as \"horrendous\".\n\n\"This is raw, this is a really tragic incident that happened in Rossfield,\" he said.\n\nHe said that despite not being physically injured in the attack, the mother of the children would have \"wounds that will never heal\".\n\nPriest Father Bill O'Shaughnessy said it was a \"truly shocking moment\" for the Tallaght community.\n\nFriends of the family comforted each other at the vigil for the victims on Monday evening\n\n\"The fact that three young people were taken in such a violent manner is nothing short of shocking,\" he said.\n\n\"I was there yesterday morning getting ready for mass in St Aidan's church, just as the news was filtering through at that stage.\n\n\"The people who were coming to church were really finding it hard to understand what had happened.\n\n\"We're very much a parish and an area at the moment which is suffering in terms of trying to understand and reeling from the shock, particularly the neighbours - it's extraordinary.\"", "Charles III speaks to well-wishers after leaving Buckingham Palace, thanking them for their condolences.\n\nThe new monarch stopped to greet onlookers after his proclamation ceremony earlier in the day.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh returned to the Forth Road Bridge 50 years after officially opening it\n\nQueen Elizabeth II left her beloved Balmoral for the final time on Sunday on a journey that stirred memories of her life of service.\n\nHer cortege wended its way through villages and towns she knew well. It skirted cities where she opened hospitals, congratulated business leaders, met schoolchildren and greeted well-wishers.\n\nAs well as the villages of Aberdeenshire, where she was considered a neighbour as much as a monarch, it travelled through Aberdeen, then south through Angus, Dundee, Perth and Fife.\n\nSymbolically, Her Majesty's coffin was taken over Queensferry Crossing - a structure she opened in 2017.\n\nAlong this journey to her final resting place were the visible signs of the role she played in shaping modern Scotland.\n\nThe late Queen marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One at Crathie Kirk in August 2014\n\nAfter the Royal cortege left Balmoral it passed close to Crathie Kirk - the church where the Royal family have worshipped since Queen Victoria in 1848.\n\nIt was an important place to Queen Elizabeth, a woman of great faith. Just last weekend she hosted the Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.\n\nHe said she was \"obviously frail...[but] absolutely on the ball\", adding that she was \"very much very engaged with what was happening in the church and what was happening in the nation too\".\n\nThe late Queen spoke to the local butchers in Ballater before unveiling a plaque marking a Diamond Jubilee cairn in September 2012\n\nIt was also a link to the local community, which included the nearby village of Ballater, where she was considered a local by many.\n\nAfter flooding caused millions of pounds worth of damage in 2015, the late Queen later met residents affected in an official visit and praised local efforts to recover.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II launched the flow of oil from the Forties Field in the North Sea to BP's Grangemouth refinery\n\nThe coffin was driven along the A93 towards Aberdeen, before turning south and crossing the King George VI bridge, named after her father.\n\nThe city was the focus of many trips by the Queen. It was where she opened a children's hospital in 2005 and hosted a special sitting of the Scottish Parliament in 2002.\n\nBut it was perhaps her actions in Dyce in 1975 which had the most profound effect on the city - she pressed a gold-plated button which formally began the operation of the UK's first oil pipeline.\n\nThe 130-mile pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth served the Forties oilfield 110 miles east of Aberdeen.\n\nIt marked the beginning of a North Sea oil industry which brought thousands of new jobs and great prosperity to the north-east of Scotland.\n\nHowever, faced with a climate emergency and an energy crisis, Europe's oil capital is looking towards renewable sources of energy.\n\nShe met apprentices at the Michelin tyre factory in Dundee in 2016\n\nHeading south on the A90, the coffin took in the Kingsway - designed to commemorate Edward VII - through Dundee.\n\nDuring a trip to the city in 2016, the Queen met apprentices at the Michelin tyre factory's training school and workshop.\n\nHowever, two years later the company announced the closure of the site, with the loss of 850 jobs.\n\nMore than 300 million tyres had been produced in the plant, which opened in 1971. It finally closed in June 2020 and is now an \"innovation centre\".\n\nThe young Princess Elizabeth was with her parents and cousin at Glamis Castle in 1931 to celebrate her grandparents' golden wedding anniversary\n\nBetween Aberdeen and Dundee, the Royal coffin travelled along the A90, skirting the Angus town of Forfar.\n\nNearby is Glamis Castle, the ancestral home of the late Queen's maternal grandparents and a place where she is said to have spent many happy childhood holidays.\n\nIt was where her parents honeymooned and where her mother, Queen Elizabeth, gave birth to her sister, Princess Margaret in 1930.\n\nPrince William - now the Prince of Wales - graduated with a degree in geography\n\nPast Perth, the coffin travelled through Fife - a short hop from St Andrews where the late Queen's grandson William went to university and met his future wife, Catherine.\n\nShe joined Prince Philip, her son Charles and his wife, Camilla, at the graduation ceremony in June 2005.\n\nThe Queen was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh as she named the Royal Navy's biggest ever ship\n\nAs the coffin reached the most southerly point of Fife, it passed Rosyth - where the UK's largest warship was officially named in her honour, in June 2014.\n\nShe smashed a bottle of whisky against the side of the aircraft carrier at Rosyth dockyard.\n\nSix UK shipyards, and more than 10,000 people at more than 100 companies worked on HMS Queen Elizabeth.\n\nIt entered service in 2020 and is now the Royal Navy's Fleet Flagship.\n\nNicola Sturgeon looked on as the late Queen cut the ribbon on the Queensferry Crossing\n\nThe late Queen opened two bridges across the Forth during her 70 year reign - the Forth Road Bridge in 1964, and the Queensferry Crossing in August 2017.\n\nHer coffin crossed the new Queensferry Crossing, which links Fife to Edinburgh.\n\nShe returned to the Forth Road Bridge in 2014 to mark its 50th anniversary and was back just three years later to cut the ribbon on its £1.35bn replacement.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II said the Queensferry Crossing, the UK's tallest bridge, was a \"breath-taking sight\" and one of three \"magnificent structures\" across the Forth.\n\nAt the end of its journey, the Royal coffin was taken to the Palace of Holyroodhouse - the Royal residence opposite the Scottish Parliament building.\n\nThe late Queen officially opened the £431m building in 2004 - three years late and over budget.\n\nIn a speech to MSPs she acknowledged the construction's \"difficult and controversial birth\" and urged them to make Holyrood a \"landmark of 21st Century democracy\".\n\nShe returned in October last year to open the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood despite some Covid restrictions still being in place.\n\nThe leaders of the main political parties in Scotland greeted The Queen before the ceremony last year.\n\nIn a speech in the debating chamber, she paid tribute to those who made an \"extraordinary contribution\" during the pandemic.\n\nAnd she spoke of her happy memories of Scotland and her \"deep and abiding affection for this wonderful country\".\n\n\"It is often said that it is the people that make a place and there are few places where this is truer than it is in Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia aims to \"deprive people of light and heat\" by causing power cuts across eastern Ukraine in revenge for a Ukrainian counter-offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.\n\nBlackouts reportedly affected millions of people in the eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. The Kharkiv city mayor says power is now restored.\n\nIt comes after Ukraine said it had retaken over 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) in an eastern counter-offensive.\n\nThe BBC cannot verify these figures.\n\nKharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure left much of his city without power or water on Sunday evening.\n\nHe called it a vile and cynical attempt at revenge for the Ukrainian army's recent successes.\n\nWhat sounded like two further missile strikes were heard later in the evening, the BBC's international correspondent Orla Guerin reported from Kharkiv.\n\nMr Terekhov and the region's governor called for calm, saying the emergency services were working to repair damage and put out fires.\n\nThe governor of the neighbouring Sumy region said over 130 settlements in one district alone were without power.\n\nSimilar problems have been reported in Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.\n\nIn a defiant post on social media after the power cuts, President Zelensky accused Russia of carrying out \"terrorist acts\" by targeting civilian infrastructure.\n\n\"Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as terrible and deadly for us as your 'friendship and brotherhood',\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nIt comes after a remarkable Ukrainian advance, which if confirmed will mean Ukrainian forces have tripled their territorial gains in little over 48 hours.\n\nPresident Zelensky said 1,000 sq km had been retaken on Thursday evening. That figure rose to 2,000 sq km on Saturday evening, then to 3,000 on Sunday.\n\nUK defence officials estimated that Ukraine had recaptured territory at least twice the size of Greater London - more than 3,000 sq km - in the Kharkiv region since Wednesday.\n\nThey added that Ukrainian army's successes would have \"significant implications\" for Russia's overall operational design.\n\nJournalists have been denied access to the front lines but several videos on social media show Ukrainian troops present in towns and villages that were until recently held by Russia.\n\nUkrainian forces entered the key town of Balaklyia on Friday. Russia later confirmed the withdrawal of troops, to \"bolster efforts\" on the Donetsk front.\n\nThe vital Russian-held supply towns of Izyum and Kupiansk were taken by Ukraine on Saturday. Russia confirmed its forces' retreat from both towns, which it said would allow them to \"regroup\".\n\nValerii Marchenko, mayor of Izyum, said residents should be able to return to the town in about 10 days for the first time since it was captured by Russia in March.\n\nTwo-thirds of the population had fled, he told Newshour on the BBC World Service, but most wanted to go back despite extensive destruction and a lack of energy, water or communications.\n\nIzyum was probably the biggest logistical hub for the Russian army, he said, as it was a gateway to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in the Donbas region, where Russia wanted to advance.\n\nBut Russia still holds around a fifth of the country, and few imagine a swift end to the war.\n\nIn an interview with the Financial Times, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov warned of the potential for a Russian counter-attack.\n\n\"A counter-offensive liberates territory and after that you have to control it and be ready to defend it,\" Mr Reznikov said.", "Members of the public line the streets in Ballater\n\nThe Queen's coffin has left Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire and is making a six-hour journey to Edinburgh.\n\nThe cortege began the 175-mile journey at 10:00 and will make its way through Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Angus and Tayside before reaching Edinburgh.\n\nThe Queen will then lie at rest in The Palace of Holyroodhouse overnight.\n\nOfficials have warned the event is going to be \"of unprecedented scale\" and urged onlookers to choose a safe vantage point.\n\nThere will be designated viewing locations along the route in Ballater, Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh.\n\nLaybys and access roads along the route will be temporarily closed. Those wishing to leave flowers have been asked to do so at designated areas along the route and mourners have been asked not to throw flowers at the convoy as it passes.\n\nOn Monday, there will be a procession from the palace to St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh where the coffin will rest for 24 hours to allow people to pay their respects.\n\nThe following day The Queen's coffin will be transported by road from the cathedral to Edinburgh Airport and then flown to RAF Northolt before going on to Buckingham Palace.\n\nIt is expected that King Charles will travel to Edinburgh on Monday.\n\nThe procession of The Queen's coffin from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles Cathedral is expected to include members of the royal family.\n\nThere will be a service in the cathedral and then members of the public will be able to file past the coffin for a 24 hour period.", "Mourners wanting to pay their respects to the Queen are being warned to plan their train journeys to London in advance.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said services to, and stations in, the capital will be \"extremely busy\".\n\nThe group is asking people to leave plenty of time for travel during the official mourning period.\n\nHundreds of thousands, if not millions, are expected to travel to London to pay their respects to the Queen.\n\nA period of national mourning is now in place and will last until the end of the day of the Queen's state funeral on Monday, 19 September.\n\nThe Queen, who died on Thursday aged 96, will lie in state in Westminster Hall for four full days before her funeral, meaning the public will be allowed to view her coffin.\n\nOn the day of the funeral, the Rail Delivery Group - which represents all the rail operators - said it would not be possible to view both the funeral in London and then travel to Windsor where Her Majesty will be laid to rest.\n\nThe advice is to choose to view one or the other, and to leave plenty of time to get there.\n\nThe majority of tickets purchased before the Queen's death will be exchangeable or refundable until 18:00 the day before travel, with no administration charge. The advice is to check with your rail operator.\n\nJason Webb, the Rail Delivery Group's customer information director, said: \"Understandably, many people wish to pay their respects to Her Majesty the Queen during this period of national mourning.\n\n\"On the day of the funeral, Monday 19 September, people should plan carefully the timing of their journey home, as trains and stations are likely to be extremely busy.\"\n\nAll On The Board \"We half expected you to live forever\": All On the Board dedicates its whiteboard to the Queen\n\nWest Midlands Trains and South Western Railway offered their condolences to the Royal Family, and told customers travelling to the capital or Windsor to be prepared for services that will be much busier than usual.\n\nTransport for London also warned that roads and public transport in central London will be very busy and has advised travellers to allow \"plenty of extra time\" for their journeys and to avoid driving where possible.\n\nLondon Underground stations that are expected to be busier than usual include: Westminster, Green Park, Charing Cross, Embankment, Victoria, Waterloo, St James's Park, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch.\n\nIt has warned people that on the busiest days, some services may close temporarily at short notice.\n\nSome London bus routes, including night buses, will have a reduced service, while some taxi ranks will be suspended as cabs and coaches will be affected by road closures.\n\nAndy Byford, London's Transport Commissioner speaking on behalf of TfL, said: \"Our thoughts are with His Majesty The King and all members of the Royal Family following the death of Her Majesty The Queen.\"\n\n\"We are working with our partners to keep our city moving smoothly and to ensure that everyone who is planning to attend the memorial events can do so safely,\" Andy Byford added.\n\nHe advised all Londoners and visitors to the capital over the coming days to check before they travel using the latest real-time travel information, which is available on the TfL Go app and on the website tfl.gov.uk.\n\nOn Thursday, black cabs lined The Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace\n\nElsewhere in the city, London bus stops have also paid tribute by showing portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. On Thursday, London black cabs lined The Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace to silently pay their respects.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nTributes were paid to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Great North Run, where Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo and Kenya's Hellen Obiri won the elite men's and women's races.\n\nAfter multi-denomination faith leaders provided a \"moment of reflection\", a minute's silence was held and the national anthem played before the start of the elite men's race and mass start run in Newcastle.\n\n\"The overall feeling was that the Great North Run is about coming together,\" said race founder Brendan Foster.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport prior to the start, he added: \"We felt that in moments of mourning, as has been demonstrated across the country, people have wanted to come together.\n\n\"We felt it was in tune with what would have been the Queen's wishes, that she would have wanted people coming together as a community, to do what they were aiming for, to be the best version of themselves, to raise money for charities.\"\n\nIn the elite women's race, two-time Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Obiri won in a time of one hour seven minutes and five seconds for her second successive Great North Run title.\n\nFellow Kenyan and Olympic marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir was second, two seconds behind, while Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana finished third. Britain's Charlotte Purdue was fifth.\n\nHalf marathon world champion Kiplimo - who recently won double gold at the Commonwealth Games - crossed the line in 59 minutes 33 seconds to win the men's elite race.\n\nOlympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega was second, with his Ethiopian compatriot Kenenisa Bekele placed third.\n\nSix-time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir won the men's wheelchair race for an eighth time, while Commonwealth Games marathon silver medallist Eden Rainbow-Cooper won the women's wheelchair race.\n\n\"There was still quite a good atmosphere, but it's still quite a sad day,\" Weir told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's definitely a privilege even to race for Great Britain, and it's nice to get my first win under the King's flag, so it's a proud moment.\"\n\nA total of 60,000 people entered the 41st edition of the world's biggest half marathon.\n\nThis year's Great North Run saw it return to its usual 13.1 mile Newcastle to South Shields route, after changes were made in 2021 to make it Covid safe.", "The Queen's coffin has arrived at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh following a six-hour journey from Balmoral Castle.\n\nThe coffin passed through Aberdeen and Dundee before it was greeted by thousands of people on the city's Royal Mile.\n\nTravelling in the second car of the cortege was the Queen's daughter, the Princess Royal, and her husband Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nPrincess Anne will stay with the coffin as it makes its way to London in the coming days.\n\nCrowds had begun forming early in the day with mourners wishing to pay their respects to the Queen.\n\nThousands of people lined streets and roads across Scotland to pay their respects as the late monarch's coffin began its journey south.\n\nThere were a total of 45 vehicles in the funeral cortege, including police outriders and support vehicles.\n\nThe 175-mile journey from Balmoral to Edinburgh took more than six hours by road.\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of Edinburgh as the cortege made its way to the Palace of Holyroodhouse - the monarch's official residence in Scotland.\n\nThe Queen's youngest children - Princes Andrew and Edward - were waiting outside the Palace of Holyroodhouse for their mother to arrive. Princess Anne met them and they watched as the coffin was carried inside.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be moved in procession to St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh on Monday, where it will remain under vigil for 24 hours.\n\nMeanwhile, Charles was proclaimed king in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nKing Charles III was seen waving to well-wishers outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nNearby Green Park has gradually filled with floral tributes to the late Queen.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive in London on Tuesday. The Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall from Wednesday.", "The Queen is said to have been a very good mimic\n\nThe Queen's role in public life was tightly choreographed and she often had to keep a straight face. But in her later years, she gave us a glimpse of her sense of humour.\n\nFrom sharing a marmalade sandwich with Paddington Bear to photobombing Australian hockey players, here is a look back at some of her funniest moments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From June 2022: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for Party at the Palace\n\nAs part of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, the Queen was filmed having tea with Paddington Bear, in a sketch which opened the BBC's Party at the Palace marking her 70 years on the throne.\n\nAs the celebrations were about to begin, Paddington offered her his beloved snack - a marmalade sandwich. \"I always keep one for emergencies,\" he told her, pulling one out from under his famous red hat.\n\n\"So do I,\" replied the Queen, opening up her signature black handbag and taking out her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs part of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Queen made a dramatic entrance with the help of another British icon - James Bond.\n\nIn a skit created by director Danny Boyle, the Queen received a visit from 007 in Buckingham Palace, before the pair left together by helicopter. She then appeared to skydive into the Olympic Stadium to greet cheering crowds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boom: The Queen and Prince Harry responded to Barack and Michelle Obama's Invictus Games challenge\n\nIn 2016, the Queen appeared in another viral video clip - this time with her grandson Prince Harry to promote the Invictus Games.\n\nThe pair watched a video message from former US president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama, who issued Prince Harry a sporting challenge.\n\nThe Queen was unfazed. \"Oh really, please,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen insisted on cutting a cake with a ceremonial sword at an event at the Eden Project in Cornwall.\n\nThe Queen cut many cakes during her lifetime, but only once with a ceremonial sword. She tried out the more unorthodox method at a charity event in Cornwall.\n\nWhen a volunteer reminded her that a standard knife was available, the Queen was undeterred.\n\n\"I know there is,\" she retorted, continuing to clutch the sword. \"This is more unusual.\"\n\nIn 2014, two Australian hockey players were left stunned when the Queen appeared smiling in the background of their picture at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nJayde Taylor (left) posted the first image on Twitter and said: \"Ahhh The Queen photo-bombed our selfie!\", with the tweet instantly going viral.\n\nThe Queen was accompanied by her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, at thousands of official engagements.\n\nBut during a military review at Windsor Castle in 2003, a swarm of bees derailed the normal efficient-running of events. The royal couple saw the funny side, captured on camera by photographer Chris Young.\n\n\"It was a human moment,\" he told the BBC. \"She was giggling like a little girl and he was laughing too.\"", "King Charles III gave the following address at St James's Palace upon his proclamation as king by the Accession Council on Saturday.\n\nIt is my most sorrowful duty to announce to you the death of my beloved mother, The Queen.\n\nI know how deeply you, the entire nation - and I think I may say the whole world - sympathise with me in the irreparable loss we have all suffered. It is the greatest consolation to me to know of the sympathy expressed by so many to my sister and brothers and that such overwhelming affection and support should be extended to our whole family in our loss.\n\nTo all of us as a family, as to this kingdom and the wider family of nations of which it is a part, my mother gave an example of lifelong love and of selfless service.\n\nMy mother's reign was unequalled in its duration, its dedication and its devotion. Even as we grieve, we give thanks for this most faithful life.\n\nI am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me.\n\nIn taking up these responsibilities, I shall strive to follow the inspiring example I have been set in upholding constitutional government and to seek the peace, harmony and prosperity of the peoples of these Islands and of the Commonwealth Realms and territories throughout the world.\n\nIn this purpose, I know that I shall be upheld by the affection and loyalty of the peoples whose sovereign I have been called upon to be, and that in the discharge of these duties I will be guided by the counsel of their elected parliaments.\n\nIn all this, I am profoundly encouraged by the constant support of my beloved wife.\n\nI take this opportunity to confirm my willingness and intention to continue the tradition of surrendering the hereditary revenues, including the Crown Estate, to my government for the benefit of all, in return for the Sovereign Grant, which supports my official duties as head of state and head of nation.\n\nAnd in carrying out the heavy task that has been laid upon me, and to which I now dedicate what remains to me of my life, I pray for the guidance and help of almighty God.", "There is a tiny special club, a powerful group who knew Queen Elizabeth in a particular and private way - her prime ministers.\n\nThey all used to speak to her in person for an hour or so each week. The monarch was their confidant of sorts, an adviser providing a shrewd ear.\n\nFor this week's programme I've been speaking to Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May, the Queen's 11th, 12th, and 13th prime ministers, about why it matters, their memories of one monarch, and their hopes for the next.\n\nThe Queen always would have \"done her red boxes, read government papers\" and would be well-versed in the dilemmas of government decisions, said Mrs May.\n\nHer predecessor, Mr Brown, joked that sometimes he had been \"embarrassed\" by the extent of her knowledge, recalling that on one occasion she had more up to date information about a particular Commonwealth country than he did.\n\nMr Cameron described the Queen as the \"world's greatest public servant\" with a profound understanding of what was going on at any one moment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mr Cameron told the BBC that Charles had served “the longest apprenticeship in history”\n\nAll three former PMs told me they benefitted enormously from her long years of experience that she shared with them in private - a sense that whatever the problem of the day, she could provide advice and a sense of proportion.\n\nThey all emphasised the new King's long years of preparation and knowledge of the role he now occupies, with Mr Cameron telling me the then-Prince Charles, during what he called \"the longest apprenticeship in history\", had practised holding audiences with him while his mother was on the throne.\n\nLooking to the future, Mr Brown said he felt King Charles - in his televised address to the nation on Friday - had carefully sent a message to the country that his priorities would change, leaving his charities and causes to others to take on.\n\nYet what stood out in our conversations were their personal encounters with the Queen.\n\nFor Mr Brown it was the time she told the corgis to \"shut up\" in front of his young sons. For months after, they would defend themselves when being told off for using the phrase by saying: \"If the Queen says it, why can't we?\"\n\nGordon Brown recalls the Queen telling her corgis to \"shut up\" in front of his young sons\n\nMr Cameron recalled the time he got lost on the Balmoral estate but was found by the Duke of Edinburgh - travelling at speed in his Land Rover across the moor - and how at state occasions, his wife Samantha always wanted to sit next to the then-Prince Charles because he was the most fun companion for a long, formal evening.\n\nMrs May remembered with laughter the time she dropped the cheese at the Balmoral picnic, then put it back on the table even though the Queen was watching her every move, and how at those Highland weekends the monarch would sit happily playing patience on her own while her guests mingled around her.\n\nThese politicians knew the Queen well, but our conversations echo how many members of the public perhaps felt - the most formal, yet familiar too.\n\nThe monarch with golden robes and a jewel-laden Crown - but a friendly face in a difficult moment.\n\nThe most experienced and knowledgeable diplomat the country has ever seen, and the party host clearing up the barbecue. The head of state of the sixth biggest economy in the world, but also a great-grandmother at ease with Paddington Bear.\n\nOn our show last week we interviewed the woman who was the last politician to have the traditional audience with the Queen. It's fitting perhaps that the last formal photograph of her showed that vital encounter with Liz Truss.\n\nThe new PM and the new King are now the next to fulfil this tradition. It's hard to fathom how much has changed in just seven days. But the connection, the importance of the conversations between the inhabitant of the Palace and the prime minister goes on.\n\nSunday with Laura Kuenssberg is on BBC One from 09:00 BST on Sunday 11 September and on BBC iPlayer", "'We're staring into the abyss' - Former Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has been discussing the challenges facing the King and the UK as the country enters a new phase in its history. Dr Williams told the BBC’s Newscast podcast: “We’re a society staring into a little bit of an abyss in the next few months, where poverty and deprivation for quite a lot of people, are going to be a major issue.” Talking about the role of King Charles III, he said: “I think it is crucial that the new King give the message... that he's committed to a society where nobody gets forgotten.” He went on to say: “Lots of communities are faced with really impossible choices about energy, about food, about their general security. It’s the biggest thing I know on the agenda of the new prime minister and the new government. It’s a watershed moment for them just as much as for the monarchy.” Dr Williams said: “If we can get through this winter without collapse, we can manage with all those pressures, we will have sent a very important message to the other end of Europe that we are prepared to face some constraints for the sake of Ukraine.” Last Thursday, the government set out its energy support plan which included limiting energy bill rises for all households for two years, and six months for businesses. Newscast’s full interview with Dr Williams is available on BBC Sounds. This content is currently not available", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nEldar Eldarov won the rescheduled St Leger at Doncaster as British horse racing resumed and paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe world's oldest Classic had been put back 24 hours and a two-minute silence was observed before racing began.\n\nJockeys and trainers bowed their heads before a rendition of the national anthem.\n\n\"There is an emptiness as we lost a great friend and ambassador in the Queen,\" said jockey Frankie Dettori.\n\nDavid Egan partnered Eldar Eldarov, trained by Roger Varian, to victory in his first ride in the St Leger.\n\nRacing resumed in Britain on Sunday, having been called off as a mark of respect following the Queen's death on Thursday.\n\nThe Queen was a leading racehorse owner and breeder, who won the Leger with the filly Dunfermline in her silver jubilee year of 1977.\n\nChepstow's fixture also went ahead, while Musselburgh was called off with the Queen lying in state in nearby Edinburgh.\n\nNo meetings will take place on the day of the Queen's funeral on Monday, 19 September.\n\nWhile racing has lost one of its biggest supporters in the Queen, it has also been mourning the death of 13-year-old Irish rider Jack de Bromhead.\n\nThe son of Grand National and Gold Cup-winning trainer Henry, he died in a fall a week ago during a beach race in County Kerry.\n\nEgan, after winning on his first Leger ride, said: \"These Classics are fantastic. I'm obviously very sad for Her Majesty.\n\n\"It's a week today since Jack de Bromhead passed. He was the first person I thought about when I crossed the line. That was for him.\"\n\nThe 9-2 chance Eldar Eldarov, named after the MMA fighter by Bahrain owner Shaikh Khalid, was followed home by Haskoy but the runner-up was demoted to fourth for causing interference, with 11-8 favourite New London elevated to second and Giavellotto to third after a stewards' inquiry.\n\nWinning trainer Roger Varian said: \"As happy as we are, we are of course thinking of the Queen.\n\n\"It's been a tough week for the Royal Family, our thoughts are with them. Our thoughts are with the De Bromhead family. It's been a tough week for racing, but horses always give you a reason to look forward.\"\n\nDettori won the opening Champagne Stakes on Chaldean and followed up with Kinross in the Park Stakes - but there was no sign of his famous flying dismount.\n\n\"I didn't jump off out of respect to the Queen. We're carrying on, but it's still fresh in the memory,\" said the Italian.\n\nAsked for his recollections of the Queen, he said: \"I've got loads, we'd be here all day.\n\n\"We have to deal with it and we're going to miss her a lot.\"\n\nChaldean's trainer Andrew Balding's winners for the Queen included Tactical in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot two years ago.\n\n\"It's been a tough week. This result will maybe lift the mood a little bit at home (Park House Stables in Kingsclere), but it's a big hole to fill,\" he said.\n\n\"My father trained for her and my grandfather before that.\n\n\"We've been so privileged to have worked for her and known her so long. It's a great loss.\"\n\nBalding's Coltrane beat favourite Trueshan to take the Doncaster Cup.\n\nKyprios won the Irish St Leger at the Curragh for trainer Aidan O'Brien to take his unbeaten record this season to five and add to victories in the Gold Cup at Ascot and Goodwood Cup.\n\nHighfield Princess completed a hat-trick of Group One victories for John Quinn when taking the Flying Five Stakes.", "A soldier waves from a Ukrainian vehicle as it travels towards to the frontline near Kharkiv\n\nUkraine says it has retaken more than 1,000 sq km (385 sq miles) of territory in its south and east from Russia in the past week.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said that more than 30 settlements had been \"liberated\" in the Kharkiv region.\n\nRussia's top occupation official in Kharkiv region conceded Ukrainian forces had won a \"significant victory\".\n\nVitaly Ganchev told Russian TV that the Ukrainians had broken through the Russian defence line.\n\nHe said civilians were being evacuated from Kupiansk, one of the most important urban centres in the Russian-held part of Kharkiv, and two other towns.\n\nAccording to analysis by the Institute for the Study of War think tank, Kyiv's troops are now just 15km (9 miles) from Kupiansk, home to an essential railway junction that Moscow has been using to supply its troops on the battlefield.\n\nRussia is believed to be sending reinforcements to the region by road and by air, using giant Mi-26 transport helicopters, each capable of carrying 80 soldiers.\n\nIn a separate Facebook post Ukraine's army said that in three days troops had advanced 50km (30 miles). If verified, that would mark the fastest movement of the front line since the rapid retreat of Russian forces from positions around the capital, Kyiv, in March.\n\nThe offensive south-east of Kharkiv would also bring Ukraine's troops closer to the eastern region of Donetsk, over which Russia has maintained substantial military control since the war began six months ago.\n\nMr Ganchev also denied that Ukrainian forces had recaptured the town of Balakliya despite a video appearing to show Ukrainian soldiers there.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to confirm who has control of the city, but verified social media posts show Ukrainian flags flying from administrative buildings in the city's centre on Thursday.\n\nWhile Ukraine claims to have advanced its troops in some parts of the country, in other areas there have been reports of renewed Russian aerial attacks.\n\nOn Friday the governor of Ukraine's north-eastern Sumy region Dmytro Zhvytskyi said a Russian air strike had \"destroyed\" a hospital, wounding multiple people.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olena Zelenska tells Laura Kuenssberg about the human cost of the war", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussian forces have withdrawn from key eastern towns, as a rapid Ukrainian counter-attack makes further gains.\n\nUkrainian officials said troops entered Kupiansk, a vital eastern supply hub for Russian forces, on Saturday.\n\nRussia's defence ministry then said its troops have retreated from nearby Izyum to allow them \"to regroup\".\n\nThe ministry also confirmed the withdrawal of troops from a third key town, Balaklyia, in order to \"bolster efforts\" on the Donetsk front.\n\nThe Ukrainian advances - if held - would be the most significant since Russia withdrew from areas around Kyiv in April.\n\nIn his nightly video address on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Ukraine had now liberated 2,000 sq km (700 sq miles) from Russia since beginning a renewed counter-offensive earlier this month.\n\nHis claim would suggest that half of that area has been recaptured in the last 48 hours alone - as it is twice the area of territory Mr Zelensky said had been liberated when he spoke on Thursday evening.\n\nRussia's admission of a withdrawal from Izyum is significant because it was a major military hub for Moscow.\n\n\"A three-day operation was carried out on the drawdown and organised transfer of the Izyum-Balakliya group of troops to the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic,\" the Russian statement said.\n\n\"In order to prevent damage to the Russian troops, a powerful fire defeat was inflicted on the enemy.\"\n\nShortly afterwards, the chief administrator of Russian-controlled parts of the Kharkiv region recommended that its residents evacuate to Russia \"to save lives\", according to the Russian state-run Tass news agency.\n\nAnd the governor of the neighbouring Belgorod region, in Russia, said mobile catering, heating, and medical assistance would be available to people queuing to cross the border.\n\nThe advances will be seen as a sign that Ukraine's army has the capacity to retake Russian-occupied territory, crucial as Kyiv continues to ask its hard-pressed Western allies for military support.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said the latest developments had shown its forces were able to defeat the Russian army and could end the war faster with more Western weapons.\n\nThe pace of the counter-offensive has not only caught the Russians off guard, but even surprised some Ukrainians. People here have been struggling to keep up with news of the latest gains.\n\nThe Russians have now lost two key logistics hubs - the railway cities of Izyum and Kupiansk. This is a military setback and a public humiliation for President Putin.\n\nWe cannot reach the frontlines. Journalists have been denied access. Ukraine is determined to control the information war. But plenty of footage has emerged on social media showing Ukrainian troops raising their flag in newly liberated areas.\n\nAll of this is cathartic for Ukraine and reassuring for its Western backers.\n\nThe Russians still hold around a fifth of the country and few imagine a swift end to the war. But the Ukrainians have now shown they can beat the Russians in battle, not just outmanoeuvre them. According to one military expert, it's the first time since World War Two that whole Russian units have been lost.\n\nEarlier, UK defence officials said Ukraine had advanced 50km (31 miles) into previously Russian-held territory.\n\n\"Russian forces were likely taken by surprise,\" the UK Ministry of Defence said. \"The sector was only lightly held and Ukrainian units have captured or surrounded several towns.\"\n\nUkraine launched its counter-offensive in the east earlier this week, while international attention was focused on an anticipated advance near the southern city of Kherson.\n\nAnalysts believe Russia redirected some of its most seasoned troops to defend the city.\n\nBut as well as gaining ground in the east, Ukraine is also making gains in the south, an official said.\n\nNataliya Gumenyuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian army's southern command, said they had advanced \"between two and several dozens of kilometres\" along that front.\n\nBut Russian forces fighting on the southern front are said to have dug into defensive positions, and Ukraine's troops have faced heavy resistance since the offensive began.\n\nAnd in Kharkiv itself, one person was killed and several homes damaged on Saturday as Russian rocket fire hit the city, according to local officials.\n\nUkrainian officials shared a picture on social media that appeared to show Ukrainian troops holding up the country's flag in front of Kupiansk city hall, with the Russian flag at their feet.\n\nOn Friday President Zelensky said his forces were \"gradually taking control of new settlements\" and \"returning the Ukrainian flag and protection for all our people\".\n\nHe also said that national police units were returning to liberated settlements and urged civilians to report suspected Russian war crimes to them.\n\nHis call followed a report from the UN's monitoring team in Ukraine which said they had \"documented a range of violations against prisoners of war\" by Moscow's forces.\n\nThe report also accused Ukrainian troops of \"cases of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners of war\".", "Members of the Royal Family stopped on their way back from a prayer service to look at tributes left for the Queen outside Balmoral on Saturday\n\nThe Queen will lie in state for four days before her funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19 September.\n\nThe public will be allowed to view the coffin during that time.\n\nBefore this, the Queen will be at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh for 24 hours from Monday 12 September, with people able to pay their respects.\n\nHer family, politicians and world leaders will attend her state funeral at 11:00 BST. It will be a bank holiday.\n\nThe Queen's final journey began on Sunday, with her oak coffin being carried by her Balmoral gamekeepers - her own staff bringing her to a hearse that would take her to Edinburgh.\n\nThe coffin is driving slowly to the Palace of Holyroodhouse for 16:00 BST.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, it will process to St Giles' Cathedral, with members of the Royal Family. There will be a service and the coffin will rest here for 24 hours, for people to pay their respects.\n\nThe following day, Princess Anne will accompany her mother's body as it is flown back to London. The Queen's coffin will be taken from Edinburgh Airport to Buckingham Palace via RAF Northolt.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, the coffin will be taken to Westminster Hall, arriving at 15:00 BST. Four clear days of lying in state will happen from Thursday, before the funeral.\n\nMonday 19th's state funeral will be followed by a procession from London to Windsor Castle. The Queen will be laid to rest at King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor.\n\nHer journey, beginning in simplicity, will end with the sombre grandeur of the first state funeral that many people will have seen - the last being Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.\n\nAhead of the funeral the new King will visit Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Prime Minister Liz Truss will accompany him.\n\nA period of national mourning will last until the day of the state funeral, the government has announced. The Royal Family will observe a further period of mourning for seven days afterwards.\n\nWestminster Abbey is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned - but there has not been a monarch's funeral service there since the 18th Century. Funerals for the Queen's father, grandfather and great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, in the 1900s, were all held at St George's Chapel, Windsor.\n\nHeads of state from across the world will be invited to join members of the Royal Family to remember the life and service of the Queen.\n\nSenior UK politicians and current and former prime ministers are also expected at the televised service.\n\nThere is no obligation for organisers to cancel planned events on the day of the funeral but government guidance suggests organisers of sporting fixtures or pre-planned events may wish to adjust timings to avoid clashing with the service or processions.\n\nSome events in the immediate aftermath of the Queen's death were cancelled or postponed.\n\nFootball matches in the Premier League, English Football League or in Scotland or Northern Ireland have been postponed until Tuesday, while all games in the Women's Super League, Women's Championship and Women's FA Cup have also been put on hold. A number of horse racing, golf, and boxing fixtures have also been called off.\n\nLarge-scale strike actions planned for next week were immediately cancelled, and the Trades Union Congress said it was postponing its annual conference in Brighton.\n\nThe King confirmed earlier on Saturday that the day of the funeral would be a bank holiday, when he was proclaimed as monarch at St James's Palace, London.\n\nIn his speech, he praised the Queen's \"unequalled reign\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Charles III is proclaimed King, in a ceremony broadcast for the first time\n\nThe King became the monarch after the death of his mother, but the meeting of the privy council of politicians, officials and clergy formally confirmed it.\n\nThe packed room, including all of the six living former British prime ministers, repeated the phrase. The proclamation was then read out on a balcony above Friary Court in St James's Palace.\n\nClerk of the Privy Council Richard Tilbrook proclaimed Charles \"King, head of the Commonwealth, defender of the faith\", before declaring \"God Save the King\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday evening, the King's car stopped on its way down the Mall and he and Camilla, the Queen Consort, got out to greet some of the thousands of well-wishers who lined the road down from Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere were joyful shouts of \"God Save the King\", as he and his wife accepted bunches of flowers and handshakes.", "The Queen has arrived at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.\n\nAs her children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward looked on, her coffin was greeted with a guard of honour as it was carried inside.\n\nThe late monarch will remain in the throne room of the palace overnight.\n\nKing Charles is currently in London but will travel to Edinburgh on Monday.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "Prince William has paid tribute to the Queen, saying the world has \"lost an extraordinary leader\" while he lost his \"Grannie\".\n\nThe new Prince of Wales said \"she was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life\".\n\nHe said he would \"honour\" his grandmother's memory \"by supporting my father, the king, in every way I can\".\n\nThe prince is now first in line to the throne after his father became king.\n\nThe Queen, the longest reigning monarch in British history, died peacefully aged 96 on Thursday at her Scottish estate in Balmoral.\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 princeandprincessofwales 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 statement, Prince William said: \"On Thursday, the world lost an extraordinary leader, whose commitment to the country, the realms and the Commonwealth was absolute. So much will be said in the days ahead about the meaning of her historic reign. I, however, have lost a grandmother.\"\n\nHe continued: \"She was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life. I knew this day would come, but it will be some time before the reality of life without Grannie will truly feel real.\"\n\nThe 40-year-old said that while he would \"grieve\" the loss of the Queen he also felt \"incredibly grateful\" to \"have had the benefit of The Queen's wisdom and reassurance\" his whole life.\n\n\"My three children have got to spend holidays with her and create memories that will last their whole lives,\" he added.\n\nHe added: \"My grandmother famously said that grief was the price we pay for love. All of the sadness we will feel in the coming weeks will be testament to the love we felt for our extraordinary Queen.\"\n\nMoments after William released his statement, it was announced that the Queen's funeral will be held on Monday, 19 September, at Westminster Abbey.\n\nKing Charles III was formally proclaimed as king earlier at a ceremony at St James's Palace in London.\n\nPrince William was the first to sign the Proclamation, carefully stepping forward to pick up the pen with his left hand before placing his signature on the historic record.\n\nOn Friday, the King Charles III announced that Prince William and his wife Catherine would be known as the Prince and Princess of Wales.", "In bewildering days like these, the United Kingdom would instinctively look to its Queen for reassurance. But this time, with the nation facing hard economic challenges amid constitutional and political upheaval, there is no calming presence from Her Majesty.\n\nThe new king and new prime minister, both only days into their roles, must find a way to guide an unsettled kingdom through troubling times.\n\nThe country is facing significant uncertainty with many households worried about the rising cost of living and the difficulties that winter might bring.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II once spoke of her responsibility in supporting the \"trusted framework of stability and continuity to ease the process of change\". But the framework is not as trusted as it once was.\n\nThere are questions about the values that underpin our governance, about what democracy and the rule of law should mean in a Britain adjusting to a new relationship with the wider world; what tolerance and fairness should look like in a country fearing severe hardship in a cost-of-living crisis; a kingdom unconvinced in some quarters that it even wants to remain as a single sovereign nation.\n\nThat is why Queen Elizabeth's death represents a hugely challenging moment for the country, for her son, the new king, and for his Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nIn the course of just two days, the UK witnessed a new king and prime minister\n\nOne might argue that we need Queen Elizabeth as much at her death as at any point in her long life. The keystone in the nation's architecture, the solid and permanent piece that held the country's image of itself in place, has been removed and cannot easily or swiftly be replaced.\n\nHer fingerprints are all over the carefully planned events of the coming days, of course. She sought to \"ease the process of change\" even after her passing, to ensure that her kingdom could see through the shock of her loss with conviction and confidence.\n\nBut after that? The mantle has now been draped across the shoulders of the next generation. Along with the throne, responsibility now belongs to King Charles III.\n\nIn his first public act as king, Charles ordered his car to stop outside the gates of Buckingham Palace on the public side of the black railings, stepped out and went to greet his people alone. It was a deliberate statement.\n\nWorking a crowd is second nature to Charles, but this was a monarch demonstrating that he intends to be approachable.\n\nHe shook hundreds of hands, chatting and smiling. One woman kissed his wrist, another his cheek. Charles did not seem in the least disconcerted. Indeed, one his security staff encouraged the crowd not to view events through their mobile phones, but to put them down and \"enjoy the moment\". The King, it seems, wanted nothing to get between him and the people he now rules. Their response was a spontaneous chorus of God Save the King.\n\nIt is a very different tone from that of his mother who always sought to keep private feelings separate from public duties. He, in contrast, appears to be a touchy-feely king, happy to show emotion. Lessons have been learned, perhaps, from the strains that followed the Royal Family's muted response to the death of Princess Diana in 1997.\n\nBut the immediate challenge for King Charles is to do what his mother was so good at - reassuring an anxious nation in times of change. His respect for her service in that regard was evident in his address to the nation, noting her unwavering dedication and devotion \"through times of change and progress, through times of joy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss\".\n\nAt the start of the Covid pandemic, in April 2020, the Queen reassured the nation\n\nHe will have watched as she assumed the role of \"comforter-in-chief\". In 1974, the year of the three-day week, roaring inflation, two general elections and an IRA bombing campaign on the British mainland, the Queen sought to heal divides and foster positivity.\n\n\"We hear a great deal about our troubles, about discord and dissension and about the uncertainty of our future,\" she told her people. \"My message today is one of encouragement and hope.\"\n\nIn 1978, another year of violence and discord in the United Kingdom, Elizabeth again sought to lift the spirits of her nation. \"It is far from easy to be cheerful and constructive when things around us suggest the opposite,\" she said. \"But to give up the effort would mean, as it were, to switch off hope for a better tomorrow. Even if the problems seem overwhelming, there is always room for optimism.\"\n\nShe encouraged the country to look to the timeless values which underpinned her own life, to remain resolute in the face of adversity; to embrace the new without betraying the principles of the past; to display humility and cheerfulness whenever possible.\n\nIt is worth reflecting on her advice to the UK 50 years ago, perhaps, on how one should face up to moments of unease. \"Goodwill is better than resentment, tolerance is better than revenge, compassion is better than anger, above all a lively concern for the interests of others as well as our own,\" she said.\n\nIt may sound glib, even corny, but Queen Elizabeth II would have encouraged the country to do what she always did - to keep calm and carry on.\n\nKing Charles needs to find his own script and style, but the challenge is similar and urgent.", "King Charles III described the Queen's death as an \"irreparable loss\"\n\nKing Charles III has praised the Queen's \"unequalled reign\" after being proclaimed king at a ceremony at St James's Palace.\n\nThe King became the monarch after the death of his mother, but a meeting formally confirmed it on Saturday.\n\nHe also approved the day of the Queen's funeral, Monday, 19 September, being a bank holiday.\n\nSpeaking before the Accession Council, the King said his mother's death had been an \"irreparable loss\".\n\nMeanwhile, senior MPs in the House of Commons, including Prime Minister Liz Truss, swore allegiance to the new monarch.\n\nMaking his address in the State Apartments of St James's Palace in London, King Charles said: \"It is the greatest consolation to me to know of the sympathy expressed by so many to my sister and brothers and that such overwhelming affection and support should be extended to our whole family in our loss.\"\n\nHe later spoke of the Queen's \"selfless service\", saying: \"My mother's reign was unequalled in its duration, its dedication and its devotion.\n\nKing Charles gave his speech in the Throne Room at St James's Palace.\n\n\"Even as we grieve, we give thanks for this most faithful life.\"\n\nThe King added he would \"strive to follow the inspiring example\" he was set by his mother in taking on the \"heavy responsibilities of sovereignty\".\n\nIt is the first time the historic ceremony, which dates back centuries, has been televised.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Charles III is proclaimed King, in a ceremony broadcast for the first time\n\nThe King himself was not present for the first part of the meeting when he was proclaimed monarch by the Accession Council, made up of senior politicians, judges, and officials.\n\nSix former prime ministers were in attendance at the accession ceremony\n\nClerk of the Privy Council Richard Tilbrook proclaimed Charles \"King, head of the Commonwealth, defender of the faith\", before declaring \"God Save the King\".\n\nThe packed room, including all of the six living former British prime ministers, repeated the phrase. The proclamation was then read out on a balcony above Friary Court in St James's Palace.\n\nThe new King paid warm tribute to his mother, but this was the point when Charles began to look forward to his own reign.\n\nBefore the Accession Council's ranks of senior politicians and public figures, King Charles dedicated the rest of his life to serving as monarch.\n\nIt was a mix of ritual, ornate language and constitutional practicality.\n\nCharles is now the head of state and here was the seamless and symbolic transfer from one reign to the next, with oaths and signatures.\n\nThe inkpot used had been given to him by his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.\n\nThe announcements also confirmed that the day of the Queen's state funeral would be a public holiday.\n\nBut here was the King publicly shouldering his new responsibilities, promising to follow in the Queen's example. It was the choreography of continuity.\n\nThe King greeted crowds as he arrived at Buckingham Palace from the ceremony\n\nJust before the ceremony inside, hundreds of people were allowed through from the Mall, into the palace's outdoor Friary Court, to witness the proclamation up on the balcony.\n\nThey brought their babies and children and carried bunches of flowers. Some brought their dogs on a walk, diverted to witness the moment.\n\nAfter the state trumpeters played a fanfare, the privy councillors who had left the ceremony and gathered outside raised their voices to say \"God Save the King\".\n\nCheers of \"hip-hip hooray\" were heard coming from people lining the roads both sides of the palace, and ceremonial guns fired close to nearby Green Park.\n\nAs senior figures from politics past and present filed away, senior Labour MP Harriet Harman described the ceremony inside as \"solemn\", both because of the death of the Queen and the weight of the occasion for the new King.\n\nThe Accession Proclamation was made on a balcony at St James's Palace\n\nThe second reading of the Accession Proclamation was also met with applause and cheers outside the Royal Exchange in London on Saturday.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon senior MPs took the oath or affirmed in the House of Commons.\n\nThree of the Queen's children and their families read tributes to the Queen as they returned from a church service.\n\nTaking her oath, the prime minister said: \"I swear by almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law, so help me God.\"\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, three of the Queen's children and their families viewed flowers and tributes left outside Balmoral after attending a prayer service at Crathie Kirk, near to the castle.\n\nOn their return to Balmoral they stopped their cars by the gates as they thanked well-wishers for coming to read the messages left for the Queen.\n\nThe Duke of York comforted his daughter Princess Eugenie as they read tributes to the Queen\n\nPrincess Anne was joined by her two younger brothers and their families as they looked at tributes outside Balmoral\n\nPrince Andrew was seen putting his arm around his daughter, Princess Eugenie, as she wiped a tear from her eyes, while the Countess of Wessex held Lady Louise's hand.\n\nAfter around 10 minutes the family returned to Balmoral Castle.", "Large crowds watched as King Charles, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal and the Duke of Sussex walked behind the Queen's coffin during the procession between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Hall\n\nMembers of the public have been paying their respects to Queen Elizabeth II in the days since her death.\n\nIf you wish to pay tribute to the Queen, here are some of the options.\n\nHundreds of thousands of mourners queued over several days in central London to pay their respects to the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall.\n\nEntry to the queue was closed late on Sunday evening and the Queen's lying-in-state finished at 06:30 BST on Monday, 19 September, the day of the funeral.\n\nHuge queues had formed along the banks of the River Thames. Those in line had to stand for many hours with little opportunity to sit down, as the queue was constantly moving.\n\nThe BBC offered a dedicated stream of the lying-in-state, for people who could not travel to London.\n\nThe Queen's funeral will take place on Monday 19 September at 11:00 BST at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe ceremony is expected to draw to a close just before noon, when the Last Post - a short bugle call - will be played, followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nIt will be broadcast on BBC Television and available to stream on BBC iPlayer, with updates on the BBC News website and BBC Radio throughout the day.\n\nOther networks are also expected to show the event, which will be shown on big screens in many towns and cities.\n\nLarge numbers of floral tributes have already been placed by the public at royal residences around the UK. The Royal Household has issued guidance on where they can be left:\n\nAt Buckingham Palace, dedicated sites have been set up in Green Park and Hyde Park.\n\nAt Windsor Castle, they can be left at Cambridge Gate on the Long Walk. At the Royal Family's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, flowers can be left at the Norwich Gates.\n\nAt Balmoral Castle, where the Queen died on Thursday, flowers can be left at the Main Gate. Aberdeenshire Council has asked people to use park and ride services from the nearby settlements of Braemar and Ballater, rather than attempting to drive to the castle as there is no road access at the moment.\n\nIn Edinburgh, members of the public can lay flowers in the Physic Garden, next to the Abbey Strand Gate at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nAt Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland, flowers may be left on the Castle Forecourt, in front of the main gates.\n\nThe government and Royal Household have asked that no flowers, wreaths or tributes be sent directly to royal residences, government offices or to the location of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe Royal Parks said non-compostable items, such as teddy bears or plastic wrapping, should be avoided where possible.\n\nMany local authorities have set up books of condolence in libraries, town halls and other civic buildings, as well as suggested local places where flowers can be left.\n\nYou can use this link to find your local authority, then visit its website to find out what is available near you.\n\nPlaces of worship in towns and cities across the UK are also open for prayer and reflection, and to light a candle. Many cathedrals are offering the opportunity to lay floral tributes.\n\nThere is an online book of condolence on the Royal Family website.\n\nA selection of messages will be passed on to members of the Royal Family and may be held in the Royal Archives for posterity.\n\nBBC News is also collecting your stories and memories of the Queen for our online tributes page - you can share your special moments with us via this online form.", "The cortege makes its way through the village of Ballater near Barmoral\n\nThousands of people turned out to pay their respects to the Queen on her final journey through Scotland.\n\nFamilies lined the streets on Sunday, saying they wanted to be part of an event their children would \"learn about in years to come\".\n\nThe cortege made a six-hour road trip from Balmoral to The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.\n\nThe 175-mile journey took it through Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Angus and Tayside before reaching Edinburgh.\n\nThousands gathered at designated viewing locations along the route.\n\nThe coffin was draped in the Queen's standard with a wreath made from some of her favourite flowers - white heather, dahlias and sweet peas - all cut from the gardens at Balmoral.\n\nChildren in Ballater wait for the cortege to arrive\n\nThe procession left the royal estate at 10:00. In Ballater the crowd stood in silence as the cortege moved through.\n\nThe community, less than eight miles from Balmoral, considered her more of a friendly neighbour than a monarch.\n\nResidents were used to seeing the Queen in the area, and many had frequent interactions with her.\n\n\"You can feel the emotion from everybody around here,\" said resident Cheryl Barr.\n\n\"She was a very powerful lady, but very gentle at the same time.\"\n\nPipes played in Aboyne as the coffin passed the village\n\nA helicopter overhead signalled the arrival of the procession in nearby Aboyne. The crowd had tracked progress watching the news on their phones.\n\nPipes played as a hush fell over the village, and a voice from the crowd said: \"You're on your way now.\"\n\nThe Thomson family travelled from Inverurie to be there. Mum Katherine - with children Megan, 10, and Katie, eight, and Pepper the dog - said the monarch was \"highly respected and well-loved\".\n\nShe added: \"It's such a historical event. She just reminds us of the kids' great-granny.\"\n\nThe Thomson family said the Queen was like their great grandmother\n\nJohn Palmer, 51, and his partner Kerry Davidson, 40, left Elderslie in Renfrewshire early on Sunday morning to reach the village.\n\n\"We just wanted to be here,\" Mr Palmer said. \"It was very poignant.\n\n\"She sat on the throne for 70 years and was respected around the world. She has been a constant in our lives.\n\n\"She was a remarkable woman. I still don't believe it, it's very sad.\"\n\nCrowds gathered in Holborn Street and King George VI bridge in Aberdeen\n\nFrom Aboyne the funeral cortege travelled through Banchory, where flowers were thrown over the car. Crowds applauded as the procession left the village, travelling on to Aberdeen.\n\nLarge crowds gathered in Aberdeen's Holborn Street and along King George VI Bridge - named after the Queen's father.\n\nAshleigh and Donald Wilson brought their two young daughters\n\nAshleigh said: \"In years to come my children will learn about her and learn about this moment. To show them they were here is important.\"\n\nAshleigh and Donald Wilson want their children to be part of a historic moment\n\nAt King George VI Bridge crowds fell silent for about 10 minutes as the coffin passed. As the tension lifted the cortege headed south towards Stonehaven.\n\nFrom Aberdeen it travelled on through Angus to Dundee.\n\nHere people began gathering from early morning to save a spot on the grassy banks of the Kingsway.\n\nFamilies and friends ate picnics on camp chairs, chatting about their affection for the Queen, before the procession reached the city at about 14:30.\n\nPeople line the A90 near Stracathro as the procession travels on to Dundee\n\nLinda McKichen, 60, arrived four hours early to see the cortege and said it was a \"heart-breaking\" occasion.\n\nShe added: \"It's like losing my mum. She's never not been in my life. This is a historic event, we'll certainly never have another queen like her.\n\n\"The Royal Family are human beings like the rest of us, and they've just lost a gran and mum. It's a really sad day.\"\n\nAlso in the crowd was Victoria Cowie, 22, a medical student at St Andrews University. She said it was a \"sombre moment\" but also a celebration of the monarch's life.\n\n\"I wanted to come and see the procession because the Queen was an incredible person,\" she said.\n\n\"She's really important to the UK.\"\n\nVictoria Cowie said it was a sombre moment as the Queen's coffin reached Dundee\n\nThe procession continued to Perth then over the Queensferry Crossing to Edinburgh.\n\nThe city's Royal Mile was stripped of its regular chaotic beat of bagpipes, street performers and tour guides.\n\nHushed chatter and an air of anticipation filled the streets as the royal cars approached.\n\nThe best vantage points were full as residents and curious tourists packed in along the endless lines of metal barriers.\n\nResidents and tourists packed the streets of Edinburgh to catch a glimpse of the Queen's coffin\n\nBradley Harkins, visiting Edinburgh from Chicago, said: \"There's a real sense that something major is happening.\n\n\"I was at the proclamation earlier and it sent shivers down my spine.\"\n\nRipples of applause followed the Queen's funeral cortege as it travelled through the centre of the capital.\n\nDillon Hay, visiting from Bangor in Northern Ireland, had been due to catch a flight but remained in the city to watch.\n\n\"We had to come and pay our respects while we were here,\" he said.\n\n\"I've actually found it emotional on behalf of my nanny, I rang her and she was in floods of tears.\"\n\nDillon Hay from Northern Ireland came to pay his respects while visiting Edinburgh\n\nThe Queen's coffin will remain overnight at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nOn Monday, there will be a procession from the palace to St Giles Cathedral - where it will rest for 24 hours to allow people to pay their respects.\n\nThe next day it will be flown from Edinburgh Airport to RAF Northolt before going on to Buckingham Palace, ahead of the Queen's funeral on Monday 19 September.", "Prince William has pledged to serve the Welsh people with \"humility\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales has pledged to serve the people of Wales with \"humility and great respect\".\n\nPrince William and his wife Catherine were named the Prince and Princess of Wales by King Charles III on Friday.\n\nIn a phone call with Wales' first minister, the prince is said to have acknowledged his and the princess's deep affection for Wales.\n\nThe prince also spoke of his hope the royal couple would visit Wales soon.\n\nKensington Palace said the prince expressed they would \"do their part to support the aspirations of the Welsh people\".\n\n\"The prince and princess look forward to celebrating Wales's proud history and traditions as well as a future that is full of promise,\" the palace said.\n\n\"They will seek to live up to the proud contribution that members of the Royal family have made in years past.\"\n\nThe prince spoke of wanting to meet First Minister Mark Drakeford and other Welsh leaders at the \"earliest opportunity\" and thanked him for his \"fitting tribute\" to Her Majesty The Queen.\n\nHe was stationed with his young family at RAF Valley on Anglesey, making a home there in the earliest months of Prince George's life.\n\nThe couple visited Wales to mark St Davids Day in March, when they were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nKing Charles III passed the title to his son during his first address to the nation following the death of the Queen, aged 96.\n\n\"Today, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru,\" said the King, who held the title for 64 years.\n\nFollowing in the footsteps of Princess Diana, who died 25 years ago, the Princess of Wales is said to \"appreciate the history\", but will \"want to look to the future as she creates her own path\", a source said following the announcement.\n\nPrincess Diana's title changed after her divorce from King Charles, and she became Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nThe princess has become the first since Princess Diana to use the well-known title, one that was also previously Camilla's but which she never used.\n\nCatherine described Diana as \"an inspirational woman to look up to\" following her engagement to Prince William in 2010.\n\nThe royal couple will also take the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall titles, previously held by the King and Camilla, the new Queen Consort.\n\nKing Charles was crowned Prince of Wales in front of huge crowds at at Caernarfon Castle\n\nThe King was only 20 years old when he was crowned Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, in 1969.\n\nThe investiture was watched by a TV audience of millions around the world - however it is a title that has divided opinion in Wales.\n\nAn opinion poll of 1,020 people in June 2022, conducted by ITV and YouGov, suggested that 46% of people thought there should be another Prince of Wales, while 31% did not.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess were last in Wales in June for rehearsals of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations at Cardiff Castle.\n\nThey were joined by Prince George and Princess Charlotte on their first official visit to Wales.\n\nPrince George, eight, and Princess Charlotte, seven, made their first official visit to Wales with their parents in June\n\nThe visit was Princess Charlotte's first to Wales, along with her brother George\n\nEarlier this year, in March, William and Catherine helped mark St David's Day in Wales.\n\nThey baked Welsh cakes with members of a youth club and received a warm welcome from crowds of people during visits to Abergavenny and Blaenavon.\n\n\"Don't judge my cooking. It's not Bake Off,\" said Catherine as the couple spent time in the kitchen at Blaenavon Hwb in Torfaen.\n\nThe royal couple's first home after their marriage in 2011 was on Anglesey, where the prince was working as a search and rescue helicopter pilot.\n\nTheir first child, Prince George, was born while they lived in Wales and they have since returned to visit old friends in north Wales.\n\nPrince William was a search and rescue pilot based at RAF Valley on Anglesey from 2010-13\n\nThe princess was regularly spotted in local supermarkets on Anglesey and she volunteered will the local Scout Association, and she also learnt how to sing the Welsh national anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.\n\nIn a statement Kensington Palace said: \"The prince and princess will spend the months and years ahead deepening their relationship with communities across Wales.\"\n\nCatherine was an active volunteer for the Scout Association on Anglesey", "The couples went on an unexpected walkabout together in Windsor\n\nHeadline writers would have been thinking about \"Brothers in arms\" or maybe \"Brothers in grief\" for their coverage.\n\nThe sight of Princes William and Harry meeting the crowds together will become one of the stand-out and most unexpected images from what have been sombre days.\n\nWith their wives, Catherine and Meghan, they greeted people in Windsor, in a way that couldn't have been predicted last week, when the Sussexes returned to the UK.\n\nThe talk then was of feuds and unbridgeable differences between couples. They were said to be staying in houses close together on the Windsor estate, while emotionally many miles apart. The couple hadn't been seen together in public for more than two years.\n\nThat all changed on Thursday. If William and Harry were not planning to see each other, they were brought together in ways that couldn't have been predicted.\n\nIt already seems a long time ago, but as the news worsened about the Queen, and the country was checking for updates on their phones, the two brothers were both making rushed journeys to Balmoral.\n\nFamilies can fall out when there's a bereavement. Feelings are running high and are close to the surface. It's easy for old arguments to be brought back by grief.\n\nPrince Harry was given flowers by well-wishers\n\nBut losing a loved one can also bring unity, putting things into perspective and setting disagreements aside. It can be a time to come together.\n\nOf course, looking in from the outside, no one watching the TV pictures really knows what's happening. Was this only a show? Had they been told to send out this positive message?\n\nIt's going to be complicated and private between two brothers. And William and Harry have already faced the hard-to-measure sense of loss at an early age, with the death of their mother Diana.\n\nFor the waiting public, looking to show their own solidarity with the mourning Royal Family, they clearly warmed to the idea of William and Catherine, Harry and Meghan, appearing together. For a few minutes at least, the royal famous foursome were back. It tuned in to the public mood.\n\nAccording to royal sources, it was Prince William who had extended the invitation to Prince Harry and Meghan to go on this walkabout.\n\nEven if this is a moment of togetherness, there is no disguising that this is also a moment of great divergence. The brothers are on pathways about to take them in completely different directions.\n\nWilliam, now Prince of Wales, is now on a different path from his brother\n\nOn the death of the Queen, William became heir to the throne. He will be keenly aware of what now lies ahead. He has a new and much more important status than his brother.\n\nWilliam is now the Prince of Wales, the name that they both until yesterday used to call their father - that must seem strange enough in itself.\n\nWhen the reign of King Charles III was proclaimed at the Accession Council on Saturday, William was standing firmly behind the new monarch.\n\nIt's likely that the King and Camilla, now the Queen Consort, with William and Catherine will be the core group, almost a separate unit, at the heart of the monarchy. It was this foursome that often appeared together when Charles was standing in for his mother.\n\nPrince Harry is on a very different route, living with Meghan and his young family in California, with media ventures, charities and campaigns. They have to invent their own post-royal life, while still part of the Royal Family. They generate huge public interest, not always positive, and seem to live with a media tornado hovering above them.\n\nEven among the most carefully-choreographed steps of public mourning, there are still families and people falling out and making up.", "Ukrainian resistance fighters use drones to spot targets for the military\n\nAs Ukraine's military steps up its strikes on Kherson, hinting at a new offensive to recapture the region, there is another force working alongside. They are Ukraine's shadow army, a network of agents and informers who operate behind enemy lines.\n\nOur journey to meet the resistance fighters takes us through a landscape of sunflower yellow and sky blue to Mykolaiv. The first major town on Ukrainian-controlled territory west of Kherson, it has become the partisans' headquarters on the southern front.\n\nDriving through military checkpoints, we pass giant billboards showing a faceless, hooded figure alongside a warning: \"Kherson: The partisans see everything.\" The image is designed to make the region's Russian occupiers nervous and boost the morale of those trapped under their rule.\n\nA billboard warns collaborators \"Kherson: The partisans see everything.\"\n\n\"The resistance is not one group, it's total resistance,\" the man standing in front of me insists, his voice slightly muffled by a black mask he's pulled up from his neck so I can't see his face as we film him, in a room I can't describe so that neither can be found.\n\nShortly before this war, Ukraine bolstered its Special Forces in part to build and manage a resistance movement. It even published a PDF booklet on how to be a good partisan, with instructions on such subversive acts as slashing the tyres of the occupier, adding sugar to petrol tanks or refusing to follow orders at work. \"Be grumpy,\" is one suggestion.\n\nBut Sasha's team of informers have a more active role: tracking Russian troop movements inside Kherson.\n\n\"Say yesterday we saw a new target, then we send that to the military and in a day or two it's gone,\" he says, as we scroll through some of the many videos he's sent from the neighbouring region each day. One is from a man who drove past a military base and filmed Russian vehicles, another is from CCTV footage as Russian trucks pass by, daubed with their giant Z war-marks.\n\nSasha describes his \"agents\" as Ukrainians \"who have not lost hope in victory and want our country to be freed\".\n\n\"Of course they're afraid,\" he says. \"But serving their country is more important.\"\n\nWorking alongside Sasha are a team who fly drones into Kherson to spot targets for the military. Civilians, not soldiers, all are volunteers and they fundraise on social media to pay for their expensive kit.\n\nThe man in charge cultivated decorative plants before the war, but Serhii tells me he joined the fight to free the south after seeing the bodies of civilians executed in Bucha during the Russian occupation there. \"I couldn't just stay at home after that,\" he says. \"I didn't know what else I could do or think of, while this war is going on.\"\n\nThe task he chose instead is extremely dangerous. His team of four get shelled by the Russians every single time they go out, though no-one has been killed. \"I know to some extent it's a matter of chance,\" Serhii shrugs, and breaks into a soft smile. \"But at least if it happens to me, then I will know it was for a cause.\"\n\nSerhii joined the resistance in the south after the massacre in Bucha\n\nThe partisans are fighting to prevent Russia's hold over Kherson becoming permanent: to block a referendum that Moscow appears to be planning to stage. Russia has already introduced the rouble and its own mobile phone networks to the region and is pumping its propaganda from state-run TV channels into Ukrainian homes. Local journalists have either fled, or gone to ground.\n\nThe acting head of the region, Dmytro Butrii, now exiled to Mykolaiv and a small back office protected by sandbags, insists that a vote on joining Russia would be a sham, a \"total fake\" and unrecognised by any \"civilised\" government.\n\nThese days, that wouldn't matter much to Moscow.\n\nFor Russia, the region is strategic: it's the source of water for Crimea, which it annexed illegally in 2014, and the last section of a much-discussed 'land bridge', or stretch of territory that links Russia-proper to the peninsula.\n\nThe exiled head of the region, Dmytro Butrii, says a referendum would be a sham\n\nSome locals have switched sides to help the Russians. So Sasha's team are building a database of those \"collaborators\", using information from the inside. \"It's so that no one can claim later that they were with the resistance,\" he explains.\n\nBut it's also for intimidation. Partisans are encouraged to stick threatening posters outside the collaborators' homes with designs that include the person's face and a coffin, or a \"Wanted\" poster offering big rewards for their death. The activists then photograph the results to send to Sasha.\n\n\"There's a lot of graffiti. People write things like 'stuff your referendum' as well as sticking up their posters,\" Sasha describes his latest reports from Kherson. \"It shows how many people are not afraid: in a city with military patrols everywhere, they manage to print leaflets then walk round with glue when they could be stopped at any moment and things would end very badly.\"\n\nThere has been a spate of assassination attempts against those who've joined the Russians. A blogger was shot, an official in the Russian-installed administration was killed and others have been injured in car bombs. The most prominent figures to switch sides now wear body armour as a matter of course. The men I meet all say they have nothing to do with the attacks, but they have no sympathy either.\n\n\"Other than the word traitor and scum, I have no other words for them,\" Sasha shrugs. \"They're our enemy.\"\n\nVladimir Putin still claims his invasion of Ukraine is a \"liberation\" operation but in Kherson, his troops rule through force and fear.\n\nSince Russian forces occupied the region in March, hundreds of people have been detained, many of them tortured. Some have disappeared, unheard of for weeks. Others have been discovered dead or returned to their relatives from Russian custody in body bags.\n\nSources inside the city describe soldiers patrolling the streets and buses stopped at random for everyone inside to be checked. The slightest hint of support for Ukrainian rule, as little as a message or photo on your phone, can get you arrested.\n\nEvery time Oleh smiles in the mirror, the gaps in place of his teeth are a reminder of the beatings he endured by his Russian interrogators. He tells me they also broke seven ribs - three still haven't mended. His name is not really Oleh, but he's asked me not to reveal his identity.\n\nA member of the resistance, he witnessed the torture of another prisoner, Denys Mironov, who then died in Russian custody.\n\nOleh talks in chilling detail about what happened after 27 March when he and Denys were snatched from the street: he describes constant beatings in the first hours involving electric shock, suffocation and death threats. He's sure his interrogators were from the FSB security service.\n\nAt some point, his spirits fell so low that he contemplated ending his life, even attacking a guard so they would shoot him.\n\n\"They were looking for Nazis, so they beat me because I was bald. They reckoned they'd caught a damn Nazi,\" he answers, when I ask what information his captors had wanted. \"When they stripped me, they saw I had Simpsons underpants so they said I was an American agent and punished me for that.\"\n\nA month earlier, when the Russians invaded, Oleh and Denys had joined the territorial defence, Ukraine's volunteer army. But much of the military melted away with the first explosions and Kherson's remaining forces were quickly overwhelmed. So the men became partisans, working against the Russians from the inside.\n\n\"We got information on where their forces were based, and when they were on the move, and we passed that on to the military,\" Oleh explains, adding that he was involved in a lot more activity that he can't talk about.\n\nAnother partisan I met described helping Ukrainian forces escape in boats across the Dnipro when they were surrounded - and stealing weapons from the Russians. \"I'll tell you the rest when we win,\" he laughs when I press him for more.\n\nDenys, a 43-year-old with a wife and son - and a fruit and veg business before the war - began driving a bread van around Kherson, handing out food and scouting for intelligence as he went. He and Oleh were also collecting weapons, preparing to join the battle to liberate Kherson as soon as Ukraine launched the counter-offensive that everyone expected.\n\nInstead, the two men were detained and tortured.\n\nI asked Russia's FSB to explain what happened to these men and others. They didn't respond.\n\nIt was the middle of the first night before Oleh saw Denys again, and by then he could barely walk and was struggling for breath. Even so, the guards beat him some more. \"They hit him in the groin, then the face, then two men with batons took down his trousers and started to beat him near his kidneys,\" Oleh says, recalling how the tape holding a bag over his own head had worked loose enough for him to see.\n\n\"It was clear his lungs had been punctured and he'd been really badly hurt,\" he says. \"But if he'd been helped in time, his death could have been avoided. It's awful.\"\n\nOn 18 April the men were transferred to a facility in Crimea and the next day, Denys was finally taken to a military hospital where Oleh was sure he would recover.\n\nThe first Denys Mironov's family knew of his death was over a month later, when he was returned to Ukraine as part of a body swap.\n\nMany people left Kherson for safety soon after the Russians seized control. The government in Kyiv recently urged others to evacuate, warning that a military operation to retake the region was imminent.\n\nBut getting out isn't easy.\n\nRussian officials limit the number of vehicles crossing the frontline and only permit one route into Ukrainian-controlled areas, the road that heads north to Zaporizhzhia. Multiple military checkpoints on the way make it a no-go for Ukrainian men of fighting age. Even women and children face waiting weeks for places on free evacuation buses, or an exorbitant fee for a place in a private car.\n\nBut hundreds still flee each day, tumbling off buses or unfolding themselves from crowded, stuffy cars just before dusk into a supermarket car park that doubles as a reception area for those forced into exile in their own country. The adults look exhausted, the children's smiles are timid, as if they're not quite sure whether they're safe yet. Steam gushes from beneath the bonnet of a blue Lada like it's about to explode. After security checks, volunteers offer food and clothes and, for some, there are tearful reunions with waiting relatives.\n\nWe can't travel into Kherson now it's occupied, but the mood in this crowd reveals plenty about life there. Even on Ukrainian-controlled soil, people are wary of what they say. \"Will the Russians see this?\" some of the new arrivals want to know before I film or even record them speaking. Others shake their heads as I approach, and turn away from my microphone.\n\n\"It's tough there, the Russians are everywhere,\" Alexandra tells me, bouncing baby Nastya on her knee in the back of a car. Inside the aid tent an older woman is standing with two carrier bags at her feet looking lost and lonely. Struggling with tears, Svitlana tells me she's fled Kherson because her nerves are in shreds but her husband has refused to come with her. \"He said he's waiting for the Ukrainian army to come and liberate us,\" she says.\n\nAs night begins to fall, and more vehicles pull in, a man admits that his own family are running from more than the missiles. \"We know people are disappearing, it's true,\" he tells me, without giving his name. \"In Kherson, you don't go out in the evening.\"\n\nA resistance poster reads: Zaporizhzhia, land of death to the occupiers\n\nThe danger from shelling has increased in recent days, on both sides of the southern frontline.\n\nIn Mykolaiv the days usually start with explosions from 4am: down south, the Russian launch sites are so close that the warning siren only goes off after the first missile hits. One morning, sheltering in our hotel basement, I counted at least 20 explosions in the city, some close enough to shake the building. Once the curfew lifted, we found a nearby school in ruins, the playground swings blanketed in the thick grey dust of the collapsed sports hall.\n\nBut Ukrainian attacks have also increased, both in number and impact, as more powerful weapons supplied by the West have made it to the region and are making a difference. Residents in Kherson city have recorded multiple strikes on Russian ammunition depots. Bridges across the Dnipro, including the Antonivskiy, have also been hit multiple times, disrupting Russian supply lines.\n\nThe push to retake Kherson could be approaching.\n\nSasha believes many of those who have remained in the city are ready to stay and fight; those I've spoken to say support for Russian rule is minimal and the searches, detentions and beatings in recent months have shrunk that still further.\n\n\"When the army starts to invade, then people will be ready and will help,\" Sasha says.\n\nAfter his own brutal experience in Russian custody, Oleh is already back on the southern front to fight for his hometown, alongside Ukraine's partisan army.\n\n\"They can take the land, but they can't take the people,\" is how he puts it. \"The Russians will never be safe in Kherson, because the people didn't want them there. They don't like them. They won't accept them.\"", "A bank holiday across the UK has been approved by King Charles III for the day of the funeral of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe new king confirmed the order at a ceremony in London proclaiming him as monarch.\n\nThe Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday 19 September.\n\nThe Queen, Britain's longest ever reigning monarch, died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate in Balmoral.\n\nThe state funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey, the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, and where Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere has not been a monarch's funeral service in the Abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen's mother was held there in 2002.\n\nWestminster Abbey is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's coronation in 1953, and where she married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nHeads of state from across the world will be invited to join members of the Royal Family to remember the life and service of the Queen.\n\nSenior UK politicians and former prime ministers are also expected to attend the service, which will be televised.\n\nIt is expected that certain aspects of daily life will be put on hold for the date of the state funeral, with some businesses and organisations choosing to close or halt their operations.\n\nThe Royal Mail has announced that its postal services will be suspended on the day, and some shops like Harrods have already said they plan to close.\n\nThe upcoming bank holiday is one of several ways in which life in the UK is temporarily being put on hold following the Queen's death.\n\nA period of national mourning is now in place and will last until the day of the state funeral, the government has announced.\n\nThere is no obligation for organisers to cancel planned events, but many that were due to happen in the immediate aftermath of the Queen's death have already been cancelled or postponed for a few days.\n\nFootball matches in the Premier League, English Football League or in Scotland or Northern Ireland have been postponed until Tuesday, while all games in the Women's Super League, Women's Championship and Women's FA Cup have also been put on hold. A number of horse racing, golf, and boxing fixtures have also been called off.\n\nLarge-scale strike actions planned for next week were immediately cancelled following the Queen's death, and the Trades Union Congress said it was postponing its annual conference in Brighton this weekend out of respect.\n\nOn the day of the state funeral, government guidance suggests organisers of sporting fixtures or pre-planned events may wish to adjust timings to avoid clashing with the service or processions.", "The Queen pictured in January 2022 with her dachshund-corgi cross, Candy\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's corgis are going to live with her son Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nThe Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York will take on Muick and Sandy - two young corgis that the prince and his daughters gave the Queen as a present in 2021.\n\nThe Queen also had a dorgi - a dachshund-corgi cross - named Candy, which she was pictured with in January.\n\nHer Majesty owned more than 30 corgis during her lifetime.\n\nSo strong was the association that well-wishers almost immediately began asking who would adopt the dogs.\n\nA source close to Prince Andrew told the BBC: \"The corgis will return to live at Royal Lodge with the duke and duchess. It was the duchess who found the puppies which were gifted to Her Majesty by the duke.\n\n\"The duchess bonded with Her Majesty over dog walking and riding horses, and even after her divorce, she would continue her great friendship with Her Majesty, by walking the dogs in Frogmore and chatting.\"\n\nRoyal Lodge, a mansion in the grounds of the Windsor Estate, is the home of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, and Frogmore is an estate next to Windsor Castle.\n\nThe duke, 62, and his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, initially gave the Queen Muick and another puppy named Fergus last spring. The goal was to lift the Queen's spirits while her husband, the late Prince Philip, was in hospital and amid the Covid lockdown.\n\nPrince Andrew and the corgis have a lifelong association. (Pictured in 1966)\n\nMuick, pronounced \"Mick\", is a corgi, named after Loch Muick, on the royal Balmoral estate.\n\nFergus, a dorgi, was named after the Queen's maternal uncle, Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, who was killed in action during World War One. The puppy died in May aged just five months, reportedly due to a heart defect. The Queen was said to be devastated.\n\nPrince Andrew then gave her another corgi puppy, Sandy, on her official 95th birthday.\n\nThe Queen's dresser, personal assistant and longstanding friend Angela Kelly said recently that the new arrivals had proved a \"constant joy\" and \"always brought a smile to everyone's faces\".\n\nThe Queen was an enthusiastic corgi breeder, and owned more than 30 corgis and dorgis over six decades. Many were descended from Susan - the dog she received as an 18th birthday present from her father in 1944.\n\nThe royal household's breeding programme wound up several years ago, however, as the Queen was said to be unwilling to leave young dogs behind when she died.\n\nThere has been speculation that Prince Andrew, knowing this, may have assured his mother he would care for the dogs if the need arose.\n\nThe prince and his ex-wife the duchess have remained very close since their divorce in 1996, so her involvement does not come as a surprise.\n\nThe duchess said the Queen had been \"the most incredible mother-in-law and friend\" to her and that she would miss her \"more than words can express\".", "A young King Charles arrives at Gordonstoun, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh\n\nWhen Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh went to watch the future King Charles III performing at Gordonstoun, their seats were reserved with pieces of paper which simply said \"Mum\" and \"Dad\".\n\nHis education at the independent boarding school, in Moray, was a significant departure from the royal norm.\n\nHe was the first Prince of Wales to be educated at a school rather than by private tutors. And his accession to the throne makes Gordonstoun the first senior school to educate a British monarch.\n\nThe school was founded in 1934 by a German Jewish educationist, Kurt Hahn, after he fled the Nazis. His vision was to create well-rounded citizens of the world, with a focus on life skills and service as much as academic achievement.\n\nKing Charles is shown his new school at Gordonstoun by Captain Ian Tennant on 2 May 1962\n\nThe young prince joined at the age of 13.\n\nOn his first day, on 1 May 1962, the then Prince Charles was flown to RAF Lossiemouth in a plane piloted by his father Prince Philip, who was one of Gordonstoun's first pupils. He was then driven about half a mile to the school.\n\nOver the next five years he studied the school's broad curriculum and took part in a range of activities away from the classroom. These includes sailing, being a member of HM's Coastguard unit, taking lead roles in drama productions, singing in the school choir, and playing trumpet and cello.\n\nHis performance as the king in a school production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, in 1965, received critical acclaim, with newspapers using a striking image of him on their front pages.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh joined other parents to watch the final performance.\n\nOther roles included the Duke of Exeter in Shakespeare's Henry V and the Pirate King in the school's 1967 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance.\n\nHe was described as \"the best actor in the school\" by Donald McLachlan in the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nHe was a member of the Debating Society and was an accomplished potter. He also went on regular sailing and walking expeditions in the Highlands and in his final year was head boy.\n\nKing Charles (second right) in a performance of Patience in 1965\n\nKing Charles performing as the Duke of Exeter (second from left behind the throne) in the school's production of Henry V in 1965\n\nKing Charles (front, centre) playing the cello in an orchestra of local children\n\nHe left Gordonstoun in 1967 with five O-levels in English Language, English Literature, History, Latin and French and two A-levels in History and French.\n\nHe achieved above average results which secured him a place to study archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University.\n\nIt was a surprise decision for a future king, who would have been expected to focus on specially-chosen subjects such as constitutional history.\n\nThere have been numerous reports that King Charles hated his time at Gordonstoun and that he struggled to cope in the tough environment.\n\nHowever, he has often played this down. During a House of Lords speech in 1975, he said: \"I am always astonished by the amount of rot talked about Gordonstoun and the careless use of ancient clichés used to describe it.\n\n\"It was only tough in the sense that it demanded more of you as an individual than most other schools did - mentally or physically.\n\n\"I am lucky in that I believe it taught me a great deal about myself and my own abilities and disabilities. It taught me to accept challenges and take the initiative.\"\n\nGordonstoun was founded with a focus on life skills and service as much as academic achievement\n\nThe previous year he told The Observer that he was glad he went to Gordonstoun.\n\n\"I didn't enjoy school as much as I might have, but that was only because I'm happier at home than anywhere else,\" he said.\n\n\"But Gordonstoun developed my willpower and self control, helped me to discipline myself… We went in for 'adventure'.\n\n\"We ran our own fire brigade, we had our own sea rescue service, mountain rescue, surf life-saving, coastguard, etc. It was adventure. And we were damn good.\"\n\nDuring the early days of Gordonstoun, the daily timetable included a morning run of 50 to 100 yards, followed by a warm shower then a cold one.\n\nKing Charles on his arrival at Gordonstoun in 1962\n\nA newspaper profile ahead of the king's 30th birthday noted that he had seemed \"temporarily unsuited\" for the rigours of Gordonstoun but added: \"Nowadays, he pays tribute to Kurt Hahn's tough training in self reliance and leadership.\"\n\nIt said Hahn's teaching had shaped his adult life, particularly in his approach to \"alienated and underprivileged\" youth.\n\nKing Charles was said to have liked fishing and hockey at school but \"loathed\" playing cricket. It was reported that his weakest subject was maths.\n\nIn 1964, he undertook a week's training at Portsmouth naval base with the cadet force from Gordonstoun to be taught basic sailing, rowing and navigation.\n\nWhile at Gordonstoun, the young prince lived in Windmill Lodge - now a female boarding house. His contemporaries describe the communal areas as warm and cosy, although it was customary to leave a window open in dormitories for ventilation.\n\nThe future king with the Queen during a visit to Gordonstoun in 1967\n\nOne former pupil said: \"In Windmill Lodge, at that time, everybody except the House Helper slept in dormitories, of which the smallest was four beds and the largest about six beds, I think, maybe one or two had eight.\n\n\"Charles was no exception… until he became the House Helper when, like his predecessors, he had his own study/bedroom.\n\n\"As for the beds themselves, everyone had identical beds, which were simple, modern and lowish (the kind that is nowadays called a divan). They were fairly comfortable and there were no complaints about them.\"\n\nCharles also took part in an exchange trip to a school in the Australian outback in 1966. He said it was \"rigorous\" and tougher than Gordonstoun, but he loved it.\n\nHe went on expeditions into the bush every weekend and ran two cross country runs a week.\n\nHe also wrote an account of his stay in the school magazine, in which he said: \"There is a lot of wood chopping done here but I'm afraid it's very essential as the boys boilers have to be stoked with logs and the kitchen uses a huge number.\n\n\"The first week I was here I was made to go out and chop up logs on a hillside in boiling hot weather. I could hardly see my hands for blisters after that.\"\n\nDuring his time at the school there were reports that he fell ill with pneumonia while camping out on the royal estate at Balmoral along with three other boys from Gordonstoun, and that he broke his nose while playing rugby at school.\n\nThe biggest scandal was over what was dubbed the Cherry Brandy Affair, in June 1963 - when the the King drank a cherry brandy at a hotel on the island of Lewis.\n\nNot only was he under the legal drinking age but it was also forbidden for Gordonstoun boys to drink alcohol.\n\nThe story made the papers and King Charles was spoken to \"strongly\" by the head teacher.\n\nHe later spoke about the incident in a radio interview, saying he had gone to the bar to escape \"people looking in the windows\" at him while he was waiting for a meal.\n\nHaving never been in a bar before, he said the \"most sensible\" thing to do was to have a drink.\n\n\"And being terrified not knowing what to do I said the first drink that came into my head, which happened to be cherry brandy, because I'd drunk it before when it was cold out shooting - and hardly had I taken a sip when the whole world exploded around my head. That's all.\"\n\nLisa Kerr, principal of Gordonstoun, said King Charles' life of service, love of the outdoors, enjoyment of the arts and intellectual curiosity had all been nurtured at the school.\n\n\"It was at Gordonstoun that he discovered a love of archaeology and became an accomplished actor and potter,\" she said.\n\n\"He also helped the community through his involvement in the Coastguard Service, and His Majesty remains a patron of the Coastguard to this day.\"\n\nShe added: \"Many of our former pupils who were his contemporaries talk of a quiet and talented student who blossomed at school, especially after an exchange trip to Australia. We wish him every success in his reign.\"", "At Windsor Castle the crowds who came to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II were surprised when William and Catherine, the new Prince and Princess of Wales, appeared through the gates with Prince Harry and Meghan.\n\nTogether, they viewed tributes left for Britain's longest-ever reigning monarch and greeted the crowds.\n\nIt was the first time the four of them have been seen together in more than two years.\n\nAt Crathie Kirk, a church near Balmoral in Scotland, the Queen's three younger children, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, were among the family members who viewed the floral tributes.\n\nHer Majesty's four granddaughters, Zara Tindall, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and Lady Louise Windsor, plus her eldest grandson Peter Phillips, were also there.\n\nEarlier in the day, King Charles III was formally proclaimed king, following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.\n\nKing Charles dedicated the rest of his life to serving as monarch at meeting of the Accession Council at St James' Palace in London.\n\nIn his address, he paid tribute to the Queen and spoke of the \"irreparable loss we've all suffered\".\n\nHe was accompanied by his wife, Camilla, the Queen Consort, and the heir to the throne, Prince William.\n\nThe ceremony was attended by political leaders including Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was only appointed into the role earlier this week.\n\nThe Labour leader Keir Starmer was also there alongside former prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Theresa May and John Major.\n\nThe Proclamation of Accession was signed by a number of dignitaries, including Lord President of the Council, Penny Mordaunt, and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nOutside, Garter Principal King of Arms, David Vines White, read the Principal Proclamation from the balcony overlooking Friary Court.\n\nPrince Michael of Kent, Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, were seen together as the Principal Proclamation was read from the balcony.\n\nThe Band of the Coldstream Guards saluted the the proclamation.\n\nOutside, members of the public listened to the proclamation.\n\nGun salutes took place in Hyde Park and above at the Tower of London, as the Principal Proclamation was read.\n\nA second Proclamation was read at the Royal Exchange in the City of London. State Trumpeters led a procession which included the Lord Mayor as well as various City officers.\n\nOfficials and elected members of the City of London Corporation doffed their hats.\n\nFollowing the ceremonies, King Charles III returned to Buckingham Palace. His coronation may not be for many months yet - some 16 months passed between the death of Queen Elizabeth's father and her coronation in June 1953.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: King Charles III leads the procession behind the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh\n\nThousands of people watched in near-silence as the Queen's coffin made its journey up the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Queen's children, led by King Charles III, walked behind the hearse as it drove from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nA service of remembrance was then held in the cathedral, where the Queen will lie at rest until Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is estimated that 20,000 people are in a mile-long queue to pay their last respects.\n\nAll four of the Queen's children - King Charles, Princess Anne, and Princes Andrew and Edward - later held a vigil for 10 minutes around the coffin of their late mother at the cathedral.\n\nEarlier they had walked behind the hearse, along with Princess Anne's husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nA car behind them carried Camilla, the Queen Consort, and Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, Prince Edward's wife.\n\nMeanwhile, many people have spent hours queuing through the night to file past the coffin, ahead of its journey to London.\n\nBy BBC Scotland's Andrew Picken, on the Royal Mile\n\nAs the procession edged closer the crowd fell silent and cries of \"she's here\" were heard.\n\nThere was a sea of hands holding phones in the air to try and capture the moment on camera while a barking dog momentarily put the police horses on edge.\n\nFrom the back of the crowd a cry of \"God Save the King\" came as the coffin passed the Canons' Gait pub.\n\nThe silence lingered for a few moments after the procession had passed as people collected their thoughts.\n\nThere was a respectful silence from the crowd earlier, which was 10 deep in places, as the procession to the cathedral took place on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe quiet was punctuated by the echo of ceremonial gunshots which were fired from Edinburgh Castle every minute.\n\nPolice Scotland said a 22 year-old man had been arrested in connection with a breach of the peace after footage appeared to show a man heckling the royal procession on the Royal Mile.\n\nThe King had addressed both Houses of Parliament earlier on Monday, before he and the Queen Consort flew to Edinburgh.\n\nHe was welcomed on the tarmac by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack and Edinburgh's Lord Provost, Robert Aldridge.\n\nThey then travelled to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where there was applause as the King and the Queen Consort met members of the public.\n\nThe monarch spent time shaking hands and also received gifts of flowers.\n\nKing Charles took part in the ancient Ceremony of the Keys\n\nKing Charles inspects an honour guard at the Palace of Holyroodhouse\n\nKing Charles then took part in the ancient Ceremony of the Keys, where he was handed the keys to the city by the lord provost.\n\nIn keeping with tradition, he handed them back, entrusting their safekeeping to the city's elected officials.\n\nKing Charles III also inspected a guard of honour from the Royal Regiment of Scotland.\n\nHe then led the procession to St Giles' Cathedral behind the Queen's coffin, which was draped with the Royal Standard in Scotland and dressed with a wreath of flowers.\n\nThe cathedral then hosted a service celebrating the Queen's life and her connection to Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Royal Regiment of Scotland place Queen's coffin on the catafalque\n\nThe Rev Calum MacLeod, who led the service, welcomed the Royal family, representatives of \"our nation's life\" and \"people whose lives were touched by the Queen in so many unforgettable ways\".\n\nHe said: \"We gather to bid Scotland's farewell to our late monarch, whose life of service to the nation and the world we celebrate. And whose love for Scotland was legendary.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon read a lesson during the service, which was also attended by Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nLater, Ms Sturgeon - who had an audience with King Charles at Holyrood - paid tribute to the Queen during a motion of condolence in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nShe hailed the Queen as \"a true and steadfast friend of this parliament\" who has been \"intrinsic to the story of modern Scotland\".\n\nKing Charles responded to the motion in the Scottish Parliament\n\nResponding to the motion, King Charles said: \"Through all the years of her reign, the Queen, like so many generations of our family before her, found in the hills of this land and in the hearts of its people a haven and a home.\"\n\nParaphrasing Robert Burns, he described the Queen as: \"The friend of man, the friend of truth, the friend of age and guide of youth.\n\n\"Few hearts like hers with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed.\"\n\nThe monarch also confirmed he was passing his Duke of Rothesay title to Prince William.\n\nMourners then started filing past the Queen's coffin at St Giles' Cathedral, including while the King and his siblings' stood in vigil on Monday evening.\n\nThe symbolic ceremony sees four people - in this case King Charles III, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward - position themselves at each side of the coffin to stand guard for a short time.\n\nThe Princess Royal's appearance has made her the first woman to be part of the vigil, which has until now been carried out by male-only members of the Royal Family.\n\nWhile the Queen lies at rest at St Giles' Cathedral, her coffin will remain under continuous vigil for 24 hours, guarded by the Royal Company of Archers.\n\nThe queue to view the coffin starts at George Square Lane/North Meadow Walk in The Meadows, where wristbands are being issued for entry to the cathedral.\n\nThe public have been warned the queue is likely to involve standing for a number of hours.\n\nMembers of the public filed past while the King and his three siblings posted a vigil around the coffin\n\nMourners were advised to bring their own food and drinks. Toilets are available and visitors are able to leave the queue briefly to use the facilities.\n\nThere are be airport-style security checks for entering St Giles' at George IV Bridge and certain restrictions apply on mobile phones, with photography and recording not permitted.\n\nThe Royal Household has asked that floral tributes are left at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Queen's coffin will be flown from Edinburgh Airport to Buckingham Palace.\n\nFrom Thursday, the Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall for four days. Her funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19 September.\n\nWhat are your memories of the Queen? Share your tributes and reflections by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "President Biden has paid tribute to those who lost their lives on the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks on US soil.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Biden referenced a message sent from the late Queen Elizabeth II at the time.", "What’s first for the new prime minister?", "The Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral for their silver wedding anniversary in 1972\n\nThe Queen's love of her home in Balmoral in Royal Deeside was well known.\n\nShe spent most summers at the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire, usually with her beloved husband Philip and family by her side.\n\nSurrounded by countryside, Balmoral Castle is where she spent many a happy holiday - from visiting with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary as a small child, to the final months of her life.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip with children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Charles (left to right) in the grounds of Balmoral in 1960\n\nShe hosted numerous royal garden parties there and enjoyed watching events at the nearby Braemar Highland Games with other members of the Royal Family.\n\nShe spent much of Prince Philip's last years with him at Balmoral - they remained there together during lockdown and spent their 73rd wedding anniversary there in November 2020.\n\nBalmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when the estate and its original castle were bought from the Farquharson family by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband. The house was then found to be too small and the current Balmoral Castle was commissioned.\n\nBalmoral Castle has been a residence of the Royal Family since 1852\n\nThe castle itself is an example of Scottish baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Environment Scotland as a category A listed building. The new castle was completed in 1856 and the old castle demolished shortly afterwards.\n\nIt remains private property of the Queen and is not part of the Crown Estate.\n\nIt is a working estate, including grouse moors, forestry and farmland, as well as managed herds of deer, Highland cattle, and ponies.\n\nThe Royal Family were at Balmoral when Princess Diana died on 31 August 1997 and it initially became the focus of the aftermath.\n\nAfter attending a private service at Crathie Church, the Queen and the Royal Family stop to look at floral tributes left for Princess Diana, at the gates of Balmoral Castle, in September 1997\n\nThe Sunday morning after her death, the Queen and Princes Charles, William and Harry attended a church service at nearby Crathie Kirk.\n\nOn their way home they viewed the floral tributes and messages left by the public.\n\nHere are some more images of the Queen and her family at Balmoral over the years:\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary on the way back to Balmoral after attending church at nearby Crathie in September 1932\n\nThe Royal Family during a visit to Balmoral Castle in 1951, Princess Elizabeth is with her children Prince Charles (left) and Princess Anne\n\nQueen Elizabeth II with her children Charles (right) and Anne, posing in Balmoral in 1952\n\nThe Queen plays with Prince Charles and Princess Anne at the castle windows in 1952\n\nThe Queen watches her son Prince Charles driving in a toy car on the grounds of Balmoral Castle\n\nPresident Eisenhower with the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral Castle in September 1959\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in a field with Highland cattle at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen at the writing desk in her study at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip in the study at Balmoral in 1976\n\nQueen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with theirs three sons, Edward, Charles and Andrew for their 32nd wedding anniversary at Balmoral on 20 November 1979\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip on holiday at Balmoral Castle in 2005\n\nThe Queen and members of the Royal Family break into laughter as they watch the tug-of-war during the Braemar Gathering in 2006\n\nThe Queen attends a garden party at Balmoral Castle in 2012\n\nThe Queen signs a message at Balmoral that was carried in the Commonwealth baton ahead of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games\n\nThe Queen arrives at Crathie Kirk with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in August 2019\n\nThe Queen inspects the Balaklava Company, 5 Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland at the gates at Balmoral, as she takes up summer residence at the castle in August 2021\n\nChildren from Crathie Primary School present the Queen with a card at the Balmoral Estate's cricket pavilion in October 2021\n\nQueen Elizabeth receiving the new prime minister, Liz Truss, in the drawing room at Balmoral on Tuesday\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "The Queen pictured with Susan at Balmoral Castle, in 1952 - the year she became Queen\n\nSince the death of the Queen, questions have arisen about the fate of her corgis, the pets she has treasured since childhood. Now it has been revealed her beloved dogs will be looked after by her son Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, the Duchess of York. This is the story of how Elizabeth and her corgis became inseparable.\n\n1959: Queen Elizabeth II, aged 32 and a mother of two, sits designing a gravestone for her dog.\n\nSusan showed up on her 18th birthday, and would gatecrash her honeymoon a few years later, smuggled beneath a rug in the royal carriage after her wedding to Prince Philip.\n\n\"I had always dreaded losing her,\" the Queen wrote in her grief, \"but I am ever so thankful that her suffering was so mercifully short.\"\n\nThat Susan bit the royal clock-winder and a young palace sentry is a matter of record, though her epitaph leaves out such indiscretions. She was buried in the pet cemetery at Sandringham, started by famously committed mourner Queen Victoria.\n\nSusan's gravestone stands in the pet cemetery at Sandringham, the royal estate in Norfolk\n\nAn ending for one Pembroke Welsh corgi - but certainly not for Her Majesty, who was only just getting started.\n\nOver the next six decades, she would own more than 30 of Susan's descendants, single-handedly create a mass market for this stunted Welsh cattle dog, and accidentally invent the dorgi with the help of Princess Margaret's amorous dachshund, Pipkin.\n\nWhy corgis? The answer, which may resonate with parents, is that some friends had one in 1933 when Princess Elizabeth was seven years old, and she wanted one too.\n\nPembroke corgis were a familiar sight in Wales, but fairly new to England. The Duke of York, Elizabeth's father, approached a respected breeder named Thelma Gray who brought the family three puppies from her Rozavel kennels in Surrey to choose from.\n\nThey settled on a little corgi officially called Rozavel Golden Eagle, because he was the only one with a small stump of tail to wag - and they wanted to know when he was pleased. But the pup became known as Dookie, reportedly after the kennel staff heard the Duke of York was going to be his owner, and the nickname stuck.\n\nDookie was horribly behaved, biting courtiers and visitors with abandon - but that didn't stop a press photo of Elizabeth and the tiny tyrant charming the public and raising the Pembroke corgi's profile.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth pictured at Glamis Station with Dookie just after he joined the family\n\nAnother puppy, Lady Jane, arrived from the same breeder a few years later. Christmas 1936 then saw a royal PR coup in the form of a saccharine children's book - Our Princesses and Their Dogs - which styled the Yorks and their pets as \"one very human family\". The book, brimming with dog pictures and family values, went on sale just days before the Duke's elder brother abdicated, making him the new king.\n\nBuckingham Palace is extremely tight-lipped about anything to do with the Queen's dogs because they're seen as a \"private matter\". But it's clear the royals cottoned on early to the softening effect of a well-timed corgi.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her first corgis - Dookie and Jane - at her childhood home in Piccadilly, London, July 1936\n\nKennel Club figures show a clear spike in Pembroke corgi registrations in 1936, and another in 1944, the year Princess Elizabeth got Susan. She had made corgis cool, while they made her look warm.\n\n\"People - breeders - were servicing the market for a dog that has suddenly become very popular. It's the 101 Dalmatians effect,\" notes Ciara Farrell, the Kennel Club's Library and Collections Manager.\n\n\"You see it with advertising as well - the old English sheepdog on the Dulux advert in the 70s and 80s.\" Likewise, the Andrex puppy, a marketing masterstroke that's run for half a century.\n\nAway from the cameras, Princess Elizabeth and Susan were inseparable. Add to that a royal's awareness of lineage, and it's no surprise she turned to Thelma, provider of her childhood puppies, to find Susan a mate. Rozavel Lucky Strike was the dog for the job, and founded a line of Windsor Pembroke corgis, which continued for 14 generations.\n\nAs well as being the Queen's much-loved pets, the corgis were a connection to her father, and a more carefree time. Every puppy after Susan was a way of keeping part of that with her, and a reminder that life and dynasties go on.\n\nWhile her husband Prince Philip spent a lifetime walking a little behind his wife, the corgis scampered ahead - revelling in a freedom denied to the Queen herself. Princess Diana is said to have coined the phrase \"a moving carpet\" to describe the jumble of dogs that preceded her. But the Queen called them \"the girls\" and \"the boys\". In all her years of breeding, she never sold any of her puppies. All stayed with her, or were given to breeders, relatives or friends.\n\nTwo of the Queen's dogs escort her through the door, as she greets a visiting New Zealand rugby team at Buckingham Palace in 2007\n\nThe corgis went where the Queen went - from palace to palace. This included on helicopters, trains, and in limousines. At Christmas at Sandringham they each had their own stocking, filled by the Queen herself.\n\nBuckingham Palace has 775 rooms, but the corgis slept inside the Queen's private apartment. As royal author Penny Junor wrote in her book All The Queen's Corgis: \"There is a special corgi room where they have raised wicker baskets lined with cushions to keep draughts away.\"\n\nWalking them every day was a part of her routine before mobility issues affected her final months. And in bygone years, she liked nothing more than piling the pack into an elderly Vauxhall estate, donning a headscarf, and setting off for a drive.\n\nThe Queen took her dogs everywhere, including by plane. (Pictured in 1970)\n\nA typical dog's life doesn't feature thousands of acres to roam, or lavish meals - prepared in the royal kitchens - of steak, chicken breast, vegetables and rice. But Junor believes that in some ways, corgis gave the Queen a precious point of contact with everyone else.\n\nShe wrote: \"Dogs and horses are her passion and it is with them, and the people who share that passion, that she truly relaxes. Horses are a rich man's game but dogs are not. They are a great leveller, they attract people from all walks of life and, over the years, the Queen has had strong and genuine friendships with many of her fellow dog enthusiasts.\"\n\nBetween 1933 and 2018, the Queen always owned at least one corgi - but mostly it was many more than that. Prince Philip, who never shared his wife's fondness for the breed, was apparently heard to complain: \"Bloody dogs! Why do you have to have so many?\"\n\nAnd then there were the dorgis - initially the result of an illicit liaison between Princess Margaret's dachshund, Pipkin, and a corgi named Tiny in the 1970s. The Queen and Princess Margaret were so charmed by the outcome that they mated the dogs again, and about 10 dorgi pups were born over the years.\n\nThey've varied in appearance, with some ears pointing up, corgi-like, and others hanging down. But all of them had long tails and were smaller than pedigree corgis.\n\nThe Queen strokes her dorgi Candy, as she looks at memorabilia from her Golden and Platinum Jubilees in January 2022\n\nWhen a royal photographer asked how the mechanics worked given the height difference between corgis and dachshunds, the Queen replied: \"It's very simple. We have a little brick.\"\n\nIn some cases, when loved ones died the Queen even adopted their dogs. This included the Queen Mother's three corgis in 2002. According to Vanity Fair, when the Queen went to Clarence House to view her mother's body, she took the Queen Mother's corgis home with her directly.\n\nShe adopted another - Whisper - who had belonged to her former head gamekeeper at Windsor, Bill Fenwick, and his wife Nancy. The latter was a dear friend who helped with the Queen's corgi breeding for five decades, and one of the very few people whose calls were always put through to her no matter what.\n\nThe royal household's breeding programme ended several years ago, as the Queen was said to be unwilling to leave young dogs behind when she died. She was pictured with her surviving dorgi, named Candy, back in January. She also had two young corgis named Muick and Sandy, who were gifts from her son Prince Andrew and his daughters in 2021.\n\nIt has now been confirmed that the pair will go to live with the prince and his ex-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, at Royal Lodge, a mansion in the grounds of the Windsor estate.\n\nIt is unclear at time of writing whether Candy will join them.\n\nPrince Andrew and the corgis have a lifelong association. (Pictured in 1966)\n\nThe prince hasn't always profited from the corgis' presence. Junor observes that the Queen, \"essentially a very shy woman\" who was required to talk confidently to strangers, used the dogs to reduce her discomfort - including with her relatives.\n\n\"Her family refers to it as 'the dog mechanism' […] If the situation becomes too difficult she will sometimes literally walk away from it and take the dogs out. Prince Andrew is said to have taken three weeks to fight his way past the dogs to tell his mother that his marriage to Sarah Ferguson was in trouble,\" she wrote.\n\nThe Queen also deployed the dogs to put others at ease. War surgeon Dr David Nott described how the monarch got him through a lunch at Buckingham Palace when he had just returned from Aleppo, in war-torn Syria, and found himself unable to speak to her due to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).\n\nThe Queen sensed something was wrong and said, \"Well, shall I help you?\" before calling for her corgis, Dr Nott said.\n\n\"All of a sudden the courtiers brought the corgis and the corgis went underneath the table.\" The Queen opened a tin of biscuits. \"And so for 20 minutes during this lunch the Queen and I fed the dogs. She did it because she knew that I was so seriously traumatised.\"\n\nBecause Her Majesty lived to 96 years old, there are millions of people old enough to own dogs who have only ever known her as a grey-haired grandmother and great-grandmother.\n\nAs a result, corgis came to be viewed as an old person's breed for a time.\n\nTheir ascendency peaked in the 1960s with almost 9,000 puppy registrations, as the public cooed over pictures of the Queen with her young family and dogs. But from the late 1990s in particular the decline is marked, and 2014 was their annus horribilis. With just 274 new registrations, Pembrokes trotted into the Vulnerable Native Breed category in the UK.\n\nThen came Netflix, and salvation in the form of The Crown, whose first season in 2016 turned the clock back to the start of the Queen's reign. Sympathetically played by Claire Foy, whose nuanced performance included a litany of expressive ways to say the word \"oh…\", the youthful royal was frequently surrounded by a pack of corgis, as was Olivia Colman, her successor in the role.\n\nOlivia Colman in character as the Queen, with her co-stars\n\nFoy told Vanity Fair how the on-set dogs were bribed with treats and especially loved cheese, mulling: \"You sort of worry that they're going to have a heart attack when you're giving it to them. These Corgis are cheesed up to the max - they're eating like a whole block of cheddar every day. It's scary.\"\n\nNumbers rebounded, with corgi puppy registrations up by 16% in 2017 after the first season aired, and 47% in 2018 after the second. It wasn't just about The Crown. The James Bond skit starring the Queen and three royal corgis at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony also saw them tummy-roll back into the public consciousness.\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 Olympics 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\nEven Bridgerton - Netflix's wildly popular Regency romp - inserted a historically improbable corgi into series 2. Co-star reviews included \"doesn't move if he doesn't have a treat\", but audiences loved him.\n\nSocial media has also been vital to the corgi renaissance, as Chris Equale, owner of TikTok stars Hammy and Olivia, knows well.\n\nChris, 34, launched a viral sensation pretty much accidentally in April 2020, with a video of his corgi Olivia barking at the vacuum cleaner. \"It got 250,000 views in just under 20 minutes,\" he remembers.\n\nTwo years and seven million followers later, he's made more than 700 talking corgi skits. They include a running joke about the dogs' war with \"the dragon\" (their dust-blitzing nemesis), and the vacuum company has piled in to sponsor content.\n\nAsked what it is about corgis that charms people, he replies: \"There's something very unique about a corgi - it's just a dog you really want to root for. They're the greatest herders you'll ever see! But if you look at them at first glance it's like, is it a dog, is it a loaf of bread? There's something so lovable about them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Hammy and Olivia's owner on the breed's unique appeal\n\nThe Kennel Club's Ciara Farrell agrees corgi anatomy is central to their kitsch appeal.\n\n\"One of the things is that people love a big ear - something you can lean into if you're making a soft toy. They're a spitz breed, so pointy in the face, brings that foxiness in. They look sort of tough but cute.\"\n\nMr Equale sees the Queen as \"the pioneer of the breed\" which he describes as looking like an oversized potato, enthusing: \"I've only had these two [Hammy and Olivia] for like… seven years? So to do that 10 times over is just fascinating.\n\n\"At a dog park it's always the first thing that comes out of a passer-by's mouth: 'Oh you know those are the Queen's dogs!'\"\n\nCorgis and the Queen: A branding partnership known the world over\n\nThe breed was inextricably tied to the monarchy in the public imagination while the Queen reigned. But in the era of King Charles III, who once quipped that he prefers Labradors and is a long-time owner of Jack Russell terriers, can corgis expect another dip in popularity?\n\n\"I would hope not,\" says Ms Farrell. \"I think corgis have made great progress in recent years.\" She believes they'll always be the Queen's iconic dogs, but the more that potential owners see corgis online, the less vital a royal association will be.\n\n\"There's going to be a generation of people who use social media who will find them characterful and fun. I think they're here to stay, definitely.\"\n\nThis feature was first published on 3 June, 2022.", "Laura Kuenssberg speaks to Conservative leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, and hears from Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska. On the panel with Laura are Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry, comedian Joe Lycett and former No 10 deputy chief of staff Cleo Watson.", "As the Chief Executive of BBC News I have the honour to write the closing message on this page of thousands of tributes to Queen Elizabeth II. And it’s a message of thanks to every single person who has taken the time to share their story.\n\nWhen the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, we at the BBC wanted to create a place where people could come together to share their tributes, their photos and recollections.\n\nThe response has been incredible. We have received thousands of touching stories of meeting the Queen, special moments, memories and messages of condolence.\n\nThank you to everyone - from all over the world - for coming together here in this virtual space for very real acts a of remembrance.\n\nLooking at the contributions, the common theme that emerges is that the Queen had a way of making each person she met feel like the most important person in that moment.\n\nThank you again for helping us remember a woman whose promise to serve her people was fulfilled through a life of duty, which touched so many people.", "Outside Buckingham Palace, there is a lovely atmosphere.\n\nA trip here wouldn't be for everyone, but for those who have decided it is for them, there is a thoughtful, quiet, polite, reflective mood.\n\nA big white flag with the Queen's image printed in the middle is being waved in front of me.\n\nDrifting overhead, a silver, heart-shaped balloon, liberated from its owner, intentionally or otherwise.\n\nThose in the crowd and those of us here observing them are witnessing first-hand the British constitution, florid in its decoration and freighted with history, exposed to a global sunlight like never before.\n\nThe interactions between what the 19th Century writer Walter Bagehot described as the \"dignified\" and \"efficient\" elements of a constitution - illustrated in the UK's model of governance.\n\nDignified referring to the monarchy, efficient to parliament.\n\nThe two, of course, interact - often in private, occasionally in public, such as at the State Opening of Parliament, when the monarch travels to Westminster to read out the government's planned new laws in the coming year.\n\nFor years, we called it the Queen's Speech.\n\nNext time, it'll be the King's Speech.\n\nBut those interactions between the Crown and parliament are vivid right now.\n\nCarved into the exterior stonework of the Palace of Westminster - the House of Commons and House of Lords - a king past, as a new one ascends.\n\nThe statue is of Henry II.\n\nInside, MPs have sworn their allegiance to King Charles III.\n\nSome seeking the help of God. Others the law.\n\nIn English. And, for a few, in Welsh.\n\nAt Buckingham Palace, audiences with the King for the new prime minister, her new cabinet and opposition party leaders.\n\nThe magnitude of these moments isn't lost on any of those caught up in them.\n\nJust as it isn't on the crowds outside, as the world watches.\n\nIn the coming days, the new head of state, the King, will visit Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.\n\nThe new head of government, the prime minister, will do too.\n\nEach introducing themselves to the country, in their new roles, at the same time.\n\nI'm told Liz Truss will attend a church service in each city; her role won't be that prominent.\n\nBut it strikes me at a time when there are strains on the architecture of the UK, those who argue nations within it might choose to go their own way one day, these visits carry a political value.\n\nThe Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland able to visibly illustrate that full job title so early in her tenure.\n\nBefore that, though, the arrival of the King here at Westminster on Monday, to address MPs and members of the House of Lords.\n\nAnother moment that will be quite a moment.", "The Queen's three younger children, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward were among family members who viewed floral tributes at the gates to Balmoral Castle.\n\nHer Majesty's four granddaughters Zara Tindall, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and Lady Louise Windsor, plus her eldest grandson Peter Phillips, were also there.\n\nSome family members appeared emotional as they read what people had written about the Queen.\n\nThe family waved to well-wishers as they stood at the gates to say goodbye, before walking back inside the castle grounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkraine's military says its forces have retaken over 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) during a rapid counter-offensive in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe remarkable advance, if confirmed, means Kyiv's forces have tripled their stated gains in little over 48 hours.\n\nPresident Zelensky put the figure at 1,000 sq km on Thursday evening, and then 2,000 sq km on Saturday evening.\n\nThe BBC cannot verify the Ukrainian figures, and journalists have been denied access to the frontlines.\n\nOn Saturday, the eastern counter-attack saw Ukrainian troops enter the vital Russian-held supply towns of Izyum and Kupiansk.\n\nBut UK defence officials have warned that fighting has continued outside those towns. And officials in Kyiv said Ukrainian forces were still fighting to gain control of a number of settlements around Izyum.\n\nRussia's defence ministry confirmed its forces' retreat from Izyum itself and Kupiansk, which it said would allow them\"to regroup\" in territory held by Moscow-backed separatists.\n\nThe Russian ministry also confirmed the withdrawal of troops from a third key town, Balaklyia, in order to \"bolster efforts\" on the Donetsk front. Ukrainian forces entered the town on Friday.\n\nThe pace of the counter-attack has caught the Russians off guard, and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov - a staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin - appeared to question Moscow's military strategy.\n\nIn a message posted to Telegram, Mr Kadyrov said if there was not a change in Russia's fortunes, he would be forced to question the country's leadership to explain the situation.\n\nMeanwhile President Volodomyr Zelensky accused Russia of targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine's east in response - leaving large swathes of territory in \"total blackout.\"\n\nPower was cut off completely throughout the entire Kharkiv and Donetsk regions depriving people of \"light and heat\", Ukraine's leader claimed on Twitter.\n\nOutages were also reported in several other areas near the frontline on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday, the head of the Russia-installed administration in the Kharkiv region recommended that its people evacuate to Russia \"to save lives\".\n\nUnverified footage on social media appeared to show long queues of traffic building up at border crossings. The governor of the Belgorod border region in Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said \"thousands\" of people had crossed into the country.\n\nMeanwhile, Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander of Ukraine's military, said his forces had advanced to within 50km (31 miles) of the Russian border.\n\nBut Russians still hold around a fifth of the country, and few imagine a swift end to the war.\n\nIn an interview with the Financial Times, Ukraine's defence minister Oleksii Reznikov hailed his troops, but warned of the potential for a Russian counter-attack.\n\n\"A counter-offensive liberates territory and after that you have to control it and be ready to defend it,\" Mr Reznikov said. \"Of course, we have to be worried, this war has worried us for years.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian advances - if held - would be the most significant frontline changes since Russia withdrew from areas around Kyiv in April.\n\nKupiansk served as Russia's main eastern supply hub and the loss of Izyum - which Moscow spent over a month trying to take at the beginning of the war - would be seen as a major humiliation for President Vladimir Putin.\n\nAccording to one military expert, the advance marks the first time since World War Two that whole Russian units have been lost.\n\nThe gains will also be seen as a sign that Ukraine's army has the capacity to retake occupied territory - crucial as Kyiv continues to ask hard-pressed Western allies for military support.\n\nUkraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said the latest developments showed its forces could end the war faster with more Western weapons.\n\nUkraine launched its counter-offensive in the east earlier this week, while international attention was focused on an anticipated advance near the southern city of Kherson.\n\nAnalysts believe Russia redirected some of its most seasoned troops to defend the city.\n\nIn addition to gaining ground in the east, Ukraine is also making gains in the south, an official said.\n\nNataliya Gumenyuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian army's southern command, said they had advanced \"between two and several dozens of kilometres\" along that front.\n\nBut Russian forces fighting on the southern front are said to have dug into defensive positions, and Ukraine's troops have faced heavy resistance since the offensive began.\n\nAnd in Kharkiv itself, one person was killed and several homes damaged on Saturday as Russian rocket fire hit the city, according to local officials.\n\nElsewhere, Ukraine's energy regulator, Energoatom, says the last reactor at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been shut down, and is not generating electricity.\n\nThe reactor had been generating energy for the plant itself for three days - it was shut down when external power was restored.\n\nThe Ukrainian operator said that to prevent an emergency, it was essential that shelling of the power lines connecting the station to the national grid be halted.", "Senior MPs including Prime Minister Liz Truss have sworn a new oath of allegiance to King Charles III in a special session of Parliament.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle opened proceedings by taking the oath, followed by Sir Peter Bottomley, the longest-serving MP.\n\nSir Keir Starmer and former PM Theresa May were also pledging allegiance.\n\nIn a rare Saturday sitting, MPs and peers gathered for a second day of tributes to the late Queen.\n\nMPs are sworn in after each general election so they can take their seat, speak in debates, vote and receive a salary.\n\nThe wording of the oath means MPs have already pledged their allegiance to the heirs and successors of the Queen, meaning they do not have to do it again at this point.\n\nSir Lindsay told MPs: \"There will be further opportunities for all honourable members to take the oath or make the affirmation following her late majesty's funeral.\n\n\"There is no procedural requirement to do so.\"\n\nMs Truss was foremost among those taking the pledge, speaking the words: \"I swear by almighty God, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law, so help me God.\"\n\nFollowing the taking of oaths, MPs took it in turns to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II and recount their memories of the late monarch.\n\nMany MPs used their speeches to tell amusing and at times emotional anecdotes about the Queen's wisdom, sense of humour and ability to put people at their ease.\n\nIn all, 321 MPs spoke in the two-day session.\n\nCommons Leader Penny Mordaunt made the final speech of the special two-day session, closing proceedings by praising the Queen's \"devotion to duty\" and public service.\n\n\"Our great Queen has entrusted us all with a living legacy of triumph and over tribulation, of cheerfulness over challenge, of dedication and determination,\" Ms Mordaunt said.\n\n\"She has left us, her values remain with us. Her example compels us to continued fidelity to our king and our country. God save the King.\"\n\nWrapping up, Sir Lindsay said a humble address - which is a message to the monarch - paying tribute to the King Charles would be presented to His Majesty.\n\nWith that Parliament was adjourned until after 21 September, during a period of national mourning.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was the first MP to take the oath\n\nMs Truss, who was invited to form a government by the late Queen on Tuesday, had her initial audience with King Charles on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister curtsied as she was ushered in by a royal aide for the first of what will be their regular weekly encounters.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, senior ministers attended the Accession Council at St James's Palace, where Charles was formally proclaimed sovereign.\n\nThe king has also received the prime minister, members of the cabinet and opposition leaders at Buckingham Palace for an audience with the monarch.\n\nA period of national mourning will last until the day of the Queen's state funeral on 19 September.\n\nAhead of the funeral, the new King will visit Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and Ms Truss will accompany him.\n\nLiz Truss introduced members of the cabinet to King Charles at an audience held in Buckingham Palace\n\nA spokesman said: \"The prime minister believes it is important to be present for what will be a significant moment of national mourning around the United Kingdom.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrinces William and Harry were joined by Catherine and Meghan at Windsor as they viewed the tributes to the Queen and spent time talking to the crowd.\n\nThousands of people had gathered throughout the day outside the castle before the four arrived.\n\nAmanda Goldsmith was one of many who had come to Windsor to lay flowers, where she met the new Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"I shook William and Catherine's hands. She is so beautiful and was lovely. She spoke to me for ages.\n\nAmanda Goldsmith and husband Andrew Mitchell waited hours to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales\n\n\"I told them I was sorry for their loss and she said 'it's just not the same at the castle without the Queen'.\"\n\nMs Goldsmith, who had come from West Byfleet, in Surrey, with her husband Andrew Mitchell, said the Prince of Wales had commented on the flowers and cards left by children saying they were amazing.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex spent time speaking to those in the crowd\n\nOn Thursday Prince William and his brother Prince Harry had joined their father and other senior members of the Royal Family at Balmoral in Scotland as a statement was issued that the Queen was under medical supervision, before later that day it was announced that she had died.\n\nNow on the day that King Charles III was proclaimed King in a grand ceremony at St James's Palace, his sons were together in public outside Windsor, meeting some of the thousands who have been gathering since Thursday.\n\nFor many within the crowd the first sign that the royals were about to appear was when security placed barriers around the Cambridge Gate entrance and on Long Walk.\n\nThen suddenly there were cheers, children were raised on people's shoulders and everyone's phone was in the air to grab a picture as Princes William and Harry arrived with Catherine and Meghan.\n\nWilliam was made the Prince of Wales by his father, King Charles III\n\nThe last time William was joined in public by his brother at Windsor Castle was at the funeral of their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh in April last year.\n\nSilence then fell as the couples, united in grief, stopped to read the tributes, pointing out particular messages.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex held hands as they walked from the car and read the tributes, with Harry affectionately putting his hand on Meghan's back at one stage.\n\nApplause broke out again as the four royals then made their way to greet the waiting crowd, where they received dozens of bouquets.\n\nPriti Vyas, from Pinner, said she \"felt both happy and very emotional\" and was glad to have been able to speak to the Sussexes to give them her condolences.\n\nPriti Vyas said she could feel the \"warmth from Harry and Meghan\"\n\n\"We talked about the Queen, and Harry wanted to know if I had met her before,\" said Ms Vyas, adding that she had only seen her from a distance, once.\n\nShe said it had been lovely to speak to the couple, if only for a quick chat and that she had felt genuine \"warmth from them\".\n\n\"All four of them thanked me to be here waiting for them and I congratulated Kate and William.\n\n\"I just wish that their grandmother was here as well,\" she said.\n\nSukhjit Johal from Coventry also came to pay her respects and was glad to see the royals.\n\n\"Kate was bending to see all the children, if she heard anyone say her name she would turn round and try to talk to them - like the Queen did.\n\nSukhjit Johal and Julia were disappointed to not speak to the Royals\n\n\"They really seem to understand the nation has lost the Queen too - they're allowing us to grieve with them,\" she said, something she felt was \"really heartfelt\" when \"all of them are going through a deeper level of grief than the public\".\n\nJulia, from London, was close enough to catch a glimpse of the Prince of Wales and his brother.\n\nWhile William had appeared \"very sombre\" as his father was proclaimed King earlier in the day, she said he was smiling as he met the crowd.\n\n\"I could see Harry on the other side and he was reaching up high, trying to reach as many hands as possible.\"\n\nMoments before Prince William had met the crowd he had issued a tribute to his \"Grannie\", saying: \"She was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life\".\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales, with their children Prince George and Louis and Princess Charlotte moved to Windsor last month. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are living in the US, having left the UK in March 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Queen’s coffin travels from Balmoral to Edinburgh\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's coffin has been brought to Edinburgh following a six-hour journey from Balmoral.\n\nMourners lined the streets as the hearse travelled from Aberdeenshire to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where her coffin will rest overnight.\n\nA respectful silence fell as people waited for the procession to pass by before they burst into polite applause and cheers.\n\nCrowds also gathered to hear King Charles III proclaimed across the UK.\n\nHe will travel up to Scotland on Monday and will be joined by members of the Royal Family as he accompanies his mother's coffin to the cathedral in the Scottish city.\n\nThe Queen's cortege left her home at Balmoral at around 10:00 BST, winding through Aberdeen and Dundee among other villages and towns, on its way to Edinburgh.\n\nHer coffin will lie under vigil in St Giles' Cathedral on Monday before heading to London ahead of her funeral on Monday 19 September.\n\nIn Ballater, Aberdeenshire, near Balmoral, flowers were thrown into the road ahead of the cortege by mourners.\n\nDown the road in Aboyne, pipes played as a hush fell over the village and the procession passed by, with one voice saying \"you're on your way now\".\n\nIn a field near Aberdeen farmers paid tribute by lining up their tractors.\n\nAs the cortege drove through Edinburgh city centre silence fell before there was applause from the crowd that had gathered.\n\nThousands of people lined Edinburgh's Royal Mile, waiting sombrely to pay their respects.\n\nThere was applause from mourners as the Queen's cortege travelled through the city centre\n\nPeople lined streets in cities, towns and villages as the sombre journey continued\n\nPallbearers carried the coffin into Holyroodhouse - the monarch's official Scottish residence\n\nThe Princess Royal, Princess Anne, travelled in the second car of the cortege on the 175-mile journey, accompanied by her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nShe curtsied as her mother's coffin was carried into Holyroodhouse - the monarch's official residence in Scotland - where it will lie at rest in the throne room.\n\nThe Duke of York and Earl and Countess of Wessex, who were there to receive the coffin, also bowed and curtsied respectively, alongside palace staff.\n\nThe country is in a period of national mourning until after the Queen's funeral next Monday.\n\nA series of constitutional and ceremonial events will take place over the coming days following her death aged 96 on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerials show the Queen's last journey from Balmoral\n\nEarlier at the start of the journey, six gamekeepers from her Balmoral estate placed the Queen's oak coffin into a hearse before she left Balmoral, her beloved private Scottish estate, for the final time.\n\nThe wreath on top of the coffin featured some of the Queen's favourite flowers, all cut from the estate - white heather, dahlias and sweet peas, phlox and pine fir.\n\nWhen the cortege reached Ballater, Aberdeenshire - the closest village to Balmoral - flowers were thrown in the road by mourners, many of whom regard the Queen and the Royal Family as neighbours.\n\nThe coffin will remain under continuous vigil for 24 hours at St Giles' Cathedral, with the public able to pay their respects.\n\nA service will be held at the cathedral in the evening.\n\nThe following day, Princess Anne will accompany her mother's coffin as it travels by plane from Edinburgh Airport back to Buckingham Palace, via RAF Northolt in north-west London.\n\nCrowds watch the funeral cortege of the Queen travel over the Queensferry Bridge\n\nThe cortege's six-hour journey came to an end in Edinburgh\n\nAmong those in the crowds was Dillion Hay, who was visiting Edinburgh from Bangor in Northern Ireland, said he had a flight to catch later but had come to pay his respects while he could.\n\n\"I've actually found it emotional on behalf of my nanny, I rang her and she was in floods of tears,\" he said.\n\nLinda McKichen, 60, arrived four hours early to see the cortege and said it was a \"heart-breaking\" occasion.\n\n\"It's like losing my mum. She's never not been in my life. This is a historic event, we'll certainly never have another queen like her,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, in Windsor, thousands gathered in the town to pay tribute to the Queen.\n\nRoads were closed, as floral tributes and cards continued to be placed outside the castle gates.\n\nWell-wishers view floral tributes to the Queen in Green Park near Buckingham Palace\n\nCrowds had also gathered to hear King Charles III officially proclaimed monarch in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nWhile he became king the moment his mother died, at a meeting of the Accession Council at St James's Palace on Saturday, he was formally confirmed in the role.\n\nThe proclamation has now been read in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as in other parts of England and in overseas territories.\n\nCrowds gathered in the Royal Mile in Edinburgh for the proclamation\n\nThe King was cheered by hundreds of well-wishers as he travelled to Buckingham Palace from nearby Clarence House to carry out audiences with representatives of the Commonwealth.\n\nThere he met with the Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Scotland - who publicly represents the association of 56 countries with historical ties to the UK.\n\nLater, the King hosted a reception for High Commissioners - ambassadors - from the 14 Commonwealth realms where he is also head of state, before meeting with the Dean of Windsor.\n\nOn Monday, he will visit Westminster Hall where both Houses of Parliament will express their condolences, before beginning his first trip around all four nations of the UK as monarch by flying to Scotland.\n\nIn his new role as Prince of Wales, Prince William spoke of his honour at being asked to serve the Welsh people in a call with First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford.", "The Queen has left Balmoral for the final time as her coffin is making its way to Edinburgh.\n\nThousands of people are expected to line the route as the late monarch's body is driven to The Palace of Holyroodhouse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's Gareth Gordon looks back at the Queen's relationship with Northern Ireland\n\nRoyalty in the 21st Century is more about symbolism than power, but the Queen knew the power of symbols in the cause of reconciliation.\n\nIn June 2012, she greeted thousands at Stormont for a Diamond Jubilee party.\n\nEarlier the eyes of the world focused on an historic handshake with Martin McGuinness at Belfast's Lyric theatre.\n\nThe Queen and the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin in May 2011\n\nThe four-second handshake between the former IRA leader and the British monarch appeared to usher in a new era in 40 years of troubled history.\n\nA year earlier, the Queen had broken new ground in Dublin, joining the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, to lay wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.\n\nQueen Elizabeth at the National Convention Centre, Dublin, in 2011\n\nGiven that the garden is dedicated to those who died fighting British rule, this was another occasion that, at one time, would have seemed unimaginable.\n\nThen the Queen went on to charm her Irish audience at a state banquet when she spoke in Irish, greeting them: \"A Uachtaráin agus a chairde\" (president and friends).\n\nThere were some small, republican protests, but during a visit to the English market in Cork, most people seemed more than ready to welcome the Queen on the first visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch since King George V in 1911.\n\nIf these scenes were a novelty in Cork, not so north of the border where the Queen was a frequent visitor over the decades.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrived by steam train to open the new Bellarena Station village in County Londonderry in 2016\n\nIn fact, she took her first flight in an aircraft in 1945 when, as a teenage princess, she accompanied her parents to Northern Ireland on a two-day visit.\n\nFour years later, Princess Elizabeth was back, together with her husband, Prince Philip.\n\nThe couple returned in 1953 after the Queen's coronation.\n\nInevitably, given the politics of Ireland, not everyone was a fan. In 1966, the Queen opened a new bridge across the River Lagan in Belfast named in her honour. But as her motorcade wound through the city, a protester dropped a brick from a high building onto the bonnet of the Royal car.\n\nWhen the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, the Troubles were at their height. The IRA threatened to give the monarch a \"visit to remember\".\n\nSpectators lined the shores of Belfast Lough to watch the Queen arrive on board the Royal Yacht Britannia. She made a special reference to Northern Ireland in her Christmas message that year.\n\n\"No-where is reconciliation more desperately needed than in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen visited Pat O'Connell's fish stall at the English Market in Cork in 2011\n\n\"That is why I was particularly pleased to go there. No-one dared to promise an early end to the Troubles but there is no doubt that people of goodwill in Northern Ireland were greatly heartened by the chance they had to share the celebrations with the rest of the nation and Commonwealth.\"\n\nShe often expressed sadness after atrocities committed during the Troubles. But the murder that hurt her most personally had to be the IRA's assassination of Earl Mountbatten, in 1979.\n\nThe earl was her husband's uncle. She appeared to refer implicitly to his loss many years later in her Dublin speech.\n\n\"It is a sad and regrettable reality that through history our islands have experienced more than their fair share of heartache, turbulence and loss,\" she said.\n\n\"These events have touched us all, many of us personally, and are a painful legacy. We can never forget those who have died or been injured, and their families.\n\n\"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy.\n\n\"With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.\"\n\nThe then Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid showed the Queen the site of the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh, as part of the Golden Jubilee Tour in 2002\n\nAs the Troubles raged, the Queen did not visit Northern Ireland at all during the 1980s.\n\nBut she returned in the 1990s - praising the Ulster Defence Regiment in Lisburn, opening another new bridge in Belfast and meeting church leaders in Armagh.\n\nIn 2000, she presented the Royal Ulster Constabulary with the George Cross, then later that decade watched dance and drama in Londonderry, and toured the site of the Omagh bombing.\n\nAt Stormont, she praised the progress made towards peace.\n\n\"Life has never been straightforward here, but I welcome the real sense of normality that has, over recent years, been returning to the lives of ordinary people, even if tempered from time to time by moments of disappointment and pessimism. You now have a better future for Northern Ireland in your grasp,\" she told politicians.\n\nThe Queen's trip to the Giant's Causeway in 2016 was her first visit to Northern Ireland's best known tourist attraction\n\nHer last visit to Northern Ireland ended up being in 2016 - she had been due to visit Northern Ireland for a two-day trip in October 2021 to coincide with the centenary but it was cancelled on medical advice.\n\nThis was perhaps when the public first became aware of concerns surrounding the then 95-year-old's health.\n\nThroughout her reign, the Queen remained painfully aware of the tragedies that beset Northern Ireland.\n\nBut she seemed to take heart from the knowledge that she could play an important role in helping people put the past in perspective and concentrating minds on what she hoped would be a brighter future.", "In the early days of the invasion, Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine fought back a Russian armoured column. Since then, it has suffered nightly Russian airstrikes and shelling, with dozens of civilians killed and hundreds injured. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway have spent the week with the Ukrainian forces as they fight to stop a further Russian advance.\n\nThis report contains material some viewers will find disturbing\n\nThe first casualty of war is time. Ask the young soldier at the front when the attack happened, or the old lady in the hospital bed when her home was shelled, and they look at you confused. Was it 24 hours ago, or 48? The days have become one, they tell you.\n\nIn Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, time is elastic. It's close to the border with Russia and the nightly shelling from Russian artillery and warplanes gives no rest. The past two weeks have seemed like an eternity, yet peace can be remembered as if it were yesterday.\n\nIn a frozen landscape on the city's north-eastern edge, 21-year-old Lieutenant Yevgen Gromadsky stands with hands outstretched. There are trenches dug in nearby. \"Outgoing,\" he says, lifting his right hand to accompany the thump of fire from his positions. \"Incoming,\" he says, and his left hand ticks up. With a crump, Russian shells are fired from their positions 900m away across snow-covered fields.\n\nThe shelling continues like clockwork at the edge of this bombed-out village - \"Incoming, outgoing, incoming, outgoing,\" Lt Gromadsky flicks his hands with each report.\n\nWe met only this afternoon, but already I know that just last week, his father Oleg was killed defending the city, and Lt Gromadsky is the seventh generation of military in his family. He plans for an eighth, in a free Ukraine.\n\nHe describes the fight so far, \"Sabotage groups are probing our lines out, we have direct tank battles. They shoot with mortar shells at first, and then tanks fire at our positions.\"\n\nWe move along the front lines from position to position. Inside his armoured vehicle, a Russian army hat - a trophy from their first capture - hanging from the ceiling, he continues, \"We are shooting back with anti-tank guided missiles and also the usual small arms. They dismount, they scatter, there's always a lot of people.\"\n\nInside the truck there are Mexican Day of the Dead air fresheners. Grinning skulls hanging from every corner as we bounce along rutted dirt road. On the floor, rocket-propelled grenade launchers roll around.\n\nFrom the front passenger seat Lt Gromadsky says, \"Sometimes they use this tactic - first, they raise a white flag above their equipment, then come closer to our positions. When we come up and kind of take them as prisoners of war, they start to open fire on our troops.\"\n\nThe position was attacked on Monday (or was it the day before, he wonders), two Russian tanks and an armoured vehicle. \"Don't worry, we are well defended,\" he says as he gestures to a pile of American-made Javelin guided anti-tank missiles. \"Lockheed Martin, Texas,\" is written on their casing. Nearby, is a pile of British next-generation light anti-tank weapon (NLAW) missiles. \"Eliminates even the most advanced tanks,\" its manufacturer Saab promises on its website.\n\nIt is bitterly cold and two puppies are playing around Lt Gromadsky's feet. His shoes are a pair of white Puma trainers - \"You need to be fast out here,\" he says.\n\nThe Ukrainians are improvising in this war. Their government has been criticised for being ill-prepared, and now there is a rush to bring men forward to the front. The regular army is being merged with civilian defence forces. At a marshalling point on the city's eastern edge, I watch as buses arrive with hundreds of freshly equipped soldiers. \"Where's my body armour?\" asks one. \"You'll get it at the front,\" yells an officer, and moments later they are gone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Our correspondent on the front line, with Ukraine’s troops - this report contains graphic images of casualties\n\nSome will be joining Lt Gromadsky's unit and working alongside a medic who goes by the name of Reaper. \"You've heard of the grim reaper, right?\" he asks. He's also in command of this defence line at the edge of a village. Many of the homes there have been destroyed or damaged by Russian shelling.\n\nHow are the Russians fighting, I ask. \"They fight like stupid animals,\" says Reaper. \"They fight like it's 1941 - they have no manoeuvrability, they just come to the front and that's all. They have a lot of people, a lot of tanks, a lot of vehicles, but we are fighting for our land, and we are protecting our families. it doesn't matter how they fight because we fight like lions and they won't win.\"\n\nBack in the rear, the field kitchen is in a coffee shop. The army cook is reassuringly large with a knitted hat atop his head. He offers bowls of steaming hot borscht - \"Have sour cream with it,\" he insists. There are piles of cakes and biscuits, made by local factories for the troops.\n\nI sit beside a 30-year-old battalion commander, Sergey. \"We see the enemy, we kill the enemy, there's no conversation, that's it,\" he says. He wants to know where I'm from. I tell him and he asks if it's true that British volunteers have come to fight for Ukraine. \"What aircraft have you given us,\" he says as he finishes his borscht.\n\nBut across the east and south of Ukraine, Russia has been advancing. The Russian army has met more determined resistance than it expected, but cities continue to fall. And for all their front-line courage, there is a recognition that their abilities on the ground will not be enough. Soldier after soldier says they need air defence, a no-fly zone.\n\nI get inside another armoured vehicle, which two weeks ago was doing cash pickups at the city's banks. It, too, has now been put into the war effort. As we drive through the city, with its wide boulevards, and fine buildings, we reach a Soviet-Era apartment complex. And there I meet Eugene, a great Viking of a man, heavily tattooed with an orange beard.\n\n\"If Kharkiv falls, then all of Ukraine falls,\" Eugene, 36, tells me. He's a part of a reconnaissance team working near apartment blocks. Some of the flats have taken direct hits and in the car park, a car lies ripped apart from another grad missile strike.\n\nWhat there isn't here in Kharkiv, is any surprise at the Russian attack. \"Since 2014 we knew they would come, maybe in a year, 10 years, or 1,000 years, but we knew they would come\".\n\nAt 04:55 on 24 February, Eugene received a call from a friend saying the attack was about to begin. \"Then I heard the rockets attack our city,\" he says. Like everyone else he hasn't been home since.\n\nLeaving the front to return to the centre of the city is almost like entering another world. The relentless Russian shelling has meant that most of the 1.5m population has fled. Few neighbourhoods have escaped some kind of damage. Early in the mornings, queues can still be seen at pharmacies, banks, supermarkets and petrol stations, as those who stayed behind stock up on supplies. A huge logistical and humanitarian effort is going on behind the scenes to keep Kharkiv running.\n\nBefore curfew I make my way to the city's Hospital Number 4 to meet Dr Alexander Dukhovskyi, head of paediatrics. Underneath his hospital whites, he's wearing a Miami Beach 2015 T-shirt, with the American flag. He hasn't gone home in weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Russia is using tactics refined over a decade in Syria\n\nHe laughs when I say that Russia says it isn't targeting civilians. Then, silently, he takes me down corridor after corridor of victims of Russian attacks. They are in the hallways because Russian shells have landed nearby, so the patients aren't safe in the wards with large windows. Most here were injured while at home.\n\nThe children's intensive care unit is on the ground floor. Its narrow windows catch the brilliant light from the snow outside and glint over the golden icons of saints above the nurses' station.\n\nIn a bed nearby is eight-year-old Dmitry. His toes poke out from under the blanket and a hand, bruised and bloodied peeks out too. His face is scraped and scarred with hundreds of marks, his right eye is not quite closed. A few days ago, the doctors removed a bullet from under his skull and vertebrae.\n\nIt is hoped he'll make a full recovery, but for the moment he's in a sorry state, with tubes taking out fluids from his small body in plastic bottles hanging beneath his bed. The thin blanket with tiny roses on it, rises and falls with his mechanical breathing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Doctors removed a bullet from between Dmitriy's skull and vertebrae\n\nVladimir Putin said he wanted to demilitarise Ukraine, instead he's creating a no-man's land. At night the city is in near total blackout. A steady beat of Russian strikes fall through the night.\n\nKharkiv was once Ukraine's capital - it has the parks, cathedrals, museums and theatres you would expect, as well as the Antonov aircraft factory and tank and turbine manufacturers.\n\nAll of the city is now a front line.\n\nAnd this, too, should come as no surprise. The Russian war-playbook has been perfected in Syria over the past 10 years. Surround, besiege, and terrorise the population. In Ukraine, as in Syria, the population is being bussed out of their home cities as Russian forces continue their advance.\n\nI meet an intelligence team, who drive with anti-tank missiles ready to use in the back of their vehicles. Again, I head to the city's edge, and pass through the front lines into a wasteland. Two petrol stations just outside the city that have been destroyed by shelling and gunfire.\n\nLying in the snow, are a dozen or so frozen Russian corpses. The men lie like wax figures, some with hands reaching out, their matted beards frozen stiff in the cold.\n\nThe guts of one are spilled across the forecourt. There are blood-red footprints around his corpse. Their weapons have been taken, and I ask Uta, one of the officers, what will happen to the bodies.\n\n\"What do you think will happen, we will leave them for the dogs,\" he says with a shrug.\n\nAnd at this miserable spot on Kharkiv's edge, unremarkable for its ordinariness two weeks ago, surrounded by frozen corpses, it's as if time is standing still.\n\nAre you or your family in Ukraine? Please share your experience if it is safe to do so by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Queen was a big part of the community in the village near Balmoral, says the church minister Image caption: The Queen was a big part of the community in the village near Balmoral, says the church minister\n\nBalmoral, the Scottish castle where the Queen died, was the place where she \"enjoyed being normal\", according to royal historian Robert Lacey,\n\nSo it's no surprise that people in the nearby village of Ballater remember her with special affection.\n\n\"She was not just our Queen, she was a neighbour - and a big part of this community,\" says Rev David Barr at Glenmuick Church in the village.\n\nAlistair Cassie, who runs a hardware shop in Ballater and has a royal warrant for supplying Balmoral with its televisions, remembered being called to the castle to fix interference with the radio.\n\nThe Royal Banner of Scotland flies at half-mast at Balmoral Castle Image caption: The Royal Banner of Scotland flies at half-mast at Balmoral Castle\n\n\"I was walking along this corridor, and who did I meet but the Queen,\" he says. They chatted about her appreciation for the BBC Radio 2 presenter Jimmy Young.\n\nThe sprawling Balmoral Estate includes dozens of houses, many occupied by estate staff, and Cassie says at times the Queen would appear unannounced at someone's home, asking: \"How are you doing?\"\n\nGrant Harrold, a former butler to King Charles when he was Prince of Wales, says the Queen and Prince Philip would sometimes stay at a small cottage on the estate.\n\nHe says: \"From what I was told - I never witnessed it - she would be in the kitchen cooking away and he would lay the table, so it was very much a chance for them to be a normal couple.\"\n\nAlistair Cassie met the Queen on a formal visit - and unexpectedly in the corridor of the castle Image caption: Alistair Cassie met the Queen on a formal visit - and unexpectedly in the corridor of the castle", "There was joy as her family grew - here she is pictured with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, their son Archie and the duchess's mother Doria Ragland. But there were also continued strains on the family - including Prince Andrew's friendship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Prince Harry's growing disillusionment with life in the Royal Family", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a moment of symbolic unity, Prince William and Prince Harry walked side by side behind the Queen's coffin as it left Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.\n\nAlong with King Charles and other members of the Royal Family, they processed to Westminster Hall where the Queen will lie in state until Monday.\n\nThe sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, will evoke poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral 25 years ago.\n\nThe Queen's coffin, carried on a gun carriage, passed below the Buckingham Palace balcony where only three months ago she appeared for the final moments of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThe procession evokes memories of Princess Diana's funeral in 1997\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBandsmen played sombre music to accompany this careful choreography of mourning, Beethoven and Mendelssohn alongside the drumbeat of marching feet - exactly 75 steps per minute - and the sound of horses' hooves in the autumn sunshine.\n\nThe same gun carriage had carried the coffins of the Queen's father and mother - and as it went past there were ripples of applause and some tears from people crowding along the route.\n\nWalking on foot behind the coffin were the Queen's four children, King Charles, Princess Anne and Prince Edward, in military uniform, with Prince Andrew, no longer a working royal, in a morning suit and wearing medals.\n\nAnd behind them were William, now the Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, also as a non-working royal not wearing military uniform.\n\nThis time the brothers were side by side, unlike Prince Philip's funeral last year when they had someone walking between them, in what was seen at the time as a sign of separation.\n\nThe brothers appearing together sends a strong visual message of family unity, after so much speculation about tensions and disagreements between them.\n\nTheir wives, Catherine and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Camilla, the Queen Consort, travelled in cars behind.\n\nCrowds watched as Royals, led by the King, followed behind the coffin\n\nWilliam, Harry, Catherine and Meghan had appeared together at the weekend to greet well-wishers in Windsor, tuning into a public mood wanting reconciliation, and bringing back memories of the \"fab four\" of young royals.\n\nA thundercloud of media interest has hung over claims of a strained brotherly relationship, now conducted from different sides of the Atlantic.\n\nBut it's not clear what the feelings might really be for a family whose private grief comes with so much public scrutiny.\n\nCatherine is now the new Princess of Wales and the images of the coffin procession will bring back thoughts of another September funeral, when Diana in 1997 was buried from Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe couples went on an unexpected walkabout together in Windsor at the weekend\n\nWilliam and Harry, as young schoolboys, walked in that funeral procession, with their father King Charles and grandfather Prince Philip. In step at a time when their worlds had been turned upside down.\n\nToday's procession was another national moment. Crowds held up mobile phones to capture a glimpse of history taking place before them. Big Ben rang out around the streets, tolling each minute. Queen Elizabeth had left Buckingham Palace for the very final time.\n\nHer connections with the palace went back across the eras. She'd been Christened there 96 years ago and there were guests in that family photo who had been alive at the same time as the Duke of Wellington, victor of Waterloo.\n\nThe coffin has been covered with the emblems of the monarchy, the Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown. But there are also personal connections in the flowers in the wreath. Along with white roses and white dahlias there was pine from Balmoral and lavender and rosemary, a symbol of remembrance, from the gardens at Windsor.\n\nAmong those on the Mall was Nicola Dainton, a 56-year-old grandmother from Chorley Wood, Hertfordshire, who was joined by her daughter Emily, and her grandchildren, Freddie, two, and baby Millie, for what she described as a \"very emotional\" moment.\n\nShe said Princes William and Harry appeared \"deep in their thoughts of the Queen\" but said the moment felt very different to their mother's funeral.\n\n\"They were two young boys then. This felt more they were there to support the family,\" she added.\n\nDawn Livingstone, who was with six of her family all from County Tyrone, said the moment had been sad, sombre and fitting.\"She has left a legacy that will never be paralleled by anyone else,\" she said.Matthew Ferguson, her son-in-law, said: \"It's the closest I have ever been to the Queen. It's been a privilege and an overwhelming experience.\"The family, who left home at 02:00, are now heading to Westminster Hall to take in more of the atmosphere before a 22:00 flight home.\n\nDawn Livingstone and her family had to leave home at 02:00\n\nRoyal aides have described this procession as a significant symbolic turning point in the funeral journey. The Queen was head of her family, but she was also head of state - and here her family were putting her back into the public realm.\n\nThe procession was taking her to the heart of political life, through Whitehall, past Downing Street and to the Houses of Parliament.\n\nAt Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, there was a short service of prayers and readings conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.\n\nSoldiers from the Grenadier Guards had lifted the coffin into place on a \"catafalque\", a raised platform inside the medieval hall.\n\nThe Royal Family salutes the coffin of the late Queen\n\nA short service was held in Westminster Hall where the Queen will lie in state until Monday\n\nWith the Royal Family standing in the historic hall, a psalm was sung - \"O Lord, thou hast searched me out and known me\" - and a reading which began \"Let not your heart be troubled\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan appeared to be holding hands as they left.\n\nFrom 17:00 BST on Wednesday, the Queen's lying-in-state will begin, when the public will have their chance to pay respect, until the morning of the funeral on Monday.\n\nThe queues have already started and everyone, like the Queen's family in the procession, will have arrived with, and will leave with, their own memories.", "In summer months, up to 30% of the sea-ice can be covered in meltponds\n\nSatellites can now measure the thickness of sea-ice covering the Arctic Ocean all year round.\n\nTraditionally, spacecraft have struggled to determine the full state of the floes in summer months because the presence of surface meltwater has befuddled their instruments.\n\nBut by using new \"deep learning\" techniques, scientists have pushed past this limitation to get reliable observations across all seasons.\n\nApart from the obvious advantage to ships, which need to know those parts of the Arctic that will be safe to navigate, there are significant benefits to climate and weather forecasting.\n\nAt the moment, there is considerable variation in the projections for when the polar ocean might be totally free of ice in an ever warmer world.\n\nHaving an improved insight into the melting processes in those key months when floes are being reduced, in area and thickness, ought now to sharpen the output from computer models.\n\n\"Despite excellent efforts by many researchers, these climate models' predictions of when we'll see the first fully ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer - they vary by 30-plus years,\" Dr Jack Landy, from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, told BBC News.\n\n\"We need to tighten those predictions so we're a lot more confident about what's going to happen and when - and how the climate feedbacks will accelerate as a consequence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Julienne Stroeve: \"This will help us nail down when that first ice-free summer may happen\"\n\nThe extent of Arctic sea-ice cover has been in decline for the entire period that satellites have been monitoring it, which is more than 40 years - a reduction running at an average rate of 13% per decade.\n\nBut it's only really since 2011 that spacecraft have been able to consistently measure its thickness - and thickness (or more properly, volume) is the true measure of the floes' health.\n\nThat's because the extent of sea-ice cover is heavily dependent on whether the winds have spread out the floes or pushed them together.\n\nThe European Space Agency's (Esa) pioneering Cryosat-2 mission carries a radar to measure the difference in height between the top of the marine ice and the top of the water in the cracks, or leads, that separate the floes.\n\nFrom this difference, scientists can then, with a relatively simple calculation, work out the thickness of the ice.\n\nThe approach works well in winter months, but in summer, when the snows on top of the ice, and the ice itself, start to melt, pooling water effectively dazzles the radar. Scientists can't be sure if the echo signal that returns to Cryosat is coming from the open ocean or from the surface of a meltpond sitting on the ice.\n\nMay through to September - the key melt season - has been a blind period for the spacecraft.\n\nTo solve the problem, researchers used an artificial intelligence (AI) technique in which an algorithm was able to learn and identify reliable observations from a vast library of synthetic radar signals.\n\nArctic ice helps to cool Earth by reflecting the Sun's energy - up to 80% - straight back out into space\n\nProf Julienne Stroeve, from University College London (UCL), explained: \"We simulated what would be the echo shapes that we would get for different ice surface types - whether they had meltponds; whether it was flooded ice; or ice of different roughnesses; or simply leads. We created this huge database of physically based estimates of what the radar return should look like, and then we matched those to the individual radar pulses from the instrument to find echoes that matched the best.\"\n\nEsa has kept in its data archives all the Cryosat May-to-September measurements, even though for the past decade they've been of next to no use. But now, thanks to this new approach, Dr Landy's team has been able to go back through the records to recover full-year ice thickness measurements for the entire time the satellite has been operational.\n\nDr Rachel Tilling worked extensively with Cryosat data before transferring her studies to the US space agency's recently launched Icesat-2 laser altimeter mission.\n\n\"Summer is when sea-ice extent in the Arctic is seeing its most rapid decline, and having this extra dimension will help us understand more about how the ice pack is changing,\" the Nasa scientist told BBC News.\n\n\"Icesat-2 has its own unique difficulties in summer but we're lucky that its photon-counting technology means we can still measure the height of sea-ice, water and melt ponds year-round.\n\n\"Having said that, Cryosat-2 will always be my first love so I'm really excited to see it being used in this novel way.\"\n\nThe volume of sea-ice has halved across the Arctic since the late 1970s\n\nA chief beneficiary of the new thickness measurements would be Inuit populations in the Arctic, said Dr Michel Tsamados, also from UCL.\n\n\"[They] have identified sea-ice roughness and slush (melted snow and ice) as a key impediment for safe travel on the ice with the changing climate already negatively affecting these characteristics and causing increased travel accidents and search-and-rescues,\" he explained.\n\n\"Both are related to the thickness of the ice. Therefore, measuring throughout the full year the sea-ice thickness from space from Cryosat-2 but also Icesat-2 and other satellite sensors will eventually help provide better maps to the Inuit populations for safe travel over this rapidly changing terrain.\"\n\nDr Landy and colleague have published their new Cryosat approach in the journal Nature.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Scottish Secretary Alister Jack have been taking part in the vigil around the Queen's coffin as she lies in state in Westminster Hall.\n\nThe two cabinet members took their positions side-by-side, dressed in dark uniforms, on Thursday afternoon.\n\nBoth politicians are members of the Royal Company of Archers, which functions as the monarch's bodyguard in Scotland.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is being guarded in Westminster Hall 24-hours-a-day by units from the Sovereign's Bodyguard, the Household Division or Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.", "Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith is among those who have raised concerns\n\nThe Chinese government's invitation to the Queen's funeral should be withdrawn, some MPs and peers say.\n\nSenior Tory MPs Tim Loughton and Sir Iain Duncan Smith are among those who have written to the foreign secretary to express concern.\n\nThey said it was \"extraordinary\" that the \"architects\" of genocide against the Uyghur minority had been invited.\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping is on the guest list for the state funeral but is not thought likely to attend.\n\nHis visits to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan this week mark the first time he has left China since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe South China Morning Post has reported that Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan is expected to attend the funeral, citing diplomatic sources.\n\nOn Wednesday, China's foreign ministry said Beijing was \"considering sending a high-level delegation\" to the funeral, although no more details have been provided.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said it was for the Palace to set out the guest list and the convention was that countries with whom the UK has diplomatic relations were invited to send representatives.\n\nSome 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries, including US President Joe Biden, are expected to attend.\n\nHowever, representatives from Russia and Belarus have not been invited because of the invasion of Ukraine, nor has anyone from Myanmar because of a breakdown in diplomatic relations following last year's military coup.\n\nRepresentatives from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan are also not on the guest list, government sources have told the BBC, and North Korea, Iran and Nicaragua have only been invited to send ambassadors.\n\nThe letter to Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, which was first reported by Politico, was also signed by Crossbench peer Lord Alton and Labour peer Baroness Kennedy.\n\nAll the signatories have been sanctioned by China for their vocal criticism of the country, particularly over its treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority group.\n\nLast year, the House of Commons declared that a genocide was taking place against the Uyghurs in north-west China, with more than a million people estimated to have been detained at camps in the region of Xinjiang.\n\nChina has denied the allegations, claiming the camps are \"re-education\" facilities used to combat terrorism.\n\nIn their letter, the MPs and peers wrote: \"We are greatly concerned to hear that the government of China has been invited to attend the state funeral next week, despite other countries Russia, Belarus and Myanmar being excluded.\n\n\"Given that the United Kingdom Parliament has voted to recognise the genocide committed by the Chinese government against the Uyghur people it is extraordinary that the architects of that genocide should be treated in any more favourable way than those countries who have been barred.\"\n\nThey added that it was \"particularly inappropriate\", given seven parliamentarians had been sanctioned by the Chinese government and the ambassador had been barred from attending the Palace of Westminster.\n\n\"I hope you will agree that it would be wholly inappropriate that any representative of the Chinese government should be able to attend such an important occasion as the state funeral of our late monarch and that you can give us your assurance that the invitation will be immediately withdrawn,\" the letter added.\n\nThe group have also written to the Lords and Commons speakers seeking assurances that no representative of the Chinese government would be allowed to come to the Palace of Westminster, saying this would be \"wholly inappropriate\".\n\nHowever, the decision to invite China was defended by Lord McDonald, the former top civil servant in the Foreign Office.\n\nHe told the BBC's Newscast podcast the funeral was \"something bigger than even important rows over key issues like human rights and Hong Kong\".\n\n\"This is an event to show the Chinese at the highest level the essence of what the UK is about. We're not making any concession by including them, we are showing the essentials of the United Kingdom,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Caroline Wilson 吴若兰 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\nPresident Xi was among the world leaders who expressed his condolences following the Queen's death, noting she was the first British monarch to visit China.\n\nAccording to state media, the Chinese president said he attached \"great importance\" to relations between the two countries and was \"ready to work with King Charles III... to promote the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations\".\n\nOn Monday Mr Wang also visited the British embassy in Beijing with Britain's ambassador to China, Caroline Wilson, to sign a book of condolence for the Queen.", "Sainsbury's said its filling stations will open from 17:00 to 22:00 on Monday\n\nPetrol stations at the UK's major supermarkets will be closed for most of the day of the Queen's funeral, before some reopen in the evening.\n\nTesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons will close forecourts on Monday before some reopen at 17:00 BST.\n\nIt is understood only a small number of Tesco self service fuel stations will reopen in the evening and customers have been advised to check local pumps.\n\nSupermarkets operate about one-in-five of forecourts, but dominate fuel sales.\n\nIndependent traders operate about two-in-three of the country's filling stations, but only sell just over a third of all fuel, and the remainder is accounted for by sites owned by oil companies, according to the RAC motoring group.\n\n\"With many supermarket forecourts closed until the evening on Monday, our advice to drivers needing to refuel is to seek out a good value independent filling station that's choosing to stay open, or top up over the weekend instead,\" RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association, which represents independent fuel retailers, has been contacted for comment.\n\nMorrisons said that while all of its supermarkets will be closed on Monday as a \"mark of respect and so colleagues can pay tribute to Her Majesty\", its petrol stations would reopen at 17:00.\n\nHowever, the majority of its fuel stations have different opening times so drivers have been urged to check if local ones are open on the company's website.\n\nSainsbury's said its filling stations will be open from 17:00 to 22:00 on Monday to allow customers to \"pick up essential items\".\n\n\"We thank our customers for their understanding,\" the supermarket said in a statement.\n\nMajor shops and businesses across the UK have announced they will shut their doors as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.\n\nKing Charles III approved a bank holiday on Monday for the state funeral at Westminster Abbey, but it is up to employers to decide whether to give staff the day off to observe the national day of mourning.\n\nShell said it would close its company-owned petrol stations between 10:30 and 13:00.\n\nThe oil giant has a total of 1,123 sites in the UK and owns and operates 526 of them. The remaining 597 are owned by independent dealers, which trade under the brand.\n\nThe company said its intention was the shut during the funeral service to \"allow staff and customers to pay their respects\".\n\nIt said the opening hours of its independent stations were at the \"discretion of individual business\", but added that the company had \"invited them to also consider closing to enable their staff and customers to pay their respects\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer, one of the greatest players of all time, will retire from top-level tennis after the Laver Cup in London this month.\n\nThe 20-time Grand Slam champion has not played since Wimbledon 2021, after which he had a third knee operation.\n\n\"My body's message to me lately has been clear,\" Swiss Federer, 41, said.\n\n\"I have played more than 1,500 matches over 24 years. Now I must recognise when it is time to end my competitive career.\"\n\nHe added: \"To the game of tennis, I love you and will never leave you.\"\n• None Quiz: How much do you know about Federer at the Grand Slams?\n• None Federer v Sampras - 21 years on: 'It was a change of era, a lift-off moment'\n\nFederer has struggled with a knee problem for the past three years that has restricted him to only three of the 11 Grand Slams staged since the start of 2020.\n\nHe has not played a competitive match since losing to Hubert Hurkacz in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last summer.\n\nHe subsequently announced he needed more surgery on his knee having previously had two operations in 2020.\n\nOnly Spain's Rafael Nadal, with 22 majors, and Serbia's Novak Djokovic, with 21, have more men's Grand Slam singles titles than Federer.\n\n\"This is a bittersweet decision because I will miss everything the tour has given me,\" added Federer.\n\n\"But, at the same time, there is so much to celebrate. I consider myself one of the most fortunate people on Earth. I was given a special talent to play tennis and I did it at a level that I never imagined for much longer than I ever thought possible.\"\n\nAs well as thanking his family, support team and fans, Federer also thanked his opponents from a golden era of the men's game.\n\n\"I was lucky enough to play so many epic matches that I will never forget. We battled fairly, with passion and intensity, and I always tried my best to respect the history of the game.\n\n\"I feel extremely grateful. We pushed each other, and together we took tennis to new levels.\"\n\nFederer made his professional debut aged 16 in 1998 and won his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2003.\n\nHe ends his career with a record total of eight men's singles victories at the All England Club.\n\nFederer's final Grand Slam triumph came at the 2018 Australian Open when, aged 36, he became the second-oldest man to win a major singles title in the Open era.\n\nAfter rising to world number one for the first time in 2004, he spent 310 weeks as the leading player on the ATP Tour during his career - a record until he was surpassed by Djokovic in February 2021.\n\nHe won Olympics doubles gold for Switzerland alongside Stan Wawrinka at Beijing 2008 and singles silver at London 2012 when Britain's Andy Murray reversed his Wimbledon final defeat from the previous month.\n\nHe was also part of the Swiss team that won the Davis Cup for the first time in 2014 and lifted a record six ATP Finals titles.\n\nThe three-day Laver Cup, staged at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, begins on Friday, 23 September.\n\nFederer is due to join Murray, Nadal, Djokovic, Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas and Norway's Casper Ruud in a Europe team taking on a team representing the rest of the world.\n\nHe was part of the group that created and organised the tournament, first held in 2017.\n\nFederer's retirement announcement comes less than two weeks after 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams played what is expected to be the final match of her career at the US Open.\n\nFederer is the most successful grass-court male player of all-time on the back of his unparalleled Wimbledon success, with his last triumph at the All England Club coming in 2017.\n\nThe Australian Open was the next most successful major tournament for the Swiss, winning six titles at Melbourne Park between 2004 and 2018.\n\nHe claimed all five of his US Open titles in a row between 2004 and 2008, while his one and only triumph on the French Open clay came in 2009.\n\nFederer reached 31 Grand Slam finals in total, doing so for the last time at Wimbledon in 2019 when he lost to Djokovic having held two championship points.\n\nThe chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Ian Hewitt, congratulated Federer on a \"truly remarkable career\".\n\n\"He will forever be celebrated as one of our greatest Wimbledon champions, having lifted the trophy eight times from his 22 appearances at the All England Club,\" Hewitt added.\n\n\"I hope that, in retirement, Roger can look back with enormous satisfaction and pride on all his accomplishments and the high esteem in which he is held by the tennis community.\"\n\nArgentina's Juan Martin del Potro, who defeated Federer to win the 2009 US Open, paid fulsome tribute to his rival.\n\n\"Thank you for everything you've done in tennis and with myself. Tennis world will never be the same without you.\"\n\nATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi said: \"He spearheaded an incredible new era of growth and elevated the popularity of our sport. Few athletes have transcended their field in such a manner.\"\n\nLawn Tennis Association chief executive Scott Lloyd said: \"Nobody who saw him play will forget his grace, elegance and poise on court.\"\n\nWe will, of course, remember those 20 Grand Slam titles, and those 237 weeks in a row as the world number one.\n\nWe will also remember Federer for his movement, his forehand and his serve.\n\nBut he will be remembered most of all for the elegance with which he played the sport he loved: a style and grace which endeared him to so many.\n\nWe had been dreaming of the prospect of Federer making a comeback at the age of 41.\n\nIllogical, probably, after four knee operations. But such mesmeric gifts leave little room for logic.\n\nWimbledon, or his home town of Basel - where, as a ballboy, his passion for professional tennis was stirred - would have been perfect places to say farewell.\n\nBut at least in London next week he will have the company of Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray: rivalries that have further enriched his career.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "The Queen is lying in state in Westminster Hall after a procession from Buckingham Palace.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's final departure from Buckingham Palace began at 14:22 BST, when the slow-moving procession departed her former home for Westminster Hall. The Queen's four children, led by King Charles, walked behind the coffin.\n\nNearby, Big Ben tolled at 60-second intervals throughout the Queen's 38-minute journey to the Palace of Westminster.\n\nThe coffin travelled down the Mall on a gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, pulled by a team of horses bearing riders in ceremonial dress.\n\nThe tree-lined boulevard, which cuts through the centre of London, has witnessed countless royal events over the years, including celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee earlier this year to mark the Queen's 70 years on the throne.\n\nMembers of the public lined the Mall, many wiping away tears, some clapping and cheering, as the Queen's coffin passed by.\n\nThe coffin was draped in the Royal Standard, representing the Sovereign and the UK, with the Imperial State Crown resting on top.\n\nThe crown - placed on a purple cushion - features the St Edward's sapphire, Black Prince's Ruby and the Cullinan II diamond, cut from the largest diamond in the world. The coffin also bore a wreath of white roses and dahlias.\n\nKing Charles III was joined by his sons, Prince William, now Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, in the solemn procession. Other senior members of the Royal Family also took part.\n\nUp to 1,000 members of the armed forces took part in the procession, including the Household Cavalry - represented by the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals.\n\nKing Charles III, his siblings Princess Anne and Prince Edward, and his son, the Prince of Wales, all wore military uniform.\n\nThe King's brother, Prince Andrew, and his younger son, Prince Harry, both wore suits. Prince Harry is no longer a working member of the Royal Family, having taken a decision in 2020 to step back.\n\nPrince Andrew, too, is no longer a working royal. He lost his military titles earlier this year - shortly before he settled a civil sexual assault lawsuit in the US, in which he denied any wrongdoing.\n\nThe Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex all travelled from Buckingham Palace by car, joining the King at Westminster Hall for a short service following the procession.\n\nThe procession moved along Horse Guards Parade and down Whitehall to arrive at Westminster Hall at 15:00 BST.\n\nEight young men from the Grenadier Guards were entrusted with the task of carrying the Queen's coffin into the Palace of Westminster.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people are expected to file past the coffin to pay their respects to the Queen over the next four days - with a huge policing operation in place.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nEarlier in the day, guards waited for the Queen's coffin to emerge from Buckingham Palace.\n\nAnd large queues formed along the banks of the River Thames, as people waited for the Queen's lying-in-state to begin.\n\nThe late Queen will lie in state inside Westminster Hall until the morning of her funeral, to be held on Monday 19 September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of the public captured the fireball shooting across the sky above Scotland\n\nA fireball seen shooting through the skies from Scotland and Northern Ireland was a meteor, experts have said.\n\nHundreds of people reported seeing the \"shooting star\" across the UK skies at about 22:00 on Wednesday.\n\nScientists have used video footage captured by the public to work out whether the object was a meteor or space junk, and where it came from.\n\nIt would have landed in the sea south of the Hebrides if it reached Earth.\n\nSpace rock that enters Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor, but fragments that survive the journey to reach the ground are called meteorites.\n\nManmade objects left orbiting Earth - such as a satellite parts - are described as space junk. There are tens of thousands of pieces of space junk bigger than 10cm (4in) in orbit around the Earth and they can burn up like meteors as they enter the atmosphere.\n\nThe UK Meteor Network have now announced that the object, which was seen burning through the atmosphere for about 20 seconds, was \"definitely a meteor\".\n\nAlmost 800 witness reports from the UK and Ireland were recorded overnight.\n\nThe UK Meteor Network said the object came to a stop between 50km and 100km (31-62 miles) west of Islay.\n\n\"It came on an asteroidal orbit and entered the atmosphere at 14.2 km/s,\" the network tweeted. \"The observed portion of the trajectory covered over 300km.\n\n\"If any meteorites did fall, they ended up in the ocean.\"\n\nThe expert group said it was \"now 100% confident this was a small part of an asteroid\".\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\nKevin Morgan, from UK Meteor Network, had earlier told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland the speed it was travelling at could indicate that it was space junk.\n\nAfter questioning whether it could have been part of Elon Musk's SpaceX programme, the network of citizen scientists, tweeted: \"We have checked the Starlink de-orbit and it would not have come anywhere near the UK.\n\n\"At this point we cannot find any known space junk or satellite de-orbit that could account for this fireball. We are looking at the data again.\"\n\nThe International Meteor Organization said the majority of witness reports were from Central Scotland but there were also sightings from the Black Isle and Kinnaber in the east, near Montrose and as far south as London.\n\nInitial calculations showed the object was travelling NNE and could have landed in the Atlantic Ocean \"south of the Hebrides\".\n\nSteve Owens, astronomer and science communicator at the Glasgow Science Centre, said the sighting was \"incredible\".\n\n\"I was sitting in my living room at exactly 22:00 and I saw out of the widow due south this brilliant fireball - this meteor - streaking across the sky,\" he said.\n\n\"I could tell it was something special. I could see through broken cloud that it was fragmenting - breaking apart with little bits coming off it.\n\n\"Normally if you see a meteor or a shooting star, they are just tiny little streaks of light lasting a fraction of a second but this one was streaking across the sky for at least 10 seconds, probably longer.\n\n\"It travelled from due south all the way across to the west. It was a pretty incredible sight.\"\n\nHe said it was unlikely, but not impossible, that it would have reached the ground, and may have reached the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nMr Owens said: \"Normally these little shooting stars burn up and everything vanishes and evaporates in the atmosphere, but the thing last night was bigger than a little bit of dust which causes normal shooting stars.\n\n\"The one last night might have been the size of a golf ball or maybe a cricket ball, maybe even bigger than that.\n\nJames Williams saw it from his front garden in the southside of Glasgow and managed to record it on his mobile and his doorbell camera. He described it as being \"all different colours like a firework but 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDanny Nell, 21, was walking his dog in Johnstone, just west of Paisley and Glasgow, when he saw the fireball.\n\n\"I was walking my dog and it was strangely enough 10pm on the dot and I just saw the flash in the sky and pulled out my phone and recorded it,\" he told the PA news agency.\n\n\"I thought it may be a firework at first because there was a lot of Scottish football on but quickly realised it wasn't and just grabbed my phone to see if I could catch it.\"\n\nDr Aine O'Brien described the sighting as a \"wonderful, beautiful thing\"\n\nThe UK Fireball Alliance announced on Thursday evening that the fireball was a \"natural object\".\n\nDr Aine O'Brien, from the University of Glasgow and a member of the alliance, urged people to report their sightings on their website.\n\nShe said: \"Hopefully it was a meteorite and given how long it went for, maybe we've got the first Scottish meteorite in over 100 years.\"\n\nScientists will use the videos of the fireball to triangulate where it came from and track where it would have landed if it didn't burn up in the atmosphere, Dr O'Brien said.\n\nShe said it was not something to worry about.\n\n\"It's just a wonderful, beautiful thing. We getting shooting stars, meteors all the time.\"\n\nDr O'Brien added that it was just \"lucky\" that the weather conditions and the timing of the fireball meant many people could see it and record it.\n\nDr Marc Sarzi, head of research at the Armagh Planetarium, said the fireball was a \"very spectacular one\" but he did not think it was a \"major event\".\n\nHe said meteor showers made of little particles left behind by comets normally occurred over the summer.\n\nIf this fireball was caused by a meteor, it \"would probably leave behind a nice piece of asteroid,\" he said.", "King Charles III visited Northern Ireland on Tuesday for the first time as monarch as part of his tour of the UK.\n\nHe landed at Belfast City Airport - in the shadows of the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard cranes - at about 12:00 BST.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were presented with gifts of truffles with an image of the Giant's Causeway on the tin and a bunch of flowers by Ella Smith and Lucas Watt, both aged 10, from Forge Integrated Primary School in the city.\n\nThe King and Camilla travelled to Royal Hillsborough, given the prefix in 2021 due to the village's connection to the Royal Family, where people had been waiting since dawn to catch a glimpse of them.\n\nThe King and Camilla spent time shaking hands and greeting those who had gathered in the main street of the village in County Down.\n\nConnie the corgi also met the King as he received flowers and cards from excited schoolchildren.\n\nMerlin the Persian cat, wearning a golden crown, was among those who lined the streets.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla spent time admiring the floral tributes left outside Hillsborough Castle, the only royal residence in Northern Ireland, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nInside the castle the King and Camilla received a message of condolence from Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey before the King made a short speech to the guests.\n\nThe King also met senior Stormont politicians, including Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill, Democratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and figures from the other main parties.\n\nHe was introduced to troops at the castle, shortly after a 21-gun salute had taken place in the castle gardens.\n\nOutside there were smiles and one woman (below, left) held a photo of her meeting the then Prince of Wales when she received an MBE several years ago.\n\nThe Hillsborough Fort Guard also stood outside during the King's visit to the royal residence.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort made their way to St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast for a service of reflection for the life of the Queen, their last formal engagement in Northern Ireland for the day.\n\nA large crowd gathered outside Belfast City Hall to witness the King and Camilla pass through the city centre.\n\nLarge screens were placed in the city centre for those who wanted to watch the service.\n\nInside the cathedral Prime Minister Liz Truss and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin were among those who took part in the service.\n\nIt was Ms Truss's first visit to Northern Ireland since she became prime minister last week and she was greeted by Michelle O'Neill from Sinn Féin, whose part is the largest in the Stormont assembly.\n\nAfter the service the King and Queen Consort greeted those who had gathered in Writers' Square opposite the cathedral.\n\nThe hundreds of people who were there did their best to capture the historic visit on camera.", "Mel C said the incident took place in a hotel room in Turkey\n\nMelanie C has revealed she was sexually assaulted the night before the Spice Girls' first ever concert in 1997.\n\nSpeaking on novelist Elizabeth Day's podcast, the star said the assault took place during a hotel massage in Turkey.\n\n\"I felt violated. I felt very vulnerable. I felt embarrassed,\" she said.\n\n\"And then I felt unsure - have I got this right? I was in an environment where you take your clothes off with this professional person.\"\n\nThe singer, whose full name is Melanie Chisholm, said she \"buried\" the incident \"immediately\" because she had to focus on the Spice Girls' concert debut.\n\n\"I didn't want to make a fuss but also I didn't have time to deal with it.\"\n\nShe added that failing to process the assault at the time had allowed it to become \"buried for years and years and years\".\n\nIt was only when she started writing her memoir, Who I Am, that the memories started to resurface.\n\n\"It came to me in a dream, or I kind of woke up and it was in my mind. And I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I haven't even thought about having that in the book.'\n\n\"Then, of course, I had to think, 'Well, do I want to reveal this?' And I just thought, actually, I think it's really important for me to say it, and to finally deal with it and process it.\"\n\nMel C (far left) performing with the Spice Girls at the 1997 Brit Awards\n\nThe star described the incident as a \"mild version\" of sexual assault, and said she wanted to share the details because of the impact it had on her.\n\n\"It has affected me. But I'd buried it, and I'm sure… lots of people do.\"\n\nIn the interview on the How To Fail podcast, the singer also talked about the impact of her parents' divorce, and the eating disorder she developed during her time in the Spice Girls.\n\n\"I had this idea of what I had to be, to be in this band, to be a pop star,\" she said. \"I started eliminating food groups [and] being very restrictive with my eating alongside doing more and more exercise - to the point of it becoming extremely obsessive.\n\n\"That went on for years. I lost so much weight that I did become anorexic and my periods stopped. I always wanted to be a mum, and here I was unable to control this thing that jeopardised my fertility.\n\n\"It was such a compulsion that I couldn't stop it.\"\n\nHowever, she said she felt \"very proud\" that she had overcome the eating disorder, and gave birth to her daughter Scarlett in 2009.\n\nChisholm will publish Who I Am, which shares a name with her 2020 single, on Friday, 15 September.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Mel C: 'People think I'm mouthy, but I'm really gentle'", "A 31-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of 28-year-old Hollie Thomson.\n\nMs Thomson, from the Greenan area of West Belfast, was found dead in a house on Sunday 11 September.\n\nChris Morelli, from Willowvale Avenue, appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court via video-link on Wednesday.\n\nA police witness said that Ms Thomson had died from suffocation but this was challenged by a lawyer for the defendant.\n\nA second post-mortem examination is to take place before Ms Thomson's body is released to her family.\n\nThe court was also told the defendant had attempted to take his own life shortly after the murder of Ms Thomson.\n\nBail was refused and Mr Morelli is now due to appear before Belfast's Crown Court.", "After six months of war, it is still unknown what the Russian president will do next\n\nYou can normally expect Russian state TV's flagship weekly news programme to trumpet Kremlin successes.\n\n\"On the frontlines of the special operation [in Ukraine], this has been the toughest week so far,\" declared sombre-looking anchor Dmitry Kiselev.\n\n\"It was particularly tough along the Kharkiv front, where following an onslaught by enemy forces that outnumbered ours, [Russian] troops were forced to leave towns they had previously liberated.\"\n\nFor \"liberated\", read \"seized\". Moscow had occupied those areas months ago, but after a lightning counter-offensive by the Ukrainian army, the Russian military has lost considerable territory in north-east Ukraine.\n\nStill, Russian state media are putting a brave face on things. Officially, what happened in Kharkiv region isn't being referred to here as a \"retreat\".\n\n\"The Russian defence ministry dismissed rumours that Russian troops fled in disgrace from Balakliya, Kupiansk and Izyum,\" claimed the latest edition of the government paper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta. \"They didn't flee. This was a pre-planned regrouping.\"\n\nIn tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets, a military analyst took a different view: \"It's already clear that we underestimated the enemy. [Russian forces] took too long to react and the collapse came… As a result, we suffered a defeat and tried to minimise the loss by withdrawing our troops so they weren't surrounded.\"\n\nThis \"defeat\" has sparked anger on pro-Russian social media channels and among \"patriotic\" Russian bloggers, who have accused their military of making mistakes.\n\nSo has the powerful leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.\n\n\"If today or tomorrow no changes in strategy are made,\" Mr Kadyrov warned, \"I will be forced to speak with the leadership of the defence ministry and the leadership of the country to explain the real situation on the ground to them. It's a very interesting situation. It's astounding.\"\n\nIt's more than six months since Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the days that followed, I remember Russian politicians, commentators and analysts on TV here predicting that what the Kremlin calls its \"special military operation\" would be wrapped up within days; that the Ukrainian people would greet Russian troops as liberators, and that Ukraine's government would collapse like a pack of cards.\n\nInstead, more than six months on, the Russian army has been losing ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo, here's a key question: will this have political consequences for Vladimir Putin?\n\nAfter all, for more than 20 years, Mr Putin has, within the Russian elite, enjoyed a reputation for being a winner; for always managing to extricate himself from the tightest of spots; in short, for being invincible.\n\nI've often viewed him as the Russian version of famous escape artist Harry Houdini. Whatever knots or chains he got tied up in, Mr Putin always managed to slip free.\n\nThe last six months suggest that President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was a major miscalculation. Unable to secure a rapid victory, Russia got bogged down in a long, bloody offensive, and has suffered a series of embarrassing defeats.\n\nWhen an authoritarian leader's aura of invincibility fades, it can cause problems for the aforesaid leader. Vladimir Putin will know Russia's history. It hasn't ended well for past Russian leaders who fought wars and didn't win them.\n\nRussia's defeat by Japan led to the first Russian Revolution of 1905. Military failures in World War One sparked the 1917 Revolution and the end of the Tsar.\n\nPublicly, though, President Putin has no intention of ending up the loser.\n\nOn Monday, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists: \"[Russia's] special military operation continues and will continue until all the tasks that were initially set have been fulfilled.\"\n\nWhich brings us to the other key question: what will Mr Putin do next?\n\nYou'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who knows what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning. Much may depend on how accurate the information is that he is receiving from his military and intelligence chiefs.\n\nBut here are two things we do know: the Russian president rarely admits to making mistakes. And he rarely makes U-turns.\n\nIn Moscow, Vladimir Putin seemed relaxed as he opened a new Ferris wheel\n\nFrom what the state media is saying, we're already seeing signs that failures on the battlefield are being blamed on Western support for Ukraine.\n\nThere is one more uncomfortable question that's been in the background for months: if he cannot achieve victory via conventional weapons, would President Putin go nuclear?\n\nOnly a few days ago, Ukraine's military chief, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, warned: \"There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian armed forces.\"\n\nFor now, there are no open signs of panic in the Kremlin. Russian state TV is sounding more positive. It's been describing Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as \"a turning point in the special operation\".\n\nAs for the Kremlin leader, last Saturday - as reports were coming in from Ukraine that Russia was losing territory - back in Moscow, a relaxed looking Vladimir Putin was inaugurating a new Ferris wheel, the tallest in Europe.\n\nRussia's president still seems to believe that, like Moscow's new Big Wheel, his \"special operation\" will turn in his favour.", "A rehearsal for the state funeral was held overnight on Thursday\n\nQueen Elizabeth II made personal additions to plans for her funeral day, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nAmong the touches requested by the Queen is the playing of a lament by her piper.\n\nThe state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday is likely to be one of the biggest single ceremonial events staged in Britain since World War Two.\n\nA national two-minute silence will be held as the service draws to a close just before midday.\n\nThe order of service, with its choice of music and readings, is expected to reflect more of the Queen's personal choices for the funeral.\n\nPalace aides said the Queen had been consulted on all the arrangements.\n\nAmong those who have confirmed their attendance at the state funeral, which starts at 11:00 BST, are US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nAlongside royalty, politicians and world leaders will be 200 people who were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours, including those who helped with the response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA former police officer awarded the George Cross after being shot at 15 times is also among those due to attend the state funeral.\n\nTony Gledhill, 84, said: \"I'm incredibly moved to be involved.\"\n\nThe official organiser of Monday's events, the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, said his role was \"both humbling and daunting\".\n\nHe said the solemnity of the last few days of mourning and the constitutional process was the \"envy of the world\".\n\nThe duke, who took on the hereditary position in 2002, said Monday's service would aim to \"unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths\".\n\nEvents on Monday will begin with the funeral procession, which will see the Queen's coffin conveyed from Westminster Hall, where she is lying in state, to the nearby Abbey.\n\nPrince Harry the Duke of Sussex and his brother William, the new Prince of Wales, will once more walk side-by-side behind the Queen's coffin during the procession.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be carried on the gun carriage that was used for the funerals of Edward VII, George V, George VI and Sir Winston Churchill. It will be pulled by 142 Royal Navy sailors.\n\nTowards the end of the service, the Last Post will be played, followed by a national two-minute silence. The conclusion of the state funeral, expected at 12:00, will be marked by a lament played by the Queen's piper.\n\nAfter the Abbey service, the Queen's coffin will be carried in a further procession to Wellington Arch - led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and members of NHS staff.\n\nIt will then be conveyed to Windsor by road, before a committal service takes place at 16:00 at St George's Chapel, led by the Dean of Windsor and with a congregation including the Royal Family and some of the Queen's personal staff.\n\nAs the Queen's coffin is lowered into the royal vault, the Archbishop of Canterbury will read a blessing and the Queen's piper will play a lament.\n\nThe Crown Jeweller will be in attendance to collect the crown from the Queen's coffin and convey it back to the Tower of London.\n\nA final private burial service for close family members will be held at 19:30.\n\nThe Queen will be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, where she will rest with her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year.\n\nThe skies over London will be quiet during the two-minute silence, as Heathrow airport stops all departures and arrivals for 30 minutes from 11:40.\n\nSeparate changes to operations at the airport will ensure silence overhead during the ceremonies in Windsor.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast a special programme for Monday's funeral from 08:00 to 17:00 on BBC One and iPlayer.\n\nHow will you be watching the funeral? Do you have any specific plans? Email: yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Coverage: Live TV coverage of Great Britain's matches on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nPlaying tennis matches late at night does not look very \"professional\" and the sport needs to look at the issue, says Andy Murray.\n\nThe former world number one was still on court at nearly 01:00 BST on Thursday in Glasgow, playing doubles with Joe Salisbury in Great Britain's Davis Cup defeat by the United States.\n\nEarlier this month Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner played until 2.50am in the US Open's latest ever finish, one of two occasions champion Alcaraz competed beyond 2am in New York.\n\n\"It's something that tennis needs to sort of have a bit of a think about,\" Murray, 35, told a news conference. \"I don't think it looks that professional.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nWhile a good-sized and passionate crowd remained at Emirates Arena to watch Murray and Salisbury in their 5-7 6-4 7-5 doubles defeat by Rajeev Ram and Jack Sock that decided the Davis Cup group-stage tie, it was far from the packed arena it had been earlier in the day.\n\n\"It would be better if they were earlier I think for everyone involved,\" said Murray, whose match started at 22:00 BST.\n\nThe tie had got under way at 16:00 BST with back-to-back singles rubbers both going to three sets.\n\n\"I don't think it's ideal for you guys [media]. I don't think it's ideal for the fans,\" he added. \"That match that we played there, there's probably half of the people in there at the end of the match that were there at the beginning.\n\n\"It's a bit of a shame because they missed a great match. It's not probably because they didn't want to stay. If you [have] got children here, you can't stay with them. [If] you [have] got to get a bus or train home, [you] can't do it.\"\n\nHe added that for the ball boys and girls late finishes were \"inappropriate\" and that while the players were still able to compete to a high level, the knock-on effect the next day was tough.\n\n\"It's not ideal for the US team to come back and play tomorrow,\" he said.\n\n\"They're probably not going to be tucked up in their beds until ... probably 3:30, 4:00 in the morning by the time they've done their recovery and managed to sort of calm down after a tie like that.\"\n\nUnited States stand-in captain Bob Bryan, whose side play Kazakhstan at 16:00 on Thursday, said: \"These guys gave everything, Team GB gave everything. It's 01:00 on a Thursday. We've got to go again in 13 hours. Kazakhstan won't be any easier.\"\n\nThere have been six group matches so far this week in Glasgow and all have gone to three sets, with play on both days going past midnight.\n\nGreat Britain return to action on Friday against the Netherlands at 15:00 BST seeking a win to keep them in contention for a top-two finish that would mean they qualify for November's knockout stage in Malaga.\n\nTheir final Group D match is on Sunday against Kazakhstan at 14:00 BST.", "As the Chief Executive of BBC News I have the honour to write the closing message on this page of thousands of tributes to Queen Elizabeth II. And it’s a message of thanks to every single person who has taken the time to share their story.\n\nWhen the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, we at the BBC wanted to create a place where people could come together to share their tributes, their photos and recollections.\n\nThe response has been incredible. We have received thousands of touching stories of meeting the Queen, special moments, memories and messages of condolence.\n\nThank you to everyone - from all over the world - for coming together here in this virtual space for very real acts a of remembrance.\n\nLooking at the contributions, the common theme that emerges is that the Queen had a way of making each person she met feel like the most important person in that moment.\n\nThank you again for helping us remember a woman whose promise to serve her people was fulfilled through a life of duty, which touched so many people.", "The UK has told the EU it will continue delaying customs checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, despite legal action from Brussels over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe EU is considering its next steps.\n\nThe protocol keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, avoiding the need for a hard border with the Irish Republic after Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for talks next week.\n\nIt is thought they will speak when they both attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York.\n\nDespite normal politics being paused after the Queen's death last week, the UK responded to the Commission's legal action ahead of the EU's deadline of the end of Thursday.\n\nThe EU has launched a series of lawsuits over what it sees as the UK's failure to comply with checks on the movement of farm produce from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nIt has also started legal action over legislation that would allow the UK to alter the protocol, introduced by Liz Truss when she was foreign secretary.\n\nHowever, the UK government argues \"grace periods\" delaying full customs checks should remain in place.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Daniel Ferrie said: \"I can confirm we have received a reply from the UK. We will now analyse the reply before deciding on the next steps.\"\n\nThe Commission could refer the case to the European Court of Justice, but its initial reaction is expected to be muted following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nBrussels has been making plenty of overtures about restarting negotiations, previously stalled, on how to reform the post-Brexit treaty.\n\nThe new government's desires are less obvious, although Prime Minister Liz Truss is very familiar with the row.\n\nAs foreign secretary she set in train a bill that could see Britain override parts of the protocol; something the EU sees as a clear and blatant breach of a mutually agreed treaty.\n\nEU diplomats believe Ms Truss's approach to the protocol was, at least in part, designed to woo the right wing of her party when a leadership contest loomed.\n\nNow that she's prime minister, what will she decide to do?\n\nWith talk of a phone call or meeting between EU chief, Ursula von der Leyen and Ms Truss, maybe that question will be answered before long.\n\nBoth will attend Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, but a more likely opportunity for a political discussion could be next week's UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nThe protocol was part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, agreed between the UK and the EU in December 2019.\n\nSpecial trading arrangements were required for Northern Ireland because it has a land border with the Republic of Ireland, which is in the EU.\n\nThe EU has strict food regulations and demands border checks when certain goods - such as milk and eggs - arrive from non-EU countries.\n\nThe UK and the EU also agreed that protecting the Northern Ireland peace deal, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, was essential.\n\nFrom 2021, the protocol has meant some new checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nUnionist politicians have condemned what they regard as the imposition of a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nNorthern Ireland's devolved executive has been suspended since February, and the largest unionist party, the DUP, has refused to resume sharing power with nationalists until the protocol is significantly reformed.\n\nPolls have suggested overall opinion in Northern Ireland on the protocol is fairly evenly split.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol Bill would allow the UK government to override the arrangements for Northern Ireland it signed up to.\n\nIt cleared the House of Commons in July, but is expected to face stern opposition when it begins its passage through the House of Lords next month.", "In a slow and sombre procession, the Royal Family has followed the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. Mournful music played during the ceremonious cortege, as guns were fired in Hyde Park and Big Ben was tolled every minute.", "Asda has temporarily limited purchases of its new budget range Just Essentials, blaming soaring demand.\n\nThe supermarket said customers would be limited to buying three items at most of each product until further notice.\n\nIt launched Just Essentials in May, promising an expanded line of low-cost products to help shoppers with the cost of living.\n\nThat came after food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe criticised Asda for cutting back its budget ranges in some stores.\n\nBut on Wednesday, the supermarket said demand was outstripping availability, with sales growing almost 20% faster than the market average.\n\n\"Just Essentials is proving very popular with customers and we are working hard to improve availability across the range,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"To ensure as many customers as possible can buy these products, we are temporarily limiting purchases to a maximum of three of each product for a short period of time. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.\"\n\nIt comes as the price of food soars, with consumers paying a record £571 more on average for their groceries than last year, according to data from research firm Kantar.\n\nAsda's new value range, which features 300 budget products, replaced its smaller Smart Price range in May.\n\nMs Monroe had criticised the supermarket in April for taking value ranges off its shelves and raising prices at time when many household budgets were being squeezed.\n\nEarlier this year trade magazine The Grocer said suppliers were given just four weeks to come up with new products for Just Essentials.\n\nThe supermarket has also faced criticism that the range's bright yellow packaging \"stigmatises\" hard up shoppers - claims it rejects.\n\nAsda, which was bought by the billionaire Issa brothers and their backers TDR Capital in 2020, is the UK's third largest grocer.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit 9.9% in the year to August, easing slightly from 10.1% in July.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, food prices rose at their fastest pace since 2008 last month as the war in Ukraine continued to help drive up prices at supermarket tills.\n\nShoppers are seeking discounts and the budget chain Aldi overtook Morrisons in August to become the fourth-largest UK supermarket for the first time, according to Kantar.\n\nPeople are also cutting back on spending by buying more own-brand products, with sales of the very cheapest value own-label products up by a third compared to last year.", "Thousands of people have been queuing along the banks of the River Thames to view the Queen's coffin as she lies in state in London's Westminster Hall.\n\nQueues have been building since Wednesday morning, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to pay their respects before her funeral on Monday.\n\nA line of mourners hoping to view the coffin is snaking for around five miles from Westminster across Lambeth Bridge and along the river to Southwark Park. Some have queued for hours, sometimes overnight, in all weathers for a chance to pay their respects.\n\nWestminster Hall opened its doors to the public on Wednesday after a grand procession brought the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace. The lying-in-state will continue until 06:30 BST on Monday, the day of the state funeral. The government has warned people could face 30-hour waits to get in.\n\nThey will walk by the Queen's closed coffin, which rests on a raised platform, known as a catafalque, beneath the 11th Century hall's medieval timber roof.\n\nEach corner of the platform is being guarded in a continuous vigil by soldiers from units that serve the Royal Household.\n\nThe coffin is draped in the Royal Standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown, a wreath of white roses and dahlias and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre.\n\nThe grand hall is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, at the heart of British government.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nThe BBC has a dedicated live stream for those unable to travel to London. The service is available in the UK on the BBC home page, the BBC News website and app, iPlayer, BBC Parliament and the red-button. It is also available internationally via bbc.com/news.\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds of mourners packed the streets between Buckingham Palace and Westminster for the slow ceremonial procession to carry the coffin to the hall.\n\nIn the bright sunshine that followed the rain, the coffin made its way through the heart of the capital borne on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by seven black horses.\n\nA huge 18 hands-tall (183cm) veteran horse named Lord Firebrand, ridden by Capt Amy Cooper, led the procession and set the pace.\n\nThe gun carriage, known as the George Gun Carriage, carried King George VI's coffin in 1952 and was used in the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.\n\nTo the sound of funeral marches played by the Scots Guards and the Grenadier Guards, the procession stepped off at a slow pace of 75 steps per minute - a tempo typically reserved for such sombre occasions.\n\nKing Charles III, wearing full ceremonial uniform, followed behind the coffin on foot, accompanied by his siblings as well as his sons, Prince William, dressed in his Royal Air Force uniform, and Prince Harry in a morning suit.\n\nThe King and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, were among those following the coffin\n\nThe sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, evoked poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral 25 years ago, said royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.\n\nUp to 1,000 members of the armed forces in ceremonial dress took part in events surrounding the parade.\n\nBehind mounted Metropolitan Police, the procession was headed by the Household Cavalry and the Grenadier and Scots Guards. They were followed, just ahead of the Queen's coffin, by members of the Royal Household, those working closely with the Queen.\n\nFollowing the King and other royals behind the coffin and bringing up the rear of the procession were members of the King's former household, when he was known as the Prince of Wales.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex travelled to the hall by car.\n\nGuns were being fired from Hyde Park at one-minute intervals throughout the procession. Big Ben also tolled.\n\nAs her coffin passed by some in the crowd burst into tears, BBC correspondent Nick Beake said. Others made the sign of the cross, army veterans saluted their former commander-in-chief - while families embraced, he added.\n• None Procession for the Lying-in-State of Her Majesty The Queen - Gov.uk The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer's decision to retire from tennis is a \"sad day\" for sport, his great rival Rafael Nadal has said.\n\nFederer, a 20-time Grand Slam champion, announced on Thursday that he would retire after the Laver Cup this month.\n\nOnly Spain's Nadal, with 22 majors, and Serbia's Novak Djokovic, with 21, have more men's Grand Slam singles titles than the 41-year-old.\n\n\"Dear Roger, my friend and rival. I wish this day would have never come,\" Nadal posted on social media.\n\n\"It's a sad day for me personally and for sports around the world.\"\n\nNadal defeated Federer 24 times in 40 matches during one of the most celebrated rivalries in tennis history.\n\n\"It's been a pleasure but also an honour and privilege to share all these years with you, living so many amazing moments on and off the court,\" Nadal said.\n\n\"We will have many more moments to share together in the future, there are still lots of things to do together, we know that.\n\n\"For now, I truly wish you all the happiness with your wife, Mirka, your kids, your family and enjoy what's ahead of you. I'll see you in London.\"\n• None Quiz: How much do you know about Federer at the Grand Slams?\n• None Federer v Sampras - 21 years on: 'It was a change of era, a lift-off moment'\n\n'The most complete game of his generation'\n\nFederer made his professional debut aged 16 in 1998 and won his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2003.\n\nThe chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Ian Hewitt, congratulated Federer on a \"truly remarkable career\".\n\n\"He will forever be celebrated as one of our greatest Wimbledon champions, having lifted the trophy eight times from his 22 appearances at the All England Club,\" Hewitt added.\n\n\"He has the most complete game of his generation and captured the hearts of sports fans around the world with an amazing quickness on the court and a powerful tennis mind,\" she tweeted.\n\nFormer world number one Rod Laver also wrote on Twitter: \"Thank you for everything Roger. See you soon.\"\n\nEighteen-time Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova said of Federer's announcement: \"What a heartfelt message, full of love, life, hope, passion and gratitude. Which is exactly how Roger played the game we love so much. Thank you, thank you thank you, for all the magic!\"\n\nStan Wawrinka, who won doubles gold for Switzerland alongside Federer at the 2008 Olympics, said: \"Forever grateful for all the memories on and off the court. Tennis will never be the same without you. Enjoy the next chapter in your life with your beautiful family.\"\n\nATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi said: \"He spearheaded an incredible new era of growth and elevated the popularity of our sport. Few athletes have transcended their field in such a manner.\"\n\nFormer British number one Annabel Croft told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"When I think of Roger Federer, I think of his grace, his fluidity, his beauty, the way he played tennis.\n\n\"What a great icon for the sport, he sort of transcended it.\n\n\"He was also someone who was incredibly strong mentally. For most of the matches he played he had a massive big target on his back. But he seemed to enjoy and relish [being] under pressure.\"\n\nUS Open champion and men's world number one Carlos Alcaraz tweeted that Federer \"has been one of my idols and a source of inspiration\", while the highest ranked female player, Iga Swiatek, thanked Federer for everything he had done for the sport of tennis.\n\nFormer Swiss Davis Cup captain Claudio Mezzadri referred to Federer as \"much more than just a tennis player\".\n\n\"It's an unbelievable career, he played for 24 years. He played more than 1,500 matches. It's something impossible to think. He was such a nice guy, he was great to watch with the elegance and style he had, and still has, but he also was a great man outside the court,\" Mezzadri told BBC Radio 5 Live.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen made a \"huge difference in changing attitudes\" in Northern Ireland, says Stormont Speaker Alex Maskey\n\nAs the speaker at Stormont, Alex Maskey knows how to get his message across.\n\nPicking the right moment with the right audience is all part of the job.\n\nToday in the presence of King Charles III and Camila, the Queen Consort, and with a massive audience looking in he seized his opportunity.\n\nHe is Sinn Féin's longest-serving elected representative and a former republican prisoner.\n\nToday his job was to deliver a message of condolence to the royal couple on behalf of the Northern Ireland Assembly, but he crafted a speech which went well beyond words of comfort.\n\nHe carefully contrasted the Queen's leadership in helping to build peace and reconciliation with the lack of leadership elsewhere.\n\nIt was a veiled swipe at those behind the stalemate at Stormont.\n\nIn another political dig to others he highlighted how the Queen in her work underlined that one tradition is not diminished by reaching out to show respect to another.\n\nThe speaker also took the opportunity to remind the King how the political landscape has been transformed allowing someone from his background to hold the office of Speaker.\n\nIt was a speech laced with political undertones but on the surface respectful to both the late Queen and King Charles.\n\nIn an earlier exchange in a back room, Mr Maskey brought a smile to the King's face during a conversation with the political leaders.\n\nThe King spent time speaking with leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties at Hillsborough Castle, including Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (centre)\n\nKing Charles remarked to Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill how her party, was now the largest at Stormont when the Speaker quickly jumped in and said \"don't tell Jeffrey\" - a reference to Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, who was standing next to them.\n\nIt followed a warm two handed handshake from Ms O'Neill to King Charles as she talked about the Queen's passing.\n\nHe thanked her for her kind words about his mother, to which Ms O'Neill replied: \"She played a great role in peacebuilding and reconciliation, it is the end of an era.\"\n\nThe King also spent time talking to Sir Jeffrey, Alliance leader Naomi Long, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Doug Beattie and SDLP assembly member Mathew O'Toole.", "The moment a fireball raced across the sky over Northern Ireland has been captured on camera.\n\nHundreds of people reported seeing the \"shooting star\" above Northern Ireland and Scotland on Wednesday night.\n\nJoe McNeill from Dunmurry in west Belfast said it was \"absolutely amazing\".\n\nThe UK Meteor Network said it began receiving reports of the fireball at 22:00 on Wednesday.\n\nScientists are using video footage captured by the public to work out whether the object travelling across the night sky was a meteor or space junk, and where it came from.\n\nMr McNeill said: \"I noticed a bit of the orange streak coming across the sky - I thought it was a firework.\n\n\"Then I realised when it started to change colour that it wasn't a firework - I couldn't hear anything from it.\n\n\"I would say I'm a sky-gazer, I'm always looking up and it's the first time I've seen anything like that, as bright and on that scale.\"", "Queen Elizabeth II's coffin has travelled in a procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where she will lie in state for four days.\n\nCrowds watched as King Charles III, the Prince of Wales and other senior royals walked behind the coffin as it journeyed down the Mall, through Horse Guards Parade, past Whitehall and into Westminster Hall.\n\nMembers of the public are now able to pay their final respects to the Queen at Westminster Hall, until the morning of Her Majesty's funeral on Monday 19 September.", "Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing his ex-girlfriend\n\nProsecutors in Baltimore say they are re-examining the murder conviction of a Baltimore teenager in a case that spawned a hit true-crime podcast.\n\nAdnan Syed was 19 when he was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, whose body was found buried in the woods in 1999.\n\nBaltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said an investigation now points to two other possible suspects.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mrs Mosby asked the courts to throw out Syed's February 2000 conviction and put him on trial again.\n\n\"After a nearly year-long investigation reviewing the facts of this case, Syed deserves a new trial where he is adequately represented and the latest evidence can be presented,\" the prosecutor said in a statement.\n\n\"As stewards of the court, we are obligated to uphold confidence in the integrity of convictions and do our part to correct when this standard has been comprised.\"\n\nSyed was found guilty by a jury in 2000 of premeditated murder, kidnapping, robbery and false imprisonment.\n\nBoth of the new potential suspects have been known to police since the 1999 murder, according to a court filing submitted by prosecutors on Wednesday.\n\nOne of the two - neither of whom has been named by officials - had previously threatened \"to make her [Lee] disappear\" or kill her, the documents say.\n\nProsecutors did not inform Adnan's defence team of the potentially exculpatory evidence, which poses a possible trial violation.\n\nLee's car was also found behind the home of one of the suspects, officials added. That information was not discovered until 2022, according to Mrs Mosby's office.\n\nProsecutors are not saying they believe Syed - who has now spent more than two decades in a Baltimore jail - is innocent.\n\n\"However, for all the reasons set forth below, the State no longer has confidence in the integrity of the conviction,\" they said in their court filing.\n\nSyed's lawyer, Erica Suter, said in a news release: \"Given the stunning lack of reliable evidence implicating Mr Syed, coupled with increasing evidence pointing to other suspects, this unjust conviction cannot stand.\n\n\"Mr Syed is grateful that this information has finally seen the light of day and looks forward to his day in court.\"\n\nFormer federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, head of West Coast Trial Lawyers, said there is \"almost no chance\" Syed will face another trial considering how long he has been in prison, and the growing possibility he is innocent.\n\nSerial Productions, which produced the podcast, tweeted \"this is big news,\" and noted that it is the first time that prosecutors have said they do not have confidence in his conviction.\n\nIn 2019, the state's highest appeals court turned down his bid for a new trial.\n\nThe podcast Serial suggested the evidence it had unearthed from alibi witness Asia McClain could have corroborated Syed's account that he was in the library when his ex-girlfriend was killed.\n\nHe has consistently denied playing any role in Lee's death.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFormer Wales rugby union captain and legendary broadcaster and commentator Eddie Butler has died at the age of 65.\n\nAfter rising to prominence with club side Pontypool, Butler played 16 times for Wales between 1980 and 1984, captaining the side on six occasions and scoring two tries.\n\nThe number eight was called up to the British and Irish Lions squad that toured New Zealand in 1983.\n\nAfter retirement he became a respected rugby broadcaster.\n\nButler died in his sleep on a charity trek in Peru.\n\nHe was a pivotal part of the Pontypool side that was created by Ray Prosser and dominated Welsh club rugby in the late 1970s and early 1980s, captaining the side between 1982 and 1985.\n\nButler had also played for Cambridge University from 1976-1978 while studying French and Spanish at Fitzwilliam College.\n\nButler's first cap came in Wales' 18-9 Five Nations win against France in January, 1980.\n\nHe retired from international rugby in 1985 aged 27 and having worked as a teacher in Cheltenham for three years, Butler then joined Radio Wales as a press and publicity officer in 1984.\n\nWhile still playing for his beloved Pontypool, Butler went on to work for a property development company.\n\nHe started his newspaper journalism career with the Sunday Correspondent in 1988 before stints with Observer and the Guardian and returned to BBC Wales in 1990 after being brought back in by new head of sport Gareth Davies.\n\nCurrent BBC director-general Tim Davie paid tribute to \"a wonderful wordsmith\" who had shaped so much of the organisation's output.\n\n\"Everyone at the BBC is shocked and saddened by this very sad news,\" Davie said. \"Eddie was a brilliantly gifted commentator, writer and reporter whose passion for the game of rugby union shone through every broadcast.\n\n\"A wonderful wordsmith with a rich, iconic voice, he provided the definitive soundtrack to some of the greatest moments in rugby's history. He will be much missed by all of us and our thoughts are with his family at this sad time.\"\n\nDirector BBC Cymru Wales Rhuanedd Richards said: \"The world of rugby and broadcasting has lost one of its greats today. A giant in his sport as well as in stature, his knowledge of rugby - the ins and outs, foibles and triumphs - knew no bounds.\n\n\"One of Eddie's greatest talents was his ability to capture and convey the meaning and the emotion of our great sporting moments with authenticity and a brilliant wit that took his audience on a journey.\n\n\"He understood his audience, he understood Wales and he understood our passion for the game. Eddie's voice will be synonymous with so many great sporting memories, and it really is difficult to imagine these future moments in the world of rugby without him.\n\n\"I speak for all my colleagues at BBC Wales when I say that we'll miss him so much. Our hearts go out to his wife Sue and the children at this incredibly sad time and we send them our thoughts and deepest condolences.\"\n\nWelsh Rugby Union chairman Rob Butcher said of Butler: \"He proudly represented his country as a player, was a mainstay in press boxes around the world long after he retired from the game and has been prolific in the way in which he has served Welsh rugby in both the written and spoken word over decades.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers go to his family, who we also know well and cherish, and his close friends and colleagues at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"He was a unique individual and the game in Wales owes him a debt of gratitude for his contributions both on and off the pitch.\"\n\nAfter McLaren's retirement, Butler became the BBC rugby lead commentator where he formed a notable partnership with the likes of former England hooker Brian Moore and ex-Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies.\n\nButler will be remembered for his brilliant prose that accompanied montages for major sporting and political events, with the final one marking the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nHe also commentated on Olympic sports and the Invictus Games, as well as lending his voice to stirring montages for the BBC's NFL highlights programmes.\n\nIn 2010, Butler joined a host of former Wales captains who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise funds for Velindre Hospital, Cardiff's specialist cancer treatment centre.\n\nButler presented history series on the BBC including Wales and the History of the World, Hidden Histories, Welsh Towns at War in 2014 and two series of Welsh Towns in 2015.\n\nHe was also an author after publishing three novels and two non-fiction books.\n\nAway from rugby and broadcasting, Butler campaigned for Welsh independence in recent years.\n\nHis passing prompted tributes and condolences from inside and outside rugby union.", "They say the specimen captures a key moment in the evolution of the blood-pumping organ found in all back-boned animals, including humans.\n\nThe heart belonged to a fish known as the Gogo, which is now extinct.\n\nThe \"jaw-dropping\" discovery, published in the journal Science, was made in Western Australia.\n\nThe lead scientist, Prof Kate Trinajstic from Curtin University in Perth told BBC News about the moment she and her colleagues realised that they had made the biggest discovery of their lives.\n\n\"We were crowded around the computer and recognised that we had a heart and pretty much couldn't believe it! It was incredibly exciting,\" she said.\n\nThe fish are perfectly preserved in boulders found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia\n\nUsually, it is bones rather than soft tissues that are turned into fossils - but at this location in Kimberley, known as the Gogo rock formation - minerals have preserved many of the fish's internal organs, including the liver, stomach, intestine and heart.\n\n\"This is a crucial moment in our own evolution,\" said Prof Trinajstic.\n\n\"It shows the body plan that we have evolved very early on, and we see this for the very first time in these fossils.\"\n\nHer collaborator, Prof John Long from Flinders University in Adelaide, described the find as \"a mind-boggling, jaw-dropping discovery\".\n\n\"We have never known anything about the soft organs of animals this old, until now,\" he said.\n\nThe Gogo fish's heart had two chambers, one above the other, which went on to evolve into the human heart\n\nThe Gogo fish is the first of a class of prehistoric fish called placoderms. These were the first fish to have jaws and teeth. Before them, fishes were no bigger than 30cm, but placoderms could grow up to 29.5ft (9m) in length.\n\nPlacoderms were the planet's dominant life form for 60 million years, existing more than 100 million years before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth.\n\nScans of the Gogo fish fossil showed that its heart was more complex than expected for these primitive fish. It had two chambers one on top of each other, similar in structure to the human heart.\n\nThe researchers suggest this made the animal's heart more efficient and was the critical step that transformed it from a slow-moving fish to a fast-moving predator.\n\nThe researchers scanned inside the boulders to discover a liver, stomach, intestines and a heart, shown in red\n\n\"This was the way they could up the ante and become a voracious predator,\" said Prof Long.\n\nThe other important observation was that the heart was much more forward in the body than those of more primitive fish.\n\nThis position is thought to have been associated with the development of the Gogo fish's neck and made space for the development of lungs further down the evolutionary line.\n\nA fossil of the head of a Gogo fish with large eye sockets\n\nDr Zerina Johanson of the Natural History Museum, London, who is a world leader in placoderms, and is independent of Prof Trinajstic's team, described the research as an \"extremely important discovery\" that helps to explain why the human body is the way it is today.\n\n\"A lot of the things you see we still have in our own bodies; jaws and teeth, for example. We have the first appearance of the front fins and the fins at the back, which eventually evolved into our arms and legs.\n\n\"There are many things going on in these placoderms that we see evolving to ourselves today such as the neck, the shape and arrangement of the heart and its position in the body.\"\n\nThe discovery fills in an important step in the evolution of life on Earth, according to Dr Martin Brazeau, a placoderm expert at Imperial College London, who is also independent of the Australian research team.\n\n\"It's really exciting to see this result,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The fishes that my colleagues and I are studying are part of our evolution. This is part of the evolution of humans and other animals that live on land and the fishes that live in the sea today.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Historical ceremony and modern firearms mix at a march past the Bank of England\n\nThe most complex security operation London has ever seen is under way.\n\nThe Queen is lying in state, and thousands of people are on the streets of the capital queuing to pay their respects, with many more to come.\n\nIn the hours and days ahead of the funeral on Monday, the Japanese emperor, kings and queens, the US president, and heads of state from across the globe will assemble in London. They will then all go to Westminster Abbey, which does not have any permanent security perimeter, for a very public funeral.\n\nAll of this will be played out in front of hundreds of millions of television viewers around the world, providing a tempting target for international terrorists.\n\nIt has required a security response unprecedented in scale. MI5 and GCHQ are working behind the scenes with counter-terrorism police, the Metropolitan Police has reinforcements from forces across the country, and military personnel and civilian stewards are all playing a role.\n\nFor now, the queue of people waiting to pay their last respects, snaking its way from Lambeth Bridge along the South Bank, is the most vulnerable point. The queue will be there night and day until the early hours of Monday morning.\n\nAs a first line of defence against the terrorist threat, the police are asking the public to be their own eyes and ears, to look out for each other, stay vigilant, trust their instincts and report anything that does not feel right. The government has hired hundreds of stewards from private security firms to help with queue management. Some 1,500 military personnel have also been deployed since Tuesday night, among them Gurkhas and Paratroopers, Royal Navy Police and Royal Military Police, and RAF personnel in their blue-grey uniforms. A military Wildcat helicopter has made several flights over Westminster.\n\nBehind the scenes, the security service MI5 is watching for any changes of behaviour by \"subjects of interest\", people suspected of involvement in violent extremism and terrorism. GCHQ will continue to monitor all forms of telecommunication. Armed police officers with binoculars have already been visible on rooftops in Westminster.\n\nArmed police can be seen on rooftops\n\nWatching the queue are police specialists trained to identify people preparing a terrorist act. At the main police control room just south of Lambeth Bridge officers are watching footage from hundreds of fixed CCTV cameras. Extra, mobile CCTV cameras have been put in at vulnerable sites or where there are holes in the coverage. Dogs specially trained to sniff out explosives and firearms are passing periodically through the crowds.\n\nThousands of police officers are being deployed in central London each day, but the Met were keen to emphasise the number of reinforcements being provided by other forces. They do not want the people who live in London to think that normal day-to-day policing has been abandoned.\n\nUnder what is known as \"mutual aid\", the Met are borrowing hundreds of officers from forces outside London - from as far away as Scotland and Northern Ireland. These are being provided under longstanding plans for a national mobilisation for the monarch's funeral, which include a wide range of specialist officers. For example explosives sniffer dog teams from West Yorkshire and Lancashire have been patrolling the Mall this week.\n\nThe Met want to stress that while the event is unprecedented, much of the policing will be familiar to its officers.\n\n\"At every event that we police in London, we are considering the threat from terrorism, the threat from crime, looking after people at the same time,\" said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy. \"So whilst it is a unique event we are well-versed, officers are well trained and also experienced at policing such large events.\"\n\nThe scale of this week's security operation has been compared to the London Olympics. But in 2012 the public spent much of their time in venues where they had to pass through security checkpoint. At the lying-in-state, the checkpoint is only at the entrance to Westminster Hall, with people queuing for many hours before they reach that point.\n\nIt can also be compared to the funerals of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Diana, Princess of Wales, but the extraordinary number of heads of state visiting the capital for this event makes it much more complicated.\n\nThe threat has also changed. What are known as \"lone actor\" attacks using vehicles as weapons, or knives that can be bought from supermarkets, have become commonplace in the last decade\n\nThe heads of state will start arriving as early as Friday. They will include Emperor Naruhito of Japan, kings and queens from Europe, Tonga and Bhutan, the Emir of Qatar, and presidents and prime ministers from dozens of countries. Those with particularly high-risk profiles include US President Joe Biden, and Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel. The security service from each of their countries will have their own concerns.\n\nBut Mr Cundy says his force \"is very used to working with those who are involved in protection of dignitaries from across the world\".\n\nPolice tracked the route of the cortege to Westminster Hall on Wednesday\n\nHeads of state will attend a reception with the King at Buckingham Palace on Sunday night. And then on Monday morning they will gather at Westminster Abbey for the funeral itself. Initially police wanted all of dignitaries to use all transport provided by the UK government to travel there, but the plans have now been revised. President Biden will be allowed to use his personal armoured car, \"the Beast\", and some other heads of state will also use their own vehicles.\n\nBefore then a huge area around the abbey will have to be checked. Every manhole cover will be lifted, checked and sealed. Each lamp post will be opened and examined. Anywhere where an improvised explosive device could be hidden needs to be peered into. Dogs sniffing for explosives will pass through the abbey and surrounding areas time and again.\n\nOn the morning of the funeral itself even more police spotters will be out on rooftops. Firearms officers will be discretely positioned across the secure area. The SAS will be on standby.\n\nUsually heads of state only gather together in extremely tightly-controlled security environments such as the UN General Assembly, but the Queen's funeral will be a public event. It is designed to be seen, and the Royal Family will want to be seen. But that brings with it a plethora of security difficulties.\n\n\"Ceremony and security are not happy bedfellows,\" says former Commander Bob Broadhurst, who was in charge of security for the Olympics. \"I don't know if there is another large country in the world that would allow this to happen.\"\n\nIn the meantime an unanticipated problem for the police has arisen since the Queen's death - that of anti-monarchy protesters shouting slogans like \"Not my King\" at ceremonial events. Some have been arrested, and in Scotland two have been charged.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council has since issued guidance to officers on how to balance the right to protest with the right to grieve and reflect, though this guidance has not been made public.\n\nOn Monday, Paul Powlesland, a barrister who specialises among other things in protest rights stood outside Parliament with a blank sheet of paper, and was approached by a police officer asking for his details.\n\nAfter the new guidance was issued, he went back to Parliament on Tuesday with 30 other people to see what police officers would do. He had a placard reading \"Not my King\" and he said that this time he was very differently treated. He was left alone.\n\n\"It seems that the media furore and also the public backlash to this heavy-handed policing has had its effect\", Mr Powlesland said.\n\nIt was a reminder that even while involved in a huge and complex security operation, police officers will also need to be sensitive.", "Coverage: Live TV coverage of Great Britain's matches on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nAndy Murray and Joe Salisbury lost a late-night doubles decider as Great Britain were beaten 2-1 by the United States in their Davis Cup group opener.\n\nWith the clock approaching 01:00 BST in Glasgow, the pair lost 5-7 6-4 7-5 to Rajeev Ram and Jack Sock to settle an agonisingly close tie.\n\nBriton Cameron Norrie had fought back to beat Taylor Fritz and level the tie after Dan Evans lost to Tommy Paul.\n\nGB play two more ties in Glasgow as they aim for November's knockout stage.\n\nA minute's silence was held at the start of the tie at Emirates Arena following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the British players are wearing black armbands or ribbons for their three Group D ties this week.\n\nGreat Britain will play the Netherlands on Friday and Kazakhstan on Sunday as they seek one of the two qualifying spots in the group.\n\nEach nation plays two singles matches and one doubles against their group opponents in a best-of-three sets format. There are three other cities hosting groups this week as 16 nations chase places in November's finals in Malaga.\n\nMurray and Salisbury started their match at 22:00 BST after the previous two matches went to three sets, with Murray saying the late start and subsequent 00:58 finish was \"not ideal\".\n\n\"There's probably half of the people in there at the end of the match that were there at the beginning,\" the 35-year-old said. \"It's a bit of a shame because, well, they missed a great match.\n\n\"It's not probably because they didn't want to stay. If you got children here, you can't stay with them. [If] you've got to get a bus or train home, [you] can't do it.\"\n\nMurray and Salisbury raced into a 3-0 lead in the opening set but they then lost three games in a row before making the breakthrough in a lengthy 12th game that went to six deuces, taking the set on their third set point when Sock netted off Murray.\n\nMurray and Salisbury had the advantage that they were playing Salisbury's regular doubles partner Ram, with whom he had retained the US Open men's doubles title last week.\n\nBut of course that goes both ways and in the second set it was the Americans who found some rhythm.\n\nAfter going 3-1 down, Sock and Ram only let the Britons take seven more points in the set as they forced a decider, which they won with a Ram smash at the net after they had broken to lead 6-5.\n\nThere have been six group matches so far this week Glasgow and all have gone to three sets, with play on both days going past midnight.\n\nFormer world number one Murray said tennis in general needs to think about the issue of late finishes, saying it was going to be hard for the US team to play again on Thursday against Kazakhstan.\n\n\"We've seen it obviously at the US Open even just last week,\" he added. \"It's something that tennis needs to sort of have a bit of a think about. I don't think it looks that professional.\"\n\nCrowd lifts Norrie but it is not enough\n\nThe day had started with a high-quality match between Evans and Paul, which was as close a contest as their world rankings suggested it would be, with the Briton ranked just four places higher than his American opponent Paul at 25th in the world.\n\nEvans was beaten 6-4 4-6 6-4, meaning Norrie knew he had to win his match against Fritz to keep Great Britain in the tie.\n\nNorrie had been out of sorts for much of the match until taking control of a second-set tie-break and riding the momentum to win 2-6 7-6 (7-2) 7-5.\n\nThe world number eight had quickly found himself a double break down at 5-1 as the first set ran away from him as he paid the price for 12 unforced errors to his opponent's four.\n\nAn early break in the second enabled Norrie to go 3-0 up but he then gifted Fritz a break with a wild forehand.\n\nWith music not being played at the arena as a mark of respect during the national period of mourning, it was up to fans to generate the atmosphere that could fire up Norrie.\n\nAnd they did.\n\nThe football-style chants and the drums played their part and the Briton then raised his own decibels with a roar as he fended off a break point to hold for 6-5, later carrying the momentum into the tie-break that he dominated before serving out victory following a break in the 11th game of the deciding set.\n\n\"Honestly, I owe it all to the crowd. You guys were amazing,\" said Norrie, whose dad David is from Glasgow and was in the stands watching.\n\nMurray and Evans both noted that the lack of music meant the changes of ends were much quieter than usual, with Evans saying \"something was missing\" and Murray adding \"it's not easy for a crowd to maintain an amazing atmosphere for 10 hours\".\n\nAnd while the crowd did their best to cheer on Murray and Salisbury well into the night, the dream start to their home group stage was not to be.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The banners were displayed by some Celtic fans at the Champions League match against Shakhtar Donetsk\n\nUefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Celtic after fans displayed anti-monarchy banners during the club's Champions League match against Shakhtar Donetsk.\n\nThe banners were displayed by a section of Celtic fans in Warsaw at the game against the Ukrainian side.\n\nMatch broadcaster BT Sport apologised after showing the banners, one of which included an expletive.\n\nThere was no minute's silence before the match.\n\nBut Celtic players wore black armbands during the game, which was played at a neutral venue on Wednesday because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nShakhtar Donetsk were granted permission to display anti-war messages on big screens before kick-off.\n\nOne of the banners in the Celtic section read \"sorry for your loss Michael Fagan\", referring to the man who breached Buckingham Palace security in 1982 by breaking into the Queen's bedroom.\n\nMeanwhile, Uefa said it would not take action against Rangers for defying its rules by playing God Save the King before their 3-0 defeat to Napoli at Ibrox later on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe club held a minute's silence before the national anthem was played, with fans displaying a tifo commemorating the Queen that took up one end of the stadium.\n\nUefa did not grant a request from Rangers to play God Save the King before the match.\n\nEuropean football's governing body said it wanted a \"consistent pre-match ceremony without any celebratory activities across all UK venues\".\n\nFormer Rangers manager and pundit Ally McCoist told TalkSport he believed it would be \"embarrassing\" for Uefa to punish any club for playing its national anthem.\n\nAll professional Scottish football - as well as all English and Northern Irish football - was postponed last weekend as a mark of respect following the Queen's death at Balmoral Castle.\n\nScots were able to pay their respects as her oak coffin was transported to St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, where it lay at rest until it was transported to Buckingham Palace.\n\nPrior to the Champions League matches on Wednesday, the coffin was taken in ceremonial procession to Westminster Hall in a historic procession for a lying-in-state period.\n\nThis will last until 06:30 BST on Monday, the day of her funeral.\n\nCrowds of mourners packed London's streets as the coffin was bborne on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by seven black horses.\n\nMourners are being allowed to view the coffin 24 hours a day until Monday, in a queue stretching for two miles along the Thames. The UK government has warned people could face 30-hour waits.\n• None All Scottish football off after Queen's death", "Many veterans have been paying their respects to Queen Elizabeth II at her lying in state. As sovereign she was head of the armed forces, but her association with the military began much earlier, in wartime.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth was 13 when World War Two broke out. Those six years of conflict would see her begin in earnest her public role as the heir to the throne.\n\nIt would be a defining period in the life of the future Queen, and at her death she was the last surviving head of state to have served in the war.\n\nAt the outbreak of war against Germany in 1939, the Royal Family - parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and sister Princess Margaret - was seen as a potent symbol of the values for which Britain and its allies were fighting. In October 1940, as Britain was suffering the worst of the Blitz, Elizabeth made her first broadcast. It was billed as a message to children who had been sent to North America to escape the bombing of British cities.\n\nThe future Queen's first public address was a wartime broadcast made on BBC Children's Hour\n\n\"We children at home are full of cheerfulness and courage,\" she said. \"We are trying to do all we can to help our gallant sailors, soldiers and airmen. And we are trying too, to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war.\"\n\nThe princess and her sister were some of the strongest propaganda weapons the government of the day had, says Prof Kate Williams, author of the biography Young Elizabeth. \"It really was the Queen's first bombshell broadcast,\" she says.\n\nThe very fact that Elizabeth and Margaret, who died in 2002, remained in the country was a significant morale-booster.\n\nThere were suggestions the Royal Family itself should seek safety abroad, specifically in Canada, but the King and Queen would have none of it.\n\n\"The children will not leave unless I do,\" declared Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother. \"I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.\"\n\nThe furthest the children were ever moved was to Windsor Castle, about 30 miles from London. \"We went for a weekend and stayed five years,\" they said.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth, second from right, with her family in 1942. They remained in Britain during the war\n\nThey were near enough, though, to see the fire-lit skies over London during the heavy bombing. On one occasion, a bomb landed close to the castle as they sat in the air-raid shelter. \"We all went pink when we heard it,\" Princess Margaret later recalled.\n\nThe sisters were joined on most evenings and at weekends by their parents, and lessons continued with their private tutors.\n\nAt Christmas, in order to cheer up their father - who became depressed at the losses being inflicted on his countrymen and women - the girls performed pantomimes. It was Cinderella one year, Aladdin the next, with the princesses always in the starring roles.\n\nIn 1944, with the King particularly upset at the setback of the Battle of Arnhem, the 18-year-old Elizabeth and 14-year-old Margaret wrote their own pantomime - Little Red Riding Boots - with the help of their mother. Three Guardsmen on duty at the castle were drafted in as extras. One of them, Bill Davies, later remembered being measured up and kitted out with scarlet tunics and bearskins.\n\n\"The performance went off splendidly and the family were in stitches,\" he recalled. \"It was a fairy tale moment. We forgot the war for an hour or two.\"\n\nThe overriding sense of duty that marked her reign was forged in the drama of these years.\n\nIn 1942, Princess Elizabeth carried out her first public engagement, inspecting a parade of the Grenadier Guards, to whom she had become honorary colonel. In the final year of the war, she donned a uniform herself, joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service - the ATS.\n\nShe was registered as number 230873, Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor, and she spent three weeks with a carefully chosen group of other recruits, learning about basic motor mechanics and how to drive a lorry. It was said to have been the first time a female member of the Royal Family had ever attended a course with \"other people\".\n\nNow in her late 90s, Gwen Evans trained alongside the future Queen in the ATS, and remembers Princess Elizabeth receiving much the same treatment as everyone else.\n\n\"The only difference was when we finished work at five o'clock we went back to our barracks, whereas Elizabeth was picked up and taken to Windsor Castle,\" she says.\n\nIn May 1945, tens of thousands gathered outside Buckingham Palace to celebrate Victory in Europe Day.\n\nWinston Churchill joined the Royal Family on the balcony, and later, the two princesses slipped out to join the crowds.\n\n\"I remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down Whitehall. All of us just swept along in a tide of happiness and relief,\" the Queen recalled 40 years later. \"After crossing Green Park, we stood outside and shouted, 'We want the King.' I think it was one of the most memorable nights of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said walking behind the Queen's coffin \"brought back a few memories\" of his mother's funeral as he spoke to well-wishers in Norfolk.\n\nPrince William said it had been \"challenging\", as he and the Princess of Wales viewed floral tributes left outside Sandringham House.\n\nHe and his brother walked behind the gun carriage in Wednesday's procession, echoing Princess Diana's funeral.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family conducted visits as official mourning continued.\n\nAfter viewing some of the hundreds of tributes to the late monarch, who died last week, outside the gates at Sandringham, Prince William and Catherine spoke to those gathered there.\n\nSpeaking to one woman, Prince William said: \"I mean the walk yesterday was challenging, it brought back a few memories...\"\n\nAmong those he spoke to was receptionist Jane Wells, from Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, who said she had told the prince how proud his mother would have been of him.\n\n\"He said how hard it was yesterday because it brought back memories of his mother's funeral,\" she said.\n\nCaroline Barwick-Walters, of Neath in Wales, said she told Prince William \"thank you for sharing your grief with the nation\", and that he replied \"she was everybody's grandmother\".\n\nPrince William, then 15, and his brother, Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex, then 12, walked with their father, King Charles III, behind the coffin of their mother, Princess Diana, in September 1997.\n\nThey were side by side again as they solemnly escorted the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster on Wednesday.\n\nThe sight of Prince William and Prince Harry walking side-by-side behind the Queen's coffin in Wednesday's procession to Westminster Hall evoked immediate memories of the two brothers at the funeral of their mother.\n\nThe comments to well-wishers in Sandringham suggest it's something also felt by Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, as he said how hard it was for him when it \"brought back a few memories\".\n\nIt's 25 years since the death of Princess Diana, but it's an image of loss that still resonates. It's a reminder of the traumatic impact on the young lives of the two brothers - and both of them have often spoken of how much the loss of their mother is still in their thoughts.\n\nBereavement at such a young age has been previously described by Prince William as a \"pain like no other pain\".\n\nAnd Prince Harry has spoken of his mother's continuing influence. \"I feel her presence in almost everything that I do now,\" he said earlier this year.\n\nSpeaking in 2017, Prince Harry described walking behind his mother's coffin as a child as something that would not happen now.\n\nHe told Newsweek: \"I don't think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don't think it would happen today.\"\n\nPrinces William and Harry at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997\n\nThey joined their father King Charles in walking behind the Queen's coffin on Wednesday\n\nSandringham House has been a royal residence for four generations of British monarchs for a period of more than 150 years, and has traditionally been where the Queen spent her Christmas break.\n\nShe gifted Anmer Hall, a Georgian country house which is part of the Sandringham estate, to Prince William and Catherine after their wedding.\n\nThe couple made it their main home for several years while their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte were young.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, the King returned to Highgrove, his country home in Gloucestershire, where a spokesman said he was attending to state business.\n\nOther members of the Royal Family have also been on visits on Thursday.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex - the Queen's youngest son Prince Edward and his wife Sophie - met well-wishers and viewed tributes in Manchester's St Ann's Square.\n\nThe couple were shown a book of condolence at Manchester's Central Library, before lighting a candle in memory of the Queen at Manchester Cathedral.\n\nThe Princess Royal - the Queen's only daughter Princess Anne - travelled to Glasgow to meet representatives of organisations of which the Queen was patron.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of the Royal Family marched behind the Queen's coffin as it travelled from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where she is lying-in-state.\n\nThousands have queued for hours to view the coffin, which people can visit 24 hours a day until 06:30 BST on 19 September - the day of her funeral.\n\nAt 20:00 on Thursday the queue was nearly five miles (8km) long, with queuing time estimated to be eight-and-a-half hours.\n\nMany more people are expected to come to the capital to pay their respects over the next three days, as the country prepares to say a final farewell to its longest-reigning monarch.\n\nSome details have been released for the Queen's state funeral, which will be held at Westminster Abbey and is likely to be one of the biggest single ceremonial events staged in Britain since World War Two.\n\nThousands of people have left flowers and tributes outside Sandringham House\n\nPrincess Anne, the Princess Royal, spoke to crowds in Glasgow\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex lit a candle in memory of the Queen at Manchester Cathedral", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has been to the recaptured city of Izyum, a key logistics hub in north-eastern Ukraine.\n\nDuring his visit, Mr Zelensky thanked troops who took part in the counter-attack against Russian occupiers.\n\nHe oversaw a flag-raising ceremony and said the Ukrainian flag would return to every city and village in the country.\n\nUkrainian officials say they are targeting towns in the eastern Donbas region after making a series of gains in a rapid counter-offensive.\n\nIn recent days, Ukraine's army has reclaimed swathes of occupied territory, forcing Russian troops to retreat.\n\nIn a late evening address on Tuesday, Mr Zelensky said his forces were fortifying their hold over 8,000 sq km (3,088 sq miles) of retaken territory in the Kharkiv region.\n\nLast Thursday, President Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had retaken 1,000 sq km. By Sunday, Ukraine's figure had tripled to 3,000 sq km, before rising again to 6,000 sq km.\n\nThe precise scale of Ukraine's gains has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nMr Zelensky vowed to take back all Ukrainian territory still occupied by Russian forces - he said he did not know when this would happen, but that \"truth is on our side\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian military is deploying so-called barrier troops in Ukraine to prevent its own units from fleeing, according to Ukrainian military intelligence.\n\nUkrainian defence officials said that according to intercepted conversations, \"panic\" and \"refusals to fight\" are setting in among Russian troops.\n\nElsewhere in Ukraine, officials accused Russian forces of targeting civilian infrastructure in the southern city of Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday.\n\nCruise missiles fired at the city's \"hydraulic structures\" caused water levels in a nearby river to rise and threatened local drinking supplies, Ukrainian authorities said.\n\nResponding to the attack, Mr Zelensky described Russia as a \"terrorist state\" that was trying to \"flood Kryvyi Rih\".\n\n\"All the occupiers can do is to sow panic, create an emergency situation, try to leave people without light, heat, water and food. Can it break us? Not at all. Will they face a fair response and retribution? Definitely yes,\" the Ukrainian president said.\n\nIn the US, President Biden said Ukraine had made \"significant\" gains.\n\nHe said it was \"clear\" that the advance had enjoyed success, but cautioned that the offensive \"could be a long haul\".\n\nWhile Russia still controls around a fifth of Ukraine's territory, towns in the Donbas that fell early in the war are now the focus of Kyiv's advancing forces.\n\nAfter failing to capture cities across the country, including the capital, Kyiv, Russia is focusing on the Donbas - parts of which were already under the control of Russian-backed rebels before Russia launched its invasion this year.\n\nAndrey Marochko, military commander of the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic - one of two regions that make up the Donbas - told Russian state media that fighting had reached the borders of the territory.\n\nAnd Serhiy Haidai, the exiled Ukrainian head of the Luhansk region, said Ukrainian forces were engaging Russian troops on the outskirts of Lyman.\n\n\"There are fierce battles in Lyman now, which I think will last a few more days,\" Mr Haidai said in a Telegram post.\n\nLyman fell to Russian forces after a protracted battle at the end of May. It sits less than 150 km (93 miles) away from the city of Donetsk, the capital of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nIts capture was a coup for Russian troops, giving Moscow control over a key east-west highway.\n\nIn other areas, Ukrainian forces are said to have reached the Russian border, and Mr Hayday said their capture of two towns - Izyum and Kupiansk - could see supply lines to the Russian-held cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk severed.\n\nThe speed and scale of Ukraine's advance appears to have taken Russia by surprise\n\nAs Kyiv's forces move into previously occupied areas, allegations of Russian war crimes have started to emerge.\n\nLocals in the town of Balakliya told the BBC that Russian troops had tortured civilians at the town's police station during their occupation, while others recounted being electrocuted while in detention.\n\nThe Kremlin has admitted that its forces have left some eastern towns, but refused to call it a retreat, instead insisting that its forces were regrouping.\n\nOn Monday, Moscow insisted that it would press on with its invasion \"until all the goals that were originally set are achieved\".\n\nBut the pace of the Ukrainian advance appears to have taken Russian forces by surprise, with reports of some of Moscow's forces abandoning their uniforms to blend in with civilians.\n\nIn some areas, Russian teachers who moved to Ukrainian towns and cities after Moscow seized control were left behind by the retreating troops.\n\nAn unspecified number have now been detained by Ukrainian forces and Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has warned that they will face charges.\n\nMeanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to re-enter negotiations with Ukraine as soon as possible during a 90-minute phone call on Tuesday.\n\nA German government read-out of the call said Mr Scholz urged Mr Putin \"to find a diplomatic solution as soon as possible, based on a ceasefire, a complete withdrawal of Russian troops and respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Treasury is considering removing a cap on bankers' bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules.\n\nSources said no final decisions had been made, but confirmed chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng considered it a way of making London a more attractive place for global banks to do business.\n\nCity bosses have long complained about the EU-wide bonus rules which cap bonuses at twice an employee's salary.\n\nThey say they lead to higher base pay that pushes up banks' fixed costs.\n\nThose costs cannot be adjusted in line with the firm's financial performance, they add, making the UK less attractive than the US or Asia.\n\nPeople close to Mr Kwarteng confirmed reports in the Financial Times that the new chancellor is considering the move.\n\nCritics have argued that uncapped bonuses lead to the kind of excessive risk taking that spawned the financial crisis of 2008.\n\nBut others argue that other new rules that can hold senior managers personally and potentially criminally responsible for misconduct, plus the ability to claw back bonuses years after they are granted, achieve a sufficient disincentive.\n\nTaking the lid off bankers' pay at a time when many households are facing hardship from the rising cost of living will undoubtedly provoke outrage in many quarters.\n\nThe proposal \"sends a rather confused signal when people are being squeezed in terms of the cost of living, and the government is trying to encourage pay restraint in the public sector\", Andrew Sentance, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, told the BBC.\n\n\"To appear to allow bankers to have bigger bonuses at the same time, doesn't look very well timed. There may be some longer term arguments for pursing this policy but I think the timing would be very bad if they did it now.\"\n\nRachel Winter, from Killick & Co, told the BBC: \"It's an absolutely terrible time for this headline when you've got inflation [at] a 40-year high, you've got so many people struggling with the cost of living, do we really want to be reading headlines about banker bonuses?\n\n\"Arguably the banks do pay a lot of tax, so I think the chancellor is looking at ways to boost the UK economy to get more banks to come to London, to stay in London and pay more tax.\"\n\nRemoving the cap is just one of a number of deregulation initiatives being considered.\n\nThe government is also keen to relax rules limiting the amount insurance and pension funds can invest in assets that are harder to sell at short notice - such as long-term infrastructure projects.\n\nThese rules are part of pan-European regulations collectively known as Solvency II.\n\nBut the Bank of England is concerned that relaxing the rules could expose pensioners' savings to greater long-term risk and that lowering the amount of ready cash firms are required to hold could see them pay out any money freed up to their shareholders rather than invest in projects favoured by the government.\n\nPitting the Treasury and the financial services industry against the Bank of England is seen as a key test of the Bank's independence and senior officials at the Bank have privately conceded the fight over Solvency II is a political one they could well lose.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng laid out his \"unashamedly pro-growth plan\" for the economy at a gathering of senior bankers two weeks ago.\n\nHe would argue that the instincts that persuade him to cut banking regulations are the same instincts that persuaded him to throw a £100bn-plus shield over businesses and households to prevent high energy prices causing a job-and-growth-killing recession.", "On Monday, President Zelensky raised the Ukrainian flag in the recently-liberated city of Izyum. The BBC visited soon afterwards to find a city cut off from power and water, but relieved at the arrival of Ukrainian troops.\n\nThe closer you get to Izyum, the more evidence there is of Russia's rapid retreat.\n\nUkrainian soldiers are grouped by the roadside near the city, inspecting the spoils of war with broad smiles.\n\nThere are two abandoned Russian tanks - the Ukrainian flag already planted on one of them. Troops hug in celebration as they try to use one tank to tow the other out of a ditch.\n\nJust inside the city another abandoned tank sits in the middle of the road - like a monument to Russia's defeat. A local man poses in front of it for a selfie, giving the tank a thumbs down.\n\nTwo women emerge from a minivan with a handful of small bags, including some groceries. Larissa, 61, and her friend Victoria, are returning to the city for the first time.\n\nPeople had been huddled in the centre of the building to keep warm when an airstrike hit\n\nLarissa says they left at the beginning of the war and are happy to be back. But the situation is complicated, as her home in the city centre was damaged. After speaking to us they set off on foot to stay with friends.\n\nTouring the city, we see many shelled and blackened buildings. Across the road from the damaged city council building, a few dozen people stand in a quiet queue in the afternoon rain waiting for aid, including jars of pickles, dried goods and bottled water.\n\nThe city is without running water, electricity or heat.\n\nThe dead are still being counted here but local officials saw 47 people - children among them - killed in an airstrike on a five-story block of flats back in March. The attack left a gaping hole in the middle of the building.\n\nAt the building today, we have a clear view into some of the apartments. A TV sits on a table in a top-floor flat. A few floors below, clothes still hang neatly in the wardrobe, as if their owner might wear them again. Three smiling women stare out of a photograph in a small album lying in the rubble.\n\nTatiana, 69, who lived in the building for 22 years, points out her singed balcony on the second floor.\n\nShe says the attack happened in the morning. She wasn't there because she had gone to the shelter.\n\nNeighbours who had taken shelter in the apartment block grouped together in the centre of the building for warmth, she says. The airstrike hit the centre of the building.\n\nOutside a city administration building - which was used by the Russians as their command centre - a Russian sign still hangs over the door, but a charred Russian flag has been thrown in the bin.\n\nInside boxes of files are scattered around in offices. At a nearby police station - where the Russians detained people in the cells - we find piles of Ukrainian passports. Local police say they were confiscated by the Russians during the months of occupation.\n\nTatiana, outside the building where she lived for 22 years", "Allegations of historical sexual and violent physical abuse at a private school in Edinburgh are being investigated by the police.\n\nPolice Scotland said there is a \"live and ongoing investigation\" into the claims of abuse at Edinburgh Academy.\n\nBroadcaster Nicky Campbell has previously spoken of being the victim of abuse at the school in the 1970s.\n\nEdinburgh Academy has apologised for the historic abuse and urged any victims to contact the police.\n\nMr Campbell, 61, revealed in July that he had witnessed and experienced sexual and violent physical abuse at the fee-paying school and that it had a \"profound effect on my life\" and had been \"obsessing me\" ever since.\n\nNicky Campbell has spoken about his experience of abuse at school in the 1970s\n\nMr Campbell is one of a number of former pupils who have made allegations about a 83-year-old former Edinburgh Academy teacher.\n\nThe man - who the BBC is not naming for legal reasons - lives in South Africa and has admitted abusing schoolboys in Edinburgh, according to court documents seen by the BBC.\n\nSouth Africa approved the UK's extradition request in 2020 and the teacher lodged an appeal which is due to be heard in October.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"This is a live and ongoing investigation in which we have a dedicated team carrying out enquiries. \"While the investigation of child abuse, particularly non-recent offences, can be complex and challenging, anyone who reports this type of crime can be assured that we will listen and we will investigate all reports, no matter when those offences occurred or who committed them.\"\n\nAnother former pupil of Edinburgh Academy told the BBC last month that the school was \"a cesspit of sadism and paedophilia\".\n\nKenneth said he was targeted for frequent, vicious beatings \"usually with a sporting implement called a clacken which is like a large wooden bat\", and described his time at the school as \"hell on earth\".\n\nIn a previous statement, a spokeswoman for the Edinburgh Academy said it \"deeply regrets what has happened in the past and apologises wholeheartedly to those concerned\".\n\n\"We have worked closely with the relevant authorities including Police Scotland with their inquiries and would like to provide reassurance that things have dramatically changed since the 1970s.\n\n\"The Academy has robust measures in place to safeguard children at the school with child protection training now core to the ethos of the Academy.\"\n\nThe Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has heard evidence about abuse at the Edinburgh Academy, as well as other private schools in Scotland.\n\nInformation and support for those affected by abuse is available at BBC Action Line.", "From Wednesday evening, a limited number of trains will run through the night on some routes to and from London, to help mourners get home.\n\nThey are among the extra services being put on by train companies in the coming days, and around Monday's state funeral.\n\nExamples include Great Western services from London Paddington to Reading, and Southeastern from Charing Cross to Tunbridge Wells.\n\nNot all operators are doing this.\n\nTransport bosses have predicted \"unprecedented\" demand for travel in the capital during the mourning period for the late Queen.\n\nHer coffin was taken from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall today, where she will lie in state until Monday, which has been declared a bank holiday. During this period Westminster Hall will be open 24 hours a day.\n\nTrains and tubes were busy on Wednesday as thousands of visitors streamed into central London to pay their respects.\n\nThe city's major railway stations were about 10% busier than usual up until 14:00 BST today.\n\nCharing Cross saw a particular increase, with 20% more people coming through this morning compared to last week.\n\nHowever, track operator Network Rail said it appeared fewer commuters had travelled today, with visitors attending today's procession and lying-in-state replacing them.\n\nFootfall at the big stations was still below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe London Chamber of Commerce and Industry said it expected fewer business people would be using public transport and possibly more employees would be working from home. It said the period of mourning would have an effect on business activity, with activities like external meetings being scaled back.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) data show there were 1.66 million entries and exits on London's Tube today before 10:00 BST, about 5% more than last Wednesday.\n\nPeople have been warned some tube stations may close temporarily to avoid crowding, and they have been told to avoid Green Park station which can currently only be used to exit or change lines.\n\nThere was only a small increase in bus usage today compared to the week before. Road closures around ceremonial events have meant diversions on some bus services.\n\nThe online ticket company Trainline says the number of people who have used its platform to book trains to central London stations next Monday - the day of the Queen's funeral - is up 53% compared with Monday this week.\n\nPeople are being advised to consider delaying train journeys home from London after Monday's state funeral, to avoid everyone rushing at the same time, meaning long queues for trains or crowding.\n\nWith road closures in place on Monday, National Express coaches that would have started and finished at Victoria coach station will run from Wembley instead.\n\nAvanti West Coast has added a few more daily train services to its current severely reduced timetable - the result of staff shortages - and is working on the possibility of adding some more at the weekend and on Monday. However, today a number of Avanti trains were cancelled.\n\nTrain strikes which were originally scheduled for Thursday and Saturday this week have been called off. However, disputes between the rail industry and unions remain unresolved, and new dates are expected to be set once the current period of mourning has ended.\n\nSince the last strikes took place, Grant Shapps has been replaced as transport secretary by Anne-Marie Trevelyan. She has invited the general secretaries of the RMT, Aslef and TSSA unions to meet her.\n\nOn Wednesday, a meeting went ahead with Mick Whelan of train drivers' union Aslef. It does not mean the government's position on the ongoing disputes has changed, but suggests the incoming Secretary of State may be looking to approach the situation in a less adversarial manner than that of her predecessor.", "Artem says he was held by Russians in a police cell for more than 40 days, and was electrocuted\n\nIn north-eastern Ukraine, a counter-offensive has seen the nation's forces recapture swathes of territory, and drive out Russian troops.\n\nBut in the newly-liberated areas, relief and sorrow are intertwined - as accounts emerge of torture and killings during the long months of Russian occupation.\n\nArtem, who lives in the city of Balakliya in the Kharkiv region, told the BBC he was held by Russians for more than 40 days and was tortured with electric shocks.\n\nBalakliya was liberated on 8 September after being occupied for more than six months. The epicentre of the brutality was the city's police station, which Russian forces used as their headquarters.\n\nArtem said he could hear screams of pain and terror coming from other cells.\n\nThe occupiers made sure the cries could be heard, he said, by turning off the building's noisy ventilation system.\n\n\"They turned it off so everyone could hear how people scream when they are shocked with electricity,\" he told us. \"They did this to some of the prisoners every other day... They even did this to the women\".\n\nAnd they did it to Artem, though in his case only once.\n\n\"They made me hold two wires,\" he said.\n\n\"There was an electric generator. The faster it went, the higher the voltage. They said, 'if you let it go, you are finished'. Then they started asking questions. They said I was lying, and they started spinning it even more and the voltage increased.\"\n\nArtem told us he was detained because the Russians found a picture of his brother, a soldier, in uniform. Another man from Balakliya was held for 25 days because he had the Ukrainian flag, Artem said.\n\nA school principal called Tatiana told us she was held in the police station for three days and also heard screams from other cells.\n\nWe visited the police station, and saw the Lord's Prayer scratched on the wall of one of the cramped cells, alongside markings to indicate how many days had passed.\n\nUkrainian police officers say as many as eight men were held in cells intended for two people. They say locals were scared to even pass the station when the Russians were in charge, in case they were grabbed by Russian soldiers.\n\nDestroyed military vehicles abandoned by Russian forces line the roads of Balakliya\n\nIn Balakliya's city centre, where the Ukrainian flag flies again, crowds gathered around a small truck carrying food supplies. Many in the queue were elderly and looked exhausted, but there were happy reunions too as friends embraced each other for the first time since the Russians were driven out.\n\nJust a short walk away at the end of a lonely laneway, some of their victims lie hastily buried by their neighbours. A crude wooden cross marked the makeshift grave of a taxi driver called Petro Shepel. His passenger - whose identity is still unknown - lies next to him.\n\nThe stench of death filled the air as the police exhumed their remains, and zipped them into body bags.\n\nThe authorities say the two men were shot near a Russian checkpoint on the last day of the occupation.\n\nPetro's mother, Valentyna, looked on as the bodies were exhumed, and she railed against the Russians who killed her only son.\n\n\"I want to ask Putin, why did he shoot and kill my son?\" she cried.\n\n\"What for? Who asked him to come here with such threatening weapons? Not only did he kill our children, but he killed us, their mothers.\n\n\"These days I am a dead woman. And I want to address all mothers of the world: rebel against that assassin.\"\n\nOn the road to Balakliya, we saw military vehicles marked with the pro-war \"Z\" symbol - apparently abandoned by the Russians as they fled.\n\nIn a nearby village, we were shown the extensive damage to the school. Local authorities said this was one of the last acts of destruction before the Russians were driven out.\n\nStanding in the ruins, the regional head of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, said the critical task now was to restore water and electricity supplies, but there are concerns the power lines could be mined.\n\nAsked by the BBC if he thought the Russians could return he replied: \"We are in war, there is always danger\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The woman was arrested in South Korea after Interpol issued a red notice\n\nSouth Korean police say they have arrested a woman accused of murdering her two children who were found in suitcases in New Zealand last month.\n\nIn a case that shocked the country, the bodies were discovered by strangers who had bought the abandoned suitcases from a storage unit in Auckland.\n\nThe bodies were believed to have been stored for a few years. Korean police said the victims were aged 7 and 10.\n\nNew Zealand has applied for the woman's extradition from South Korea.\n\nPolice in Auckland said they had worked closely with South Korean authorities in their search for the woman, after saying last month they believed she was in South Korea.\n\nThe woman had fled to South Korea in 2018 after the children's deaths, South Korean police said. She is a 42-year-old New Zealand national of Korean descent.\n\nA global Interpol warrant had been issued for her arrest. Officers arrested her on Thursday in a midnight raid on an apartment in the south-eastern city of Ulsan.\n\nIt followed a stakeout after investigators received tips about her whereabouts, Seoul's National Police agency said.\n\nLast month, New Zealand police said they were searching for the woman after they managed to identify the children, whose names have not been disclosed.\n\n\"To have someone in custody overseas within such a short period of time has all been down to the assistance of the Korean authorities and the coordination by our NZ Police Interpol staff,\" said New Zealand Police Detective Inspector Tofilau Fa'amanuia Vaaelua on Thursday.\n\nForensic investigators outside the home in Auckland's suburbs where the bodies were found last month\n\nPolice have requested the suspect be denied bail prior to her extradition to New Zealand where she faces murder charges.\n\nLocal media there reported the family had lived in Auckland for a few years and the children's father had died of cancer prior to their deaths. They reported the children's grandparents still live in New Zealand.\n\nThe children's bodies were discovered in early August after a separate family bought a trailer-load of goods, including the suitcases, in an online auction.\n\nThat family had no connection to the deaths and had suffered great distress in the period following the discovery, officers said.\n• None Bodies found in NZ suitcases were of young children", "Roy and Teresa Lee, with their daughter Serena, were among the first to attend the lying-in-state\n\nSome of the first mourners to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state in Westminster Hall have come away in tears, describing the sight of the cloaked coffin as overwhelming.\n\nRoy Lee, who queued for 11 hours with his wife and teenage daughter, said the dignity and solemnity of it made the hairs stand up on the back of his neck.\n\nHe was one of thousands queuing to pay their respects to the late monarch.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will remain in the hall until 06:30 BST on Monday.\n\nMr Lee's wife, Teresa, came out of the hall bursting with pride.\n\n\"Entering the hall was overwhelming,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"But being in there gave me such a feeling of pride. That she was the Queen of our country and she served us so amazingly. I felt proud to be British.\"\n\nAsked what was going through his mind as he stood beside the coffin, Mr Lee said he was \"saying a little thank you\".\n\n\"I'm not sure if that was the right thing but we did it in gratitude,\" he said. Mrs Lee wished the Queen would rest in peace and silently told her: \"You've done your job.\"\n\nThousands of people have queued to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II\n\nSurrounded by statuesque soldiers standing vigil in vibrant uniforms and with four candles burning beside it, the Queen's coffin is lying in state on a raised platform in the centre of the hall.\n\nThe mood as the first mourners entered was sombre with some crossing themselves while others bowed or took off their hats to show respect.\n\nTears streaked the faces of many.\n\nThere were no signs asking people to be quiet yet a near-silent hum could be heard as people slowly walked through the 11th Century hall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First mourners to see Queen lie in state speak to BBC\n\nOld friends Jane Ward and Clare Lynas, from Newbury, said they got lucky as a changing of the guard in the hall gave them an unexpected extra couple of minutes with the Queen.\n\n\"It was stunningly beautiful, very emotional and beautifully orchestrated,\" said Clare, 61, a retired headmistress.\n\n\"I wanted to say a proper goodbye. She deserves that.\"\n\nThe friends said time flew while they spent 12 hours queuing to pay their respects. The highlight came outside Lambeth Palace when the Archbishop of Canterbury made an appearance.\n\n\"He was fascinated by our wristbands,\" said Jane, 62, a former lawyer. He joked that he hoped his robes and cross would get him access to the Queen, she added.\n\nFriends Jane Ward and Clare Lynas said the 12 hours they waited just flew by\n\nFor Natalie Gladin, a 47-year-old mum from north Essex, the sight of the Queen lying in state was so overwhelming her tears were still falling as she spoke to the BBC.\n\n\"It's like losing your own family. I lost my dad last year, and my mum,\" she said.\n\nWith Violet, her 11-year-old, holding her hand tightly, she explained: \"In the queue it was really friendly and quite jovial. The minute you get to the doors, it changes.\n\n\"It's total silence and really, really sombre.\"\n\nShe said she was prepared to queue for days but they set off at 03:30 and by 17:30 they were filing very slowly, one by one, through the hall.\n\nHer daughters said they bowed their heads and curtsied when they reached the end of the coffin.\n\nAs she bowed her head, Ms Gladin said she wished the Queen well in the next life and to be reunited with those she has lost.\n\nNatalie Gladin, with her daughters, said she would have queued for days to see the Queen\n\nWith thousands of people expected to want to be part of the historic moment, a queuing system has been set up, which currently stretches two miles along the south bank of the River Thames.\n\nFences have been set up all the way to Southwark Park, some seven miles away, in case the queue stretches that far.\n\nAs night fell there were still thousands of people queuing towards London Bridge, with a respectful but cheerful atmosphere as people waited to witness a moment in history.\n\nWhile those who camped out overnight into Wednesday had to contend with heavy rain, those waiting into Thursday saw a drier night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First mourners arrive to pay their respects to the Queen\n\nThe government has warned that people could end up queuing for up to 30 hours to witness history.\n\nIt has published a live queue tracker for people to follow on YouTube - which shows the length of the queue in miles, as well as estimated queueing times and the nearest landmark to the back of the line.\n\nThe queue to enter the Queen's lying-in-state has stretched more than two miles\n\nPeople queue in Victoria Tower Gardens to pay their respects to the late Queen\n\nThe BBC is live streaming as people file past so that those unable to make it to London are able to pay their respects at home.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was brought to Westminster Hall in a sombre procession from Buckingham Palace, followed by the King and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nAfter a short service the first mourners were allowed in to pay their respects just after 17:00 BST on Wednesday.", "Displaced families have had to make their own shelters in Sindh - but there is no clean water\n\nPakistani health officials are warning of a looming health crisis in the country after devastating recent floods.\n\nThirty-three million people have been affected by the flooding, which has left nearly 1,500 dead since the middle of June.\n\nAs rescue and evacuation efforts continue in parts of the country, health experts are reporting a surge in dengue, malaria and severe gastric infections.\n\nMany displaced people are living near stagnant water. Dengue fever is already claiming lives and cases are increasing by the day.\n\nWhole areas of Sindh province like this area around Sehwan are under water\n\nAbout 3,830 cases of dengue fever have been reported by health officials in southern Sindh province, with at least nine deaths, but there are concerns this may be a conservative estimate.\n\n\"Overall the situation in Sindh is very bad, we are organising medical camps all over the province. Most of the cases we are seeing now are of dengue patients followed closely by malaria,\" Dr Abdul Ghafoor Shoro, secretary general of the Pakistan Medical Association, told the BBC.\n\n\"The dengue burden is the same all over the province and it's increasing daily. When we checked with the laboratories, the suspected cases are around 80% of tests being done.\"\n\nDr Shoro, who has been treating scores of dengue patients at Agha Khan hospital in Karachi, fears the situation is only going to worsen in the coming weeks.\n\nIt's been more than two months since the floods began and yet across Pakistan, thousands of villages are still submerged, leaving countless families displaced.\n\nWith roads in many remote communities still unusable because of water damage, some communities are forced to rely on mobile vans for their health care, but those are few and far between.\n\nMuna Sajjad has brought her one-year-old, Sakina, to a mobile clinic near Sehwan in Sindh province, hoping she will finally get medical care.\n\nMuna believes Sakina would have died if she hadn't made it to the clinic\n\nSakina has been unwell for some days with a gastric infection. Her mother holds her tightly to her chest to try to settle her, but Sakina won't stop crying - she is dehydrated, vomiting and in pain.\n\n\"Two of my children are unwell, I don't have any money to care for them, I lost everything in the floods,\" says Muna. \"If I had not made it to the clinic, I'm sure Sakina would have died. We have no food to even feed ourselves and our sick children.\"\n\nInside the packed van, there are sick children and adults everywhere and not enough hands to care for them. Doctors tell us they are overstretched.\n\n\"There are so many people, we are trying our best to get to everyone, but we do not have the capacity to help everyone,\" says a senior medic, Khalid Khosa. \"We are seeing hundreds of patients a day, but there are many more we cannot serve. It's not just us that are overwhelmed, it's like this across the province.\"\n\nDr Khosa is also a monitoring officer, looking into the scale of disease in the province. He tells us he is greatly concerned by the picture that is emerging.\n\n\"We are trying our best, but my biggest fear is that we're sitting with the makings of a human catastrophe. So many people are getting sick - it's dengue cases, malaria and gastro problems and we can't help them all.\n\n\"So what's going to happen? Of course there are going to be deaths, and we have to try and save them.\"\n\nHundreds of people, including Muna and her young family, have made makeshift tents on a small piece of land in Lalbagh, one of the few places untouched by the water. But even here, the impact is being felt.\n\nThe ground may be dry, but there is no food or clean drinking water. It's a situation growing more desperate by the day.\n\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern about the situation during his visit to flooded areas last week, where he met families now left with nothing.\n\nHe has described the world's responsibility to helping Pakistan as a matter of justice, not generosity, but how would he get richer countries to listen, I asked him.\n\nMr Guterres urged rich nations to help poor countries such as Pakistan to recover from tragedy.\n\n\"We need a world in which peace and security can only be guaranteed if you reduce inequalities,\" he told me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Pakistan is not responsible for this crisis, this was a product of climate change, this was caused by those that are populating the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. The G20, the biggest economies in the world, they represent 80% of the emissions, Pakistan less than 1%.\"\n\nOfficials now say it may take months before the water recedes in Sindh and life can resume. But many people here, like Muna, do not have that kind of time.\n\nShe and others whom I've met in the last few weeks have had their lives destroyed - and it is becoming painfully clear that there will be no quick remedies to help flood survivors.\n\nIt's a desperate place to be. People in Pakistan are hoping the world hears of their anguish - and that those with the power to help them rebuild their lives will do so soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe head of Russia's shadowy Wagner mercenary group has appeared in leaked footage attempting to recruit prisoners to fight in Ukraine.\n\nIn filmed footage, verified by the BBC, Yevgeniy Prigozhin can be seen addressing a large group of detainees.\n\nMr Prigozhin told prisoners their sentences would be commuted in exchange for service with his group.\n\nThe video would confirm long-running speculation that Russia hopes to boost its forces by recruiting convicts.\n\nWhile Russian law does not allow commutation of prison sentences in exchange for mercenary service, Mr Prigozhin insisted that \"nobody goes back behind bars\" if they serve with his group.\n\n\"If you serve six months (in Wagner), you are free,\" he said. But he warned potential recruits against desertion and said \"if you arrive in Ukraine and decide it's not for you, we will execute you\".\n\nHe also informed prisoners of Wagner's rules banning alcohol, drugs and \"sexual contacts with local women, flora, fauna, men - anything\".\n\nSpeaking in what appeared to be the penal colony's exercise yard, the mercenary chief also alluded to the difficulties Russia has faced in the protracted conflict, telling prisoners that \"this is a hard war, not even close to the likes of Chechnya and the others\".\n\nIt is unclear who filmed the video, when it occurred or how it was released.\n\nBut the BBC has geolocated the footage to a penal colony in Russia's central Mari El Republic. Analysts did this by conducting a reverse image search on a church visible in the background of the video, which matched to penal colony number six.\n\nA screengrab on the recruiter's face was also run through facial recognition software tools, returning a positive match of between 71% and 75% with an actual photo of Mr Prigozhin.\n\nSeparately, sources confirmed to the BBC's Russian service that the person in the video was likely Mr Prigozhin.\n\n\"This is his voice. His intonation. His words and manner of speaking... I'm 95 percent sure that this is him and this is not a montage,\" one source told the BBC.\n\n\"Very similar, his manner, and his voice is very similar,\" another said.\n\nThe 61-year-old's own company, Concord, refused to deny that he appeared in the footage, noting the \"monstrous\" similarity when approached by Russian state media.\n\nMr Prigozhin - who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin - has previously denied links to the Wagner group, whose forces have been deployed in Ukraine, Syria and several African conflicts.\n\nBut in the video, the oligarch can be seen telling inmates that he is a \"representative of a private war company\".\n\n\"Perhaps you heard the name - Wagner Group,\" he asks the group of prisoners.\n\nHe said recruits must be in \"good physical shape\", before revealing that the first 40 recruits from a penal colony in St Petersburg were deployed during an attack on Vuhlehirska Power Station in eastern Ukraine last June.\n\nHe said the prisoners had stormed the Ukrainian trenches and attacked Kyiv's troops with knives. Three of the men - including a 52-year-old who spent more than 30 years in detention - were killed, Mr Prigozhin said.\n\nLater in the video, he warned the convicts, who are all sporting black jump suits, that they will be expected to kill themselves with hand grenades if they are at risk of being captured.\n\nThe Wagner group's origins are shadowy, but it is believed to have been formed by an ex-Russian army officer, Dmitri Utkin.\n\nThe BBC has previously identified links between the group and Mr Prigozhin, known as \"Putin's chef\" - so-called because he rose from being a restaurateur and caterer for the Kremlin.\n\nThe collective is believed to have been deployed to Ukraine since 2014, and since Russia's invasion in February Ukrainian forces have carried out strikes on what they say were Wagner bases in occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nIn August, US defence officials said up to 80,000 Russian troops have been killed or injured since the war began in February, and Moscow has reportedly turned to Wagner to fill the gap left by the heavy casualties.\n\nLast month, independent Russian media spoke to inmates held in facilities in different locations in Russia who told them that Mr Prigozhin had personally visited their facility to recruit inmates to join the fight in Ukraine.", "Nadia had no idea her corgi Wilbur had such a famous relative\n\nNadia wanted to get a corgi because it was the Queen's favourite dog. When she finally adopted one, he came with more of a royal connection than she realised.\n\nThe 28-year-old welcomed Wilbur - \"the cutest puppy ever\" - last year.\n\nShe was browsing social media one day when she stumbled across an article about the Queen's newest corgi, Muick.\n\nAs she scrolled down, it dawned on her that Wilbur had come from the same breeder.\n\n\"I looked at the photo and thought 'Oh my God - the Queen has adopted his only brother',\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"There were only two in the litter.\"\n\nAfter the Queen's death last week, people began to ask what would happen to her beloved corgis.\n\nIt has since been announced that Muick, and the Queen's other corgi Sandy, will be going to live with her son Prince Andrew and his ex-wife.\n\nThe Queen with one of her other dogs as she looks at memorabilia in January this year\n\nAfter Nadia found out about Wilbur's famous brother she felt she \"had to tell the Queen\" and decided to write to Buckingham Palace.\n\nShe sent photos and copies his adoption documents to prove the canine siblings' connection, and to tell the Her Majesty she had been \"inspired by her and her love of the breed\".\n\nAbout 10 days later, Nadia says: \"We got a letter in the post with a royal stamp on it.\n\n\"The fact that we got a letter back as well - it's so cool.\n\n\"It said the Queen was delighted that we took the time to write to her, and she said it looks like Wilbur has an amazing home with us.\n\n\"So Wilbur lives in a small house and his brother's in a palace.\"\n\nNadia says she'll be making the trip to London with Wilbur to pay their respects to the Queen this week.\n\nBut she is just one of many young people who have decided to adopt a corgi in recent years.\n\nAmy Powell thinks the image of corgis as an \"older person's dog\" is slowly fading\n\nAmy Powell - a 21-year-old student studying to be a paramedic - decided to get a corgi with her boyfriend, Sam, last year.\n\nShe also says the Queen was the main motivator behind her choice of breed.\n\n\"When I was a bit younger, I always saw the Queen on TV with lots of corgis,\" she says.\n\n\"So I think a lot of it was growing up and seeing her with the dogs.\n\nAfter adopting her corgi - called Baxter - Amy says she was surprised to discover lots of people her age with corgis.\n\n\"I think they're still thought of as an older person's dog,\" she says.\n\nIn a Facebook post shared widely on a corgi-lovers' group last week, lots of owners around the UK said they believed their dogs had acted differently since news of the Queen's death broke.\n\nBut, according to groups such as the RSPCA, it's probably more likely that the dogs are recognising and reacting to their owner's emotions.\n\nAmy and Nadia both agree they've noticed a change in their own pets' behaviour.\n\n\"Wilbur has been acting a little bit differently and has definitely needed a little bit more love over the last few days,\" Nadia says.\n\nAmy says Baxter has \"never really been much of a lap dog\" but, after the announcement, \"he jumped up on our laps and wouldn't leave my side for the rest of the evening\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Ukrainian officials say as many as eight Russian missiles hit the dam on Wednesday\n\nRussian missiles have hit a reservoir dam near the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, officials say.\n\nResidents in some areas were told to evacuate, city head Oleksandr Vilkul said, but he added the situation was under control.\n\nUkraine said the strike was revenge by Russia for its recent counter-attack.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky - who was born in the city - described Russia as a \"terrorist state\" after the attack on the Karachunivske reservoir.\n\n\"You are weaklings who fight civilians,\" Mr Zelensky said in his late night address on Wednesday. \"Scoundrels who, having escaped from the battlefield, are trying to do harm from somewhere far away.\"\n\nThis was an apparent reference to Ukraine's recent military successes in a swift counter-offensive in the country's north-eastern Kharkiv region. It has seen Ukraine's army reclaim swathes of occupied territory, forcing Russian troops to retreat.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Zelensky said the reservoir had \"no military value at all\".\n\nMr Vilkul said that overnight two blasts were carried out to increase the water flow from the dam to the Inhulets river.\n\nWater supplies were affected by the attack in the city, which had a pre-war population of more than 600,000 people.\n\nWater broke through the dam and overflowed the banks of the river, flooding some houses, officials said.\n\nOn Thursday morning, Mr Vilkul said water levels in the Inhulets river had now \"dropped considerably\". He said there were no casualties.\n\nMoscow has not publicly commented on the reported missile strikes.\n\nRussia's military had earlier admitted hitting energy-generating targets that caused widespread blackouts affecting millions of people in eastern Ukraine last weekend.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Zelensky visited the recently recaptured city of Izyum, a key logistics hub in the Kharkiv region.\n\nHe thanked troops who took part in the counter-offensive, and pledged that the Ukrainian flag would return to every city and village in the country.\n\nThe pace of the Ukrainian advance appears to have taken Russian forces by surprise, with reports of some of Moscow's forces abandoning their uniforms to blend in with civilians.\n\nRussia has admitted that its forces have left some towns in the Kharkiv region - but refused to call it a retreat, instead insisting that its forces were regrouping. This claim was widely ridiculed in the West and even in Russia itself.\n\nAs Kyiv's forces move into previously occupied areas, allegations of Russian war crimes have started to emerge.\n\nLocals in the town of Balakliya, also in the Kharkiv region, told the BBC that Russian troops had tortured civilians at the town's police station during their occupation, while others recounted being electrocuted while in detention.\n\nWhile Russia still controls around a fifth of Ukraine's territory, towns in the eastern Donbas region that fell early in the war have now also become the target for Ukraine's military. Fierce fighting has been reported there in recent days.\n\nAfter failing to capture Ukraine's cities, including the capital Kyiv, in the north and north-east in March, Moscow said it was now focusing on the Donbas - parts of which were already under the control of Russian-backed rebels before the Russian invasion.\n\nRussia has insisted that it will press on with its invasion \"until all the goals that were originally set are achieved\".\n\nA separate Ukrainian counter-attack is continuing in the southern Kherson region, although troop advancements there have been slower.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The company's five UK villages will close on 19 September\n\nCenter Parcs is facing further backlash after deciding to close its UK villages on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe company originally told guests they would need to leave by 10:00 BST on Monday and not return until Tuesday.\n\nGuests already on holiday will now be able to stay, but people due to arrive on Monday will not be able to start their holidays until the following day.\n\nSome of them have told the BBC it had cost them extra expense and also a lot of stress.\n\nEllie Walters, who is getting married on Thursday, was due to check in on Monday for her honeymoon.\n\n\"I just think it's actually quite a disgrace because I'm so stressed about it,\" said Ms Walters, who is due to go to Center Parcs in Nottinghamshire.\n\n\"The trouble is you can't even get on the phone to them.\n\n\"You go away to have that relaxation and that stress-free time and just spend really nice quality time together, and you're left worrying and I don't think you should be doing that on your holiday.\"\n\nEllie Walters is due to stop at Center Parcs for her honeymoon\n\nCenter Parcs has said it is closing its villages \"as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment\".\n\nHowever, Ms Walters said it would have been better for staff and guests to watch the funeral together.\n\n\"Can you imagine how nice it would have been if everybody was at Center Parcs and they got a couple of screens up somewhere and everyone was together and watching it?\" she said.\n\n\"I think that would have been a better scenario than having to shut everywhere and create a lot of stress for all the guests.\"\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\nCenter Parcs told some guests on Twitter they would need to \"remain in their lodges\" on Monday, leading some people to compare the sites to prisons.\n\nHowever, Center Parcs has now said guests will be able to walk around the villages, which are in Cumbria, Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire, Suffolk and Bedfordshire.\n\nThe facilities, such as restaurants and swimming pools, will be closed.\n\nEmma Sherlock, 37, planned to arrive at Center Parcs in Nottinghamshire on Monday with her husband and three disabled children.\n\nShe said they had spent a long time saving up £1,200 to go on the five-night trip, and have now had to spend an extra £300 to stay in a hotel for the first night.\n\n\"We need a family room for the equipment because I've got three disabled children,\" she explained.\n\n\"Feeding tubes, suction machines, specialist beds, we've had to organise and hire.\n\n\"We're not going to have another holiday for ages now because of the cost of living going up.\"\n\nTheir holiday had already been postponed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe sympathised with Center Parcs staff who had been dealing with frustrated customers.\n\n\"I was on hold for two hours yesterday before they picked up and the lady was sobbing her heart out,\" she said.\n\nGuests will not be able to use Center Parcs facilities on Monday but can walk around\n\nDavid Tomlinson is among guests already staying at Center Parcs who were previously told they would need to leave for a day.\n\nFor him, this would have meant driving home to Solihull for two-and-a-half hours, then driving back to Nottinghamshire the day after.\n\nHe said the situation was still \"not ideal\".\n\n\"People are still paying for the use of those facilities they can't touch,\" he said.\n\n\"What riled me up yesterday was Center Parcs were responding to some people on Twitter but not to people with more serious issues.\"\n\nHe said he could understand some businesses closing, but people's holiday plans should not be changed at short notice.\n\n\"It's very different to McDonald's closing, which means you can't have a burger,\" he said.\n\n\"But people book to stay at Center Parcs a year in advance and pay quite a lot of money to go.\"\n\nA Center Parcs spokesperson said: \"Like many businesses we have taken the decision to close on Monday 19 September.\n\n\"This decision was taken as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "An Irishman accused of being \"one of Europe's biggest money launderers\" and a member of the Kinahan crime cartel has been remanded in custody in Spain.\n\nThe suspect is understood to be Johnny Morrissey, a 62-year-old Irish passport holder, who was arrested in Malaga on Monday.\n\nHe was in court in Spain on Wednesday in relation to money laundering.\n\nBut the hearing was held in private as is usual for Spanish pre-trial cases, according to Irish broadcaster RTÉ.\n\nIt reported that six international law enforcement agencies were involved in the investigation that led to Mr Morrissey's arrest this week.\n\nThose included Spain's Guardia Civil, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (US DEA) and An Garda Síochána (the Irish police force).\n\nThe Kinahan crime cartel was originally based in the Republic of Ireland, where some members were involved in a high-profile feud with a rival crime gang which has claimed several lives since 2015.\n\nKinahan cartel suspects operate in several countries and some alleged members have recently been hit with international financial sanctions from law enforcement agencies in the US, the UK and Ireland.\n\nEuropol - the European Union's police agency - released a statement after the arrest operation on Monday.\n\nIt did not name any suspect but it hailed the arrest of a man it described as \"one of Europe's biggest money launderers\".\n\n\"Linked to the Kinahan clan, the suspect is believed to have laundered €200m (£173m) in just over one year,\" said Europol.\n\nEuropol claimed that an 18-month international investigation had led to the discovery that €200m had been laundered through the Hawala underground banking system, which it described as \"an informal method of transferring money without any physical money actually moving\".\n\nIt revealed that some suspects had laundered money by creating a brand of vodka that was being sold in nightclubs and restaurants in Spain's Costa del Sol \"to disguise the source of their earnings\".\n\nEuropol also said that companies had been founded in the UK and Gibraltar to help launder illegal profits.\n\nTwo other suspects - a man and a woman - were also in court in Spain on Wednesday.\n\nThe man was also remanded in custody while the woman was released on bail.\n\nThe UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) said it had searched addresses in Greater Manchester and Glasgow as part of the investigation.", "Celia Marsh died in 2017 after eating a super-veg rainbow flatbread labelled as vegan\n\nThe manufacturer of the supposedly dairy-free yoghurt used in a Pret A Manger wrap eaten by a woman with a severe allergy broke down in tears at her inquest.\n\nCelia Marsh went into anaphylactic shock and died in the centre of Bath, shortly after eating the food.\n\nThe yoghurt produced by Planet Coconut contained starch supplied by Tate & Lyle PLC, the inquest heard.\n\nThe starch was identified as the possible source of the contamination.\n\nMrs Marsh, a 42-year-old mother of five, from Melksham in Wiltshire, died on 27 December 2017 despite the efforts of passers-by and paramedics to save her.\n\nA chemist who analysed the wrap previously told the inquest he believed it contained milk.\n\nPlanet Coconut is the UK manufacturer and distributor of products developed by Australia-based yoghurt company CoYo.\n\nBethany Eaton, the managing director of Planet Coconut, broke down in tears as she gave evidence at the inquest at Ashton Court, Bristol.\n\nShe told the hearing she had set up Planet Coconut with her husband in 2011 to manufacture dairy-free products and purchased a licence from CoYo founder Henry Gosling for exclusive UK rights.\n\n\"Dairy-free is something I am passionate about which is why we bought the CoYo licence,\" Ms Eaton said.\n\n\"I didn't ever dream it would contain dairy after he (Henry Gosling) sold me a licence.\n\n\"He said it was made in an allergen-free environment. He had a very good relationship with Tate & Lyle.\"\n\nCelia Marsh brought the wrap from a Pret A Manger branch in the centre of Bath\n\nMaria Voisin, the senior coroner for Avon, asked Ms Eaton whether she considered testing the starch.\n\nShe replied: \"We never tested the product because I was assured and believed it was being made in an allergen-free environment.\n\n\"I was told there was a separate line or facility that was entirely allergen-free and that's what we relied upon.\"\n\nShe said that since Mrs Marsh's death all products are now tested, irrespective of the source.\n\n\"I regret buying a licence and trusting the word of someone else,\" added Ms Eaton.\n\nAn earlier version of this story referenced 'sugar giant Tate & Lyle' but this has now been corrected and Tate & Lyle Sugars are in no way involved in this story.\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.", "Heathrow Airport has said about 15% of its schedule will be altered on Monday during Queen Elizabeth's state funeral.\n\nThis is to ensure the skies over London fall quiet during the events, it said.\n\nThere will be flight cancellations as a result, including 100 British Airways flights and four Virgin Atlantic flights.\n\nSeparately tens of thousands of passengers are set to be affected by a French air traffic control strike on Friday.\n\nAmong the cancelled flights will be many that fly over France, not just to and from the country.\n\nHeathrow said that all takeoffs and landings on Monday will be delayed for 15 minutes before and after the two-minute silence at the end of the funeral.\n\nFollowing that, there will be no arrivals between 13:45 BST and 14:20 BST during the procession of the hearse, and no departures between 15:03 BST and 16:45 for the ceremonial procession via the Long Walk to Windsor Castle.\n\nBetween 16:45 BST and 21:00 BST, departures will be reduced to support the committal service at St George's Chapel.\n\nFlights will also be diverted around Windsor Castle \"to minimise noise during the private family service and interment\", it said.\n\nIn a statement, Heathrow apologised for the inconvenience but said that \"as a mark of respect, operations to and from the airport will be subject to appropriate changes in order to avoid noise disruption at certain locations at specific times on Monday\".\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued guidance which means that air passengers whose flights are cancelled or badly delayed on Monday because of Heathrow's changes will not legally be entitled to financial compensation. That is because these are likely to be deemed extraordinary circumstances.\n\nHowever, airlines are offering customers refunds or re-bookings.\n\nBritish Airways said its cancellations were on short-haul European flights where multiple services run on the same route, and that it was adding larger aircraft where possible to help customers re-book on operating flights.\n\nAlternatively they can choose to have a refund. No long-haul BA flights will be affected but some will be re-timed.\n\nVirgin Atlantic also apologised for the inconvenience. A spokesperson said passengers on the affected flights, between Los Angeles, San Francisco and Heathrow, would be rebooked on alternative same-day services wherever possible, or could rebook for later dates, take a voucher or request a refund.\n\nIt said the airport and airlines were working closely with the air navigation service provider NATS to minimise the impact of these restrictions on passengers.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson added that extra staff would be on hand in terminals to support passengers, and that people were encouraged to travel on public transport instead of by car, because roads around the airport would be extremely busy.\n\nOther changes at Heathrow during the period of national mourning include observing the National Moment of Reflection with a one-minute silence at 20:00 on Sunday, showing the Queen's funeral on screens at the airport on Monday, and closing non-essential shops.\n\nShops deemed \"essential\", such as WH Smith, Boots and Travelex, will remain open along with restaurants, cafes and pubs.\n\nSeparately, tens of thousands of passengers are set be affected by a French air traffic control strike on Friday.\n\nRyanair has cancelled 420 flights, most of which were scheduled to fly over France, affecting 80,000 passengers.\n\nEasyJet is cancelling 76 flights, British Airways will cancel 22, while Air France said it would only run 45% of its short-haul flights.\n\nThe SNCTA air traffic control union said the walkout was over wages, as inflation soars, and recruitment.\n\nRyanair said all passengers affected had been notified this morning. The low-cost carrier normally operates more than 3,000 flights per day.\n\nNeal McMahon, Ryanair operations director, said it was \"inexplicable\" that thousands of European citizens and visitors \"will have their travel plans unfairly disrupted\".\n\n\"It is inexcusable that passengers who are not even flying to or from France are disrupted,\" he said.\n\nHe said French laws protect French domestic flights, but not ones flying over the country.\n\n\"It is time that the European Union step in and protect overflights so that European passengers are not repeatedly held to ransom by a tiny French air traffic control union,\" he said.\n\nRyanair called for other European air traffic controllers to be allowed to manage flights over France to ease the impact.\n\nBudget rival EasyJet said it had cancelled flights at the request of French authorities.\n\nEasyJet said: \"While this is outside of our control, we would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience they may experience.\"\n\nBritish Airways will cancel 22 flights - or 11 return - to and from Heathrow, including some which fly over France. It also said there could be some extra delays on the day.\n\nAir France KLM said the French civil aviation authority - DGAC - had asked airlines to cut their Friday schedules from all French airports by 50%.\n\nAir France said it would only run 45% of its short and medium-haul flights, and 90% of long-haul. It also warned delays and last minute cancellations could not be ruled out.\n\nThe flight cuts affect the whole of France, the DGAC said, adding that it was currently working with the European air travel regulator Eurocontrol to help airlines avoid the country's air space.\n\nStrikes across the aviation industry caused severe disruption to Europe's summer traffic, including ground and cabin personnel, who sought pay rises to cope with increased living costs amid high inflation.\n\nIn July, several strikes by firefighters and staff at Paris' Charles De Gaulle airport led to cancellations and delays.", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is to unveil his first financial statement\n\nA mini Budget to deliver tax cuts promised by Liz Truss during her Tory leadership campaign will take place on Friday next week, it is understood.\n\nPlans to hold the \"fiscal event\" this month were thrown into doubt by the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe new PM has vowed to cut taxes to boost the economy and help people with rising living costs.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng could also set out the estimated cost of plans to cap energy prices.\n\nHe will deliver his statement on Friday 23 September, four days after the Queen's funeral and the end of the official national mourning period.\n\nParliament is suspended during the mourning period, with normal business due to resume on Thursday next week.\n\nMPs were due to begin a three-week break for party conferences the next day, although it is understood talks are underway about changing this.\n\nThe government has also proposed shortening this conference recess by one week, so that MPs return on 11 instead of 17 October.\n\nMs Truss has promised to use the fiscal event to undo the rise in National Insurance brought in by her predecessor Boris Johnson.\n\nShe has also said she would temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills, in a bid to bring down prices for consumers.\n\nThe government is yet to give an estimated cost for its plan, unveiled hours before the Queen's death was announced, to limit energy price rises.\n\nThe scheme, which would mean a typical household energy bill would cost around £2,500 annually until 2024, could cost up to £150bn.\n\nThe government is also yet to give details of a separate scheme to limit energy price rises for businesses.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged the Treasury is considering removing a cap on bankers' bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules.\n\nSources say Mr Kwarteng considers it a way of making London a more attractive place for global banks to do business.\n\nBut critics have argued that uncapped bonuses lead to the kind of excessive risk taking that spawned the financial crisis of 2008.", "Sweden's prime minister has resigned after her government was defeated in Sunday's election.\n\nMagdalena Andersson's centre-left bloc lost narrowly to a bloc of right-wing parties, 176 seats to 173, with 99% of the votes counted.\n\nModerate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is now expected to form a government.\n\nHis right-wing grouping includes the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that has campaigned against rising gang shootings.\n\nIt is a huge blow to Andersson's Social Democrats, which gained votes compared to the last election, and remain Sweden's largest party.\n\nBut in Sweden, it is bloc politics that usually decides who gets into power and the right bloc has scored a razor-thin majority.\n\nThe final result is still to be confirmed after a recount, which is standard practice in Sweden.\n\nMs Andersson accepted defeat at a news conference on Wednesday. She formally offered her resignation on Thursday.\n\n\"In parliament, they have a one or two seat advantage,\" she said. \"It's a thin majority, but it is a majority.\"\n\nThe close-fought election campaign was dominated by gangs, immigration and integration issues, as well as soaring electricity prices.\n\nMs Andersson was the Nordic nation's first female PM when she took office last year - she quit on the first day, before returning soon after.\n\nShe has been edged out by a four-party right-wing block made up of the Sweden Democrats, Moderate Party, Christian Democrats and Liberals.\n\nIt is a momentous turning point for Swedish politics - the Sweden Democrats was once treated as a pariah by political parties, but has now won around 20% of the vote.\n\nIt vowed to \"make Sweden safe again\" by bringing in longer prison sentences and restricting immigration.\n\nHowever the party's leader Jimmie Akesson will not become prime minister, because he does not have the support of the other right-wing parties to take on the job.\n\nInstead, Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderates has said he will start work to form a government.\n\n\"I am ready to do all I can to form a new, stable and vigorous government for the whole of Sweden and all its citizens,\" he said on Wednesday.\n\nIt remains unclear whether Mr Kristersson's government will involve a coalition or formal cooperation with the Sweden Democrats. He has already held talks this week with the leaders of the Christian Democrats and Liberal parties as well as the nationalists.\n\nThe Sweden Democrats is a party born out of a neo-Nazi movement at the end of the 1980s, which has slowly grown stronger while attempting to polish its image.\n\nAlthough many of its policies are right-wing, it sits to the left of some other parties in the bloc on some economic issues, such as protecting the current level of unemployment insurance.\n\nIt started off growing its support base among rural working class voters, but this has now broadened. This year it has almost doubled its support amongst first-time voters, with some 22% of 18-21-year-olds voting for the party according to Swedish Public Service broadcaster SVT's exit poll survey.\n\nIn 2019 Mr Kristersson started talks with the Sweden Democrats after years of declining to cooperate with them - a move which has now changed Sweden's political landscape.\n\nMs Andersson told reporters on Wednesday that she understood those concerned at the party's growing popularity. \"I see your concern and I share it,\" she said.\n\nMagdalena Andersson's Social Democrats had governed Sweden since 2014 and dominated the country's political landscape since the 1930s.\n\nSunday's vote was one of the closest elections ever in Sweden, with thousands of overseas and postal votes needed to be counted to get a clearer picture of who the winner was.", "A trial in August ended in a jury being discharged after failing to reach a verdict and the media was barred from reporting the retrial until its conclusion\n\nA barrister has been jailed for four years for raping a woman.\n\nThe woman, who met Jacobs through the Tinder dating app, said she twice told him to stop and screamed at him before he moved away after 20 to 30 seconds.\n\nJacobs, from South Woodford, east London, said he believed the woman had consented. He shouted from the dock \"I didn't do it\" after he was convicted.\n\nJurors found him guilty after deliberating for four hours and 47 minutes to find him guilty of rape, by a majority verdict of 10 to two, following a retrial.\n\nJacobs appeared anxious and agitated in the dock before shouting: \"I didn't do it, I didn't do it. I was telling you the truth. I could have lied but I told you the truth. Oh my God.\"\n\nBefore briefly adjourning the court, Judge John Hillen KC told the defendant to \"calm down\".\n\nJailing Jacobs, Judge Hillen said the evidence showed the defendant had taken \"absolutely no steps\" to check if the woman consented to anal sex and the jury would have decided it was not reasonable for him to think she had.\n\nStephen Rose, defending, said the court was dealing with a \"mistake by the defendant of a few seconds\".\n\nPreviously, the court had heard how the couple met through Tinder in the summer of 2017. It was on their third date that the rape took place.\n\nIn a videoed interview played in court, the woman told police what happened.\n\nShe said Jacobs told her to \"wait a minute\" before forcing himself on to her.\n\n\"I told him to stop twice and he did not. I screamed 'get off', then he stopped and he did move away,\" she said.\n\n\"At that point I was just face down. I did not know what to do with myself, in quite a lot of pain.\"\n\nShe said: \"He asked me if I was going to report it to the police. He asked me if he would see me again, and then he also offered me paracetamol.\n\n\"There was no discussion, absolutely no warning, there was no touching, foreplay, warning. There was nothing.\"\n\nThe woman was examined at a specialist sexual assault clinic and found to have a fresh laceration measuring 2.5cm by 2mm, jurors were told.\n\nExperts agreed such an injury was likely to have been inflicted with \"at least moderate force\", the court heard.\n\nJacobs denied he had used the woman's body to \"pleasure himself\", saying: \"That's not what I am about.\"\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 Ukrainian military has released these pictures of seemingly-abandoned Russian vehicles in a river\n\nUkraine says it has made significant gains in pushing back Russian troops, retaking more than 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) of territory in recent days. Jonathan Beale, the BBC's defence correspondent, takes a closer look at why they have been so successful - and what hurdles Ukraine's forces may still face in winning the war.\n\n\"Don't underestimate the Ukrainian's ability to surprise,\" a senior US military officer told me early this summer, just as Russia was continuing to make advances in the Donbas.\n\nUkraine's ability to surprise has become a hallmark of this war: from the Russian retreat from Kyiv, to recent attacks in Crimea. Now there's another surprise happening in the east of the country.\n\nUntil now, it was Russia making most of the advances here - albeit a slow and grinding affair that was proving costly to its army. Now it's Ukraine making the gains, taking back thousands of square miles of territory in just a matter of days.\n\nThe biggest gains for Ukraine have been in the east around the city of Kharkiv. The UK's latest defence intelligence report says that Ukraine has now liberated an area twice the size of Greater London - though it's difficult to establish the level of advances and continuing fighting with journalists kept well away from the frontline.\n\nUkraine says it has captured the strategically important cities of Izyum and Kupiansk - military hubs used by Russia to resupply its forces in the Donbas. Those losses alone would be a major blow to the Russian army.\n\nSurprise has been the key to Ukraine's advances. That and the intelligent use of western weapons - including US and UK long-range multiple rocket launchers, used to destroy Russian supply lines, ammunition dumps and command posts. Last week, the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said long range artillery had hit more than 400 key targets over the summer period.\n\nBefore the arrival of these weapons, Russia had always had a numeric advantage in terms of artillery. But now, the tables appear to have turned: US intelligence officials claim Russia is having to seek the help of North Korea to resupply them with millions of artillery shells, suggesting their stocks have been seriously depleted in the six months of fighting.\n\nThat impact of those western weapons - combined with Ukraine's determination to take back territory - has forced Russian forces and their proxies into what looks like a chaotic retreat. Images on social media show tanks, armoured vehicles, weapons and ammunition left behind in a rush and abandoned.\n\nInterestingly, the advance in the east has been much faster than the Ukrainians' well-publicised offensive in the south towards the city of Kherson. Ukraine had telegraphed that offensive long before it got under way, while keeping quiet about its plans for the east. It all now appears to have been part of its plan: if not a diversion, then a screen to hide what it was preparing in the east.\n\nIt's clear it successfully wrong-footed Russia. Over the past few months, Russia's been redeploying forces from the east to bolster its defences in the south. Both fronts are now vulnerable.\n\nBut Ukraine is finding it harder to make gains in the south where they're more exposed, having to fight in mostly open countryside. An advancing army needs more troops and firepower to overcome a defending army.\n\nRussian troops have left behind equipment in their rush to pull back from the frontlines\n\nThe danger for Ukraine may now be similar to the one Russia faced in the early stages of the war. Trying to advance on multiple fronts can prove costly - in terms of ammunition, equipment, and troops. The bigger the gains the longer the supply lines - which can then be targeted by a defender. There's also the risk that those forces that have advanced furthest - creating a bulge in the defensive line - could become surrounded.\n\nDespite the optimism, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has warned that Ukraine's forces in the east could now be more vulnerable to a Russian counter-attack. Seizing territory is not enough. An army has to hold the ground too. That might prove easier if the local population are behind you.\n\nUkraine's double-pronged offensive is still risky. It could easily suffer setbacks. But this is much more than simply seizing back land - even if that is the ultimate goal.\n\nUkraine is sending a signal to the world that it really believes it can win this war. It's already using these gains to appeal for more western weapons. And the offensive comes at a critical time - just before winter when it'll be harder to fight and the will of the west will be tested. The war is far from over. But Ukraine is once again showing the world its ability to surprise and overcome the odds.", "Inside Westminster Hall, what struck me most was the incredible peace - the silence. It is a hall that I have been into many times. The silence was created not merely by the absence of the noise of our modern age, not merely by the fact there are no phones, no chatter, but something different.\n\nThis was not the silence of an ancient church or a cathedral. The thick deep pile carpet that has been laid on these ancient stones has seen to that - it muffles every footstep. No, the only silence here was in the wake of the \"tap tap\" once every 20 minutes. For the changing of the guard, \"tap tap\" is the signal that the change is about to happen.\n\n\"Tap tap\" - it came again. When the guards lowered their swords, \"tap tap\" one more time, as they lowered their heads bowed in respect. Beneath the bearskins, beneath the hats and caps, you see the faces of ordinary men and women proud to serve their country, to do their duty to pay their own special respects to the, now dead, Queen. They will not move, barely blink for 20 minutes, creating the scene that thousands upon thousands are coming here to witness, to say that they were there.\n\nOver the years, over the decades, I have seen some pretty extraordinary sights in Westminster, but nothing like what I witnessed in the early hours of this morning. Earlier, outside the hall in front of me was a full dress rehearsal for the Queen's state funeral - the Horse Guards with their shining helmets and red sashes.\n\nThere was the massed ranks of the guards who will stand guard for Her Majesty the Queen on Monday. This is what we will see and hear and join in as a nation, united in mourning. I was standing just outside Westminster Hall underneath a magnificent window presented to the Queen by members of Parliament back at the time of her Diamond Jubilee. I looked back at the people who have queued eight or nine hours through the night to take one last look at Her Majesty the Queen. One last look at the coffin topped with the magnificent crown.\n\nIn the queue, I spoke to them - they had no idea what it was they were about to experience.\n\nWhat I wanted to understand is why people who aren't as lucky as me - who had to queue for hours through the night - were willing to do so for a brief moment of seeing the Queen lying in state. There's always a danger when you are a journalist that people repeat back to you what they have heard other people say on radio and television - that it is a moment of history, or that they wish to pay their respects or that they want to see things for themselves.\n\nI found that when you probe a little deeper, what comes up again and again is a reference to how Elizabeth II carried out her duties, and not just the length of time she was on the throne. In other words the values that she stood for - duty, sacrifice, service.\n\nAs one woman told me that for her it was personal, the Queen symbolised her father's generation - one who believed in duty and commitment and service.\n\nIn other words, she represented a set of values, not merely a symbol as the Monarch. But it was her behaviour, the way she lived her life.\n\nAnother woman described her as an absolute icon - a fantastic person who cared about her people.\n\nThe few words that the Queen did publicly express over 70 years were used to bring people together, or to empathise - as she did so successfully during the pandemic. On other occasions she used them to reach out, as she did on her historic visit to Ireland in which she met with Martin McGuinness, the former IRA leader - the organisation which had murdered her cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten.\n\nThe question all of this raises that can't be answered now is whether this is about respect for the woman who has died, or for the institution of the Monarchy.\n\nAs Prof David Olusoga told me on the Today programme this morning, this is surprising and yet it is not unusual. Surprising because it hasn't happened for 70 years but not unusual because it is how people in this country have reacted to the death of previous monarchs.\n\nWhat remains to be seen is whether those who don't feel moved, or do feel somewhat alienated by the sheer level of coverage of this event, will connect with the new King and eventually his successor the Prince of Wales - when, and if, he becomes the monarch. So the questions about the links between the monarchy and empire, or hierarchy, deference, and class, have not gone away - they will be asked in the future.\n\nBut here and now, what is striking is the extent to which the death of a 96-year-old woman has united people across all four nations, across all classes, across generations and across all backgrounds.", "Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and friends from across the globe were among the 2,000 guests at the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHere's who was in the abbey, and where they were seated.\n\nClosest to the Queen's coffin were her four children and their spouses. King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, sat alongside the Princess Royal and her husband, the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sat directly behind the King while the Prince and Princess of Wales sat across the aisle from them.\n\nAll of the Queen's eight grandchildren sat in the front two rows, days after they stood together in vigil at the lying-in-state. Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, seven, were the Queen's only great-grandchildren to attend the service.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife the Duchess of York was in the second row next to her daughter Princess Eugenie.\n\nShe sat next to the Queen's nephew, the Earl of Snowdon. The earl, David Armstrong-Jones, is the son of the Queen's late sister, Princess Margaret and the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.\n\nHis sister Lady Sarah Chatto, who was close to the Queen, was also at the service with her husband Daniel Chatto and her two sons.\n\nOther members of the Queen's family sat in the first few rows included her cousins, the Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent.\n\nSome of the Queen's god children were also there including Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer.\n\nClose friends also attended. Ladies-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey and Dame Mary Morrison, were seen arriving alongside Angela Kelly, the Queen's personal dresser and one of her closest confidents.\n\nThe Queen Consort's children were invited - Laura Lopes, second from left, and Tom Parker Bowles.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary were alongside other cabinet ministers. All of the UK's surviving former prime ministers were also seated in the quire of the abbey.\n\nIn the middle row was Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson, Philip May, Theresa May, David Cameron, and Samantha Cameron.\n\nIn the front row were Sarah Brown, Gordon Brown, Cherie Blair, Sir Tony Blair, Lady Norma Major and Sir John Major.\n\nAll monarchs were invited to the funeral and the vast majority flew to London for it.\n\nDenmark's Queen Margrethe II - now the only female monarch in the world - sat opposite King Charles close to the coffin.\n\nOther kings and queens from The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Norway and Belgium also attended - as did the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.\n\nIt also marked the first international visit for the Emperor and Empress of Japan since they ascended the throne three years ago.\n\nMalaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah were seated behind King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government were thought to have been in the abbey.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and his wife Jill were sat in the 14th row behind the Polish president Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda.\n\nThe president of France, Emmanuel Macron, was with his wife Brigitte. Mr Macron, who met the Queen three times, had said that she had been \"a friend of France, a kind-hearted queen, who has left a lasting impression on her country and her century\".\n\nOther heads of government who were there included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is among those not invited\n\nRepresentatives from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan were not invited. This is because the UK does not have full diplomatic relations with these countries.\n\nNo-one from Russia, Belarus and Myanmar was invited either.\n\nDiplomatic relations between the UK and Russia have all but collapsed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was \"not considering\" attending the funeral.\n\nThe invasion was launched partially from the territory of Belarus. And the UK has significantly scaled back its diplomatic presence in Myanmar since a military coup last year.\n\nNorth Korea (DPRK) and Nicaragua were invited to send only ambassadors, not heads of state.\n\nHuman rights groups had criticised the decision to invite Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The prince has been accused by Western intelligence of ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Prince Turki Bin Mohammed al Saud attended the funeral instead.\n\nGraphics by Mark Bryson, additional reporting by Daniel Rosney and the Visual Journalism team", "The King and his sons, Princes William and Harry, have walked behind Queen Elizabeth's coffin as Her Majesty made her way to Westminster Hall.\n\nThe Queen's other children, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Prince Andrew, also joined the procession.", "Major shops and businesses across the UK shut their doors as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.\n\nKing Charles III approved a bank holiday on Monday for the state funeral at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt was up to employers to decide whether to give staff the day off to observe the national day of mourning.\n\nMany supermarkets and shop chains decided to close their doors, while others limited opening hours.\n\nHere's an at-a-glance guide to what was open and closed on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nIt is thought more than a million people travelled to London for the state funeral so some convenience stores stayed open to give them access to food and drink.\n\nJohn Lewis is among the stores that will close in order to mark the Queen's funeral\n\nDepartment stores Harrods, Selfridges, John Lewis and House of Fraser have shut their doors, while some shopping centres were showing the funeral on big screens.\n\nCenter Parcs backtracked on its plan to ask guests to leave on Monday after complaints from angry holidaymakers\n\nHoliday resort Center Parcs backtracked over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral. Guests have been allowed to stay but on-site facilities including restaurants are shut. Butlin's holiday resort stayed open on Monday, with some changes to arrival times. Some leisure operators decided to close their doors as a mark of respect.\n\nEastEnders fictional pub the Queen Vic played tribute to the Queen in a special scene\n\nSome of the UK's largest pub and restaurant chains stayed open as a place for communities to come together to remember the Queen.\n\nOther aspects of daily life have also been put on hold on the day of the state funeral.\n\nPost offices were closed after Royal Mail announced its services would be suspended. Some of the UK's biggest strikes by postal workers and rail staff have also been put on hold.\n\nMajor London train stations will be open and hundreds of extra train services have been scheduled with some running through the night.\n\nPharmacies such as Lloyds and Well Pharmacy were shut all day.\n\nSome funerals that were scheduled for Monday have been postponed, in some cases at the request of the bereaved families and others because cemeteries and crematoria are closed for the day.\n\nThe government advised on its website that the additional bank holiday \"will allow individuals, businesses and other organisations to pay their respects to Her Majesty and commemorate Her reign, while marking the final day of the period of national mourning\".\n\nAlthough it says that some businesses \"may wish to consider closing or postponing events\", there is no statutory entitlement to time off for workers.", "Mr Putin (far left) and Mr Xi (far right) met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand\n\nVladimir Putin has acknowledged China's \"concern\" over Ukraine, in his first face-to-face talks with President Xi Jinping since the Russian invasion.\n\nBut speaking in Uzbekistan, Mr Putin also thanked China for its \"balanced position\" - and said US \"attempts to create a unipolar world\" would fail.\n\nMr Xi said China was willing to work with Russia as \"major countries\".\n\nChina hasn't endorsed Russia's invasion but has grown trade and other ties with Moscow since it was launched.\n\nThe two leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand comes at a crucial point in the Ukraine war, as Russian troops lose ground in parts of the country.\n\n\"We highly value the balanced position of our Chinese friends when it comes to the Ukraine crisis,\" Mr Putin told Mr Xi, on only his second foray abroad since February's invasion.\n\nRevealing that China had \"questions and concern\" about the situation in Ukraine, he said he understood.\n\n\"During today's meeting, we will of course explain our position,\" Mr Putin said.\n\nIn contrast to Mr Putin's statement, the Chinese government readout after the meeting notably did not mention the Ukraine war.\n\nBut it said Russia and China would extend \"strong mutual support\" on core interests. Together, the two would play \"a leading role in injecting stability into a world of change and disorder\", and Beijing called their partnership \"as stable as mountains\".\n\nThe invasion has plunged Moscow into its worst crisis with the West since the Cold War and has sent global food and energy prices soaring.\n\nIt also poses a huge challenge for China - whose relations with the West have nosedived in recent years over issues including human rights and the future of Taiwan.\n\nMr Putin and Mr Xi have met dozens of times over the years but their latest talks received particular scrutiny.\n\nTheir growing relationship - which they characterise as a bulwark to Western dominance - signifies a major shift in the world order following the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.\n\nThe roles are reversed now, with China the dominant partner, having risen to become an economic superpower.\n\n\"Putin is getting more out of it than Xi - Russia is quite isolated internationally,\" Professor Emeritus Rosemary Foot, a senior research fellow in international relations at Oxford University, told the BBC.\n\n\"So it's important to show that China is a supportive partner, not an ally but certainly a supportive actor. There is a close relationship.\"\n\nFor Mr Xi, who described Mr Putin as \"an old friend\", the optics of the meeting were also significant.\n\nHe is seeking a historic third term at a Communist Party congress next month, and his visit to Central Asia is the first time he has left China since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nHis trip comes amid fresh lockdowns in China, where his \"zero Covid\" policy is still in place. While the rest of the world has opened up, Beijing continues to shut down entire cities and provinces every time cases flare up.\n\nChina and Russia have long sought to position the SCO, founded in 2001 with four ex-Soviet Central Asian nations, as an alternative to Western multilateral groups. India, Pakistan and Iran are also members.\n\nDuring their last meeting in February - when Mr Putin travelled to Beijing for the Winter Olympics at Mr Xi's invitation - the two sought to demonstrate their close ties, famously declaring they shared a friendship with \"no limits\".\n\nDays later Russia invaded Ukraine, prompting international condemnation and sanctions, while putting the China-Russia relationship under an intense spotlight.\n\nBeijing has urged an end to hostilities and stressed the importance of national sovereignty. But it has also refused to call the war an invasion, as Russia refers to it as a \"special military operation\".\n\nIn recent weeks China has sent troops to take part in joint military exercises with Russia, and sent senior officials to meet Russian counterparts. It has also come to Russia's economic aid as Western sanctions were imposed.\n\nThis relationship has been a win-win for both countries. With Europe reducing its dependency on Russian oil and gas, China has increased its purchases, which it is reportedly getting at discounted rates.\n\nLast month Beijing also agreed to pay for gas in Russian roubles and Chinese yuan, giving Moscow a much-needed alternative to dollars as a foreign reserve, while furthering China's interests in boosting the yuan as an international currency.\n\nThe two leaders met in Beijing during the Winter Olympics\n\nBut China appears to have drawn a line.\n\nUS intelligence says Moscow is so desperate for weapons, it has turned to Iran and even North Korea for supplies. It has also apparently approached China - but there has been no indication so far that Beijing has agreed.\n\nSome experts believe that despite the rosy picture of comradeship, Mr Xi will want to maintain some distance between him and Mr Putin for several reasons.\n\n\"It would be spectacularly inept to choose the moment of maximum Russian tactical retreat in Ukraine to lean into Moscow even harder than Beijing already has,\" said Evan Feigenbaum, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a recent commentary.\n\nAnother concern for Mr Xi is that former Soviet Central Asian countries, four of which are members of the SCO, do not support Russia's invasion of Ukraine - which also used to be part of the USSR.\n\n\"[Mr Xi] must be very aware that Central Asia is unhappy and nervous about what's going on,\" Prof Foot told the BBC.", "While some Wall Street banks launch return-to-office battles in London and New York, Citigroup is trying a different tack: offices at the beach.\n\nThe bank has opened a new hub for junior staff in the seaside city of Malaga, on Spain's Costa del Sol.\n\nIn addition to sun, staff are promised a reprieve from the industry's traditionally gruelling hours.\n\nThough salaries are also lower, more than 3,000 people applied for a spot, the bank said.\n\nThe bank has hired 27 people so far, from a stated goal of 30. The group, most of them aged 22 to 26, is drawn from 22 countries and speaks 15 different languages.\n\nIts staff in Malaga will work eight-hour days with no weekend work for around half of the $100,000 (£86,000) starting salary offered for the same roles in London and New York.\n\nAccording to one career website, investment bankers in London typically work a 65-70 hour week in quiet periods, although this can rise to as many as 100 hours in busy periods.\n\nCiti formally opened a new office in Malaga on Wednesday\n\nThe first day at the office, which formally opened on Wednesday, included a round of hobnobbing with Malaga's mayor, Citi said.\n\nOfficially, the new recruits will assist teams working with clients in a range of industries, including property, technology and healthcare. Bank representatives said the jobs are office-based, not remote,\n\nCiti first announced the plan in March, saying it was meant to help it reduce turnover and draw new people to the industry, which has seen its allure fade as tech companies and other firms in finance dangle similarly high salaries but less demanding days.\n\n\"Low levels of junior banker retention are being seen across the industry, and the message is clear: the key driver behind many junior-level departures is the search for a better work-life balance. At Citi, we are listening,\" Manolo Falcó, the bank's global co-head of banking, capital markets and advisory said at the time.\n\nThe bank has also raised starting salaries, while Citi boss Jane Fraser, the first woman to lead a Wall Street bank, famously declared Zoom-free Fridays last year, calling for a \"reset\" from the \"relentlessness of the pandemic workday\".\n\nThe moves come as the pandemic has lain bare strains in banking's infamously tough work culture.\n\nIn recent years, for example, young staff at Goldman Sachs have revolted against senior managers, taking gripes about burnout, return-to-office demands and, most recently, allegedly stingy coffee perks to the press.\n\nIn May, Goldman appeared to soften its image when it said senior staff would be allowed to take as much holiday as they wanted in order to \"rest and recharge\". Junior bankers, however, will still only be entitled to a fixed amount of holiday.\n\nThe bank follows tech firms LinkedIn, Bumble and Netflix in introducing the perk.", "Retailers John Lewis and DFS have said customers are cutting back on the amount they spend due to the rising cost of living.\n\nJohn Lewis said while shopper numbers were higher than last year, customers were spending less and avoiding buying as many \"big ticket\" items.\n\n\"No one could have predicted the scale of the cost of living crisis,\" said John Lewis boss Dame Sharon White.\n\nThe company reported a loss of £99m for the first half of its trading year.\n\nSofa retailer DFS Furniture reported slumping annual profits due to a dip in consumer spending, saying order numbers had \"softened markedly\" as shoppers tightened their belts.\n\nAlso on Thursday, fashion chain H&M filed lower-than-expected quarterly sales., but said it had seen a \"better start for the autumn collections than last year\".\n\nDame Sharon said customers were less likely to splash out on \"big ticket\" household items and were moving their spending to dining out at restaurants and to holidays.\n\n\"No one could have predicted the scale of the cost of living crisis that has materialised, with energy prices and inflation rising ahead of anyone's expectations,\" she said.\n\n\"As a business, we have faced unprecedented cost inflation across grocery and general merchandise.\"\n\nHowever, she said it was \"not unusual\" for the John Lewis Partnership to report a loss in the first half of the year as its trading is \"heavily skewed\" to Christmas, with most of its profits made in the final months of the year.\n\nIn the first half of last year, the partnership reported a loss of £29m.\n\nDame Sharon White said the outlook was \"highly uncertain\"\n\nThe company said its losses this year were due to a combination of rising wholesale prices for goods not being passed on to customers, households cutting back on spending, and the \"unwinding\" of Covid shopping habits.\n\nIt said it chose to \"forgo\" profit to help staff and customers through the cost-of-living crisis. The employee-owned group announced a £500 one-off payment to full-time workers, with a pro-rata amount for those working part-time, to support staff.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the \"fight is on for consumers' remaining disposable cash\".\n\nShe said DFS was the \"latest\" company to warn of the the \"painful effects\" of inflation.\n\n\"DFS is not only having to cope with a slowdown due to purchases which were brought forward during the pandemic, but now as household bills mount for essentials like food and heating, a plush new sofa is a luxury many consumers are happy to do without,\" she said.\n\nOverall UK inflation, which measures the rate at which prices rise, is running near a 40-year high, but the rate eased for the first time in almost a year in August, slipping to 9.9% from July's 10.1%.\n\nFood prices have been increasing around the world following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has been one of the factors pushing up prices at supermarket tills, and Waitrose said its sales were down 5% on last year, with basket sizes \"smaller by nearly a fifth\".\n\nThe Bank of England has warned inflation could top 13% this year, and is expected to keep increasing interest rates in an attempt to control it.\n\nJohn Lewis said its fashion sales increased as people shopped for travel and summer breaks. However, revenue from its home and technology ranges, which performed well during the height of the pandemic, declined.\n\nThe company said the impact of the rise in the cost of living, specifically around energy costs, was \"evident in patterns of spending\", with sales of its own-brand items rising 28% and energy saving goods, such as air fryers and smart thermostats, increasing.\n\nDame Sharon said the outlook for the rest of the year was \"highly uncertain owing to the cost of living crisis and its impact on discretionary spending as well as criticality of our Christmas trading period\".\n\nShe said a successful Christmas was \"key for the business\", adding a bumper festive period beyond previous years was needed to \"generate sufficient profit\" for the company to be able to pay staff their usual bonus.\n\nLast month, Dame Sharon told the BBC that an exodus of over-50s who left the workforce during the Covid pandemic had fuelled wage inflation.\n\nThe UK has seen one million people, mostly in their 50s, leave work since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, with job vacancies at a record high.\n\nIt has meant employers who want to attract and retain staff are under pressure to lift wages, which in turn fuels inflation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Russian mercenary boss has defended the idea of sending prisoners to fight in the Ukraine war after a video showed him recruiting at a prison.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group, said those who do not want to send convicts to fight should send their own children instead.\n\nEarlier, leaked footage showed him telling inmates they would be freed if they served six months with his group.\n\nThe Wagner group is believed to have been fighting in Ukraine since 2014.\n\nIn a statement published on social media after the video went viral, Mr Prigozhin said that if he were in prison he would \"dream of\" joining the Wagner group to \"pay my debt to the Motherland\".\n\nHe added a message to those who do not want mercenaries or prisoners to fight.\n\n\"It's either private military companies and prisoners, or your children - decide for yourself.\"\n\nHowever, the statement did not explicitly address the video or admit that it was genuine.\n\nThe UK's defence ministry said the recruitment of prisoners indicated that Russia was suffering from a \"critical\" shortage of combat infantry troops.\n\nThe video - verified by the BBC - would confirm long-held suspicions that Russia hopes to increase troops by recruiting prisoners.\n\nRussian law does not allow prisoners to be freed in exchange for military or mercenary service, but Mr Prigozhin said in the video that \"nobody goes back behind bars\" if they serve with the Wagner group.\n\n\"If you serve six months, you are free,\" he said. But he warned potential recruits against desertion, adding: \"if you arrive in Ukraine and decide it's not for you, we will execute you\".\n\nThe video appears to have been taken in the prison's exercise yard. It is not known who filmed it, when, or how it was released.\n\nThe BBC geolocated the footage to a penal colony in Russia's central Mari El Republic. Facial recognition tools suggested the recruiter was Mr Prigozhin, and this was separately confirmed by multiple sources.\n\nThe BBC has previously identified links between the group and Mr Prigozhin, known as \"Putin's chef\" - so-called because he rose from being a restaurateur and caterer for the Kremlin.\n\nIn the past, the Putin ally has denied a connection with the organisation.\n\nBut in the leaked prison video, the oligarch can be seen telling inmates that he is a \"representative of a private war company\".\n\n\"Perhaps you heard the name - Wagner Group,\" he asked the group of prisoners.\n\nThe group, whose origins are shadowy, has been deployed in Ukraine, Syria and several African conflicts.", "Migrants outside the vice president's residence in Washington DC on 15 September.\n\nTwo buses carrying migrants were sent from Texas to just outside Vice-President Kamala Harris's residence in Washington DC on Thursday, amid a growing political row over immigration.\n\nThe state's Republican governor said the move was intentional and called for tighter immigration policies.\n\nIt comes a day after Florida sent migrants to a Massachusetts island.\n\nBoth states appear to be escalating a tactic which has seen Republican states send migrants to Democratic areas.\n\nAs political tension over the number of people arriving at the US-Mexico border grows, states such as Texas and Arizona have sent thousands of migrants to cities such as Chicago, New York and Washington DC which they accuse of failing to fully enforce immigration laws.\n\nWhile legal experts say the tactic will likely be challenged in court, it remains unclear what the legal basis for such a challenge would be.\n\nImmigration groups in both Washington DC and the wealthy Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard said they were not given an advance warning about the arrivals.\n\nFootage shown on Fox News showed two buses - reportedly carrying between 75 and 100 people - arriving near the vice-president's residence and migrants, who were mostly from Venezuela, gathering their belongings and standing nearby. A non-governmental organisation later came and reportedly transported them to a church.\n\n\"Harris claims our border is 'secure' [and] denies the crisis,\" Texas Governor Greg Abbott later wrote on Twitter. \"We're sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job and secure the border.\"\n\nAmong the migrants on the buses in Washington were Delinyer Mendoza and his partner Maybel, a young Venezuelan couple who arrived in the US five days ago after an arduous trek through Central America and Mexico.\n\nWhile officials in Texas told the couple they were headed to Washington, the pair only learned that they were at the vice-president's house when told by journalists.\n\n\"We didn't know,\" Maybel said. \"We're finding out about this from you all... we're in limbo and were just going to walk around not knowing where we were.\"\n\nThe pair said they planned to spend the day with a local humanitarian organisation before heading north to New York, where Mr Mendoza has family.\n\nAnother migrant, Cuban national Leonardo Perdomo, told Reuters that he had boarded a bus in Texas after officials offered him passage to Washington \"free of charge\".\n\nA local volunteer helping the migrants, Carla Bustillos, was quoted as saying that immigration organisations were only told about the arrivals at the last minute. \"While we're doing this political show, we have human beings feeling that their suffering is being exploited,\" she said.\n\nThe migrants, including children, arrived in Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday afternoon\n\nIn a similar move on Wednesday, two planes carrying migrants were flown to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The resort is a traditional summer destination for Hollywood stars and former President Barack Obama is among those who have holiday homes in the area.\n\nThe migrants, including children, arrived at about 15:00 (11:00 GMT) on Wednesday without any warning, according to Massachusetts State Senator Julian Cyr.\n\nOfficials and volunteers then \"moved heaven and earth\" to set up the response like \"we would do in the event of a hurricane\", he said. Migrants were given food and clothing as well as being tested for Covid.\n\nMany did not know where they were, according to Massachusetts state Representative Dylan Fernandes. They had been told they would be given housing and jobs, he said.\n\nOn Twitter, Mr Fernandes described the move as an \"evil and inhumane\" plot to use \"human lives - men, women and children - as political pawns\".\n\nSpeaking at an event in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis said the state was willing to help facilitate the movement of migrants to be able to go to \"greener pastures\".\n\nHe also said Florida was not a \"sanctuary\" state. So-called sanctuary cities in the US are cities that have policies to aid undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"All those people in DC and New York were beating their chest when Trump was president, saying how they were so proud to be sanctuary jurisdictions,\" Mr DeSantis said. \"The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk.\"\n\nAleksander Cuic, an immigration lawyer and the director of the Immigration Clinic at Case Western Reserve University's school of law, said that while he believes efforts to relocate migrants in this way will be legally challenged, it is still unclear what - if any - laws may have been broken.\n\n\"The big question is what they are being told, and if there is any sort of fraud or inducement,\" he told the BBC. \"But how would anyone know if there's nothing in writing? It could be that they [the migrants] are willingly saying they'll go if there are jobs and opportunities.\"\n\nMr Cuic added that authorities in Texas and Florida are likely to argue they \"are doing the same thing\" as the government, which regularly moves detained migrants around the country.\n\nGovernor DeSantis has previously cited Martha's Vineyard as a possible destination for migrants being sent out of his state, telling reporters last year that if they were, the \"border would be secure the next day\". This year, Florida representatives set aside $12m (£10.4m) for transporting migrants.\n\nIt is unclear how many migrants Florida plans to send to other states. The BBC has reached out to Governor DeSantis' office for comment.", "The queue to see the Queen Elizabeth lying-in-state stretches from Westminster Hall all the way past Tower Bridge, along the south bank of the River Thames.", "The Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday, after her coffin has been lying in state for the last four full days.\n\nHere is your guide to what will happen, day by day.\n\nMonday is the day of the Queen's state funeral. It is also a bank holiday in the UK.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state will end at 06:30 BST when the last people will file past her coffin. The doors to Westminster Abbey will then open at 08:00 ahead of the funeral.\n\nAt 10:44, the Queen's coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and it will be drawn by 142 sailors from the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III will walk behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nThe procession will be led by a massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force - numbering 200 musicians.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive at the Abbey at 10:52. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.\n\nAt around 11:55, the Last Post will sound, followed by a national two-minute silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12:00.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will travel in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. The King and senior royals will walk behind the coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will follow the procession by car. Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals.\n\nFrom there the coffin will be taken by a state hearse to Windsor. Shortly after 15:00, the hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nThe three-mile (5km) avenue will be lined with members of the armed forces.\n\nA committal service will then begin at 16:00. Attended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, it will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nAfter, the Queen will then be lowered into the royal vault.\n\nLater in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen will be buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "Firefighters at the ruins of a house in Sotk, which Armenia claimed had been hit by Azeri shelling\n\nMore than 100 Armenian soldiers have been killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan since Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said.\n\nAzerbaijan said on Thursday that 71 of its troops had been killed, in fighting which both sides blame on the other.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of long-running conflicts fought between the two former Soviet republics over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.\n\nRussia and the US have each called for peace between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking to his country's parliament, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said 105 Armenian servicemen had been killed since Monday night in attacks he blamed on Azerbaijan.\n\nHe also accused Azeri troops of occupying 10 sq km (4 sq miles) of Armenian territory this week and said he had now turned to Russia for military assistance - a long-time ally of Armenia.\n\nAzerbaijan denies the Armenian account of this week's events, including reports that it fired upon vehicles belonging to Russia's FSB security services stationed inside Armenia.\n\nInstead, Azerbaijan claims its neighbour started the conflict by shelling military targets within its own district of Kalbacar.\n\n\"Our units are taking the necessary response measures,\" Azerbaijan's defence ministry said, according to Reuters.\n\nA fragile ceasefire brokered by Russia on Tuesday failed to hold, with both sides blaming the other of breaching the agreement and reports of violence continuing into Wednesday evening.\n\nLate on Wednesday evening Armenia said a truce has been agreed with Azerbaijan, although there has been no confirmation yet from Azerbaijan.\n\nOn Thursday Azerbaijan's defence ministry published a list of 71 servicemen killed in the clashes.\n\nThe fighting is the deadliest to break out between the two neighbours in two years.\n\nInternational leaders are intensifying diplomatic efforts to prevent it from escalating into an even deadlier war - as has happened with previous skirmishes in the past.\n\nIn addition to the human cost of a second war in the former USSR, a full-blown conflict would risk dragging in Russia and Turkey, both key powers in the region, as well as disrupting crucial oil and gas transit routes.\n\nAs part of that diplomatic effort, the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) is sending a peace mission to Armenia that the Kremlin said would arrive \"imminently\".\n\nTurkey is aligning itself with Azerbaijan and its President, Recep Erdogan, has accused Armenia of starting the conflict by violating an existing peace settlement.\n\nIn Washington, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held phone calls with the leaders of both nations in the hope of facilitating a ceasefire - urging Moscow to do more as well.\n\nA long-running dispute between the neighbouring republics over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region has led to full-scale war in the 1980s and 1990s, a six-week war in 2020 and continuing clashes for decades.\n\nAlthough internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, the region has long been populated and effectively administered by ethnic Armenians.\n\nA Moscow-brokered peace deal that ended the 2020 war saw Armenia withdraw its troops from some occupied areas within Azerbaijan.\n\nA Russian peacekeeping force of nearly 2,000 men was deployed to the area as part of the negotiations, where it remains today.", "Olivia's mother Cheryl Korbel said the nine-year-old \"will never be forgotten\"\n\nNine-year-old shooting victim Olivia Pratt-Korbel's mum bid an emotional \"goodnight\" at her daughter's funeral.\n\nOlivia died after a gunman burst into her Liverpool home and began shooting while chasing another man.\n\nIn her eulogy at a packed church, Cheryl Korbel told how Olivia \"touched so many people's hearts and was loved and adored by everyone\".\n\n\"I will never say goodbye but what I will say is goodnight, love you, see you in the morning,\" she said.\n\nSilence fell on the neighbourhood ahead of the service at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot, just streets away from where the shooting happened.\n\nMourners were asked to wear \"a splash of pink\" in Olivia's memory while her nearby school was also adorned in pink decorations.\n\nUniformed police officers attended, while hundreds of local residents gathered in the road outside.\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel was \"very independent\" and \"loved to think she was an adult\", her mother said\n\nMs Korbel, who was also injured in the shooting, carried a pink teddy into the service, after her daughter's coffin arrived in a carriage led by white horses.\n\nShe said Olivia had been born six weeks early and spent nine days in a special baby unit and even as a newborn \"she had her own mind\".\n\nThe schoolgirl was described as mature for her age, and \"very independent\".\n\n\"She would choose her own clothes, even as a toddler,\" Ms Korbel said. \"She was very particular. She loved to think she was an adult.\"\n\nShe also described Olivia's \"cheeky smile\" and \"mischievous\" nature, and how she \"loved sparkle and glitz\".\n\nOlivia's coffin was decorated with butterflies and topped with unicorn and teddy bear shaped floral tributes\n\n\"Olivia was very chatty and bubbly and would talk for England, to the point we thought she had Duracell batteries inside her somewhere!\"\n\nShe told how her daughter \"loved to sing and dance\", had a great imagination, and \"knew exactly how to wrap people around her little finger\" especially her brother Ryan and sister Chloe.\n\nOlivia loved animals, she said, and would put the family dog Gizmo in a pram, adding she would have made a great lawyer \"as she had an answer for everything\".\n\n\"Many times she would surprise me with the answers she would give and I'd have to remember how old she was.\"\n\nMourners were asked to wear a \"splash of pink\" in memory of the nine-year-old\n\nMs Korbel added: \"Liv touched so many people's hearts and was loved and adored by everyone. She will never be forgotten.\"\n\nA eulogy from her father John Francis Pratt was read by parish priest Father Roy Cooper.\n\nHe talked about \"our very own little diva\" and said Olivia was kind, caring and helpful.\n\nRebecca Wilkinson, head teacher at St Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior School, said: \"The memory of her is very much alive\".\n\nA hearse with floral tributes reading \"daughter\" and \"Liv\" arrived at the church shortly before the carriage\n\nNine people have so far been arrested in connection with the 22 August shooting but no charges have been brought.\n\nSpeaking before the service, Mrs Wilkinson said the school had cancelled its usual timetable to give pupils a day of reflection.\n\n\"It is all about Olivia today,\" she said. \"All 480 of our children will be making flowers, and each one of those 480 flowers will be put together to make a memorial for Olivia.\"\n\nPeople lined the street as Olivia's coffin arrived at the church in a horse-drawn carriage\n\nThe pink theme was a nod to a time when Olivia came to school wearing pink nail polish and spent the day with her hands closed to hide them from teachers, Mrs Wilkinson said.\n\n\"The children are free to speak about Olivia, it is not something they are afraid to talk about,\" she said.\n\nThe head teacher previously recalled how Olivia \"would walk into my room with her friends and her smile would light up the place\".\n\n\"The memory of her is very much alive in the school,\" Mrs Wilkinson added.\n\nThe school said pupils were considering building a rose garden and naming part of the playground in memory of Olivia.\n\nThe Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson paid tribute on social media, she said: \"Let us hope justice is swift and true.\"\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 Joanne Anderson 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\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.", "While the Queen was lying in state, on top of her coffin rested the Imperial State Crown, perhaps the most familiar treasure in the Crown Jewels - a priceless collection of tens of thousands of gemstones collected over the centuries by British kings and queens.\n\nThe crown sparkles with nearly 3,000 stones - including 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and five rubies.\n\n\"It can be quite hard to look at sometimes because of the sheer light that comes off them. It's literally dazzling… visually overpowering,\" says historian and author of The Crown Jewels, Anna Keay.\n\nShe says historically, right back to the Middle Ages, crowns were viewed as expressions of wealth and status.\n\nMade in 1937 for the coronation of the Queen's father, King George VI, the Imperial State Crown was designed to be lighter, and to fit better, than the crown it replaced - which dated back to Queen Victoria. But nevertheless, the Imperial Crown still weighs in at a hefty 2.3lbs (1.06kg).\n\nDuring her reign, Queen Elizabeth II would wear it annually for the State Opening of Parliament - as she sat on a golden throne reading out the government's key legislative plans for the year ahead.\n\nThe Queen, with the Duke of Edinburgh by her side, wearing the crown at the State Opening of Parliament in 2016\n\nIn 2018, the Queen joked about how heavy the crown felt to wear.\n\n\"You can't look down to read the speech, you have to take the speech up, because if you did your neck would break,\" explained Her Majesty.\n\n\"There are some disadvantages to crowns, but otherwise they're quite important things.\"\n\nIn 2019, when the monarch was well into her 90s, a lighter crown was used - and in 2021, the final time she took part in the ceremony, she didn't wear one at all.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown includes the 317 carat Cullinan II diamond - sometimes called the Second Star of Africa. Cut from the largest diamond ever found, it was given to Edward VII on his 66th birthday by the government of the Transvaal - a former British crown colony - in present day South Africa.\n\nIt also includes the oldest gem in the royal collection - a sapphire said to have once been worn in a ring by the 11th Century king of England, St Edward the Confessor. The stone is now set at the centre of the cross that tops the crown.\n\nThe Queen was particularly keen on a large red gemstone in the crown - known as the Black Prince's Ruby. It is thought to have been worn in 1415 during the Hundred Years' War by Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - when English forces beat the French to the south of Calais.\n\nLegend has it that the king placed a feather in a hole drilled into the ruby. \"It's fun to see,\" the Queen told the BBC in 2018, \"the idea that his plume was put into the stone on his helmet - bit rash, but that was the sort of thing they did, I suppose, in those days.\"\n\nBBC presenter Clive Myrie - who was given unprecedented, close-up access to the crown earlier this year for a BBC documentary - described seeing it as \"almost unreal\".\n\n\"The clarity of the diamonds is absolutely unbelievable.\"\n\nWith unprecedented access to the latest technology, Clive Myrie reveals the magnificent, astonishing, complicated history buried within the Crown Jewels\n\nBut putting a price on how much the Imperial State Crown - and all the Crown Jewels - is worth is nigh on impossible. Royal expert Alastair Bruce told the BBC documentary the collection was beyond monetary value.\n\n\"Calling it priceless is sensible, but you can just add as many zeros as there are diamonds in the collection.\"\n\nWhen not in use, the Imperial State Crown is on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower of London - which has been home to the Crown Jewels for more than 600 years.\n\nFollowing tradition, King Charles III will wear the St Edward's Crown for his coronation, but will put on the Imperial State Crown to leave Westminster Abbey at the end of the ceremony. Then, like his mother before him, he will wear the Imperial State Crown at the opening of Parliament, as well as on other official occasions.", "Perviz Ali says he does not know how long it will be until he returns to his family\n\nPeople in southern Pakistan face yet more devastation after record floods blamed on climate change submerged a third of the country, killing more than 1,100 people.\n\nA surge of water is now flowing down the Indus river, threatening communities in southern Sindh province.\n\nLocal officials say 1.2 million people have been displaced in Dadu district in Sindh, where hundreds of villages are submerged - and there is still more water coming.\n\nMudslides and flood waters are travelling down from the mountains towards villages in this district.\n\nThe military is evacuating the stranded by plane and many others by boat. Thousands more are still on the flood path and need to be moved - but there isn't much time.\n\nAn official who is part of the operations on the ground tells me they've been working in the region for a month now.\n\n\"More water is coming, we are starting to see it. There is too much need, not enough of us, but we are doing our best,\" he tells me before getting on a large boat.\n\nIt can take hours in the water, as the villages are far from each other.\n\nIn Khairpur Nathanshah, the military, aid workers and villagers are all racing to get people to dry land when we join them on a boat.\n\nAfter some time in the water, we come across a village, where scores of people are standing outside their flooded homes.\n\nDozens climb aboard, but not everyone can be rescued on this trip and the boats will need to return. For one man, the uncertainty that help will return is unbearable.\n\n\"I left my family back at the village because I need to go and find food. But I don't know when the next boat will arrive and when I'll be able to return to them,\" says Perviz Ali, his voice trembling before he breaks down.\n\nOn our way back to dry land, we come across more people and stop to help them. The group of four men have been wading in the water for hours - three boats had gone past them in a rush to get to more villages. For one of them, it was too long a wait.\n\n\"Our friend Ghulam drowned just moments before you arrived, he slipped and he was swept away. We couldn't save him. He's gone,\" said one of them, Zahid Hussain.\n\nI ask Mr Hussain what made him decide to leave.\n\n\"The water level was as high as my head in my house, I knew that if I didn't leave now, I will drown.\"\n\nIn another part of Dadu, on the roadside, families do not even have tents or any kind of shelter. For many, this has been going for weeks, living in the open with nothing.\n\n\"Our children are hungry, we're not getting any help. Why is no one doing anything? We've lost everything, why is no one helping?\" says Rafiq, a mother of three children, all under six years old.\n\nThese families tell me that of course they are heartbroken about what has happened to them, but sadness is turning into anger that their situation is not changing. They feel helpless and frustrated with the authorities who drive pass them daily.\n\nNot far from Rafiq, Shabana is cradling a one-month-old baby, born just before the floods arrive in her village. She is hungry, but so is her mother and she cannot breastfeed little Rizaaq.\n\n\"I have no milk to give. I have been living here for two weeks - nobody has even given anything. We struggle for food every day. No one has come to even bring milk for our babies. I am afraid for him,\" the woman says.\n\nThe roads on either side of this district are treacherous - they've been damaged by the floods, causing hours of queuing traffic.\n\nDelivering aid here is going to be a mammoth task.", "The tickets were so popular they led to overcrowding on trains\n\nGermany's summer of low-cost travel is over as transport chiefs call a halt to their cheap fares experiment.\n\nFor three sunny months, passengers have packed on to platforms and concourses to take advantage of a single monthly ticket costing €9 (£7.50; $9).\n\nIn all, 52 million of the tickets, which allowed them to use any regional or local public transport an unlimited number of times, have been sold.\n\nBut the offer ends at midnight on Wednesday, to the dismay of many.\n\n\"It's one of the best ideas we've had,\" said Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\nAnd the scheme, reckoned to have cost more than €2.5bn in federal government subsidies, has, it seems, been a political and social success.\n\nTake Ute and Jürgen, who I met at Berlin's main station as they waited for a crowded train to the coast. They were pensioners, they told me, and being able to use the ticket for their usual bus and tram journeys had been \"very helpful\", especially at a time of rising costs.\n\nThat was the original aim of the €9 ticket, which was actually introduced as somewhat of an afterthought.\n• None €2.5bnAmount paid to 16 states to pay for lost ticket sales\n\nGermany's coalition government had decided to lower fuel tax for drivers for three months in response to soaring energy costs - and Mr Scholz came under pressure from within his own ranks to do something to help those who used public transport too.\n\nBut of course, there were hopes, particularly among the Green politicians in the coalition, that the cheap ticket might trigger a change in habits too.\n\nThey've been encouraged by the response of people such as Barbara, who was struggling with a bike trailer and her two young sons as the family waited for a train to the Baltic Sea.\n\nThey'd decided to leave what she described as the family's gas-guzzling people carrier behind. \"The cheap tickets meant we could make the greener choice,\" she said.\n\nIt's not yet entirely clear whether or to what extent Barbara represents the rest of the population.\n\nAccording to the German Transport Association, the scheme will have led to a reduction of 1.8m tonnes in CO2 emissions. But the calculation - based in part on research which suggests the cheap ticket had lured people to use public transport, rather than their cars for the first time - has been disputed by some experts.\n\nNevertheless, as commuters brace themselves for a more expensive autumn - the fuel tax reduction also ends on 1 September - there are all manner of suggestions being discussed about how to replace the €9 ticket.\n\nMost proposals centre on a monthly ticket for a fixed price.\n\nMany would welcome that, if only because, like the €9 ticket, it would replace Germany's confusing and complicated fare system.\n\nThe scheme earned Germany's coalition government political points with voters, but the subsequent dithering over what do once it ends risks alienating them again.\n\nAnd despite many calls for an extension, no replacement is expected to come as cheap as the one enjoyed by Germans this summer.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader, the Kremlin has confirmed.\n\nSpokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Putin's work schedule would not permit him to attend the event on Saturday.\n\nHe said the Russian leader had paid his respects at the Moscow hospital where Gorbachev died on Tuesday, aged 91.\n\nGorbachev's reforms helped end the Cold War, but saw the demise of the Soviet Union, which Mr Putin has lamented.\n\nWarning: some readers may find the video below distressing.\n\nIn 2005, the Russian president said the break-up of the USSR was \"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] Century\".\n\nHowever, in his telegram of condolences to Gorbachev's family on Wednesday, Mr Putin struck a more conciliatory note, describing him as \"a politician and statesman who had a huge impact on the course of world history\".\n\nOn Thursday, Russian state television showed Mr Putin placing red roses beside Gorbachev's coffin in Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin lays flowers next to the body of Mikhail Gorbachev\n\n\"Unfortunately, the president's work schedule will not allow him to do this on 3 September, so he decided to do it today,\" Mr Peskov told reporters.\n\nGorbachev's funeral, which will be open to the public, will take place in Moscow's Hall of Columns.\n\nAfterwards, he will be buried at the city's Novodevichy cemetery, next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999.\n\nMr Peskov said Gorbachev's ceremony would have \"elements\" of a state funeral and that the state was helping to organise it.\n\nMr Putin will not be the only notable absentee from the funeral. Many of the foreign leaders who might have been expected to attend are currently barred from Russian soil, in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nTop politicians from the US, UK, EU, Japan and Canada are among those on the exclusion list, including US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as the two candidates vying to succeed him, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe Kremlin would say, what is all the fuss about? Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to Mikhail Gorbachev's family (in a brief telegram). He's also laid flowers at Gorbachev's open casket.\n\nBut, no, he won't be going to the funeral. The official reason: no space in his busy schedule. Diary full. That rather unconvincing explanation is fuelling speculation that, in reality, it's not that Putin has no time, but rather no desire to attend.\n\nIn other words, it's a snub. Why might that be? Well, for a start, to those in power in Russia today, Mikhail Gorbachev is viewed as having been a weak, indecisive leader who let a superpower - and Russia's global influence - slip away.\n\nWhat's more, President Putin has been busy dismantling Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy. Gorbachev opened up the country, granted freedoms to his people and sought peace and friendship with Western nations. That's not President Putin's thing at all. He's been taking freedoms away, supressing democratic institutions and embracing the idea of confrontation with the West.\n\nThat - along with the invasion of Ukraine - is keeping President Putin very busy. No wonder his diary is full.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died in the crush\n\nTwo men are each to be charged with three counts of gross negligence manslaughter over a fatal crush outside a disco in Cookstown three years ago.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died as hundreds of people queued at the doors of the Greenvale Hotel on 17 March 2019.\n\nIt is understood that one of the men is the hotel owner Michael McElhatton.\n\nIn a statement, he said he was \"conscious that this is a highly sensitive time for the families\".\n\nMr McElhatton, aged 55, said he would therefore make no further comment.\n\nHe and the other man, aged 43, are due to be charged after the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) examined evidence files.\n\nThe company that runs the Greenvale Hotel, known as Tobin Limited, will also face a charge of contravening health and safety legislation.\n\nMorgan's father, James Barnard, welcomed the decision to take criminal proceedings.\n\nBut he said he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the decision not to prosecute police officers who had withdrawn from the scene of the crush to await back-up.\n\n\"This is a decision we do not intend on accepting,\" he said, adding that they would be seeking a review into the decision.\n\nMichael McElhatton said he was \"conscious that this is a highly sensitive time for the families\" of the teenagers who died\n\nProsecutors had been deliberating over evidence contained in two files submitted in the course of the past two years.\n\nThe first contained details of a criminal investigation conducted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nPolice previously stated that they took 1,300 witness statements and specially-trained officers interviewed more than 140 young people.\n\nThe second file dealt with an investigation by the Police Ombudsman into the conduct of several officers, including the first to arrive at the hotel.\n\nThey withdrew from the scene of the crush to await back-up.\n\nIn the files submitted to the PPS, the PSNI reported 11 members of the public for consideration, while the Police Ombudsman reported five police officers.\n\nThe PPS has decided not to prosecute nine of the members of the public or the police officers.\n\nSenior prosecutor Graham Cardwell said the families of the teenagers had \"suffered a painful loss\".\n\nHe thanked them for their patience while the evidence was examined.\n\nHe said it had been a \"significant task\" to assess the evidence before deciding whether there was a \"reasonable prospect of conviction in relation to each suspect\".\n\nThe families had been given detailed reasons for the decisions not to prosecute 16 people of the 18 people, he added.\n\n\"Whilst some of the no prosecution decisions may be disappointing to them, I can reassure the families and the wider public that all decisions were taken independently and only after a most thorough examination of all evidence and information available,\" he said.\n\nCriminal proceedings will begin in due course.\n\nThe five police officers who were reported to the PPS were investigated for the offence of misconduct in public office.\n\nMr Cardwell said the threshold for prosecution for that offence was high.\n\n\"The evidence was not capable of establishing any bad faith or improper motive in the actions of police at the scene or that they wilfully ignored a high-risk situation of which they were aware,\" he said.\n\nPolice Ombudsman Marie Anderson, who originally examined the conduct of the officers, had assessed witness statements, interviews with officers, forensics, phone call recordings and CCTV footage.\n\nShe said that following the decision by the PPS not to prosecute the officers, she would now consider whether there had been any professional misconduct.\n\n\"Where there are grounds to do so, I will make appropriate recommendations to the chief constable,\" she said.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said the PSNI would \"await receipt of [the Police Ombudsman's] report and any recommendations\".\n\nThe family of Morgan Barnard has called for a public inquiry into the events that led to the deaths of the teenagers.\n\nLast March, on the third anniversary of the tragedy, Justice Minister Naomi Long ruled out an inquiry, stating it could prejudice any future criminal proceedings.\n\nThe incident happened on St Patrick's Day in 2019\n\nBut speaking on Monday morning, she left open the possibility of such an inquiry.\n\nShe told BBC News NI that any decision to hold a public inquiry would hinge on the conclusion of criminal proceedings.\n\n\"It would have been inappropriate for me to take a decision in and around the issue of a public inquiry at a time when there was already a live criminal investigation underway,\" she said.\n\n\"Depending on the outcome with the PPS today there may be scope to look at that again.\"\n\nShe raised concerns that the lack of a functioning executive at Stormont could hinder any inquiry as it may require decisions across more than one department.", "China is accused of detaining up to a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in detention camps in Xinjiang\n\nThe UN has accused China of \"serious human rights violations\" in a long-awaited report into allegations of abuse in Xinjiang province.\n\nChina had urged the UN not to release the report - with Beijing calling it a \"farce\" arranged by Western powers.\n\nThe report assesses claims of abuse against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, which China denies.\n\nBut investigators said they found \"credible evidence\" of torture possibly amounting to \"crimes against humanity\".\n\nHuman rights groups have been sounding the alarm over what is happening in the north-western province for years, alleging that more than one million Uyghurs had been detained against their will in a large network of what the state calls \"re-education camps\".\n\nThe BBC's own reporting in recent years has uncovered documentation - including police files detailing those in detention - which appear to support the claims, as well as allegations of rape, torture and forced sterilisation.\n\nChina has always vociferously denied any wrongdoing.\n\nHowever, the UN's report concluded that \"the extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups ... may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity\".\n\nThe report recommended that China immediately takes steps to release \"all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty\".\n\nBeijing has already rejected the findings, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin telling reporters the \"so-called suggestions were pieced together based on disinformation to serve political objectives\".\n\nThe World Uyghur Congress welcomed the report and urged a swift international response.\n\n\"Despite the Chinese government's strenuous denials, the UN has now officially recognised that horrific crimes are occurring,\" Uyghur Human Rights Project Executive Director Omer Kanat said.\n\nThere are about 12 million Uyghurs, mostly Muslim, living in Xinjiang. The UN said non-Muslim members may have also been affected by the issues in the report.\n\nThe US and lawmakers in several other countries have previously denounced China's actions in Xinjiang as a genocide, but the UN stopped short of making the accusation.\n\nBeijing - which saw the report in advance - denies allegations of abuse and argued that the camps are a tool to fight terrorism.\n\nChina has always insisted that Uyghur militants are waging a violent campaign for an independent state, but it is accused of exaggerating the threat in order to justify repression of the Uyghurs.\n\nIts delegation to the UN human rights council in Geneva on Thursday rejected the findings of the report, which it said \"smeared and slandered China\" and interfered in the country's internal affairs.\n\nThe Xinjiang Police Files - the title given to the cache by a consortium of international journalists of which the BBC is part - have formed the basis of a large part of reporting done by the BBC on the Uyghurs in recent years. Here, the BBC's former China correspondent John Sudworth reveals some of what the cache of documents have been able to tell us.\n\nIn the most significant document in this part of the dataset, officers are ordered to be prepared to use the weapons in the event of an escape.\n\nWhen the alarm is triggered, the papers say, the perimeter roads must be sealed off, the buildings locked down and the camp's own armed police \"strike group\" sent in.\n\nAfter a warning shot is fired, if the \"student\" continues to try to escape, the order is clear: shoot them dead.\n\nChina insists that the camps provide grateful and willing Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities with lessons that steer them away from the dangers of terrorism and extremism.\n\nIn some regards, they bear a passing resemblance to schools, with the rote learning of Chinese and the reciting of propaganda slogans.\n\nBut the cache goes further than ever before in showing the harsh, involuntary nature of these facilities designed to target almost any aspect of Uyghur identity, and replace it with an enforced loyalty to the Communist Party.\n\nThe report has long been the subject of intense international attention, with UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet admitting last week she had been under \"tremendous pressure to publish or not to publish\".\n\nSome Western human rights groups alleged Beijing was urging her to bury damaging findings in the report, especially after publication was delayed several times.\n\nMs Bachelet defended the delay, arguing that seeking dialogue with Beijing over the report did not mean she was \"turning a blind eye\" to its contents. But Amnesty International called it \"inexcusable\".\n\nIn the end, the report was made public just 13 minutes before the end of her four-year tenure.\n\nAnd while it has been welcomed by many, some have expressed disappointment - including the World Uyghur Conference. Spokesman Zumretay Arkin said they had \"expected her to be firmer on China overall\".\n\nOlaf Wientzek, director of the Geneva office of the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation, went on to accuse Ms Bachelet of having \"avoided the aftermath\" of the report's publication.\n\nMs Bachelet, meanwhile, has blamed the \"politicisation\" of the issue by some countries, saying it made \"engagement more difficult and... trust-building and the ability to really have an impact on the ground more difficult\".\n\nNow attention will turn to what will happen next.\n\nUyghur rights activists are calling for a commission of inquiry to be set up, and asking businesses around the world to cut all ties with anyone abetting the Chinese government in its handling of the Uyghurs.\n\nTom Tugendhat, an MP and chair of the UK's foreign affairs select committee, said the findings of the report represented an \"extremely serious charge\" and rejected Beijing's argument that the allegations were stoking anti-Chinese sentiment. Germany has called for the release of all arbitrarily detained Uyghurs.\n\nHowever, there is unlikely to be much pressure from inside China: the issue of Uyghur human rights abuses has long been a taboo topic and heavily censored - as of Thursday afternoon, the UN report had yet to be mentioned in Chinese mainstream media or social media platforms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pamela Partridge's husband was killed by a driver who was two and a half times over the legal alcohol limit.\n\n\"My life is not the same,\" says Pamela Partridge, whose husband Michael was killed by a drink-driver two days after their 54th wedding anniversary.\n\n\"I still have the card he gave me by the side of my bed,\" says Ms Partridge, from Caerphilly county.\n\n\"I can't put that away. It's the last card I'll ever have off him.\"\n\nThe 76-year-old was cycling to a park to meet her and their grandchildren when he was hit by a van driver two-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit.\n\nIn April, 51-year-old Matthew Clemo, from Bedwas, was jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving in Pandy Road on Saturday 25 September.\n\nMs Partridge, from Bedwas, said her husband's death had \"broken my heart and it's devastated our family\".\n\n\"It's also affected people who were at the scene - the accident was so horrific.\n\n\"I hope those people have had counselling.\"\n\nGwent Police has been holding a national summer clampdown on drink and drug driving.\n\nIt said that during one weekend in July, 12 people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs.\n\nGwent Police and other forces have been involved a drink and drug driving clampdown in August\n\nFigures show its officers arrested more than 1,000 people on suspicion of motoring offences involving driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the 12 months from August 2021 to July 2022.\n\n\"This highlights that far too many still take the risk,\" says Supt Mike Richards.\n\n\"Our officers have had to respond to 19 fatal road traffic collisions over the last 12 months, and, consequently, had to visit parents, siblings and friends to tell them the awful news that their loved one had died.\"\n\nMichael Partridge was a steward at Bedwas Rugby Club and a member of Caerphilly Male Voice Choir\n\nMr Partridge was popular and well-known locally as he had long been involved with Bedwas Rugby Club where he was a steward.\n\nThe former steelworker was also an active member of Caerphilly Male Voice Choir.\n\nMs Partridge has started a road safety campaign group in her village in a bid to improve safety and awareness on the roads.\n\n\"When you lose a partner of nearly 60 years it's a complete change of life,\" she said.\n\n\"God forbid I'd never want to lose any children but I didn't realise how hard it was to lose a partner after that length of time.\"\n\nPamela Partridge: \"I have to move on but I can't let people forget what happened to Mike\"\n\nAlthough she said she felt she had to \"move on\", Ms Partridge said she could not \"let people forget what happened to Mike\".\n\n\"I can almost hear him now, 'pull yourself together and move on - that's life',\" she reflected.\n\n\"That's how Mike was. He would have been angry with the driver, I know he would've - very angry.\n\n\"And I don't know whether he would have forgiven him.\"\n\nShe added: \"When I think of the children I get upset. They've lost a really good grandfather.\n\n\"To think that Mike had lived his life as well as he had and to be killed by something so thoughtless.\n\n\"Because whatever you do, you make a choice.\n\n\"You make a choice whether you get in behind the wheel under the influence of drink or drugs.\n\n\"We all make a choice - and [the driver] made a very bad one that day.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Enninful pictured with Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue\n\nThe editor-in-chief of British Vogue has said losing his eyesight is his biggest fear.\n\nEdward Enninful, who has had poor vision for much of his life, has had four operations in recent years for problems including a detached retina.\n\nThis required him to spend weeks at a time looking at the floor, with his head down.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News, Enninful also revealed that he didn't speak to his father for nearly 15 years.\n\nThe magazine editor, whose autobiography is released next week, also said he spent 14 years on an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) programme.\n\nAsked if he feared losing his eyesight, Enninful said: \"It's my biggest fear.\n\n\"I never had good eyesight anyway. I always had my minus 10 glasses and I had four retinal detachments [needing] surgery each time. Then three weeks looking at the ground in a dark room and not lifting up your head. And yes, it was very psychologically intense.\n\n\"But what I've also learned is... you don't need perfect vision to create. You don't need 20/20 vision to see images. So that's the irony of it: though I have bad eyesight, I'm still able to create images that people seem to resonate with.\"\n\nEnninful, pictured with Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, has had poor vision for much of his life\n\nEnninful also has the blood condition thalassaemia, causing regular bouts of severe pain, and for which he had several transfusions before coming to Britain from Ghana at the age of 13.\n\nIn Ghana, his mother ran a successful seamstress business and his father was in the military but the family decided to leave because of political unrest.\n\nWhile his mother remained in Ghana for a while, Enninful and his five siblings moved to Vauxhall, south London, to stay in his aunt's small flat. His father spent three years seeking asylum.\n\nAt the age of 16, Enninful was spotted on the London Underground by the stylist Simon Foxton, who said he had the potential to be a model.\n\nHe enrolled at Goldsmiths University after being encouraged by fellow model and future director Steve McQueen. But by then, he had a senior job on i-D magazine.\n\nAfter confessing to his father that he'd been skipping university to pursue his dreams in fashion, his father threw him out of the house. They didn't speak for 15 years, but have been reconciled now.\n\nEnninful has also endured bouts of depression, and was on the AA programme for 14 years.\n\n\"I found fellowship [in the AA]. I found everybody was sort of even. It didn't matter whether you were the head of a company or someone who slept on the streets. It just levelled everybody,\" he said.\n\n\"It got very bad because imagine how I was, you know - I lost one home, which was Africa, and came to England. Then I lost a second home when I was kicked out. And then I went into the gay scene thinking I found my tribe and again, got so many rejections.\"\n\nEnninful, pictured with husband Alec Maxwell, has been editor-in-chief of British Vogue since 2017\n\nIn February, Enninful married his long-term partner, the creative director Alec Maxwell.\n\nIn September 2019, the Duchess of Sussex guest edited British Vogue. Enninful describes her in his book, A Visible Man, as a \"phenomenal editing partner\".\n\nAsked about reports that Meghan asked for a 24-hour delay to publication so that American media could see her special edition first, he said: \"No no, no, no, no.... nobody told us what to do... nobody really interfered with us.\"\n\nThere has long been talk in the fashion and media industry that he is the favourite to succeed another Brit, Anna Wintour, as editor of American Vogue when she steps down. Wintour is 72 and has held the position since 1988.\n\nEnninful said: \"People love to speculate about mine and Anna's relationship, but I'm so happy doing what I'm doing right now.... but you know, you never know what the future holds.\"", "Ali Abunejmeh and his eight-year-old son Sebastien were on holiday visiting family in Jordan\n\nA Highlands nurse and his son have been trapped in Turkey for four weeks after an airline declined to accept his evidence of UK residency.\n\nAli Abunejmeh, originally from Jordan, has lived in the UK for 15 years and has settled status.\n\nHis residence card had expired, but the dad-of-three said the Home Office told him he could show alternative proof.\n\nHe said he had spent £2,000 on food and accommodation and had missed shifts at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.\n\nHe and his eight-year-old son Sebastien were on holiday visiting family in Jordan and the West Bank.\n\nOn 5 August the pair, who live in Nairn, were due to fly back to the UK via Antalya Airport in Turkey.\n\nWithout an in-date residence card, Mr Abunejmeh used the Home Office's online 'View and Prove' service to show his settled status at the airport.\n\nBut Turkish Airlines declined to accept this and would not allow them on the flight.\n\nThe airline told BBC Scotland it was investigating the incident.\n\nThe Home Office said non-European nationals must show airlines a valid UK residence card to prove their settled status.\n\nIts guidance also states that airlines \"may accept\" proof via View and Prove, if someone does not have a card.\n\nMr Abunejmeh said: \"I hold a permanent residence in the UK and settlement status. The card that I have is expired.\n\n\"I was advised by the Home Office before travelling that I can show the carrier airline when travelling the status of my residency.\n\n\"The advice was that I would be able to prove my settlement status via the app I have.\n\n\"I tried to explain this to Turkish Airlines but they refused to let me board.\"\n\nMr Abunejmeh's settled status means he has the right to live, work and remain indefinitely in the UK free of immigration control.\n\nHis wife is a Czech national and their three children all have British passports. However, his wife and two of the children were waiting for renewed passports and so did not travel with him.\n\nMr Abunejmeh told BBC Scotland he had received little assistance from the Home Office or the airline after being turned away.\n\nHe said: \"Me and my son were really stressed. We were told to call the British Embassy to find out what to do next.\n\n\"My son got really upset because he could not understand why he was not allowed on the flight.\"\n\nMr Abunejmeh has since applied for access to the UK as a close family member of a European national with UK immigration status.\n\nThe process can take up to seven weeks.\n\nHe is also waiting on a renewed biometric residence card.\n\nHe said: \"I have spent almost £2,000 on accommodation and food so far, not mentioning that my son Sebastien should now be back in school.\n\n\"As a nurse with a contract, I have been booked for shifts and I have no way of knowing when I am going to be back.\n\n\"My son has a British passport but at the moment, my wife cannot fly out to Turkey to bring him back home.\n\n\"With me not working and my wife as a teacher on supply contract only, neither of us has got a regular income and it is causing us considerable financial difficulties.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Any non-EEA nationals granted settled status must carry their biometric residence card when travelling abroad and this should be in date. We will be in touch with Mr Abunejmeh.\"", "Women in China's \"re-education\" camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured, according to detailed new accounts obtained by the BBC.\n\nYou may find some of the details in this story distressing.\n\nThe men always wore masks, Tursunay Ziawudun said, even though there was no pandemic then.\n\nThey wore suits, she said, not police uniforms.\n\nSometime after midnight, they came to the cells to select the women they wanted and took them down the corridor to a \"black room\", where there were no surveillance cameras.\n\nSeveral nights, Ziawudun said, they took her.\n\n\"Perhaps this is the most unforgettable scar on me forever,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't even want these words to spill from my mouth.\"\n\nTursunay Ziawudun spent nine months inside China's vast and secretive system of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. According to independent estimates, more than a million men and women have been detained in the sprawling network of camps, which China says exist for the \"re-education\" of the Uighurs and other minorities.\n\nHuman rights groups say the Chinese government has gradually stripped away the religious and other freedoms of the Uighurs, culminating in an oppressive system of mass surveillance, detention, indoctrination, and even forced sterilisation.\n\nThe policy flows from China's President, Xi Jinping, who visited Xinjiang in 2014 in the wake of a terror attack by Uighur separatists. Shortly after, according to documents leaked to the New York Times, he directed local officials to respond with \"absolutely no mercy\". The US government said last month that China's actions since amounted to a genocide. China says reports of mass detention and forced sterilisation are \"lies and absurd allegations\".\n\nFirst-hand accounts from inside the internment camps are rare, but several former detainees and a guard have told the BBC they experienced or saw evidence of an organised system of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture.\n\nTursunay Ziawudun, who fled Xinjiang after her release and is now in the US, said women were removed from the cells \"every night\" and raped by one or more masked Chinese men. She said she was tortured and later gang-raped on three occasions, each time by two or three men.\n\nZiawudun has spoken to the media before, but only from Kazakhstan, where she \"lived in constant fear of being sent back to China\", she said. She said she believed that if she revealed the extent of the sexual abuse she had experienced and seen, and was returned to Xinjiang, she would be punished more harshly than before. And she was ashamed, she said.\n\nTursunay Ziawudun was able to flee to Kazakhstan, and then on to relative safety in the US\n\nIt is impossible to verify Ziawudun's account completely because of the severe restrictions China places on reporters in the country, but travel documents and immigration records she provided to the BBC corroborate the timeline of her story. Her descriptions of the camp in Xinyuan county - known in Uighur as Kunes county - match satellite imagery analysed by the BBC, and her descriptions of daily life inside the camp, as well as the nature and methods of the abuse, correspond with other accounts from former detainees.\n\nInternal documents from the Kunes county justice system from 2017 and 2018, provided to the BBC by Adrian Zenz, a leading expert on China's policies in Xinjiang, detail planning and spending for \"transformation through education\" of \"key groups\" - a common euphemism in China for the indoctrination of the Uighurs. In one Kunes document, the \"education\" process is described as \"washing brains, cleansing hearts, strengthening righteousness and eliminating evil\".\n\nThe BBC also interviewed a Kazakh woman from Xinjiang who was detained for 18 months in the camp system, who said she was forced to strip Uighur women naked and handcuff them, before leaving them alone with Chinese men. Afterwards, she cleaned the rooms, she said.\n\n\"My job was to remove their clothes above the waist and handcuff them so they cannot move,\" said Gulzira Auelkhan, crossing her wrists behind her head to demonstrate. \"Then I would leave the women in the room and a man would enter - some Chinese man from outside or policeman. I sat silently next to the door, and when the man left the room I took the woman for a shower.\"\n\nThe Chinese men \"would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates\", she said.\n\nSome former detainees of the camps have described being forced to assist guards or face punishment. Auelkhan said she was powerless to resist or intervene.\n\nAsked if there was a system of organised rape, she said: \"Yes, rape.\"\n\n\"They forced me to go into that room,\" she said. \"They forced me to take off those women's clothes and to restrain their hands and leave the room.\"\n\nSome of the women who were taken away from the cells at night were never returned, Ziawudun said. Those who were brought back were threatened against telling others in the cell what had happened to them.\n\n\"You can't tell anyone what happened, you can only lie down quietly,\" she said. \"It is designed to destroy everyone's spirit.\"\n\nMr Zenz told the BBC that the testimony gathered for this story was \"some of the most horrendous evidence I have seen since the atrocity began\".\n\n\"This confirms the very worst of what we have heard before,\" he said. \"It provides authoritative and detailed evidence of sexual abuse and torture at a level clearly greater than what we had assumed.\"\n\nGulzira Auelkhan makes tea at home in her village. She was detained for 18 months\n\nThe Uighurs are a mostly Muslim Turkic minority group that number about 11 million in Xinjiang in north-western China. The region borders Kazakhstan and is also home to ethnic Kazakhs. Ziawudun, who is 42, is Uighur. Her husband is a Kazakh.\n\nThe couple returned to Xinjiang in late 2016 after a five-year stay in Kazakhstan, and were interrogated on arrival and had their passports confiscated, Ziawudun said. A few months later, she was told by police to attend a meeting alongside other Uighurs and Kazakhs and the group was rounded up and detained.\n\nHer first stint in detention was comparatively easy, she said, with decent food and access to her phone. After a month she developed stomach ulcers and was released. Her husband's passport was returned and he went back to Kazakhstan to work, but authorities kept Ziawudun's, trapping her in Xinjiang. Reports suggest China has purposefully kept behind and interned relatives to discourage those who leave from speaking out. On 9 March 2018, with her husband still in Kazakhstan, Ziawudun was instructed to report to a local police station, she said. She was told she needed \"more education\".\n\nAccording to her account, Ziawudun was transported back to the same facility as her previous detention, in Kunes county, but the site had been significantly developed, she said. Buses were lined up outside offloading new detainees \"non-stop\".\n\nThe women had their jewellery confiscated. Ziawudun's earrings were yanked out, she said, causing her ears to bleed, and she was herded into a room with a group of women. Among them was an elderly woman who Ziawudun would later befriend.\n\nThe camp guards pulled off the woman's headscarf, Ziawudun said, and shouted at her for wearing a long dress - one of a list of religious expressions that became arrestable offences for Uighurs that year.\n\n\"They stripped everything off the elderly lady, leaving her with just her underwear. She was so embarrassed that she tried to cover herself with her arms,\" Ziawudun said.\n\n\"I cried so much watching the way they treated her. Her tears fell like rain.\"\n\nZiawudun identified this site - listed as a school - as the location where she was held. Satellite images from 2017 (left) and 2019 (right) show significant development typical of camps, with what look like dormitory and factory buildings\n\nThe women were told to hand over their shoes and any clothes with elastic or buttons, Ziawudun said, then taken to cellblocks - \"similar to a small Chinese neighbourhood where there are rows of buildings\".\n\nNothing much happened for the first month or two. They were forced to watch propaganda programmes in their cells and had their hair forcibly cut short.\n\nThen police began interrogating Ziawudun about her absent husband, she said, knocking her on the floor when she resisted and kicking her in the abdomen.\n\n\"Police boots are very hard and heavy, so at first I thought he was beating me with something,\" she said. \"Then I realised that he was trampling on my belly. I almost passed out - I felt a hot flush go through me.\"\n\nA camp doctor told her she might have a blood clot. When her cellmates drew attention to the fact that she was bleeding, the guards \"replied saying it is normal for women to bleed\", she said.\n\nAccording to Ziawudun, each cell was home to 14 women, with bunk beds, bars on the windows, a basin and a hole-in-the-floor-style toilet. When she first saw women being taken out of the cell at night, she didn't understand why, she said. She thought they were being moved elsewhere.\n\nSecret filming obtained by the Bitter Winter activist group showed cells with bars and cameras\n\nThen sometime in May 2018 - \"I don't remember the exact date, because you don't remember the dates inside there\" - Ziawudun and a cellmate, a woman in her twenties, were taken out at night and presented to a Chinese man in a mask, she said. Her cellmate was taken into a separate room.\n\n\"As soon as she went inside she started screaming,\" Ziawudun said. \"I don't know how to explain to you, I thought they were torturing her. I never thought about them raping.\"\n\nThe woman who had brought them from the cells told the men about Ziawudun's recent bleeding.\n\n\"After the woman spoke about my condition, the Chinese man swore at her. The man with the mask said 'Take her to the dark room'.\n\n\"The woman took me to the room next to where the other girl had been taken in. They had an electric stick, I didn't know what it was, and it was pushed inside my genital tract, torturing me with an electric shock.\"\n\nZiawudun's torture that first night in the dark room eventually came to an end, she said, when the woman intervened again citing her medical condition, and she was returned to the cell.\n\nAbout an hour later, her cellmate was brought back.\n\n\"The girl became completely different after that, she wouldn't speak to anyone, she sat quietly staring as if in a trance,\" Ziawudun said. \"There were many people in those cells who lost their minds.\"\n\nGulzira Auelkhan, centre, at home in her village. She was forced to restrain women in the camps, she said\n\nAlongside cells, another central feature of the camps is classrooms. Teachers have been drafted in to \"re-educate\" the detainees - a process activists say is designed to strip the Uighurs and other minorities of their culture, language and religion, and indoctrinate them into mainstream Chinese culture.\n\nQelbinur Sedik, an Uzbek woman from Xinjiang, was among the Chinese language teachers brought into the camps and coerced into giving lessons to the detainees. Sedik has since fled China and spoken publicly about her experience.\n\nThe women's camp was \"tightly controlled\", Sedik told the BBC. But she heard stories, she said - signs and rumours of rape. One day, Sedik cautiously approached a Chinese camp policewoman she knew.\n\n\"I asked her, 'I have been hearing some terrible stories about rape, do you know about it?' She said we should talk in the courtyard during lunch.\n\n\"So I went to the courtyard, where there were not many cameras. She said, 'Yes, the rape has become a culture. It is gang rape and the Chinese police not only rape them but also electrocute them. They are subject to horrific torture.'\"\n\nThat night Sedik didn't sleep at all, she said. \"I was thinking about my daughter who was studying abroad and I cried all night.\"\n\nSayragul Sauytbay, a teacher, said she witnessed a harrowing rape. She was later accused of crossing illegally into Kazakhstan\n\nIn separate testimony to the Uyghur Human Rights Project, Sedik said she heard about an electrified stick being inserted into women to torture them - echoing the experience Ziawudun described.\n\nThere were \"four kinds of electric shock\", Sedik said - \"the chair, the glove, the helmet, and anal rape with a stick\".\n\n\"The screams echoed throughout the building,\" she said. \"I could hear them during lunch and sometimes when I was in class.\"\n\nAnother teacher forced to work in the camps, Sayragul Sauytbay, told the BBC that \"rape was common\" and the guards \"picked the girls and young women they wanted and took them away\".\n\nShe described witnessing a harrowing public gang rape of a woman of just 20 or 21, who was brought before about 100 other detainees to make a forced confession.\n\n\"After that, in front of everyone, the police took turns to rape her,\" Sauytbay said.\n\n\"While carrying out this test, they watched people closely and picked out anyone who resisted, clenched their fists, closed their eyes, or looked away, and took them for punishment.\"\n\nThe young woman cried out for help, Sauytbay said.\n\n\"It was absolutely horrendous,\" she said. \"I felt I had died. I was dead.\"\n\nZiawudun broke down in tears as she identified footage and images of the camps\n\nIn the camp in Kunes, Ziawudun's days drifted into weeks and then months. The detainees' hair was cut, they went to class, they underwent unexplained medical tests, took pills, and were forcibly injected every 15 days with a \"vaccine\" that brought on nausea and numbness.\n\nWomen were forcibly fitted with IUDs or sterilised, Ziawudun said, including a woman who was just about 20 years old. (\"We begged them on her behalf,\" she said.) Forced sterilisation of Uighurs has been widespread in Xinjiang, according to a recent investigation by the Associated Press. The Chinese government told the BBC the allegations were \"completely unfounded\".\n\nAs well as the medical interventions, detainees in Ziawudun's camp spent hours singing patriotic Chinese songs and watching patriotic TV programmes about Chinese President Xi Jinping, she said.\n\n\"You forget to think about life outside the camp. I don't know if they brainwashed us or if it was the side effect of the injections and pills, but you can't think of anything beyond wishing you had a full stomach. The food deprivation is so severe.\"\n\nDetainees had food withheld for infractions such as failing to accurately memorise passages from books about Xi Jinping, according to a former camp guard who spoke to the BBC via video link from a country outside China.\n\n\"Once we were taking the people arrested into the concentration camp, and I saw everyone being forced to memorise those books. They sit for hours trying to memorise the text, everyone had a book in their hands,\" he said.\n\nThose who failed tests were forced to wear three different colours of clothing based on whether they had failed one, two, or three times, he said, and subjected to different levels of punishment accordingly, including food deprivation and beatings.\n\n\"I entered those camps. I took detainees into those camps,\" he said. \"I saw those sick, miserable people. They definitely experienced various types of torture. I am sure about that.\"\n\nAnalysts say the policy against the Uighurs flows directly from President Xi Jinping\n\nIt was not possible to independently verify the guard's testimony but he provided documents that appeared to corroborate a period of employment at a known camp. He agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.\n\nThe guard said he did not know anything about rape in the cell areas. Asked if the camp guards used electrocution, he said: \"Yes. They do. They use those electrocuting instruments.\" After being tortured, detainees were forced to make confessions to a variety of perceived offences, according to the guard. \"I have those confessions in my heart,\" he said.\n\nPresident Xi looms large over the camps. His image and slogans adorn the walls; he is a focus of the programme of \"re-education\". Xi is the overall architect of the policy against the Uighurs, said Charles Parton, a former British diplomat in China and now senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.\n\n\"It is very centralised and it goes to the very top,\" Parton said. \"There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that this is Xi Jinping's policy.\"\n\nIt was unlikely that Xi or other top party officials would have directed or authorised rape or torture, Parton said, but they would \"certainly be aware of it\".\n\n\"I think they prefer at the top just to turn a blind eye. The line has gone out to implement this policy with great sternness, and that is what is happening.\" That left \"no real constraints\", he said. \"I just don't see what the perpetrators of these acts would have to hold them back.\"\n\nAccording to Ziawudun's account, the perpetrators did not hold back.\n\n\"They don't only rape but also bite all over your body, you don't know if they are human or animal,\" she said, pressing a tissue to her eyes to stop her tears and pausing for a long time to collect herself.\n\n\"They didn't spare any part of the body, they bit everywhere leaving horrible marks. It was disgusting to look at.\n\n\"I've experienced that three times. And it is not just one person who torments you, not just one predator. Each time they were two or three men.\"\n\nLater, a woman who slept near Ziawudun in the cell, who said she was detained for giving birth to too many children, disappeared for three days and when she returned her body was covered with the same marks, Ziawudun said.\n\n\"She couldn't say it. She wrapped her arms around my neck and sobbed continuously, but she said nothing.\"\n\nThe Chinese government did not respond directly to questions from the BBC about allegations of rape and torture. In a statement, a spokeswoman said the camps in Xinjiang were not detention camps but \"vocational education and training centres\".\n\n\"The Chinese government protects the rights and interests of all ethnic minorities equally,\" the spokeswoman said, adding that the government \"attaches great importance to protecting women's rights\".\n\nTursunay Ziawudun at home in the US with her landlady, who supports her\n\nZiawudun was released in December 2018 along with others who had spouses or relatives in Kazakhstan - an apparent policy shift she still doesn't fully understand.\n\nThe state returned her passport and she fled to Kazakhstan and then, with the support of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, to the US. She is applying to stay. She lives in a quiet suburb not far from Washington DC with a landlady from the local Uighur community. The two women cook together and take walks in the streets around the house. It's a slow, uneventful existence. Ziawudun keeps the lights low when she is in the house, because they shone brightly and constantly in the camp. A week after she arrived in the US, she had surgery to remove her womb - a consequence of being stamped on. \"I have lost the chance to become a mother,\" she said. She wants her husband to join her in the US. For now, he is in Kazakhstan.\n\nFor a while after her release, before she could flee, Ziawudun waited in Xinjiang. She saw others who had been churned through the system and released. She saw the effect the policy was having on her people. The birth rate in Xinjiang has plummeted in the past few years, according to independent research - an effect analysts have described as \"demographic genocide\".\n\nMany in the community had turned to alcohol, Ziawudun said. Several times, she saw her former cellmate collapsed on the street - the young woman who was removed from the cell with her that first night, who she heard screaming in an adjacent room. The woman had been consumed by addiction, Ziawudun said. She was \"like someone who simply existed, otherwise she was dead, completely finished by the rapes\".\n\n\"They say people are released, but in my opinion everyone who leaves the camps is finished.\"\n\nAnd that, she said, was the plan. The surveillance, the internment, the indoctrination, the dehumanisation, the sterilisation, the torture, the rape.\n\n\"Their goal is to destroy everyone,\" she said. \"And everybody knows it.\"\n\nReaders in the UK affected by sexual abuse or violence can find support information via the BBC website here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"", "Little Simz has numerous nominations including female artist of the year\n\nRapper Dave leads the way at this year's GRM Daily Rated Awards, with six nominations.\n\nFresh from his headline sets at Reading and Leeds festivals, the 24-year-old is up for male artist of the year.\n\nHe's also nominated for track of the year twice, along with two nods for video of the year.\n\nThe rapper faces competition from Little Simz, Fredo, Tion Wayne, M Huncho, Knucks and Kojey Radical for album of the year.\n\nLittle Simz is also up for female artist of the year and video of the year.\n\nThe ceremony - which celebrates rap and grime - is set to be broadcast in October.\n\nIt's the first time the fan-voted awards, set up by urban music platform GRM Daily, will be shown on E4.\n\nRapper Dave is nominated for track of the year... twice\n\nDave isn't the only artist with multiple nominations to his name, with Aitch - who has two nominations for video of the year - securing multiple nods alongside ArrDee, Cleo Sol, Little Simz, M Huncho and Tion Wayne.\n\nContenders for track of the year includes Aitch's Baby feat. Ashanti, Flowers (Say My Name) by ArrDee and Central Cee's Obsessed With You.\n\nMahalia, Ms Banks, Stefflon Don and FLO are just some of the names nominated for female of the year.\n\nNominations for personality of the year include figures such as KSI, Mo Gilligan, Munya Chawawa, Nella Rose and Big Zuu.\n\nThe hosts and performances for the ceremony - which will be held in-person for the first time since the pandemic - are yet to be announced.\n\nLast year, Jorja Smith won female artist of the year, with rapper Tion Wayne taking home track of the year.\n\nGRM Daily founder Posty said: \"I'm proud to be returning with our seventh Rated Awards and bringing an even more incredible show to screens this year.\"\n\nTo see a full list of nominations, and to vote, click here.\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.", "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\nNick Kyrgios put in a characteristically vocal performance, including complaining to the umpire that a fan was smoking marijuana, en route to the US Open third round.\n\nThe Wimbledon runner-up repeatedly berated his box as he beat France's Benjamin Bonzi 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 4-6 6-4.\n\nThe Australian swore several times and was given a warning in the third set.\n\nWorld number one and defending champion Daniil Medvedev also won as he beat Arthur Rinderknech 6-2 7-5 6-3.\n\nHis next opponent will be Wu Yibing, who earned a 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 6-4 6-4 win over Nuno Borges of Portugal to become the first Chinese man to reach the third round at the US Open.\n\nEarlier in the day, Norway's fifth seed Casper Ruud beat Tim van Rijthoven.\n\nThe 23-year-old won 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 6-4 6-4 to reach round three for the second time and will face American 29th seed Tommy Paul.\n• None Follow live coverage of day three of the US Open\n• None Third seed Sakkari out of US Open\n\nKyrgios will play American world number 87 JJ Wolf in the next round.\n\n\"I'm just happy to get through,\" said Kyrgios.\n\n\"It's been a stressful time. Me and my team have big expectations. Every tournament I play I'm expected to play amazing tennis every time.\n\n\"I'd rather have that pressure and expectation to go far. I feel like I'm playing some of the best tennis of my life.\"\n\nKyrgios got off to a flying start, breaking world number 50 Bonzi's serve in the first game, but was broken himself three games later and began occasionally shouting and cursing at his team between points as has become his trademark.\n\nAn entertaining tie-break twice left Bonzi flat on his face on the floor as Kyrgios finished with a flourish, winning five points in a row to take it 7-3.\n\nIn the second set Kyrgios, who is facing legal action from a fan he said was \"drunk out of her mind\" at Wimbledon, said a member of the New York crowd was smoking marijuana.\n\nThe 27-year-old swore when explaining that to the umpire and added that it could harm players who suffered from asthma, as he does.\n\n\"People don't know I'm a heavy asthmatic,\" said Kyrgios after the match.\n\n\"When I'm running side to side, I'm struggling to breathe, [it's] probably not something I want to be breathing in between points.\"\n\nAs play resumed, the umpire asked spectators to \"refrain from smoking around the court\".\n\nDespite his complaints, Kyrgios continued to play a high level of tennis, hitting lines and showing complete control of his drop shots to take set point on Bonzi's serve.\n\nAfter he was broken to go 5-4 down in the third set, Kyrgios swore at his team at the change of ends, saying \"go home if you're not going to support me\" and received a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct as a result before losing the set.\n\nHe complained about fans leaving the stadium during play, before being broken in the third set but levelled things again in the next game.\n\nThe Australian faced three break points at 4-4, but saved them all and then broke himself as Bonzi found the net, roaring to the New York sky in celebration at his victory.\n\nElsewhere in the men's draw, American John Isner withdrew with injury from his second-round match, meaning Danish 28th seed Holger Rune advances and will play the winner of Thursday's match between Britain's Cameron Norrie and Portugal's Joao Sousa.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How did Emiliano Sala end up on that fatal flight? Transfer investigates the tragic story behind the headlines\n• None Get some players' perspectives on these hot football topics", "There are plans in place to test the city's entire population\n\nChengdu has become the latest Chinese city to be locked down as Beijing continues to pursue its controversial \"zero-Covid\" policy.\n\nAround 21 million people have been ordered to stay indoors, with just one person per household allowed out for essential shopping.\n\nOn Thursday, the city recorded 157 new infections, including 51 asymptomatic.\n\nChina's Covid policies require cities to enter strict lockdowns - even if just a handful of cases are reported.\n\nHowever, Beijing's drive to ensure \"zero Covid\" has been accused of stifling economic growth, and has prompted rare public dissent from citizens.\n\nChengdu's residents, asked to stay at home from 18:00 local time (10:00 GMT) on Thursday, will all be tested over the coming days, but it was not clear when restrictions would be lifted.\n\nIn the meantime, people have been banned from entering or leaving Chengdu, the capital of the south-west Sichuan province, with only residents able to show evidence of a negative Covid test allowed out to buy necessities.\n\nState media also reports that the start of schools' autumn term has been postponed and flights have been grounded.\n\nHealth authorities labelled the situation \"extremely complex and severe\" and blamed the outbreak on mass gatherings during warm weather at a pair of swimming and entertainment venues.\n\nOther restrictions are currently in force elsewhere in China, including in Shenzhen in the south and Dalian in the north-east.\n\nThe country has deployed a range of city-specific Covid prevention measures after the initial wave of the virus hit Wuhan in 2019.\n\nChina is the world's last major economy attempting to entirely stamp out Covid outbreaks, claiming this is necessary to prevent wider surges of the virus which could overwhelm hospitals.\n\nThe country has officially recorded fewer than 15,000 deaths since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "The first flight due to take refugees from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled at the last minute in June\n\nA detailed clinical review of the backgrounds of asylum seekers likely to be sent to Rwanda has found many may have been tortured.\n\nThe research by charity Medical Justice questions how people have so far been selected for the proposed flights.\n\nThe plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda is being challenged next week in the High Court.\n\nThe government says the scheme will help end people smuggling and dangerous crossings of the English Channel.\n\nThe Home Office's £120m plan aims to send some of those who cross the English Channel on to the African nation to have their claims dealt with there.\n\nIf they are found to be in genuine need of protection, Rwanda would offer them resettlement, rather than sending them back to the UK.\n\nThe plan is widely opposed by asylum experts, including the United Nations' refugee agency.\n\nThe first planned flight was aborted in June after the European Court of Human Rights said judges in London must first rule on whether it was lawful. The Supreme Court's judicial review into the policy has now been postponed to September.\n\nMedical Justice, a charity that sends doctors to assess the health of immigration detainees, said it had identified 51 people who had been told by the Home Office they would be sent to Rwanda.\n\nOf those, it had been able to collect more information on 36, almost all of whom were known to have arrived on the Kent coast in dinghies.\n\nDoctors have so far clinically assessed 17:\n\nSome 25,000 people have made the journey across the Channel this year in small boats\n\nDoctors concluded that another individual was not mentally fit enough to speak to lawyers about their options - and another needed an urgent assessment as to whether or not they have a brain tumour.\n\nKhalid, not his real name, is one of the people identified by the charity to be sent to Rwanda. He says he fled persecution and abuse in his home country which began after he had opposed the government.\n\n\"I left France in a boat for Dover - and I came here because of the political persecution at home,\" he told the BBC. \"I needed to find somewhere that respected human rights. With God's blessing I thought I had come somewhere safe.\n\n\"But when I was told I was being sent to Rwanda my mind was full of confusion. Why? I know people who have gone there and they say it is unstable - they don't say good things about it. How can the government say it is a safe country to receive people when it's not? I don't think going there would be safe.\"\n\nDr Rachel Bingham from Medical Justice said: \"Our report shows extremely high rates of evidence of torture, trafficking and other vulnerabilities in this group, to whom the government plan to deny assessment or interview before they are forcibly removed.\n\n\"The policy knowingly places people in an extremely damaging situation and should be considered exceptionally harmful.\n\n\"As a doctor, what shocks me most is the total disregard for the need to assess the risks of subjecting individual people to this policy.\"\n\nA hostel that Rwanda says migrants would be sent to\n\nNext week's major court case challenging the Rwanda plan may become one of the most complex legal battles in recent years against a controversial government policy.\n\nNot only does it involve evidence from individual migrants about why they should not be sent to Rwanda, but lawyers for a number of organisations will tell the court the Home Secretary Priti Patel does not have the power to sanction the flights.\n\nA second stage of the case in October will look in detail at the selection criteria for those warned they will be removed.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said Medical Justice's warnings that vulnerable people would be removed to Rwanda were wrong.\n\n\"We have been clear from the start that no one will be relocated if it is unsafe or inappropriate for them,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"Our thorough assessment of Rwanda has found that it is a fundamentally safe and secure country, with a track record of supporting asylum seekers.\"", "The reserve is cared for by the National Trust\n\nA nature reserve that was the scene of a historic mass trespass, which led to crucial rural access rights being granted, has been extended.\n\nKinder Scout, a National Nature Reserve (NNR) at the highest point in the Peak District, has been extended by 226 hectares (558 acres).\n\nThe National Trust, which cares for the site, said it \"holds the key to so many benefits for our environment\".\n\nNatural England said the reserve was an important habitat.\n\nKinder Scout is the highest point in the Peak District\n\nAfter the extension - a move authorised by Natural England - the site will be 1,082 hectares (2,673 acres).\n\nThe trust said the extension included an \"outdoor laboratory\" created in 2010 for research on the impacts of restoring peatlands to combat climate change.\n\nThe laboratory uses scientific monitoring equipment such as pipes inserted into the peat to measure the water table, weirs that gauge water flow in erosion channels and marked-out squares for monitoring plant growth.\n\nKinder Scout is the highest point in the Peak District at 2,087ft (636m).\n\nOn 24 April 1932, a group of young workers staged a mass trespass in the area, resulting in arrests and prison sentences.\n\nThe subsequent outcry was credited by many as shaping today's access rights.\n\nThe trust said it had worked hard with its partners to restore the area's natural landscape\n\nCraig Best, general manager for the Peak District at the National Trust, said: \"When we started caring for Kinder in 1982, the mountain was a barren moonscape of bare peat, degraded by human activity over the centuries.\n\n\"However, following almost 40 years of restoration work with our partners and volunteers, the NNR is being transformed into a plateau of healthy peat bogs.\n\n\"Kinder has a rich history and was the backdrop to one of the mass trespass activities, 90 years ago, which led to open access to moorland and the creation of national parks.\"\n\nOliver Harmar, chief operating officer at Natural England, said: \"Kinder Scout holds a special place in our national history as the backdrop to the very creation of our National Parks and NNRs.\n\n\"Today, NNRs, like Kinder Scout, are great places to be inspired and get hands on with nature - they're free, open and available to all.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ex-New York City police officer who assaulted law enforcement officials during the 6 January riots has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\nThomas Webster, 56, was convicted in May on multiple charges, including assaulting police and violent and disorderly conduct.\n\nMore than 850 people have been charged over their involvement in the attack.\n\nBut the sentence handed down on Thursday is the longest imposed on anyone over their role in the riots.\n\nA federal jury in New York previously rejected Webster's argument that he had been acting in self-defence when he swung a metal flagpole at an officer and tackled another to the ground, holding him in a chokehold.\n\nIn pre-sentencing documents, the Marine Corps veteran disavowed former President Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen and included a letter of reference from a friend who blamed the Republican politician's \"despicable lies\" for inducing Webster's conduct.\n\nJurors accepted prosecutors' argument that Webster had \"spearheaded\" an attack on police lines and that he was responsible for \"disgracing a democracy that he once fought honourably to protect and serve\".\n\n\"Notwithstanding his background and training, Webster did not try to de-escalate the situation or leave the premises,\" the justice department said in court filings. \"Webster spent eight minutes elbowing his way through the densely packed crowd so that he could position himself at the front of the mob.\"\n\nThe court agreed to suspend the final 36 months of Webster's term in deference to his 25 years service as a police officer and soldier.\n\nThe sentencing comes as US law enforcement officials also detained Kellye SoRelle, a lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers group.\n\nMs SoRelle was indicted on four charges in connection with the 6 January attacks, including obstruction of justice.\n\nSeveral members of the group have pleaded guilty to criminal charges arising from the attack on the Capitol, where a number of Oath Keepers were seen entering the building in military style body armour.\n\nThe 43-year-old previously volunteered with Lawyers for Trump during efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.", "Three Canadian police officers have been charged in the shooting death of an 18-month-old child in November 2020.\n\nThe charges were announced following a nearly two year investigation by Ontario police watchdog, the Special Investigation Unit (SIU).\n\nThe boy, Jameson Shapiro, was killed when police shot at the truck driven by his father following a report of a parental abduction.\n\nThe police union say they are \"fully supporting\" the three officers.\n\nOntario Provincial Police (OPP) constables Nathan Vanderheyden, Kenneth Pengelly and Grayson Cappus each face a single count of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death in relation to Jameson's shooting, the SIU announced on Wednesday evening.\n\nThey are scheduled to appear in court on 6 October.\n\nThe incident took place on the morning of 26 November 2020 after police received a call claiming the boy's 33-year-old father had abducted him from his home in Trent Lakes, Ontario, a town about 170km (105 miles) northeast of Toronto.\n\nOPP officers spotted the pickup truck being driven by Jameson's father in nearby Kawartha Lakes. During an attempt to stop the truck there was a collision and one police officer was seriously injured.\n\nAn \"interaction\" with the father followed, according to the SIU, and the three police officers opened fire.\n\nThe father was shot and later died in hospital. Jameson, who was in the pickup, was also shot and died at the scene. The SIU said in February 2021 that forensic evidence indicated that the boy was shot by police.\n\nThe SIU has said four weapons were recovered from the scene during its investigation - three police firearms and one handgun from the pickup.\n\nIn a statement, the union representing the three officers called the incident \"a tragic circumstance for all involved\".\n\n\"Every single day police officers make split second decisions that most will never have to make and wouldn't want to make,\" said OPP Association president Rob Stinson.\n\n\"This case is now before the courts. Everyone is entitled to due process.\"\n\nOPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique said in a statement that it is \"devastating when an innocent life is lost during an incident\" and said the force would not comment further as the case is before the courts.", "The red deer stag stopped as the snow intensified in Richmond Park\n\nAn eight-year-old boy who snapped a stunning shot of a deer in the snow in a London park has scooped a top photography award.\n\nJoshua Cox was just six years old when he captured the majestic animal in Richmond Park last January with a camera he had received for Christmas.\n\n\"He almost looked like he was having a snow shower,\" Joshua said.\n\nIt has been highly commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.\n\nJoshua started using a toy camera as a toddler and progressed to a compact camera not long after taking the photo while in lockdown.\n\nIt had just started to snow when the youngster and his father Julian Cox, who is also a wildlife photographer, arrived in the park.\n\nDescribing the moment they came across the red deer stag, Joshua, from west London, said: \"We were in a blizzard and I saw some snow stags going into the woods and we followed them.\n\n\"We got quite close but were a good distance away. Luckily we were not disturbing them much.\"\n\nJoshua started taking photographs when he was three years old\n\nHis dad Julian said his son was the only UK young photographer in this year's competition\n\nHis father added: \"Joshua has been interested in wildlife from a very young age, from three, and it's really about going on wildlife adventures together and sharing with him what beautiful nature we have here in the British isles. If that inspires him to take photographs that's great.\n\n\"Joshua only takes photographs when he wants to, when the inspiration takes him and usually when it does he ends up taking better pictures than his dad.\n\n\"I'm very proud of Josh and very happy for him.\"\n\nAnd the budding photographer's top tips for a great wildlife shot?\n\n\"If you spot an animal then just wait for it to look into the camera, make sure it focusses and then press the shutter,\" he said.\n\nJoshua took this picture of a rook roost at dusk at the age of seven\n\nRichmond Park is home to herds of red and fallow deer which have been roaming freely since 1637, the Natural History Museum, which runs the competition, said.\n\nThe grazing deer help to manage the landscape of the park.\n\nThe snow stag shot is highly commended in the 10-years-and-under category of the contest, which is in its 58th year and has become one of the most prestigious of its kind.\n\nThe winning images, including the prestigious Grand Title Award and Young Grand Title Award, will be announced on 14 October.\n• None Is this ape really cuddling a pet mongoose?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has said that the first batch of Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine \"next week\".\n\nThe US is by far the largest contributor of arms to Ukraine.\n\nPoland, which was also a major donor, recently said it would stop supplying it with weapons.\n\nIt is in a dispute with Ukraine about its exports of grain, which Poland says are flooding its market.\n\nThe amount of military aid given to Ukraine is tracked by the Kiel Institute, but the data only accounts for donations up until the end of July.\n\nThe US announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million.\n\nThe US has also confirmed it will provide cluster munitions, a controversial move which has caused unease among some Nato allies.\n\nUkraine has also received SCALP missiles from France - similar to the UK Storm Shadows missiles that were recently delivered.\n\nDozens of tanks have already been committed. Ukraine says they are urgently needed to defend its territory and to push out Russian troops.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is used by a number of European countries, and is considered to be easier to maintain and more fuel-efficient than most other Western tanks.\n\nDuring the first months following the invasion, Nato preferred member countries to supply Ukraine with older tanks - ones that had been used in the former Warsaw Pact.\n\nUkraine's armed forces know how to operate them, and how to maintain them, and had a lot spare parts for them.\n\nModern Western tanks are more complicated to operate and harder to maintain.\n\nRecent footage of a Ukrainian attack on Russian positions show that at least one Leopard tank and several Bradleys are already in use by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe UK led the way in Nato by offering to provide the Challenger 2 - its main battle tank.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than other tanks available to Ukraine's armed forces.\n\nUkraine used Warsaw Pact designed T-72 tanks prior to the invasion, and since February 2022 has received more than 200 T-72s from Poland, the Czech Republic and a small number of other countries.\n\nAnnouncing the US decision to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, President Joe Biden described them as \"the most capable tanks in the world\".\n\nThe US and the UK are also providing depleted uranium rounds with the tanks they are donating, which are very effective at piercing armour.\n\nHowever, depleted uranium is slightly radioactive material and there are some concerns that the rounds could contaminate the soil.\n\nMilitary professionals point out that success on the battlefield requires a vast range of equipment, deployed in co-ordination, with the necessary logistical support in place.\n\nThe Stryker is one of the many armoured vehicles that have been donated to Ukraine. The US confirmed that 90 Strykers would be dispatched.\n\nAmong the other vehicles donated by the US were Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. They were used extensively by US forces in Iraq.\n\nIn December, the US also announced it was sending the Patriot missile system to Ukraine - and Germany and the Netherlands have followed suit.\n\nThis highly sophisticated system has a range of up to 60 miles (100km), depending on the type of missile used, and requires specialised training for Ukrainian soldiers, likely to be carried out at a US Army base in Germany.\n\nBut the system is expensive to operate - one Patriot missile costs about $3m.\n\nSince the start of the conflict, Ukraine has been using Soviet-era S-300 surface-to-air systems against Russian attacks.\n\nBefore the conflict began, Ukraine had about 250 S-300s and there have been efforts to replenish these with similar systems stockpiled in other former Soviet countries, with some coming from Slovakia.\n\nThe US has also provided Nasams (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) to Ukraine. The first Nasams arrived in Ukraine in November.\n\nIn addition, the UK has provided several air defence systems, including Starstreak, designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nGermany has also provided air defence systems, including the IRIS-T air defence systems which can hit approaching missiles at an altitude of up to 20km.\n\nAmong the long-range rocket launchers sent to Ukraine by the US are the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or Himars. Several European countries have also sent similar systems.\n\nHimars are believed to have been central to Ukraine's success in pushing Russian forces back in the south, particularly in Kherson in November.\n\nHimars systems are much more accurate have a longer potential range than the Smerch system used on the Russian side.\n\nIn the months following the invasion and Russia's retreat from Kyiv, much of the war centred on the east of the country where supplies of artillery to Ukraine were in heavy demand.\n\nAustralia, Canada and the US were among the countries to send advanced M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nThe range of the M777 is similar to Russia's Giatsint-B howitzer, and much longer than Russia's D-30 towed gun.\n\nNato countries say they are planning to ramp up their supply of shells, because Ukraine has been using them much at a faster rate than they are being delivered.\n\nThey are asking their domestic manufacturers to increase production.\n\nThousands of Nlaw weapons, designed to destroy tanks with a single shot, have also been supplied to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons are thought to have been particularly important in stopping the advance of Russian forces on Kyiv in the hours and days following the invasion.\n\nDrones have featured heavily in the conflict so far, with many used for surveillance, targeting and heavy lift operations.\n\nTurkey has sold Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukraine, while the Turkish manufacturer of the system has donated drones to crowd-funding operations in support of Ukraine.\n\nAnalysts say the Bayraktar TB2s have been extremely effective, flying at about 25,000 feet (7,600m) before descending to attack Russian targets with laser-guided bombs.\n\nThe US had repeatedly rebuffed Ukraine's pleas for fighter jets, instead focusing on providing military support in other areas.\n\nBut in May, President Joe Biden announced the US would support providing advanced fighter jets - including US-made F-16s - to Ukraine and also back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.\n\nThe US endorsement also allowed other nations to export their own F-16 jets, as the US legally has to approve the re-export of equipment purchased by allies.\n\nDenmark and the Netherlands have since confirmed that they will supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. Denmark has committed to sending 19 aircraft whilst it is anticipated that the Netherlands will provide more.\n\nAn initial delivery of several Danish F-16s is expected for near the end of 2023.\n\nA wider joint coalition of countries, including the UK, have also agreed to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. In addition to the US, the joint coalition will also help train Ukrainian ground crew to maintain the aircraft.\n\nAdditional reporting by Thomas Spencer. Graphics by Gerry Fletcher and Sana Dionysiou.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Memories of broadcaster Bill Turnbull, who has died at the age of 66\n\nBroadcaster Bill Turnbull has died at the age of 66, his representatives have confirmed.\n\nTurnbull hosted BBC Breakfast for 15 years, in both London and later Salford, and also fronted Songs of Praise and game show Think Tank.\n\nHis family said: \"Bill will be remembered by many as a remarkable broadcaster who brought warmth and humour into people's homes\".\n\nIn 2018, he announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.\n\nAfter leaving the BBC in 2016, he joined Classic FM, and continued presenting shows on the network until recently.\n\nHis family added: \"Following a challenging and committed fight against prostate cancer, Bill passed away peacefully at his home in Suffolk surrounded by his family on Wednesday, 31 August.\"\n\nThey said he received his diagnosis in 2017, and praised his \"outstanding medical care\" from the Royal Marsden and Ipswich Hospitals, St Elizabeth Hospice and his GP.\n\nTurnbull pictured in 2010 with BBC Breakfast co-hosts (L-R) Sian Williams, Susanna Reid and Charlie Stayt\n\n\"He was resolutely positive and was hugely buoyed by the support he received from friends, colleagues and messages from people wishing him luck.\n\n\"It was a great comfort to Bill that so many more men are now testing earlier for this disease,\" they said, calling him a \"wonderful husband and father to his three children\" and a devoted Wycombe Wanderers fan and \"an ever-aspiring beekeeper\".\n\nTurnbull was a favourite with viewers on BBC Breakfast thanks to his gentle presenting style, which was well suited to early morning broadcasting.\n\nDuring his time on the show, he worked alongside Sian Williams, Susanna Reid, Kate Silverton, Natasha Kaplinsky and Louise Minchin.\n\nHis former colleagues Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt, who were presenting Thursday's programme, paid an emotional tribute just after the news was announced.\n\nTurnbull presented BBC Breakfast for 15 years, and later moved to radio station Classic FM\n\nMunchetty said: \"As a team we are in shock this morning. He cared so much about this programme and the audience. I did my first ever shift with him on Breakfast.\"\n\n\"His energy was amazing. He came into this programme and threw everything at it. He was funny; he was a brilliant journalist. He loved this programme and he loved serving you, the audience,\" she said.\n\nStayt added that Turnbull \"didn't take himself too seriously\".\n\nThe programme's editor Richard Frediani confirmed on Thursday that Friday's Breakfast would be \"a celebration of Bill's life on and off-screen\". He noted: \"Bill Turnbull loved our viewers and our viewers loved 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. Skip twitter post by Richard Frediani 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 his last BBC Breakfast show, Turnbull himself talked about some of the moments he remembered most.\n\n\"I remember nearly getting into a fight with a ventriloquist's dummy named Bob,\" he said.\n\n\"Seriously it nearly came to blows, although that was more me than him.\"\n\nHe added: \"And there was a moment where I actually wore a sweater made from dog hair with a bow on the front. It was alright but it was very, very warm and I just couldn't get the stuff off me for weeks afterwards.\"\n\nWilliams told the BBC he \"mentored a lot of young journalists and a lot of people in the industry... and that was very important to him\", adding he had \"very high standards\".\n\nShe spoke of their relationship, saying: \"We never bickered... in 30 years of friendship\", and said she would remember them \"laughing so much we couldn't really keep control of our faces... and then we realised we were on television - we laughed a lot\".\n\nMinchin described him as \"a brilliant journalist\", adding \"most of all he was great fun\".\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 Louise Minchin 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\nBBC Breakfast's sport presenter Mike Bushell also paid a glowing tribute to his \"dear friend\" and \"mentor\" with the \"incredible talent\".\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 Mike Bushell 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\nReid, now on ITV's Good Morning Britain, added: \"I feel lucky to have worked with him, and he taught me everything. But above all, he was devoted to his family and I am heartbroken for them.\"\n\nAnother former Breakfast colleague, Channel 4 presenter Steph McGovern, posted she was \"absolutely gutted\", and said: \"I learnt so much from him. And we had some cracking arguments about how you should pronounce words like 'poor'. We all loved him.\"\n\nChannel 5 news presenter Dan Walker said it had been \"an honour\" to replace Turnbull on the Breakfast sofa, saying: \"He was full of brilliant advice and it was clear just how loved he was by his colleagues and the audience,\" while Breakfast presenter Jon Kay called Turnbull \"an absolute gent\".\n\nKaren Hardy paid an emotional tribute to her former Strictly dance partner\n\nTurnbull appeared as a contestant on an early series of Strictly Come Dancing, finishing in sixth place with his partner Karen Hardy.\n\nHardy, who was in New Zealand, cried as she paid tribute to her friend, calling Turnbull \"such a gentleman, such a mentor\".\n\nShe said meeting him was \"life-changing\" - he was her first partner on Strictly - and \"he made TV magical, he told me what it was about\", she said, adding he would help critique her appearances on Breakfast.\n\n\"If he wasn't on it, I knew he'd be watching...\" she said, adding he would text her with tips including how to sit and speak clearly for the cameras.\n\nTurnbull met the Queen and Prince Philip in 2015 at an awards reception at Buckingham Palace\n\nBBC Director-General Tim Davie called Turnbull \"a much-loved and respected broadcaster and journalist - not just by viewers but by all those lucky enough to have worked with him\".\n\n\"He always struck the right tone, no matter what the story. Warm, wise, professional and caring, he will be much missed by us all,\" he said.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries described \"an incredibly sad loss of a broadcasting legend\", praising his \"special charm and wit\" and his tireless work to raise awareness about prostate cancer.\n\nBBC Radio 4's Today programme presenter Nick Robinson described Turnbull as \"a very, very dear friend and an extraordinary broadcaster.\"\n\n\"There was a warmth to his broadcasting which people who watch Breakfast television every day knew,\" he said. \"But perhaps what they forgot was what a bloody good journalist he was. This was a man who'd been a correspondent in Washington, who travelled 30 countries. He'd been in Moscow, he'd covered wars, he'd reported on the troubles in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nHe added: \"And that combination of a razor-sharp intellect, wit, humour and humanity, came out every day when he was on Breakfast. It came out every day when he was a reporter on this programme. And listeners to Classic FM will have heard him present beautifully as well his love of music.\"\n\nRobinson also recalled how Turnbull and his wife [Sarah] had met on the Today programme, where they had worked.\n\nBroadcaster and writer Monty Don called Turnbull \"a thoroughly decent, good man\", adding: \"We shared an enthusiasm for bees and were both patrons of Bees for Development charity.\"\n\nPrior to working on Breakfast, Turnbull also worked as a reporter on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC News 24, as the news channel was then known.\n\nIn recent years, Turnbull guest presented episodes of The One Show and reunited with Reid for several editions of ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nAfter his cancer diagnosis was made public, he fronted a documentary for Channel 4 called Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive, in which he explored the use of cannabis oil for medicinal purposes.\n\nProstate Cancer UK said that after Turnbull announced he had the illness in March 2018, their specialist nurses experienced their \"busiest day on record\" and they saw a huge rise in web traffic of men looking for information and support.\n\nIn November 2017, Turnbull took part in a celebrity edition of The Great British Bake Off - which was in aid of a charity, Stand Up to Cancer. He found out about his prostate cancer during filming.\n\nHe said inspiring men to get tested for the illness by publicly revealing his own diagnosis was the \"one useful thing\" he had done in his life, admitting he was \"cross with myself\" for the pride he had felt at not visiting a GP in four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We explain what warning signs to look out for", "Mums Leanna, Lisa, Jade and Toni have protested outside their local police station\n\nChildren as young as 11 have been subjected to brutal attacks by teenagers in a Lancashire town - with the assaults filmed and shared on social media.\n\nVictims' mothers say police aren't doing enough to stop the group and have taken matters into their own hands.\n\nThe mother of one girl said she was told her daughter could have been one blow away from losing her life.\n\nLancashire Police say they take assault and anti-social behaviour seriously.\n\nThe BBC spoke to eight sets of parents in Chorley whose children were violently assaulted.\n\nThe parents believe the police have not responded fast enough, and say that's why they feel compelled to share their footage further - and have asked us to show it. They also want to illustrate the seriousness of the attacks.\n\nIt's thought the same group of teenagers was responsible for all the incidents.\n\nThe videos show children being dragged to the ground - squealing and crying out as they try to shield their heads from kicks and punches. Voices of others can be heard, off-camera, egging-on the attackers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moments from the attacks on Leanna's daughter, Toni's son and Jade's daughter\n\nFilming such violence and humiliation, and then sharing it online, has become known by the term \"patterning\" - with the aim of embarrassing victims even further by forwarding the videos across the web.\n\nA BBC News investigation has spent months talking to people in England and Wales about their experiences of reporting crime - victims who say they have been left in despair, forced to do their own detective work, and waited too long for police help.\n\nLisa's daughter - 14-year-old Bethany - was set upon by a group of girls and was viciously beaten. She managed to call her mother during the attack in April last year.\n\n\"I got a phone call - with her absolutely screaming 'Mum, please. They've got me. They've got my hair. My hair is falling out. Now they've stomped all over me.'\n\n\"I could hear what the girls were saying. 'Kick her again. Kick her again. She's down, kick her again.'\"\n\nThe violence was also being filmed and would soon be posted on social media.\n\n\"They punched her numerous times and stamped on her head. They all took turns. They pretended to let her up, but then hit her back to the ground and did it again,\" says Lisa.\n\n\"The doctor actually said that one more stamp to the head would have most likely taken her life.\"\n\nLisa says the police were called as the assault was happening.\n\n\"We rang 999 while she was on the phone. We begged them. Nobody appeared. The [police] never arrived for 48 hours.\"\n\nLisa says despite calling 999, there was \"no urgency whatsoever\" despite officers being aware of the group having caused trouble across the town. It took weeks, she says, for Bethany's attackers to be arrested. Two of the girls involved have now written a letter of apology after being given a conditional caution.\n\nAlthough Lisa believes it's not a case of officers failing to care. \"I got the impression the police believed it was pointless - that nothing will come of it.\"\n\nLancashire Police told us: \"When people call us in an emergency, we will always be there to answer the phone and to send officers as soon as we can where there is an ongoing threat or risk.\"\n\n\"These girls feel vulnerable. They're scared. It's all over social media,\" says Leanna\n\nAnother mum, Leanna, recalls the moment her 11-year-old daughter, Indie, came home after being attacked in a park.\n\n\"She walked through the door, her face was swollen. She had a burst lip and her hair was falling out. I've never in my life seen her that scared and upset,\"\n\nLeanna says they headed straight to the Chorley Police Station to report what had happened. At the front desk, she says she asked to see an officer - but was told there was no-one available to see her.\n\n\"I was gobsmacked, in disbelief really,\" she says - explaining how it took officers four days to take a statement. Two of those in the attack would later receive a voluntary caution.\n\n\"The police are the ones supposed to be protecting the children. They're supposed to be there to take the worries away and say, 'Don't worry, they're not going to do it again.'\"\n\nIn a statement, Lancashire Police said: \"When there is no ongoing risk or threat, or crime in action, we will arrange to visit people at a time convenient to them so we can investigate and solve crime and deliver the best outcomes for all.\"\n\nBut Leanna believes the police's response to these types of crimes needs to change.\n\n\"These girls feel vulnerable. They're scared. It's all over social media.\"\n\nAnother 11-year-old, Ellissia, was attacked on the same day as Leanna's daughter, in a subway at the same park, by the same group.\n\n\"They're just brutal. It's horrific watching [the video],\" says Ellissia's mum Jade. \"I feel like she's just a baby. And that's your baby on that floor. I'm just so angry with them.\"\n\nStills from the videos of the attacks on Toni's son and Jade's daughter\n\nAfter ringing the police, Jade says it took two weeks for an officer to visit the family. She says she was told police would only arrest the attackers if her daughter's injuries were more severe - like brain damage.\n\nTwo of those involved in the attack received a voluntary caution, which Jade says is completely unacceptable considering the violence used.\n\n\"You expect the police to do everything to make sure that you get justice for your child - and when they don't, you feel like you've been let down and there's nothing you can do about it.\"\n\nJade says the group of teenagers has been allowed to run riot for too long.\n\n\"They're not only attacking 11-year-old kids, they're attacking members of the public, bars, pubs, people's businesses.\"\n\n\"If [the police] had reigned it in then, none of this would have happened.\"\n\nLancashire Police say they are proud of their \"proactive approach to policing\" in Chorley and elsewhere.\n\n\"We regularly run operations aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour as part of our aim to deliver an outstanding service to the public and build confidence.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by the issues raised in this report, details of organisations offering information and support for bullying are available via BBC Action Line.\n\nEach mum we spoke to described not just the physical, but also the mental scars left on their children after the attacks.\n\nJade believes Ellissia has lost confidence, but tries to \"put on a little show to stay above water for everybody else\". Leanna says Indie is resilient but fearful.\n\nLisa says Bethany didn't leave the house for a year and has now been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). She should be going out locally and making memories - says Lisa - but instead she travels to other towns with her friends to avoid her attackers.\n\nIn a statement, Lancashire Police said: \"We recognise the impact that these incidents have had on the victims and their families, and we have done a huge amount to both support them and to keep them updated.\"\n\n\"If there is any police looking out the window, this is my daughter's face after she was stamped on so many times,\" shouts Lisa\n\nOutside Chorley Police Station last month, parents gathered to show their frustration and anger - each mum holding a large photo of their child.\n\n\"If there is any police looking out the window, this is my daughter's face after she was stamped on so many times,\" shouts Lisa in front of the gathered crowd - her photo showing Bethany's red, swollen face.\n\n\"If I had done that to my child,\" she says, \"I, rightfully, would have been taken right away.\"\n\nAnother mum - Toni - is there. Her son suffered one of the worst attacks. He was beaten to the ground by a group of boys.\n\n\"[The gang] punched him, kicked him, headbutted him. He could have come home a lot worse. He could have not come home [at all].\"\n\nToni says she has repeatedly asked police for updates but, four months on, is still waiting for an outcome.\n\nLancashire Police say they are still investigating the assault on Toni's son.\n\nThe force says all calls in relation to all the incidents in this article have been \"dealt with appropriately\".\n\n\"We have identified and arrested offenders and they have been dealt with in line with national guidance on dealing with juveniles.\"\n\nSome parents, says Toni, are keen to enact their own form of justice against the teenagers.\n\n\"I'm glad they haven't done. But something has got to give before a family is going to end up ruined.\n\n\"Is somebody going to end up dead? Whether it be one of our children or one of their children.\n\n\"Then are they going to wake up and do something about it? It's too little too late by then as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nMeanwhile dozens of parents are being proactive - patrolling the park where the children were attacked.\n\n\"Look what we're having to resort to,\" says Leanna as she patrols the park with other mums\n\n\"I can't believe it's come to this, but I understand why it has, because our children aren't being protected,\" says Lisa. \"I've got to make sure that if my daughter's down here that I've got to do the police's job. I've got to make sure she's OK.\"\n\nThe mothers claim police foot patrols are non-existent - and say when they've called 999 nothing has happened. \"What good has it done us?\" says Leanna.\n\n\"Look what we're having to resort to. We entrust the police to be there to protect our children. And because they can't do that, we're going to have to do it.\"\n\nHow have 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.", "Government forces in Ukraine are trying to seize the initiative from Russian troops before the arrival of winter. A counter-offensive is already under way in the south and the Ukrainians are now preparing to expand that in the east to take back land lost in Donbas and around Kharkiv in the north. Quentin Sommerville and camera-journalist Darren Conway have been given exclusive access to a unit of Ukrainian troops.\n\nThe air is thick with the smell of burning sunflowers, and the pat-pat-pat of Russian cluster bombs can be heard landing across the fields, setting fire to a crop which stands, heads bowed, awaiting a harvest that's unlikely to come.\n\nA self-propelled gun roars through the field, its caterpillar tracks tearing up the rich Donbas earth. The National Guard hold this ground in Ukraine's east - territory that Vladimir Putin has claimed as central to his war aims. It will be taken \"step-by-step\", he said. But for now, Russian progress has been reduced to a crawl.\n\nAnd hanging heavy in the air, among the smoke and dust, is something else - expectation. Here in Donbas, and further north on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, the country's forces are braced for a counter-offensive.\n\nI recently left army positions in the south, around Kherson. It is the only city that Russian forces have captured west of the strategically important Dnipro River. Those same troops are now engaged in battle, supporting forces who have broken through Russian lines in at least three places, as part of a long-planned counter-offensive in the south. Strict Ukrainian reporting restrictions are in place as the operation is under way.\n\nHere in Donbas, they remain tight-lipped. I'm not told the destination beforehand, and a unit press officer asks me not to name the regiment. He removes identifying patches from the men we film.\n\nAmid the din of artillery fire in a base under the cover of trees, Artyom, 35, says we are north of the city of Siversk, some 8km (five miles) from the Russian front line. \"How close do you get to them?\" I ask. \"Thirty metres,\" he replies, \"would you like to see?\"\n\nThese are all defensive positions but the success around Kherson leads many to think that more offensives are planned here and further north.\n\nI'm handed over to a red-haired guardsman who goes by the name of Svarog. He is 26, with a beard - \"I'd look 18 without it,\" he says with a grin. But after six months of fighting in this war, and in Donbas before, he's battle-hardened.\n\nHis unit saw its hardest fighting in July in nearby Lyschansk and Sivierodonetsk, where they were heavily outnumbered.\n\nThe fighting here is different. \"They are not coming in such big numbers,\" Svarog says. \"They no longer advance in battalion groups - they advance in a platoon, a detachment.\" One unit commander had explained that in the field they have one man for every three of the enemy. In Sivierodontesk it was one to seven.\n\nI'm taken on foot to the most forward position. The shelling is constant but at a distance. Instead there is a more immediate threat - anti-personnel mines. I count five as we walk along a muddy path to the river.\n\nAt the riverbank, we head into a network of trenches and I'm told to whisper. It is only an observation post but it is packed full of weaponry. \"Where are the Russians?\", I ask a guardsman. He points to the opposite bank of the river, 30 or so metres away.\n\nNearby are craters, and a shell from a spent Russian rocket. This, first and foremost, is as an observation post, not a combat position, I'm told. \"But if there is a threat that they are crossing over to our riverbank, then we will open fire,\" the guardsman says.\n\nIn a nearby village that looks like so much of this part of Ukraine, broken apart by artillery, mostly abandoned by its residents, I meet Sergiy, 65, and his dog Mukha.\n\nI ask the obvious question - why doesn't he leave? \"My parents lived and died in this house,\" he replies. \"I can't go anywhere. I sent my wife away and live here on my own. Everything is okay, I have food and a small farm. The dog is not hungry.\"\n\nSergiy says he's proud to be Ukrainian. He's not a \"nationalist\" but says he believes in Ukraine and the Armed Forces.\n\nBut others here are more ambivalent. Svarog's unit say that a marked difference from when they fought around Kyiv is the divided loyalty of some of those they have met.\n\nI walk with his men down another ruined village lane. They are, of course, armed and we are all wearing body armour and helmets. A gaggle of geese is almost enough to drown out the artillery duel taking place above our heads. We are invited into a courtyard, full of grape vines and roses, where a family go about their business as if war wasn't raging around them.\n\nJulia, 35-year-old nursery school teacher, laughs when I ask her about living under this threat. \"Imagine that war came to you and you had to pack up and leave your home in 24 hours,\" she asks. \"You would, just like me, try to hang on to what you have spent your whole life making.\"\n\nHer sister Liliia stands nearby. It is her 19th birthday on the day I visit. On her wrist she has a tattoo - \"dulcius ex asperis\" it reads - Latin for \"sweetness follows hardship\".\n\nTheir father berates the Ukrainian government for failing to negotiate. \"They need to sit down at the negotiating table and come to an agreement. It's not right to carry on like this,\" he says.\n\nJulia disagrees. Quietly she says: \"We understand, and we believe that reason will prevail. We'll wait a month, or two for the front line to even out and things will be good again here.\"\n\nDays later, I travel south and meet Ruslan, a combat medic chief who, despite seeing the daily human catastrophe of this war, still fizzes and whirrs with good humour. When we arrange to meet him in a village not far from the front, I ask how I'll spot him.\n\n\"Look for the fluffy ambulance, you won't be able to miss it,\" he says.\n\nSure enough, the vehicle arrived by the village bus stop covered in home-made camouflage netting, like a parade-float hedgehog. We follow him at speed to a frontline \"stabilisation point\", where the injured soldiers receive immediate life-saving care.\n\nThe idiosyncrasies of combat medics are legendary. So it should be no surprise that when we arrive Yuri, the surgeon for Ruslan's medics, is wearing nothing but camouflage shorts. He has in his hand a metal detector. \"He's looking for gold,\" jokes Ruslan.\n\nAfter a while, Yuri's earphones whine and with a small army trowel, he produces a black lump of ore from the ground. \"It's just a hobby,\" he says, sheepishly.\n\nThe clinic is piled high with supplies. \"We want to say thank you to our foreign donors,\" Ruslan says. \"We haven't unpacked yet. Sometimes we never have time to fully unpack.\"\n\nHe takes me through a handwritten notebook of all the injuries they have treated over the past month. Time of arrival, name, type of injury. \"The more writing on the page, the more difficult the case,\" says Ruslan.\n\nSome 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the start of the war, says Ukrainian commander-in-chief Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi. Individual unit losses and injuries are a closely guarded secret. In Ruslan's thick notebook there were fewer deaths than I had imagined. \"We've come a long way since 2014,\" he says, referring to rapid modernisation of Ukrainian forces, including combat medics.\n\nAn injured Ukrainian soldier is brought in for treatment\n\nUkrainian artillery is working all around us. A powerful M777 howitzer is firing nearby, and at night we hear a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) firing its long-range munitions. These new weapons helped prepare the ground for the offensive in the south, and it is hoped they will do the same in the east.\n\nI sit with Vlad, a slight 26-year-old who is now the unit's ambulance driver. He was a ship's engineer (second class) until the start of the war. His frigate, the Hetman Sahaidachny, was scuttled to stop it falling into Russian hands. Before getting behind the wheel of the ambulance he was an artillery man, and can name every boom and blast, as well as the year and make of tank and armour passing the clinic.\n\nI ask him how he likes this duty compared to artillery. \"There's a lot of waiting around now,\" he says.\n\nBut he doesn't have to wait for long. A truck arrives suddenly at the clinic, with screams coming from the rear. The clinic operates on radio silence, the first they know of casualties is usually when they arrive at the door.\n\nThe first man is able to walk inside, but his right arm is hanging off, a gaping wound at his shoulder. The force of the explosion which detonated near him has broken his arm. A second man groans and shouts as he is lifted by Vlad and another medic on a stretcher into the clinic. He is covered in shrapnel wounds.\n\nFor the next 15 minutes, the emergency room is a scene of calm-but-determined activity. Yuri attends to the more seriously injured man on the stretcher, assisted by nursing staff. Senior Lt Viktor attends to the man with badly injured arm. The patients are quickly bandaged, and covered in silver heat blankets then sent for further treatment.\n\nYuri explains the next step. \"We have up to an hour to quickly provide medical assistance before the patient goes to the hospital where a traumatologist, surgeon and trauma brigade take care of the patient\". Both will recover but the more seriously injured soldier is unlikely to return to duty. Ruslan sits down and adds anther two names to his notebook. These entries are short.\n\nThere would be four more injuries later that day, but in the meantime, Ruslan takes us to the trenches where casualties are first received.\n\nMortars begin landing at a tree-line, beyond where we stand. \"It's good that they didn't hit the target, he laughs, now wearing full combat gear. That's Russian precision for you.\"\n\nI ask him how they manage to retrieve casualties while under constant shelling. \"No-one will endanger personnel. So, no matter how hard it sounds, you can't lose strength and means, human resources, vehicles.\n\n\"When there's a lull, or when the battle stops or the enemy is out of ammunition, that's when the evacuation takes place immediately,\" he says. \"Until then, they try to save [casualties] on the spot with all the means they have. We've already lost too many combat medics.\"\n\nAs we leave the front, the skies darken and lightning appears on the horizon. Bad weather is on its way, summer is ending and fighting conditions will worsen. The deep snows of winter will arrive threatening to freeze battle lines in place.\n\nBut for now, there is something else in the air here, an expectation that after months of stalemate, Ukraine could be about to again strike back.", "The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is under Russian occupation\n\nUN nuclear experts have made their first inspection of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine and are to maintain a presence there.\n\nInternational Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said the \"plant and physical integrity of the plant\" had been \"violated several times\".\n\nThe inspectors were accompanied to the plant by Russian soldiers after a risky journey delayed by shelling.\n\nRussia and Ukraine accused each other of trying to sabotage the mission.\n\nZaporizhzhia, in southern Ukraine, is Europe's largest nuclear plant. It was occupied by Russia soon after it invaded Ukraine in February.\n\nUkrainian staff who continue to operate the plant say Russian troops have used it as a military base and that workers are in effect held at gunpoint.\n\n\"We are not going anywhere. The IAEA is now there, it is at the plant and it is not moving - it's going to stay there,\" Mr Grossi said, once he had crossed back into Ukrainian-held territory.\n\nBut he did not specify how many people would be staying and for how long.\n\nRussia's Interfax news agency reported that around eight to 12 inspectors would stay on, while Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom said five inspectors would stay.\n\nThe inspectors hope to assess the state of the plant and talk to Ukrainian workers under Russian control.\n\nMr Grossi said that battles taking place near the plant were \"not going to stop\" the inspection.\n\n\"There were moments where fire was obvious, heavy machine gun, artillery mortars, at two or three times [it was] really very concerning, I would say, for all of us,\" he said.\n\nThe IAEA's former chief inspector Olli Heinonen has told the BBC that if interviews do take place, workers are unlikely to be as \"open as they would like to be\" over the risks to the safety of themselves and their families.\n\nDuring his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he hoped the inspectors would \"draw objective conclusions,\" but lamented the absence of international journalists among the delegation.\n\n\"We have clear evidence that Russia did a lot of cynical things to deceive the mission,\" he added. \"The occupiers forced people to lie to the IAEA representatives - to hand over some papers, sign something, say something.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Zelensky's chief of staff accused Russia of trying to \"wreck\" the mission by shelling the nearby town of Enerhodar, which is under Moscow's control, and the facility.\n\n\"Criminals must be stopped,\" Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram, accusing Russia of acting like a \"terrorist state\".\n\nRussia refuted this, stating that 60 Ukrainian \"saboteurs\" who attempted to recapture the plant by crossing the river on Thursday morning were killed.\n\nThe EU is giving more than five million anti-radiation tablets to Ukraine, as fears grow of an accident at the plant.\n\nWhile recent fighting in the area has caused some damage to the plant, so far there has not been any recorded increase in radiation levels in the area.", "Estonia has promised further restrictions for Russian travellers within weeks\n\nEuropean Union foreign ministers have agreed to suspend a visa agreement with Moscow, making it harder for Russian citizens to obtain entry to the bloc.\n\nUkraine and some member states had called for a blanket ban, but others like France and Germany were opposed.\n\nMore than a million Russian citizens have travelled to the EU since the invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nSeveral eastern EU countries which border Russia are expected to impose further restrictions.\n\nRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Glushko said the EU was \"shooting itself in the foot\" and the move would not go unanswered.\n\n\"With regard to Russia [this] is exactly what led to the large-scale invasion of February 24th,\" he said.\n\nEU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the substantial increase in border crossings from Russia made it necessary to suspend the agreement.\n\n\"This has become a security risk for these neighbouring states,\" he said. \"In addition to that, we have seen many Russians travelling for leisure and shopping as if no war was raging in Ukraine.\"\n\nBut he warned against cutting off people who are against the war or \"civil society\" in Russia.\n\nMr Borrell said countries on Russia's borders were still free to restrict access to Russian citizens, even those with visas.\n\nThe measure, which makes it lengthier and more expensive for Russians to get a visa, is being seen as a compromise, with member states unable to agree on banning Russians altogether.\n\nThe five EU countries bordering Russia - Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland - said in a joint statement that they could introduce temporary bans or restrictions \"in order to address imminent public security issues\".\n\nEstonia aimed to stop most Russians entering the country within weeks, Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said quoted by Reuters.\n\nCzech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said the European Commission would look at ways to go further, adding that some 12 million visas had been issued to Russians - the equivalent of about 8% of the population.\n\nBut France and Germany warned in a joint statement that \"far-reaching restrictions\" could feed Russia's narrative as a victim and estrange future generations of Russians.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman ran into her home in Liverpool\n\nPolice in Liverpool have made more than 30 arrests in 24 hours as they crack down on organised crime after the fatal shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel.\n\nMerseyside Police said it had made 32 arrests, carried out 66 stop and searches, executed 11 warrants and seized eight vehicles.\n\nIt comes after nine-year-old Olivia was shot dead in her own home in Dovecot a week ago.\n\nA total of 202 people have now been arrested in the crackdown on gangs.\n\nTwo men arrested on suspicion of Olivia's murder were bailed on Saturday.\n\nThe schoolgirl was fatally shot after a gunman chased a man - both of whom had no links to her family - into her home.\n\nHer mother, Cheryl, 46, was injured as she tried to the shut the door but the attacker fired more shots.\n\nIan Byrne, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby, told BBC North West Today that her killing had been \"horrendous and senseless\".\n\nHe added: \"Everyone's heart goes out to the family.\"\n\nAshley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey were also killed in August\n\nOlivia was one of four people who were killed in a week on Merseyside.\n\nSam Rimmer, 22, was shot in Dingle on 16 August while Ashley Dale, 28, was found with gunshot wounds in the back garden of her Old Swan home in the early hours of 21 August.\n\nKaren Dempsey, 55, died in hospital after being stabbed in a pub car park in Kirkby a day later.\n\nThe latest arrests were part of Operation Miller, the force's effort to tackle organised crime in the area.\n\nA 31-year-old man from Old Swan was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and criminal property.\n\nHe was held after officers found a lock knife before discovering more than £9,000 in cash, a quantity of white powder and cannabis when they searched his home.\n\nA 33-year-old man from Dovecot was arrested following a search where he was allegedly found to be in possession of a Rolex watch believed to have been stolen.\n\nTwo men, aged 18 and 22 from Wavertree and Speke respectively, were arrested on suspicion of aggravated unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving, possession of a bladed article and assaulting police.\n\nOlivia's death is the third fatal shooting in Liverpool in recently\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said organised crime groups were \"blighting the lives of decent, law-abiding members of the community\".\n\nOfficers have also been deployed on major routes in and out of the city targeting people involved in organised crime.\n\nOn Friday, the government said it would allocate £500,000 to counter crime and provide mental health support following the rise in violence.\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.", "Rail workers will hold fresh strikes in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the RMT union has said.\n\nIt said 40,000 of its members who work at Network Rail and 14 train companies will walk out on 15 and 17 September.\n\nThe first day of these strikes coincides with a walkout by train drivers at 12 rail companies.\n\nThe Aslef union said the action by 9,000 of its members will be the biggest strike drivers have taken part in so far.\n\nThe RMT walkout follows six previous days of strike action by its members across June, July and August.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said union members had \"no choice\" but to continue striking.\n\n\"[The track operator] Network Rail and the train operating companies have shown little interest this past few weeks in offering our members anything new in order for us to be able to come to a negotiated settlement,\" he said.\n\n\"We will continue to negotiate in good faith, but the employers and government need to understand our industrial campaign will continue for as long as it takes.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"Yet again, union leaders are choosing self-defeating, co-ordinated strike action over constructive talks, not only disrupting the lives of millions who rely on these services but jeopardising the future of the railways and their own members' livelihoods.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said reforms proposed by the rail operators were essential to modernise the service and the strikes \"will not change this\".\n\nAndrew Haines, chief executive of Network Rail, said it wanted to give staff a decent pay rise and was doing everything it could to find a breakthrough in talks.\n\nHe said: \"Our latest offer of a two-year 8% pay rise, with heavily discounted travel and a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies, is affordable from within our own budgets, but the RMT remains unwilling to give its members the chance to vote on it despite knowing that members at another union overwhelmingly accepted a similar deal.\"\n\nSteve Montgomery, chairman of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, urged the RMT to call off the strikes.\n\nHe said the walk outs were \"cynically timed to cause maximum disruption to the very passengers the industry depends on for its recovery\".\n\nHe added: \"We absolutely want to give our people a pay rise and we know they are facing a squeeze - but the RMT must recognise that with revenue consistently at 20% below pre-Covid levels, the only solution lies in long-overdue reforms that will put the industry on a sustainable footing and improve services for passengers.\"\n\nIf these latest train strikes go ahead, RMT members will have taken part in eight days of national-scale strike action within three months.\n\nThursday 15 September will be the first to coincide with a strike by train drivers in another union, Aslef.\n\nThat could mean more extensive disruption than earlier national strikes, but it's too early to say for sure. Judging by previous occasions, timetables won't be available until much nearer the time.\n\nNegotiations between the RMT and the rail industry have continued, and more are expected. But it's obvious not enough progress has yet been made to prevent more industrial action.\n\nAt the moment, it's not clear how the deadlock will be broken.\n\nWalkouts on 15 September will disrupt travel to the women's international T20 cricket match between England and India at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol.\n\nMeanwhile, strike action on 17 September will hit music fans travelling to see Gary Barlow perform in London and George Ezra in Manchester.\n\nThere are also Premier League football matches between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester City, Brighton and Hove Albion and Crystal Palace, Newcastle United and Bournemouth, and Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City.\n\nAnd cricket team Kent Spitfires will take on Lancashire Lightning in the final of the Royal London Cup in Nottingham.", "UK house prices rose by 10% in the year to August, the Nationwide has said, despite pressure on buyers' budgets.\n\nThe market still has greater demand from buyers than homes for sale, leading to a double-digit annual rise for the 10th consecutive month.\n\nThe mortgage lender said the typical property price had risen by £50,000 in the past two years to £273,751.\n\nHowever, the Nationwide said there were signs the market was cooling, as both energy costs and mortgage rates rise.\n\nThe annual growth in house prices did slow slightly last month, down from 11% in July, but the market remains tough for first-time buyers.\n\n\"Fast-rising rents are not offering any relief and could keep some buyers in the hunt for a home for longer than they would like,\" said Myron Jobson, senior personal finance analyst at Interactive Investor,\n\n\"Even though the housing market is slowing, it is nowhere near a crash. Strong demand for homes far outstripping available housing inventory means the housing market remains a difficult one for wannabe homeowners and those looking to climb up the property ladder.\"\n\nThe Nationwide is predicting that an increase in energy costs and rising mortgage interest rates will add to the pressure on household budgets in the coming months.\n\nIt suggested that the least energy efficient property could typically see bills surge by £2,700 a year, or £225 a month.\n\n\"There are signs that the housing market is losing some momentum,\" said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist.\n\n\"We expect the market to slow further as pressure on household budgets intensifies in the coming quarters, with inflation set remain in double digits into next year.\n\n\"Moreover, the Bank of England is widely expected to continue raising interest rates, which will also exert a cooling impact on the market if this feeds through to mortgage rates, which have already increased noticeably in recent months.\"", "Children as young as 11 have been subjected to brutal attacks by a group of teenagers in a Lancashire town - with the assaults filmed and shared on social media.\n\nMums and children in Chorley say they feel compelled to share the distressing footage further and have asked us to show it - to illustrate the seriousness of the attacks, and highlight their belief that police officers have not responded fast enough.\n\nSome of the sound in the video has been removed because it contains swearing.\n\nRead more: Teenage gang: 'If the police won't do their job, we'll do it for them'", "Democrat Mary Peltola will hold the seat until the 8 November general election\n\nSarah Palin has lost a special congressional election in Alaska, in a district that was Republican-held for nearly five decades.\n\nThe winner, Democrat Mary Peltola, will be the first Alaskan Native to serve as a lawmaker in Congress for the state.\n\nThe race was to fill a vacancy left after the former officeholder died. The seat is up for grabs again in November.\n\nFormer Alaska governor Ms Palin, 58, rose to prominence as a vice-presidential candidate in 2008.\n\nMs Peltola, 49, was declared the winner on Wednesday by three percentage points in a state that ex-President Donald Trump took by 10 points in 2020.\n\nThe former state lawmaker advocated for abortion access, climate action and the state's salmon populations.\n\nMs Palin, who was endorsed by Mr Trump, outspent her Democratic rival by four to one in the run-up to the 16 August election, according to Politico.\n\nMs Peltola ran against two Republicans in the state's first ranked-choice election, a system that was criticised by Ms Palin during the race as confusing and unfair.\n\nThe Democrat, who is Yup'ik and grew up in a rural part of Alaska, will also become the first woman to hold the seat.\n\nIt had previously been held since 1973 by the late Republican Don Young.\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 was also governor of Alaska between 2006-09.\n\nWhile political analysts will search for clues in this special election as to how both main parties may fare in the US midterm elections this November, it is not clear to what degree Ms Palin's big personality was a factor in the outcome.\n\nHer brand of combative conservatism and anti-establishment appeal led many to consider her as the political precursor to Mr Trump.\n\nBut some voters questioned her commitment to the state, citing her resignation as governor only partway through her term.\n\nShe went on to star on reality TV shows, and launched a high-profile libel lawsuit against the New York Times, which she lost earlier this year.\n\nMs Peltola served in the statehouse for a decade - and overlapped with Ms Palin during her time there.\n\nThe two say they bonded in the Capitol since they were both pregnant at the time.\n\nWhen Ms Palin left Juneau to hit the campaign trail with McCain, she gave her backyard trampoline to Ms Peltola.\n\nAccording to Alaska Public Media, Ms Palin - normally a fierce critic of Democrats - recently referred to her rival as a \"sweetheart\".", "With dire warnings coming from President Volodymyr Zelensky's office about the danger of a nuclear catastrophe as fighting continues around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, just what are the nuclear risks of the war in Ukraine?\n\nWe can break them down as follows:\n\nUkraine’s civil nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia has six nuclear reactors. These are well protected and of a far safer design than the one at Chernobyl that blew up in 1986.\n\nBut they need a constant power supply to keep cool. If power were to be interrupted for a length of time, or if the plant’s radioactive waste was to be damaged, then there is a risk of harmful radiation leaking into the atmosphere.\n\nThere is currently a northerly wind, turning northeasterly on Friday, which would blow any radiation plume away from Russia and towards Odesa, should an accident occur.\n\nRussian military doctrine allows for the early use of battlefield \"tactical\" nuclear weapons with a yield of up to 15 kilotons, enough to destroy a football stadium and anything within a one to two mile radius.\n\nThere is currently no suggestion Russia would use one but if the war started to go really badly for Moscow then there is no knowing what President Putin could order.\n\nThis is the doomsday nuclear arsenal, of massive city-destroying missiles and bombs, that President Putin likes to remind the world he controls.\n\nAmerica, Britain and France all have the same, so no one has used one in anger since 1945. Ukraine returned all its Soviet-era nuclear warheads to Russia in the 1990s and some here now say this was a mistake.", "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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liz Truss confirms no new taxes if she becomes PM\n\nTory leadership hopeful Liz Truss has ruled out introducing new taxes if she becomes the UK's next prime minister.\n\nShe also ruled out energy rationing - unlike her rival Rishi Sunak, who said it should not be taken off the table.\n\nThe pair were speaking at the final hustings of the leadership contest, with the winner announced next week.\n\nLater, the foreign secretary hinted she would look at providing further support to businesses and households with soaring energy costs.\n\nEconomic questions have dominated the race in recent weeks, amid rising inflation and soaring energy costs for households and firms.\n\nBoth candidates have come under pressure to spell out what they would do to help with energy if they replace Boris Johnson in Downing Street.\n\nMs Truss, tipped by pollsters as the favourite in the contest, has said she would reverse April's National Insurance rise and temporarily ditch energy levies to help people cope with increased costs.\n\nShe has not given details of any further help for households, but said her chancellor would look to \"address the issue of household support\" in an emergency Budget she would reportedly hold next month.\n\nSpeaking at the hustings in London, the last and twelfth of the contest, she said she would \"absolutely be looking to act on business energy costs\".\n\nAsked if she could pledge not to introduce new taxes if she wins power, she replied: \"Yes, no new taxes.\"\n\nSunak supporter and former cabinet minister Michael Gove said he was \"not opposed\" to lower taxes but argued that the people most in need of help would not benefit from tax cuts.\n\nAsked if he would support Ms Truss's Budget if she were to become prime minister, Mr Gove told the BBC's Today programme he would look at the measures but that his \"natural instinct\" was to support a Conservative prime minister.\n\nIn a Sun newspaper article, Ms Truss gave a hint that she would provide support beyond tax cuts pledging to \"deliver immediate support to ensure people are not facing unaffordable fuel bills\".\n\nShe promised to be \"robust\" but added: \"It isn't right to announce my entire plan before I have even won the leadership and got my feet under the table.\"\n\nDuring the debate, Ms Truss ruled out any new windfall tax on energy firm profits - something demanded by opposition parties to pay for support to help households with bills.\n\nAsked whether he would do the same, Mr Sunak - who introduced such a tax as chancellor in May - did not say whether he would extend it.\n\nBut he said it had been \"absolutely the right thing\" to introduce a windfall tax when he did, saying firms had made billions in profits due to the effect on energy markets of the war in Ukraine.\n\nAsked if he would rule out energy rationing, he replied: \"We shouldn't rule anything out, because the challenges that we face with this crisis are significant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Truss also said she would take action to boost the UK's domestic energy supplies, saying \"short-term decisions\" had left the UK \"dependent on the global energy price\".\n\nShe also said she would conduct a \"full review of our tax system\" - including business rates paid by firms and the tax burden on families.\n\nLiz Truss has said she would \"put money in people's pockets\" by reversing the National Insurance rise and moving the cost of \"green levies\" from energy bills to general taxation.\n\nBut she has been less specific about any additional help above and beyond what the government has already announced for the autumn.\n\nThe official line from her campaign is that she has ruled nothing out and will consider the options only if and when she gets to No 10, something she repeats in an article in the Sun today.\n\nWhen her supporters have been approached to flesh out her thinking, they have not all been steering in the same direction.\n\nSome are primarily advocating a big rise in Universal Credit, others want 'targeted' assistance to go much higher up the income scale.\n\nWhether via a Budget or a smaller \"fiscal event\", if she wins, she would have to announce her cost-of-living measures before the party conference season gets under way at the end of September.\n\nSo we may not have too long to wait until we know more - although for many struggling with their bills, it will be an anxious wait.\n\nAlso at the London hustings:\n\nMr Johnson's successor will be announced on Monday, and he or she will then take over as the new occupant in Downing Street the next day.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the winner will travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland to be appointed by the Queen. She has been suffering from mobility issues and it is understood the change was made to prevent the need for any last-minute rearrangements.", "The Monkees rose to popularity in the late 1960s\n\nAt their height, pop band The Monkees was one of the most popular bands in America. They were also the subject of an FBI file linked to the Vietnam War.\n\nNow, Monkees singer Micky Dolenz, 77, is suing the agency to find out more.\n\nPortions of a heavily redacted FBI file, released in 2011, include reports of \"anti-US messages on the war in Vietnam\" during a 1967 concert.\n\nThe FBI kept tabs on several famous figures during the war in Vietnam, including John Lennon.\n\n\"We know the mid-to-late 1960s saw the FBI surveil Hollywood anti-war advocates, and The Monkees were in the thick of things,\" Mr Dolenz's lawyer Mark Zaid told the BBC. \"This lawsuit seeks to expose why the FBI was monitoring The Monkees and its individual members.\"\n\nThe Monkees, America's response to the Beatles, became widely known in the late 1960s for hits like I'm a Believer and Last Train to Clarksville before breaking up in 1970. The group had four No. 1 albums in 1967 - a still unmatched record.\n\nThe made-for-TV band also laced some of those hits with anti-war sentiments, including Ditty Diego-War Chant and Last Train to Clarksville - a song about a man headed to an army base, fearing he won't return home to his love.\n\nBut it is so far unclear what it was about the band specifically that caught the attention of the FBI.\n\nMost of the seven-page FBI memo - first reported by Rolling Stone - is redacted. In one section of the file, an unnamed FBI source who attended a 1967 concert says \"subliminal messages\" were depicted on screen \"which constituted left wing innovations of a political nature\".\n\nMicky Dolenz is the last surviving member of The Monkees\n\nIn the lawsuit, Mr Dolenz says he has \"exhausted all necessary required administrative remedies\" to access the files, after submitting a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI in June. The government has 20 business days to respond to FOIA requests, except for \"unusual circumstances\".\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, Mr Dolenz has only received acknowledgments of his requests. The FBI declined to comment.\n\nMr Zaid, a self-described \"lifelong fan\" of The Monkees, said he \"couldn't think of a better combination to force the FBI to reveal its secret Monkees files and help the public learn more about an important era of American history.\"", "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.\"", "Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius is going to court to try to force South African authorities to hold a parole hearing for him.\n\nThe former Paralympic gold medallist is serving a 13-year sentence for killing his girlfriend in 2013.\n\nPistorius shot dead Reeva Steenkamp through a locked toilet door, claiming he mistook her for a burglar.\n\nHe is seeking an early release over a dispute about when his sentence started.\n\nA series of challenges and rulings by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has led to confusion about when his sentence became effective.\n\nPistorius argues that he has already served enough time in prison to be eligible for parole, and therefore authorities should look at whether he can be released early.\n\nIn 2017, SCA said that Pistorius should serve 13 years and five months for the murder of Ms Steenkamp - overturning a previous, more lenient punishment of six years for murder.\n\nLast year, the same court ruled that his current term should be backdated to October 2014, when he was initially sentenced for a lesser charge of culpable homicide.\n\nPistorius argues that this backdating means he became eligible for parole in February last year.\n\nHe wants Gauteng's High Court to order the parole board to convene a hearing for him. If that request is granted, he wants the hearing to be within 30 days of the order saying so.\n\nBut Atteridgeville prison, where he is being held, says the court of appeal has given contradictory rulings.\n\nThe Department of Correctional Services also says it is seeking a court judgement to establish the date when his sentence effectively began.\n\nSteenkamp's murder on Valentine's Day nine years ago shocked the country. In the televised trial, which gripped millions in South Africa and around the world, Pistorius pleaded that he had shot his girlfriend four times because he thought a burglar had entered his Pretoria home.\n\nBut a panel of appeal judges found that having armed himself with a deadly weapon, Pistorius should have foreseen that whoever was behind the toilet door might die, especially given his firearms training.", "Singer-songwriter Feist has walked away from her support slot on Arcade Fire's world tour, after the band's frontman was accused of sexual misconduct.\n\nFour people have accused Win Butler of behaving inappropriately, with allegations including forceful touching and unwanted, sexual text messages.\n\nThe allegations, which Butler denies, emerged on Saturday, shortly before the first date of the band's world tour.\n\nFeist, who played the first two dates, says she has now decided to \"go home\".\n\n\"The best way to take care of my band and crew and my family is to distance myself from this tour [but] not this conversation,\" she added.\n\nThe allegations against Butler emerged in an investigation by music publication Pitchfork.\n\nThe three women, and one gender-fluid person, accused the singer of taking advantage of his fame and their fandom during incidents that occurred between 2015 and 2020, when Butler was aged between 34 and 39.\n\nIn two statements to Pitchfork, Butler denied all allegations, saying that sexual interactions he had with the four people were consensual, but apologised \"to anyone who I have hurt with my behaviour\".\n\nWriting on social media, Feist said she had learned of the allegations against Butler at the same time as everyone else.\n\n\"I read the same headline you did,\" said the singer, whose full name is Leslie Feist.\n\n\"We didn't have any time to prepare for what was coming, let alone a chance to decide not to fly across the ocean into the belly of this situation.\n\n\"This has been incredibly difficult for me and I can only imagine how much more difficult it's been for the people who came forward.\n\n\"More than anything I wish healing to those involved.\"\n\nAbout 14,000 people watched the opening night of the Arcade Fire tour in Dublin\n\nFeist, who has received multiple Grammy nominations for albums such as The Reminder and Metals, explained that the allegations, which have not resulted in police action, had presented her with an ethical dilemma.\n\n\"To stay on tour would symbolise I was either defending or ignoring the harm caused by Win Butler and to leave would imply I was the judge and jury,\" she wrote.\n\nOn the opening dates of Arcade Fire's tour in Dublin, she instead donated her proceeds to the local chapter of Women's Aid, which helps victims of domestic abuse.\n\nHowever, she then went on to explain her decision to pull out.\n\n\"The last two nights on stage, my songs made this decision for me,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Hearing them through this lens was incongruous with what I've worked to clarify for myself through my whole career. I've always written songs to name my own subtle difficulties, aspire to my best self and claim responsibility when I need to.\n\n\"And I'm claiming my responsibility now and going home.\"\n\nYou can read her full statement below.\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 Feist 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\nArcade Fire have faced calls to scrap their tour, but have so far continued to play, with dates in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and London scheduled for the coming week.\n\nUS musician Beck, who is due to support the group on the North American leg of the tour, has yet to respond to the situation.\n\nMeanwhile, Butler's wife and fellow Arcade Fire member Régine Chassagne released a statement in defence of Butler.\n\n\"I know what is in his heart, and I know he has never, and would never, touch a woman without her consent and I am certain he never did,\" she said.\n\n\"He has lost his way and he has found his way back. I love him and love the life we have created together.\"\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.\n\nA man and a child walk through an almost empty Red Square in Moscow, umbrella in hand, snow on the ground. It looks extremely cold - a good day to be inside eating lunch with your family.\n\nAs dramatic music plays, the advert cuts to close-up shots of the pair - a troubled-looking man in a black overcoat and cap, and his smiling granddaughter.\n\nWithin seconds they reach their destination: a Pizza Hut restaurant located directly in Red Square - the central plaza where so much of Soviet and Russian history is reflected.\n\nBut why, 24 years on, is this advert being shared as an era-defining artefact?\n\nBecause the man in the black overcoat - the man, in effect, selling American pizza - is Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union.\n\nThe advert begins in a cold-looking Red Square, which was closed off for the shoot\n\nGorbachev himself was unsure about whether or not he should do the advert - with his wife, Raisa, even more uncomfortable with the idea.\n\nOn the one hand, he needed the money and a hefty fee was on offer. He is said to have used it to fund the Gorbachev Foundation - a think tank which he founded.\n\nOn the other hand, appearing in an advert for a huge American corporation was sure to further damage his already poor reputation inside Russia.\n\n\"It was on, then it was off, it was on, then it was off,\" Katie Bistrian - an American who represented Gorbachev in negotiations - tells the BBC.\n\n\"Either [the uncertainty] was the way Russians negotiated - or it really was a sign of the turmoil of whether it was right for him or not.\"\n\nEventually, Gorbachev agreed - though with conditions. He would not be filmed eating pizza (that was left to his granddaughter), and he would have final sign-off on the script.\n\nAnd, says Ms Bistrian, he would only wear his own hat, despite the fact that a body-double had already been filmed wearing a different one.\n\n\"He puts on his own hat and says 'how does this hat look on me?' I said 'oh it looks lovely'. He said 'exactly, I'll wear this hat!\"\n\nAt the end of the advert, Gorbachev smiles and waves at the crowd as they chant his name\n\nThe advert - filmed in 1997, and released the following year - neatly reflects the complexities of Russian society a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union.\n\n\"[If you are] trying to contextualise Moscow of the 1990s - [the advert] is a one minute lesson,\" Dr Yuval Weber, a Russia expert who uses the advert as a teaching tool, tells the BBC.\n\nThe American pizza chain's presence in Moscow - the first branch opened in 1990 - was a symbol of the growing economic ties between the West and Russia.\n\nBut, as becomes clear in the advert, the reforms which Gorbachev began were not universally popular.\n\nHis leadership saw an opening up of the Soviet economy and brought a degree of democracy to the autocratic country. But he was unable to prevent the union's slow collapse, and many Russians blame him for the years of economic and social turmoil that followed.\n\nIn the advert, a middle-aged man (played by Richard Marner, whose roles include Col Kurt von Strohm in the British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo) notices the former leader and exclaims: \"It's Gorbachev!\" before complaining: \"Because of him, we have economic confusion.\"\n\nBut a younger man replies: \"Because of him, we have opportunity!\" - suggesting a generation more open to the economic liberalisation of the 1990s.\n\nThe conversation continues: \"instability\", \"freedom\", \"chaos\", and \"hope\", all offered as examples of what Gorbachev brought to Russia.\n\nFor Dr Weber, who works at the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University, the dialogue reflects the realities of Russian society at the time.\n\n\"You have the middle-aged guy - clearly things didn't work out for him in the last 10 years or so... He talks about instability - the larger sense is that what Gorbachev represents is the absence of stability,\" he says.\n\n\"At the same time we have the younger guy - he's young enough and agile enough to take advantage of whatever opportunities came from the transition of one economic system to another.\"\n\nThe disagreement between the two men is halted with an interjection from an elderly woman - perhaps the grandmother - who has her own reason to thank Gorbachev.\n\n\"Thanks to him, we have... Pizza Hut,\" she says.\n\nNo-one can argue with that, and after a second's thought the middle-aged man, previously unhappy with Russia's economic chaos, stands up, raises his pizza slice in the air and exclaims: \"Hail to Gorbachev!\"\n\nIt is quite a turnaround. Soon, the whole restaurant joins in. Gorbachev smiles and waves while his granddaughter rubs her hands.\n\nUsing Gorbachev as a source of conflict - and pizza as the unifier - was the idea of the advert's creators.\n\n\"We were looking for some way to use Gorbachev... as a source of controversy, and let the pizza bring people together. At least they could agree that he had brought them pizza, and that was a good thing,\" one of the writers, Tom Derbyshire, told Newshour on the BBC World Service.\n\nThe family in the restaurant eventually get to their feet and chant Gorbachev's name\n\nThe advert was aired internationally but was never shown in Russia, where it was ridiculed by the press.\n\nIn the West, the film has gained a sort of cult status, reappearing every few years on social media as people rediscover the strange contradiction of the former Soviet leader selling American pizzas.\n\nGorbachev will be remembered in many ways - revered in the West for his part in ending the Cold War, but widely disliked in Russia for the economic and social turmoil brought about by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Almost 25 years on, this short film reflects both sides of that legacy.\n\nAnd what happened to Pizza Hut in Russia? Nearly a quarter of a century after the advert was filmed, the brand pulled out of the country - a response to the invasion of Ukraine.", "Mums Leanna, Lisa, Jade and Toni have protested outside their local police station\n\nChildren as young as 11 have been subjected to brutal attacks by teenagers in a Lancashire town - with the assaults filmed and shared on social media.\n\nVictims' mothers say police aren't doing enough to stop the group and have taken matters into their own hands.\n\nThe mother of one girl said she was told her daughter could have been one blow away from losing her life.\n\nLancashire Police say they take assault and anti-social behaviour seriously.\n\nThe BBC spoke to eight sets of parents in Chorley whose children were violently assaulted.\n\nThe parents believe the police have not responded fast enough, and say that's why they feel compelled to share their footage further - and have asked us to show it. They also want to illustrate the seriousness of the attacks.\n\nIt's thought the same group of teenagers was responsible for all the incidents.\n\nThe videos show children being dragged to the ground - squealing and crying out as they try to shield their heads from kicks and punches. Voices of others can be heard, off-camera, egging-on the attackers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moments from the attacks on Leanna's daughter, Toni's son and Jade's daughter\n\nFilming such violence and humiliation, and then sharing it online, has become known by the term \"patterning\" - with the aim of embarrassing victims even further by forwarding the videos across the web.\n\nA BBC News investigation has spent months talking to people in England and Wales about their experiences of reporting crime - victims who say they have been left in despair, forced to do their own detective work, and waited too long for police help.\n\nLisa's daughter - 14-year-old Bethany - was set upon by a group of girls and was viciously beaten. She managed to call her mother during the attack in April last year.\n\n\"I got a phone call - with her absolutely screaming 'Mum, please. They've got me. They've got my hair. My hair is falling out. Now they've stomped all over me.'\n\n\"I could hear what the girls were saying. 'Kick her again. Kick her again. She's down, kick her again.'\"\n\nThe violence was also being filmed and would soon be posted on social media.\n\n\"They punched her numerous times and stamped on her head. They all took turns. They pretended to let her up, but then hit her back to the ground and did it again,\" says Lisa.\n\n\"The doctor actually said that one more stamp to the head would have most likely taken her life.\"\n\nLisa says the police were called as the assault was happening.\n\n\"We rang 999 while she was on the phone. We begged them. Nobody appeared. The [police] never arrived for 48 hours.\"\n\nLisa says despite calling 999, there was \"no urgency whatsoever\" despite officers being aware of the group having caused trouble across the town. It took weeks, she says, for Bethany's attackers to be arrested. Two of the girls involved have now written a letter of apology after being given a conditional caution.\n\nAlthough Lisa believes it's not a case of officers failing to care. \"I got the impression the police believed it was pointless - that nothing will come of it.\"\n\nLancashire Police told us: \"When people call us in an emergency, we will always be there to answer the phone and to send officers as soon as we can where there is an ongoing threat or risk.\"\n\n\"These girls feel vulnerable. They're scared. It's all over social media,\" says Leanna\n\nAnother mum, Leanna, recalls the moment her 11-year-old daughter, Indie, came home after being attacked in a park.\n\n\"She walked through the door, her face was swollen. She had a burst lip and her hair was falling out. I've never in my life seen her that scared and upset,\"\n\nLeanna says they headed straight to the Chorley Police Station to report what had happened. At the front desk, she says she asked to see an officer - but was told there was no-one available to see her.\n\n\"I was gobsmacked, in disbelief really,\" she says - explaining how it took officers four days to take a statement. Two of those in the attack would later receive a voluntary caution.\n\n\"The police are the ones supposed to be protecting the children. They're supposed to be there to take the worries away and say, 'Don't worry, they're not going to do it again.'\"\n\nIn a statement, Lancashire Police said: \"When there is no ongoing risk or threat, or crime in action, we will arrange to visit people at a time convenient to them so we can investigate and solve crime and deliver the best outcomes for all.\"\n\nBut Leanna believes the police's response to these types of crimes needs to change.\n\n\"These girls feel vulnerable. They're scared. It's all over social media.\"\n\nAnother 11-year-old, Ellissia, was attacked on the same day as Leanna's daughter, in a subway at the same park, by the same group.\n\n\"They're just brutal. It's horrific watching [the video],\" says Ellissia's mum Jade. \"I feel like she's just a baby. And that's your baby on that floor. I'm just so angry with them.\"\n\nStills from the videos of the attacks on Toni's son and Jade's daughter\n\nAfter ringing the police, Jade says it took two weeks for an officer to visit the family. She says she was told police would only arrest the attackers if her daughter's injuries were more severe - like brain damage.\n\nTwo of those involved in the attack received a voluntary caution, which Jade says is completely unacceptable considering the violence used.\n\n\"You expect the police to do everything to make sure that you get justice for your child - and when they don't, you feel like you've been let down and there's nothing you can do about it.\"\n\nJade says the group of teenagers has been allowed to run riot for too long.\n\n\"They're not only attacking 11-year-old kids, they're attacking members of the public, bars, pubs, people's businesses.\"\n\n\"If [the police] had reigned it in then, none of this would have happened.\"\n\nLancashire Police say they are proud of their \"proactive approach to policing\" in Chorley and elsewhere.\n\n\"We regularly run operations aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour as part of our aim to deliver an outstanding service to the public and build confidence.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by the issues raised in this report, details of organisations offering information and support for bullying are available via BBC Action Line.\n\nEach mum we spoke to described not just the physical, but also the mental scars left on their children after the attacks.\n\nJade believes Ellissia has lost confidence, but tries to \"put on a little show to stay above water for everybody else\". Leanna says Indie is resilient but fearful.\n\nLisa says Bethany didn't leave the house for a year and has now been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). She should be going out locally and making memories - says Lisa - but instead she travels to other towns with her friends to avoid her attackers.\n\nIn a statement, Lancashire Police said: \"We recognise the impact that these incidents have had on the victims and their families, and we have done a huge amount to both support them and to keep them updated.\"\n\n\"If there is any police looking out the window, this is my daughter's face after she was stamped on so many times,\" shouts Lisa\n\nOutside Chorley Police Station last month, parents gathered to show their frustration and anger - each mum holding a large photo of their child.\n\n\"If there is any police looking out the window, this is my daughter's face after she was stamped on so many times,\" shouts Lisa in front of the gathered crowd - her photo showing Bethany's red, swollen face.\n\n\"If I had done that to my child,\" she says, \"I, rightfully, would have been taken right away.\"\n\nAnother mum - Toni - is there. Her son suffered one of the worst attacks. He was beaten to the ground by a group of boys.\n\n\"[The gang] punched him, kicked him, headbutted him. He could have come home a lot worse. He could have not come home [at all].\"\n\nToni says she has repeatedly asked police for updates but, four months on, is still waiting for an outcome.\n\nLancashire Police say they are still investigating the assault on Toni's son.\n\nThe force says all calls in relation to all the incidents in this article have been \"dealt with appropriately\".\n\n\"We have identified and arrested offenders and they have been dealt with in line with national guidance on dealing with juveniles.\"\n\nSome parents, says Toni, are keen to enact their own form of justice against the teenagers.\n\n\"I'm glad they haven't done. But something has got to give before a family is going to end up ruined.\n\n\"Is somebody going to end up dead? Whether it be one of our children or one of their children.\n\n\"Then are they going to wake up and do something about it? It's too little too late by then as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nMeanwhile dozens of parents are being proactive - patrolling the park where the children were attacked.\n\n\"Look what we're having to resort to,\" says Leanna as she patrols the park with other mums\n\n\"I can't believe it's come to this, but I understand why it has, because our children aren't being protected,\" says Lisa. \"I've got to make sure that if my daughter's down here that I've got to do the police's job. I've got to make sure she's OK.\"\n\nThe mothers claim police foot patrols are non-existent - and say when they've called 999 nothing has happened. \"What good has it done us?\" says Leanna.\n\n\"Look what we're having to resort to. We entrust the police to be there to protect our children. And because they can't do that, we're going to have to do it.\"\n\nHow have 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.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman ran into her home in Liverpool\n\nA police officer \"scooped\" up Olivia Pratt-Korbel and ran with her to try and save her life after she was shot at her home, an inquest has heard.\n\nOlivia was fatally shot as her mother tried to stop a gunman entering her Liverpool home on 22 August.\n\nLiverpool senior coroner Andre Rebello told Gerard Majella Courthouse that responding officers rushed to try to save the nine-year-old's life.\n\nHe said a PC pressed his hand on her wound as he carried her to hospital.\n\nMr Rebello, who also dealt with the death of 11-year-old Rhys Jones after he was shot in the city in 2007, spoke of his shock as he opened the inquest into Olivia's death.\n\nHe said it was \"quite shocking that society has not changed for the better\".\n\n\"It is shocking that a nine-year-old little girl, with a full life in front of her, is shot anywhere, but to be shot in her own home, in the safety of her home, is heinous and unforgiving,\" he said.\n\nOlivia was fatally shot and her mother was injured after a gunman chased a man into her home in Dovecot at about 22:00 BST.\n\nNeither of the men had any links to her family.\n\nMr Rebello said armed response officers found Olivia with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\n\"Police officers scooped and ran with Olivia to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car,\" he said.\n\nFloral tributes have been left to Olivia close to the scene of the shooting\n\nHe said she arrived at the hospital's main entrance at approximately 22:15 \"in the arms of a police officer\".\n\n\"The officer had covered the wound to her chest with his hand and she was noted to have a weak heart, which had stopped prior to her arrival in hospital,\" he said.\n\nHe said medical teams met Olivia as she arrived and a major trauma call was put out.\n\nThe nine-year-old then received cardiac massage and a rapid blood transfusion, but at 23:15, she had no cardiac output, the coroner said.\n\nTen minutes later, \"after extensive efforts by all involved, the decision was made to stop resuscitation and Olivia was confirmed as having died,\" he added.\n\nOlivia was rushed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car, her inquest was told\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of her death was a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nThe inquest heard Olivia was born in Liverpool to mother Cheryl Korbel, a support worker, and father John Francis Pratt, a mechanic.\n\nThe coroner said Olivia's death would \"not just affect her immediate family and friends, but also school communities, church communities, not just in the Knotty Ash and Dovecot areas of Liverpool, but the whole city, Merseyside, and I know right across this country people are shocked by Olivia's death\".\n\n\"I understand Merseyside Police would be very grateful for anyone with any information who could bring some knowledge to the circumstances in which Olivia came by her death, no matter how insignificant that information may be,\" he added.\n\nAdjourning the inquest to 4 January, he released Olivia's body to her family for burial.\n\nMr Rebello also opened the inquests into the deaths of 28-year-old council worker Ashley Dale and Sam Rimmer, a 22-year-old mechanic, at the courthouse.\n\nMr Rimmer was shot in Dingle on 16 August, while Ms Dale was found with gunshot wounds in the back garden of her Old Swan home in the early hours of 21 August.\n\nHe told Ms Dale's inquest that she was not believed to have been the intended target of the shooting and the door of her home \"had been forced\", with her being found lying unresponsive by officers close to her mobile phone and several bullet casings in her back garden.\n\nHe said until someone was \"apprehended\" and the process of law was applied to \"this most heinous tragedy\", her family would \"struggle with a very difficult bereavement journey\".\n\nMr Rimmer was shot on 16 August, while Ms Dale was found with gunshot wounds five days later\n\nMr Rimmer's inquest was told he and his \"associates\" had been chased by four males on electric bikes, who had discharged firearms \"numerous times\".\n\nThe 22-year-old died in hospital a short time later.\n\nMr Rebello said it \"goes without saying\" that Mr Rimmer \"appears to have been murdered, and clearly somebody out there has information... and I would encourage anyone with any knowledge to provide it\".\n\nHe added that it was \"difficult enough to deal with bereavement from natural causes, but when the death is from such a heinous, unnecessary act, a family and bereaved relatives clearly need some progress... to find at least some degree of closure\".\n\nA 36-year-old man from Huyton and a 33-year-old from Dovecot were arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in connection with Olivia's death a few days after she was shot and have been released on bail.\n\nA 25-year-old man from Liverpool arrested on suspicion of Ms Dale's murder has been conditionally bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nFour men arrested on suspicion of Mr Rimmer's murder have also been bailed.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCCTV footage of the gunman fleeing after the fatal shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel has been released.\n\nMerseyside Police revealed the shooter used two guns in the attack that killed the nine-year-old.\n\nOlivia was hit in the chest as her mother Cheryl Korbel tried to stop the gunman from entering their home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August.\n\nMs Korbel was also injured, as was convicted drug dealer Joseph Nee, who was the intended target of the attack.\n\nSpeaking as the footage was released, Det Ch Supt Mark Kameen warned those who were \"shielding\" the culprit that officers would do \"everything legitimately possible\" to bring them to justice.\n\n\"It is beyond comprehension how anyone can protect a person who is responsible for killing a nine-year-old little girl,\" he added.\n\nOlivia died after being shot as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of her home\n\nIn a press conference earlier, Det Ch Supt Kameen issued a direct plea to those who may have been asked to hide or dispose of the guns.\n\n\"I understand you may be frightened of contacting us, but I want you to do the right thing for Olivia and tell us where they are right now,\" he said.\n\n\"If you are hiding the guns and you have no intention of telling us, then I place you in the same category as the vile man responsible for the [killing].\n\n\"And we will hunt you too.\"\n\nHe said the gunman was wearing a black padded jacket, a black balaclava with a peak and black gloves, and he was described as about 5ft 7in (1.7m), with a slim build.\n\n\"This is the man we are hunting for - we need to know where he went that night or did you see him in the area?\" he said.\n\n\"He is toxic to our communities and if you are protecting him, he is toxic to you and your family.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said the investigation had made \"significant progress\"\n\nHe said the video had been released because people may recognise what the gunman was wearing when he \"callously ran away from Olivia's house\".\n\n\"This footage shows the gunman running along Finch Lane away from Kingsheath Avenue,\" he added.\n\n\"You then see him turn right into Berryford Road and go out of sight.\n\n\"We know he is climbing into and through people's gardens to avoid being seen.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Kameen said police were also releasing footage of a man who was in the area at the time of the shooting who they wanted to trace.\n\n\"I'm interested in speaking to him as he may have information that is important to the inquiry by virtue of the fact he was in the area at the right time,\" he said.\n\nPolice have asked a man who was in the area at the time of the shooting to get in touch\n\nTen days on from Olivia's death, a collection of flowers, balloons and messages have continued to grow near the scene.\n\nEarlier, Ms Korbel, who is still receiving treatment for her injuries, and other family members visited the site to read the tributes left in the schoolgirl's memory.\n\nDuring the opening of Olivia's inquest on Tuesday, Liverpool Senior Coroner Andre Rebello said armed response officers found her with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\nHe said a police officer had \"scooped\" up Olivia and ran with her to try to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nHowever, despite the efforts of medical teams, she was pronounced dead at about 23:25 BST.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of her death was a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nAdjourning the inquest to 4 January, the coroner released Olivia's body to her family for burial.\n\nA 36-year-old man from Huyton and a 33-year-old from Dovecot were arrested on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder in relation to Olivia's death in the days after the shooting and have since been released on bail.\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.", "Abby Hill was \"just beginning to take on the world as a strong, independent lady\", her family say\n\nA man has pleaded guilty to causing a 19-year-old woman's death by careless driving after he had been drinking.\n\nMarcus Pasley, 26, from Llantysilio, Denbighshire, crashed while driving near the Chainbridge hotel in Berwyn, Llangollen, on 5 July last year.\n\nPassenger Abby Hill, of Acrefair, Wrexham county, died later in hospital.\n\nMold Crown Court heard Pasley had 93mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, above the 80mg limit for driving. He was bailed until 29 July for sentencing.\n\nMs Hill was a waitress who worked at the hotel near where the crash happened.\n\nHer family paid tribute to her at the time of her death, and said she was \"just beginning to take on the world as a strong, independent lady\".\n\nThe crash happened near the Chainbridge Hotel in Berwyn, Llangollen, where Abby Hill worked as a waitress\n\nMs Hill was taken to Wrexham Maelor Hospital, before being transferred to a hospital in Stoke, where she died two days later.\n\nJudge Rhys Rowlands told Pasley there was an inevitability about the sentence after such catastrophic results, with the only question about the length.\n\nThe court also imposed an interim driving ban on him.\n• None Man arrested as teen seriously injured in crash", "Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later\n\nJapan's digital minister has \"declared war\" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats.\n\nAround 1,900 government procedures still require businesses to use the storage devices, plus CDs and mini-discs, Taro Kono said.\n\nHe said regulations would be updated to allow people to use online services.\n\nDespite its reputation for innovative high-tech gadgetry, Japan is notorious for clinging to outmoded technology through its office culture.\n\nFloppy disks - so-called because the original products were bendable - were created in the late 1960s, but were falling out of fashion three decades later thanks to more efficient storage solutions.\n\nMore than 20,000 typical disks would be needed to replicate an average memory stick storing 32GB of information.\n\nBut the legacy of the square-shaped device can still be witnessed to this day, as their visual appearance inspired the traditional \"save\" icon.\n\nA Japanese government committee has discovered about 1,900 areas in which businesses are required to use storage media like floppy disks when making applications or holding data.\n\nDuring a news conference on Tuesday, Mr Kono also criticised the country's lingering use of other outdated technology.\n\n\"I'm looking to get rid of the fax machine, and I still plan to do that,\" he said.\n\nTurning to storage devices, he asked: \"Where does one even buy a floppy disk these days?\"\n\nThis is not the first time Japan has hit the headlines for its old-fashioned habits - which remain a paradox given the country's proficiency at developing exciting new products.\n\nVarious explanations have been offered, including poor digital literacy and a bureaucratic culture with conservative attitudes.\n\nThere was shock when the country's cyber-security minister admitted in 2018 that he had never used a computer, saying he had always delegated IT tasks to his staff.\n\nAnd it was not until 2019 that Japan's final pager provider closed its service, with the final private subscriber explaining that it was the preferred method of communication for his elderly mother.\n\nOfficials in the US were also discovered to still be using floppy disks to manage their nuclear weapons force during the 2010s - though this practice was reportedly scrapped by the end of the decade.", "The average temperature in England this summer was 17.1C\n\nEngland has had its joint hottest summer on record, the Met Office says.\n\nProvisional figures show the summer of 2022 - covering June, July and August - had an average temperature of 17.1C.\n\nThis year's summer tied with 2018 for the warmest, according to records stretching back to 1884.\n\nIt means four of the five warmest summers on record have happened since 2003, as the effects of climate change are felt on the nation's summer temperatures, the Met Office said.\n\nThis year's summer included the record-breaking heat in July when temperatures in the UK exceeded 40C for the first time as part of a widespread heatwave.\n\nHot and dry conditions have dried up rivers, damaged crops and fuelled wildfires, as well as leaving much of England in drought. For both England and the UK as a whole, it has been the driest year so far since 1976, according to the UK meteorological service's provisional data.\n\nFor England, 2022 has also seen the sixth driest summer since records began in 1836.\n\nOverall, the UK saw just 62% of its average summer rainfall.\n\nDr Mark McCarthy, from the National Climate Information Centre, said: \"For many this summer's record-breaking heat in July - where temperatures reached 40.3°C at Coningsby in Lincolnshire - will be the season's most memorable aspect.\n\n\"However, for England to achieve its joint warmest summer takes more than extreme heat over a couple of days, so we shouldn't forget that we experienced some persistently warm and hot spells through June and August too.\"\n\nFor the UK overall, 2022 was provisionally the fourth warmest summer.\n\nIt was also the eighth warmest summer for both Scotland and Wales and the 12th warmest for Northern Ireland.\n\nThis summer has also been the driest year so far for both the UK and England since 1976, according to provisional figures\n\nDr McCarthy added: \"The average temperature for January to August for the UK in 2022 has been 10.51°C, making this year so far warmer than the previous record of 10.2°C in 2014.\n\n\"It is too early to speculate on how the year overall will finish, but the persistent warm conditions are certainly notable and have certainly been made more likely by climate change.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Met Office said it was not uncommon for provisional figures to change slightly after verification. He added average temperature data was used to make the hottest joint summer declaration as it was a robust measure taking into account day and night temperatures.", "Workers in Glasgow began emptying overflowing street bins after the first wave of strikes ended on Thursday morning\n\nNicola Sturgeon is meeting unions and council leaders over the pay dispute that brought strikes across Scotland.\n\nThe first minister is holding talks in Edinburgh on Thursday night as council workers seek an improved pay offer.\n\nMs Sturgeon is meeting council leaders in St Andrew's House followed by talks with union representatives.\n\nUnions launched industrial action on 18 August. The Scottish government has not said what Ms Sturgeon plans to propose to try to end the dispute.\n\nCouncillor Shona Morrison, president of local government body Cosla, told BBC Scotland: \"We are still in very active discussions at the moment and really keen to find a solution as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier union sources said the talks were positive and that the discussion is moving in the right direction.\n\nThe meeting comes as bin collections around Scotland resumed on Thursday after a first wave of strikes.\n\nThere will be further strikes in 19 councils areas from 6-13 September.\n\nThe walkout ended on Tuesday in Edinburgh and on Thursday in 13 other areas, including Glasgow and Aberdeen.\n\nGlasgow City Council warned residents there would be a \"significant delay\" to rubbish collections because of the extensive backlog.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council announced further changes to its collection schedule as the clear-up continued, urging residents to help by storing extra waste for a \"little longer\".\n\nThis is the first time Nicola Sturgeon has become directly involved in this dispute between councils and their workforce. Her deputy John Swinney has taken the lead for the Scottish government until now.\n\nThe first minister has been criticised by the Conservatives and others for taking a hands-off approach while rubbish was piling up in Edinburgh during the festivals.\n\nWith further, and more widespread, disruption to bin collections planned and hundreds of schools and nurseries facing closure next week, Ms Sturgeon has decided to try and broker a compromise.\n\nIt is not clear what carrots or sticks she might bring to her discussions with councils and trade unions but the Scottish government has previously insisted no more money is available.\n\nEdinburgh council leader Cammy Day said: \"Our crews have been working hard to catch up on collections and making every effort to collect significant volumes of litter across the city.\n\n\"The clear up is progressing well and we can already see the benefits of having the crews back out on the street keeping the city clean.\"\n\nPublic Health Scotland had warned of a human health risk from overflowing waste and advised councils to decontaminate areas where bins overflowed.\n\nFurther strikes in many local authority areas are planned for next week\n\nOn Monday Unite, the GMB and Unison rejected an increased pay offer.\n\nThe unions had been seeking an agreement from Cosla similar to the one made to council workers in England - which included a £1,925 flat rate pay increase.\n\nBin strikes around the country began after they rejected an initial pay offer equivalent to a 3.5% increase.\n\nThe action escalated last week when refuse workers at a further 20 local authorities walked out despite a revised 5% offer.\n\nThe second wave of strikes is due to begin on 6 September, with hundreds of schools and nurseries also scheduled to close.\n\nRefuse workers in Scotland want Cosla to match the offer made to their counterparts in England\n\nCosla's offer of a £1,925 pay uplift matched the offer to council workers in England - but only part of this payment would be consolidated into staff salaries. The rest would be given as one-off cost-of-living payments.\n\nUnions said this meant lower-paid staff would not benefit as much as those on higher wages.\n\nThe Scottish government has given an additional £140m to councils to help fund a pay increase for staff.\n\nIt has also offered a further £200m over two years to provide a cost-of-living payment to workers earning below £39,000.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney has said there is no more money available to fund further pay increases as the government's finances are \"finite\".\n\n\"I have managed to find one-off sums of money to ensure that people on low incomes are able to get a £2,000 increase in their salary now. But the government cannot offer any more money,\" he said.\n\nCosla said it was disappointed that unions had turned down an offer that was at the \"absolute extremes\" of affordability.\n\nResources spokesperson Katie Hagmann said: \"We have done everything we possibly can to get to this stage and this offer - which is still on the table - is as good as it gets.\"", "The UK inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has started to investigate decisions made by prime minister Boris Johnson and his senior advisers in early 2020.\n\nKey players including Mr Johnson and former health secretary Matt Hancock are likely to appear in person at hearings next summer.\n\nDecisions over the timing of lockdown and testing delays will be scrutinised.\n\nThe inquiry was recently widened to include a focus on children.\n\nThe latest area of the inquiry's investigations, known as Module 2, will focus on decisions and announcements made by the UK government at Westminster between early January and late March 2020.\n\nDuring this stage, official documents will be sought and evidence on government decision-making will be examined.\n\nLater, the inquiry will also look at how decisions were made up until early 2022, and the handling of the pandemic in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSir Chris Whitty, the UK government's chief medical adviser during the pandemic, and Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser, are also likely to appear before the inquiry. Mr Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings is also expected to appear.\n\nModule 1, launched in July, is examining the resilience and preparedness of the UK for a pandemic before 2020.\n\nFormal hearings with witnesses are set to start next spring, and the inquiry is inviting individuals or organisations with a specific interest, known as core participants, to register.\n\nThis will allow them to get access to relevant evidence and make statements at hearings.\n\nBaroness Heather Hallett, who is chairing the inquiry, said: \"My team and I will establish what was understood about Covid-19 at the time, what information was available in each of the four UK nations and how and why key decisions were made, especially early in the pandemic.\n\n\"I will be taking evidence next year to build a full picture of the challenges faced by the government and how it chose to confront them.\"\n\nThe inquiry will hold preliminary hearings in the autumn. They are likely to involve lawyers representing different parties, including those who have registered as core participants.\n\nThe Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, commenting at the start of the inquiry, has said for it to be successful \"our experiences need to be at the heart of the entire process, be that the research they're commissioning, the evidence being gathered or the hearings themselves\".\n\nThere have been reports that the cost of the inquiry has already topped £80m because of contracts signed with law firms and other advisers.\n\nBut this, reportedly, includes all government departments involved in the pandemic response.\n\nIt is understood that legal bills for the inquiry team itself will be about £8m.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK's Covid alert was downgraded from level three to level two - meaning the virus is in general circulation, but healthcare pressures and transmission \"are declining or stable\".", "Spain's annual Tomatina food fight has returned to the town of Buñol, near Valencia, after two years off during the pandemic.\n\nVideo footage shows thousands of people hurling tomatoes at each other during the festival billed as 'the world's biggest food fight'.\n\nThe event's origins stem from a food fight between locals in 1945.", "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\nSerena Williams showed she has no intention of ending her singles career without a fight after beating second seed Anett Kontaveit on another remarkable night at the US Open.\n\nWilliams, ranked 605th and turning 41 next month, won 7-6 (7-4) 2-6 6-2 to stun the Estonian in New York.\n\nThe American recently announced her intention to retire after her home major and is now into the third round.\n\nWilliams will play Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic next on Friday.\n\nA few weeks ago, Williams announced she was \"evolving away\" from playing tennis in an essay for fashion magazine Vogue, but agreed after beating Montenegro's Danka Kovinic on Monday she had been vague about her exact timeline.\n\n\"There is no rush here,\" she laughed after beating Kontaveit. \"There is still a little left in me.\"\n\nWhile lacking some of the pomp and ceremony from her opening match on Monday, this was another special atmosphere as 23-time major singles champion Williams looked to extend her storied career by at least another round.\n\nMore A-List celebrities, including golf superstar Tiger Woods, actress Zendaya and soul singer Gladys Knight, were among an adoring home crowd on the cavernous Arthur Ashe Stadium which was wowed by Williams rolling back the years in an impressive performance.\n\nAfter edging a tense opening set, the former long-time world number one suffered a dip of energy from the start of the second set as Kontaveit levelled but she recovered to win an edgy decider.\n\nIn the end, Williams handled the occasion better than her 26-year-old opponent - who looked emotional before the final game as she hid under her towel - and secured a victory that left many in an exultant crowd jumping to their feet to celebrate.\n\n\"I'm a pretty good player, this is what I do best. I love a challenge and I'm rising to the challenge,\" said the six-time US Open champion, who first won at Flushing Meadows in 1999.\n\n\"I haven't played many matches but I've been practising really well. Now it's coming together in New York.\"\n\nIs Williams surprised by her level? 'No, I'm Serena'\n\nWhether it would come together in New York was debatable heading into the Grand Slam tournament.\n\nWilliams had only played four times since making her return from an 11-month injury lay-off, with her most recent match ending in a thrashing by British number one Emma Raducanu in Cincinnati.\n\nThere she had struggled with a knee injury in the build-up. Here she is fit, moving well and matching the athleticism of her younger opponents.\n\nOne factor which could never be questioned is her insatiable desire to win and the ability to summon the mental strength to overcome adversity.\n\nAsked if she was surprised by her level, Williams replied: \"No. I'm just Serena.\"\n\nKontaveit is ranked second in the world but has struggled to live up to her status in recent months.\n\nHer level was decent against Williams in their first career meeting and she said she thought she \"didn't play a bad match at all\".\n\n\"I think you have to be ready for really great tennis because Serena has been such a big champion, winning all these Grand Slam titles for a reason,\" she added.\n\n\"She definitely raised her level in the third set. She played amazing.\"\n\nHow did Williams beat the world's second best player?\n\nThe atmosphere on Ashe lacked the same fervour as on Monday and felt tense in the opening stages, perhaps because there was less expectation on Williams' chances because of Kontaveit's seeding.\n\nBut it soon became apparent that Williams was going to push Kontaveit hard.\n\n\"I'm just pleased I showed up because the last few tournaments I didn't show up,\" said Williams.\n\nThe world number two fought off three break points to hold for 4-3 after a game that lasted more than 11 minutes and faced another in her next service game.\n\nThe crowd was ready to be ignited and an explosion of noise arrived when Kontaveit hit a return long to give a 5-4 lead to Williams.\n\nNow serving for the set, Williams threw in her worst game of the match at the worst possible time.\n\nA double fault handed the break straight back to Kontaveit and the pair both held serve again to ensure the opener would be decided by a tie-break.\n\nWilliams claimed a mini-break when a Kontaveit drop-shot floated into the net and served out the set with an ace, leading to more passionate appreciation.\n\nThere was an drop in energy from Williams at the start of the second set as Kontaveit raced 3-0 ahead with a double break.\n\nAfter errors contributed heavily to Williams clawing one of them back, Kontaveit reasserted her authority to quickly level the match and the veteran disappeared at the end of the set for an extended breather backstage.\n\nLooking revived on her return - which she joked was down to \"being lighter\" after a toilet break - Williams broke Kontaveit's serve at the third opportunity for a 2-0 lead.\n\nGoing on to record a straightforward victory always felt unlikely amid the tension and more swings of momentum came as the pair swapped breaks in consecutive games.\n\nWhen Williams held for 4-1, the mood of the crowd indicated they finally truly believed she would complete victory and she did that with a backhand winner after a nervous game from Kontaveit.\n\n\"I'm having fun and I'm enjoying it,\" Williams said.\n\n\"I feel like everything here is a bonus. It's that weird mixture of embracing but also staying focused.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How did Emiliano Sala end up on that fatal flight? Transfer investigates the tragic story behind the headlines\n• None Get some players' perspectives on these hot football topics", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum speaks of her regret at joining ISIS: 'It kills me inside'\n\nCanada says it will \"follow up\" claims that one of its spies smuggled three UK schoolgirls into Syria in 2015.\n\nA BBC investigation revealed Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group with two friends, was smuggled by a Canadian agent.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said he will \"look at\" the accusations to ensure rules were followed.\n\nBut he defended the intelligence services, who he said keep the country safe \"in a very dangerous world\".\n\n\"The fight against terrorism requires our intelligence services to continue to be flexible and to be creative in their approaches,\" Mr Trudeau told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday.\n\n\"But every step of the way, they are bound by strict rules by principles and values that Canadians hold dear, including around the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and we expect that those rules be followed.\n\n\"I know there are questions about certain incidents or operations of the past and we will ensure to follow up on this,\" he pledged.\n\nMs Begum is now held in a detention camp in north-east Syria. Her citizenship was taken away in 2019 after she was discovered at a refugee camp following the collapse of the so-called IS caliphate.\n\nTasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the Begum family, is challenging the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship and said \"one of the main arguments\" will be that the home secretary did not consider that she was a victim of trafficking.\n\nHe said it was \"shocking\" that a Canadian intelligence asset was a key part of the smuggling operation - \"someone who is supposed to be an ally, protecting our people, rather than trafficking British children into a war zone\".\n\nMs Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - travelled to Syria to join the IS group in 2015.\n\nThe girls met Mohammed Al Rasheed, who would facilitate their journey from Istanbul into IS-controlled Syria.\n\nA senior intelligence officer, at an agency which is part of the global coalition against IS, has confirmed to the BBC that Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to IS.\n\nThe BBC has obtained a dossier on Rasheed that contains information gathered by foreign law enforcement and intelligence, as well as material recovered from his hard drives, which provide extraordinary detail about how he operated.\n\nHe told authorities that he had gathered information on the people he helped into Syria because he was passing it to the Canadian embassy in Jordan.\n\nRasheed, who was arrested in Turkey within days of smuggling Ms Begum to IS, told authorities he had shared a photo of the passport the British schoolgirl was using.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police were searching for her, although by the time Canada received her passport details, Ms Begum was already in Syria.\n\nA Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokesman told the BBC he could not \"publicly comment on or confirm or deny the specifics of CSIS investigations, operational interests, methodologies or activities\".\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said he could not \"comment on intelligence matters\", but added that \"at the moment\" he did not recognise \"what's being reported\".\n\nMs Sultana is believed to have been killed in a Russian airstrike on the then IS held city of Raqqa. The whereabouts of Ms Abase are unknown.", "Donna Ockenden said the review needed to be comprehensive\n\nA review into failings at a city's NHS maternity units has launched, with a call for affected families to come forward.\n\nThe review, led by midwife Donna Ockenden, will examine how dozens of babies died or were injured at the Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) trust.\n\nMs Ockenden previously led an inquiry into the UK's biggest maternity scandal at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust.\n\nNUH said it welcomed the review.\n\nMs Ockenden said: \"The ultimate aim of this independent review is to make sure the performance at the trust's maternity service improves as quickly as possible and in a way that means those improvements are sustained.\n\n\"As with the Shrewsbury review, this review will assess if cases of concern were adequately investigated by the trust at the time, if the lessons for learning were the appropriate ones and whether the lessons were indeed learned and acted upon.\"\n\nShe added she had already met with some of the families and said their accounts were \"absolutely harrowing\".\n\nMs Ockenden said the review was also working hard to reach all communities in the Nottingham area and emphasised it was interested in all experiences, not just the most traumatic where babies had died or been injured.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Ockenden's team - which consists of about 60 practising NHS maternity experts from across the country - said it was of \"paramount importance\" the review was comprehensive, leaving no voices unheard.\n\n\"In order to achieve this, it is essential that Donna and the review team are in contact with as many families and current and former staff in maternity services as possible,\" the statement said.\n\nMs Ockenden said she expected the review would take about 18 months but she planned to share \"learning points\" with the trust during that time.\n\nFamilies, who have called for an independent inquiry for years, have welcomed its launch.\n\nSarah Hawkins and her husband Jack have campaigned for years for an investigation\n\nJack and Sarah Hawkins, whose daughter Harriet was stillborn at NUH in 2016 after a series of failings, said the start of the new investigation was a landmark moment.\n\nThey urged families to take part in the review.\n\nMrs Hawkins said: \"It's an incredible feeling because for so long we've been fighting.\n\n\"We understand our daughter is dead but there will be people out there with healthy babies who have had failures in their care and we would ask them to come forwards and share their concerns.\n\n\"We need to do this, a team effort to get Nottinghamshire safe again for mothers.\"\n\nJack Hawkins said he welcomed the review he had called for\n\nMr Hawkins added: \"It's an independent review, it's what's been needed for a long time and we welcome it. We are just so pleased.\"\n\nThe couple, who previously worked for the trust, were one of a number of families who lobbied former health secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nNHS England appointed Ms Ockenden to lead a review in Nottingham in May 2022, following her previous work investigating the deaths of more than 200 babies at Shrewsbury and Telford.\n\nA review was already under way in Nottingham but critics said its remit was too narrow and it was not independent enough.\n\nThe Nottingham trust was established in 2006 when the management of the Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) merged to form one organisation.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC have found that, between 2005-6 and 2020-21, there were a total of 207 claims against the hospital's maternity services, including 36 for cerebral palsy, 26 for stillbirths and 24 for brain damage.\n\nThe total amount awarded in damages for that period was more than £110m.\n\nIn December 2020, the trust's maternity services were rated inadequate with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) finding \"several serious concerns\".\n\nMichelle Rhodes, chief nurse at NUH, said: \"We are deeply sorry for the unimaginable distress that has been caused due to failings in our maternity services.\n\n\"We know that an apology will never be enough and we owe it to those who have been failed, those we're caring for today and to our staff to deliver a better maternity service for our communities.\n\n\"We welcome Donna Ockenden and her team to Nottingham and will work with them to achieve this.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Donna Ockenden has brought a wealth of experience, particularly following her work on the review of Shrewsbury and Telford maternity services - and the department looks forward to seeing her recommendations for urgent improvements.\n\n\"We will continue to take all the steps necessary to ensure no families have to go through this pain again.\"\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.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman ran into her home\n\nFeelings of \"devastation and horror\" run deep in an area of Liverpool where nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed, a reverend has said.\n\nIt has been one week since Olivia was fatally shot after a gunman chased a man - both of whom had no links to her family - into her home in Dovecot.\n\nRev Peter Smith said more people had since attended the church of the Holy Spirit, Dovecot, to pray for Olivia.\n\nHe added that the people of Liverpool \"will never get over this\".\n\nMeanwhile floral tributes continue to build in Kingsheath Avenue, where Olivia was shot.\n\nOlivia's mother was injured as she tried to the shut the door, but the attacker fired more shots at the man he had pursued.\n\nPolice appealed for further information about a black Audi Q3 that was seen leaving Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, after the shooting on 22 August.\n\nThe vehicle is believed to be the same car used to take intended target Joseph Nee, 35, to hospital.\n\nRev Peter Smith said the feeling in the community was one of \"devastation, shock and horror\"\n\nRev Smith told BBC North West Tonight that the people of Liverpool \"will never get over this and would never forget this\".\n\n\"But, people will get on with their daily lives and are just trying to get back to normal, whatever normal is in the wake of something as horrific as this,\" he said.\n\n\"The feeling in the community is still one of devastation, shock and horror.\"\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\nRev Smith said he believed the shooting had \"touched people globally, not just locally\".\n\n\"We had a few more visitors yesterday in church who travelled in to say a few prayers for Olivia and her family,\" he added.\n\nAshley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey were also killed this August\n\nThe nine-year-old was one of four people who were killed in just a week in Merseyside, amid a recent rise in 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\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.", "Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997\n\nThe flag at the family home of Diana, Princess of Wales, has been lowered to half mast 25 years on from her death.\n\nEarl Spencer, Princess Diana's younger brother, posted a photo of the flagpole at Althorp on social media.\n\nThe princess died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997 and is buried on an island in an ornamental lake at the Northamptonshire estate.\n\nLast week, the Duke of Sussex said he would \"share the spirit\" of his mother with his family on the anniversary.\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 Charles Spencer 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\nSpeaking after a fundraising polo match for his charity Sentebale, named in memory of his mother, Prince Harry said: \"I want it to be a day filled with memories of her incredible work and love for the way she did it.\"\n\nHe said he wished his family and his children \"could have met\" his mother.\n\n\"Every day, I hope to do her proud. She was tireless in her work to support and destigmatise those experiencing HIV/AIDS. Fittingly, her favourite flowers were forget-me-nots,\" he said.\n\nTessy Ojo, chief executive officer of The Diana Award, a charity which works to empower young people, said: \"Her ability to connect with people though kindness and compassion is one of her most significant legacies.\n\n\"She left a mark on all our lives.\n\n\"I can only imagine how immensely proud she would be of the tens of thousands of young people from across the world who are continuing her legacy.\"\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 ‘I think Diana did lose trust in key people’\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Nottm Forest\n\nNottingham Forest have broken the British record for most signings in a single transfer window after an unprecedented summer of deals.\n\nThe newly promoted Premier League side signed three players on Thursday to take their total to 21.\n\nThe signed centre-back Willy Boly from Wolves, defender Loic Bade from Rennes and winger Josh Bowler from Blackpool.\n\nHowever, Forest's hopes of bringing in 28-year-old Belgium striker Michy Batshuayi from Chelsea fell through.\n• None All your Forest news and fan views in one place\n\nBatshuayi, who joined the Blues in 2016 and has had five loan spells at other clubs, is out of contract at the end of the season.\n\nNevertheless, Forest have surpassed the previous British record of 19 signings, held jointly by Dundee United in the summer of 2000 and Livingston in 2001, according to football website Transfermarkt.\n\nThe English record was previously held by Crystal Palace in the summer of 2013, with 17 signings. The Eagles added another five players to their squad in the winter transfer window to take their total for that season to 22.\n\nWhy have Forest signed so many players?\n\nManager Steve Cooper needed to strengthen the squad, having lost several key players from the side that won the Championship play-off final.\n\nFive left on free transfers, while first-choice goalkeeper Brice Samba joined Lens after rejecting a new contract.\n\nDjed Spence, James Garner, Philip Zinckernagel, Max Lowe and Keinan Davis - who were all at the City Ground on loan - have either returned to their parent clubs or joined other sides.\n\nForest have spent big on several players including attacking midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White from Wolves for £25m, striker Taiwo Awoniyi from FC Union Berlin and defender Neco Williams from Liverpool for £18m apiece, and forward Emmanuel Dennis from Watford for £13m.\n\nThey have also brought in midfielder Orel Mangala and centre-back Moussa Niakhate from Bundesliga clubs Stuttgart and Mainz respectively, along with right-back Giulian Biancone and central midfielder Remo Freuler.\n\nForest have remarkably brought in three left-backs - Renan Lodi on loan from Atletico Madrid, plus Omar Richards from Bayern Munich and Harry Toffolo from Huddersfield. They also signed central midfielder Lewis O'Brien from the Championship side.\n\nThree free transfers were made - Jesse Lingard, Cheikhou Kouyate and Wayne Hennessey - while goalkeeper Dean Henderson arrived on loan from Manchester United.\n\nBrandon Aguilera and Hwang Ui-jo were also signed permanently but immediately sent on loan, to LD Alajuelense and Olympiakos respectively.\n\nOn Thursday's transfer deadline day, Ivory Coast defender Boly was Forest's 19th signing. The left-footed centre-back, who can play in a back three or four, has signed a two-year deal.\n\nBoly, 31, failed to turn up for Wolves' game against Newcastle on Sunday, despite being included in the matchday squad, as he pushed for the move to the City Ground.\n\n\"I'm very excited to have a new adventure with this club,\" said Boly.\n\n\"I spoke to Morgan Gibbs-White [former team-mate at Wolves] before I came and I'd seen the spirit of the team and he said I'd love it because it is a big club - the fans and everyone wants to go in the same direction.\n\n\"I watched the game against Tottenham and the spirit of the team really impressed me. I was listening to the fans in that game and they were unbelievable.\"\n• None All the latest updates, deals & reaction from deadline day\n• None Round-up of all the deadline day signings\n• None Transfer deadline day: 'He took all the training balls home' - when players want to leave\n\nBoly spent four years at Wolves, making 147 appearances in all competitions.\n\nForest, who are playing in the Premier League for the first time in 23 years, have taken four points from their first five games, but were thrashed 6-0 at Manchester City on Wednesday.\n\nThe result means they have conceded 11 goals overall and Cooper clearly wanted further defensive reinforcements.\n\nBoly will be available for Forest's game against fellow promoted side Bournemouth on Saturday (15:00 BST).\n\nThe record-setting 20th signing was Bowler, in a deal believed to be worth about £4m.\n\nThe 23-year-old, who has scored two goals in seven Championship games this season, has immediately been sent on a season-long loan to Greek side Olympiakos.\n\nBowler signed for Blackpool in June 2021 and scored seven league goals.\n\nArrival number 21 was Rennes defender Bade on loan, with an option for a permanent deal.\n\n'Forest will be seriously scaring people'\n\nSo, after a complete rebuild of the squad, just how will Cooper and his side fare?\n\n\"Forest will be fine that is for sure. They have done fantastic business. Sometimes you can buy too many players but Forest have brought in the right players,\" said former Crystal Palace striker Clinton Morrison.\n\nJamie Carragher said strengthening in the market \"does not guarantee anything\" but there will be a \"real fear for other clubs\".\n\nThe former Liverpool and England defender added: \"Forest are bringing players off the bench who cost £40m - they have real strength in depth and it will be a big worry for teams who expect promoted teams to go down.\n\n\"I think Forest will be seriously scaring people.\"\n\nAnd ex-Forest striker Robert Earnshaw said: \"They needed to build a squad that represents them in the Premier League. I think they are doing it right. Will they stay up? I think so.\"\n• None Our coverage of Nottingham Forest 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 Forest - go straight to all the best content", "Government forces in Ukraine are trying to seize the initiative from Russian troops before the arrival of winter. A counter-offensive is already under way in the south and the Ukrainians are now preparing to expand that in the east to take back land lost in Donbas and around Kharkiv in the north. Quentin Sommerville and camera-journalist Darren Conway have been given exclusive access to a unit of Ukrainian troops.\n\nThe air is thick with the smell of burning sunflowers, and the pat-pat-pat of Russian cluster bombs can be heard landing across the fields, setting fire to a crop which stands, heads bowed, awaiting a harvest that's unlikely to come.\n\nA self-propelled gun roars through the field, its caterpillar tracks tearing up the rich Donbas earth. The National Guard hold this ground in Ukraine's east - territory that Vladimir Putin has claimed as central to his war aims. It will be taken \"step-by-step\", he said. But for now, Russian progress has been reduced to a crawl.\n\nAnd hanging heavy in the air, among the smoke and dust, is something else - expectation. Here in Donbas, and further north on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, the country's forces are braced for a counter-offensive.\n\nI recently left army positions in the south, around Kherson. It is the only city that Russian forces have captured west of the strategically important Dnipro River. Those same troops are now engaged in battle, supporting forces who have broken through Russian lines in at least three places, as part of a long-planned counter-offensive in the south. Strict Ukrainian reporting restrictions are in place as the operation is under way.\n\nHere in Donbas, they remain tight-lipped. I'm not told the destination beforehand, and a unit press officer asks me not to name the regiment. He removes identifying patches from the men we film.\n\nAmid the din of artillery fire in a base under the cover of trees, Artyom, 35, says we are north of the city of Siversk, some 8km (five miles) from the Russian front line. \"How close do you get to them?\" I ask. \"Thirty metres,\" he replies, \"would you like to see?\"\n\nThese are all defensive positions but the success around Kherson leads many to think that more offensives are planned here and further north.\n\nI'm handed over to a red-haired guardsman who goes by the name of Svarog. He is 26, with a beard - \"I'd look 18 without it,\" he says with a grin. But after six months of fighting in this war, and in Donbas before, he's battle-hardened.\n\nHis unit saw its hardest fighting in July in nearby Lyschansk and Sivierodonetsk, where they were heavily outnumbered.\n\nThe fighting here is different. \"They are not coming in such big numbers,\" Svarog says. \"They no longer advance in battalion groups - they advance in a platoon, a detachment.\" One unit commander had explained that in the field they have one man for every three of the enemy. In Sivierodontesk it was one to seven.\n\nI'm taken on foot to the most forward position. The shelling is constant but at a distance. Instead there is a more immediate threat - anti-personnel mines. I count five as we walk along a muddy path to the river.\n\nAt the riverbank, we head into a network of trenches and I'm told to whisper. It is only an observation post but it is packed full of weaponry. \"Where are the Russians?\", I ask a guardsman. He points to the opposite bank of the river, 30 or so metres away.\n\nNearby are craters, and a shell from a spent Russian rocket. This, first and foremost, is as an observation post, not a combat position, I'm told. \"But if there is a threat that they are crossing over to our riverbank, then we will open fire,\" the guardsman says.\n\nIn a nearby village that looks like so much of this part of Ukraine, broken apart by artillery, mostly abandoned by its residents, I meet Sergiy, 65, and his dog Mukha.\n\nI ask the obvious question - why doesn't he leave? \"My parents lived and died in this house,\" he replies. \"I can't go anywhere. I sent my wife away and live here on my own. Everything is okay, I have food and a small farm. The dog is not hungry.\"\n\nSergiy says he's proud to be Ukrainian. He's not a \"nationalist\" but says he believes in Ukraine and the Armed Forces.\n\nBut others here are more ambivalent. Svarog's unit say that a marked difference from when they fought around Kyiv is the divided loyalty of some of those they have met.\n\nI walk with his men down another ruined village lane. They are, of course, armed and we are all wearing body armour and helmets. A gaggle of geese is almost enough to drown out the artillery duel taking place above our heads. We are invited into a courtyard, full of grape vines and roses, where a family go about their business as if war wasn't raging around them.\n\nJulia, 35-year-old nursery school teacher, laughs when I ask her about living under this threat. \"Imagine that war came to you and you had to pack up and leave your home in 24 hours,\" she asks. \"You would, just like me, try to hang on to what you have spent your whole life making.\"\n\nHer sister Liliia stands nearby. It is her 19th birthday on the day I visit. On her wrist she has a tattoo - \"dulcius ex asperis\" it reads - Latin for \"sweetness follows hardship\".\n\nTheir father berates the Ukrainian government for failing to negotiate. \"They need to sit down at the negotiating table and come to an agreement. It's not right to carry on like this,\" he says.\n\nJulia disagrees. Quietly she says: \"We understand, and we believe that reason will prevail. We'll wait a month, or two for the front line to even out and things will be good again here.\"\n\nDays later, I travel south and meet Ruslan, a combat medic chief who, despite seeing the daily human catastrophe of this war, still fizzes and whirrs with good humour. When we arrange to meet him in a village not far from the front, I ask how I'll spot him.\n\n\"Look for the fluffy ambulance, you won't be able to miss it,\" he says.\n\nSure enough, the vehicle arrived by the village bus stop covered in home-made camouflage netting, like a parade-float hedgehog. We follow him at speed to a frontline \"stabilisation point\", where the injured soldiers receive immediate life-saving care.\n\nThe idiosyncrasies of combat medics are legendary. So it should be no surprise that when we arrive Yuri, the surgeon for Ruslan's medics, is wearing nothing but camouflage shorts. He has in his hand a metal detector. \"He's looking for gold,\" jokes Ruslan.\n\nAfter a while, Yuri's earphones whine and with a small army trowel, he produces a black lump of ore from the ground. \"It's just a hobby,\" he says, sheepishly.\n\nThe clinic is piled high with supplies. \"We want to say thank you to our foreign donors,\" Ruslan says. \"We haven't unpacked yet. Sometimes we never have time to fully unpack.\"\n\nHe takes me through a handwritten notebook of all the injuries they have treated over the past month. Time of arrival, name, type of injury. \"The more writing on the page, the more difficult the case,\" says Ruslan.\n\nSome 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the start of the war, says Ukrainian commander-in-chief Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi. Individual unit losses and injuries are a closely guarded secret. In Ruslan's thick notebook there were fewer deaths than I had imagined. \"We've come a long way since 2014,\" he says, referring to rapid modernisation of Ukrainian forces, including combat medics.\n\nAn injured Ukrainian soldier is brought in for treatment\n\nUkrainian artillery is working all around us. A powerful M777 howitzer is firing nearby, and at night we hear a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) firing its long-range munitions. These new weapons helped prepare the ground for the offensive in the south, and it is hoped they will do the same in the east.\n\nI sit with Vlad, a slight 26-year-old who is now the unit's ambulance driver. He was a ship's engineer (second class) until the start of the war. His frigate, the Hetman Sahaidachny, was scuttled to stop it falling into Russian hands. Before getting behind the wheel of the ambulance he was an artillery man, and can name every boom and blast, as well as the year and make of tank and armour passing the clinic.\n\nI ask him how he likes this duty compared to artillery. \"There's a lot of waiting around now,\" he says.\n\nBut he doesn't have to wait for long. A truck arrives suddenly at the clinic, with screams coming from the rear. The clinic operates on radio silence, the first they know of casualties is usually when they arrive at the door.\n\nThe first man is able to walk inside, but his right arm is hanging off, a gaping wound at his shoulder. The force of the explosion which detonated near him has broken his arm. A second man groans and shouts as he is lifted by Vlad and another medic on a stretcher into the clinic. He is covered in shrapnel wounds.\n\nFor the next 15 minutes, the emergency room is a scene of calm-but-determined activity. Yuri attends to the more seriously injured man on the stretcher, assisted by nursing staff. Senior Lt Viktor attends to the man with badly injured arm. The patients are quickly bandaged, and covered in silver heat blankets then sent for further treatment.\n\nYuri explains the next step. \"We have up to an hour to quickly provide medical assistance before the patient goes to the hospital where a traumatologist, surgeon and trauma brigade take care of the patient\". Both will recover but the more seriously injured soldier is unlikely to return to duty. Ruslan sits down and adds anther two names to his notebook. These entries are short.\n\nThere would be four more injuries later that day, but in the meantime, Ruslan takes us to the trenches where casualties are first received.\n\nMortars begin landing at a tree-line, beyond where we stand. \"It's good that they didn't hit the target, he laughs, now wearing full combat gear. That's Russian precision for you.\"\n\nI ask him how they manage to retrieve casualties while under constant shelling. \"No-one will endanger personnel. So, no matter how hard it sounds, you can't lose strength and means, human resources, vehicles.\n\n\"When there's a lull, or when the battle stops or the enemy is out of ammunition, that's when the evacuation takes place immediately,\" he says. \"Until then, they try to save [casualties] on the spot with all the means they have. We've already lost too many combat medics.\"\n\nAs we leave the front, the skies darken and lightning appears on the horizon. Bad weather is on its way, summer is ending and fighting conditions will worsen. The deep snows of winter will arrive threatening to freeze battle lines in place.\n\nBut for now, there is something else in the air here, an expectation that after months of stalemate, Ukraine could be about to again strike back.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPundit Gary Neville is to be referred to the Attorney General for a social media post he made during his ex-Manchester United team-mate Ryan Giggs' domestic violence trial.\n\nThe judge in the case, Hilary Manley, has referred it as a possible case of contempt of court.\n\nThe jury in Giggs' trial was discharged on Wednesday after failing to reach verdicts on any of the three charges.\n\nGiggs, who resigned as Wales manager in June, also denied a charge of coercive or controlling behaviour towards Ms Greville, and denied assaulting Ms Greville's sister Emma, 26.\n\nAny retrial will not take place until at least 5 June 2023, the judge said.\n\nNeville's agent Di Law told the Daily Mail that the 47-year-old Sky Sports pundit was \"absolutely adamant\" that the post was referring to the Glazer family's ownership of Manchester United and not the Giggs trial.\n\nContempt of court law prohibits publishing any information that creates a \"substantial risk\" of serious prejudice to a trial - including on social media. It is a criminal offence, punishable by a fine or up to two years in prison.\n\nThe judge referred to the post by Neville on Wednesday.\n\nJudge Manley said: \"Given the author is a person with a high public profile and his social media account has 1.5 million followers, it could be seen to be an attempt to influence ongoing criminal proceedings and could be contempt of court.\n\n\"Accordingly, I am referring the matter to the office of the Attorney General for the consideration of a potential prosecution.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office said: \"Contempt of court is a serious matter and the Attorney General will review any allegations brought to her carefully. We have not yet received a referral.\"\n\nDuring the trial the lawyer acting for the prosecution said a social media post \"by a member of the public who has a direct connection with this case\" had been brought to his attention.\n\nHe added: \"This may be a matter that requires immediate action, so far as that individual is concerned.\"\n\nThe lawyer defending Giggs, Chris Daw QC, wanted to make it \"crystal clear\" the defendant did not have anything to do with the Instagram post.\n\nJudge Manley allowed the trial to go ahead after deliberation and as there was no indication that any jury member had seen the post.\n\nThe former Manchester United footballer had been on trial for four weeks. The Crown Prosecution Service has a week to decide whether to pursue a retrial.\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. Boris Johnson: \"Go nuclear, and go large and go with Sizewell C.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged £700m for a new nuclear power plant on the Suffolk coast, with a call to \"go nuclear and go large and go with Sizewell C\".\n\nIn a speech at Sizewell, he said he was \"confident\" the plant would go ahead.\n\nThe project, which is being developed by French energy company EDF, is estimated to cost about £20bn overall.\n\nCritics have argued Sizewell C will be hugely expensive and take years to build.\n\nThe government gave the go-ahead for the plant in July with negotiations on raising funds continuing.\n\nIt is not expected to begin generating electricity until the 2030s.\n\n\"We need to pull our national finger out and get on with Sizewell C,\" the outgoing PM said.\n\n\"That's why we're putting £700m into the deal, just part of the £1.7bn of government funding available for developing a large-scale nuclear project to final investment stage in this parliament.\n\n\"In the course of the next few weeks I am absolutely confident that it will get over the line.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the war in Ukraine, which has pushed up gas prices, had demonstrated the need for new nuclear generation capacity in the UK.\n\nIn his final major policy speech before he leaves office, he argued the reluctance of previous governments to back nuclear energy had helped drive up bills.\n\nThe PM described the problem as \"myopia\", adding: \"It is called short-termism. It is a chronic case of politicians not being able to see beyond the political cycle.\"\n\n\"Let's think about the future, let's think about our kids and our grandchildren, about the next generation,\" he said.\n\n\"And so I say to you, with the prophetic candour and clarity of one who is about to hand over the torch of office, I say go nuclear and go large and go with Sizewell C.\"\n\nTom Greatrex, head of the Nuclear Industry Association, called the announcement an \"important step toward cutting gas, cutting bills and creating stable, secure well-paid jobs for people up and down the country\".\n\nHowever, former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas said that Sizewell C was \"massively costly, achingly slow, and carries huge unnecessary risks\".\n\nShe added that the \"enormous upfront cost\" would be passed on to consumers.\n\nThe Stop Sizewell campaign group said: \"When every penny matters, it's totally wrong to shackle the next prime minister and billions in taxpayers' money to this damaging project, whose ballooning cost, lengthy construction, failure-prone technology and long term water supply are so uncertain.\"\n\nThe group urged Mr Johnson's successor to review the project and focus on \"cheaper, quicker renewables and insulation\".\n\nLabour said the government had an \"appalling legacy\" on clean power, accusing it of blocking onshore wind and delaying the expansion of solar and nuclear power.\n\nMr Johnson's speech was made against the backdrop of an energy crisis which looks set to worsen over the winter, with household bills soaring.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has pushed up the price of gas and renewed concerns about energy security.\n\nThe crisis is likely to dominate the agenda for whoever succeeds Mr Johnson as PM.\n\nTory leadership candidate Liz Truss - who pollsters have tipped to win the contest - hinted on Wednesday she would look at providing further support to businesses and households. She also ruled out energy rationing - unlike rival Rishi Sunak, who said it should not be taken off the table.\n\nToday's speech from Boris Johnson would have been significant had he been able to announce the deal to build a new nuclear power station had been sealed.\n\nBut he can't, and the £700m he is pledging is considered to be too small a sum to guarantee the participation of private investors and EDF.\n\nSo why do it? The £700m comes from a £1.7bn fund for nuclear already agreed by the cabinet - so he can't be accused of entering into new financial arrangements which would bind the hands of his successor.\n\nWhether the project goes ahead will be up to the new occupant of No 10.\n\nBut he was issuing a statement of intent - and making it more difficult, should his successor wish, to back out.\n\nWhile his speech largely blamed Labour for \"myopia\" on energy, it seemed to contain a coded message to the next PM not to put new domestic projects on hold while dealing with the short term, but severe, challenge of soaring bills.\n\nBoth candidates are committed to new nuclear.\n\nBut if they are tempted to delay, Boris Johnson can make it clear that is one thing that he can't be blamed for.\n\nThe Sizewell C project 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 plant could generate 3.2 gigawatts of electricity, enough for about six million homes.", "Ravil Maganov was given a lifetime achievement award by President Vladimir Putin in 2019\n\nThe chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.\n\nThe company confirmed his death but said only that Maganov, 67, had \"passed away following a severe illness\".\n\nRussian media said he was being treated at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital and died of his injuries.\n\nMaganov is the latest of a number of high-profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances.\n\nInvestigating authorities said they were working at the scene to establish how he died. Tass news agency quoted sources saying he had fallen out of a sixth-floor window early on Thursday morning, adding later that he had taken his own life.\n\nShortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Lukoil board called for the conflict to end as soon as possible, expressing its sympathy to victims of \"this tragedy\".\n\nIts billionaire president, Vagit Alekperov, resigned in April after the UK imposed sanctions on him in response to the invasion.\n\nSeveral Russian energy oligarchs have died in unusual circumstances in recent months:\n\nLukoil is Russia's biggest private company. In its statement it said it was down to Maganov's managerial talent that it had evolved into one of the world's largest energy firms.\n\nHe began working for the private oil company in 1993 and took over as chairman two years ago. Three years ago he was given a lifetime achievement award by President Vladimir Putin.\n\nMaganov had been receiving treatment at a hospital on the western outskirts of Moscow, which is known for having Russia's political and business elite among its patients.\n\nMikhail Gorbachev died at the same hospital, Central Clinical Hospital, on Tuesday and President Putin visited the site on Thursday morning to lay flowers beside his coffin.", "Worries over the prospects for the UK economy led the pound to slide by about 5% against the US dollar in August.\n\nThe last time the pound fell so much against the dollar was in October 2016, in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.\n\nSterling sank again on Thursday morning, dipping below $1.16 on the currency markets.\n\nAnalysts said the fall reflects the darkening outlook for the economy, with consumers and businesses facing rising prices and soaring energy bills.\n\nThe Bank of England has predicted the UK will fall into recession towards the end of this year.\n\nThe weak pound means Brits travelling overseas will find their spending money will not stretch as far.\n\n\"Our economic prospects are not looking particularly good compared to the rest of the world,\" said Laura Lambie, senior investment director at Investec.\n\nMs Lambie said that recession fears were weighing on markets, with the investment bank Goldman Sachs warning this week that the UK could remain in recession until 2024.\n\nA recession is defined as the economy getting smaller for two consecutive three-month periods.\n\nAugust was also the worst month for the pound against the euro since the middle of last year.\n\nUK government bonds - or debt - had their worst month for decades. Investors, worried about the riskiness of lending to the government, demanded higher returns for doing so, making it more expensive for the country to borrow money. In August, the yields, or the effective interest rate you would get, on some of those bonds have jumped the most since 1994.\n\nColin Ellis from ratings agency Moody's told the BBC's Today programme the jump in yields needed to be put in context. \"Energy bills are very very high, and set to go up again. which means inflation is going to be high and that the Bank of England is raising interest rates in response.\n\n\"Those expectations for higher interest rates are part of what's driving these moves in the bond market at the moment.\"\n\nHowever, he said: \"We still have a stable outlook on our UK government rating so we see the risk as broadly balanced. We're not very concerned but of course a lot will depend on the policies that the next government chooses to put into place.\"\n\nFears have grown over the prospects for the UK economy after figures showed it shrank between April and June, with businesses and households feeling the impact of rising prices.\n\nThose concerns were fuelled on Thursday, with a new study suggesting the manufacturing sector shrank in August for the first time since May 2020.\n\nSeparately, a report by the Resolution Foundation think tank said typical household disposable incomes are on course to fall by 10%, or £3,000, over this year and next, which is called the \"the deepest living standards squeeze in a century\".\n\nThe cost-of-living crisis is set to be the biggest challenge facing the new Prime Minister.\n\nBoth Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have come under pressure to outline how they would support households if they succeed in getting the keys to Number 10.\n\n''Grim forecasts about poverty spreading across the UK this winter highlight the deepening woes for the UK economy\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nThe Bank of England raised interest rates to 1.75% in August, while forecasting that the UK economy would fall into recession this year.\n\nBut Ms Streeter predicts that the Bank of England might be forced to slow down rate rises in the coming months, given the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe pound's weakness is also a result of a strong dollar, analysts said.\n\nThe dollar is performing strongly due to US interest rate rises and because investors see it as a safer bet.\n\nLast week, the head of the country's central bank, the Federal Reserve, indicated it would push ahead with further interest rate rises as it seeks to control inflation.\n\n\"The dollar has been exceptionally strong,\" Ms Lambie said.\n\n\"Also, the issues that we've had in Europe around energy do not have the same impact as the US, and I think economists are fairly agreed that the US will be the last to go into recession if they do go into recession at all, perhaps following the UK and Europe.\n\n\"So on both sides, from the sterling side and from the dollar side, that's really what has weakened sterling and strengthened the dollar.\"", "Fierce battles have been reported as Ukraine tries to retake the Russian-occupied southern Kherson region - but military experts have told the BBC it \"won't happen quickly\".\n\n\"Heavy fighting is continuing, our soldiers are working around the clock,\" said Vitaliy Kim, who heads the neighbouring Mykolaiv region.\n\nUkraine earlier said it had broken through Russia's first line of defence.\n\nBut Russia said Ukrainian troops had been defeated during a failed attack.\n\nThe defence ministry in Moscow also said there had been heavy casualties among the Ukrainian forces, but the claims by both Ukraine and Russia have not been independently verified.\n\nKherson became the first major Ukrainian city to fall into Russian hands in the opening days of Moscow's invasion that began on 24 February.\n\nTop Ukrainian military officials have been tight-lipped about giving too many details about its reported counter-offensive, urging the wider public to be patient.\n\nIt said three key bridges across the Dnipro River had been hit again to make sure they were impassable. In recent weeks, Ukraine has also been using US-supplied Himars precision rocket systems to target makeshift Russian pontoon bridges, as well as command posts and ammunition depots.\n\nThis is widely seen as part of a targeted effort to cut off Russian troops on the right (western) bank of the river, making it virtually impossible to send troops and weapons resupplies.\n\nHowever, officials in Kyiv have been cautioning against any expectations of a quick win, describing the offensive as a slow grinding down of the enemy.\n\nSeveral military experts interviewed by the BBC seem to agree with this.\n\n\"The long-term trend is the gradual weakening of the Russian military capability and the gradual strengthening of the Ukrainian capability with Western help,\" said Sir Alex Younger, a former head of Britain's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service.\n\nHe said the Kherson counter-offensive was \"all about the urge of Ukraine to demonstrate they can get on the front foot and in turn underpin the resolve of Ukraine and its backers into what is going to be a difficult winter\".\n\nJustin Bronk, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) defence think tank, told the BBC he believed Ukraine would continue with strikes using Himars as they were proving so successful at cutting off Russian supply lines.\n\nMoving forward, though, Mr Bronk said he expected to see more of an \"attritional strategy\" by Ukraine, \"pushing [Russia] on a broad front, trying to force Russian morale to break and inflict casualties\".\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian military expert Mykhaylo Zhyrokhov told the BBC: \"We shouldn't be expecting a cavalry attack, because the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces doesn't want street fighting [in the Kherson city] - that would result in heavy casualties.\"\n\n\"The Ukrainian strategy is to squeeze the enemy out,\" he said, warning that this \"won't happen quickly\".\n\n\"It's like a situation with a cornered rat that needs to be offered a way out. Ukraine's military should aim to provide the Russian troops with such a withdrawal route, otherwise [the Russians troops] would be fighting until the last soldier.\"\n\n\"The window of opportunity is until mid-October because after that the mainly field roads in the region will become impassable\" because of mud and slush, Mr Zhyrokhov said.\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesperson for the US state department told reporters on Tuesday that senior Russian officials have been tasked with organising an annexation referendum in Kherson.\n\nSergei Kiriyenko, a top adviser to President Putin, was overseeing efforts to hold a poll \"in the coming weeks,\" Vedant Patel said.\n\n\"The sham referenda will attempt to give a veneer of legitimacy to a blatant land grab that would violate the Ukrainian constitution and international law,\" Mr Patel added.\n\nElsewhere, in his nightly address Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that intense fighting has been taking place in the eastern Donbas and Kharkiv regions.", "Mr Durham said: \"We are a close community and obviously people are keeping their eyes open and keeping an eye on everything within the gardens.\"\n\nMore than 100 fish died after washing-up liquid poured into a fountain in a seaside town caused it to froth over with foam.\n\nThe water feature in Esplanade Gardens on Hunstanton seafront was vandalised over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nHoliday makers and residents spent six hours helping to clean the fountain, which remained turned off.\n\nChris Durham, from King's Lynn and West Norfolk Council, said it was a \"senseless crime\".\n\nIt took volunteers and council workers six hours to try to clean it up by removing the foam, pumping out the water and clearing out the dead fish.\n\nMr Durham said: \"Historically there's always been fish in there. The council have never supplied fish within that area, it's something the public have always done.\"\n\nHe added that they would not be able to fill it with any more fish at the moment.\n\nThe crime has been reported to the police who, along with the council, appealed for people to come forward if they had any information.\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.", "Lawyers for Donald Trump have argued that the storage of sensitive files at his Florida home \"should have never been cause for alarm\".\n\nHis legal team said the FBI search last month was \"unprecedented, unnecessary, and legally unsupported\".\n\nTheir filing comes on the eve of a court hearing about Mr Trump's call for a third-party official to oversee the evidence taken from Mar-a-Lago.\n\nOfficials say the search was necessary due to obstruction by the Trump team.\n\nThe 19-page legal filing posted by the former president's team on Wednesday night did not respond to the justice department claims of obstruction.\n\nUpon leaving office, US presidents must transfer all of their documents and emails to the National Archives, which maintains historic White House records.\n\nMr Trump's legal team contended he had been engaged in a \"standard give-and-take\" with the National Archives over the return of his files when the search warrant was executed.\n\n\"There is no question... that the matters before this court centre around the possession, by a president, of his own presidential records,\" says the court filing.\n\nApparently classified files on the floor of Trump's Mar-a-Lago office in the 8 August search, released by the Department of Justice\n\nHis lawyers argue: \"The notion that Presidential records would contain sensitive information should have never been cause for alarm.\"\n\nThe court filing came less than 24 hours after the justice department alleged that Mr Trump's aides had probably tried to conceal secret documents inside the West Palm Beach estate.\n\nA National Archives team visited the seafront golf club in January and retrieved 15 boxes of White House records that contained \"highly classified reports\", said the filing.\n\nThe justice department began investigations which found evidence that \"dozens of additional boxes\" probably containing sensitive material still remained at Mar-a-Lago.\n\nOn 3 June, three FBI agents and a justice department lawyer arrived at Mar-a-Lago to collect materials, but were \"explicitly prohibited\" by Mr Trump's representatives from searching any boxes inside a storage room at the property, according to the 54-page filing.\n\nEvidence was also found that records were \"likely concealed and removed\" from the storage area and that efforts were \"likely taken\" to obstruct the investigation, officials said.\n\nOn Thursday, a judge will hold a hearing on whether an independent legal official known as a special master should be appointed to oversee the evidence and determine whether any of it is protected under executive privilege - a rule which shields some presidential documents.\n\nThe justice department has argued that a special master is not necessary, given that it says most of the evidence has already been inspected by investigators.\n\nIn Wednesday's court papers, Mr Trump's lawyers accused the justice department of \"gratuitously\" including a photograph in its Tuesday filing of \"allegedly classified materials\" that had been \"pulled from a container and spread across the floor for dramatic effect\".\n\n\"Left unchecked, the DOJ will impugn, leak, and publicize selective aspects of their investigation,\" Mr Trump's lawyers wrote, arguing why a special master was necessary.", "More than 9,000 men in Northern Ireland are living with prostate cancer\n\nResearch into personalised radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer is under way at Queen's University Belfast.\n\nIt is the first time scientists are examining genes to determine a patient's cancer treatment.\n\nDr Victoria Dunne, who's been awarded £280,000 for her research said it was \"exciting and a privilege to be involved\".\n\nProstate cancer is the most common cancer in men, with more than 9,000 men living with it in Northern Ireland.\n\nMore than 11,500 men die from the disease in the UK each year - that is one man every 45 minutes.\n\nDr Dunne said this \"personal therapy involving genetic therapy will determine different treatments for different men\".\n\n\"Basically two men would receive a different treatment if they came forward because they have different genes. That could include the amount of radiotherapy during treatment,\" she added.\n\n\"I will be studying how genes influence men's response to a type of radiotherapy called radium-223.\"\n\nDr Victoria Dunne said it was a privilege to be involved in the research\n\nThe project will combine the treatment with drugs that stop cancer cells from being able to repair their DNA to see whether this improves its effectiveness.\n\nAccording to Dr Dunne, if successful, the new treatment combination could be targeted at men who carry the genetic change, \"helping them live a longer, better quality of life\".\n\nIt could take at least five years before the treatment is part of a clinical trial in Belfast.\n\nThe grant is part of Prostate Cancer UK's fellowship scheme and will involve Dr Dunne travelling to Oslo University Hospital in Norway, which is taking the lead in developing novel radiotherapy treatments.\n\nMichael Currid, from Coleraine, County Londonderry, survived prostate cancer after being diagnosed six years ago.\n\nHe said this \"tailored\" treatment was \"vitally important as no two patients are the same\".\n\nA keen cyclist, Mr Currid sought blood tests after feeling \"tired and weak\" on long cycle journeys.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Currid survived prostate cancer after being diagnosed six years ago.\n\n\"I was told I had an aggressive tumour and then you start thinking about what time you have left and not being able to play with the grandkids,\" he said.\n\n\"Once I felt unwell, I sought help, I had surgery and chose not to have radiotherapy or chemotherapy.\n\n\"A one-size-fits-all cancer treatment is no longer appropriate - this new research backs that.\"\n\nProstate cancer mainly affects men over 50 and the risk increases with age.\n\nThe risk is higher for black men or men with a family history of prostate cancer.\n\nThe research is into personalised radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer\n\nProstate cancer often has no symptoms so men should not wait to see changes, including urinating more or finding their flow is slower, before they act.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the percentage of men surviving for five years after a diagnosis of prostate cancer has increased from 66% between 1996-2000 to 87% between 2011-2015.\n\nWhile partially down to improvements in treatment, it is also caused by changes to the way prostate cancer is diagnosed which means more men being diagnosed earlier.\n\nDr Dunne, who lost a brother to cancer, said that to think she can help one man to live longer and one family to benefit from that is a \"wonderful feeling\".", "Leonid Radvinsky was paid $284m (£246m) in dividends in 2021 and another $233m (£201m) since November.\n\nMeanwhile, OnlyFans' two million content creators made nearly $4bn (£3.47bn) in 2021, the company has revealed.\n\nThe platform, which is known for hosting adult content, saw a spike in users during the pandemic.\n\nIt reported pre-tax profits of $433m last year, up from $61m in 2020.\n\nHowever, OnlyFans has faced criticism for not doing enough to prevent under-age individuals selling explicit content.\n\nThe company said it was continually improving its approach to safety and content moderation.\n\nFounded in 2016, OnlyFans has 220 million users and more than two million creators worldwide.\n\nIn 2021 it saw a 128% increase in the number of fans using the platform compared to the previous year, and a 34% rise in the number of creators.\n\nOverall, creator earnings were more than double what they were the previous year.\n\nOnlyFans takes a 20% commission on all payments made to its content creators.\n\nChief executive Amrapali Gan said: \"We are empowering creators to monetise their content and have real control over it.\"\n\n\"We will continue to invest in the creator economy by enhancing safety, developing original OFTV [the firm's free streaming platform] content, and continuing to grow our community of creators and fans,\" she added.\n\nAmrapali Gan took over as chief executive in December\n\nThe site offers a platform for musicians, fitness trainers and celebrities to charge their followers for exclusive tips and visual content.\n\nBut it is best known for allowing content creators, including porn stars and sex workers, to charge for sexually explicit photographs and videos.\n\nLast year the company announced that all sexually explicit content would be blocked from the platform, following pressure from banking partners.\n\nBut following a backlash from its users, OnlyFans suspended the policy change a week later.\n\nIn 2021, a BBC News investigation found children had used fake IDs to set up accounts on the site.\n\nFollowing the report, the children's commissioner for England said OnlyFans needed to do more to stop under-age individuals selling explicit images on the platform.\n\nIn response to the investigation, OnlyFans said it had closed the accounts and flagged and refunded all active subscriptions.", "Video caption: Former First Minister Peter Robinson speaks to EvEx about his memories of the Monarch Former First Minister Peter Robinson speaks to EvEx about his memories of the Monarch\n\nQuote Message: The Queen strongly wanted to make a contribution towards reconciliation and demonstrated that both in Northern Ireland and with her visit to the Republic of Ireland. The response from the ordinary person on the street [in the Republic], indicated the welcome there was in the south for a new beginning and for relations north south and east west.\" from Peter Robinson Former NI first minister The Queen strongly wanted to make a contribution towards reconciliation and demonstrated that both in Northern Ireland and with her visit to the Republic of Ireland. The response from the ordinary person on the street [in the Republic], indicated the welcome there was in the south for a new beginning and for relations north south and east west.\"\n\nThe Queen was \"prepared to go the second mile, she was an encourager all the way\" for the peace process in Northern Ireland, former first minister Peter Robinson told Radio Ulster.\n\nIn his role, he met the Queen on a number of occasions and also got to know her in private audiences.\n\n\"She was a wonderful person, she was driven by faith and duty,\" he said.\n\n\"Those who met her personally found that infectious spirit she had.\"\n\nWhen the cameras were not around, Mr Robinson said that he found she had been \"well briefed\" and had a \"\"really acute inquiring mind\".\n\n\"She went for the kind of areas you weren't expecting. She'd ask: What is it like to work with him?\" he said.\n\nThis was not just about Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, the late deputy first minister, but other politicians well known in Northern Ireland, he said.\n\nSpeaking about the historic handshake between Her Majesty and Mr McGuinness, he said: \"It wasn't an easy occasion for either of the two individuals.\n\n\"There was a lot of history on both sides. It was an important part of our overall process.", "Mourners are continuing to lay flowers outside Hillsborough Castle\n\nQueen Elizabeth II \"managed to charm an entire country\" during her historic state visit to the Republic of Ireland, the Irish foreign minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said many Irish people saw her with \"new affection\" after she became the first UK monarch to visit the independent state in May 2011.\n\nAcross Northern Ireland, people have been laying flowers and signing books of condolence for the late Queen.\n\nA number of sports events have been postponed as a mark of respect.\n\nThe UK is in mourning after its longest-reigning monarch died on Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly will be recalled on Monday at 12:30 BST to allow members to pay tribute.\n\nPoliticians and dignitaries from across the island of Ireland have expressed their admiration for the Queen's 70 years of service as Britain's head of state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Those laying flowers at Hillsborough Castle spoke of their admiration for the Queen\n\nIn particular, they have praised her contribution to the peace process on the island of Ireland, remembering her first and only visit to the Republic of Ireland 11 years ago.\n\nShe was hosted by Belfast native Mary McAleese, the then president of Ireland.\n\nMrs McAleese described the four-day trip as \"magical\" and said the Queen had made a \"very special pilgrimage of reconciliation\".\n\nDuring the visit, the Queen laid a wreath in Dublin's Garden of Remembrance - a park dedicated to Irish people who fought against British rule.\n\nShe also spoke a few words in Irish at a state dinner in Dublin Castle, the former seat of British power in Ireland.\n\nA moment of reflection during the Queen's visit to Ireland in May 2011\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mrs McAleese said the Queen was a person who transcended politics and who was \"deeply respected\" by people from different backgrounds and political persuasions.\n\n\"Many, many people across the island who would not be supporters of the idea of monarchy, for example people who would be republicans, and many Irish nationalists would share with me deep sorrow at her passing, because she was always a woman who was worthy of respect,\" the former president said.\n\n\"Why? Because she earned that respect over seven decades.\"\n\nThe 2011 visit was \"an extraordinary moment\" in British-Irish relations, according to the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney.\n\nAt the time, Mr Coveney escorted the Queen on a walkabout around the English Market in his native Cork.\n\nThe Queen visited the English Market in Cork in 2011, accompanied by Simon Coveney (right)\n\nHe told the BBC's Talkback's programme the royal guest \"managed to charm an entire country\" during her trip.\n\n\"And she addressed the British-Irish relationship in terms of our history - with all its tragedy, but with all it's closeness - in a way that really I think resulted in so many Irish people seeing her with a new affection.\n\n\"It was just one of her many achievements over 70 years of an extraordinary reign.\"\n\nThe following year, the Queen broke new ground in her first meeting with the then deputy first minister, and former IRA commander, Martin McGuinness.\n\nSpeaking to Evening Extra, the former first minister Peter Robinson recalled his memories of the historic handshake.\n\n\"I felt that she very strongly wanted to make a contribution. She felt we were on the right path, that the kind of reconciliation and way forward that we were moving was something that was worthy of her support,\" he said.\n\n\"She showed that by her own endeavours in Northern Ireland as well as her visit to the south.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former First Minister Peter Robinson speaks to BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra about his memories of the Queen\n\n\"It wasn't an easy occasion for either of the two individuals because there was a lot of history on both sides. I think it was an important part of our overall process.\"\n\nMr Robinson said Mr McGuinness \"did take some flak\" from some people around him over the occasions he met the Queen.\n\n\"It wasn't always an easy thing for republicans to do but I think it did just indicate that we were moving on in Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are continuing to mourn the Queen's death and floral tributes are mounting outside the gates of Hillsborough Castle in County Down, the Royal Family's official residence in Northern Ireland.\n\nMore than 200 people stood at the gates of Hillsborough Castle for a gun salute in honour of Queen Elizabeth II - part of a UK-wide military honour.\n\nThose who brought floral tributes include people in their 90s, who remember well the Queen's coronation.\n\nParents have been guiding young children to the gates to lay flowers.\n\nAs the cannons fired - some people stood with their heads bowed, and many remarked on the sense of history, change and grief.\n\nBooks of condolence opened in Belfast City Hall at 14:30 BST on Friday and the council is also organising a special sitting in which councillors can pay tribute.\n\nA book of condolence has also opened in Londonderry's Guildhall, while similar tributes have opened in Derry's St Columb's Cathedral, where the Queen visited as a young princess in 1945, and Strabane's Alley Theatre.\n\nSigning his own tribute at the cathedral, Bishop Andrew Forster said: \"Little did she know what lay ahead of her.\n\n\"But she's been a wonderful monarch and her life has been solely about duty and service, and she will be sorely missed by a great many people.\"\n\nSeveral councils across Northern Ireland are opening books of condolence at venues which include:\n\nFlowers have been left on the Shankill Road in Belfast\n\nA major security operation is continuing to manage the flow of people who want to pay their respects.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said special transport will be put in place from the Eikon Centre to visit Hillsborough Castle from Saturday.\n\n\"There are currently structural preparations being put in place and Hillsborough Castle will remain closed to members of the public until tomorrow,\" the NIO added.\n\nThe Irish FA said that fixtures across all affiliated football in the country, and all other organised football activity at all levels, will not go ahead this weekend.\n\nAll of this weekend's rugby and hockey games in Ulster have also been postponed.\n\nThe NI International Air Show has been cancelled as a mark of respect.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's death a huge shock to the nation and the world - Prime Minister Truss\n\nPoliticians from across the UK have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II who has died at the age of 96.\n\nLeading the mourning, the new Prime Minister Liz Truss said the Queen had been \"the rock on which modern Britain was built\".\n\n\"Britain is the great country it is today because of her,\" she added.\n\nMs Truss met the Queen earlier this week in Scotland when she was appointed prime minister.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, she said the Queen had been \"determined\" to continue carrying out her duties.\n\nShe said the nation should now come together to help the new monarch King Charles III \"bear the awesome responsibility that he now carries for us all\".\n\nMs Truss was informed of the Queen's death at 16:30 BST by senior civil servant Simon Case while she was working in Downing Street, her official spokesman has said\n\nShe spoke to the King shortly after making her statement.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the country would \"always treasure Queen Elizabeth II's life of service and devotion to our nation and the Commonwealth\".\n\n\"Above the clashes of politics, she stood not for what the nation fought over, but what it agreed upon.\n\n\"So as our great Elizabethan era comes to an end, we will honour the late Queen's memory by keeping alive the values of public service she embodied.\"\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said the Queen had \"exercised a calm and steadying influence over our country\".\n\nHe added that she had given people's lives a \"sense of equilibrium\" during her 70 years on the throne and maintained \"unwavering devotion to the UK\".\n\nHe also said she had provided \"advice and the benefit of long experience to 15 prime ministers during her reign\".\n\nParliament is expected to meet on Friday from midday and Saturday from 14:00 to pay tribute to the Queen.\n\nAll six living former prime ministers have also sent their condolences and shared memories of the Queen.\n\nMs Truss was officially appointed as the UK's 56th prime minister after her meeting with the Queen on Tuesday\n\nMs Truss's predecessor Boris Johnson tweeted that the Queen would be remembered for her \"deep wisdom, and historic understanding, and her seemingly inexhaustible but understated sense of duty\".\n\n\"Relentless though her diary must have felt, she never once let it show, and to tens of thousands of events - great and small - she brought her smile and her warmth and her gentle humour - and for an unrivalled 70 years she spread that magic around her kingdom.\n\n\"She seemed so timeless and so wonderful that I am afraid we had come to believe, like children, that she would just go on and on.\"\n\nTheresa May tweeted: \"On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Her Majesty reminded us to 'never give up, never despair'.\n\n\"It was an address that captured not just the national spirit, but Queen Elizabeth's spirit - a sense of quiet determination, of courage, of faith and of hope in the future.\"\n\nQueen Elizabeth with Theresa May, one of the 15th prime ministers who served during her reign\n\nDuring her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth held weekly meetings with the prime minister of the day.\n\nRecalling these conversations during an interview with the BBC, Mrs May said the Queen was \"immensely knowledgeable\" adding: \"Many people don't realise how much work the Queen put into her red boxes, to understand the issues of the day, what was going on in government and around the rest of the world.\"\n\nSir John Major - who served as prime minister between 1990 and 1997 - echoed Mrs May's thoughts describing the Queen as \"exceptionally well briefed\".\n\n\"On foreign affairs, she would often say if there was a difficulty of a foreign leader 'Well, I met him many years ago' or even 'I knew his father'.\"\n\nSir John said the meetings were not always serious and often filled with \"a great deal of gossip... those meetings with the Queen were always the better part of a prime minister's week\".\n\nDavid Cameron described the Queen as \"the world's most experienced diplomat\" and said he was \"fortunate\" to have been able to call on her knowledge during his time in office.\n\nGordon Brown said the Queen was a \"compassionate, dedicated, wonderful public servant and nobody will ever forget the contribution she made to our country.\n\n\"She was a peacemaker, she brought people together, she listened to people.\"\n\nSir Tony Blair - who was prime minister between 1997 and 2007 - said: \"We have lost not just our monarch but the matriarch of our nation, the figure who more than any other brought our country together, kept us in touch with our better nature, personified everything which makes us proud to be British.\"\n\nHe recalled his last meeting with the Queen when he said she had been on \"sparkling form\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the Queen represented \"duty and courage, as well as \"warmth and compassion\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon praised the Queen's life as \"one of extraordinary dedication and service\".\n\nThe Queen died at her Balmoral estate in Scotland and Ms Sturgeon said she hoped it would be \"a source of comfort to her family that she spent her final days in a place that she loved so much\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said the Queen had \"firmly upheld the values and traditions of the British Monarchy\" and offered his \"deepest condolences\".", "Sport has paid tribute after Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died aged 96.\n\nMessages poured in from sporting governing bodies and personalities after her death was announced on Thursday.\n\nA minute's silence was held at Manchester United, Arsenal, West Ham and Hearts' European matches.\n\nAnd in horse racing, the sport closely linked to Her Majesty, she was described as its \"greatest supporter\".\n• None At-a-glance: What's on and what's off this weekend\n• None In pictures: Sporting memories of the Queen\n\nAscot, the racecourse most deeply connected with the Queen, paid tribute to one of the sport's leading advocates.\n\nThe Berkshire venue is famed for its royal meeting and procession from nearby Windsor Castle, with the Queen having enjoyed many high-profile victories at the track - not least when Estimate won the Gold Cup in 2013.\n\nSir Francis Brooke, Her Majesty's representative at the track, said: \"The nation mourns the loss of a much loved and respected monarch. The world of racing has lost one of its greatest supporters.\n\n\"We at Ascot are privileged to have so many memories of Her Majesty, the Queen, at this, her racecourse, including some wonderful victories in the royal colours.\"\n\nNicky Henderson, who trained racehorses for the Queen and Queen Mother, added: \"Racing has lost its best friend and greatest patron, the country has lost its Queen - but she was more than a Queen. The country has lost somebody who was its greatest servant. She was absolutely the greatest.\n\n\"She knew horses inside out, so it was always a pleasure to be able to talk and discuss horses - and lots of other things as well. Her loss is immeasurable. It is an emotional day and I am very emotional.\"\n\nSir Michael Stoute, trainer of Estimate, said: \"It was an honour and also a great pleasure to train for the Queen because she had such a formidable knowledge of the horse.\"\n\nAP McCoy, the 20-time champion jump jockey and knighted in 2016, said the Queen had an \"irreplaceable presence\" while fellow jockey Frankie Dettori described it as the \"honour of a lifetime\" to ride for the Queen and \"a greater honour to have known such a remarkable person.\"\n\nSandy Dudgeon, senior steward of the Jockey Club, said: \"She was such a wonderful supporter of the sport of horse racing throughout her life, including as our patron, and we will feel her loss most deeply indeed.\"\n\nAll Premier League clubs posted individual messages paying their respect to the Queen and the Premier League said it was \"deeply saddened\" by her death.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with the Royal Family and everyone around the world mourning the loss of Her Majesty,\" the league said.\n\nEnglish Football League chair Rick Parry added: \"On behalf of the league and its clubs, we join the rest of the nation and people across the world in mourning the passing of our Queen, Elizabeth II.\"\n\nWest Ham United fans sang 'God Save The Queen' at the end of a minute's silence at London Stadium before their Europa Conference League win against Romanian side FCSB.\n\nEngland men's and women's captains Harry Kane and Leah Williamson described the Queen as an \"amazing inspiration\" and \"a light so bright, she gave us hope when there seemed to be none\".\n\nFormer England captain David Beckham said the Queen \"served her country with dignity and grace\".\n\nManchester United and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo mourned the \"irreplaceable loss with the country that I've learned to call home\".\n\nBrazil legend Pele said: \"I have been a great admirer of Queen Elizabeth II since the first time I saw her in person, in 1968, when she came to Brazil to witness our love for football and experienced the magic of a packed Maracana. Her deeds have marked generations.\"\n\nSeven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton said the Queen was an \"inspiring and iconic\" leader.\n\n\"Since the sad news yesterday, I've been reflecting on her incredible life. She was a symbol of hope for so many and she served her country with dignity, dedication and kindness,\" he said.\n\n\"She was truly like no other and I'm grateful to have lived during her time. Her legacy will be long-lasting and her passing deeply felt.\"\n\nFIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said: \"The Queen was undoubtedly one of the most respected heads of state ever to have lived, and I send my condolences, and those of the entire FIA community, to the Royal Family and all of the citizens of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.\n\n\"Motorsport, and especially Formula 1, has its heart in the United Kingdom, and the Royal Family has, over the years, given great support and patronage to the sport.\n\n\"For this we thank them, and those events taking place around the world this weekend will undoubtedly be undertaken in honour of Her Majesty.\"\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board said it was \"deeply saddened at the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II\".\n\nECB chair Richard Thompson said: \"I'm sure I speak for everyone in the game when I say how truly sad I am to hear of the Queen's passing. Her Majesty has been such a great supporter of the game and was always so vocal of her and her late husband's enjoyment around the sport.\n\n\"Her dedication to her country will never be forgotten. For her service and her selflessness over her extraordinary reign, we owe her a debt that can never be repaid.\"\n\nRoyal and Ancient Golf Club captain Peter Forster said: \"Although not a golfer, Her late Majesty's 70-year patronage of the Club was a great honour for its Members.\n\n\"We hold His Majesty The King and all The Royal Family in our thoughts at this time of mourning.\"\n\nThe 2018 European Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn, of Denmark, said:\"Living most of my adult life in England I'm deeply saddened by the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. An inspiration to so many all over the world. Rest in peace, Your Majesty.\"\n\nUS Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick tweeted his sympathies and fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood added: \"Rest in Peace Your Majesty, you will be forever in our hearts.\"\n\nInternational Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said the world had lost \"a great supporter of sport and the Olympic movement\".\n\n\"Her Majesty was the only head of state to declare open two editions of the Olympic Games and was already present at the Olympic Games London 1948,\" he said.\n\n\"As patron of the British Olympic Association, she provided invaluable advice and help to the Olympic community.\"\n\nRugby Football League chair Simon Johnson said the governing body was grateful to the Queen for her support of the game.\n\n\"On behalf of the RFL and the whole Rugby League family, I express our deepest and most sincere condolences on the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The whole sport is in deep mourning at this extremely sad news,\" he added in a statement.\n\n\"Rugby League was honoured to have her as our patron until 2016, and throughout her long reign, Her Majesty's sense of duty and commitment, her spirit and wisdom has been an example to all of us.\n\n\"We give grateful thanks for Her Majesty's constant and positive influence on our communities over many generations.\n\n\"We send our deepest sympathy and most sincere condolences to the Royal Family including the RFL patron, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. Our clubs and players at all levels will display their respect to Her Majesty wherever rugby league is played in the coming days.\"\n\nDominic McKay, chairman of European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) - which oversees the Heineken Champions Cup and European Challenge Cup competitions - paid tribute on behalf of the organisation.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that all of us at EPCR have learned of the passing of HRH Queen Elizabeth II. We stand with our leagues, unions, clubs and beyond to honour Her Majesty and her inspirational life.\n\n\"Queen Elizabeth II was a monarch who embodied steadfastness, dignity and faithful public service and was greatly admired, respected and loved by people around the world.\"\n\nEngland Rugby said: \"On behalf of the rugby union community in England, all at the Rugby Football Union are very saddened to hear of the death of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II and offer our condolences to the whole Royal Family at this time.\"\n\nScottish Rugby said it was \"deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen and offered its condolences to the whole Royal Family\", while the Welsh Rugby Union added: \"We send the sincere and heartfelt condolences of Welsh rugby to the Royal Family after the passing of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II.\n\n\"Our Royal Patron for over 50 years graced our national stadium many times. We thank The Queen for years of service on this profoundly sad day.\"\n\nIrish Rugby added: \"The IRFU express our condolences to the Royal Family on the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our sympathies are with our friends in the Home Unions and their supporters.\"\n\nSwiss legend Roger Federer said her \"elegance, grace and loyalty to her duty will live on in history\" while another icon of the sport, Rafael Nadal, expressed his \"deepest condolences\".\n\nThe All England Club, which had the Queen as patron for 64 years, said her four visits to Wimbledon were special moments \"marked with enthusiasm and affection from spectators, players and colleagues alike\".\n\nIn 1977, in her Silver Jubilee Year, the Queen presented the women's singles trophy to Britain's Virginia Wade.\n\nLawn Tennis Association chief executive Scott Lloyd said in a statement: \"Her Majesty dedicated her life to public service throughout her 70-year reign. She was universally admired and respected throughout the country and supported many charities and organisations unstintingly.\n\n\"She graciously gave up her time to open our own National Tennis Centre at Roehampton and meet our British players in 2007. Her loss will be felt across the country and throughout the Commonwealth.\n\n\"Our sport joins the rest of the country in sending our sincere condolences to the Royal Family.\"\n\nFour-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah led the tributes from athletics, writing: \"The Queen was loved all over the world and meant so much to so many.\n\n\"Meeting her was one of the greatest honours of my life. We will remember her for her warmth and dedication to the British people throughout her reign.\"\n\nFormer Olympic and world 100m champion Linford Christie said \"Thank you for always showing me kindness\", while current British sprinter Adam Gemili added \"I really didn't think I'd feel this sad. Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth II. Thank you for all you did\".\n\nBritish Cycling and a number of prominent teams and riders also paid their respects, with six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy writing: \"I share the sadness and sorrow of all Britons and many others around the world in mourning the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.\"\n\nHoy, who was knighted in 2009, added: \"I had the pleasure of meeting Her Majesty on a number of occasions and always admired her tremendous dedication and absolute commitment to her role, as well as the generosity and compassion she offered to all those she met.\n\n\"Her Majesty the Queen devoted her life to our country, guiding us through so many historically significant moments with great leadership.\"\n\nBritish heavyweight boxers Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua issued brief statements on their respective social media accounts.\n\nFury posted a picture with the words \"Thoughts & prayers with my Queen tonight, may God be with you\", while Joshua wrote simply: \"Rest in peace\".", "The Queen is said to have been a very good mimic\n\nThe Queen's role in public life was tightly choreographed and she often had to keep a straight face. But in her later years, she gave us a glimpse of her sense of humour.\n\nFrom sharing a marmalade sandwich with Paddington Bear to photobombing Australian hockey players, here is a look back at some of her funniest moments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From June 2022: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for Party at the Palace\n\nAs part of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, the Queen was filmed having tea with Paddington Bear, in a sketch which opened the BBC's Party at the Palace marking her 70 years on the throne.\n\nAs the celebrations were about to begin, Paddington offered her his beloved snack - a marmalade sandwich. \"I always keep one for emergencies,\" he told her, pulling one out from under his famous red hat.\n\n\"So do I,\" replied the Queen, opening up her signature black handbag and taking out her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs part of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Queen made a dramatic entrance with the help of another British icon - James Bond.\n\nIn a skit created by director Danny Boyle, the Queen received a visit from 007 in Buckingham Palace, before the pair left together by helicopter. She then appeared to skydive into the Olympic Stadium to greet cheering crowds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boom: The Queen and Prince Harry responded to Barack and Michelle Obama's Invictus Games challenge\n\nIn 2016, the Queen appeared in another viral video clip - this time with her grandson Prince Harry to promote the Invictus Games.\n\nThe pair watched a video message from former US president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama, who issued Prince Harry a sporting challenge.\n\nThe Queen was unfazed. \"Oh really, please,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen insisted on cutting a cake with a ceremonial sword at an event at the Eden Project in Cornwall.\n\nThe Queen cut many cakes during her lifetime, but only once with a ceremonial sword. She tried out the more unorthodox method at a charity event in Cornwall.\n\nWhen a volunteer reminded her that a standard knife was available, the Queen was undeterred.\n\n\"I know there is,\" she retorted, continuing to clutch the sword. \"This is more unusual.\"\n\nIn 2014, two Australian hockey players were left stunned when the Queen appeared smiling in the background of their picture at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nJayde Taylor (left) posted the first image on Twitter and said: \"Ahhh The Queen photo-bombed our selfie!\", with the tweet instantly going viral.\n\nThe Queen was accompanied by her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, at thousands of official engagements.\n\nBut during a military review at Windsor Castle in 2003, a swarm of bees derailed the normal efficient-running of events. The royal couple saw the funny side, captured on camera by photographer Chris Young.\n\n\"It was a human moment,\" he told the BBC. \"She was giggling like a little girl and he was laughing too.\"", "On Friday, the nation continued to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II with flowers and tributes to the UK's longest-reigning monarch.\n\nMessages, flowers and flags were left outside Buckingham Palace, the London residence of the late Queen.\n\nPeople also paid their respects outside Windsor Castle.\n\nAs word spread of the death of the Queen on Thursday, people gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace and took pictures of the Queen's home, where the flag flew at half-mast.\n\nSome climbed up the Queen Victoria Memorial and unfurled flags.\n\nNews of the monarch's death was posted at the gates of Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen died peacefully at Balmoral Castle on Thursday afternoon and, despite the wet weather, flowers were soon left by the gates.\n\nWindsor Castle was the Queen's much-loved home. Locals here saw her as their neighbour.\n\nA minute's silence was held ahead of the Europa Conference League football match between West Ham United and FCSB at the London Stadium on Thursday night.\n\nAt another of the Queen's residences, the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, mourners also laid flowers and paid their respects. One bouquet had a simple message.\n\nA huge electronic billboard that overlooks London's Piccadilly Circus displayed an image of the Queen. Digital advertising space in High Streets and at bus stops also showed pictures of the Queen.", "Tell us your memories of the Queen.\n\nBBC News wants to hear your tributes, reflections and memories after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. We'll be including these in special commemorative coverage on our website.\n\nWhether you or your relatives remember the coronation in 1953, you met the Queen, or you held a street party earlier this summer for her Platinum Jubilee, we want you to share your special moments with us.\n\nOr you might just want to pay tribute to the UK's longest-reigning monarch.\n\nTell us what the Queen and her extraordinary 70-year reign meant to you.\n\nWhat are your memories of the Queen? Share your tributes and reflections by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "In Australia an image of the Queen is projected onto the sails of a darkened Sydney Opera House in tribute\n\nCondolences have poured in from around the world following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nA portrait of the Queen draped with black ribbon sits alongside books of condolences at Queen's Park Legislative Assembly, Ontario, Canada\n\nCrowds have gathered to mourn and leave flowers in the Queen's memory.\n\nIn Moscow a mourner pays tribute before a portrait of the Queen that has been set up at an Anglican church in the Russian capital\n\nCandles burn in memory of the Queen in Prague, Czech Republic\n\nIn Tokyo, Japan a woman pays her respects before a tribute to the Queen that appeared outside the British embassy\n\nArt students in Mumbai paint commemorative portraits marking the end of the Queen's reign\n\nThe city council in Benidorm, Spain, installed a flagpole with a union flag at half mast\n\nIn the 56 nations of the Commonwealth, national leaders broke the news and paid tribute to the Queen. President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana praised her role in overseeing \"the dramatic transformation of the Union\".\n\nNewspapers in Nairobi, Kenya, paid tribute to the Queen\n\nThe UK's longest-serving monarch died at Balmoral aged 96, following a 70-year reign.\n\nMourners remembered the Queen at a waterfront ceremony in Nice, France on the Promenade des Anglais\n\nOn the outskirts of Amritsar, in India, a paper artist holds up a model of London's Tower Bridge adorned with a special tribute\n\nEuropean energy and climate ministers observe a minute of silence in the Queen's memory before meeting in Brussels, Belgium\n\nBooks of condolence have been open around the world for dignitaries and members of the public to sign.\n\nAn entry handwritten by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in a book of condolence at the British embassy in Seoul\n\nA sculpture created by Sudarshan Pattnaik at the Bay of Bengal Sea's Puri beach, India\n\nItems left by the public outside the British embassy in Berlin, Germany", "A smiling Queen greets guests during a garden party in Coleraine, Northern Ireland in June 2007 during an one-day visit to Northern Ireland\n\nThe Queen played a part in Northern Ireland's peace process with her words and her actions.\n\nShe visited Belfast more than 20 times but it was perhaps her visit to Dublin in 2011 that was the most politically and historically significant.\n\nShe was the first British monarch to visit the city for more than 100 years.\n\nThe Queen was also the first to set foot in the Republic of Ireland since it gained independence, following the Anglo-Irish war.\n\nShe used the ground-breaking four-day trip to try to heal the wounds of the past.\n\nIrish President Mary McAleese and Queen Elizabeth II laid a wreath at Dublin's Garden of Rememberance in May 2011\n\nThis was epitomised by her address to a state banquet in Dublin when she began by speaking in Irish.\n\nThe then Irish president Mary McAleese looked stunned, and exclaimed: \"Wow\".\n\nIt was seen as a personal way of making the political point that after many years of hostility, Ireland and Britain were now friends.\n\nThe Queen also laid a wreath at the Dublin's Garden of Remembrance, which commemorates those who fought against Britain to achieve Irish independence.\n\nThe following year, the Queen shook hands with Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, a former IRA leader at an event in Belfast.\n\nQueen Elizabeth's historic four-second handshake with former IRA leader Martin McGuinness in Belfast on 27 June 2012\n\nAgain, it was seen as a bridge-building gesture.\n\nIn 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was related to the Royal family, was killed by the IRA while holidaying on the Irish coast.\n\nFor security reasons, the Queen's visits to Northern Ireland were less frequent during the violent years of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.\n\nThe then Princess Elizabeth waving as she arrived at Dungannon High School for Girls in County Tyrone in March 1946\n\nShe visited in the summer of 1977 on the Royal yacht Britannia as part of her silver jubilee celebrations, but did not return until June 1991.\n\nHer first visit to Northern Ireland was back in 1945, one of three visits before she became Queen.\n\nIn July 1953, she made her first visit as monarch. When she stayed overnight at Hillsborough Castle, local Orangemen arrived playing Lambeg drums to mark her coronation.\n\nIn total, she made 25 visits to Northern Ireland, the majority of them coming in the 1990s and 2000s after the peace process took hold.\n\nJohn Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough (L), Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip listen to drummers in July 1953 during an official visit to Northern Ireland\n\nFollowing the Good Friday Agreement, she visited the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont in 2002.\n\nIn an address, she said: \"Over the last half century I have always enjoyed my visits to Northern Ireland. Even in the most troubled of times I have been heartened by the warmth and good humour of the people I have met.\"\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrive to attend a State Banquet in Dublin Castle in May 2011 in Dublin, Ireland\n\nTen years later, she returned to Stormont, and was driven through the estate in an open-topped vehicle. An estimated 20,000 people gathered to see her and the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nIn 2014, she visited Belfast's largest indoor market, St George's, and was shown around by the then chief executive of Belfast City Council, Suzanne Wylie.\n\nSecurity staff had a momentary scare when a teenager suddenly emerged from the crowd in front of the Queen, but it was merely to take a \"selfie\" photograph with the monarch.\n\nThe Royal couple chat to stall holder Simon Matthews during a visit to St George's market in Belfast in June 2014 in Belfast\n\nDuring her many speeches and statements about Northern Ireland, she always chose her words carefully.\n\nIn remarks issued to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland in May 2021, she said: \"The continued peace is a credit to its people, upon whose shoulders the future rests.\"\n\nShe was supposed to attend a church service in Armagh in October 2021 to mark the centenary but was unable to attend for medical reasons.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "King Charles III thanked his late mother Queen Elizabeth II as she begins her last journey to be with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away in April 2021.\n\nHis Majesty went on to say \"may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest\" in his emotional message.", "Newspapers across the country ran historic front pages to commemorate the Queen\n\nThe UK's newspapers have published their first editions since the Queen's death. Here are their historic front pages.\n\nThe Times, the Guardian, the i, and the Daily Star all mark the moment with the same colourised portrait from the Queen's coronation in 1953.\n\nThe Guardian lets the striking picture of the newly-crowned monarch stand alone - other than her name and dates of her reign - while the Times adds the words: \"A life in service.\"\n\nThe Times' back cover carries a quotation from the Queen's Christmas broadcast in 1957, the first to be televised: \"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else: I can give you my heart and my devotion to all these old islands, and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nIn its lead story, reporter Valentine Low says \"history will deliver its verdict in the fullness of time but it is hard to conceive of her being remembered as anything other than one of the greatest monarchs in our history\".\n\nElsewhere, Low recalls how the Queen - \"with a twinkle in her eye\" - once advised a local dignitary \"during some tour or other\" not to talk to the Times' royal correspondent: he was from the Times, she said, and would only put him in the paper.\n\nThe Sun reminds readers just how different the world was 70 years ago - it was just seven years after World War Two, Britain still had an empire, and the Beatles were five years away from even meeting, it says.\n\nIts front page carries a black and white portrait of the Queen in her later years with a still, gentle smile. \"We loved you ma'am,\" the caption reads.\n\nThe Daily Express strips the colour from its front page and declares: \"Our beloved Queen is dead\".\n\nIts editorial says while some question the institution of the monarchy, almost everyone could admire how she \"harnessed the grandeur of the Crown to elevate the country's unsung heroes\".\n\nThe Guardian points out that her reign saw some of the greatest changes in industrial, economic, technical and social development of any era. It says, therefore, that it is difficult to see her name being bestowed, as Queen Victoria's was to the Victorians, as the \"defining symbol of an age\".\n\n\"Instead she played, largely impeccably, the part of a modern constitutional monarch, a symbolic figurehead with a right to be consulted and to advise and warn political leaders privately,\" it says.\n\nThe Daily Star recasts its red masthead in black and says in its frank editorial: \"You may have noticed that we are traditionally not a royalist newspaper and there are plenty in the family we're not so fond of. But you couldn't help admire how the Queen did her duty, got on with her job and never complained.\"\n\nThe Daily Mirror decides against a headline, instead simply saying: \"Thank you\". The paper's Paul Routledge remembers the joy of the Queen's coronation in 1953, with bunting strung across the houses and food that had just stopped being rationed.\n\n\"We didn't see it on the telly, even though this was the first time it had been televised,\" he says - no one in his street had a TV yet.\n\nThe Financial Times abandons business news for its front page, dedicating it almost entirely to a beaming Queen. It describes her death as a \"watershed moment in the life of the nation\".\n\n\"Our hearts are broken,\" the Daily Mail says. It chooses a photograph of then-Princess Elizabeth, taken in 1952, looking straight into the camera with a determined gaze.\n\nRecounting the moments before her death was announced, the paper says the mood on-screen on the BBC was \"as solemn as a Bible\".\n\n\"Auntie was slipping into full fig funeral mode,\" the paper's Jan Moir writes.\n\n\"He [Huw Edwards] was speaking very, very slowly, but with exactly the layer of gravelly Welsh gravitas the occasion demanded. And then, in the most simple and perfectly judged moment after he relayed the sad details, the National Anthem was played as an official portrait of the young Queen filled the screen.\"", "The device was the biggest bomb to explode in mainland UK since World War Two\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the 1996 Manchester IRA bombing, police have said.\n\nWhile no-one was killed in the blast, about 250 people were injured in what was described as the UK mainland's largest bomb since World War Two.\n\nThe suspect was held at Birmingham Airport on Thursday night on suspicion of terrorism offences, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged over the attack on 15 June 1996.\n\nMany were injured by flying glass and debris\n\nThousands of shoppers and football fans had gathered in the city centre ahead of a Euro 96 match later that day between England and Scotland at Wembley Stadium in London.\n\nThe area was evacuated after police were alerted to a telephoned bomb threat.\n\nThe device detonated soon after in a lorry parked on Corporation Street, near the Arndale shopping centre, leading to a mushroom cloud rising over the city's skyline.\n\nAnother Euro 96 match was still held at nearby Old Trafford the following day despite the attack.\n\nMuch of central Manchester has been transformed in the years that have followed the bomb.\n\nThe bomb devastated much of the city centre\n\nA recent review of evidence produced \"new, albeit limited, investigative opportunities\", police said on the attack's 25th anniversary last summer.\n\nGMP said it was \"determined to hold those responsible for this attack to account regardless of the time passed\".\n\nThe suspect, who is in police custody, will be interviewed by officers from Counter Terrorism Policing for the North West (CTPNW).\n\nHead of investigations Det Supt Andrew Meeks said officers had been \"reinvestigating for several years\".\n\n\"Although thankfully no-one was killed during the 1996 Manchester bombing by the IRA, hundreds of people were left with injuries - many of which were life changing.\n\n\"Many more across Greater Manchester and the North West were affected by what happened on that day.\"\n\nCCTV cameras captured the lorry before the explosion\n\nDet Supt Meeks said police had \"always been committed to holding those responsible for the attack to account\".\n\nHe said there was \"a team of dedicated detectives re-examining the original case files and pursuing new lines of inquiry\".\n\nDet Supt Meeks added that officers were trying to update survivors with recent developments.\n\n\"Given the passage of time, and the number of people who were affected or injured by this atrocity, we sadly don't have the contact details for everyone so would encourage anyone who was affected that we haven't been able to reach to access the Major Incident Portal.\"\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.", "Mourners have assembled outside Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who has died aged 96.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "Molly McKibben testing the water in Poland before the World Championships begin\n\nThe paddleboard explosion has been hard to miss.\n\nDuring the summer months especially, no self-respecting beach in the UK would be complete without people pumping up their inflatable boards on the sand.\n\nIt is officially \"a thing\" but for one young teenager from Northern Ireland, it has become much more than that.\n\nMolly McKibben is in Poland for the Stand Up Paddling (SUP) World Championships which get under way on Thursday.\n\nThe 17-year-old Bangor girl is the first person from Northern Ireland to take part in the competition, and she is the only junior on the GB team.\n\nMolly is still involved in taekwondo but her focus is on paddleboarding for now\n\nLike many people, Molly first got into paddleboarding during lockdown.\n\nThe Glenlola Collegiate pupil said going from lots of sport to no sport was a big thing for her.\n\n\"I had been playing hockey for school and it stopped. Taekwondo is a contact sport so it stopped.\n\n\"Paddleboarding was something you could do in lockdown as it is in the open and you could do social distancing.\n\n\"It came at the right time and I instantly loved it. It got me through lockdown.\n\n\"Sport was my get away from school work. I have being doing sport from such a young age - I have been doing taekwondo from the age of five.\"\n\nMolly is no stranger to sport on the world stage - in 2019, she competed in the WITF Taekwondo championships and won her category.\n\nOver the next few days, she will be facing the best paddlers in the world in her age group, with every continent represented.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has its own Molly - Caoimhe Byrne is also blazing a trail in Poland.\n\nMolly travelled to the Baltic Sea resort of Gdynia a few days before the competition to get the lay of the sea.\n\nIt has also given her the opportunity to meet some of the SUP heroes she follows on social media.\n\n\"Seeing all the professional athletes in person is pretty awesome,\" she said.\n\n\"They are competing for their country but they are willing to stop and chat and are full of advice.\"\n\nAmerican Fiona Wylde is a star of the SUP world\n\nShe was particularly delighted to meet the current world champion, the American Fiona Wylde.\n\nThey had a lot to talk about - they share a love of the sport and they both have Type 1 diabetes.\n\nMolly was diagnosed with the serious condition - in which a person's blood sugar level gets too high because they cannot make the hormone insulin - four years ago.\n\n\"It's been a wild journey - the transition from not having a medical condition to having something you are having to control every day,\" she said.\n\n\"Once you get an understanding of diabetes, sport is a big help. When young people get the diagnosis, they think: 'This is it, I'm going nowhere.'\n\n\"I want to make people aware that Type 1 diabetes is not going to stop you from doing what you want.\"\n\nMolly will also compete at an event in London next week\n\nHer mum Claire, who is in Poland with Molly as chief kit carrier and cheerleader, says the diagnosis came as a shock.\n\n\"There's still a lot of misconceptions about diabetes,\" says Ms McKibben.\n\n\"It's completely random, can happen to anybody and the fact Molly continues on with her life and does so much with it, she's a good role model for younger people who maybe wonder how this is going to affect their ability to do the sports they enjoy.\"\n\nMs McKibben said paddleboarding lifted Molly up at a time when \"there was really very little else\", but she never imagined it would lead her to this point.\n\n\"I had no idea there was anything other than just paddleboarding for a little bit of fun,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know there was racing involved.\"\n\nMolly McKibben and Iain McCarthy have been familiarising themselves with conditions in Gdynia ahead of their races\n\nIain McCarthy is the founder of Molly's hometown club SUP Hub NI and he is also competing in the championships.\n\nHe said that prior to Covid, paddleboarding was already the world's fastest growing water sport.\n\n\"Covid has just put that on rocket fuel,\" said English-born Mr McCarthy. \"What we are seeing now is a wide catch.\n\n\"There's the recreational side, the mental health benefit side, the physical side and then there is the sport itself and that element is not going to be for everyone.\n\n\"But it is something that people can do as an alternative to whatever else they might do, or supplementary to whatever sport they might play.\"\n\nMr McCarthy said it was evolving as a sport with professional athletes crossing over into SUP from other disciplines and the holy grail for the entire community was for paddleboarding to be made an Olympic sport like surfing and kayaking.\n\nHe said he spotted Molly's talent a mile off and she has had to train hard to compete at this level.\n\n\"We have backed her to do this because it's important for people in our local community to have this experience, to talk about these types of events, to see what they are up against, meet other paddlers from around the world, get hints and tips,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognise we are not the greatest in the world, but exposure to this community is only going to help us grow and develop the community back home.\"", "King Charles III has arrived at Buckingham Palace with the Queen Consort and was met by huge crowds wishing to pay their respects.\n\nThe King shook hands with mourners and looked at floral tributes before entering Buckingham Palace for the first time as King.\n\nAlso, on the walkabout a well-wisher was so moved she leant forward and kissed the King on his cheek.", "After 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II had become an intrinsic part of our everyday lives. We're accustomed to seeing her portrait, profile and coat of arms on letters, in our loose change and on cereal boxes - so what will be different now?\n\nAll 29 billion coins in circulation in the UK have the Queen's head on them. The most recent design dates from 2015, when she was 88 years old. It was the fifth coin portrait created during her reign.\n\nThe Royal Mint won't say how or when it will start issuing coins with King Charles III's head on them, but it's likely that the Queen's coins will remain in circulation for many years, and that the process to replace them will be a gradual one.\n\nBefore all British coins were updated for decimalisation in 1971, it was quite normal to find multiple monarchs on your change.\n\nWhile we don't know what the King's coin portrait will look like, a coin issued in 2018 by the Royal Mint to commemorate his 70th birthday gave us a hint. And one thing that seems certain is that he will be shown facing the other way - to the left. Tradition dictates that the direction in which the monarch faces on coins must alternate for each new monarch.\n\nOnce signed off by the government, new designs will be manufactured at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, south Wales.\n\nThe first banknote to carry a portrait of the Queen was the one pound note in 1960\n\nThe Queen has appeared on all Bank of England notes since 1960 (notes issued by Scottish and Northern Irish banks do not depict the monarch). There are about 4.5 billion individual Bank of England notes worth about £80bn in circulation at the moment and, as with coins, these will be gradually phased out.\n\nAll notes and coins will remain legal tender. The Bank of England will give lots of notice if that is to change.\n\nSince 1967, all stamps issued by the Royal Mail have featured an embossed silhouette of the side profile of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nRoyal Mail will now stop producing Queen Elizabeth II stamps - although they can still be used on letters and parcels - and will begin the process to create new ones.\n\nSix new stamps to honour Prince Charles on his 70th birthday were released in 2018\n\nThe new King has featured on stamps before, but Royal Mail won't yet say what the new designs with him will look like.\n\nAs well as putting the monarch on stamps, the Royal Mail puts royal cyphers on many postboxes.\n\nMore than 60% of the UK's 115,000 postboxes carry the EIIR mark of Queen Elizabeth II - E for Elizabeth and R for Regina, which means queen. In Scotland, they feature the Scottish crown.\n\nOutside Scotland, any new postboxes will now feature the King's cypher - but as the number of new boxes installed is quite low, it could be some time before you spot one of these.\n\nFrom tomato ketchup to packets of cereal to perfume, chances are you will have seen the Royal Arms alongside the words, \"By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen\" on some of your groceries or other items in your home. These are products which have been granted a Royal Warrant, meaning that the company who makes them supplies the Royal Households on a regular basis.\n\nFor the last century or so the monarch, their consort and heir have each issued their own Royal Warrants - making them grantors - and there are currently about 900 Royal Warrants held by 800 companies.\n\nWhen a grantor dies, any Royal Warrants they issued become void and the company has two years to stop using the Royal Arms. (Exceptionally, warrants issued by the Queen Mother stood for five years after her death.)\n\nThe warrants Charles has issued as Prince of Wales will continue now that he is King because they go with the household, not the title.\n\nThere is an expectation that the new King will now grant his son and heir, Prince William, the ability to issue his own warrants.\n\nBut it's not just money, stamps and warrants that need updating.\n\nAll British passports are issued in the name of Her Majesty and are still valid for travel, but for new passports, the wording on the inside of the front cover will be updated to His Majesty.\n\nSome police forces in England and Wales that still feature the royal cypher of Queen Elizabeth II in the centre of their helmet plates will have to make changes. Barristers and solicitors who have been appointed by the monarch to be Queen's Counsel will now be known as King's Counsel with immediate effect.\n\nAnd finally, the national anthem will have its words changed from \"God Save the Queen\".\n\nAfter Charles is officially proclaimed King in a formal ceremony, a public announcement will be made from the balcony at St James's Palace, including the call: \"God Save the King\".\n\nThe national anthem will then be played.", "Her reign saw the world change dramatically but she remained a constant presence in the lives of the people of the UK and Commonwealth.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles III was greeted by thousands of people as he arrived at Buckingham Palace for the first time as monarch.\n\nThe crowds had waited in anticipation for the new King who was travelling back from Balmoral.\n\nOn his arrival, he shook hands with those who had gathered to see him and he was even kissed by several people.\n\nAt about 14:00 BST a hush had fallen across the Mall by the Victoria Memorial.\n\nMembers of the King's footguards assembled in formation in the palace forecourt and the sound of orders could be heard echoing across the grounds.\n\nA low hum of rumour spread throughout the crowd, discussing his imminent arrival, before the sounds of cheers could be heard in the distance.\n\nThe royal car crept into view behind the black and gold palace gates before a sea of phones suddenly leapt up, fighting to get a glimpse - and photo - of the new King.\n\nAppearing in front of hundreds of floral tributes, King Charles walked the length of the gate, meeting people and shaking hands with those eager to meet the monarch.\n\nCries of \"Long live the King\" rang out across the park as he entered Buckingham Palace for the first time as King Charles III.\n\nFor some, his arrival after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II was a touching moment.\n\n\"It's quite emotional, I noticed the flag wasn't at half mast anymore, but you know good luck to the King,\" said Katie Boyd, a Londoner. \"The Queen, she's at peace with Philip now\" - referring to the Queen's late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\n\"It's quite emotional,\" says Katie Boyd\n\nFor others the moment brought memories of events in their own lives.\n\n\"You know what, my mother recently died and she was a big royalist,\" said Zack Jones, 39, from Eltham.\n\n\"I just know how it feels to lose a parent and we wanted to pay our respects,\" he said. \"The fact he's mourning but he's coming here and doing his job... I don't know how he's feeling, especially at his age as well.\"\n\nZack Jones says he knew how hard it was a to lose a parent\n\nPeople of all ages were outside the palace waiting for a glimpse of the new King", "Tributes to Queen Elizabeth II's dignity and sense of duty feature in much of the reporting of her death around the world on Friday.\n\nThe length of her reign made her \"the one constant in an inconstant world\", The New York Times said.\n\nIn Canada - where Queen Elizabeth was head of state - one analyst says she was a \"perfect and unobtrusive sovereign\".\n\nShe \"abided stoically with whatever way the country wanted to deploy her\", the commentator adds in the Globe and Mail.\n\nIn Australia, another Commonwealth country, one self-avowed republican describes meeting with the Queen.\n\nWriting in the Sydney Morning Herald, she expressed surprise \"to feel true grief about the death of someone you do not know\".\n\nIn Russia, primetime TV bulletins hailed Queen Elizabeth's \"exemplary and impeccable\" life and reign, stressing her longevity.\n\nThe personification of \"ideal Britain\" is how this channel described the Queen\n\nChina's state broadcaster CGTN described her death as a \"significant loss for a world desperately trying to cling onto the qualities she embodied\".\n\nThe channel highlighted the Queen's support for improving ties between China and the UK.\n\nIn Japan, the Mainichi newspaper also paid tribute to the Queen's diplomatic achievements.\n\nFrance's Le Monde stressed her role in easing Britain's transition from Empire to Commonwealth.\n\nShe helped keep a group of independent states historically and economically linked to London, the daily argues.\n\nMany reports pay homage to a monarch who was an indefatigable traveller. India's Republic TV fondly recalled royal visits to the Commonwealth's largest nation.\n\nSingapore's main English language daily looks back on a visit in 1989 when she met then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.\n\nIn the Bahamas, The Tribune recalls that pupils in every state school sang God Save the Queen before the Caribbean archipelago became independent in 1973.\n\nIn Antigua and Barbuda, another Commonwealth island nation, the newspaper remembers the Queen's kind words during her last visit in 2016.\n\nBut not every newspaper is impressed by Queen Elizabeth's globe-trotting record.\n\nHaaretz in Israel notes that the country was not among the many Her Majesty graced with her presence during her long reign.\n\nNo such ambivalence in Saudi Arabia's Arab News. The Queen, the paper says, held true to the tradition of the \"public service monarchy\".\n\n\"It meant touring the country and the world, meeting people with power and those without it, always being prepared to engage with anyone, to talk with animation, or to know when not to talk,\" the comment adds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some of the UK's biggest strikes have been called off after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nUnions representing Royal Mail postal workers and rail staff said that \"out of respect for her service to the country and her family\" they had chosen to cancel immediate strike action.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.\n\nSome shops have announced temporary closures as a mark of respect.\n\nThe planned strike action by postal workers on Friday 9 September and RMT rail worker walkouts on 15 and 17 September has been suspended.\n\nThe train drivers' union Aslef has also postponed a strike planned for 15 September.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said train timetables would be normal now that strikes were not going ahead.\n\nA spokesperson from the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said it welcomed the decision by the RMT to call off next week's strike action at a time of \"national mourning\".\n\n\"The whole railway family is united in sending our condolences to the Royal Family,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nNetwork Rail has confirmed that train services will run as normal next week.\n\nIt will also look at any scheduled weekend engineering works that fall within the \"laying in state period\" and scale it back. Works might be postponed if they prevent people from travelling to London to pay their respects.\n\nThe RMT union intends to reschedule the strikes, but has not yet decided when. It would need to give two weeks' notice of any action, as would the Aslef union.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said that his union joined the \"whole nation in paying its respects\" to Queen Elizabeth.\n\n\"We express our deepest condolences to her family, friends and the country,\" he added.\n\nTrain drivers' union Aslef said: \"In light of the sad news of Queen Elizabeth II's death, Aslef is postponing its industrial action on 15 September. We express our deepest condolences to her family, friends and the country.\"\n\nThe TSSA rail union has also cancelled planned industrial action for September and said it would be \"respecting the period of public mourning\".\n\nThe Trades Unions Congress said it would postpone its annual congress until later this autumn following the death of the Queen.\n\nA spokesman said it was \"as a mark of respect\" and recognised \"her many years of dedicated service to the country\".\n\nStaff in the CWU, which represents postal workers, had been on strike on Thursday. But the union cancelled Friday's planned walkout after the Queen's death was announced.\n\nCWU general secretary Dave Ward said the action had been cancelled, \"following the very sad news of the passing of the Queen, and out of respect for her service to the country and her family\".\n\nWorkers across a range of industries including BT call centre staff, Openreach engineers, railway workers and barristers have walked out in recent weeks in pay disputes as wages fail to keep up with soaring prices.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association said that planned barristers' demonstrations next week had been cancelled \"out of respect\".\n\nBut it added that there had been \"no movement\" from the government so industrial action would continue.\n\nShops such as Selfridge's, which was granted a royal warrant in 2001, closed early on Thursday and it said it would remain shut on Friday before reopening this weekend. Toy store chain The Entertainer will also be closed on Friday and offered its \"sincere condolences\" to the Royal Family.\n\nBetting shops Betfred and William Hill have said they will close on Friday.\n\nTourist attraction Legoland Windsor is also closed on Friday. The theme park said those who were due to visit would receive an email about their booking.", "Prince William and his wife Catherine have been named the new Prince and Princess of Wales by King Charles III.\n\n\"Today, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru,\" said the King, who previously held the title.\n\nThe King made the comments in his first address to the nation following the death of the Queen, aged 96.\n\n\"With Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations,\" he said.\n\nHe added that they would help \"bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given\".\n\nThe pair will also take the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall titles, previously held by the King and Camilla, the new Queen Consort.\n\nThe King added that the Prince of Wales title was one he had \"been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty\".\n\nFollowing in the footsteps of Princess Diana, who died 25 years ago, Princess Catherine is said to \"appreciate the history\", but will \"want to look to the future as she creates her own path\", a source said.\n\nShe has become the first since Princess Diana to use the well-known title, one that was also previously Camilla's but which she never used.\n\nCatherine described Diana as \"an inspirational woman to look up to\" following her engagement to Prince William in 2010.\n\nPrincess Diana's title changed after her divorce from King Charles, and she became Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nIn 2010 Prince William spoke of how no-one was trying to fill his mother's shoes, and said Catherine would make her own destiny.\n\n\"There's no pressure because like Kate said it is about carving your own future. No-one is trying to fill my mother's shoes. What she did is fantastic.\n\n\"It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.\"\n\nReacting to the news Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"King Charles III has enjoyed a long and enduring friendship with Wales.\n\n\"Today, in his first public duty as monarch, he has bestowed the title of Prince of Wales to his eldest son William.\n\n\"We look forward to deepening our relationship with the new Prince and Princess.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said: \"A profound, moving address by His Majesty, King Charles III.\n\n\"We join him in thanks to Her Late Majesty. And we welcome the new Prince and Princess of Wales. God Save the King.\"\n\nKing Charles was crowned Prince of Wales in front of huge crowds at at Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, in 1969\n\nThe King was only 20 years old when he was crowned Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, in 1969.\n\nThe investiture was watched by a TV audience of millions around the world - however it is a title that has divided opinion in Wales.\n\nAn opinion poll of 1,020 people in June 2022, conducted by ITV and YouGov, suggested that 46% of people thought there should be another Prince of Wales, while 31% did not.\n\nFollowing the announcement Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"There will be time, in due course, for a public debate surrounding the title of the Prince of Wales.\n\n\"It is Plaid Cymru's long-held view that it should be the people's democratic right to have a final say on this matter in an independent Wales.\n\n\"For now, Plaid Cymru's thoughts are with the Royal Family as they grieve.\"\n\nWales' first minister said he \"looks forward\" to his relationship with the new Prince and Princess of Wales\n\nLeanne Wood, former leader of Plaid Cymru, said: \"Wales has no need for a prince\".\n\nOn Thursday evening former Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas told Newyddion S4C that it did not \"make any sense to a devolved democratic country like Wales to have a prince these days\".\n\nHe said: \"The prince of Wales... there's no constitutional role at all, there's no meaning to it in the constitution.\n\n\"And I think, although it won't happen this time, I think the title will disappear because it doesn't make any sense to a devolved democratic country like Wales to have a prince these days.\"\n\nHe added there needed to be a \"discussion in Wales about what should happen to the title Prince of Wales, and what use there is of the title.\"", "This is the moment history stops; for a minute, an hour, for a day or a week; this is the moment history stops.\n\nAcross a life and reign, two moments from two very different eras illuminate the thread that bound the many decades together. At each a chair, a desk, a microphone, a speech. In each, that high-pitched voice, those clipped precise vowels, that slight hesitation about public speaking that would never quite seem to leave her.\n\nOne moment is sun-dappled, though the British people were suffering through a terrible post-war winter. A young woman, barely more than a girl really, sits straight-backed, her dark hair pulled up, two strings of pearls around her neck. Her youthful skin is flawless, she is very beautiful. A life opens out ahead of her.\n\nShe pledges that life to her audience around the world. She tells them: \"I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone.\" And she asks for their company in the years to come.\n\nTwo moments from two eras - the Queen makes a broadcast on her 21st birthday, top, and on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe\n\nThe other speech is more formal. More than seven decades later, on the 75th anniversary of the day the war in Europe ended, she sits behind a desk, a picture of her father, the late King, in uniform, to her right.\n\nHer hair - still pulled up - is white now. She wears a blue dress, two brooches, three strings of pearls. The many decades have left their mark, but her eyes still sparkle and her voice is still clear. The desk is practically empty but for the photo and to the right, in the foreground, a dark khaki cap, with a badge on its front.\n\n\"All had a part to play,\" she says of a long-ago war.\n\nThe cap belonged to Second Subaltern Windsor, of the Auxiliary Territorial Service; the young Princess Elizabeth nagged her adoring father to allow her to join, so she could serve in uniform, even as the war that defined her - and for many decades her nation - drew to an end. Now, 75 years on, the cap has pride of place as she speaks to the nation on the anniversary of a great and heroic victory.\n\nService to the UK military - inspecting Grenadier Guards in 1952, and RAF crews in 1957\n\nThe cap is a simple reminder of what she admired most - service: the service she offered that golden day decades beforehand, the service she saw in her formative years as nation, Commonwealth and Empire gave life and limb so that others could be free; the service that she believed lay at the heart of the Crown she inherited and devoted her long life to.\n\nThree decades on from that vow of service, she would allow herself a rare moment of public introspection; \"Although that vow was made 'in my salad days when I was green in judgement',\" she told the Guildhall on her Silver Jubilee, \"I do not regret or retract one word of it.\"\n\nOver the decades she spoke little, and revealed even less, about herself in public. She - a child of the broadcast age - never gave an interview. Once or twice she would be filmed \"in conversation\" with a trusted friend, talking amicably about something uncontroversial, like the royal jewellery collection.\n\nHer words would be scoured for a hint of controversy or an opening into her character. But she was too careful - and her friends too loyal - for anything important to slip out.\n\nShe did not neglect the medium that came of age as she did. It was her decision to allow her coronation to be televised, her decision to televise the Christmas Broadcast, her decision to speak live to the nation after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. \"I have to be seen to be believed,\" she would say.\n\nService to the nation - being crowned in 1953, and with then Prime Minister Edward Heath at a concert in 1973\n\nBroadcast and newspaper coverage, the endless pictures of her in well-chosen gowns and dresses - these were part of what it was to be Queen, part of the job she had pledged her life to. Talking about her feelings publicly was not.\n\nAnd she came from a generation - and from a nation - that did not feel the need to share its feelings. The nation would change. She would not.\n\nHere fate and character would collide. It was her fate to take the Crown as the country moved into far-reaching change. But the Queen was open about her liking for tradition, for the ways things had always been done, and her dislike of change.\n\nHer heart was in the countryside, and there, with horses and dogs and amongst those who loved animals as she did, was the reassurance of a place that changed incrementally, if at all.\n\n\"I find that one of the sad things,\" she would say in the late 1980s, is \"that people don't take on jobs for life, they try different things the whole time.\"\n\nMonarch and monarchy fitted hand-in-glove; a sovereign who relished tradition leading an institution established upon it.\n\nA life-long love of the countryside - in Windsor Great Park with Prince Charles and Princess Anne in 1956, and with Prince Philip at a farm on the Balmoral Estate in Scotland in 1972\n\nBeyond the palace gates, a whirlwind of change would transform Britain. She came to the throne at a tipping point in British history. Victorious in - but exhausted by - war, the country was no longer a global, military or economic power.\n\nThe rise of trade unions, the collective provision of services and the creation of a universal welfare state signalled a sea-change in the organisation of state and economy. The stately withdrawal from Empire became a hurried exit.\n\nAs her reign progressed, the old order - Church and aristocracy, the gradations of class and knowing your place - crumbled. Financial success and celebrity overtook accident of birth as a measure of societal achievement.\n\nConsumer goods - fridges, washing machines, televisions and vacuum cleaners - transformed homes and social lives. Women joined the workforce; old working-class communities were swept away with the slums that housed them; a society once cohesive and homogeneous became mobile, atomised and diverse, uprooted from old certainties and loyalties.\n\nThere was some change at the Palace too, especially early in the reign - the end of the debutante \"season\" would mean the daughters of the \"best\" families would no longer be presented at court, fresh faces were seen among those invited to lunch and dinner, and television meant Britons could see their Queen and how she lived - first for the Christmas broadcast, then for a full-length documentary in the late 1960s.\n\nBut this was change with a very small \"c\"; as her seventh decade on the throne drew to a close, the rhythm of the monarchy remained one which would be recognisable from the first, one which her father or even her grandfather would be unsurprised by: Christmas and New year at Sandringham, Easter at Windsor, the long summer break in Balmoral, Trooping the Colour, Royal Ascot, the Investitures, the Changing of the Guard, Remembrance Sunday.\n\nChanging times - riding the London Underground in 1969, and preparing to deliver her televised Christmas message in 1967, the first to be delivered in colour\n\nWhen change pressed in all around, she resisted. Her fate was to inherit the crown as the country stood on the cusp of change, and to reign as change swirled around the palace. Her character dictated that she would not change with it, would not bend to fashion. That resistance, that deep appreciation - love, even - of tradition, was her greatest strength, and led to perhaps her greatest test and gravest crisis, as her family unravelled.\n\nFamily always came second to the Crown. When her first two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, were little more than toddlers, they were left behind - as she and her sister Princess Margaret had been left behind by their parents two decades earlier - as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh went on a six-month world tour.\n\nShe was not an unfeeling mother, but she was a remote one. The Crown and its responsibilities had come to her when she was just 25, and she took those responsibilities very seriously. Many decisions about the children were delegated to the duke.\n\nThree of her four children's marriages would end in divorce. She believed in marriage, it was part of her Christian faith and her understanding of what knitted society together. \"Divorce and separation,\" she once said, \"are responsible for some of the darkest evils in our society today.\"\n\nNo doubt that view, held by many in the late 1940s, mellowed as the years went by. But no parent relishes seeing their child's marriage fail. The Queen's self-proclaimed \"annus horribilis\" in 1992 saw the separation of the Duke and Duchess of York, the divorce of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips and the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"A low point in her life,\" wrote one biographer, not because of what had led to the rare public admission of tough times, \"but because of the lack of gratitude, even derision, with which her 40 years of dedication appeared to have been crowned.\"\n\nHer first decade had passed in a dazzle of adulation, at home and abroad. Vast crowds turned out for her on international tours. Back home, some proclaimed a new Elizabethan Age, although the Queen was clever enough to immediately disavow it.\n\nFamily time and personal loss - with Prince Philip and their four children in 1972, and looking at fire damage to Windsor Castle in 1992\n\nThe 1960s saw a slow cooling off - the Queen was more involved with her family, the novelty of a new monarch had passed, the generation of the post-war baby boom now coming of age was gripped by different passions than their parents. The 1970s and 80s saw no let-up in her service, but the focus of some Royalty enthusiasts - and the media - shifted to her children, their marriages and their partners.\n\nBy the mid-90s, the monarchy seemed to some to be out of touch with the popular mood; in the newspaper comment columns there was direct criticism of the Queen, and contemplation of the monarchy's future. Her reign at times seemed associated with another epoch. What was her place - and the monarchy's - in the new \"Cool Britannia\" and the informal style embraced by Tony Blair? How did the Palace - repository of tradition - fit in with the popular demand for change expressed in Labour's crushing election victory?\n\nJust months after that victory, one hot August night in Paris, came the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. A broiling carpet of flowers soon stretched out in front of Kensington Palace. The flag-pole above Buckingham Palace remained bare. Many in the nation found themselves desolate at the loss of the Princess.\n\n\"Show us you care, Ma'am\" bayed the Daily Express headline. \"Where is our Queen? Where is her flag?\" demanded the Sun. For five long days, the Queen remained in Balmoral, seemingly unaware of the spasm sweeping parts of the country. Perhaps, as the Palace would brief afterwards, it was to protect and console the young Princes William and Harry.\n\nBut given her character, that deep dislike of change appears to have driven the decisions taken at the time; Balmoral was not to be interrupted, no flag ever flew from Buckingham Palace in her absence, the Royal Standard never flew at half-mast.\n\nIt was a terrible misjudgement. She hurried back to the capital, back to Buckingham Palace. She stopped to look at the flowers piling up all around. \"We were not confident,\" one former official told a biographer, \"that when the Queen got out of the car, she would not be hissed and jeered.\" It was that bad.\n\nJoy and tragedy - the Queen with Prince Charles and his then-fiancée Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, and with Prince Philip among the floral tributes following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997\n\nShe had refused to broadcast at first, then yielded, then agreed to speak live. She spoke to the nation, just before the BBC Six O'clock news. She - who had once driven broadcast executives to despair with her wooden delivery - barely had time to prepare.\n\nHer performance was flawless, her speech brief but perfectly pitched. She spoke of \"lessons to be learned\"; she spoke \"as a grandmother\"; she spoke of the \"determination to cherish\" Diana's memory.\n\nIt was a triumph, pulled from the jaws of deep crisis. The poison swirling around the Royal Family, around the Palace and around the very institution of the monarchy, was drawn. Once in her reign - just once - fate and character had collided with near-disastrous consequences.\n\nThey would combine more happily in the Queen's international role. By the time of her death, she had not toured for many years. But for decades she was not only a global celebrity like no other, but also a subtle instrument of influence.\n\nNothing would compare to the first dazzling decade of her reign, before television made her image commonplace and her tours accessible from the living room. On her long 1954 tour of Australia, two-thirds of the country is thought to have turned out to see her; in 1961 two million people lined the road from the airport to the Indian capital Delhi; in Calcutta three-and-half million would stand and wait to see the daughter of the last Emperor.\n\nFate would dictate that she would oversee the long twilight of Empire, though not once did the Queen attend a flag-lowering ceremony. Many times in the 1950s and 60s, a member of the Royal Family would stand as the Union flag came down over a former colony, the national anthem playing one last time.\n\nA determination that something should emerge from the imperial family which she had pledged to serve, would mean that she would build a new association on the ashes of Britain's imperial legacy.\n\nIn palaces and houses dotted across the capital and the country, lived her blood family. Across the world was spread her territorial family - a group of wildly diverse nations, vast and tiny, rich and impoverished, republics and monarchies - that she charmed and cajoled and nudged to remember what bound them together, and what together they might achieve.\n\nInternational tours were taken on behalf of the government of the day; they were tools of foreign policy - if not explicitly, then on the understanding that the Queen's influence would be beneficial to the relationships between Britain and the places she visited.\n\nIt looked glamorous - the Royal Yacht, the Queen's Flight, banquets and galas - and before international air travel became commonplace, it was an extraordinary experience. But it was always hard work, long days and weeks of receptions, exhibitions, openings, lunches with officials, state dinners and speeches given and listened to patiently. Those who have observed a royal tour find it hard to imagine it is any fun for those at the heart of it.\n\nA global role - with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in at the waterfall where the Nile begins, in 1965, and greeted coming off the royal yacht Britannia by the Emir of Bahrain in 1979\n\nShe would rarely take a holiday outside the UK - travelling abroad meant work. Her foreign travel would mark the step-changes in Britain's relationship with the places she visited: post-war Germany in 1965; a liberalising China in 1986; Russia in 1994, once the regime that had murdered her relatives had been swept away.\n\nA trip to post-apartheid South Africa in 1995 she would call: \"One of the most outstanding experiences of my life\". President Nelson Mandela replied: \"One of the most unforgettable moments in our history.\"\n\nAnd no visit marked and sealed a changed relationship more than her trip to Ireland in 2011. Not for a century had a British monarch been to the south. When her grandfather had visited in 1911 the island of Ireland was one, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Violent revolt, partition and independence would follow.\n\nAfter World War Two came acts of violence against the existence of the partition border and then, for 30 terrible years, a brutal terrorist campaign in Northern Ireland and Britain against British rule, with harsh acts of repression by the British government which polarised opinion in the Republic.\n\nThere was never a right time for a royal visit, because of the distrust across the narrow stretch of water which separates Britain and Ireland. With the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and the establishment of a power-sharing assembly, came the end of Ireland's constitutional claim to the six counties that make up Northern Ireland.\n\nOn her state visit, extended by the Queen's wish, there was no escaping history. In the Garden of Remembrance, in the centre of Georgian Dublin, where all who fought for Ireland's independence are remembered and honoured, she laid a wreath and, unscripted and spontaneous, bowed her head to the men and women who had fought against British rule, an electrifying moment.\n\nAt dinner she would open her speech in the Irish language, winning nearly every Irish heart. In that speech she spoke the language, if not the words, of apology; \"With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can all see things which we wish had been done differently, or not at all.\"\n\nBefore the Ireland state visit one biographer would write that \"it was difficult to point to major achievements\" in her reign. That judgement would not hold afterwards. The four days of pitch-perfect words and actions helped sweep away centuries of ill-will and distrust. Perhaps no greater single service did the Queen give her Crown, or her country.\n\nIreland had haunted so many of her prime ministers. Her first, Winston Churchill, had spoken of the \"dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone\" rising again after World War One to bedevil British politics. One of her last, Boris Johnson, would grapple with the implications of the border within the island, and how to square that with the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nAll had the benefit of her ear, her experience, her perspective on British and world history. Her job in the weekly audiences she shared with the prime minister of the day was not to lobby for any individual cause, or to try to sway a government one way or another. She was there to advise, to encourage and to warn.\n\nAnd she was there to listen. All her prime ministers could be entirely confident that nothing they told her would escape. So she was the one person to whom they could freely talk who truly understood the machinery of state. For so many prime ministers, so often embattled, this was also a relief, an escape from watching their back and holding their tongue when around colleagues and rivals.\n\n\"They unburden themselves to me or tell me what's going on,\" she would say mid-reign. \"If they've got any problems, sometimes one can help in that way too. I think it's…as if one's sort of a sponge.\"\n\nHere she was too self-deprecating. Almost nothing broke the confessional silence around those audiences, apart from praise for the extraordinary effort the Queen put into her work. The red boxes containing state papers - in Whitehall she was known as Reader No. 1 - went everywhere with her, to Balmoral, on tour, on the royal train, even winched aboard the Royal Yacht.\n\nFor three hours a day, her private secretary estimated in the early 1970s, she read Foreign Office telegrams, reports of parliamentary proceedings, ministerial memoranda and cabinet minutes.\n\nAnd she remembered what she read, sometimes catching her prime ministers out with her grasp and her recall. \"I was astonished,\" wrote Harold Macmillan \"at Her Majesty's grasp of all the details sent in messages and telegrams.\"\n\nPolitically neutral, diplomatically useful - alongside former and current prime ministers in 1985, and with then US President Ronald Reagan in 1983\n\nThe Crown's political role had dwindled to almost nothing by the time she came to the throne. Two areas of discretion - where she as monarch had a say - survived: who to call to become prime minister and form a government, and when Parliament could be dissolved.\n\nEarly in her reign, before the Conservatives started electing their leaders, she exercised her judgement, amid some controversy, as to who she would call to form a government when a Conservative prime minister resigned between general elections.\n\nBut once the Conservatives started electing their leaders, that judgement was no longer called for. And over the decades, the very idea of the Palace becoming involved in such a decision became alien to British politics. The talk around closely fought elections was of \"protecting\" the Palace from having to make political decisions over who to call to form a government if there were no decisive winner.\n\nThe Queen never had reason to deny a dissolution of Parliament, and it would have been an extraordinary act to do so. She well understood the tightly circumscribed role she had inherited.\n\nAnd the Crown's political voice was almost silent too. Much - too much, really - has been read into what one biographer calls the \"truism\" that she got on better with Labour leaders than their Conservative counterparts. For all the social difficulties there may have been with Margaret Thatcher, the Queen would attend her funeral, an honour bestowed on a prime minister only once before - Winston Churchill.\n\nHer personal political belief may well have leaned towards the centre; she came of age at the creation of that peacetime monument to wartime struggle, the National Health Service, and as the state extended its responsibilities for citizens' welfare and education. The strife of the early 1980s - rocketing unemployment, riots in the great cities, budget cuts and the miners' strike setting communities against each other - marked the end of one vision of Britain.\n\nAn over-enthusiastic briefing by a Palace press officer to the Sunday Times in 1986 suggested unhappiness with the direction of government policy and what he said the Queen saw as the corrosion of the post-war political consensus. It was a brief glimpse into the thinking of a sovereign who believed that one of her roles was to unify an increasingly divided and disparate nation.\n\nAnd twice she stepped - very gingerly - into the debate over Scottish independence, once in a speech in the 1970s and once just before the referendum of 2014. Was this too political? To some nationalists, yes. But it was hardly surprising that she would urge a little caution on those preparing to decide on the break-up of her kingdom.\n\nDid her conservative character drive the way she carried out her political role? Perhaps, to some degree. But the last monarch to involve himself in political matters was her grandfather George V. By the time she took the throne, the political role had fallen away. Her institutional fate was to be a cipher, someone who did the bidding of others. That she would have understood from the start. Here, fate and character walked hand in hand.\n\nIt was this avoidance of any political controversy as head of state, and her refusal to bend the monarchy to the winds of fashion, that enabled her to triumph in the role that would earn her the love and respect of so many, as head of nation.\n\nThis is the great unwritten role of modern monarchy. This is where, unprotected by tradition and unprepared by precedent, character alone drove her reign.\n\nFormal and informal - in a carriage on her way to the state opening of Parliament in 2002, and laughing with Prince Philip in 2014\n\nHer grandfather laid the foundations for a monarchy that served rather than ruled the nation, but spent much of his time blasting birds from the skies. Her father's reign was decided for him by fate: he was thrust into a role he did not expect and wore military uniform for much of his time as King.\n\nAfter catastrophe and criticism in the 1990s, the monarchy's fortunes rose again. As disillusionment followed the high hopes for political change, as cynicism became entrenched and political leaders derided, an uncontroversial and never-too-fashionable Queen became a figure of incorruptible continuity to a nation buffeted by change, disappointment and division.\n\nThis was the nation's reward for her endless patience, for her refusal to emote in public, to share her thoughts, to lean left or right, to involve herself in fashionable causes or respond to the slings and arrows hurled at her and her family over the many decades.\n\nShe remained apart from all that not because of hierarchy but because she - with a prescience that still rather astonishes - never engaged in the superficial of the day-to-day, the back and forth of modern life.\n\nShe understood that the rhythm of monarchy - the traditions and ceremonies, the births and the weddings and the deaths - provided a comfort to those sometimes bewildered by the uprooting of the past, and served as a reminder that the drumbeat of life was shared across class, age and circumstance.\n\nAnd she understood that not everything in national life had to have an explicit purpose, that for a conservative nation in the throes of near-ceaseless change, the continuity she represented in person and in office had a value beyond measure.\n\nShe, who with intuition beyond her years, pledged a life of service so many decades ago, made the monarchy the repository of much that the nation loved of itself.\n\nShe could do that because her character reflected much of what Britons like to think of as the best of themselves; modest, uncomplaining, thrifty, intelligent if not intellectual, sensible, feet-on-the-ground, unfussy, a dry sense of humour with a great big laugh, slow to anger and always well-mannered.\n\n\"I am the last bastion of standards,\" she once said. She was not boasting of better manners or finer etiquette than others. She was explaining her role and her life. It was her life and her work to be the best of Britain. This was the service she gave.", "Thousands of people have been leaving flowers and other tributes to Queen Elizabeth II at the gates of Buckingham Palace. From young children holding hand-drawn cards to Chelsea Pensioners on mobility scooters, many left their own personal notes.\n\nPaddington Bear made several appearances, a reference to the Queen's memorable turn on TV with the bear from Peru for her Jubilee celebrations.\n\nSome of the notes were deeply personal: \"You were my grandmother's idol and we are here today because you're so much to all of us. Thank you for every memory.\"\n\nCards were addressed to \"Ma'am\", \"Queen of our hearts\", \"our lioness\" and \"our rock\"... and \"Queen Kong\".\n\nOne picture spelled out the words that for them embodied the Queen in an acrostic: \"Quintessential, Unwavering, Eloquent, Elegant, Noble.\"\n\nThere was emotion among those leaving flowers and these messages. Two women embraced each other in tears. One said to the other: \"She's been with us since I was a little girl,\" to which her friend replied: \"I know she was our Queen.\"", "The nation's new monarch King Charles III travelled from Balmoral to London on Friday morning, following the death of his mother the Queen. Journeying alongside his wife, Camilla, the Queen Consort, the King flew from Aberdeen to RAF Northolt ahead of his televised address to the nation. On arrival at Buckingham Palace, he was greeted by thousands of well-wishers in a moving moment.", "Charles, the longest-serving heir to the throne in British history, is now King. His apprenticeship as heir, lasting 70 years, has made him the best-prepared and oldest new monarch ever to take to the throne.\n\nThe 73-year-old King was there throughout his mother's long reign, witnessing generations of world leaders come and go, including 15 UK prime ministers and 14 US presidents.\n\nAfter Queen Elizabeth II's remarkable, era-defining reign, what kind of King might we expect? And how will a prince used to speaking out on issues adapt to the neutrality of a monarch?\n\nAs King, Charles will no longer have his own passport or driving licence - or strong opinions in public. Being monarch supersedes the individual.\n\nIt is a case of different roles, different rules, believes leading constitutional expert Professor Vernon Bogdanor.\n\n\"He's known from his earliest days that his style will have to change. The public won't want a campaigning monarch,\" Prof Bogdanor says.\n\nKing Charles is well aware of the need to be less outspoken. \"I'm not that stupid. I do realise it's a separate exercise being sovereign,\" he said in a BBC interview in 2018. \"The idea that somehow I'm going to carry on exactly in the same way is complete nonsense.\"\n\nWhen a new monarch takes to the throne, the royal profile on the coins is switched to face in the opposite direction. Charles' reign will also have a different focus.\n\nThe country that King Charles will reign over is much more diverse than that inherited by his mother, and Prof Bogdanor anticipates that the new King will reach out to a multicultural, multi-faith Britain.\n\nHe expects him to try to act as a unifying force, making more visible efforts to connect with ethnic minorities and disadvantaged groups.\n\nOn a bike with members of the British Asian Trust as they start a sponsored ride at Highgrove House in Tetbury, Gloucestershire - June 2021\n\nProf Bogdanor also anticipates greater royal patronage of the arts, music and culture - more Shakespeare and less horse-racing.\n\nBut Sir Lloyd Dorfman, who worked with King Charles for many years on his Prince's Trust charity, doesn't foresee a complete halt to his involvement with issues such as climate change and organic farming.\n\n\"He's very knowledgeable, very effective. It's hard to imagine he'll give that up in a cliff-edge way on the day he becomes sovereign,\" suggests Sir Lloyd.\n\nThere has been much talk about the King preferring a \"slimmed-down\" monarchy. It's likely to mean a greater emphasis on a smaller core group of working Royals, with Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine at its centre.\n\nDespite this, the overriding message of the new reign will be continuity and stability, says royal commentator Victoria Murphy.\n\n\"Don't expect any huge, jarring differences. He will be very careful,\" she says.\n\nThe \"slimmed down\" Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, June 2022\n\nHistorian and author Sir Anthony Seldon believes King Charles has been fortified by being proved right over issues, such as warnings about climate change. From once being ridiculed, he now has an \"Attenborough-aura,\" says Sir Anthony.\n\nAt the climate change summit in Glasgow in 2021, for example, Charles was taken seriously by figures like US President Joe Biden, according to royal commentator and author Robert Hardman, who says his status on the world stage will serve him well as King.\n\n\"It wasn't just platitudes. The two of them sat down together in a corner and Biden was saying: 'You got all this going',\" he says.\n\n\"We've tended to think of the Queen as a constant in national life, but apart from her, he's been there longer than anybody in public life, longer than any politician,\" says Mr Hardman.\n\nBut what kind of character will we see in the new monarch?\n\nThose who have known him say deep down he is a rather shy, reserved person. A \"sensitive soul\" is one description.\n\nOfficial photograph to mark the prince's 18th birthday\n\nThere might be a trace of the lonely boy who complained of being bullied and isolated at school. \"They throw slippers all night long or hit me with pillows or rush across the room and hit me as hard as they can,\" he wrote in a letter home about being tormented in his school dormitory.\n\nHis wife Camilla, now Queen Consort, has described him as: \"Pretty impatient. He wants things done by yesterday. That's how he gets things done.\"\n\nShe told a TV interview for Charles's 70th birthday that below the rather earnest character that people see in public, there was a more playful side to him.\n\n\"They see him as a very serious person, which he is. But I would like people to see the lighter side of him. He gets down on his knees and plays with the children, reading Harry Potter to them and doing the voices,\" said Camilla.\n\nCharles with his grandson Prince Louis, during the Platinum Jubilee in June 2022\n\nCharles and Camilla laughing during the Braemar Highland Gathering on 3 September 2022\n\nCharles has become a relaxed and approachable figure when he's meeting the public, getting his audience onside with a few self-deprecating jokes. Perhaps that will change as monarch, but as Prince of Wales he developed an affable, grandfatherly style, with no standoffishness.\n\nFor a man in his 70s, the King shows no sign of slowing down.\n\nChris Pope, who worked with Charles on the Prince's Teaching Institute, describes the new King as a relentlessly busy, driven figure, a \"bundle of energy\" taking on a huge workload.\n\n\"He is genuinely passionate about the well-being of the next generation. You'll see that across a lot of the work he does,\" says Mr Pope.\n\nThe prince's charitable work includes protecting the heritage and preserving traditional craft skills - but at the same time encouraging innovation and change.\n\n\"He is always concerned that traditions are not lost, but that's not the same thing as saying we have to turn the clock back,\" says Mr Pope.\n\nThe new King's character seems to bring together those themes, which might be seen to be pulling in different directions, of wanting change while wanting to conserve. He's a kind of tweedy radical.\n\nAt Shipton Mill in Gloucestershire, which holds the HRH Royal Warrant and specialises in traditional milling, July 2020\n\nCharles addressing an Action on Forests and Land Use event on day three of the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, November 2021\n\nHe sometimes looks like a red-cheeked landowner who has stepped down from an 18th-Century painting. At other times he sounds like a frustrated reformer, annoyed at how some communities have been neglected and left behind.\n\nMuch will be made of inheriting a sense of duty from his mother, but King Charles has also inherited her religious faith and her strong sense of humour.\n\nHitan Mehta has worked with him since helping to set up the British Asian Trust in 2007.\n\n\"He is a humanitarian at heart. I think people underestimate how much he does care. He often talks about the world he's going to leave for his grandchildren. He does worry about it,\" says Mr Mehta.\n\nThis can mean direct calls to action. \"It must have been nine o'clock on a Friday night and I get a phone call from him saying: 'I've just heard about the floods in Pakistan. What are we doing?' It's not as if he's not a busy person. But he's heard of the problem and he's on it. He really does care,\" says Mr Mehta.\n\n\"This is a man who has dinner ridiculously late at night and then goes to his desk and will fall asleep on his notes,\" said Prince Harry about his father.\n\nCharles was born in Buckingham Palace in 1948\n\nCharles Philip Arthur George was born in Buckingham Palace on 14 November 1948. When the BBC announced his birth, it wasn't with news that the Queen had had a boy, but that his mother had been \"safely delivered of a prince\". Four years later, he became heir apparent.\n\n\"I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help,\" Charles said in a 2005 interview.\n\nHe's been the patron or president of more than 400 organisations and in 1976 he founded his own flagship charity, the Prince's Trust, using his severance pay from the Royal Navy.\n\nIt has helped almost 900,000 disadvantaged young people from some of the poorest parts of the country and given him an insight into a range of social problems.\n\nHis plans for the Prince's Trust to connect with what he called the \"hardest to reach in society\" didn't always go down well.\n\n\"The Home Office didn't think it was at all a good idea. It was quite difficult to get it off the ground,\" he told a BBC interview in 2018.\n\nHis work has drawn accusations of political interference and accusations of meddling, particularly around the so-called \"black spider memos\". Taking their name from Charles' spidery handwriting, these were private letters from Charles to government ministers from 2004 onwards.\n\nThe letters questioned the government's approach on issues such as farming, urban planning, architecture, education and even protecting the Patagonian toothfish.\n\nCharles, known for his public views on architecture, at his Poundbury village development, Dorset 1999\n\nA former cabinet minister on the receiving end of Charles' lobbying said he didn't feel under great pressure, but his memory of the new King is of someone with fixed opinions. He saw him as arriving with pre-set views which he wanted to pursue, rather than wanting to engage with opposing arguments.\n\n\"I didn't feel brow-beaten. He'd make his interventions and you'd get letters. He didn't assert, he didn't push, he wasn't discourteous,\" he says.\n\nReflecting on claims of interfering, in a 2006 interview, Charles said: \"If that's meddling, I'm very proud of it.\" But he acknowledged that he was in \"a no-win situation\".\n\n\"If you do absolutely nothing at all, stuff all, they're going to complain about that. If you try and get stuck in and do something to help, they'll also complain,\" he said.\n\nIn a later interview, he said that he had avoided party politics, but felt compelled to speak out on issues such as \"the conditions in which people were living\".\n\nFormer Labour minister Chris Mullin described in his diaries a briefing with Charles and how taken aback he was by his single-minded focus and his readiness to risk \"treading on official toes\".\n\n\"He comes back to the same point. How to widen the horizons of the young, especially the disaffected, the unlucky and even the malign. I confess I am impressed. This is a man who, if he chose, could fritter away his life on idleness and self-indulgence.\"\n\nCharles posing for an official portrait to mark his 70th birthday in the gardens of Clarence House\n\nHow much public support will King Charles have as his reign begins?\n\n\"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it,\" Charles has said.\n\nAccording to research carried out by YouGov in December 2021, he has been growing in popularity, with almost two-thirds of people seeing him in a positive light.\n\nBut opinion polls have consistently shown him to be less popular than his mother Queen Elizabeth II or his son Prince William, so there is a sizeable proportion of the public still to be won over. In particular his popularity is lower among younger people.\n\nVictoria Murphy says this could reflect the unsympathetic portrayals of Charles in TV shows and movies about his relationship with his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in a car crash in August 1997.\n\nThese might be a mix of fact and fiction, but they are a big influence.\n\n\"What's been really interesting over the last few years has been how large Diana continues to loom as a narrative around the Royal Family,\" Ms Murphy says.\n\nAs Charles has approached the throne, there has been an attempt to shift the public perception, says Professor Pauline Maclaran of the Centre for the Study of the Modern Monarchy at Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\nFrom the previous lampooning of him on comedy shows such as Spitting Image, he has been gradually repositioned as a more dignified figure, a \"sage\" with serious things to say about the environment, says Prof Maclaran.\n\nThe interests of the public might not always be so high-minded. And as head of the Royal Family he will have to contend with the intense global appetite for stories about Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and their relationship with the Royal Family.\n\nThe Prince was visibly upset at the funeral of his father, Prince Philip, in 2021\n\nWhere royal stories start to overlap with the soap opera of celebrity life isn't his natural territory.\n\nKing Charles faces other tough family decisions, such as the future role of Prince Andrew, or the lack of it, after the settlement deal that followed the sexual assault claims of Virginia Giuffre.\n\nOutside the UK, a major challenge will be to redefine a more modern relationship with the Commonwealth. As its new head, how can his visits to Commonwealth countries navigate the difficult legacies of colonialism and issues such as slavery?\n\nKing Charles has become head of state of 14 countries, as well as the UK. Some of these could want to become republics, while staying as Commonwealth members, and King Charles has already made clear he is ready for grown-up conversations about change.\n\nThere have been decisions already taken that have smoothed the path of his new reign. He must have been delighted when his mother intervened to say Camilla should use the title of Queen consort, rather than Princess.\n\nCamilla will be a vital support as he starts one of the highest profile roles in the world at an age when most people would have retired.\n\nThis moment, in all its daunting solemnity, has been waiting ahead of him all his life.\n\nFor King Charles, it's his time now.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Chris Heaton-Harris is the MP for Daventry\n\nSinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said she told the new secretary of state that the absence of an executive in Northern Ireland was no longer tolerable.\n\nMs O'Neill said the government needed to stop \"pandering\" to the DUP.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said Sinn Féin \"need to grow up\".\n\nAfter meeting Chris Heaton-Harris, Ms O'Neill accused the government of being \"in hock\" to the right-wing European Research Group (ERG).\n\nThe new secretary of state also met DUP leaders on Thursday. However, he did not meet representatives of Alliance, the Ulster Unionist Party or the SDLP. Mr Heaton-Harris said he looked forward to meeting \"all political parties\" in the coming days.\n\nSpeaking after meeting him in Dungannon, Ms O'Neill said: \"There must be a deal. We must find a way forward.\n\n\"We have a new prime minister and a new secretary of state but it's still the Tory party; different people at the helm but it's still the Tory party.\n\n\"My focus and I suppose my message to the new secretary of state this morning was very clear: 'It's get down to business; work with others, find an agreed way forward.\n\n\"'Bring that certainty and stability that is required. Get an executive up and running and stop pandering to the DUP.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris and the new minister of state at the Northern Ireland office, Steve Baker, are past chairmen of the pro-Brexit group ERG within the parliamentary Conservative Party.\n\n\"The ERG have been dictating the pace and bringing a very toxic influence to our local politics,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said she welcomed the secretary of state's \"warm words\" about the restoration of the executive being his priority, but added that that had not been the case with the Conservative party to date\n\n\"So, regardless of who's there, that's a feature. My concern is that I stand up for people here and the people want an executive up and running.\n\n\"They want us to put money into their pockets to help them get us through this nightmare of a cost-of-living crisis.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey said Mr Heaton-Harris and Mr Baker \"understand the difficulties we face at this time and the challenges we need to overcome\".\n\n\"I'm sure the secretary of state will share our view that decisive action needs to be taken to address those problems so that the political institutions can be restored here,\" the DUP leader said.\n\nHe said his party was committed to helping the people of Northern Ireland, unlike Sinn Féin who he said \"need to grow up.\"\n\nHe said there was a prospect of renewed negotiations but a \"change of stance by the European Union\" was required.\n\n\"When they talk about respecting the Belfast Agreement, that means, in article 1 of that agreement, respecting Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom - because that's what the people of Northern Ireland support.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris was in Dungannon for his first official visit to Northern Ireland.Heaton-Harris makes first visit as NI Secretary\n\nHe was criticised for only holding meetings with Sinn Féin and the DUP on the first day of his visit.\n\nHowever, UUP leader Doug Beattie will meet Mr Heaton-Harris on Tuesday.\n\nHe said next week's meeting gave him time \"to go to him with our concerns and our proposals to get the executive up and running again\".\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said he wanted to \"deliver enough pressure\" to get an executive restored and resolve the dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIn a statement, he said, \"It has been brilliant to be out and about in Northern Ireland today, and to talk to people about how we can deliver for the people of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris explained that the UK government was currently faced with a \"range of challenging issues\" including finding a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol and the rising cost of living.\n\nFollowing the announcement by the prime minister of a energy support package he said he had been speaking to his Cabinet colleagues to ensure that support would be delivered in Northern Ireland \"as soon as possible.\"\n\nAt his first NI Questions on Wednesday Mr Heaton-Harris said the best way forward was to have a functioning executive.\n\nMs Truss told the Commons the Northern Ireland Executive must return - and at the end of next month the new secretary of state will have to decide what to do if this does not happen.\n\nNew secretary of state Chris Heaton-Harris speaks to the press in Dungannon\n\nIf Stormont has not returned by 28 October, a 12-week period will be triggered during which he will have to call a fresh assembly election, unless the government instead chooses to push back the deadline.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Heaton-Harris said he would \"work with everybody\" to resolve problems over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nHe also told the Commons that he wanted to negotiate a solution with the EU but that the UK government would legislate at Westminster if this did not happen.\n\nHe called on the DUP to return to power sharing as soon as possible. But he is seen by some as an ally of the party because of his support for Brexit and his desire to change the protocol.\n\nSinn Féin's Conor Murphy, who met Mr Heaton-Harris alongside Ms O'Neill, earlier said he would encourage him to meet all Northern Ireland parties.\n\nHe said: \"We will deal with any British secretary the way we've dealt with previous ones. British government policy in Ireland is the problem and particularly in relation to the protocol and other issues affecting Brexit.\n\n\"We need to see them back in proper negotiations with the EU so the benefits of the protocol can be felt here and we stop suffering the full effect of Brexit as is happening right across Britain at this moment.\"\n\nDUP MP Sammy Wilson said the outcome of what Ms Truss's government does about the protocol was \"the most important thing\".\n\n\"Until that is dealt with, people will find that their cost of living goes up even more than the rest of the UK, due to additional costs which the protocol is imposing on goods coming into Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"The cost of living issues are not going to be dealt with by Stormont - Stormont doesn't have the money.\n\n\"It is going to come from Westminster so we'll be looking out for what's announced today in terms of energy help for people and then of course later on when the government brings its budget.\"\n\nMeanwhile, SDLP MP Claire Hanna has described the appointments of Mr Heaton-Harris and Mr Baker as \"concerning\".\n\n\"It is fair to say Liz Truss has appointed two men known for being very much associated with having a very hardline Brexit view and they're former chairs of the ERG (European Research Group),\" she said.\n\n\"I would suggest it is that ERG ideology that has got Northern Ireland into the place we're in. Six years of not properly acknowledging, understanding and processing the realities of Brexit with the geography we have.\n\n\"We do think it is a concerning appointment - there are optimistic interpretations that she's sending a hardliner in to look tough and to do the deal but at the moment it doesn't send a good signal about her willingness to work with people who do not support a hardline Brexit and to work with the EU,\" she added.", "The Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral for their silver wedding anniversary in 1972\n\nThe Queen's love of her home in Balmoral in Royal Deeside was well known.\n\nShe spent most summers at the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire, usually with her beloved husband Philip and family by her side.\n\nSurrounded by countryside, Balmoral Castle is where she spent many a happy holiday - from visiting with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary as a small child, to the final months of her life.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip with children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Charles (left to right) in the grounds of Balmoral in 1960\n\nShe hosted numerous royal garden parties there and enjoyed watching events at the nearby Braemar Highland Games with other members of the Royal Family.\n\nShe spent much of Prince Philip's last years with him at Balmoral - they remained there together during lockdown and spent their 73rd wedding anniversary there in November 2020.\n\nBalmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when the estate and its original castle were bought from the Farquharson family by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband. The house was then found to be too small and the current Balmoral Castle was commissioned.\n\nBalmoral Castle has been a residence of the Royal Family since 1852\n\nThe castle itself is an example of Scottish baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Environment Scotland as a category A listed building. The new castle was completed in 1856 and the old castle demolished shortly afterwards.\n\nIt remains private property of the Queen and is not part of the Crown Estate.\n\nIt is a working estate, including grouse moors, forestry and farmland, as well as managed herds of deer, Highland cattle, and ponies.\n\nThe Royal Family were at Balmoral when Princess Diana died on 31 August 1997 and it initially became the focus of the aftermath.\n\nAfter attending a private service at Crathie Church, the Queen and the Royal Family stop to look at floral tributes left for Princess Diana, at the gates of Balmoral Castle, in September 1997\n\nThe Sunday morning after her death, the Queen and Princes Charles, William and Harry attended a church service at nearby Crathie Kirk.\n\nOn their way home they viewed the floral tributes and messages left by the public.\n\nHere are some more images of the Queen and her family at Balmoral over the years:\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary on the way back to Balmoral after attending church at nearby Crathie in September 1932\n\nThe Royal Family during a visit to Balmoral Castle in 1951, Princess Elizabeth is with her children Prince Charles (left) and Princess Anne\n\nQueen Elizabeth II with her children Charles (right) and Anne, posing in Balmoral in 1952\n\nThe Queen plays with Prince Charles and Princess Anne at the castle windows in 1952\n\nThe Queen watches her son Prince Charles driving in a toy car on the grounds of Balmoral Castle\n\nPresident Eisenhower with the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral Castle in September 1959\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in a field with Highland cattle at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen at the writing desk in her study at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip in the study at Balmoral in 1976\n\nQueen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with theirs three sons, Edward, Charles and Andrew for their 32nd wedding anniversary at Balmoral on 20 November 1979\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip on holiday at Balmoral Castle in 2005\n\nThe Queen and members of the Royal Family break into laughter as they watch the tug-of-war during the Braemar Gathering in 2006\n\nThe Queen attends a garden party at Balmoral Castle in 2012\n\nThe Queen signs a message at Balmoral that was carried in the Commonwealth baton ahead of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games\n\nThe Queen arrives at Crathie Kirk with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in August 2019\n\nThe Queen inspects the Balaklava Company, 5 Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland at the gates at Balmoral, as she takes up summer residence at the castle in August 2021\n\nChildren from Crathie Primary School present the Queen with a card at the Balmoral Estate's cricket pavilion in October 2021\n\nQueen Elizabeth receiving the new prime minister, Liz Truss, in the drawing room at Balmoral on Tuesday\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs the union jack at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half mast, the crowds outside stood still in shock.\n\nThe silence was broken only by a symphony of news alerts on people's phones, and the messages that followed.\n\nThe mood had shifted: it was inquisitive, then suddenly sombre. It was now official. The Queen had died.\n\nPeople had gathered throughout the afternoon after hearing she was ill. The gravity of the moment was all over 77-year-old Sheila De Bellaigue's teary face.\n\n\"I didn't realise until I saw the flag lower,\" she said, \"and then I knew. I'm feeling very sad, as is everybody who is here.\"\n\nThe Londoner remembers getting her coronation mug as a schoolgirl. \"She's been a wonderful queen, and she'll be very much missed.\"\n\nAlso watching the flag being lowered was Michael Hammond, 23, from Southampton. \"I thought she embodied the British spirit, she gave her entire life, and just united generations,\" he said.\n\nIt was not long before a sea of people came through Green Park and over the road to the palace, forcing traffic to stop.\n\nHayley Jarvis, from Wolverhampton, had been at Euston station waiting for a train when she saw the news on a departure board.\n\nShe caught the tube straight to the palace to share in the national moment.\n\n\"I just wanted to come down just to show my respects,\" she says. \"It's terribly sad. I lost my own dad recently, so I've got a lot of empathy for how the family must be feeling.\"\n\nHayley Jarvis says the Queen's Speech was an annual tradition for her and her family\n\nThere were hundreds of people outside the palace by the time she arrived.\n\n\"It's going to be a shockwave,\" she said, \"and there will be ripples for days and days.\"\n\nThe pavement outside the palace gates filled with young and old, Brits and tourists. Some stood alone, in silence, in the rain. Others gathered under umbrellas with their friends.\n\nDave Baldwin was at the gym when the news alert pinged to his phone. He jumped on a bike and headed for the palace from Oxford Street, around a mile away.\n\n\"It's quite sombre isn't it - at the same time we kind of knew it was coming,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's nice to see people turn out and giving flowers. I'm sure it's just the start of people coming and showing their appreciation.\"\n\nPeople forced their way through the crowds, by now dozens of people-deep, to lay flowers at the gates.\n\nHarry Wang came to lay flowers after learning about the Queen's death at home\n\nLooking visibly upset as he clutched a bouquet of gerberas and chrysanthemums was Harry Wang.\n\n\"I was at home when I heard the news,\" the 44-year-old air steward, from London, said. \"She was a symbol of this country, and of this nation.\"\n\nSuzette Williams, who's 51 and from Norwich, was on the London Underground, on the way to the palace, when the announcement was made.\n\n\"I feel more sad than I was expecting,\" she said. \"I just thought this is the end of an era. The Queen has been here all my life.\"", "Queen Elizabeth II visited more than 20 African countries during her reign, which saw the British Empire come to an end and independence sweep the continent. A special link to Britain endured through the Commonwealth of Nations, which the Queen led. It was a close - and sometimes complicated - relationship between the British monarchy and post-colonial Africa.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth made a broadcast from the gardens of Government House in Cape Town, South Africa on her 21st birthday, dedicating her life to the service of the Commonwealth.\n\n\"Everywhere I have travelled in these lovely lands of South Africa… my parents, my sister and I have been taken to the heart of their people and made to feel that we are just as much at home here as if we had lived among them all our lives,\" she said.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth is seen here at Treetops Hotel in Kenya with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh in 1952. The day after this photo was taken, she heard the news that her father, King George VI, had passed away and she was to become Queen.\n\nThis was the first of two visits Queen Elizabeth made to Nigeria, in 1956, when it was still a British colony. The Queen is pictured here with Chief Oba Adenji-Adele II in Lagos. She also visited Calabar, Enugu, Jos, Kaduna, Kano and Port Harcourt.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II dances with Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president and a figurehead of the decolonisation movement during her visit in 1961, just four years after Ghana's independence. They danced to a high-life tune composed specially for the occasion called Welcome Your Majesty.\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are pictured with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, during a state visit in 1965. The emperor took refuge in the United Kingdom between 1936 and 1941 following the Italian occupation of his homeland and was restored to the throne in 1941 after British and Commonwealth troops defeated the Italians.\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Sudan's President El Tigani El-Mahi on the state drive from Khartoum Airport, also in 1965. Her visit to Sudan included an afternoon of camel racing and a trip to the construction site of the Roseires Dam on the Blue Nile, which was completed the following year.\n\nThe Queen with Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere at the start of a three-day state visit in 1979.\n\nEighteen years previously, Dr Nyerere had led the former British protectorate of Tanganyika to independence, becoming its first prime minister and later its first president. Over the years, he became increasingly anti-British and anti-European.\n\nNevertheless, the UK government regarded him as a major stabilising force in an increasingly turbulent region.\n\nZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was awarded an honorary knighthood by the Queen in 1994.\n\nBut as tensions grew between Zimbabwe and the UK government over the president's land reform programme and allegations of human rights abuses, Zimbabwe withdrew from the Commonwealth in 2003. Mr Mugabe was stripped of his knighthood in 2008.\n\nQueen Elizabeth is pictured arriving at Durban airport in 1995. She was on an official six-day visit to South Africa, which saw the best rainy season in 10 years, winning her the nickname Motlalepula, which means \"to come with rain\".\n\nThe Queen and South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, were said to have a close friendship. The Queen signed letters to President Mandela with \"Your sincere friend, Elizabeth R\" and apparently referred to him as \"Nelson\", while it's said that he called her simply \"Elizabeth\" in a break from royal protocol.\n\nThe Queen visited Nigeria for a second time in 2003. The country had been suspended from the Commonwealth over human rights abuses during Sani Abacha's military rule in 1995 and re-admitted in 1999 after a return to civilian rule. The Queen and President Olusegun Obasanjo are seen here at the official opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Abuja.\n\nOn her last trip to the continent, in 2007, Britain's longest-reigning monarch was met by one of Africa's longest-serving presidents, Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986. She had visited Uganda once before - on her first official state visit to Africa as Queen in 1954.\n• None Podcast: Who was Queen Elizabeth II to Africa?", "As the Chief Executive of BBC News I have the honour to write the closing message on this page of thousands of tributes to Queen Elizabeth II. And it’s a message of thanks to every single person who has taken the time to share their story.\n\nWhen the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, we at the BBC wanted to create a place where people could come together to share their tributes, their photos and recollections.\n\nThe response has been incredible. We have received thousands of touching stories of meeting the Queen, special moments, memories and messages of condolence.\n\nThank you to everyone - from all over the world - for coming together here in this virtual space for very real acts a of remembrance.\n\nLooking at the contributions, the common theme that emerges is that the Queen had a way of making each person she met feel like the most important person in that moment.\n\nThank you again for helping us remember a woman whose promise to serve her people was fulfilled through a life of duty, which touched so many people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles III gave the following address to the nation and Commonwealth.\n\nI speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty the Queen - my beloved Mother - was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe to their mother; for her love, affection, guidance, understanding and example.\n\nQueen Elizabeth's was a life well lived; a promise with destiny kept and she is mourned most deeply in her passing.\n\nThat promise of lifelong service I renew to you all today.\n\nAlongside the personal grief that all my family are feeling, we also share with so many of you in the United Kingdom, in all the countries where the Queen was head of state, in the Commonwealth and across the world, a deep sense of gratitude for the more than 70 years in which my mother, as Queen, served the people of so many nations.\n\nIn 1947, on her 21st birthday, she pledged in a broadcast from Cape Town to the Commonwealth to devote her life, whether it be short or long, to the service of her peoples.\n\nThat was more than a promise: it was a profound personal commitment which defined her whole life.\n\nShe made sacrifices for duty. Her dedication and devotion as sovereign never wavered, through times of change and progress, through times of joy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss.\n\nIn her life of service we saw that abiding love of tradition, together with that fearless embrace of progress, which make us great as nations.\n\nThe affection, admiration and respect she inspired became the hallmark of her reign. And, as every member of my family can testify, she combined these qualities with warmth, humour and an unerring ability always to see the best in people.\n\nI pay tribute to my mother's memory and I honour her life of service. I know that her death brings great sadness to so many of you and I share that sense of loss, beyond measure, with you all.\n\nWhen the Queen came to the throne, Britain and the world were still coping with the privations and aftermath of the Second World War, and still living by the conventions of earlier times.\n\nIn the course of the last 70 years we have seen our society become one of many cultures and many faiths.\n\nThe institutions of the state have changed in turn. But, through all changes and challenges, our nation and the wider family of realms - of whose talents, traditions and achievements I am so inexpressibly proud - have prospered and flourished. Our values have remained, and must remain, constant.\n\nThe role and the duties of monarchy also remain, as does the sovereign's particular relationship and responsibility towards the Church of England - the Church in which my own faith is so deeply rooted.\n\nIn that faith, and the values it inspires, I have been brought up to cherish a sense of duty to others, and to hold in the greatest respect the precious traditions, freedoms and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government.\n\nAs the Queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, I too now solemnly pledge myself, throughout the remaining time God grants me, to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation.\n\nAnd wherever you may live in the United Kingdom, or in the realms and territories across the world, and whatever may be your background or beliefs, I shall endeavour to serve you with loyalty, respect and love, as I have throughout my life.\n\nMy life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities. It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others.\n\nThis is also a time of change for my family. I count on the loving help of my darling wife, Camilla. In recognition of her own loyal public service since our marriage seventeen years ago, she becomes my Queen Consort. I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much.\n\nAs my heir, William now assumes the Scottish titles which have meant so much to me. He succeeds me as Duke of Cornwall and takes on the responsibilities for the Duchy of Cornwall which I have undertaken for more than five decades.\n\nToday, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru, the country whose title I have been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty.\n\nWith Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given.\n\nI want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas.\n\nIn a little over a week's time we will come together as a nation, as a Commonwealth and indeed a global community, to lay my beloved mother to rest. In our sorrow, let us remember and draw strength from the light of her example. On behalf of all my family, I can only offer the most sincere and heartfelt thanks for your condolences and support. They mean more to me than I can ever possibly express.\n\nAnd to my darling Mama, as you begin your last great journey to join my dear late Papa, I want simply to say this: thank you. Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years.\n\nMay \"flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest\".", "Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, photographed in the grounds of Clarence House with Prince Charles and Princess Anne in August 1951\n\nMuch of Queen Elizabeth II's reign centred on London, not least because she spent much of her life living in and hosting events at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe capital was also a constant feature of the Queen's formative years, with a number of different properties being homes for the then-princess.\n\nOnly one of these still exists, the others lost to war and redevelopment.\n\nWhere were these buildings and what part did they play in the making of a Queen?\n\nThe grandparents of the Duchess of York - the future Queen Mother - moved into 17 Bruton Street in the early 1920s\n\nWhile many would assume a future Queen would enter the world in the most palatial of surroundings, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was actually born in a townhouse in Bruton Street, in Mayfair, on 21 April 1926.\n\nWith its white Palladian front, the building just off Berkeley Square, stood out from those around it.\n\n\"It was described in the press as one of the most beautiful mansions in London,\" explains author Jane Dismore, whose books include Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth was born in the early hours of 21 April 1926\n\nBruton Street was one of the first roads to be developed on what had been farmland on the banks of the Tyburn River. The first homes there were completed in about 1740.\n\nNumber 17 was built in the following years. It was described as having a vaulted entrance hall and theatrical Rococo ceilings in the style of Isaac Ware, an architect who had been born a street urchin in 1704 but became famous for his grandiose style.\n\nAt the start of the 1920s it became the London home of the wealthy Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the parents of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, then Duchess of York.\n\nThe interior of 17 Bruton Street was elaborately decorated with ornate ceilings and fixtures\n\nAs the date of Elizabeth's birth approached it was decided that the duchess and her husband Albert, Duke of York - the future George VI - should have their first child in Bruton Street after the lease ran out on their previous house.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth was therefore born at the property, delivered by Caesarean section. Among those present was Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks, as was required for royal births at the time (the custom was eventually ended ahead of Prince Charles's birth in 1948).\n\nEven so at that point the baby was not even destined to be Queen, her father being the second son of George V.\n\nShe was christened the following month by the Archbishop of York, Cosmo Gordon Lang, in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace. Her mother was photographed that day leaving the home in Bruton Street with her daughter as she made her way to the christening.\n\nThe Duchess of York was photographed taking her daughter to her christening on 29 May 1926\n\nThe family would continue living in number 17 at times over the following months while their next home was renovated.\n\nIn a letter sent from the duchess to her mother that October she wrote how \"I honestly don't know what we would have done without it\", before adding that \"the baby is very well, and now spends the whole day taking her shoes off and sucking her toes!\".\n\nThe townhouse was knocked down in 1937 to make way for Berkeley Square House\n\nIt was also from Bruton Street where the nine-month-old princess waved off her parents in January 1927 as they left for a six-month tour of Australia and New Zealand, being held in her nanny's arms in one of the building's windows to do so.\n\n\"She wouldn't have remembered it but emotionally it was a significant place for the Queen,\" says Ms Dismore.\n\nThe house no longer exists. It was demolished in 1937 along with surrounding buildings to make way for Berkeley Square House, then considered to be one of Europe's largest office blocks.\n\nTwo plaques mark the spot where the house stood\n\nThat building remains, housing various companies, restaurants and showrooms for high-end cars, like Bentley, Bugatti and Ferrari. The address 17 Bruton Street is used by a number of businesses including fashionable Chinese restaurant Hakkasan, which partly overlaps where the original home once stood.\n\nTwo plaques on the wall serve as reminders of the location where the Queen was born.\n\nPrevious tenants at 145 Piccadilly included the Marquess of Northampton and a member of the Rothschild family\n\nThe duke and duchess got back to the UK in June and, now reunited with their daughter, moved into their new family home - 145 Piccadilly.\n\n\"It had its own balcony and as soon as the Yorks returned from their tour they stood on the balcony with Elizabeth in their arms and the public went wild,\" Ms Dismore says.\n\nThe property was a large terraced house, which faced south with a view over Green Park towards Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"One thing that always surprised me was there was no special security there. You could just walk up to the front door and there were two bells and one was for staff and one was for visitors,\" the royal biographer says.\n\nThe young family waved to the crowds after the duke and duchess returned from their six-month tour\n\nAnyone walking through the entrance would have found a large hallway decorated with flowers and large green columns, with a brown carpet covering the floor.\n\n\"This led into a very airy morning room and that looked out on the family's garden where Elizabeth would ride her tricycle later on and beyond that was Hamilton Gardens - which was where she met her first best friend - and that directly led on to Hyde Park,\" Ms Dismore says.\n\nThere was also an electric lift, ballroom, library and 25 bedrooms, all beneath a large glass dome in the roof the building.\n\nThe drawing room at 145 Piccadilly as seen in 1927\n\nPrincess Elizabeth - or Lilibet as she was known because of the difficulty she had saying her own name - had a suite of rooms on the fourth floor of the house, which consisted of a day nursery, a night nursery and a bathroom. In 1930 she was joined there by her baby sister, Princess Margaret.\n\n\"In the day nursey there was a tall cabinet that had lots of toys and curios from all over the Empire and a lot of them were gifts from Queen Mary who loved all of her little miniatures,\" Ms Dismore says.\n\n\"One of the royal photographers, Lisa Sheridan, she said that she saw the princess (Elizabeth) crawling about and she was allowed to take out a teddy bear from one of the cupboards, but she was only allowed to play with one at a time, so once she finished with that toy it had to be put back.\"\n\n145 Piccadilly was the family's main home but they would also stay at other properties outside the capital such as Royal Lodge Windsor\n\nWhile there were some staff, such as the princesses' nurse and nanny, the duke and duchess liked to keep numbers in the house to a minimum when there were no guests.\n\n\"They liked to live a private life without too many people around. Although they liked to socialise, when it came to shutting that door they liked to be fairly alone,\" Ms Dismore explains.\n\nThe couple would also enjoy spending time with their daughter, the duke regularly playing with Elizabeth before she went to bed, while the duchess taught her to read.\n\nThis was also a time when the many of the Queen's interests started to become apparent, including her association with her beloved corgis.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth and the Duke of York were pictured in the grounds of the house with their first two corgis in July 1936\n\nIn 1933, the family acquired two dogs named Jane and Dookie at the request of the two princesses, the girls having enjoyed playing with a corgi owned by the children of the Marquess of Bath.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth's fondness for horses also emerged at this young age.\n\nThe princesses' love of horses began at a young age\n\n\"Her grandparents, the Strathmores, had horses and I think that was probably where Elizabeth got her love of them from,\" Ms Dismore says.\n\nThe two princesses were educated at home in a schoolroom on the third floor by their governess Marion Crawford. She wrote in her book The Little Princesses she had \"never known a house with a nicer atmosphere\".\n\nThe house had both a night nursery and a day nursery on the building's fourth floor\n\nBut that came to an abrupt halt in December 1936 following the abdication of Edward VIII.\n\nSuddenly the family had to leave the comfort of their relatively small home to move to Buckingham Palace with its hundreds of rooms when Elizabeth's father Bertie became King George VI.\n\nWhile attempts were made to give the princess some sense of normality, with a special Guides unit being set up in the palace and trips made on the Tube and bus, Elizabeth's new place as the heir presumptive meant life was now very different.\n\nThe family waved to the crowds from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the day of George VI's coronation\n\n\"Things changed practically because her education became much more focused. By then she had her own security officer.\n\n\"Nothing was going to be normal after the abdication,\" Ms Dismore says.\n\nThe new king and queen remained at the palace during World War Two but Elizabeth and Margaret spent the majority of these years in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe InterContinental London Park Lane now sits on the site of 145 Piccadilly\n\nAs for 145 Piccadilly, it was used as the chief office of the relief and comforts fund until on 7 October 1940 the house was badly damaged during an air raid.\n\nIt was then fully demolished in 1959 as part of a road improvement scheme for Hyde Park Corner. In its place was built the luxury hotel InterContinental London Park Lane, which opened in 1975 and remains to this day.\n\nClarence House was built between 1825 and 1827\n\nClarence House has been used by royalty since 1827. It was designed by famed architect John Nash - who was also behind Regent's Park and Brighton Pavilion - for George III's third son, Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence.\n\nThe building was handed to the newly married Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip but because it suffered damage during the Blitz, they did not move in until 4 July 1949.\n\nWhile it was being prepared, they stayed in an apartment in Kensington Palace with Elizabeth having offices in Buckingham Palace to carry out her work. This was where she gave birth to Prince Charles.\n\nIn the meantime Prince Philip took charge of refurbishing the new house. \"Philip was very good at conducting things which are being done there because he was very good at design and Elizabeth was really not that bothered, she'd let him take charge,\" Ms Dismore says.\n\nThe mahogany dining table and chairs in Clarence House were a wedding present from the Royal Warrant Holders Association\n\nMuch of the furniture used in the building came in the form of wedding presents. In the dining room was a Georgian dining table and 20 ladder-back chairs which were a gift from the Royal Warrant Holders Association, while a mahogany sideboard was a present from Queen Mary.\n\nMs Dismore describes the house as \"pretty grand but it was not too big - it was manageable in the same way as 145 Piccadilly was manageable.\n\n\"Elizabeth and Philip lived very informally. Philip couldn't bear any sort of obsequiousness, he couldn't bear unnecessary formality and he liked things to be relaxed so he used to be very casual and walk in areas where it was staff only, carry his own luggage, all those sorts of things.\n\n\"They also didn't eat grandly and they would sometimes eat with staff,\" she adds.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth's sitting room was situated on the first floor of the house\n\nThe couple would also spend time in Malta after Prince Philip was appointed second in command of HMS Chequers in 1949.\n\n\"Elizabeth would fly out at various times; she didn't stay there all the time because he had work to do and she had Prince Charles back home, but she would go out there as often as she could,\" Ms Dismore says.\n\nThe duke was able to take leave in 1950 for the birth of the couple's second child, Anne, who was born at their family home.\n\nPrince Charles and Princess Elizabeth watched a procession during the visit of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands from the wall of Clarence House in November 1950\n\nNow settled into family life, the couple suddenly faced a seismic change. After embarking on a tour of the Commonwealth, Princess Elizabeth was informed of her father's death during a stopover in Kenya.\n\nShe had become the first English sovereign to succeed to the throne while abroad since George I more than 200 years before.\n\nThe family hoped to continue living at Clarence House, but Prime Minister Winston Churchill was opposed to this plan.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh waved to crowds in The Mall from Buckingham Palace's balcony following the Coronation\n\nAnd so Buckingham Palace again became Elizabeth's London residence, but this time with a very different life ahead of her.\n\n\"She had left England as a princess but came back as Queen,\" Ms Dismore says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Bank of England has postponed a key decision on interest rates following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nIt said that \"in light of the period of national mourning\", the Monetary Policy Committee's decision would now be announced at midday on 22 September.\n\nIt follows moves by several public bodies to change their plans for the coming week after the death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch.\n\nThe Bank had widely been expected to increase rates on Thursday.\n\nEconomists had been predicting that the UK's central bank would raise rates to 2.25% - the highest level since December 2008.\n\nLast month, the Bank raised interest rates by the highest margin in 27 years in an attempt to keep soaring prices under control. It also predicted that the UK economy would fall into recession later this year.\n\nHigher interest rates can make borrowing more expensive, meaning people have less money to spend and prices will stop rising as quickly. However, some have question how effective UK rate rises can be when inflation is caused by global issues.\n\nEnergy prices climbed sharply when lockdown was lifted and the economy started to return to normal. They have increased further as Russia sharply cut its gas supplies to Europe. It has pushed up the price of gas across the continent, including in the UK, having a huge knock-on effect on consumers.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said a recession would \"overwhelmingly be caused by the actions of Russia and the impact on energy prices\".\n\nSpeaking in front of the Treasury Committee earlier this week, the Bank of England's governor, Andrew Bailey, defended its track record: \"The person going to put the UK in recession is Vladimir Putin, not the MPC [Monetary Policy Committee].\"\n\nHe also said the Bank would take Prime Minister Liz Truss's energy plan announcement \"into account\" when next deciding on interest rates.\n\nDuring her campaign, Ms Truss hit out at the Bank of England, accusing it of being slow to react to rising prices and protect vulnerable households.\n\nBut the new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has reiterated his \"full support for the independent Bank of England and their mission to control inflation, which is central to tackling cost of living challenges\".\n\nHe has also said that he and Mr Bailey would meet twice a week from now on to discuss the rising cost of living.\n\nPrices are rising at its fastest rate in 40 years, with inflation at 10.1%.\n\nOn Thursday, the prime minister has announced that the government would limit energy bill rises for all households for two years in an attempt to prevent widespread hardship.\n\nA typical household energy bill will be capped at £2,500 annually until 2024.\n\nAnalysts say the huge support scheme could cost up to £150bn, but announcing the package Ms Truss said \"extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures\".\n\nFurther detail is expected by the end of the month, as the chancellor is expected to set out costings in a \"fiscal event\", where he will outline the level of borrowing necessary and any new tax measures he deems necessary to fund the package of support.", "The Queen with Joe and Jill Biden last year at the G7 summit in Cornwall, England\n\nWorld leaders and dignitaries have been paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96.\n\nThey have honoured her deep sense of duty and her resilience, as well as the Queen's sense of humour and kindness.\n\nFrance's Emmanuel Macron led the tributes, remembering \"a kind-hearted queen\" who was \"a friend of France\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden first met Her Majesty 40 years ago and described her as \"more than a monarch - she defined an era\".\n\nRemembering his visit to the UK in 2021 as president, Mr Biden said \"she charmed us with her wit, moved us with her kindness, and generously shared with us her wisdom\".\n\n\"Queen Elizabeth II was a stateswoman of unmatched dignity constancy who deepened the bedrock of the Alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States. She helped make our relationship special,\" Mr Biden added.\n\nUS President Biden, watched by his wife Dr Jill Biden and UK Ambassador Karen Pierce, signs the condolence book at the British Embassy in Washington DC\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping offered \"sincere sympathies to the British government and people\" following the Queen's death, adding: \"Her passing is a great loss to the British people.\"\n\nCanada - where Queen Elizabeth was head of state - has seen 12 prime ministers during her reign.\n\nAn emotional Justin Trudeau - who has known the Queen for decades, first meeting her as a child when his father was prime minister - said she had \"an obvious deep and abiding love for Canadians\".\n\n\"In a complicated world, her steady grace and resolve brought comfort to us all,\" the prime minister said, adding that he would miss their \"chats\" where she was \"thoughtful, wise, curious, helpful, funny and so much more\".\n\n\"She was one of my favourite people in the world, and I will miss her so,\" he said, holding back tears.\n\nHer Majesty met Canada's Justin Trudeau several times, including earlier this year at Windsor\n\nFlags have been lowered to half-staff around the world - including at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the Queen's \"empathy and ability to connect with every passing generation, while remaining rooted in the tradition that truly mattered to her, was an example of true leadership\".\n\nQueen Margrethe II of Denmark, now the world's only reigning female monarch, wrote to King Charles to express her condolences.\n\n\"She was a towering figure among the European monarchs and great inspiration to us all,\" she wrote.\n\nShe called the Queen's 70-year reign in difficult and positive times an \"unprecedented and remarkable achievement\".\n\nKing Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands - who is Queen Elizabeth's fifth cousin - said he and Queen Maxima remembered the \"steadfast and wise\" monarch with \"deep respect and great affection\".\n\nSweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, also a distant relative to Her Majesty, said: \"She has always been dear to my family and a precious link in our shared family history.\"\n\nSpain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia, who have long called Queen Elizabeth Aunt Lilibet said they will \"miss her dearly\".\n\nAnd Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde said she was \"an extraordinary personality... who, throughout her reign, showed dignity, courage and devotion\".\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz paid tribute to the Queen's \"wonderful humour\" and said in a statement that \"her commitment to German-British reconciliation after the horrors of World War Two will remain unforgotten\".\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled his \"memorable meetings\" with the monarch during two UK visits.\n\n\"I will never forget her warmth and kindness,\" he tweeted. \"During one of the meetings, she showed me the handkerchief Mahatma Gandhi gifted her on her wedding. I will always cherish that gesture.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia's King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent their condolences, with the king describing her as \"a role model for leadership that will be immortalised in history\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth II and India's Narendra Modi at Buckingham Palace in 2015\n\nAs monarch for seven decades, Queen Elizabeth lived through times of extraordinary change, and this was reflected in several tributes.\n\nMr Macron observed that she \"embodied the British nation's continuity and unity for over 70 years\" and former US President Barack Obama observed that she lived \"through periods of prosperity and stagnation - from the Moon landing to the fall of the Berlin Wall\".\n\nJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed his \"deep sorrow\". \"The death of the queen, who led Britain through turbulent times in the world, is a great loss not only for the British people but also the international community,\" he told reporters.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins honoured the Queen's \"extraordinary sense of duty\", which he said would \"hold a unique place in British history\".\n\n\"Her reign of 70 years encompassed periods of enormous change, during which she represented a remarkable source of reassurance to the British people,\" he said in a lengthy statement.\n\nIreland's Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, spoke of her reign as one of \"historic duration\" and described the Queen's passing as \"the end of an era\".\n\n\"Her dedication to duty and public service were self-evident and her wisdom and experience truly unique,\" Mr Martin said in a statement. He also recalled her \"many gracious gestures and warm remarks\" during a state visit to Ireland in 2011.\n\nAntónio Guterres, the UN's secretary-general, said Queen Elizabeth was \"a reassuring presence throughout decades of sweeping change, including the decolonisation of Africa and Asia and the evolution of the Commonwealth\".\n\nIn a statement, he paid tribute to \"her unwavering, lifelong dedication to serving her people. The world will long remember her devotion and leadership\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth visited Australia 16 times - here she greets excited crowds in Sydney in 1970\n\nQueen Elizabeth visited Australia - another Commonwealth nation where she was head of state - 16 times, the only reigning monarch to head down under.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese noted that many had never known a world without her.\n\n\"Though the noise and tumult of the years, she embodied and exhibited a timeless decency and an enduring calm,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"She celebrated our good times, she stood with us in the bad. Happy and glorious, but steadfast too.\"\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said she was woken to the news of the monarch's death by a police officer shining a torch into her bedroom at 04:50 to wake her up.\n\n\"She was extraordinary... The last days of the Queen's life captures who she was in so many ways, working to the very end on behalf of the people she loved,\" Ms Ardern said.\n\nQueen Elizabeth with New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, in 2018\n\nQueen Elizabeth II met 13 US presidents - beginning with Dwight D Eisenhower- during her reign.\n\nBarack Obama said the Queen had \"captivated the world\" with a \"reign defined by grace, elegance and a tireless work ethic\".\n\n\"Time and again, we were struck by her warmth, the way she put people at ease, and how she brought her considerable humour and charm to moments of great pomp and circumstance,\" Mr Obama, who met the Queen on several occasions, said in a statement.\n\nDonald Trump said he would \"never forget Her Majesty's generous friendship, great wisdom, and wonderful sense of humour\".\n\nAnd another former president, George W Bush, reflected fondly on the time he spent having tea with Her Majesty and her corgis, describing her \"great intellect, charm and wit\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth with Laura Bush, Prince Philip and George W Bush at the White House in 2007\n\nIsrael's President, Isaac Herzog, also acknowledged the enormous change the Queen saw throughout her reign, but said that throughout this, she \"remained an icon of stable, responsible leadership and a beacon of morality, humanity and patriotism\".\n\nWhile the Queen did not visit Israel, Princes Charles, Edward, William and the late Prince Philip - whose mother is buried in Jerusalem - did.\n\n\"Queen Elizabeth was a historic figure: she lived history, she made history, and with her passing, she leaves a magnificent, inspirational legacy,\" President Herzog wrote.\n\nKing Abdullah II of Jordan said his country \"mourns the passing of an iconic leader\". He said the Queen, who visited Jordan in 1984, was \"a beacon of wisdom and principled leadership… a partner for Jordan and a dear family friend\".\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that it was with \"deep sadness\" that he learned of \"this irreparable loss\".\n\nAnd Russian leader Vladimir Putin who met the Queen several times and once reportedly kept her waiting for 14 minutes, sent his \"deepest condolences\" to King Charles III.\n\n\"The most important events in the recent history of the United Kingdom are inextricably linked with the name of Her Majesty,\" Mr Putin wrote in a statement. \"\n\nFor many decades, Elizabeth II rightfully enjoyed the love and respect of her subjects, as well as authority on the world stage.\"\n\nRussia currently has heavy economic sanctions imposed on it by Western nations, including the UK, because of its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPrince Philip, followed by the Queen, and Jordan's King Hussein and Queen Noor visiting the Petra archaeological site in 1984\n\nAfrican leaders also shared tributes for Queen Elizabeth - who knew many of them well and, as the head of the Commonwealth, was sympathetic to their cause.\n\nKenyan President-elect William Ruto praised her \"historic legacy\" and said Kenyans would \"miss the cordial ties she enjoyed\" with the country.\n\nKenya, a former British colony that became independent in 1963, was a very special place for the monarch. For a start, it was where she became Queen. The young princess, then just 25 years old, was on holiday there when her father, King George VI, died in his sleep in 1952.\n\nPresident Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, which is one of the newest nations to join the Commonwealth, said: \"The Queen was a great friend of Africa and Africa showed her affection in return.\"\n\nAnd Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo tweeted that his country had fond memories of the two visits the Queen made, remarking on \"her friendliness, elegance, style and sheer joy she brought to the performance of her duties\".\n\nHer first trip to Ghana, also a former British colony, was controversial and there were concerns for the monarch's safety. Five days earlier, bombs had gone off in the capital, Accra, but the Queen was not deterred, in part because she had already cancelled a previous visit when she became pregnant with Prince Andrew.\n\nKenya was always a special place for Queen Elizabeth - shown here alongside President Daniel arap Moi during a state visit in 1983", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nAll English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football has been postponed this weekend as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nTen Premier League and six Scottish Premiership fixtures were scheduled.\n\nEnglish Football League games were due to take place on Friday and Saturday, with six Women's Super League fixtures on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nEngland's National League, FA Trophy and grassroots football is also off.\n\nPlay will resume in England's cricket Test against South Africa on Saturday and the women's Twenty20 match between England and India will go ahead.\n• None At-a-glance: What's on and what's off this weekend\n\nGolf's PGA Championship will restart on Saturday after play was halted on Thursday.\n\nBritish horse racing will return on Sunday, with rugby union's Premiership season beginning on Saturday after two fixtures on Friday were postponed.\n\nBoxing's world title fight between Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields has been postponed with a provisional new date of 15 October, while all British Boxing Board of Control tournaments have been postponed for the weekend.\n\nSunday's Great North Run will go ahead as planned, with organisers saying it is \"an opportunity to come together and express our condolences while celebrating the life of our extraordinary Queen\", and that the event would be \"more subdued out of respect\".\n\nAnd next week's Davis Cup Finals tennis tournament in Glasgow, including Great Britain and the USA, will be played at Emirates Arena from 13 to 18 September.\n\nManchester City's Champions League game with Borussia Dortmund at Etihad Stadium on Wednesday will go ahead as planned, as will Manchester United's Europa League tie with FC Sheriff in Moldova next Thursday.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died on Thursday aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.\n\nThe government's national mourning guidance advised that cancelling fixtures was not obligatory, leaving the decision to individual sports.\n\nGovernment guidance for the day of the funeral also advised that cancellation was not obligatory, but suggested events could be rescheduled so that they do not clash with the timings of the service.\n\nCricket, golf and rugby to play on\n\nInternational, domestic and recreational cricket in England will go ahead on Saturday.\n\nIn golf, the PGA Championship will resume at 06:40 BST on Saturday and the event will now be contested over 54 holes rather than 72.\n\nThe rugby union Premiership match between Bristol and Bath has been moved from Friday evening to 17:30 BST on Saturday, while Sale v Northampton will be played on Sunday at 15:00 BST.\n\nAll other Premiership matches on Saturday and Sunday will go ahead as scheduled, but senior rugby in Wales has been suspended.\n\nFormula 1 held a minute's silence with all teams prior to practice on Friday for the Italian Grand Prix, with the race weekend to proceed as planned.\n\nAt the tennis US Open in New York, there was a moment of silence before the first women's semi-final match on Thursday with the first men's semi-final on Friday.\n\nIn rugby league, the Super League play-off between Catalans Dragons and Leeds is on Friday, with Huddersfield and Salford playing on Saturday. The Championship fixture between Sheffield Eagles and Dewsbury Rams has been postponed.\n\nThe British Elite Ice Hockey League said the weekend's season-opening games would go ahead as planned.\n\nThe Football Association said fixtures between 9 and 11 September are postponed, adding that as a \"long-standing patron\" of the FA the Queen \"has left a lasting and indelible legacy on our national game\".\n\nThe Premier League and EFL have confirmed that all fixtures will be rescheduled.\n\nWhile policing was not a factor in postponing this weekend's Premier League games, it is understood it could be a consideration in next weekend's games depending on state funeral arrangements.\n\nThere is confidence fixture congestion can be solved in the second half of the season and a meeting will be held next week to discuss the calendar with relevant bodies.\n\nThe Premier League took the decision to honour the Queen's \"extraordinary life and contribution to the nation\" and said updates on future fixtures during the period of mourning \"will be provided in due course\".\n\nThe Women's Super League season was to start this weekend with record ticket sales following England's Euro 2022 success - Spurs were due to host Manchester United at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and Chelsea were to take on West Ham at Stamford Bridge.\n\nIn Scotland, postponements include the Scottish Professional Football League, Scottish Women's Premier League and Scottish Highland and Lowland Football Leagues, as well as Women's Scottish Cup fixtures.\n\nBritish racing has been cancelled on Saturday but will resume on Sunday, while the St Leger at Doncaster has been put back 24 hours.\n\nChepstow is also set to go ahead on Sunday, but Musselburgh's meeting has been called off because of the Queen lying in state in Edinburgh.\n\nBritish Horseracing Authority chief executive Julie Harrington said the Queen had \"an enduring and unique\" relationship with the sport, and that the running of the St Leger - won by the Queen's horse Dunfermline in 1977 - would enable racing to \"pay its respects to Her Majesty\".", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.\n\nShe died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, where she had spent much of the summer.\n\nThe Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.\n\nHer son King Charles III said the death of his beloved mother was a \"moment of great sadness\" for him and his family and that her loss would be \"deeply felt\" around the world.\n\nHe said: \"We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much-loved mother.\n\n\"I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.\"\n\nDuring the coming period of mourning, he said he and his family would be \"comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which the Queen was so widely held\".\n\nThe King and his wife, Camilla, now Queen Consort, will return to London on Friday, Buckingham Palace said. He is expected to address the nation.\n\nSenior royals had gathered at Balmoral after the Queen's doctors became concerned about her health earlier in the day.\n\nAll the Queen's children travelled to Balmoral, near Aberdeen, after doctors placed the Queen under medical supervision.\n\nHer grandson and now heir to the throne, Prince William, and his brother, Prince Harry, also gathered there.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss, who was appointed by the Queen on Tuesday, said the monarch was the rock on which modern Britain was built, who had \"provided us with the stability and strength that we needed\".\n\nSpeaking about the new King, she said: \"We offer him our loyalty and devotion, just as his mother devoted so much, to so many, for so long.\n\n\"And with the passing of the second Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country, exactly as Her Majesty would have wished, by saying the words 'God save the King'.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby - spiritual leader to the Church of England of which the monarch is supreme governor - expressed his \"profound sadness\".\n\nHe said his \"prayers are with the King and the Royal Family\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's death a huge shock to the nation and the world - Prime Minister Truss\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's tenure as head of state spanned post-war austerity, the transition from empire to Commonwealth, the end of the Cold War and the UK's entry into - and withdrawal from - the European Union.\n\nHer reign spanned 15 prime ministers starting with Winston Churchill, born in 1874, and including Ms Truss, born 101 years later in 1975.\n\nShe held weekly audiences with her prime minister throughout her reign.\n\nAt Buckingham Palace in London, crowds awaiting updates on the Queen's condition began crying as they heard of her death.\n\nThe union flag on top of the palace was lowered to half-mast at 18:30 BST and an official notice announcing the death was posted outside.\n\nOn the Queen's death, Prince William and his wife, Catherine, became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall.\n\nThe official notice read: \"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.\"\n\nThe Queen was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, in Mayfair, London, on 21 April 1926.\n\nFew could have foreseen she would become monarch but in December 1936 her uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated from the throne to marry the twice-divorced American, Wallis Simpson.\n\nElizabeth's father became King George VI and, at age 10, Lilibet, as she was known in the family, became heir to the throne.\n\nWithin three years, Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Elizabeth and her younger sister, Princess Margaret, spent much of wartime at Windsor Castle after their parents rejected suggestions they be evacuated to Canada.\n\nAfter turning 18, Elizabeth spent five months with the Auxiliary Territorial Service and learned basic motor mechanic and driving skills. \"I began to understand the esprit de corps that flourishes in the face of adversity,\" she recalled later.\n\nThrough the war, she exchanged letters with her third cousin, Philip, Prince of Greece, who was serving in the Royal Navy. Their romance blossomed and the couple married at Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947, with the prince taking the title of Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nShe would later describe him as \"my strength and stay\" through 74 years of marriage, before his death in 2021, aged 99.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh was at the Queen's side for more than six decades of reign, becoming the longest-serving consort in British history in 2009\n\nTheir first son, Charles, was born in 1948, followed by Princess Anne, in 1950, Prince Andrew, in 1960, and Prince Edward, in 1964. Between them, they gave their parents eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth was in Kenya in 1952, representing the ailing King, when Philip broke the news that her father had died. She immediately returned to London as the new Queen.\n\n\"It was all a very sudden kind of taking on and making the best job you can,\" she later recalled.\n\nElizabeth was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953, aged 27, in front of a then-record TV audience estimated at more than 20 million people.\n\nSubsequent decades would see great change, with the end of the British Empire overseas and the Swinging '60s sweeping away social norms at home.\n\nThousands gathered outside Buckingham Palace after the death was announced\n\nCharles, as the Prince of Wales, delivered the Queen's speech on behalf of his mother for the first time in May\n\nElizabeth reformed the monarchy for this less deferential age, engaging with the public through walkabouts, royal visits and attendance at public events.\n\nHer commitment to the Commonwealth was a constant - she visited every Commonwealth country at least once.\n\nBut there were periods of private and public pain.\n\nIn 1992, the Queen's \"annus horribilis\", fire devastated Windsor Castle - a private residence as well as working palace - and three of her children's marriages broke down.\n\nAfter the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car accident in Paris in 1997, the Queen drew criticism for appearing reluctant to respond publicly.\n\nThere were questions about the monarchy's relevance in modern society.\n\n\"No institution… should expect to be free from the scrutiny of those who give it their loyalty and support, not to mention those who don't,\" she acknowledged.\n\nElizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in Mayfair, London, on 21 April 1926, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York\n\nAs a 21-year-old princess, Elizabeth had vowed to devote her life to service.\n\nReflecting on those words decades later, during her Silver Jubilee in 1977, she declared: \"Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it.\"\n\nThat same commitment to serving was made 45 years later in a thank you letter to the nation on the weekend of her Platinum Jubilee in June.\n\nThe milestone was celebrated with a mix of state ceremonies and a colourful festival of all things British, as well as lively street parties.\n\nAlthough the Queen's health kept her from some events, she said: \"My heart has been with you all.\"\n\nIn a moment met with cheers from huge crowds in the Mall, she was joined by three generations of her family on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the finale of a pageant.\n\nOn her Platinum Jubilee, the Queen delighted crowds by appearing on the balcony with three generations of her family\n\nKing Charles, aged 73, becomes head of state in 15 Commonwealth realms, including the UK.\n\nHe and his wife, Camilla, are at Balmoral alongside his siblings, Princess Anne, and Princes Andrew and Edward.\n\nThey are accompanied by Edward's wife, Sophie, as well as Princes William and Harry.\n\nWilliam's wife, Catherine, remained at Windsor with their children - George, Charlotte and Louis - as it has been their first full day at a new school.\n\nPrince William drove a group of senior royals - including Prince Andrew and Prince Edward - to Balmoral\n\nPrince Harry arrived at Balmoral later to join other senior royals\n\nThe Royal Family has now entered a period of mourning. In the coming days, much of national life will be put on hold.\n\nOfficial engagements will be cancelled and union flags will be flown at half-mast on royal residences, government buildings, across the Armed Forces and on UK posts overseas.\n\nMembers of Parliament will pay tribute to the Queen and take an oath to King Charles.\n\nThere will be church bells tolling and gun salutes as local and national organisations and charities organise ways to pay their respects, with commemorative events and books of condolence.\n\nA state funeral for the Queen is expected in the next two weeks.\n\nForeign leaders have paid tribute to the Queen, with US President Joe Biden recalling how she stood in solidarity with the US in their \"darkest days\" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.\n\nTo France's president, Emmanuel Macron, she was a \"kind-hearted Queen\" and \"friend of France\".\n\nFor Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, the Queen was a constant in Canadians' lives and one of his \"favourite people in the world\".\n\nWhat are your memories of the Queen? Share your tributes and reflections by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@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. Watch: Tears and laughter as MPs and peers pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II\n\nPoliticians from both Houses of Parliament have gathered to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II and share their memories of the late monarch.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss described the Queen as one of the world's greatest-ever leaders, as she opened two days of special tributes in Parliament.\n\nMPs and ex-PMs paid their respects in personal speeches that aroused both tears and laughter in emotional scenes.\n\nA minute's silence was held to remember the Queen after 70 years on the throne.\n\nBoth Houses of Parliament are sitting on Friday and Saturday to allow politicians to pay tribute to the Queen, following her death on Thursday.\n\nFriday's proceedings in Parliament paused at 18:00 BST for MPs and peers to watch the new king, Charles III, deliver a televised address to the nation, his first as monarch.\n\nEarlier, King Charles III was greeted by crowds singing \"God save the king\" outside Buckingham Palace, where he held his first in-person audience with Ms Truss.\n\nOn Saturday, Ms Truss and senior ministers will attend the Accession Council at St James's Palace, where Charles will be formally proclaimed king.\n\nIn Parliament on Friday, MPs and peers from all sides, dressed in dark clothing, paid tribute to the Queen by sharing memories of their own encounters with her.\n\nThere have been many anecdotes about the Queen's wisdom, sense of humour and ability to put people at their ease.\n\nSome MPs laughed uproariously as former Prime Minister Theresa May recalled how mortified she was when the Queen caught her returning a dropped piece of cheese to a plate, as she helped prepare a picnic at Balmoral.\n\n\"I looked at her. She looked at me. And she just smiled. And the cheese remained on the table.\"\n\nBut the session began in solemn fashion, as Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle invited a packed Commons chamber to rise and observe a minute's silence.\n\nMPs stood for a minute's silence as they gathered for tributes to the Queen\n\nAs the silence ended, Sir Lindsay described the Queen as a \"devoted monarch\" who had seen 57 complete sessions of Parliament during her reign in a brief speech.\n\nMs Truss, who was appointed prime minister by the Queen just three days ago at Balmoral, paid tribute to her \"sheer humanity\", which she said had made her \"loved and admired\" all over the world.\n\nShe said her reign had been \"dignified but not distant\" and credited her with re-inventing the British monarchy for the modern age.\n\nThe Queen's successor, her eldest son King Charles III, now carried the \"awesome responsibility\" of the British crown, added the prime minister.\n\n\"The crown endures. Our nation endures. And in that spirit, I say God save the King.\"\n\nCheers of approval erupted from MPs, with some shouting \"God save the King\" from the side gallery in the moments after Ms Truss's speech concluded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss: Queen 'one of the greatest leaders the world has known'\n\nNext to speak was the leader of the Opposition, Labour MP Sir Keir Starmer, who reflected on the tumultuous political events of recent times and the extraordinary national change heralded by the Queen's death.\n\n\"When everything is spinning, a nation requires a still point, when times are difficult, it requires comfort, and when direction is hard to find, it requires leadership,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"The loss of our Queen robs this country of its stillest point, its greatest comfort, at precisely the time we need those things most.\"\n\nHe said the Queen had enjoyed a \"personal relationship with us all\", based on \"total commitment\" to duty and a \"deep devotion to the country, the Commonwealth, and the people she loved\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson - who offered the Queen his resignation as prime minister at Balmoral on Tuesday - reflected on that meeting, saying the late monarch \"was as radiant and as knowledgeable and as fascinated by politics as ever I can remember\".\n\nPraising the late monarch as \"Elizabeth the Great\", he recalled her \"humility\" and, like other former leaders, spoke of informal gatherings with the Royal Family, at Balmoral.\n\n\"Unlike us politicians, with our outriders and our armour-plated convoys, I can tell you as a direct eyewitness that she drove herself in her own car with no detectives and no bodyguard, bouncing at alarming speed over the Scottish landscape to the total amazement of the ramblers and the tourists we encountered.\"\n\nMrs May described her weekly prime ministerial meetings with the Queen as \"a conversation with a woman of experience and knowledge and immense wisdom\".\n\n\"They were also the one meeting I went to, which I knew it would not be briefed out to the media,\" Mrs May said, to laughter from MPs.\n\nHarriet Harman, who is known as Mother of the House, told MPs about the Queen's kindness after she lost her senior government role in 1998.\n\n\"My diary was empty, and my phone stopped ringing. My office was astonished to get a call from Buckingham Palace. No one else wanted to have anything to do with me, but the Queen wanted to see me.\n\n\"I was invited to take tea with the Queen for her to thank me for my service as secretary of state.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May shares an amusing story about how down-to-earth the Queen was\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford used his speech to draw attention to the Queen's well-known affection for Scotland, where she spent her final days at Balmoral Castle.\n\n\"The relationship between Scotland and the Queen was one of shared admiration,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"Indeed, whilst she was everyone's Queen, for many in Scotland, she was Elizabeth, Queen of Scots.\"\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said she was one of the few MPs to remember the Queen's coronation in 1953.\n\nThe veteran Labour MP shared fond memories of the Queen's sense of fun, and choked back tears as she hailed \"a remarkable person, a remarkable monarch\".\n\nMeanwhile in the Lords, the newly appointed leader of Parliament's upper house, Lord True, led tributes to the Queen, calling her an \"anchor of stability in a changing world\".\n\nEnding his moving tribute, Lord True looked poignantly at the sovereign's throne, where the Queen had sat for numerous state openings of Parliament, and said: \"Thank you, Ma'am. May you ever rest in peace as you will ever rest in our hearts.\"\n\nHis words were followed by those of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who spoke of the Queen's \"profound sense of being called by God\" and her dry sense of humour.\n\nAnd former Labour cabinet minister Lord Blunkett recalled how the Queen came to his aid after he ended up facing the wrong way as he knelt during a royal audience.\n\nThe blind peer said the Queen, in a \"careful and never patronising way\" managed to \"gently - by touching my arm - shift me round\".\n\nOn Saturday evening, Parliament will be postponed until after 21 September, during a period of national mourning.", "King Charles III has held his first audience with Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nVideo footage from inside a meeting between the British head of state and their prime minister is rare.\n\nThe King told Ms Truss that losing his mother was the day he had been dreading and that he must \"try and keep everything going\".", "The Queen was a big part of the community in the village near Balmoral, says the church minister Image caption: The Queen was a big part of the community in the village near Balmoral, says the church minister\n\nBalmoral, the Scottish castle where the Queen died, was the place where she \"enjoyed being normal\", according to royal historian Robert Lacey,\n\nSo it's no surprise that people in the nearby village of Ballater remember her with special affection.\n\n\"She was not just our Queen, she was a neighbour - and a big part of this community,\" says Rev David Barr at Glenmuick Church in the village.\n\nAlistair Cassie, who runs a hardware shop in Ballater and has a royal warrant for supplying Balmoral with its televisions, remembered being called to the castle to fix interference with the radio.\n\nThe Royal Banner of Scotland flies at half-mast at Balmoral Castle Image caption: The Royal Banner of Scotland flies at half-mast at Balmoral Castle\n\n\"I was walking along this corridor, and who did I meet but the Queen,\" he says. They chatted about her appreciation for the BBC Radio 2 presenter Jimmy Young.\n\nThe sprawling Balmoral Estate includes dozens of houses, many occupied by estate staff, and Cassie says at times the Queen would appear unannounced at someone's home, asking: \"How are you doing?\"\n\nGrant Harrold, a former butler to King Charles when he was Prince of Wales, says the Queen and Prince Philip would sometimes stay at a small cottage on the estate.\n\nHe says: \"From what I was told - I never witnessed it - she would be in the kitchen cooking away and he would lay the table, so it was very much a chance for them to be a normal couple.\"\n\nAlistair Cassie met the Queen on a formal visit - and unexpectedly in the corridor of the castle Image caption: Alistair Cassie met the Queen on a formal visit - and unexpectedly in the corridor of the castle", "There was joy as her family grew - here she is pictured with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, their son Archie and the duchess's mother Doria Ragland. But there were also continued strains on the family - including Prince Andrew's friendship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Prince Harry's growing disillusionment with life in the Royal Family", "Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech watched by the then taoiseach Enda Kenny in St Patrick's Hall at Dublin Castle in May 2011. The Queen extended her \"deep sympathy\" to all those who suffered in the turbulent history of Britain and Ireland", "The community of Ballater, less than eight miles from Balmoral, considered the Queen to be more of a friendly neighbour than a monarch.\n\nThe Royal Family have strong links with the local area, going back decades.\n\nButcher Brian Scott, of HM Sheridan which supplies Balmoral, said: \"She was a member of the community, more than just the Queen. She was a local to the village.\"\n\nThe grey skies and rain in Ballater the day after the Queen's death matched the sombre mood of the nation. However, the wet weather gave way to glimpses of sunshine.\n\nThe village went about its business as usual - albeit with a large media presence.\n\nPeople queued for buses to take their flowers to Balmoral\n\nPark-and-ride facilities were set up to take people by bus to Balmoral to pay their respects in an effort to tackle parking issues.\n\nAlmost everyone in the village seemed happy to speak when asked for their thoughts of the Queen, a sign of the high regard in which she was held there.\n\nFlowers have been laid in the centre of the village next to a picture of the Queen.\n\nBallater was badly hit by flooding in 2015 when the River Dee burst its banks during Storm Frank.\n\nThe Queen later met residents who had been impacted, and praised local efforts.\n\nOne of those she met was Brian Scott.\n\nButcher Brian Scott said the Queen always took an interest in local people\n\n\"She was very open, very willing to speak, asking questions, taking an interest,\" he said. \"She was a star, she liked a good laugh, she was a really nice person.\"\n\nHe added that everything about the village was royal, adding that King Charles helped to rebuild the village after the floods.\n\n\"Everything just kind of feels like it has gone pear-shaped,\" he said. \"Everybody in the village loved her. She will definitely be missed.\"\n\nAlistair Cassie runs a hardware shop in the village and provided Balmoral with its televisions.\n\n\"It was quite a contract and I was granted a royal warrant for my efforts,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\nHe said that on one occasion he bumped into the Queen while at the castle fixing a radio.\n\nHardware shop owner Alistair Cassie carried out work at Balmoral and had a royal warrant\n\n\"There was a tremendous interference on the radio, and it was caused by the police radios just squeezing the signal out,\" he said. \"So I was walking along this corridor and who did I meet but the Queen.\"\n\nAs they chatted she told him she enjoyed listening to Jimmy Young, the English disc jockey and radio personality.\n\n\"You needed to shy away if you saw the Corgis coming round the corner,\" he recalled.\n\n\"But she was very, very easy to talk to.\"\n\nMr Cassie was involved in the construction of a Jubilee cairn in Ballater featuring 60 stones from 30 hills.\n\n\"I was one of the guys who showed the Queen round,\" he said. \"I told her a few stories and she laughed. She had a great sense of humour, \" he said.\n\n\"She was lovely that day. She visited the schoolkids, they had a wee competition for her, and she spoke to a lot of the elderly people in the nursing home.\n\n\"It was a very social day and security were trying to rush her away because she had overstayed her time, but she took her time and spoke to everyone and that was a great thing to happen.\"\n\nHe said before royal security was as tight as today, the monarch would sometimes just appear at someone's house on the estate and say \"how are you doing?\".\n\nSpeaking about the Queen's death, he said: \"It's sad, but she had a wonderful life.\"\n\nFormer Royal butler Grant Harrold got to dance with the Queen at Balmoral\n\nGrant Harrold was a royal butler for King Charles from 2004 to 2011, when he was the Prince of Wales. He described the night he achieved a childhood dream of dancing with the Queen.\n\n\"It was a huge honour,\" said Airdrie-born Mr Harrold, who joined the royal household at the age of 26.\n\nMr Harrold, 44, had watched the Queen dancing on TV when he was just 15.\n\n\"One of my favourite memories was at Balmoral Castle where I actually did get to dance with her in the room I watched on this programme 11 years before,\" he said.\n\n\"It's one of those moments still to this very day I pinch myself and think 'Did that actually happen?'\n\n\"It was the ghillies ball where it wasn't unusual for the Queen to dance with family members and staff members and for me it was extraordinary. I was so nervous.\"\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip had a small cottage on the Balmoral Estate called Craig Gowan house.\n\n\"She called it her Highland paradise\", Mr Harrold told BBC Radio Four.\n\n\"It was very humble compared to the castle. It was described to me as that's where they would play Mr and Mrs and obviously that was where they could just be themselves.\n\n\"From what I was told - I never witnessed it - she would be in the kitchen cooking away and he would lay the table so it was very much a chance for them to be a normal couple.\"\n\nA book of condolence was opened at Glenmuick Church in Ballater\n\nThe Rev David Barr described the Queen as being \"compassionate and full of grace\"\n\nAt Glenmuick Church in Ballater a book of condolence has been opened. Rev David Barr said the church was open to allow to people to come in, sit and remember the Queen.\n\nHe said: \"She has been in this community for more than 30% of her life, as Queen and as a child. The Queen loved this place, the freedom.\n\n\"She was not just our Queen she was a neighbour, and a big part of this community. She was our anchor.\"\n\nChurch bells tolled in Ballater on Thursday evening when news of the Queen's death broke, with people stopping in their tracks and bowing their heads.\n\nRev Barr said: \"She was compassionate and full of grace. The Balmoral estate is a family - you lose one of your own.\n\n\"During the floods Her Majesty asked for a daily report. And she came here to thank individuals. And she was 90 at the time.\n\n\"She made you feel you were the only person in the world.\"\n\nIce cream parlour owner Cheryl Barr said the Queen \"gave her heart and soul\" to the community\n\nAcross from the church in the tight-knit community, the minister's daughter Cheryl Barr owns Shorty's ice cream parlour.\n\n\"You can feel the emotion from everybody around here,\" she said. \"She was a very powerful lady, but very gentle at the same time.\n\n\"She gave her heart and soul to our community - it's a great loss.\"\n\nCouncillor Geva Blackett, who represents Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside, said the Queen's death was a matter of great sadness locally but the strong links with the Royal Family would remain.\n\n\"She was one of the most remarkable people to ever have lived,\" she said. \"She is going to be incredibly missed.\"\n\nShe added: \"His Majesty also has very close links. He has been so involved over the years and given so much to the area.\"\n\nRobert Lacey, royal historian and author of the \"The Queen: A Life in Brief\", said Balmoral was a special place to the Queen.\n\n\"That she died in this corner of the United Kingdom where she enjoyed being normal is significant,\" he added.", "For two minutes today the drumming will cease, the pipers will fall silent, the march of boots on procession routes will still.\n\nFor two minutes today, at the end of the funeral service in Westminster Abbey, before the national anthem is heard, before the coffin is taken away for committal and burial at Windsor, there will be silence.\n\nA reign of seven decades will come to a close. For 10 rather bewildering days we have spoken of the Queen and the new king as if they could somehow both be with us.\n\nToday that long week of transition comes to an end.\n\nIn the earliest years of her reign, a new Elizabethan Age was proclaimed by some. Such was the excitement over the young queen, the marvels of technology and the new prosperity, after the grinding grey of the depression years, the sacrifice of World War Two and the hard road of recovery after it.\n\nShe - wise in her earliest decades to fickle fashion - dismissed all that talk. But if this was not an age - and who are we to contradict her? - then it was an era, the Elizabethan Era.\n\nOver decades of wrenching change, she was constancy, for a largely still-conservative country. That profile on the stamps, that voice at Christmas, that bowed head on Remembrance Sunday.\n\nToday the door swings shut on that.\n\nIt swings shut too on \"Prince\" Charles, on his many decades as Prince of Wales.\n\nHis staff always bridled at the idea of him as an understudy or apprentice, pointing to his decades of achievement, of carving out a distinct role.\n\nThe Unseen Queen showed a side of Her Majesty that was kept out of sight, but never disappeared\n\nHis challenge, once Royal Mourning is over, is in part to enjoy - and show that he enjoys - the role of monarch.\n\nHis mother understood that part of the job was to rally people - to take people's minds off bills and dull jobs and complaining relatives, to entertain and divert and sometimes delight.\n\nThat he did good work as prince, transforming so many lives for the better, is unquestionable. But often, alongside, the impression given was that things were grim, that there was a lot of cause for complaint. The word \"appalling\" seemed to come up a lot.\n\nNow the door swings shut on that. Britons want to see the best of themselves reflected in their sovereign.\n\nAnd, as the silence stretches out across Westminster, across the capital and the country, the door swings shut on Elizabeth, on the woman known to so many and never really known at all, on the little girl known to her grandpa as Lilibet.\n\nIn The Unseen Queen, the BBC's beautiful documentary of family-filmed footage of the young princess, Lilibet prances and dances, pranks and laughs. Her eyes shine with laughter. And they shine with love, for her father, the king who would die so early, and her husband Prince Philip, who would be by her side for so long.\n\nOver the decades that prancing, dancing, loving girl and young woman was by necessity put out of sight. This past week have come reminders from friends and confidantes, and those members of the public she let into the secret, that Lilibet was always there.\n\n\"You always hope that future generations will find them interesting,\" she said of the family films, \"and perhaps be surprised that you too were young once\".\n\nNo-one should be too surprised. Because in her final months, that youthful Elizabeth, that Lilibet, returned to public view with that playful gleam in her eye, drawing a marmalade sandwich from her handbag.\n\nThe handbag is closed. The gleam is now a memory. And today the door swings shut.", "Thousands of people have been queuing along the banks of the River Thames to view the Queen's coffin as she lies in state in London's Westminster Hall.\n\nQueues have been building since Wednesday morning, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to pay their respects before her funeral on Monday.\n\nA line of mourners hoping to view the coffin is snaking for around five miles from Westminster across Lambeth Bridge and along the river to Southwark Park. Some have queued for hours, sometimes overnight, in all weathers for a chance to pay their respects.\n\nWestminster Hall opened its doors to the public on Wednesday after a grand procession brought the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace. The lying-in-state will continue until 06:30 BST on Monday, the day of the state funeral. The government has warned people could face 30-hour waits to get in.\n\nThey will walk by the Queen's closed coffin, which rests on a raised platform, known as a catafalque, beneath the 11th Century hall's medieval timber roof.\n\nEach corner of the platform is being guarded in a continuous vigil by soldiers from units that serve the Royal Household.\n\nThe coffin is draped in the Royal Standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown, a wreath of white roses and dahlias and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre.\n\nThe grand hall is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, at the heart of British government.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nThe BBC has a dedicated live stream for those unable to travel to London. The service is available in the UK on the BBC home page, the BBC News website and app, iPlayer, BBC Parliament and the red-button. It is also available internationally via bbc.com/news.\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds of mourners packed the streets between Buckingham Palace and Westminster for the slow ceremonial procession to carry the coffin to the hall.\n\nIn the bright sunshine that followed the rain, the coffin made its way through the heart of the capital borne on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by seven black horses.\n\nA huge 18 hands-tall (183cm) veteran horse named Lord Firebrand, ridden by Capt Amy Cooper, led the procession and set the pace.\n\nThe gun carriage, known as the George Gun Carriage, carried King George VI's coffin in 1952 and was used in the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.\n\nTo the sound of funeral marches played by the Scots Guards and the Grenadier Guards, the procession stepped off at a slow pace of 75 steps per minute - a tempo typically reserved for such sombre occasions.\n\nKing Charles III, wearing full ceremonial uniform, followed behind the coffin on foot, accompanied by his siblings as well as his sons, Prince William, dressed in his Royal Air Force uniform, and Prince Harry in a morning suit.\n\nThe King and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, were among those following the coffin\n\nThe sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, evoked poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral 25 years ago, said royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.\n\nUp to 1,000 members of the armed forces in ceremonial dress took part in events surrounding the parade.\n\nBehind mounted Metropolitan Police, the procession was headed by the Household Cavalry and the Grenadier and Scots Guards. They were followed, just ahead of the Queen's coffin, by members of the Royal Household, those working closely with the Queen.\n\nFollowing the King and other royals behind the coffin and bringing up the rear of the procession were members of the King's former household, when he was known as the Prince of Wales.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex travelled to the hall by car.\n\nGuns were being fired from Hyde Park at one-minute intervals throughout the procession. Big Ben also tolled.\n\nAs her coffin passed by some in the crowd burst into tears, BBC correspondent Nick Beake said. Others made the sign of the cross, army veterans saluted their former commander-in-chief - while families embraced, he added.\n• None Procession for the Lying-in-State of Her Majesty The Queen - Gov.uk The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of members of the armed forces from the UK and abroad have taken part in the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II - one of the grandest ceremonial events in living memory.\n\nA procession involving the military, the Royal Family and those who have dedicated their lives to service of the Queen, gave the late monarch a final farewell full of pomp and pageantry ahead of her burial in Windsor.\n\nHere's everything you need to know about the main funeral cortege.\n\nMilitary personnel from the UK and the Commonwealth marched through London while others lined the route, providing guards of honour or undertaking other ceremonial duties.\n\nThe Queen, who was head of the armed forces and served as their commander-in-chief, had a close personal relationship with the military and they accompanied her on processions throughout the day.\n\nThe first, and shortest, of the processions on Monday carried her coffin to Westminster Abbey for the funeral service. The second took her from the Abbey to Wellington Arch, where the coffin was transferred to the State Hearse for the road journey to Windsor. In Windsor, her coffin joined a third procession to St George's Chapel in the castle's grounds.\n\nBut the main focus was the journey through central London. The cortege, led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were also involved.\n\nThe Queen's coffin, topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, was at the centre of the procession carried on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nShe was accompanied by the bearer party of the Grenadier Guards, the King's Body Guards of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new King and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed behind.\n\nThey were joined by members of the Royal Household.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex followed the procession in cars. Behind them were Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the daughters of the Prince Andrew.\n\nMounted Metropolitan Police\n• Royal Canadian Mounted Police\n• Bands of The Rifles and Brigade of Gurkhas\n• Representatives of the George Cross from Malta, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the UK National Health Service\n\nRepresentative detachments of Commonwealth forces: Territorial Air Force of New Zealand\n• Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment\n• The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers\n• Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps\n• Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery\n• Royal New Zealand Navy\n• Royal Australian Air Force Reserve\n• Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps\n• Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps\n• Royal Australian Infantry Corps\n• Royal Australian Engineers\n• Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery\n• Royal Australian Navy\n• The Canadian Armed Forces Legal Branch\n• The Royal Canadian Air Force (Reserve)\n• The Calgary Highlanders\n• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada\n• The 48th Highlanders of Canada\n• The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment\n• The Royal New Brunswick Regiment\n• Le Regiment de Ia Chaudière\n• The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (Princess Louise's)\n• The Canadian Grenadier Guards\n• Governor General's Foot Guards\n• Royal 22e Regiment\n• The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) The Governor General's Horse Guards\n• The Royal Canadian Engineers\n• The Canadian Armed Forces Military Engineering Branch\n• The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery\n\nRepresentatives of the Royal Air Force: 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force\n• Royal Auxiliary Air Force\n• Royal Air Force Marham\n• The Combined Bands of the Royal Air Force\n• Royal Air Force College, Cranwell\n• Royal Air Force Regiment\n\nRepresentatives of the Army: The Honourable Artillery Company\n• Adjutant General's Corps\n• British Army Bands Sandhurst and Colchester\n• The Queen's Gurkha Engineers\n• The Royal Welsh\n• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment\n• The Royal Regiment of Scotland\n• Welsh Guards\n• Irish Guards\n• Scots Guards\n• Coldstream Guards\n• Grenadier Guards\n• Bands of the Irish Guards and Welsh Guards\n• Corps of Royal Engineers\n• Royal Regiment of Artillery\n• Royal Tank Regiment\n• The Royal Lancers\n• The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)\n\nRepresentatives of the Royal Navy: Royal Marines Reserve\n• Royal Naval Reserve\n• Royal Marines\n• Royal Navy\n• Bands of the Royal Marines\n\nDefence advisers and staff of Her Majesty's realms: New Zealand\n• Australia\n• Canada\n\nRepresentative colonels of Commonwealth forces of which Her Majesty was Colonel-in-Chief\n\nChaplains of the armed forces: Principal Church of Scotland & Free Church Chaplain Royal Air Force\n• Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain Royal Air Force\n• Chaplain-in-Chief Royal Air Force\n• Deputy Chaplain General (Army)\n• Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Army)\n• Chaplain General (Army)\n• Principal Church of Scotland and Free Churches Chaplain (Royal Navy)\n• Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Royal Navy)\n• Chaplain of the Fleet\n\nRepresentatives of forces of which the Queen was air commodore-in-chief\n• Representative Colonels Commandant, Colonels and Honorary Colonels of Her Majesty's Regiments and Corps\n• Commandant General, Royal Marines\n• Representatives of Her Majesty's ships\n• Commander Strategic Command\n• Vice Chief of the Defence Staff\n• Chief of the Air Staff\n• Chief of the General Staff\n• Chief of the Naval Staff\n• Chief of the Defence Staff\n• Drum Horse and State Trumpeter\n• 1st Division of the Sovereign's Escort\n• ADC to the Major General Commanding the Household Division\n• Brigade Major Household Division\n• Major General Commanding the Household Division\n• Combined Bands of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards\n\nPursuivants and Heralds of Arms of Scotland: March\n• Linlithgow\n• Ormond\n• Rothesay\n• Falkland\n• Unicorn\n• Carrick\n• Marchmont\n\nPursuivants and Heralds of Arms of England: Portcullis\n• Rouge Dragon\n• Norfolk\n• Windsor\n• York\n• Bluemantle\n• Wales\n• Maltravers\n• Chester\n• Richmond\n\nKings of Arms: Norroy and Ulster King of Arms\n• Lord Lyon King of Arms\n• Clarenceux King of Arms\n• Lady Usher of the Black Rod\n• Garter King of Arms\n\nThe Earl Marshal\n• Bands of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards\n• Captain, the King's Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard\n• Captain general, the King's Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) (Gold Stick for Scotland)\n• Captain, His Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms\n\nRoyal Household; Vice Chamberlain of the Household\n• Comptroller of the Household\n• Treasurer of the Household\n• Queen's Gurkha Orderly Officer (x2)\n• Royal Waterman (x2)\n• Master of the Horse\n• Lord Steward\n• Director of the Royal Collection\n• Comptroller Lord Chamberlain's Office\n• Master of the Household\n• Keeper of the Privy Purse\n• Private secretary to the Queen\n• Deputy private secretary (x2)\n• Queen's Page (x2)\n• Palace Steward\n\nEscort Party of the Household Cavalry: Escort Commander\n• Field Officer of the Escort\n• Standard Coverer\n• Sovereign's Standard of the Royal Navy\n• Trumpeter\n\nRoyal Family: The Earl of Wessex and Forfar\n• The Duke of York\n• The Princess Royal\n• The King\n• Peter Phillips\n• The Duke of Sussex\n• The Prince of Wales\n• Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence\n• The Duke of Gloucester\n• The Earl of Snowdon\n\nRoyal Car 1: The Queen Consort\n• The Princess of Wales\n\nRoyal Car 2: The Duchess of Sussex\n• The Countess of Wessex and Forfar\n\nField officer in Brigade Waiting\n• Silver Stick in Waiting\n• Colonel Coldstream Guards\n• Gold Stick in Waiting\n• Adjutant in Brigade Waiting\n• Silver Stick Adjutant\n• Crown Equerry\n\nHousehold of the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall: Private secretary\n• Principal Private Secretary\n• Equerry (x2)\n• Master of the Household\n\nSecond division of the Sovereign's escort\n\nRepresentatives of Civilian Services: Merchant Navy\n• Royal Fleet Auxiliary\n• The Maritime Coastguard Agency\n• Police Services\n• Fire and Rescue Services\n• His Majesty's Prison Services\n• Ambulance Service\n• British Red Cross\n• St John Ambulance\n• Royal Voluntary Service\n• Cadet forces\n\nOnce the procession reached Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, the coffin was transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle.\n\nJust after 15:00 BST, the hearse arrived for a walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk. The three-mile (5km) avenue was lined with crowds and members of the armed forces.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle a little later ready for the committal service and later burial at St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "On top of Her Majesty's coffin was a wreath, the Imperial State Crown, and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre\n\nEven when you know something important has happened, it can still have the power to shock. Particularly when you see it with your own eyes. I had a close-up view inside Westminster Abbey, and that electric moment came when the Queen's coffin was brought up the aisle.\n\nThis was history before us, solemn, spectacular and intense.\n\nHeads of state, dignitaries and local community heroes, side by side on this once-in-a-lifetime guest list, suddenly stood up to attention together. The significance of the moment was almost audible. The chatter, the WhatsApps, texts and Tweets from the crowded pews stopped in its tracks. There was a sharp intake of breath.\n\nWe were watching something that we'd remember all our lives. An era was ending, step by step, right before our eyes, here and now, as the soldiers carrying the coffin shuffled up the aisle.\n\nDuke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince and Princess of Wales and their children George and Charlotte, in Westminster Abbey\n\nThe pallbearers prepare to lay the coffin down in front of the Royal Family\n\nKing Charles stared straight ahead. Maybe one of his medals was for surviving the exhaustion of the past 11 days. He looked like he must be aching for rest, and who could blame him?\n\n\"We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we carry nothing out,\" sang the choir, sending up their voices into the high gothic arches.\n\nThe congregation of the century was gathered for this state funeral. The Royal Family, NHS workers, political heavyweights, so many world leaders that they had to be loaded onto buses like schoolchildren on an outing.\n\nUS President Joe Biden had travelled in an armour-plated car called the Beast. Others of us had come in an overcrowded sea of people called the District Line.\n\nPresident Biden, holding hands with Jill Biden, looked around the abbey before taking a seat at the side. It can't be often that a US president is not the centre of attention.\n\nEx-prime ministers were clustered together, nodding awkwardly like Doctor Whos from rival eras.\n\nUS President Biden holds hands with his wife, Jill, as they arrive at Westminster Abbey\n\nThe congregation included current Prime Minister Liz Truss and former prime ministers Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair and Major\n\n\"Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts,\" sang the choir.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex, William and Harry, were on different sides of the aisle looking sombre - and anyone trying to read the expression of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, or Catherine, Princess of Wales, were faced with the wide brim of their hats.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron had arrived earlier and stood in the aisle slightly lost, like someone looking for friends at a wedding.\n\nFour candles stood around the coffin. The orb and sceptre glowed. The Imperial State Crown was poking up from behind the spray of flowers. On the top of the crown was a big blue sapphire once worn on a ring by Edward the Confessor more than 900 years ago.\n\nIt was an extraordinary spectacle to witness first-hand - the plumed helmets, the convoys of overseas royals, the sea of black mourning clothes, the security whisperers, the bright clerics' robes and the heralds dressed like a pack of cards.\n\nEven the statues in Poet's Corner seemed to be craning round to see.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss looked tense but held steady as she went up for her reading. \"Let your heart not be troubled.\"\n\nThe congregation stood up to sing the Lord's My Shepherd. It's one of those hymns that lulls you into its sadness. Voices begin to catch. \"Though I walk through death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill.\"\n\nYou could feel the static in the air.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, had the impossible task of doing justice to the longest reign in British history. He spoke straight to the point. A woman of deep faith had gone to her final rest in the firm conviction of her beliefs. She had every expectation that we would \"meet again\".\n\nBut at the centre of everything here was the Queen's coffin and her mourning family, an inescapable message of what had happened. This was a moment to say goodbye.\n\nA trumpet played the Last Post. The silence that followed was even louder. This was how things end. In this immense quiet an era was closing. This was our moment of history. Time doesn't stand still, it never does, whether for a head of state or a nurse on a shift. The New Elizabethan era in which most of us had grown up had finished. The 20th Century boys and girls were now grey-haired parents and grandparents. Everyone has their own story to remember.\n\nA piper played a lament as the Queen was carried slowly towards the abbey doors, the same doors where she'd once stood on her wedding day as a 21-year-old bride. On her coffin was a sprig of myrtle grown from a cutting from her wedding bouquet.\n\nThe guests stepped outside into the daylight, stunned witnesses to something momentous. It wasn't just that we'd said farewell to the Queen, it was the recognition that we'd lost part of our own lives.\n\nThis was a date to be underlined in a future text book. A chapter closing. But the area around the abbey had been sealed tight with security and there were no crowds on the pavement. We were in a new era and outside there was silence.\n• None 'She made each person she met feel important' - your tributes to the Queen", "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he doesn't see Canada breaking ties with the British Crown anytime soon.\n\nThe complexities of moving away from a constitutional monarchy are not what \"Canadians are overly taken up with right now\", he told the BBC.\n\nHe said he appreciated the \"steadiness\" of the current system.\n\nMr Trudeau is also facing controversy after a video captured him singing a song by British rock band Queen in a London hotel over the weekend.\n\nThe short video clip, which began circulating on social media late Sunday, shows the prime minister singing Bohemian Rhapsody as Quebec musician Gregory Charles plays the piano.\n\nMr Trudeau's office confirmed on Monday the authenticity of the video, and said it was captured at the lobby of the Corinthia London Hotel on Saturday evening as part of a small gathering with members of the Canadian delegation.\n\nMusician Mr Charles told the Toronto Star he played \"a few UK tunes as a spontaneous homage\".\n\nThe prime minister and his wife, Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, have been in London since 16 September to attend Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.\n\nThe couple travelled alongside a delegation that includes Governor General Mary Simon, former prime ministers, indigenous leaders, and recipients of the Order of Canada - the second-highest civilian honour in the country - including Canadian actress Sandra Oh and Mr Charles.\n\nMr Trudeau's remarks and support for the monarchy come as some debate its future in Canada in light of the Queen's death.\n\n\"There's a nice balance to the system we have that I think is going to continue to serve Canadians extraordinarily well,\" Mr Trudeau told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nIn Canada, the monarch - now King Charles - is the head of state. The monarchy serves a mainly symbolic role, with the power to govern entrusted to the Canadian government.\n\nChanging the current system would need approval from both the House of Commons and the Senate in parliament, as well as the unanimous consent of all 10 provinces.\n\nMr Trudeau also reflected on his first time meeting the Queen as a child, when his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was prime minister.\n\n\"I was seven years old and I had to rush back from school to meet her,\" he told the BBC, recalling how he was he had to keep his shoes scrubbed for the event.\n\n\"Of course I got them all muddy, so I remember just before running home having to go into the school washroom with a buddy of mine, cleaning off my shoes so I could have clean shoes for meeting the Queen,\" he said.\n\nIt was an important moment, he added, even in a prime ministerial household that saw many world leaders walk through its doors.\n\n\"I just remember looking up at her back then and and having her being just lovely and thoughtful and gracious with me even even at that point,\" Mr Trudeau said.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nDavid Beckham and Tyson Fury have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her state funeral.\n\nSport came to a standstill once more on Monday as a mark of respect for the UK's longest-serving monarch, with sporting personalities and organisations sharing condolences.\n\nFormer England football captain Beckham remembered Her Majesty as a \"unique, inspirational and caring leader\".\n\nHeavyweight boxing champion Fury said: \"May she rest in heaven for eternity.\"\n\nBeckham, who queued for 13 hours to see the Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall, wrote on Instagram: \"Our Queen is home. Today we said a final farewell to Her Majesty The Queen.\n\n\"This week the world has mourned the loss of a unique, inspirational and caring leader. People from all walks of life came together in their thousands to show gratitude for our beloved Queen.\n\n\"Alongside the incredible ceremony and tradition we have watched a loving family grieve for a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother with dignity and dedication.\n\n\"Her legacy of service and devotion to duty will endure. Long live the King.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Fury posted a video online in which he said: \"I've been off social media for the last 10 days mourning in respect for our Queen who's died.\n\n\"I hope the funeral goes well, condolences to the full family and may she rest in heaven for eternity.\"\n\nThe English Football League wrote on its Twitter page: \"On the day of the funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the EFL and its clubs would like to join the nation in reflecting on the late Sovereign's remarkable life of service to the country, and our thoughts are with the Royal Family.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Premier League side Southampton posted a photo of the Queen handing the FA Cup to their captain Peter Rodrigues after the 1976 final win over Manchester United at Wembley - the last time she presented the trophy.\n\nHorse racing, Her Majesty's favourite sport, originally had meetings scheduled at Leicester, Warwick, Hamilton Park and Wolverhampton on Monday, before the date of the funeral was confirmed.\n\nA number of notable sporting figures attended the funeral at Westminster Abbey, including the Queen's racing manager John Warren, who on Saturday described her \"remarkable ability to get so much pleasure out of any horse, no matter what level that horse was able to achieve\".\n\nHe said: \"If we had done our best, if we were able to get the equivalent of a D student a C grade with best endeavour, that itself was tremendous. The horse had the last word and that's what was fascinating for the Queen.\"\n\nMoments of silence had been held across British sporting fixtures at the weekend.\n\nOn Saturday, Premier League and Women's Super League clubs paid tribute to the Queen as the competitions returned to weekend action for the first time since her death.\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", "US President Joe Biden has again said the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by China.\n\nAsked in a CBS interview if US troops would defend the island, Mr Biden said: \"Yes, if in fact, there was an unprecedented attack.\"\n\nThe remarks prompted the White House to clarify that the official US policy - which doesn't commit to military action on Taiwan - had not changed.\n\nBeijing said it \"deplores and firmly opposes\" Mr Biden's pledge of action.\n\nThe foreign ministry said it had lodged \"stern representations\" with Washington over the remarks, broadcast in a CBS 60 Minutes interview on Sunday.\n\nTaiwan is a self-ruled island off the coast of eastern China that Beijing claims as part of its territory.\n\nWashington has always walked a diplomatic tightrope over the issue.\n\nOn the one hand it adheres to the One China policy, a cornerstone of its relationship with Beijing. Under this policy, the US acknowledges that there is only one Chinese government, and has formal ties with Beijing rather than Taiwan.\n\nBut it also maintains close relations with Taiwan and sells arms to it under the Taiwan Relations Act, which states that the US must provide the island with the means to defend itself.\n\nMr Biden's comments, his clearest yet in pledging US military intervention, seemingly run counter to Washington's stance of \"strategic ambiguity\" - it does not commit to defending Taiwan, but also does not rule out the option.\n\nIn Sunday's interview Mr Biden also reiterated that the US was not encouraging Taiwan independence.\n\n\"There's a One China policy and Taiwan makes their own judgements on their independence. We are not moving, not encouraging their being independent - that's their decision,\" he said.\n\nTaiwan responded to Mr Biden's remarks on Monday by welcoming the \"US government's rock-solid security commitment to Taiwan\". Taipei said it would continue to deepen its \"close security partnership\" with Washington.\n\nOnly earlier this month, the US agreed to sell $1.1bn (£955m) in weaponry and missile defence to Taiwan, provoking anger from China.\n\nThis is the third time since October last year that President Biden has gone further than the official stance.\n\nIn May, speaking in Japan on his first tour of Asia as president, he said \"Yes\" when asked if the US would defend Taiwan.\n\nThe White House had quickly issued a follow up saying there was no departure from long-standing US policy.\n\nThis time too the White House issued a statement, downplaying the president's comments: \"The President has said this before, including in Tokyo earlier this year. He also made clear then that our Taiwan policy hasn't changed. That remains true.\"\n\nBeijing has previously condemned such comments from Mr Biden promising US military action.\n\n\"Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory... The Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair that brooks no foreign interference,\" a foreign ministry spokesman had said in May in response to Mr Biden's remarks in Japan.\n\nTensions between US and China - especially over Taiwan - have ramped up after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a controversial visit to the island in August - a trip Mr Biden had said was \"not a good idea\".\n\nBeijing responded with a five-day military blockade around Taiwan. The US claims China shot missiles over the island, but Beijing did not confirm this. Taiwan said the missiles China fired flew high into the atmosphere and posed no threat.\n\nElsewhere in the pre-recorded interview, Mr Biden also warned Russia not to use chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden warns Putin not to use tactical nuclear weapons", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Perseverance's super detailed panorama of the delta's edge and surrounding landscape\n\nThe US space agency's Perseverance rover is close to completing its first set of objectives on Mars.\n\nThe Nasa robot has collected a diverse set of rock samples that it will soon deposit on the surface, awaiting carriage to Earth by later missions.\n\nIt's 17 months since the vehicle arrived in an area called Jezero Crater, slung below a rocket crane.\n\nEverything \"Percy\" has seen since confirms to scientists the rover is in the perfect place to hunt for life.\n\nIt's not looking for any organisms that are alive today; the harsh environment on Mars makes their presence highly improbable. Rather, the robot is searching for the traces of a biology that could have existed billions of years ago when Jezero was filled with a lake.\n\nThis ancient history, scientists hope, is now recorded in the \"amazing\" rock samples that will be laid down in \"a depot\" in the next couple of months.\n\n\"If [Jezero's ancient] conditions existed pretty much anywhere on Earth at any point in time over the last 3.5 billion years, I think it's safe to say, or at least assume, that biology would have done its thing and left its mark in these rocks for us to observe,\" said David Shuster, a Perseverance mission scientist from the University of California, Berkeley.\n\nPerseverance's mission is to drill rocks and store samples for later return to Earth laboratories\n\nNasa and the European Space Agency are working up a plan to retrieve the rock cache. It's an audacious plan that will involve another landing system, some helicopters, a Martian rocket and an interplanetary freighter.\n\nThe goal is to have the samples back on Earth in 2033.\n\nThe delivery will include some examples of igneous, or volcanic, rocks that Perseverance drilled out on the crater floor. These will tell the story, mostly, of Jezero before it was filled with lake water.\n\nCritically, the samples are of a rock type that can be definitively dated. At present, ages on Mars can only be inferred indirectly.\n\nThe other part of the cache will include sedimentary type rocks that Perseverance has been collecting in recent months from the delta deposits in the western sector of the 45km-wide crater.\n\nA delta is a structure built up from the silt and sand dumped by a river as it slows on entry into a wider body of water.\n\nIt's the kind of geological feature that might just have trapped traces of past microbial life.\n\nLooking at the sedimentary core samples drilled by Perseverance. Wildcat Ridge is on the left\n\nOne of the sedimentary samples, from a rock nicknamed \"Wildcat Ridge\", was formed when muds settled in the Jezero lake as it was evaporating. It's full of salts. But the rover's instrumentation shows that Wildcat Ridge also contains abundant organic, or carbon-rich, compounds.\n\nThis is a tantalising observation but comes with important caveats.\n\n\"All life as we know it is made up of organics. But, importantly, organic matter can also be made up by processes that are chemical and not related to life; for instance, through water rock interactions. And organics are also found in interstellar dust,\" said Sunanda Sharma, a mission instrument scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).\n\nThe rock samples are cached in titanium tubes. A collection of them will soon be dropped on the surface\n\nFor the last four months, Perseverance has been working on the 40m-high scarp that represents the edge of the delta.\n\nThe robot will shortly drive off this slope to a nearby flat area of the crater floor where the rock samples, in their protective titanium tubes, can be deposited on the ground.\n\n\"We're looking at the potential of putting down 10 to 11 sample tubes here on the surface,\" said JPL project systems engineer Rick Welch.\n\n\"It would then take about two months to probably put those samples down and actually carefully document where they are, so that a future mission can actually find them.\"\n\nNasa engineers have been practising how the tubes, currently in the belly of Perseverance, will be ejected. They have a full-sized copy of the rover at JPL on which to simulate manoeuvres before sending up commands to Mars to carry out the actions for real.\n\nA go/no-go decision is expected to be made by Nasa following a meeting on 19 October.\n\nIt may be that this first depot dropped by Perseverance becomes an insurance back-up, to be collected for return to Earth only if the rover suffers a catastrophic failure on the rest of its mission.\n\nScientists want to collect many more samples, in which case the retrieval plan may focus on where the robot goes in future.\n\nA final determination will be driven by events on Mars.\n\nLori Glaze, the director of Nasa's planetary science division, lauded the \"incredible Perseverance team\" for the mission achievements so far.\n\n\"We not only went to the right place, but we sent the right spacecraft with the right science instruments to explore this amazing ancient environment on Mars,\" she told reporters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Mexico's western coast on the same day the country marked the anniversaries of two devastating quakes which killed thousands of people.\n\nThe 7.6 magnitude quake hit the coastal states of Michoacan and Colima shortly after 13:00 local time (18:00 GMT).\n\nSo far, one person is known to have been killed, officials said.\n\nBut on Monday night, US officials issued a tsunami warning for parts of Mexico's western coastline.\n\nThe US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that waves reaching up to 3m (up to 9ft) above the tide level could hit coastal areas overnight.\n\nThe tremors originated at a depth of 15km (9.32 miles), near the town of La Placita de Morelos.\n\nA mandatory evacuation order was issued in Mexico City after the quake, but Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said that so far there had been no reports of damage.\n\nIt came just an hour after the city had held emergency disaster drills. Local resident Karina Suare told the AFP news agency that the strong shakes \"felt terrible\".\n\nPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador tweeted that he had spoken with Michoacan's Governor Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla and been assured that there were only reports of \"material damage\" to the region.\n\nEarlier, Mr López Obrador had taken part in a flag raising ceremony to commemorate the victims of two previous deadly earthquakes.\n\nIn 1985, tremors with a magnitude of 8.0 hit the capital, Mexico City. Thousands of people were killed, with wide-ranging estimates of the final toll. Hundreds of buildings collapsed and the event is said to have caused between $3bn and $4bn (£2.6bn and £3.5bn) worth of damage.\n\nAnd in 2017, some 370 people were killed in the city of Puebla in central Mexico after it was rocked by a 7.1 magnitude quake, which also saw more than 40 buildings collapse.\n\nErnesto Lanzetta, a local business owner in Mexico City, eluded to the conspicuous nature of the date, telling Reuters news agency that \"there's something about the 19th\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Smiling Adnan Syed is cheered as his conviction is tossed\n\nA US judge has quashed a Baltimore man's murder conviction in a case that spawned hit true crime podcast Serial.\n\nAdnan Syed was 18 when he was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, whose body was found buried in the woods in 1999.\n\nProsecutors last week asked the court to throw out his conviction, saying a year-long case review had turned up two alternative suspects.\n\nMr Syed will be released into home detention.\n\nThe 41-year-old's shackles were taken off in court on Monday after he spent nearly 23 years behind bars.\n\nBaltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn said she was vacating his conviction \"in the interest of fairness and justice\", adding the state had failed to share evidence that could have helped his defence at trial.\n\nThe decision does not mean he is innocent. Judge Phinn has ordered a new trial.\n\nA jury found Mr Syed guilty in 2000 of premeditated murder, kidnapping, robbery and false imprisonment.\n\nProsecutors argued he was a scorned lover who had strangled Ms Lee, his classmate at Woodlawn High School, and - with the help of a friend - hid her body in Baltimore's Leakin Park. They relied in part on mobile phone location data that has since been proven unreliable.\n\nEvery appeal Mr Syed filed over the past two decades was denied, including his most recent attempt in 2019.\n\nIt was the 2014 podcast Serial that focused worldwide attention on the case and cast doubt on Mr Syed's guilt. Episodes of the show have been downloaded more than 340 million times. The case has also spawned other works, including an HBO docuseries in 2019.\n\nThe Baltimore State Attorney's Office, which studied the case over the past year alongside Mr Syed's latest defence attorney, said on Wednesday that he deserved a new trial.\n\nProsecutors said they lacked \"confidence in the integrity of the conviction\" and had identified two new potential suspects who were known to police since the 1999 murder.\n\nNeither suspect has been named, but officials said both had documented records of violence towards women, including convictions that occurred after Mr Syed's trial. One suspect was cleared from the investigation into Ms Lee's death after failing a lie-detector test, a method no longer admissible in many US courts.\n\n\"Our prosecutors have been sworn to not only aggressively advocate on behalf of victims of crime but when the evidence exists to exonerate those that have been falsely accused and convicted,\" lead prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said outside the court.\n\nShe was interrupted by loud cheers as Mr Syed exited the building through a scrum of cameras and supporters.\n\nBefore the ruling, the victim's brother told the court through tears that he was \"not against the investigation\", but had been blind-sided by prosecutors.\n\n\"Every day when I think it's over... or it's ended, it always comes back. It's killing me,\" said Young Lee.\n\n\"This is not a podcast for me. This is real life - a never-ending nightmare for 20-plus years.\"\n\nSteve Kelly, a victim's rights lawyer for the family, said the Lees had been \"shut out of the legal process\" and were \"deeply disappointed\" with the way they had been treated.\n\n\"All they wanted was information,\" said Mr Kelly. \"If the truth is that somebody else killed their daughter, they want to know that more than anyone.\"\n\nSerial Productions, which produced the podcast, has just released a new episode - the 13th - about the latest in the legal saga.\n\nIt reports that last year Mr Syed's legal team applied for a review of his sentence under a new Maryland law which applies to those given more than 20 years in prison for crimes committed when they were under 18 (Mr Syed was 17 at the time of the murder).\n\nAs part of this sentence review, an official in Baltimore city's state attorney's office examined the case files - and found two handwritten notes relating to information phoned in about a potential alternative suspect, the podcast reports. It was these notes that were not shared with the defence team in violation of legal protocol, it says.\n\nSerial brought international attention to the murder of Hae Min Lee and was one of the first hit podcasts of the past decade's boom in audio content.\n\nIt was followed by other shows which raised questions about existing murder convictions or drew attention to cold cases - attracting big audiences and also, possibly, having an impact on the course of justice. They include", "Blooms of gold, pink and deep burgundy, sitting amid rich green foliage, adorned the Queen's coffin during her funeral service. The colourful flowers and plants, taken from the gardens of royal properties, were chosen for their symbolism.\n\nAt King Charles III's request, the wreath for Her Majesty's funeral contained flowers and foliage cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House in London - and Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.\n\nIt included foliage chosen for its symbolism:\n\nIn among the flowers was a handwritten card which read: \"In loving and devoted memory, Charles R.\"\n\nThe Imperial State Crown, and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, were on top of the coffin with the wreath\n\nThe Queen's coffin was carried into Westminster Abbey\n\nThe handwritten card from King Charles: \"In loving and devoted memory, Charles R\"\n\nThe flowers in the Queen's funeral wreath featured scented pelargoniums, garden roses, autumnal hydrangea, sedum, dahlias and scabious, all in shades of gold, pink and deep burgundy, with touches of white, to reflect the colours in the Royal Standard flag on which it sat.\n\nRoyal funeral wreaths have traditionally been sombre, in white and green tones, says Gemma Kavanagh, from London florist Moyses Stevens, but the colours of the flowers can also be chosen to reflect a flag - which is what we saw on Monday.\n\nKing Charles is well-known for his commitment to the environment and, at his request, the wreath was made in a sustainable way - without the use of floral foam but, instead, created in a nest of English moss and oak branches.\n\nRosemary, a herb, has long been a symbol of remembrance because herbalists thought it was good for memory, says Prof Fiona Stafford, author of The Brief Life of Flowers. \"But rosemary is also associated with love and loyalty, and it was used for marriage bouquets or for burials, as well for strewing on the dead. So it's a really, really appropriate one to be part of the wreath,\" she says.\n\nRosemary also featured when the King gave his first TV address to the nation. He was flanked by a portrait of his mother on one side and a small silver vase with sweet peas and sprigs of rosemary on the other.\n\nThe Queen loved flowers from her garden - every Monday, the gardeners at Buckingham Palace would send up a fresh posy of flowers for her desk when she was in residence. Gardener Alan Titchmarsh recalled in an article that the Queen \"loved primroses, lily-of-the-valley and other modest blooms far more than elaborate exotics; something that speaks volumes about her personality\".\n\nUnlike Monday's colourful wreath, more traditional white funeral wreaths sat atop the Queen's coffin on her final journey from Balmoral, via Edinburgh, to Westminster Hall in London. But all included personal flowers cut from royal gardens.\n\nWhen the Queen's coffin left Balmoral Castle, it was accompanied by a wreath made of dahlias, sweet peas, phlox, white heather and pine fir, all collected by her staff from the Balmoral Estate. The sweet peas echoed the Queen's choice of flowers for her husband, Prince Philip's wreath in 2021.\n\nThe wreath on top of Her Majesty's coffin in Scotland was more white\n\nWhen she was lying in state in Westminster Hall, the wreath included pine from the gardens at Balmoral - and pittosporum, lavender and rosemary from the gardens at Windsor.\n\nFlowers on top of the coffin in Westminster Hall\n\nThe Queen was buried with Prince Philip in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, Windsor on Monday. The flowers in St George's Chapel included:", "The California mother has been sentenced to 18 months in prison\n\nA California woman who faked her own high-profile kidnapping has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for making false statements to the FBI.\n\nSherri Papini, 39, went missing in November 2016 after going for a run.\n\nShe appeared three weeks later on Thanksgiving claiming two Hispanic women had kidnapped her, sparking a multi-state manhunt.\n\nThe FBI later concluded she was staying at an ex-boyfriend's house and had injured herself as part of the scheme.\n\nIn a US District Court in Sacramento on Monday, Papini apologised, saying she was guilty of lying and \"dishonour\".\n\n\"I am so sorry to the many people who have suffered because of me - the people who sacrificed for the broken woman I was, the people who gave willingly to help me in a time that I so desperately needed help,\" she said, reading from a prepared statement.\n\n\"I am choosing to humbly accept all responsibility.\"\n\nUnder an April deal with prosecutors, Papini pleaded guilty to one count each of lying to a federal officer and mail fraud.\n\nIn a sentencing memo, Papini's lawyer William Portanova blamed the hoax on her \"painful early years [that] twisted and froze her in myriad ways\".\n\nMr Portanova had asked for minimal prison time, telling the court the humiliation of her actions would be its own life sentence.\n\nIn exchange for Papini's guilty plea, prosecutors sought a lighter sentence - between eight and 14 months in custody - far below the 25 year maximum she could have faced.\n\nPapini also agreed to pay $300,000 (£231,000), part of which will cover the costs of the police investigation. She will also spend three years under supervised custody after her release from jail.\n\nNews of her disappearance first emerged in November 2016, when her husband reported her missing after she failed to collect their children from daycare.\n\nThree weeks later, she was found battered and bruised on the side of the road claiming she was abducted at gunpoint. The FBI concluded this March that the whole affair was staged.\n\nIn a criminal complaint, the FBI said she had been staying voluntarily at a former boyfriend's home and had been communicating with him using prepaid \"burner phones\" as early as December 2015.\n\nHer lawyer, Mr Portanova, has previously said she suffered from mental health issues.\n\nIn the sentencing memo, he referenced her \"chameleonic personalities\", which he said pathologically \"drove her to simultaneously crave family security and the freedom of youth\".", "Mark Frerichs was abducted by the Taliban in 2020\n\nThe Taliban have released a US engineer they had held hostage since 2020 in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader held in US custody since 2005.\n\nMark Frerichs was handed over at Kabul airport on Monday, the Taliban said.\n\nIn return they received Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban ally serving a life sentence for drug trafficking.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said that the swap required \"difficult decisions\" that he did not take lightly.\n\nMr Frerichs, 60, was abducted by the Taliban the year before the group swept back to power in Afghanistan and its Western-backed government collapsed.\n\nHe had been living and working in Kabul as a civil engineer for 10 years. Mr Frerich's sister, Charlene Cakora, said the family had never given up hope of getting him back.\n\n\"I am so happy to hear that my brother is safe and on his way home to us. Our family has prayed for this each day of the more than 31 months he has been a hostage,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"There were some folks arguing against the deal that brought Mark home, but President Biden did what was right. He saved the life of an innocent American veteran.\"\n\nArt Frerichs, Mr Frerichs' father, told the BBC that while they received a phone call from Mr Biden, they have yet to speak to Mark.\n\n\"We're definitely feeling very relieved. It's been a long time,\" he said.\n\nThe detention of the former navy officer has been a major impediment to improving relations between the US and the Taliban, whose government is still to be recognised by any country in the world.\n\nPresident Biden said in January: \"The Taliban must immediately release Mark before it can expect any consideration of its aspirations for legitimacy. This is not negotiable.\"\n\nAt least one other American remains in Taliban hands. Filmmaker Ivor Shearer and his Afghan producer, Faizullah Faizbakhsh, were detained in Kabul in August.\n\nEric Lebson, a former national security official who worked as a volunteer to help the Frerichs family, said he hoped Mr Biden's actions to secure Mr Frerichs' release \"are an indicator of his commitment to do the same on an urgent basis for other Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad\".\n\n\"They are being held because they are Americans and they need the US government to bring them home,\" Mr Lebson said.\n\nBashir Noorzai told reporters in Kabul his release would bring peace with the US\n\nBashir Noorzai was given a hero's welcome on his return to the Afghan capital, and was greeted by Taliban fighters carrying garlands of flowers.\n\n\"My release together with that of an American will make peace between the countries,\" he told a news conference.\n\nNoorzai was a close ally and friend of Taliban founder Mullah Omar and helped finance the first Taliban government in the 1990s.\n\nHe did not hold an official position but \"provided strong support including weapons\", Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the AFP news agency.\n\nNoorzai had served 17 years in US custody for heroin smuggling. Prosecutors said he ran a vast opium-growing operation in Kandahar province, the Taliban's traditional heartlands in the south of the country.\n\nAt the time of his arrest in 2005, he was considered one of the biggest drug dealers in the world, controlling more than half of Afghanistan's drug exports, which account for most of the world's harvest.\n\nIn 2008, he was convicted by a court in New York of conspiring to smuggle more than $50m of heroin into the United States.", "Queen Elizabeth's coffin has been lowered into the royal vault in St George's Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, following a committal service.\n\nCrowds threw flowers on the state hearse as it made its way to the castle.\n\nThe Queen's beloved corgis Muick and Sandy were waiting at the castle, while her pony Emma stood next to the Long Walk as the coffin passed.\n\nThe coffin was brought to Windsor following a procession through London, accompanied by senior royals, members of the armed services and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\n\nThe Queen's state funeral was held at Westminster Abbey and was attended by about 2,000 guests.\n\nA wreath on top of the coffin included a handwritten note from King Charles, reading: \"In loving and devoted memory\".\n\nSome of the royals were dressed in ceremonial uniforms, while others wore black mourning clothes. Catherine, the Princess of Wales, wore a pearl necklace that belonged to the Queen.\n\nWorld leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden attended the funeral.\n\nThe emperor and empress of Japan were among the foreign royals who travelled to London for the funeral.\n\nEuropean royals, including from the Netherlands, Sweden and Spain, were also there.\n\nUK Prime Minister Liz Truss gave a reading at the service, where former prime ministers were seated together.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch moments from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nThe nation has paid a final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, with a state funeral and military procession.\n\nWorld leaders and foreign royalty joined King Charles III and the Royal Family in the congregation at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people lined the streets as the coffin was taken to Windsor where she was laid to rest.\n\nAt the funeral, the Dean of Westminster paid tribute to the Queen's \"lifelong sense of duty\".\n\nThe Very Rev David Hoyle spoke of her \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nThe Queen's funeral cortege was borne on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy\n\nThe Royal Family joined in with singing the hymns at St George's Chapel\n\nThe day began with final respects being paid by members of the public who had queued up to see the Queen's lying-in-state in Westminster Hall.\n\nThen, in a spectacle not seen for generations, her coffin - on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors - was taken in a solemn procession to Westminster Abbey.\n\nKing Charles III walked alongside his siblings, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex walked side-by-side behind their father along a route lined by representatives of all parts of the military.\n\nAs the funeral procession entered the abbey, world leaders, politicians and foreign royalty stood as her coffin was carried up the aisle to be placed on a catafalque, draped in the royal standard with the Imperial State Crown, orb and sceptre on top.\n\nSome of the youngest members of the family were in attendance at the abbey - the Queen's great-grandchildren Prince George and Princess Charlotte, aged nine and seven, sat with their parents the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary were present alongside cabinet ministers and all of the UK's surviving former prime ministers, seated in the abbey's quire.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government joined the 2,000-strong congregation at the abbey - as well as US President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, there were French President Emmanuel Macron, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan.\n\nEurope's royal families were strongly represented - with kings and queens from Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and The Netherlands. Denmark's Queen Margrethe II - now Europe's longest-reigning monarch - sat opposite King Charles close to the coffin.\n\nThe Emperor and Empress of Japan also attended, alongside other overseas royalty including Malaysia's King and Queen and King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.\n\nThe hearse carrying the Queen is covered with flowers that were thrown by well-wishers on the way to Windsor\n\nThousands of people flocked to Windsor to catch a glimpse of the State Hearse driving to St George's Chapel\n\nThe religious service heard church leaders highlight the affection in which the Queen has been held by many people.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: \"People of loving service are rare in any walk of life. Leaders of loving service are still rarer.\n\n\"But in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.\"\n\nHe also spoke of how the Queen had declared on her 21st birthday \"that her whole life would be dedicated to serving the nation and Commonwealth\".\n\nHe added: \"Rarely has such a promise been so well kept. Few leaders receive the outpouring of love we have seen.\"\n\nWestminster Abbey is bound up with parts of the Queen's own personal history - it was where she was married and where her coronation took place. Her funeral heard Psalm 23 - The Lord Is My Shepherd, which was sung at her wedding.\n\nAs the abbey service came towards its end, the Last Post was played - by the same musicians who performed it at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral at Windsor last year - before the nation came to a standstill for two minutes' silence.\n\nThe Queen's piper then played a traditional lament before the King stood silently as the national anthem was sung.\n\nAmong the personal touches at the ceremony was a handwritten message from the King, which was placed on top of the coffin in a wreath of flowers cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace, Highgrove House and Clarence House at his request. It read: \"In loving and devoted memory. Charles R.\"\n\nA handwritten card from King Charles was placed on top of his mother's coffin\n\nMembers of the Royal Family walked behind the Queen's coffin in a procession from Westminster Hall\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry walked side-by-side behind their father in the procession\n\nUS President Joe Biden and his wife Jill arrive at Westminster Abbey\n\nThe event was watched on television by millions of people across the country and around the world.\n\nFor those not invited, big screens were put up in cities across the UK, while some cinemas, pubs and other venues showed the event.\n\nThousands lined streets and gathered in parks around the capital to listen to the service, with many moved to tears.\n\nIt was the first state funeral since Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965 and the biggest ceremonial event since World War Two.\n\nPeople lining the procession route in London fell silent for the funeral service\n\nStudents at Gordonstoun School in Moray, where King Charles III once boarded, were among those watching the service\n\nThe funeral was watched worldwide, including at this station in Seoul, South Korea\n\nAfter the funeral, the Queen's coffin was taken by gun carriage to Wellington Arch and then on to its final journey to Windsor Castle and a committal service.\n\nThroughout the route, many thousands of mourners lined up to make their own emotional farewell.\n\nThe procession passed through Horse Guards Parade, where the Queen had presided over scores of many Trooping the Colour ceremonies, and down the Mall - where it was greeted with cheers and applause.\n\nAs the Queen's coffin passed Buckingham Palace for the last time, staff stood outside to say their final goodbyes.\n\nThe funeral cortege then drove the 28 miles from London to Windsor along a route that avoided motorways - to allow as many as possible to pay their final respects.\n\nThousands of people packed Windsor's Long Walk as the Queen made her last journey to the castle, where she and Prince Philip spent the Covid lockdown.\n\nOne of those was Sandy Mar who camped overnight in order to catch a glimpse of the procession.\n\nThe 54-year-old said she was \"very emotional\" when she heard the news that the Queen had died and \"cried like mad\" when she saw the funeral procession.\n\n\"When she passed through the gate I felt very emotional,\" Ms Mar said.\n\n\"I broke down, I cried like mad, I feel like we lost a good lady, we will never see a long-serving Queen like that again.\"\n\nThe Queen's two corgis made an appearance outside the chapel, while her fell pony Emma stood to one side as the procession made its way to the Queen's final resting place.\n\nThe committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nAs the service neared its end, the crown jeweller removed the instruments of state - the imperial state crown, the orb and sceptre - from the coffin before they were put on the altar, symbolising the end of the Queen's reign.\n\nKing Charles then placed on the coffin a small crimson regimental flag called the Camp Colour - traditionally used to indicate the location of the commanding officer.\n\nThe Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Lord Parker, also \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe coffin was then lowered into the royal vault, before the Sovereign's Piper played a lament.\n\nThe Queen was laid to rest on Monday night together with the Duke of Edinburgh at a private family service in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel, a statement on the Royal Family's official website said.\n\nWhen Prince Philip died 17 months ago, his coffin was interred in the Royal Vault of St George's - ready to be moved to the memorial chapel when the Queen died.\n\nThe Queen's parents and sister Princess Margaret are also buried in the vault.\n\nUnlike the rest of the day, the event was not televised. A senior palace official had said previously it would be \"entirely private, given it is a deeply personal family occasion\".", "People across the UK have observed a national moment of reflection to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe minute's silence was held ahead of the Queen's state funeral on Monday. The funeral, held in Westminster Abbey in London, will be screened in parks, squares and cinemas across the UK.", "With the military parade and venerable hymns, the Queen's state funeral service was steeped in tradition. But amongst the pageantry and ceremony were some deeply personal touches too.\n\nThey were reminders that this was not only a nation's farewell to a monarch, but a heartfelt tribute to a mother, grandmother, churchgoer and dog lover.\n\nTwo of the Queen's beloved corgis Muick and Sandy awaited the procession carrying her coffin to St George's Chapel inside Windsor Castle.\n\nOne on a red lead and one on a blue, they were escorted by two pages in red tailcoats as the coffin of their beloved former owner came past.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York, will take on the two young dogs that the prince and his daughters gave the Queen as a present in 2021.\n\nHer Majesty owned more than 30 corgis during her lifetime. So strong was the association that almost immediately after her death, well-wishers began asking who would adopt the dogs.\n\nEmma, the Queen's fell pony, also greeted the procession, standing in a gap in the floral tributes on The Long Walk - an avenue leading to Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Princess of Wales wore a four-row Japanese pearl choker necklace with a curved diamond clasp, which once belonged to the Queen.\n\nThe Queen, who commissioned the design using cultured pearls from the Japanese government, wore it regularly in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIt had previously been loaned to Diana, the former Princess of Wales, in 1982. Catherine wore it for the first time in 2017 to celebrate the Queen and Prince Phillip's 70th wedding anniversary and later for his funeral in 2021.\n\nThe princess also wore a pair of diamond and pearl earrings known as the Bahrain Pearl Earrings, which she had been given by the Queen.\n\nThe earrings feature a large Bahrain pearl hanging from one large round diamond stud, from which four smaller round diamonds and three baguette diamonds are also suspended. They were given to the Queen as a wedding present by the Hakim of Bahrain in 1947.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex also paid tribute to Her Majesty through her choice of jewellery for the funeral, by wearing a pair of pearl stud earrings, which the Queen had given her as a gift for her wedding to Prince Harry.\n\nThe service at Westminster Abbey closed to the haunting sound of bagpipes, played by the Queen's personal piper.\n\nFor 70 years, largely without exception, the Piper to the Sovereign would play each morning for 15 minutes beneath the Queen's window, wherever she was resident.\n\nThe inclusion of Pipe Major Paul Burns - who had served since 2021 - was a personal request of the Queen, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nHe played the traditional lament \"sleep, dearie, sleep\" - the sound of which appeared to fade as he turned and walked down the internal steps of Westminster Abbey.\n\nHe is the 17th Piper to the Sovereign - the role was created by Queen Victoria in 1843 after she grew fond of the sound of bagpipes on a visit to the Highlands with Prince Albert.\n\nAt King Charles III's request, the wreath for Her Majesty's funeral contained flowers and foliage cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House in London - and Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.\n\nIt included foliage chosen for its symbolism: Rosemary for remembrance, Myrtle, the ancient symbol of a happy marriage, cut from a plant that was grown from a sprig in The Queen's wedding bouquet in 1947, and English oak, a national symbol of strength, in a nod to the Queen's constancy and steadfast duty. It also symbolises strength of love.\n\nAmong the flowers was a handwritten card which read: \"In loving and devoted memory, Charles R.\"\n\nThe Lord's My Shepherd was one of the hymns sung by the 2,000 mourners at Westminster Abbey. It was said to have been a personal favourite of the Queen, and was also sung at her wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947 at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe young Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret had summoned the Master of Choristers to Buckingham Palace in the lead-up to the wedding and sang for him the particular version she wanted to be used.\n\nThe Royal Wedding at Westminster Abbey in 1947\n\nThe hymn's roots have been traced back to a parish in Aberdeenshire, not far from Balmoral Castle, where the Queen passed away.\n\nThe hymn ends: \"Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me, and in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be.\"\n• None Queen and her corgis - how the dogs first stole her heart", "Large crowds gathered in central London on Monday to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she made her final journey from Westminster to Windsor.\n\nThe coffin, topped with the Royal Standard and Imperial State Crown, was carried to Westminster Abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. King Charles III and other senior members of the Royal Family followed behind on foot. Streets around Westminster were packed with people hoping to catch a glimpse of the procession from Westminster Hall to the Abbey, where the funeral service was held. Some 2,000 guests were inside the Abbey for the funeral service, including wider members of the Royal Family and dozens of world leaders and politicians from across the globe. While the streets of Westminster were packed, other parts of London were eerily quiet with many people using the Bank Holiday to gather round TV screens at home to watch the historic events. Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession made its way slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were also fired every minute from Hyde Park. Among the personal touches was a handwritten message from the King, which was placed with a wreath of flowers cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace, Highgrove House and Clarence House at his request. It read: \"In loving and devoted memory. Charles R.\" After the coffin was transferred from carriage to hearse at Wellington Arch, it then travelled by road to Windsor Castle. There were further crowds of people along the route and thousands more waiting in Windsor, where there was another short procession. Two of the Queen’s corgis, Muick and Sandy, were also waiting for the procession at Windsor Castle - as was Emma, the late monarch's pony. There was a final ceremony at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, where the Imperial State Crown and the Orb and Sceptre were removed from the coffin by the Crown Jeweller. They will eventually be returned to the Tower of London.", "The committal service took place in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle\n\nTributes have been paid to the Queen's \"unstinting service\" at a ceremony held in St George's Chapel, Windsor, where she was later laid to rest.\n\nThe ceremony, led by the Dean of Windsor, was attended by 800 people, including royalty and staff.\n\nBut only family members remained as the Queen was buried alongside her late husband the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor following her state funeral service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe state hearse made its way to the Berkshire town, with flowers still on its bonnet and roof from well-wishers who had thrown them as the royal cortege made its way from Wellington Arch in London.\n\nThe route avoided motorways to allow as many people as possible to pay their last respects.\n\nThousands of people on that route looked on, some of them applauding, as the hearse passed them by.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen's journey on the Long Walk to Windsor Castle\n\nThe procession made its way about one mile along the Long Walk up to Windsor Castle, with members of the Armed Forces lining the way.\n\nKing Charles III then walked behind his mother's coffin, accompanied by the Queen's other children - the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips also joined them in the procession to St George's Chapel.\n\nThousands lined the Long Walk in Windsor as the coffin processed to the castle\n\nThe Queen's coffin, draped in the royal standard with imperial state crown, orb and sceptre on top, was lifted from the state hearse into the chapel where it sat on a catafalque.\n\nThe Dean, the Very Rev David Conner, began the ceremony by praising a \"life of unstinting service\" to the nation and Commonwealth.\n\nHe said of the Queen: \"In the midst of our rapidly changing and frequently troubled world, her calm and dignified presence has given us confidence to face the future, as she did, with courage and with hope.\"\n\nThe crown jeweller removed the instruments of state - the imperial state crown, the orb and sceptre - from the coffin before they were put on the altar, symbolising the end of the Queen's reign.\n\nKing Charles then placed on the coffin a small crimson regimental flag called the Camp Colour - traditionally used to indicate the location of the commanding officer.\n\nThe coffin was then lowered into the royal vault, before the Sovereign's Piper played a lament.\n\nGuests at the service included the late Queen's staff past and present, alongside prime ministers of countries of which the monarch was head of state.\n\nAt the separate private burial service on Monday evening, the Queen was laid to rest with her late husband Prince Philip in the King George VI Memorial Chapel.\n\nThat service was only attended by the Royal Family - details of it have not been disclosed, with Buckingham Palace calling it a \"deeply personal family occasion\" - but the burial was confirmed on the official Royal Family website.\n\nThe chapel houses the remains of the Queen's father George VI, her mother the Queen Mother and sister Princess Margaret.\n\nThe King and other members of the Royal Family processed behind the Queen's coffin when it reached Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen's corgis Muick and Sandy made an appearance as the Queen's coffin processed at Windsor Castle\n\nEarlier, King Charles III walked behind his mother's coffin as it proceeded from Westminster Hall to the abbey.\n\nAbout 2,000 people gathered at the service, including world leaders and royalty.\n\nThis was the first state funeral since Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965 and was the biggest ceremonial event since World War Two.\n\nPlanning of the order of service for the ceremony was discussed with the Queen over a number of years.\n\nSt George's Chapel is where the Queen worshipped at Easter and celebrated baptisms, confirmations and weddings during her reign.\n\nIn a touching gesture, the Queen's faithful corgis Muick and Sandy also made an appearance at Windsor castle.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "Inside Westminster Abbey as guests begin to arrive for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nToday, the door swings shut on the Elizabethan era", "More than 90 videos and images from the next edition of the Grand Theft Auto franchise have been leaked online by a hacker, the game's developers say.\n\nThe leaked content was posted on Sunday after what is being described as one of gaming's biggest security breaches.\n\nRockstar Games said it remained unclear how the \"network intrusion\" occurred, but confirmed \"early development footage\" from GTA VI had been stolen.\n\nThe footage was put on the GTAForums site by a user called teapotuberhacker.\n\nThe hacker claimed to have gained access to the data by breaching Rockstar's internal feed on the Slack messaging app, and invited executives to negotiate to avoid further leaks.\n\nAdditional revelations could include source code, assets, and testing builds from both GTA 5 and GTA 6, which could be damaging to the company's operations.\n\nWhile the original post has since been removed by moderators, it has been spread widely on social media. Rockstar has reportedly issued takedown orders to remove the footage from YouTube and Twitter.\n\nThe footage showed animation tests, level layouts and some gameplay demonstrations, and it appeared to confirm a long-running rumour that the game will feature the series' first playable female protagonist.\n\nThey also revealed the game's setting in a fictionalised version of Miami which was also the setting on 2002's GTA: Vice City.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the company said it was \"extremely disappointed to have any details of our next game shared with you all in this way\".\n\n\"Our work on the next Grand Theft Auto game will continue as planned and we remain as committed as ever to delivering an experience to you, our players, that truly exceeds your expectations,\" it added.\n\nRockstar confirmed it was developing the game earlier this year, with industry insiders anticipating a 2024 or 2025 release date.\n\nSome fans had speculated that the leak could see the game's release delayed, but executives said they did not anticipate \"any long-term effect on the development of our ongoing projects\".\n\nGTA 5 has sold more than 170 million copies since its release in 2013, making it one of the most successful video games of all time.\n\nIn 2020, its online mode is estimated to have generated more than $900 million (£788 million) alone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As the latest instalment of the Grand Theft Auto launches, Marc Cieslak explores the game's fictional home, Los Santos.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice faced \"significant aggression\" and some were injured as they dealt with disorder in Leicester, the force's chief constable has said.\n\nSixteen officers and a police dog were injured on Saturday as they worked to stop groups of men from attacking each other, Rob Nixon said.\n\nThe unrest came amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities.\n\nThe policing operation is continuing into Monday evening.\n\nA 20-year-old man from Leicester was jailed for 10 months, according to Leicestershire Police, after he pleaded guilty on Monday to possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMr Nixon said officers had been brought in \"from all sorts of different parts of the country\" to help with the operation.\n\n\"They were faced with significant aggression, I think they faced some very, very challenging situations, and I actually do believe they put themselves in danger to protect the public,\" he said.\n\n\"I have to say, I was actually on the ground [on Saturday] and I saw the level of aggression and the level of non-compliance, and I thought my officers did a tremendous job when significantly outnumbered.\n\n\"I think we were faced with a significant number of people that were intent on causing significant injury to other people, and my officers stood their ground.\"\n\nLeicestershire's chief constable said the main objective on Saturday was to keep groups of people separated\n\nSome officers cancelled their days off in order to help, including those from other forces.\n\n\"These people are being drawn in at a time when there is probably the largest policing operation in the country, linked with the state funeral, so these things are having a broader impact,\" Mr Nixon said.\n\nPolice said the original disorder on Saturday had been sparked by a protest in the East Leicester area.\n\nAnother protest involving about 100 people followed on Sunday, but police said there had been no further disorder overnight into Monday.\n\nTwo people were arrested during the disorder on Saturday - one on suspicion of possession of a bladed article, and the other on suspicion of conspiracy to commit violent disorder.\n\nPolice said a further 18 people were arrested on Sunday night for offences including affray, common assault, possession of an offensive weapon and violent disorder.\n\nPolice officers were brought in from other forces to help\n\nSome community members have criticised police for not making more arrests during the original disorder.\n\nMr Nixon said: \"Clearly making arrests in that really dynamic situation can take officers away from what they're trying to do at that time.\n\n\"The primary objective on Saturday night was to keep separation between these large groups.\n\n\"Within that there were two people that were arrested, but what I will say is there were significant steps taken in terms of securing the video imagery of people.\n\n\"We've got an investigative team that has been put in place for each area of these disorders, and we're then going back over and investigating it.\"\n\nThe disorder over the weekend was the latest of several incidents, including violence after an India and Pakistan cricket match on 28 August.\n\nPolice said a total of 47 people had been arrested in relation to unrest in the east of Leicester since 28 August.\n\nThese include people from outside of the city, including some from Birmingham.\n\nLeicester's elected mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, said he and community leaders were \"baffled\" by the events over the weekend.\n\n\"It got fanned by some very distorted social media,\" Mr Soulsby said.\n\n\"And then fuelled by a lot of people who came in from outside as well as some young local lads who seemed to feel it was appropriate to frighten and disturb this peaceful city.\n\n\"I also know there was also a concerted attempt on Saturday to bring people from as far as Birmingham, to ship them across to have a bit of a 'set-to' in Leicester.\"\n\nLater on Sunday, police closed several side streets in the Humberstone Road area\n\nCommunity leaders in the city have joined police in calling for calm.\n\nSuleman Nagdi, of the Leicester-based Federation of Muslim Organisations, told the BBC: \"There are some very dissatisfied young men who have been causing havoc.\n\n\"We need to get the message out that this must end and try to do this through parents and grandparents talking to their sons.\"\n\nSanjiv Patel, who represents Hindu and Jain temples across Leicester, said: \"Violence is not a solution to anything. This has to be a time for peace, calm and engagement.\"\n\nLeicestershire Police Federation said the injuries to the police officers were \"utterly despicable\".\n\nChairman Adam Commons said: \"My colleagues do not come to work to be subjected to this type of behaviour and should not be going home nursing cuts and bruises.\n\n\"One of our police dogs has also been injured in a disgraceful attack.\n\n\"They are all trying to do their job and keep people safe.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George and Charlotte will attend the funeral of their great-grandmother, the Queen\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte will join more than 2,000 guests at the Queen's funeral in Westminster Abbey.\n\nNine-year-old George and his sister, seven, will form part of a procession with the Royal Family, following the coffin as it enters the church.\n\nBefore the service a bell will toll every minute for 96 minutes, marking the length of the Queen's life.\n\nTowards the end of the service, the Last Post will be played before the nation observes a two-minute silence.\n\nWith world leaders and dignitaries gathered in the 13th Century church for the service at 11:00 BST, the King and Queen Consort will lead the procession behind the Queen's coffin.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales will walk ahead of George and seven-year-old Charlotte, who called the Queen \"Gan Gan\", followed by their uncle and aunt, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nGeorge and Charlotte's younger brother Louis, four, is not expected to attend.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be brought in procession from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey\n\nThe Order of Service shows a service filled with traditional church music and readings from the Bible, with a sermon from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.\n\n\"I am the resurrection and the life,\" will be the reading as the royal procession arrives in the abbey, in a service which the Queen helped to plan.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss will read a lesson, with prayers from religious leaders including Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster.\n\nThe funeral will hear praise for the Queen's long reign, with the Dean of Westminster, David Hoyle, commending her \"long life of selfless service\".\n\nMore than 2,000 guests will gather in Westminster Abbey\n\nThe abbey says this will be the first funeral of a monarch held here since the 18th Century, although there have been more recent funerals for the spouses of monarchs.\n\nThe music at this historic service will be in keeping with the Queen's faith and tastes. There will be pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams, JS Bach and Edward Elgar.\n\nNew pieces have been composed by Judith Weir and Sir James MacMillan, a leading Scottish composer, whose music featured prominently in the service of thanksgiving at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.\n\nBaroness Scotland, secretary general of the Commonwealth, will deliver one of the readings, which are interspersed with hymns including The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended and Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.\n\nThe Lord's My Shepherd will be sung, as it was when the Queen married Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey in 1947.\n\nAs the state funeral comes to an end, the Last Post will be played, followed by a two-minute silence and a lament from the Queen's piper.\n\nAfter the funeral ends at midday in Westminster, a committal service will follow at 16:00 at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nThis more intimate setting will include personal touches and private connections. The service includes the Russian Kontakion of the Departed, a hymn Prince Philip had chosen for his own funeral last year.\n\nOne of the Bible readings - \"I saw a new heaven and a new earth\" - was also read at the funeral of the Queen's father and grandparents.\n\nThere is music composed by Sir William Henry Harris, an organist who taught the Queen to play the piano.\n\nAnother poignant lament will be played by a piper and the committal service will end with the lowering of the Queen's coffin into the royal vault, accompanied by the words: \"Go forth upon thy journey from this world, O Christian soul.\"\n\nThe bells of Westminster Abbey will later be rung - but muffled - as is tradition following the funeral of a sovereign.", "Her reign saw the world change dramatically but she remained a constant presence in the lives of the people of the UK and Commonwealth.", "After almost five days, the Queen's lying-in-state ended on the morning of Monday 19 September.\n\nWith the last of the members of the public being admitted to Westminster Hall, the doors closed at 0630 in preparation for the procession to Westminster Abbey where the state funeral service will take place.\n\nAfter seven decades of constancy, a door swings shut", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "King Charles III has said he is \"deeply touched\" by the support he has received from across the world, ahead of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe King said he and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were \"moved beyond measure\" by everyone who took the trouble to pay their respects.\n\n\"As we prepare to say our last farewell, I wanted simply to take this opportunity to say thank you,\" he said.\n\nThe state funeral service at Westminster Abbey began at 11:00 BST.\n\nSome 2,000 people are attending the ceremony, including 500 presidents, prime ministers, and foreign royals from around the world.\n\nThe King is leading the nation in mourning for its longest-reigning monarch.\n\nIn a written message issued by Buckingham Palace, the King said: \"Over the last 10 days, my wife and I have been so deeply touched by the many messages of condolences and support we have received from this country and across the world.\n\n\"In London, Edinburgh, Hillsborough and Cardiff we were moved beyond measure by everyone who took the trouble to come and pay their respects to the lifelong service of my dear mother, the late Queen.\n\n\"As we all prepare to say our last farewell, I wanted simply to take this opportunity to say thank you to all those countless people who have been such a support and comfort to my family and myself in this time of grief.\"\n\nThis photograph of the Queen at Windsor Castle was taken in May this year\n\nAn unseen portrait of the Queen has also been released by Buckingham Palace on the eve of her funeral.\n\nThe photograph, taken by Ranald Mackechnie ahead of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations in May, shows the monarch beaming brightly at the camera in her Windsor Castle home.\n\nShe is wearing a blue dress, her favourite three-strand pearl necklace, pearl earrings and her aquamarine and diamond brooches - an 18th birthday present from her father George VI in 1944 which she also wore on the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020.\n\nKing Charles held a reception at Buckingham Palace on Sunday evening for heads of state attending the funeral. Later, at 20:00, a national minute's silence was observed at homes and doorsteps across the UK.\n\nMany thousands of people have queued this week to see the Queen's lying-in-state, which ended at 06:30 on Monday. The queue was closed to new entrants shortly after 22:40 on Sunday.\n\nAt 10:44, her coffin was taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles walked behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them were the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte are also attending the Queen's funeral.\n\nArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who will give the sermon, told the BBC people could expect \"a great deal of grandeur and pomp\" from the service but he also hoped it would help the Queen's family \"find a measure of comfort amidst the glare of publicity\".\n\n\"In the readings and the prayers, it will be something that, again, I pray will fit the Queen's character and person. You'll think not just this was a service fit for a Queen, this was a service fit for this person,\" he added.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will be drawn in a walking procession from the Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals as the procession moves slowly through the streets of the capital.\n\nParliament officials said they were confident the bell would ring out during the procession after investigating a \"minor technical issue\" which prevented it from striking on Sunday, following the national minute's silence.\n\nGun salutes will also fire every minute from Hyde Park during the procession and people can watch in person from designated viewing areas along the route.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, at about 13:00, the coffin will be transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. There, the Queen's coffin will enter St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nAttended by a smaller congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nAt a private family service later, the Queen will be buried alongside her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n\nHave you camped out all night along the funeral route? Share your experiences by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby pays tribute to the Queen's life and service to the UK and Commonwealth.\n\nToday, the door swings shut on the Elizabethan era", "Questions about Mahsa Amini's death dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday\n\nTehran's police chief says the death of a woman in custody was an \"unfortunate\" incident he does not want repeated.\n\nMahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma last week, hours after morality police held her for allegedly breaking hijab rules.\n\nWitnesses accused officers of beating her, but Police Brig-Gen Hossein Rahimi denied such \"cowardly accusations\".\n\nHer death sparked protests in the capital and western Iran, where two people were reportedly killed in clashes with riot police on Monday.\n\nVideos posted on social media appeared to show a crowd throwing stones in the town of Divandarreh and later running after coming under fire.\n\nOther footage showed protests in the capital, where women removed their headscarves and shouted \"death to the dictator\" - a chant often used in reference to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rana Rahimpour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Amini, an ethnic Kurd who was from the western city of Saqez in Kurdistan province, died in hospital on Friday after spending three days in a coma.\n\nShe was detained outside a metro station in Tehran on Tuesday by morality police. They accused her of breaking the law requiring women to cover their hair with a headscarf, and their arms and legs with loose clothing.\n\nAccording to witnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van that took her to a detention centre.\n\nPolice rejected the allegation and said she suffered \"sudden heart failure\" while waiting with other women at the facility to be \"educated\".\n\nThey released CCTV footage that showed a woman they identified as Ms Amini talking with a female official, who grabs her clothing. She is then seen holding her head with her hands and collapsing to the ground.\n\nThe interior minister said on Saturday that Ms Amini \"apparently had previous physical problems\".\n\nHowever, her father told pro-reform news outlets on Sunday that she was \"fit and had no health problems\". He also said his daughter had suffered bruising to her legs and that the CCTV footage showed an \"edited version\" of events.\n\nOn Monday, Brig-Gen Rahimi expressed sympathy to Ms Amini's family, but insisted that she suffered no physical harm.\n\n\"The evidence shows that there was no negligence or inappropriate behaviour on the part of the police,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe death triggered widespread criticism of the actions of the morality police, which recently launched a crackdown on \"improper clothing\".\n\nProtests erupted in Saqez after her funeral on Saturday, with security forces reportedly opening fire on a crowd that marched towards the local governor's office.\n\nThere were also clashes between protesters and riot police in Sanandaj, Kurdistan's capital, on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nKurdish human rights group Hengaw said on Sunday that at least 38 people were injured in the two cities.\n\nHengaw reported the deaths of two protesters following Monday's clashes in Divandarreh, which is located between Saqez and Sanandaj. It also said a 10-year-old girl was shot in the head in Bukan, a city in West Azerbaijan province.", "Video posted online showed the aftermath of an explosion in a square in western Donetsk\n\nThirteen people have been killed and others wounded in a series of explosions in the separatist-run city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to its Russian-backed mayor.\n\nAlexei Kulemzin blamed \"punitive\" Ukrainian shellfire for the deaths. There is no comment from Ukrainian officials.\n\nDonetsk has been controlled by Russia's proxy authorities since 2014.\n\nThey have repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of targeting the city.\n\nIndependent confirmation is hard to come by on the ground in separatist-held areas of the east. However, local authorities said nine 150mm shells were fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, from a village to the west of the city.\n\nLocal leader Denis Pushilin accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting civilians at a bus-stop, a shop and a bank.\n\nAlthough Russian forces have seized areas of the Donetsk region further south since the invasion began in February, they have struggled to push the Ukrainian army back from the outskirts of the city itself.\n\nUkrainian forces have launched counter-offensives in the south as well as the north-east, and their most dramatic progress has come this month in the northern Kharkiv region.\n\nThe head of Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, shared video of a Ukrainian tank crossing a pontoon bridge, and said Ukraine now controlled the left bank of the Oskil river, seen as the front line in north-east Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's armed forces said they had pushed across the river at the weekend\n\nIf Ukrainian forces are able to maintain a foothold on the eastern side of the Oskil, it will represent a breakthrough. Mr Haidai said the next target would be liberating the city of Lyman, which was seized by Russian forces in May.\n\n\"Luhansk region is right next door. De-occupation is not far away,\" he claimed.\n\nIn his nightly address late on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that recent days may have looked like a lull of sorts: \"But there will be no lull. There is preparation for the next series... For Ukraine must be free. All of it.\"\n\nRussia was accused on Monday of targeting a nuclear plant in the south.\n\nUkrainian nuclear operator Enerhoatom said a rocket landed 300m (1,000ft) from nuclear reactors at the country's second-largest plant in Mykolaiv region, called the South Ukraine plant.\n\nThe UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it was told by Enerhoatom that the impact temporarily disrupted three power lines, but the plant remained connected to the grid, with all three reactors functioning normally.\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 Defense of Ukraine 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 Defense of Ukraine\n\nUkraine's - and Europe's - biggest nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia has come under repeated fire since it was occupied by Russian forces at the start of the war and the IAEA has called for a safety zone to protect it. The IAEA said the situation there \"remains fragile and precarious\". Its six reactors are in a shutdown state, but are getting essential power to remain safe.\n\nMeanwhile, the Kremlin has denied allegations of war crimes after some 450 bodies were uncovered in burial sites in the liberated city of Izyum.\n\nThe discovery has prompted the European Union's presidency, currently held by the Czech Republic, to call for an international tribunal into Russia's invasion.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the revelations were \"a lie, and of course we will defend the truth in this story\". He said the \"scenario\" was the same as in the town of Bucha near Kyiv, where local authorities say at least 458 civilians were murdered during Russia's occupation.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukrainian counter-offensives would not change Russia's military plans in the east of Ukraine.\n\nThe ministry of defence in Moscow posted video on Monday that it said showed attack helicopters destroying Ukrainian manpower and equipment.\n\nHowever, according to the UK's defence intelligence update, it was \"highly likely\" that Russia had lost four combat jets in Ukraine in the past 10 days as its air force took greater risks to support ground forces under pressure from the Ukrainian advances.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War says Russia is relying increasingly on \"irregular volunteer and proxy forces\" instead of its conventional military units.\n\nRussia says it is fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine - a claim widely dismissed - and that it is threatened by the Nato alliance's strong relations with Ukraine.\n\nThe actual civilian death toll is believed to be thousands higher. Tens of thousands of combatants have been killed or injured.\n\nRussia, a global energy supplier, is locked in an economic struggle with the West which imposed sweeping sanctions in response to the invasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin failing on all his strategic military objectives - UK", "David Hoyle, the Dean of Westminster Abbey, led the service\n\nBuckingham Palace has released the order of service for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt has also published an order of service for St George's Chapel, Windsor, where there will be a further ceremony later.\n\nThe Westminster Abbey service pays tribute to the Queen's \"remarkable reign and lifetime of service\", it said.\n\nThe service is being led by the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle MBE, who will also be pronouncing the blessing.\n\nIt began on Monday at 11:00 BST and the BBC is broadcasting live coverage of the ceremony on television, radio and iPlayer.\n\nThe tenor bell tolled every minute for 96 minutes, reflecting the years of Queen Elizabeth II's life.\n\nMembers of foreign royal families, heads of state, and overseas government representatives were received at the Great West Door by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and were conducted to their seats in the Lantern.\n\nPlayed by Matthew Jorysz, Assistant Organist, Westminster Abbey, and the sub-organist. The service is being sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey and the Choir of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, under the direction of James O'Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers.\n\nTrumpet Major Julian Sandford is leading the State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry, and the organ is being played by Sub-Organist Peter Holder.\n\nThe Procession of Religious Representatives moved to places in the Nave and the Sacrarium.\n\nThe Royal Family was received at the Great West Door by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.\n\nThey were conducted to their seats in the Lantern, where they remained seated until the Queen's coffin entered the Abbey.\n\nAll stood as the Procession of the Coffin entered the Abbey.\n\nThe Choir of Westminster Abbey and the Choir of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, sang\n\nDuring the Sentences the Procession of the Coffin moved through the Abbey\n\nHER MAJESTY'S COFFIN surmounted by The Imperial State Crown, The Orb and The Sceptre and borne by the Bearer Party\n\nThe Countess of Wessex and Forfar, The Earl of Wessex and Forfar\n\nThe Princess of Wales, The Prince of Wales\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex, The Duke of Sussex\n\nPrince Michael of Kent, The Duke of Kent\n\nHousehold of The former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall: Private Secretary, Principal Private Secretary, Equerry, Master of the Household\n\nHousehold of The Prince and Princess of Wales: Equerry\n\nThe Dean of Westminster gave the bidding\n\nIn grief and also in profound thanksgiving we come to this House of God, to a place of prayer, to a church where remembrance and hope are sacred duties. Here, where Queen Elizabeth was married and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth, and from the nations of the world, to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer.\n\nWith gratitude we remember her unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. With admiration we recall her life-long sense of duty and dedication to her people. With thanksgiving we praise God for her constant example of Christian faith and devotion. With affection we recall her love for her family and her commitment to the causes she held dear.\n\n\"Now, in silence, let us in our hearts and minds recall our many reasons for thanksgiving, pray for all members of her family, and commend Queen Elizabeth to the care and keeping of almighty God.\n\nO merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth, and believeth in him, shall not die eternally; who hast taught us, by his holy Apostle Saint Paul, not to be sorry, as men without hope, for them that sleep in him: We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our sister doth; and that, at the general Resurrection in the last day, we may be found acceptable in thy sight; and receive that blessing, which thy well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee, saying, Come, ye blessed children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, our mediator and redeemer. Amen.\n\nThe day thou gavest, Lord, is ended, the darkness falls at thy behest; to thee our morning hymns ascended, thy praise shall sanctify our rest.\n\nWe thank thee that thy Church unsleeping, while earth rolls onward into light, through all the world her watch is keeping, and rests not now by day or night.\n\nAs o'er each continent and island the dawn leads on another day, the voice of prayer is never silent, nor dies the strain of praise away.\n\nThe sun that bids us rest is waking our brethren 'neath the western sky, and hour by hour fresh lips are making thy wondrous doings heard on high.\n\nSo be it, Lord; thy throne shall never, like earth's proud empires, pass away; thy kingdom stands, and grows for ever, till all thy creatures own thy sway.\n\nThe Right Honourable the Baroness Scotland of Asthal KC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, read the first lesson:\n\nNow is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15: 20-26, 53-end\n\nA specially commissioned piece was sung by the choir. It was a setting of Psalm 42 to music composed by the Master of The King's Music, Judith Weir:\n\nLike as the hart desireth the water-brooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : when shall I come to appear before the presence of God? My tears have been my meat day and night: while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God? Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; In the voice of praise and thanksgiving: among such as keep holy-day. Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul : and why art thou so disquieted within me? Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance.\n\nLet not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. John 14: 1-9a\n\nAll sang the hymn 'The Lord's my shepherd' - which was was also sung at Prince Philip and the Queen's wedding in 1947:\n\nThe Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want; he makes me down to lie in pastures green; he leadeth me the quiet waters by. My soul he doth restore again, and me to walk doth make within the paths of righteousness, e'en for his own name's sake. Yea, though I walk through death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill; for thou art with me, and thy rod and staff me comfort still. My table thou hast furnished in presence of my foes; my head thou dost with oil anoint, and my cup overflows. Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me; and in God's house for evermore my dwelling place shall be. Psalm 23, attributed to Jessie Seymour Irvine (1836-87) harmony by David Grant (1833-93) descant by William Baird Ross (1871-1950)\n\nThe sermon was delivered by the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan.\n\nMy soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars, Where stands a wingèd sentry All skilful in the wars: There above noise, and danger, Sweet Peace sits crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files. He is thy gracious friend, And (O my soul, awake!) Did in pure love descend, To die here for thy sake. If thou canst get but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress, and thy ease. Leave then thy foolish ranges, For none can thee secure, But One who never changes, Thy God, thy Life, thy Cure. From Songs of Farewell, Hubert Parry (1848-1918), by Henry Vaughan (1621-95)\n\nThe Reverend Mark Birch, Minor Canon and Precentor, lead the prayers from the High Altar:\n\nIn confidence and trust, let us pray to the Father.\n\nThe Reverend Dr Iain Greenshields, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said:\n\nLet us give thanks to God for Queen Elizabeth's long life and reign, recalling with gratitude her gifts of wisdom, diligence, and service. O God, from whom cometh everything that is upright and true: accept our thanks for the gifts of heart and mind that thou didst bestow upon thy daughter Elizabeth, and which she showed forth among us in her words and deeds; and grant that we may have grace to live our lives in accordance with thy will, to seek the good of others, and to remain faithful servants unto our lives' end; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nMs Shermara Fletcher, Principal Officer for Pentecostal and Charismatic Relations, Churches Together in England, said:\n\nConfident in God's love and compassion, let us pray for all those whose hearts are heavy with grief and sorrow. Almighty God, Father of all mercies and giver of all comfort: deal graciously, we pray thee, with those who mourn, that casting every care on thee, they may know the consolation of thy love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Bishop of London and Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal, said:\n\nLet us pray for His Majesty The King and all the Royal Family; that they may know the sustaining power of God's love and the prayerful fellowship of God's people. Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless our most gracious Sovereign Lord King Charles, Camilla The Queen Consort, William Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family: endue them with thy Holy Spirit, enrich them with thy heavenly grace; prosper them with all happiness; and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe Reverend Canon Helen Cameron, Moderator of the Free Churches Group, said:\n\nIn recognition of Queen Elizabeth's service to this United Kingdom, let us rejoice in her unstinting devotion to duty, her compassion for her subjects, and her counsel to her ministers; and we pray for the continued health and prosperity of this Nation. O almighty God, whose will it is that all thy children should serve thee in serving one another: look with love, we pray thee, on this Nation. Grant to its citizens grace to work together with honest and faithful hearts, each caring for the good of all; that, seeking first thy kingdom and its righteousness, they may possess all things needful for their daily sustenance and the common good; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nHis Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, said:\n\nLet us give thanks for Queen Elizabeth's commitment to the Commonwealth throughout her reign, for her service and dedication to its peoples, and for the rich bonds of unity and mutual support she sustained. Almighty and everlasting God, hear our prayer for the Commonwealth, and grant it the guidance of thy wisdom. Inspire those in authority, that they may promote justice and the common good; give to all its citizens the spirit of mutual honour and respect; and grant to us all grace to strive for the establishment of righteousness and peace; for the honour of thy name. Amen.\n\nThe Most Reverend and Right Honourable Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, said:\n\nWe give thanks to God for Queen Elizabeth's loyalty to the faith she inherited through her baptism and confirmation, and affirmed at her coronation; for her unswerving devotion to the Gospel; and for her steadfast service as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy household the Church in continual godliness; that through thy protection she may be free from all adversities, and devoutly given to serve thee in all good works, to the glory of thy name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nLet us pray that we may be given grace to live as those who believe in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, and the resurrection to eternal life. Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening into the house and gate of heaven, to enter into that gate and dwell in that house, where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light; no noise nor silence, but one equal music; no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession; no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity; in the habitation of thy glory and dominion, world without end. Amen. John Donne (1572-1631)\n\nThe choir sang 'O Taste and see how gracious the Lord is', composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams for the Queen's Coronation in 1953.\n\nIn confidence and hope, let us pray to the Father in the words our Saviour taught us, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nAll stood to sing the hymn Blaenwern:\n\nLove divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesu, thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; suddenly return, and never, never more thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray, and praise thee, without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. Finish then thy new creation, pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation, perfectly restored in thee, changed from glory into glory till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise! Charles Wesley (1707-88) William Rowlands (1860-1937) arranged by James O'Donnell\n\nThe Commendation, given by the Archbishop of Canterbury:\n\nLet us commend to the mercy of God, our maker and redeemer, the soul of Elizabeth, our late Queen. Heavenly Father, King of kings, Lord and giver of life, who of thy grace in creation didst form mankind in thine own image, and in thy great love offerest us life eternal in Christ Jesus; claiming the promises of thy most blessed Son, we entrust the soul of Elizabeth, our sister here departed, to thy merciful keeping, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, when Christ shall be all in all; who died and rose again to save us, and now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, in glory for ever. Amen.\n\nGo forth, O Christian soul, from this world, in the name of God the Father almighty, who created thee; in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who suffered for thee; in the name of the Holy Spirit, who was poured out upon thee and anointed thee. In communion with all the blessed saints, and aided by the angels and archangels and all the armies of the heavenly host, may thy portion this day be in peace, and thy dwelling in the heavenly Jerusalem. Amen.\n\nAnthem - the choir sings Romans 8: 35a, 38b-end, composed for this Service by Sir James MacMillan CBE (b 1959)\n\nWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Alleluia! Amen.\n\nThe Dean of Westminster pronounced the Blessing:\n\nGod grant to the living grace; to the departed rest; to the Church, The King, the Commonwealth, and all people, peace and concord, and to us sinners, life everlasting; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.\n\nAs the service came to a close, all remained standing as The Last Post was sounded by the State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry from the steps of the Lady Chapel.\n\nA two-minute silence was observed across the UK, followed by The Reveille sounded by the State Trumpeters.\n\nAll remained standing as the congregation sung the National Anthem, God Save The King:\n\nGod save our gracious King, long live our noble King, God save The King. Send him victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us: God save The King. Thy choicest gifts in store on him be pleased to pour, long may he reign. May he defend our laws, and ever give us cause to sing with heart and voice: God save The King! Arranged by Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)\n\nAll remained standing as The Queen's Piper, Warrant Officer Class 1 (Pipe Major) Paul Burns, played Sleep, dearie, sleep.\n\nAll remained standing as the Coffin and Processions left the church.\n\nThe Sub-Organist played Fantasia in C minor BWV 562, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).\n\nThe procession of the coffin\n\nAllegro maestoso (Sonata in G Op 28) by Edward Elgar was played after the Service.\n\nLater in the afternoon, the bells of the Abbey are rung fully-muffled by the Westminster Abbey Company of Ringers in a peal of Stedman Caters, comprising 5096 changes.", "Thousands are expected to spend the night on the Mall in central London, in the hope of bagging a good spot to watch the funeral procession tomorrow.\n\nAmong them are David and Bonnie Robertson from Lillington, Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.\n\n\"We got here at about 11 this morning when there were only two or three huddles of people, but now the front of the railing is full,\" said Mr Roberts, 66.\n\nHe said the couple had been planning to be in London for the Queen's funeral for four or five years.\n\n\"We thought wouldn't it be great just to be part of that history.\"\n\n\"Everyone is very friendly,\" he said, \"and some have even got better-looking sandwiches than us.\"\n\nBut, he added, \"underneath there's sort of a layer of solemnity going to come to the surface tomorrow I think.\"\n\nThe funeral procession takes place in central London on Monday Image caption: The funeral procession takes place in central London on Monday", "The Queen's last two corgis have appeared during her coffin's procession to Windsor Castle, as if out waiting for their mistress's return.\n\nMuick and Sandy were pictured in the quadrangle at Windsor Castle as she approached St George's Chapel.\n\nThe dogs - one on a red lead and one on a blue - were held by two pages in red tailcoats.\n\nEmma, the Queen's fell pony, was also seen, standing on grass in a gap in the flowers along the Long Walk.\n\nThe monarch was patron of the Fell Pony Society for 40 years, first bred one in 1952, and was seen riding them even into her later years.\n\nThe Queen's coffin passes by her fell pony Emma in the procession up the Long Walk, Windsor\n\nEmma stood amongst the blooms left for the Queen\n\nThe Queen loved corgis throughout her adult life, having been given her first, Susan, on her 18th birthday.\n\nIn the decades that followed, more than 30 of Susan's descendants numbered among her dogs and she gave a huge boost to the popularity of the breed.\n\nThe Queen's dogs were often at her side throughout meetings at Royal houses and palaces.\n\nThe two dogs have been entrusted to the care of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York following the Queen's death.", "The photograph of the Queen at Windsor Castle was taken in May this year\n\nA previously unseen portrait of the Queen smiling brightly was released by Buckingham Palace on the eve of her funeral.\n\nTaken by photographer Ranald Mackechnie in May before the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the picture shows the late monarch dressed in blue at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe portrait of her beaming at the camera was released as the Queen Consort paid a televised tribute on Sunday evening, recalling her \"wonderful blue eyes\" and \"unforgettable smile\".\n\nAs well as her favourite three-strand pearl necklace, in the portrait the Queen wore aquamarine and diamond clip brooches which were an 18th birthday present from her father, George VI, in 1944.\n\nShe wore the brooches when she addressed the nation on the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020 and for her televised speech on her Diamond Jubilee in 2012.\n\nMr Mackechnie also took the Queen's Platinum Jubilee portrait, which was released in June to mark the start of national celebrations for her 70-year reign, the longest of any British monarch.", "Police and protesters in Belgrave Road on Sunday afternoon\n\nFifteen people have been arrested in an operation to \"deter further disorder\" in Leicester.\n\nThere was large-scale unrest on Saturday amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities.\n\nPolice said it had been sparked by an \"unplanned protest\". Another protest involving about 100 people followed on Sunday.\n\nLeicestershire Police said there had been no further disorder overnight.\n\nThe force added that all 15 people arrested on Sunday remained in custody.\n\nLeicester's elected mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, said he and community leaders were \"baffled\" by the events, saying they had been \"fanned by some very distorted social media\" and \"a lot of people who came in from outside\".\n\nDuring Sunday's protest people congregated on Belgrave Road, with members of the crowd telling the BBC they were on the streets as a result of the recent unrest.\n\nOfficers closed the road and some of the crowd briefly tried to push through police lines, complaining they were being prevented from marching.\n\nLater, the protesters walked along Green Lane Road, in the North Evington area, followed by officers.\n\nThere was also a police presence on Humberstone Road, with several nearby streets closed off.\n\nThe force said in a statement: \"Officers became aware of groups of young men gathering on Sunday afternoon in the North Evington area of the city.\n\n\"Officers spoke to them and took steps, including putting in place a temporary police cordon, to minimise harm and disturbance to communities.\"\n\nPolice had said they wanted to avoid a repeat of Saturday night's confrontations, and that dispersal powers would be used to break up any further gatherings.\n\nThe force has also issued a warning about misinformation and rumours, and urged people to be careful about what they shared on social media.\n\nLater on Sunday, police closed several side streets in the Humberstone Road area\n\nSir Peter said: \"It got fanned by some very distorted social media. And then fuelled by a lot of people who came in from outside as well as some young local lads who seemed to feel it was appropriate to frighten and disturb this peaceful city.\n\n\"I've seen a selection of the social media which is very, very distorted - some of it completely lying - about what had been happening between different communities.\n\n\"I also know there was also a concerted attempt on Saturday to bring people from as far as Birmingham, to ship them across to have a bit of a 'set-to' in Leicester.\n\n\"All of those things taken together seem to have escalated the celebration of a cricket match into something that for the city is very disturbing indeed.\n\n\"I don't want to minimise the impact but there is no obvious local cause for this at all.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to police for \"stamping on it quickly\".\n\nMr Soulsby added he and community leaders were \"confident Leicester is resilient enough to be able to return to normal relations very soon\".\n\nCommunity leaders in the city have called for \"peace and engagement\".\n\nProtesters could also been seen moving down Green Lane Road, flanked by police\n\nSanjiv Patel, who represents Hindu and Jain temples across Leicester, said he was deeply saddened and shocked by the recent disturbances.\n\nHe said: \"We are horrified and deplore what was going on [on Saturday] and across the last two weeks.\n\n\"Across the Hindu and Jain community and with our Muslim brothers and sisters and leaders we are consistently saying 'calm minds, calm heads'.\"\n\nHe added: \"Violence is not a solution to anything. This has to be a time for peace, calm and engagement.\"\n\nSuleman Nagdi, of the Leicester-based Federation of Muslim Organisations, told the BBC: \"What we have seen on the streets is very alarming.\n\n\"There have been problems in the community since the India and Pakistan cricket match and while that game often sparks gatherings they have not in the past turned this ugly.\n\n\"We need calm - the disorder has to stop and it has to stop now. There are some very dissatisfied young men who have been causing havoc.\n\n\"We need to get the message out that this must end and try to do this through parents and grandparents talking to their sons.\"\n\nTwo men were arrested after Saturday's disorder - one on suspicion of conspiracy to commit violent disorder and another on suspicion of possession of a bladed article.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of people could be seen on the streets in footage filmed on Saturday\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen’s coffin came back to the place she called home, Windsor Castle.\n\nIt was driven in the state hearse up the Long Walk, lined up with huge crowds, after an elaborate and sombre procession though London.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family joined the procession as the state hearse approached St George's Chapel.\n\nKing Charles III, Princess Anne, Princes Andrew and Edward, as well as Princes William and Harry walked behind the hearse.", "A bearer party of the Queen's Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, lifted the Queen's coffin from the catafalque in Westminster Hall and carried it in procession to the state gun carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III, his sister Princess Anne, and his brothers, Princes Andrew and Edward then walked behind in procession to Westminster Abbey.\n\nAlso following the Queen's coffin were Princes William and Harry, and Peter Phillips, who is the son of Princess Anne and one of the Queen's other grandsons.", "eBay is removing sales listings for wristbands for the queue to see the Queen lying-in-state in London.\n\nSellers were offering the paper coloured bands, which mark mourners' place in the queue as memorabilia.\n\nThe bands are marked as non-transferable and do not guarantee entry into Westminster Hall to file past the Queen's coffin.\n\nA spokesperson for the auction website said: \"These items are against our policies and we are removing them.\"\n\nA few of the wristbands remained on the site under the header \"new listing\" on Sunday morning but did not link to an active auction or buy-it-now page.\n\nSome used wristbands were attracting bids of up to £70,000 before they were removed, the Guardian has reported. However, it is not known whether the bids were genuine.\n\neBay allows tickets to past events such as concerts or sports fixtures to be sold as memorabilia. However its policy states it may prohibit the sale of tickets to events that are free to the public.\n\nIts policy also says tickets for yet-to-take place events such as concerts, festivals, sports or theatre cannot be listed on the site.\n\nThese listings are no longer active on eBay\n\nPeople are being warned not to travel to join the queue to \"avoid disappointment\".\n\nA decision about what time the line to see the lying in state at Westminster Hall with be closed is expected to be taken this afternoon, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) tweeted.\n\nGovernment officials also said the current wait time is at least 13 hours.\n\nPublic viewing of the Queen lying in state will officially close at 06:30 BST on Monday, four and a half hours before the late monarch's state funeral is due to begin at Westminster Abbey.\n• None People told not to set off to view Queen's coffin", "Trains are at a standstill at London Paddington\n\nPeople travelling home from the Queen's state funeral and procession have faced severe disruption on the railway.\n\nNo trains have been able to run in or out of Paddington station, west London, since 06:30 BST because of damage to overhead electrical wires.\n\nPeople heading to Windsor for the funeral proceedings there were also affected by the cancellations.\n\nServices are likely to be disrupted on Tuesday and passengers are advised to travel from Reading to London Waterloo.\n\nLarge queues also formed at London Waterloo earlier as people tried to make their way home from the capital.\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\nGreat Western Railway (GWR), Heathrow Express and Elizabeth line services have all been affected by the disruption in west London.\n\nNo trains have been able to run between West Drayton/Heathrow Airport and London Paddington.\n\nSouth Western Railway services were also cancelled or delayed between Windsor & Eton Riverside and Datchet during the afternoon because some level crossings needed to be held for the Queen's funeral convoy to pass through.\n\nA service for the Queen took place at Westminster Abbey earlier and a sombre funeral procession carried Her Majesty's coffin from the abbey, through central London to Wellington Arch.\n\nViewing areas in the capital closed by about 09:30 due to overcrowding.\n\nThe Queen's coffin then arrived at Windsor Castle, where another procession took place.\n\nAlthough thousands entered London to see the state funeral and procession, Network Rail said footfall at major London railway stations was 49% down on the same period last Monday.\n\nIt said it believed the numbers coming in for the funeral did not make up for the workers that have not come into London.\n\nMany of those affected had hoped to secure a position to see the funeral procession in London\n\nBarry Boffy, from Bristol, was supposed to be attending the funeral as an invited guest in the Abbey and was on a train to Paddington when passengers were told they had to disembark at Langley station, in Slough, and \"make your own way\".\n\nThe former head of inclusion and diversity at British Transport Police (BTP) said he was given a lift from the station but, with numerous roads closed in the capital, was unable to get to the venue in time.\n\nNevertheless, he said he felt \"pretty philosophical about these things\", as \"ultimately there's not anything I can do about it\".\n\n\"I think it's still a huge honour and privilege just to be invited, so I will treasure that,\" he added.\n\nOn one stuck train earlier, the sound of the choir at Westminster Abbey could be heard echoing through the carriages as mourners watched the service on their smartphones.\n\nBev Palfreman, 61, from Okehampton, Devon, said she was \"absolutely gutted\" about not reaching the capital for the start of the funeral because, \"the Queen has just been there throughout the whole of my life\".\n\n\"This was the only thing I wanted to do.\"\n\nGaby Thomas, 29, who travelled from Castle Cary, Somerset, with her father, said: \"My dad is a former naval officer and he wanted to see the procession and the military involved.\n\n\"It's just about being there. We were meant to arrive in Paddington at about 08:30. We are still hoping to catch the end of the procession.\"\n\nShe added it was \"a typical British thing to happen\".\n\nPassengers on another severely delayed Paddington-bound train were told by a member of staff on the public address system: \"My sincerest apologies for the delays on such an important day for the country.\"\n\nPassengers on an Elizabeth Line train were stuck outside Royal Oak station due to the disruption\n\nBBC London transport correspondent Tom Edwards said two miles (3.2 km) of electrical lines had been damaged around Hayes and Harlington station.\n\nRepairs will be carried out overnight but disruption is likely to continue into Tuesday morning.\n\nDean Shaw, from Network Rail, told BBC Radio Bristol an investigation into the cause of the problem was still taking place but it was hoped some diesel trains might be able to run on routes between Reading and Slough while electrical problems remained.\n\nLines between Reading and Newbury were also closed after an incident on the line, causing some GWR trains to be diverted and further delaying journeys to the capital.\n\nThe disruption came during one of the UK's biggest transport operations as mourners descended on London and Windsor.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"We are very sorry for the disruption which we expect to continue throughout the day.\n\n\"We are working hard to get services running as soon as possible and passengers are strongly advised to check before they travel.\n\n\"We will continue to update passengers as the situation develops.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowds of people gathered to see the coffin of the Queen travel to St George's Chapel.\n\nThe coffin will enter the chapel in Windsor Castle for a committal service.\n\nFull order of service for Queen at Windsor\n\nYour complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "A rehearsal for the state funeral was held overnight on Thursday\n\nQueen Elizabeth II made personal additions to plans for her funeral day, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nAmong the touches requested by the Queen is the playing of a lament by her piper.\n\nThe state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday is likely to be one of the biggest single ceremonial events staged in Britain since World War Two.\n\nA national two-minute silence will be held as the service draws to a close just before midday.\n\nThe order of service, with its choice of music and readings, is expected to reflect more of the Queen's personal choices for the funeral.\n\nPalace aides said the Queen had been consulted on all the arrangements.\n\nAmong those who have confirmed their attendance at the state funeral, which starts at 11:00 BST, are US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nAlongside royalty, politicians and world leaders will be 200 people who were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours, including those who helped with the response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA former police officer awarded the George Cross after being shot at 15 times is also among those due to attend the state funeral.\n\nTony Gledhill, 84, said: \"I'm incredibly moved to be involved.\"\n\nThe official organiser of Monday's events, the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, said his role was \"both humbling and daunting\".\n\nHe said the solemnity of the last few days of mourning and the constitutional process was the \"envy of the world\".\n\nThe duke, who took on the hereditary position in 2002, said Monday's service would aim to \"unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths\".\n\nEvents on Monday will begin with the funeral procession, which will see the Queen's coffin conveyed from Westminster Hall, where she is lying in state, to the nearby Abbey.\n\nPrince Harry the Duke of Sussex and his brother William, the new Prince of Wales, will once more walk side-by-side behind the Queen's coffin during the procession.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be carried on the gun carriage that was used for the funerals of Edward VII, George V, George VI and Sir Winston Churchill. It will be pulled by 142 Royal Navy sailors.\n\nTowards the end of the service, the Last Post will be played, followed by a national two-minute silence. The conclusion of the state funeral, expected at 12:00, will be marked by a lament played by the Queen's piper.\n\nAfter the Abbey service, the Queen's coffin will be carried in a further procession to Wellington Arch - led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and members of NHS staff.\n\nIt will then be conveyed to Windsor by road, before a committal service takes place at 16:00 at St George's Chapel, led by the Dean of Windsor and with a congregation including the Royal Family and some of the Queen's personal staff.\n\nAs the Queen's coffin is lowered into the royal vault, the Archbishop of Canterbury will read a blessing and the Queen's piper will play a lament.\n\nThe Crown Jeweller will be in attendance to collect the crown from the Queen's coffin and convey it back to the Tower of London.\n\nA final private burial service for close family members will be held at 19:30.\n\nThe Queen will be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, where she will rest with her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year.\n\nThe skies over London will be quiet during the two-minute silence, as Heathrow airport stops all departures and arrivals for 30 minutes from 11:40.\n\nSeparate changes to operations at the airport will ensure silence overhead during the ceremonies in Windsor.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast a special programme for Monday's funeral from 08:00 to 17:00 on BBC One and iPlayer.\n\nHow will you be watching the funeral? Do you have any specific plans? Email: yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "As the Chief Executive of BBC News I have the honour to write the closing message on this page of thousands of tributes to Queen Elizabeth II. And it’s a message of thanks to every single person who has taken the time to share their story.\n\nWhen the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, we at the BBC wanted to create a place where people could come together to share their tributes, their photos and recollections.\n\nThe response has been incredible. We have received thousands of touching stories of meeting the Queen, special moments, memories and messages of condolence.\n\nThank you to everyone - from all over the world - for coming together here in this virtual space for very real acts a of remembrance.\n\nLooking at the contributions, the common theme that emerges is that the Queen had a way of making each person she met feel like the most important person in that moment.\n\nThank you again for helping us remember a woman whose promise to serve her people was fulfilled through a life of duty, which touched so many people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least two people have died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona caused flooding and landslides, and took out the island's entire electricity supply.\n\nOfficials said a 58-year-old man died after being swept away by a river in the town of Comerío, while another in his 30s had died in a generator fire.\n\nHeavy rain has continued to lash the US territory, and large portions of the island remain without power.\n\nThe order allows authorities to provide disaster relief.\n\nAbout 600 National Guard soldiers are currently conducting rescue operations across the island, and some 1,000 people have so far been rescued. First responders from three states are expected to assist in the coming days.\n\nAs well as a complete power outage for the 3.3m people living on the Caribbean island, some health centres running on generators were also affected.\n\nElectrical systems in San Juan's hospital complex have since been restored, the health secretary said.\n\nIn some areas it will take days for the power to be reconnected, the operator of the island's grid, Luma Energy, said.\n\nThe Category 1 storm saw winds reach 86mph (140km/h), before moving westwards to the Dominican Republic. Conditions were deemed too dangerous to make repairs immediately after the storm struck.\n\nAnother person was killed on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe when his house was swept away by flooding.\n\nFlights out of Puerto Rico's main airport have been cancelled.\n\nSeveral ports and roads are also closed, and a highway bridge in Utuado, in the island's central mountainous region, has been washed away by flooding.\n\nPuerto Rico's governor said schools and government agencies would remain closed on Monday. Pedro Pierluisi urged residents to seek shelter as soon as possible.\n\nHurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico just five years after Hurricane Maria - the worst in the island's history - caused devastation.\n\nThree weeks after that disaster, only about 10% of Puerto Ricans had electricity. The national grid still remains fragile, with power cuts a daily occurrence.\n\nFiona is expected to strengthen into a Category 4 storm by Wednesday.\n\nTorrential rains and mudslides have been forecast for the Dominican Republic as the hurricane progresses north-west, with the Turks and Caicos Islands also likely to be affected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "People in the US have watched in awe at events in the UK this week Image caption: People in the US have watched in awe at events in the UK this week\n\nThe Americans I was with in front of Buckingham Palace today were awed by the pageantry.\n\nBut what struck me more, spending the last few days watching my home country through the eyes of my adopted country, was the US appreciation of things that are far more modern.\n\nComing from a country that struggles every day with tensions around race, my US colleagues were impressed by the multicultural nature of Britain today. They were also struck by the sense of community, most notably in that curious phenomenon of The Queue.\n\nIt played to every American stereotype of us: \"You see, they really are eccentric, those British!\"\n\nBut the queue also showed a country united, perhaps only temporarily, but united nonetheless. That queue was a model of community.\n\nFor Americans, whose country sometimes appears divided beyond repair, that queue was a tantalising display of what can happen when people have a common cause.\n\nCertainly, the phenomenal wealth and excess on display in the Royal procession is not open to any Tom, Dick or Harry.\n\nBut that pomp and circumstance has a value to all of us beyond the spectacular show, a value Americans may appreciate a little more these days.", "While the Queen was lying in state, on top of her coffin rested the Imperial State Crown, perhaps the most familiar treasure in the Crown Jewels - a priceless collection of tens of thousands of gemstones collected over the centuries by British kings and queens.\n\nThe crown sparkles with nearly 3,000 stones - including 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and five rubies.\n\n\"It can be quite hard to look at sometimes because of the sheer light that comes off them. It's literally dazzling… visually overpowering,\" says historian and author of The Crown Jewels, Anna Keay.\n\nShe says historically, right back to the Middle Ages, crowns were viewed as expressions of wealth and status.\n\nMade in 1937 for the coronation of the Queen's father, King George VI, the Imperial State Crown was designed to be lighter, and to fit better, than the crown it replaced - which dated back to Queen Victoria. But nevertheless, the Imperial Crown still weighs in at a hefty 2.3lbs (1.06kg).\n\nDuring her reign, Queen Elizabeth II would wear it annually for the State Opening of Parliament - as she sat on a golden throne reading out the government's key legislative plans for the year ahead.\n\nThe Queen, with the Duke of Edinburgh by her side, wearing the crown at the State Opening of Parliament in 2016\n\nIn 2018, the Queen joked about how heavy the crown felt to wear.\n\n\"You can't look down to read the speech, you have to take the speech up, because if you did your neck would break,\" explained Her Majesty.\n\n\"There are some disadvantages to crowns, but otherwise they're quite important things.\"\n\nIn 2019, when the monarch was well into her 90s, a lighter crown was used - and in 2021, the final time she took part in the ceremony, she didn't wear one at all.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown includes the 317 carat Cullinan II diamond - sometimes called the Second Star of Africa. Cut from the largest diamond ever found, it was given to Edward VII on his 66th birthday by the government of the Transvaal - a former British crown colony - in present day South Africa.\n\nIt also includes the oldest gem in the royal collection - a sapphire said to have once been worn in a ring by the 11th Century king of England, St Edward the Confessor. The stone is now set at the centre of the cross that tops the crown.\n\nThe Queen was particularly keen on a large red gemstone in the crown - known as the Black Prince's Ruby. It is thought to have been worn in 1415 during the Hundred Years' War by Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - when English forces beat the French to the south of Calais.\n\nLegend has it that the king placed a feather in a hole drilled into the ruby. \"It's fun to see,\" the Queen told the BBC in 2018, \"the idea that his plume was put into the stone on his helmet - bit rash, but that was the sort of thing they did, I suppose, in those days.\"\n\nBBC presenter Clive Myrie - who was given unprecedented, close-up access to the crown earlier this year for a BBC documentary - described seeing it as \"almost unreal\".\n\n\"The clarity of the diamonds is absolutely unbelievable.\"\n\nWith unprecedented access to the latest technology, Clive Myrie reveals the magnificent, astonishing, complicated history buried within the Crown Jewels\n\nBut putting a price on how much the Imperial State Crown - and all the Crown Jewels - is worth is nigh on impossible. Royal expert Alastair Bruce told the BBC documentary the collection was beyond monetary value.\n\n\"Calling it priceless is sensible, but you can just add as many zeros as there are diamonds in the collection.\"\n\nWhen not in use, the Imperial State Crown is on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower of London - which has been home to the Crown Jewels for more than 600 years.\n\nFollowing tradition, King Charles III will wear the St Edward's Crown for his coronation, but will put on the Imperial State Crown to leave Westminster Abbey at the end of the ceremony. Then, like his mother before him, he will wear the Imperial State Crown at the opening of Parliament, as well as on other official occasions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Grieving a loved one in public not easy, Queen told Sentamu\n\nGrieving someone you love deeply is not easy to do in public, the Queen once said, the former Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu has revealed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Sentamu recalled the words in a \"most wonderful letter\" the Queen wrote to him after Prince Philip died last year.\n\nHe added his thoughts were with King Charles and the Royal Family who \"are grieving publicly\".\n\nDr Sentamu also said the Queen did not want a \"long, boring\" funeral service.\n\nAppearing on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, he told of how he has been involved in preparing for the service for the past 17 years.\n\nThe Queen's funeral is taking place at Westminster Abbey at 11:00 BST on Monday.\n\nSome 500 leaders and dignitaries from the UK and around the world will be among the thousands of guests expected to attend the ceremony.\n\n\"You're not going to find boredom, but you're going to be lifted to glory as you hear the service\", he said.\n\nDr Sentamu said mourners can expect the funeral to be a traditional service.\n\n\"The hearts and people's cockles will be warmed, but at the same time, there will be a moment of saying this is a funeral service,\" he said.\n\nDr Sentamu spoke of how the Queen comforted him through prayer when he went to ask for permission to step down as Archbishop of York in 2018.\n\nHe said: \"I went with a huge burden of matters that maybe one day will be revealed.\n\n\"I knelt down, and I said 'Your Majesty, please pray for me.' So I put my hands together and she put hers outside mine, and we were silent for three minutes. At the end she said 'Amen'.\n\n\"When I got up, the burden had lifted.\"\n\nRecalling the letter the Queen had written to him after Prince Philip's died, Dr Sentamu said she was \"thanking me for the flowers, the prayers and then ended by saying 'when you are grieving someone you deeply love, it isn't easy when you have to do it in public'\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's seven surviving prime ministers attended Westminster Abbey to bid farewell to the Queen.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Liz Truss was joined by Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Sir Tony Blair, and Sir John Major.\n\nAll seven were pictured seated alongside one another at the funeral with their spouses.\n\nThe Queen's reign spanned the tenure of 15 prime ministers in total, the first of which was Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nAmong her last acts was to accept the resignation of Mr Johnson and invite Ms Truss to form a government.\n\nIn a tribute following the Queen's death, Ms Truss described her as the \"rock on which modern Britain was built\" and said her \"devotion to duty remains an example to us all\".\n\nMrs May was accompanied by her husband Philip, while Mr Johnson attended the service with his wife Carrie\n\nThe service saw Ms Truss deliver a Bible reading, John 14:2, which recounts Jesus's farewell address to his disciples at the last supper.\n\n\"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you,\" it reads.\n\nSir Tony and Sir John could both be seen wearing their stars of the Order of the Garter, the most senior form of knighthood in the British honours system, outranked in precedence only by the Victoria Cross and the George Cross.\n\nAs members of the Privy Council, all seven prime ministers also appeared at the Accession Council ceremony, at which the King was formally proclaimed Britain's monarch, at St James's Palace last week.\n\nEach of them will have spent considerable amounts of time in the Queen's company during their periods in office.\n\nThroughout her reign, the Queen held weekly private audiences with the prime minister of the day, and would also often invite them to visit her at Balmoral Castle during her summer breaks on the estate.\n\nPaying tribute after her death, Mr Brown recalled the Queen's generosity as a host.\n\n\"She made you feel at home by bringing other guests that she knew you would like,\" he said. \"There was a book in your room that she had chosen specially from her library for you to read.\n\n\"That was the kindness and generosity and the considerate nature that she had.\"\n\nSpeaking during celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, Mr Cameron said his time as prime minister had offered \"no finer moment than each week having the almost unique ability to sit down, in private, with Her Majesty and being able to call on her sage advice and wise counsel\".\n\nGordon Brown and Sir Tony Blair served as Labour PMs from 1997 to 2010\n\nSir John Major's wife, Norma, as by his side, while Cherie Blair accompanied Sir Tony\n\nThe service was also attended by hundreds of world leaders and foreign dignitaries, including US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, and heads of government from across the Commonwealth.\n\nArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby delivered a sermon in which he reflected on the nature of public service and leadership.\n\n\"People of loving service are rare in any walk of life,\" he said. \"Leaders of loving service are still rarer.\n\n\"But in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.\"", "Joe Biden at the White House on 15 September\n\nPresident Joe Biden has declared the pandemic over in the US, even as the number of Americans who have died from Covid continues to rise.\n\n\"We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,\" said Mr Biden in a television interview.\n\nStatistics show that over 400 Americans on average are dying from the virus each day.\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said last week that the end of the pandemic was \"in sight\".\n\nIn an interview with CBS programme 60 Minutes aired on Sunday, Mr Biden said the situation was rapidly improving, even though a lot of work was being done to control the virus.\n\nThe interview - aired over the weekend - was partly filmed on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show, where the president gestured towards the crowds.\n\n\"If you notice, no-one's wearing masks,\" he said. \"Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape... I think it's changing.\"\n\nBut administration officials told US media on Monday that the comments did not signal a change in policy and there were no plans to lift the ongoing Covid-19 public health emergency.\n\nIn August, US officials extended the public health emergency, which has been in place since January 2020, through to 13 October.\n\nTo date, more than one million Americans have died from Covid. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - the CDC - says that Covid was the underlying cause in at least 90% of those deaths. In the remaining deaths, it was a contributing cause.\n\nData from Johns Hopkins University shows that the seven-day average of deaths currently stands at over 400, with more than 3,000 dead in the past week alone.\n\nIn January 2021, by comparison, more than 23,000 people were reported dead from the virus over a single week-long span. About 65% of the total US population is considered fully vaccinated.\n\nCertain federal vaccine mandates remain in place in the US - including on healthcare workers, military personnel and some non-US citizens entering the country by plane.\n\nTop Republicans criticised the president's remarks, with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeting: \"Biden now says 'the pandemic is over' as he's kicking tens of thousands of healthy soldiers out of the military with his COVID vaccine mandate.\"\n\nPublic health officials have expressed cautious optimism in recent weeks that the world is edging towards a pandemic recovery, but continue to urge people to be careful.\n\nOn Monday, Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged the situation had improved.\n\nBut in comments made at a Washington DC think tank, he said the daily death rate remained \"unacceptably high\".\n\n\"We are not where we need to be if we're going to be able to 'live with the virus',\" Dr Fauci said.\n\nHe also cautioned that new Covid-19 variants could still emerge, especially in the coming winter months.\n\nThe US recently authorised new vaccines that match the version of the Omicron variant currently dominant in the country, with federal health officials asking Americans to keep their jabs up-to-date.\n\nLast week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the world has \"never been in a better position to end the pandemic\".\n\n\"We are not there yet,\" he said. \"But the end is in sight.\"\n\nCovid-19 also continues to have a significant impact on the US economy, with the National Bureau of Economic Research reporting last week that Covid-related disease had slashed the US workforce by about 500,000 people.\n\nMr Biden said he believes that the pandemic has had a \"profound\" impact on the psyche of Americans.\n\n\"That has changed everything... people's attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of the nation, about the state of their communities,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been a very difficult time. Very difficult.\"\n\nMore than 6.5 million people have died since the beginning of the pandemic around the world. The US has had the highest death toll, followed by India and Brazil.", "One of Russia's most popular singers, Alla Pugacheva, has called on the Russian authorities to declare her a \"foreign agent\", in solidarity with her strongly anti-war husband Maxim Galkin.\n\nA showbiz star too, he was labelled a \"foreign agent\" on Friday after condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine.\n\nOn social media Pugacheva called her husband \"a true incorruptible Russian patriot, who wants... an end to our lads dying for illusory aims\".\n\nShe has been a big star for decades.\n\nShe said the Kremlin's \"illusory aims\" in Ukraine \"make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult\".\n\nGalkin, a comedian, TV presenter and singer, wanted \"prosperity for his motherland, peace, free speech\", she added.\n\nThe label \"foreign agent\" has been applied by the Russian government to various media organisations, campaign groups and individuals openly critical of Kremlin policies.\n\nAlla Pugacheva has been a musical megastar here for decades. First, in the Soviet Union, where she began her career in the 1960s; then, after the fall of the USSR, in Russia.\n\nShe is a hugely popular and well-respected artist, which makes her public comments about Russia's offensive in Ukraine big news.\n\nHer assertion that \"our lads are dying for illusory aims that make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult\" is likely to infuriate the Kremlin.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether it will have any effect on Russian public opinion over what the Kremlin still calls its \"special military operation\".\n\nPugacheva and Galkin went to Israel in late March, a month after the Russian invasion, and Pugacheva returned to Russia late last month with her children.\n\nIn early September President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of Galkin: \"Our paths have clearly diverged - he has made very bad statements.\"\n\nGalkin condemned Russian troops' alleged atrocities and said there could be no justification for the Ukraine invasion.\n\nPresident Putin greeted Alla Pugacheva in the Kremlin in December 2014\n\nArtemy Troitsky, a leading figure in Russian music who left the country in 2014 because of his opposition to Vladimir Putin and now lives in Estonia, told the BBC Pugacheva's intervention was significant.\n\n\"Alla Pugacheva is the biggest pop star in Russia in the past almost 50 years,\" he said.\n\n\"Her fame is monumental and she's a legendary figure. I think this is something that many people have expected her to do some time ago because her husband, Maxim Galkin, he's made his anti-war statements already many times and several months ago.\n\n\"I think this is her first ever strong political statement and this in itself, of course, is quite shocking for the people in Russia. I think she's not the only one who may turn the public opinion. The obvious wrongdoings of the Russian army and the offensive of the Ukrainian army and the worsening economic situation and so on, all those factors they work against Putin and against the war.\n\n\"But I think that morally and emotionally this statement of Alla Pugacheva is maybe one of the most strong efforts in these directions.\"\n\nRussia says it is fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine - a claim widely dismissed - and that it is threatened by the Nato alliance's strong relations with Ukraine.\n\nThe actual civilian death toll is believed to be thousands higher. Tens of thousands of combatants have been killed or injured.\n\nRussia, a global energy supplier, is locked in an economic struggle with the West which imposed sweeping sanctions in response to the invasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin failing on all his strategic military objectives - Radakin", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II \"carved her own role\" after she came to the throne, Camilla, the Queen Consort, has said in a personal TV tribute to her.\n\nCamilla recalls the Queen's \"wonderful blue eyes\" and her \"unforgettable smile\", in the BBC programme.\n\nIt was broadcast shortly before a national minute's silence held across the UK on Sunday at 20:00 BST.\n\nShe also said the Queen \"has been part of our lives forever\".\n\nThe Queen Consort was four when Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in 1952 and she tells the documentary: \"I'm 75 now and I can't remember anybody except the Queen being there.\"\n\nRemembering the monarch, Camilla described \"those wonderful blue eyes... when she smiles they light up her whole face\".\n\n\"I will always remember that smile.\"\n\nThe Queen Consort's tribute to her late mother-in-law was shown in a special hour-long BBC One programme at 19:00 on Sunday.\n\nIn it, she told how her mother-in-law had carved out her own role for many years from the \"difficult position\" of being a \"solitary woman\" in what was a male-dominated world.\n\n\"There weren't women prime ministers or presidents. She was the only one so I think she carved her own role.\"\n\nThe Queen Consort, who had known the monarch for decades, said the Queen had a clear demarcation between her public duties and private life, highlighting her summer breaks at Balmoral in Scotland as a moment for \"her enjoyment\".\n\n\"Although she was probably working, you know with her red boxes throughout, she could have her family to stay, she could do the things she loved,\" she said.\n\nShe also spoke of how the late Queen saw the funny side of a shoe mishap on the Queen Consort's wedding day in 2005.\n\n\"I probably wasn't firing on all cylinders, quite nervous and, for some unknown reason, I put on a pair of shoes and one had an inch heel and one had a two-inch heel,\" Camilla said.\n\n\"I was halfway down in the car before I realised... she could see and laughed about it and said, 'Look, I'm terribly sorry'.\"\n\nShe added that the Queen had a \"good sense of humour\".\n\nAhead of Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark her 70 years on the throne earlier this year, Queen Elizabeth had said it was her \"sincere wish\" that the then-Duchess of Cornwall would become known as Queen Consort when Charles became King.\n\nThat ended years of debate over what she would become known as.\n\nThe Queen also called on the public to support her daughter-in-law and son when he became the new monarch.\n\nSpeaking about his wife during his first speech as monarch, King Charles said: \"I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much.\"\n\nEvents and moments of reflection have taken place across the UK on Sunday. Near Falkirk, Scotland, 96 lanterns - one for each year of Her Majesty's life - were lowered into the pool of reflection at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth II Canal at 19:30.\n\nOn the final full day of the Queen's lying-in-state, thousands have continued to queue as the government warned people not to travel to avoid disappointment if it closed before they could enter the hall.\n\nMembers of the public will be able to see the coffin at Westminster Hall until 06:30 on Monday.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Princess of Wales (L) received Olena Zelenska in Buckingham Palace\n\nUkraine's first lady Olena Zelenska has said Queen Elizabeth II \"shared the values Ukraine stands for today\".\n\nAfter an audience with the Princess of Wales at Buckingham Palace, Ms Zelenska said the late Queen had \"repeatedly\" said words of support for Ukraine - which is fighting a war with Russia.\n\nMs Zelenska visited Westminster Hall to see the Queen lying in state before her meeting with Catherine.\n\nWorld leaders have been arriving in London ahead of the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe lying-in-state ended at 06:30 BST, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to see the coffin.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Zelenska said she was in the UK paying her respects to the Queen \"on behalf of all Ukrainians\".\n\n\"They know that the Queen shared the values that Ukraine stands for today: freedom, the right to one's own home, language, culture and country,\" she said. \"We have repeatedly heard words of support from her.\"\n\n\"On Independence Day, she wished us better times in this extremely difficult year,\" she said. \"In an address to the British Parliament, she spoke about supporting Ukraine.\n\n\"It is very important for us to know that such a world leader of an epoch, a leader with an impeccable reputation and morals, was with us.\"\n\nMs Zelenska's visit to the UK comes after her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, signed a book of condolence for the Queen at the British embassy in Kyiv.\n\nThe UK's ambassador in Kyiv, Melinda Simmons, said she was \"deeply honoured\" by the president's gesture \"given all else that is happening in [Ukraine] at this time\".\n\nMs Zelenska previously met Catherine and Prince William during an official visit to the UK in 2020 with her husband.\n\nUS President Joe Biden also saw the lying in state on Sunday and said the \"world is better\" because of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nPresident Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill, said Britons \"were fortunate to have had her for 70 years - we all were\".\n\nHe also joined other world leaders in signing a book of condolences at Lancaster House.\n\nUS President Joe Biden signed a book of condolence at Lancaster House\n\nLeaders from across the Commonwealth, of which the Queen served as head for the entirety of her reign, will also attend the funeral, including Canada's Justin Trudeau, New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern and Australia's Anthony Albanese.\n\nOther world leaders to have accepted invitations to the funeral include Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin and President Michael Higgins, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian President Sergio Mattarella and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nBut Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is no longer expected to attend the funeral, a UK Foreign Office source says.", "People have queued along the River Thames to pay their respects to the Queen\n\nThe queue of people patiently waiting to pay their respects to the Queen as she lies in state in Westminster Hall has become a talking point around the world. The people populating its five-mile length are willing to shuffle slowly along for between nine and 24 hours, sometimes overnight. The fact that it all works is down to a team of crowd science experts and a professor from Cumbria.\n\nIt has become known, simply, as The Queue.\n\nThose watching its calm progress towards our former monarch - and it makes for strangely compulsive viewing - marvel at both its length and the stoic patience of those in it.\n\nIt is idiosyncratically British, they say. Who else would willingly join a queue that lasts longer than the average working day? And it comes with its own ecosystem. There is a live online queue tracker, coloured wristbands, toilets.\n\nThat it works is down to, among others, Prof Keith Still, from Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria, who has been teaching and advising on crowd science for 30 years.\n\nPlanning for something like The Queue takes \"decades\", he says.\n\nThe Queue passes landmarks such as Tower Bridge\n\nHe has provided analysis and advice and reviewed plans for not only The Queue, but also the Queen's journey from Balmoral through Aberdeen, where he was born.\n\nAsked if he ever anticipated The Queue could reach five miles long, he replies, swiftly: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe Queen was so loved, and reigned for so long, it was clear to him she was bound to have more people wanting to pay their respects than the 200,000 who gathered for the Queen Mother.\n\n\"You always plan for what might arrive and then five times that, and 10 times that,\" he says.\n\nProf Keith Still has been advising on crowd science for 30 years\n\nThe Queue is remarkable for mostly being good humoured. There have been few reports of queue jumping or problems. As Prof Still puts it: \"The crowd itself is looking after people within it.\"\n\nWhile this may be due to the sombre occasion, human nature and the psychology of queuing behaviour must also be considered, he says. People need to know what is happening in advance, to have their expectations set and to be kept constantly informed and updated and, in The Queue, they have had that.\n\nPerceived fairness is also important, with VIP lanes visually separate so it does not appear someone has just turned up and walked straight through.\n\n\"So long as people know what's happening, what's expected of them, how long it's going to take, they no longer face the uncertainty,\" he says. \"And it keeps the crowd very much on your side.\"\n\nWristbands and zones make sure people feel secure in their place while queuing\n\nPeople are happy if they know what is happening, even if the update is to say the update is coming.\n\n\"It's as soon as that information flow stops that you get a degree of uncertainty and people start behaving as individuals rather than as a collective,\" he says.\n\nThe Queue's temporary closure on Friday afternoon briefly concerned him. People were already on their way to join the end. \"When they announced that the queue had stopped I thought 'you're just going to create another queue of people waiting to join the queue',\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queue even attracted former England captain David Beckham\n\nBut this was \"already in the contingency plan\" and the closure was quickly reconsidered and The Queue extended out beyond Bermondsey.\n\nThe longer the queue, the more facilities you need to provide. As well as information, the crowd needs toilets, food, drinks, shelter and medical care.\n\n\"Eight hours might be acceptable for most people but 10, 12 - where's the limit of human endurance when standing for that length of time? These are all factored in,\" Prof Still says.\n\nThis is the scene which greets people at the end - the Queen lying in state\n\nHe does not think he could have stood for that length of time himself, not with arthritic hips. \"At 63, I can walk my dog for about 4km and that's it, I'm knackered for the rest of the day,\" he says.\n\nBut he trusts The Queue and has faith in the handful of his Masters students from Manchester Metropolitan University who took over from him in the team managing its planning.\n\nThese things are \"always a significant team effort\", he says.\n\n\"It's never just one person.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the Queen told her she had to \"just get on with it\" when asked for advice about being both a leader and a new mother.\n\nIn 2018, Ms Ardern became only the second elected head of government to give birth while in office.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she also reiterated a belief that New Zealand would one day become a republic.\n\nMs Ardern is one of hundreds of leaders in London ahead of the Queen's funeral.\n\nAppearing on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, she was shown footage of her first meeting with the Queen, which took place when she was pregnant.\n\nAsked about the conversation during that meeting, Ms Ardern said: \"One of the things on my mind alongside being a new prime minister was being a prime minister and a mum.\n\n\"And when you think about leaders who have been in that position..., there were so few to look to.\n\n\"So I said to her, 'How did you manage?', and I remember she just said, 'Well, you just get on with it'. And that was actually probably the best and most factual advice I could have.\"\n\nPrince Andrew and Prince Edward were both born after the Queen took the throne. The only other elected leader to give birth in office was Benazir Bhutto, who served as prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996.\n\nMs Ardern gave birth to daughter Neve Te Aroha in June 2018, returning to work in early August of that year.\n\nMs Ardern, who previously lived in London, said she hadn't been surprised \"at all\" by the size of the public's response to the Queen's death.\n\n\"I've seen what London looks like day-to-day, and what it feels like day-to-day, the hustle and bustle,\" she said.\n\n\"And to see it just stand still, but do so so poetically, is a very moving thing to witness. The Queen was here for her people, and now her people are there for her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand's PM says \"it makes sense\" that dignitaries attending the Queen's funeral should be bussed to Westminster Abbey\n\nShe added that she had been surprised by the widespread discussion of the news that many world leaders will be bussed to the funeral instead of being allowed to take their own cars.\n\n\"I have to be honest, I'm interested that there's so much fuss about it,\" she said. \"Back in New Zealand, I often get our ministers to carpool in a van. So this just makes good sense.\"\n\nMs Ardern was also asked about recent comments in which she said she thought it was \"likely\" that New Zealand would become a republic in her lifetime.\n\n\"Even the Queen herself has observed and acknowledged the evolution over time in our relationships,\" she said.\n\n\"So my observation is that there will continue to be an evolution in our relationship. I don't believe that it will be quick or soon, but over the course of my lifetime.\"\n\nShe also said that the process of becoming republic was not one she had \"any intent of instigating\".\n\nShe added that there would \"still be bonds between us as Commonwealth nations and still things to be gained through those relationships\".", "Nine million people have been told to evacuate their homes as Japan is battered by one of the worst typhoons the country has ever seen.\n\nThe super typhoon Nanmadol has killed two people and injured almost 90.\n\nIt hit Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands, on Sunday morning, and is set to reach Honshu, the largest island, in the coming days.\n\nTens of thousands of people spent Sunday night in emergency shelters, and almost 350,000 homes are without power.\n\nTransport and business has been disrupted, and the country is braced for extensive flooding and landslides.\n\nNanmadol has brought gusts of up to 234km/h (145mph), and some areas were forecast 400mm (16 inches) of rain in 24 hours.\n\nBullet train services, ferries, and hundreds of flights have been cancelled. Many shops and other businesses have closed, and sandbags have been put in place to protect some properties.\n\nThe typhoon made landfall near the city of Kagoshima, on the southern tip of Japan's most southerly island, Kyushu, on Sunday morning.\n\nA river in Kyushu has burst its banks.\n\nState broadcaster NHK said one man was killed when his car was submerged in flooding, and another died after being buried in a landslide. One more person remains missing, and 87 have been injured.\n\nLocal video footage shows roofs ripped off buildings and billboards toppled over.\n\nThe storm is forecast to turn east and pass over Japan's main island of Honshu before moving out to sea by Wednesday. The capital, Tokyo, has experienced heavy rain, with the Tozai underground line suspended because of flooding.\n\nA level-five alert, the highest on Japan's disaster warning scale, has been issued for more than 500,000 people in the Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Oita, Kumamoto and Yamaguchi areas.\n\nA total of around nine million people have been ordered to evacuate parts of the Kyushu, Shikoku and Chugoku regions after a level four alert.\n\nNanmadol has been categorised as a super typhoon by the US Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC), a term applied to storms with sustained wind speeds of 240km/h (150mph) or more. It is the equivalent of a category four or five hurricane.\n\nPrime Minister Fumio Kishida has delayed a visit to New York, where he is due to give speech at the UN General Assembly, until Tuesday, to monitor the impact of the storm.\n\nScientists have predicted a very active hurricane season this year, influenced by a natural phenomenon known as La Niña.\n\nWarmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic and Caribbean as a result of climate change may also have an impact.\n\nThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said intense tropical cyclones will likely increase on a global scale.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Typhoon Nanmadol bears down on Japan - what's the forecast?", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and friends from across the globe were among the 2,000 guests at the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHere's who was in the abbey, and where they were seated.\n\nClosest to the Queen's coffin were her four children and their spouses. King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, sat alongside the Princess Royal and her husband, the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sat directly behind the King while the Prince and Princess of Wales sat across the aisle from them.\n\nAll of the Queen's eight grandchildren sat in the front two rows, days after they stood together in vigil at the lying-in-state. Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, seven, were the Queen's only great-grandchildren to attend the service.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife the Duchess of York was in the second row next to her daughter Princess Eugenie.\n\nShe sat next to the Queen's nephew, the Earl of Snowdon. The earl, David Armstrong-Jones, is the son of the Queen's late sister, Princess Margaret and the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.\n\nHis sister Lady Sarah Chatto, who was close to the Queen, was also at the service with her husband Daniel Chatto and her two sons.\n\nOther members of the Queen's family sat in the first few rows included her cousins, the Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent.\n\nSome of the Queen's god children were also there including Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer.\n\nClose friends also attended. Ladies-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey and Dame Mary Morrison, were seen arriving alongside Angela Kelly, the Queen's personal dresser and one of her closest confidents.\n\nThe Queen Consort's children were invited - Laura Lopes, second from left, and Tom Parker Bowles.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary were alongside other cabinet ministers. All of the UK's surviving former prime ministers were also seated in the quire of the abbey.\n\nIn the middle row was Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson, Philip May, Theresa May, David Cameron, and Samantha Cameron.\n\nIn the front row were Sarah Brown, Gordon Brown, Cherie Blair, Sir Tony Blair, Lady Norma Major and Sir John Major.\n\nAll monarchs were invited to the funeral and the vast majority flew to London for it.\n\nDenmark's Queen Margrethe II - now the only female monarch in the world - sat opposite King Charles close to the coffin.\n\nOther kings and queens from The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Norway and Belgium also attended - as did the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.\n\nIt also marked the first international visit for the Emperor and Empress of Japan since they ascended the throne three years ago.\n\nMalaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah were seated behind King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government were thought to have been in the abbey.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and his wife Jill were sat in the 14th row behind the Polish president Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda.\n\nThe president of France, Emmanuel Macron, was with his wife Brigitte. Mr Macron, who met the Queen three times, had said that she had been \"a friend of France, a kind-hearted queen, who has left a lasting impression on her country and her century\".\n\nOther heads of government who were there included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is among those not invited\n\nRepresentatives from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan were not invited. This is because the UK does not have full diplomatic relations with these countries.\n\nNo-one from Russia, Belarus and Myanmar was invited either.\n\nDiplomatic relations between the UK and Russia have all but collapsed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was \"not considering\" attending the funeral.\n\nThe invasion was launched partially from the territory of Belarus. And the UK has significantly scaled back its diplomatic presence in Myanmar since a military coup last year.\n\nNorth Korea (DPRK) and Nicaragua were invited to send only ambassadors, not heads of state.\n\nHuman rights groups had criticised the decision to invite Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The prince has been accused by Western intelligence of ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Prince Turki Bin Mohammed al Saud attended the funeral instead.\n\nGraphics by Mark Bryson, additional reporting by Daniel Rosney and the Visual Journalism team", "Celia Marsh, who had a severe dairy allergy, died in 2017 after eating a super-veg rainbow flatbread\n\nA woman with a severe allergy died after eating a Pret a Manger wrap that had been labelled vegan but included dairy protein, her inquest heard.\n\nMum-of-five Celia Marsh collapsed while on a shopping trip with her husband and three of her daughters.\n\nA paramedic told the inquest that some shoppers continued to step over Mrs Marsh while she was being treated on the ground in Bath.\n\nHusband Andy Marsh told the court: \"She began to feel funny after eating the wrap. I thought she was being silly because the sandwich had been labelled vegan.\"\n\nThe family had been on a post-Christmas shopping trip in Bath in 2017 when Mrs Marsh bought the wrap.\n\nThe inquest heard the dental nurse \"religiously avoided\" all dairy products following a near-fatal allergic reaction some months earlier.\n\nMrs Marsh's family and her husband (centre) have been attending the inquest\n\nMrs Marsh, 42, from Melksham, Wiltshire, began struggling to breathe shortly after consuming the flatbread containing yoghurt.\n\nThe yoghurt was meant to be vegan but was subsequently found to contain traces of dairy protein, the inquest heard.\n\nMr Marsh and his daughters were in court and cried as his statement was read out.\n\nThe family had been browsing inside the clothing store Gap when Mrs Marsh started to feel \"a bit funny\".\n\nThey left the shop and walked down a side street where she took her inhaler out.\n\n\"She used it a few times and I asked if she was OK,\" Mr Marsh said.\n\n\"She said she might have been struggling because of the cold air.\n\n\"She had her Epipen in her hand and I said she should use it if there was any chance she was having a reaction.\n\n\"She then said to me 'you need to phone an ambulance'.\"\n\nBy the time he phoned 999 at 14:33 GMT, Mrs Marsh had collapsed in the street and a crowd had surrounded her.\n\nOne of the attending paramedics told the court some shoppers had continued to step over Mrs Marsh while she was being treated on the ground.\n\nOther shoppers took off their coats to help keep her warm.\n\nA civil servant who came to help recalled seeing Mr Marsh trying to comfort one of his daughters.\n\nMr Marsh said he was unable to travel in the ambulance with his wife because he had his children with him.\n\nHe said it took him a while to return to the car and drive to the hospital as he was in shock.\n\n\"When we arrived at the hospital we were taken into a side room and we were told that Celia had been pronounced dead at 4pm,\" Mr Marsh said.\n\nPret a Manger was charged with food safety failures following Mrs Marsh's death, but the prosecution was later dropped due to lack of evidence.\n\nThe company said it would fully co-operate with the inquest, which is expected to last two to three weeks.\n\nThe death of Mrs Marsh comes after that of 15-year-old Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died in 2016 after eating a Pret baguette containing sesame seeds, to which she was allergic.\n\nIn the wake of Natasha's death the food labelling laws were changed to require all retailers to display full ingredients and allergen information on every food item made on the premises and pre-packed for direct sale, including sandwiches, cakes and salads.\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.", "The prince spent time learning from indigenous communities during his tour of Canada\n\nThe Prince of Wales has urged nations to learn lessons from indigenous communities to help save the planet, as he visited a remote Canadian outpost battling with climate change.\n\nPrince Charles said leaders should work with \"indigenous knowledge-keepers\" to \"restore harmony with nature\".\n\nHis comments came on the final leg of a three-day royal tour of Canada.\n\nHe and Camilla visited the country - where the Queen is head of state - to mark the monarch's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe prince also met survivors of Canada's residential schools system, which saw indigenous children die or be abused over decades.\n\nEarlier in the tour, he faced calls from an indigenous leader for the Queen to apologise for the \"genocide\" of indigenous schoolchildren.\n\nSpeaking in Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, the prince said he was \"deeply moved\" after speaking to survivors and \"acknowledged\" their suffering.\n\n\"We must listen to the truth of the lived experiences of indigenous peoples, and we should work to understand better their pain and suffering,\" he told local residents.\n\nThe school system saw indigenous children forcibly relocated to government-funded boarding schools, as part of a policy which attempted to assimilate indigenous children and destroy indigenous cultures and languages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring his speech, he said time was \"rapidly running out\" to deal with climate change and biodiversity loss.\n\n\"\"I can only say how strongly I would encourage the leadership of the Northwest Territories to address this challenge by working alongside indigenous knowledge-keepers to restore harmony with nature,\" he said.\n\n\"We simply must learn practical lessons from traditional knowledge, through deep connections to land and water, about how we should treat our planet.\"\n\nPrince Charles sat astride the snowmobile, which costs 25,000 Canadian dollars (about £15,600)\n\nThe prince examined a rifle used by the Rangers\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla joined in a Feeding the Fire Ceremony", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak on his future as an MP: \"I don't plan on going anywhere.\"\n\nRishi Sunak says he will stand again to be an MP at the next general election, despite losing to Liz Truss in the Conservative leadership election.\n\nThe former chancellor got 43% of the votes to Ms Truss's 57%.\n\nHe is not expected to be in Ms Truss's cabinet - and there has been speculation he will quit politics.\n\nBut he told BBC Political Editor Chris Mason he hoped to continue serving his constituents \"not just in the immediate future but also at the next election\".\n\nThe 42-year-old, who has been MP for Richmond, in North Yorkshire, since 2015, also said the new Tory leader and prime minister would have his \"full support\".\n\nAsked if he would accept a ministerial job from Ms Truss, he said: \"It is just not something I'm thinking about.\"\n\nDuring the campaign, the two candidates strongly disagreed on each other's economic proposals.\n\nHowever, asked whether he would support his new leader's plans, he said: \"Liz has said very clearly that she is going to provide support for households during winter and that's a good thing.\n\n\"Many people are gong to struggle and it is right they are going to get some help through that\".\n\nHe said the eight-week long leadership campaign had \"obviously highlighted differences\" but he insisted that \"there's far more that unites us\".\n\nTheir disagreements were \"in the past\" and it was now time to \"look forward\", he added.\n\nReflecting on his own future he said he was \"absolutely\" still interested in a career in politics.\n\n\"I am very committed to my constituents in North Yorkshire... and as long as they will have me I plan to keep serving them not just in the immediate future but also at the next election.\"", "Twins Chelsea (left) and Christy Cawley and their sister Lisa Cash were killed in their home on Sunday\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering three of his siblings in their home in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAndy Cash, 24, of Rossfield Avenue in Tallaght in south-west Dublin, was charged on Monday night.\n\nEight-year-old twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley and 18-year-old Lisa Cash died after they were attacked in the early hours on Sunday.\n\nThe defendant appeared at a special sitting of Dublin District Court at about 21:00 local time on Monday.\n\nGarda (Irish police) Robert Whitty told the court that the accused replied \"no comment\" when he was charged with the murders.\n\nA defence solicitor requested a psychological assessment for his client and solitary confinement for him in custody.\n\nThe judge said that was a matter for the prison governor.\n\nThe defendant was remanded in custody and is due to appear before Cloverhill District Court in County Dublin by videolink on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Pratt-Korbel is described by her mother as \"her little shadow\"\n\nThe mother of Olivia Pratt-Korbel has called on those responsible for her daughter's murder to come forward.\n\nSpeaking with a bandaged arm in an emotional appeal, Cheryl Korbel, 46, said: \"You know you've done wrong, so you need to own up.\"\n\nThe nine-year-old girl was shot when a gunman chased another man into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August. She later died in hospital.\n\nMs Korbel described Olivia as her \"little shadow\".\n\nA 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest when the gunman fired. Neither of the men who entered the home had any links to the family.\n\nMs Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door on the attacker, but he fired two more shots at the man he had pursued, police said.\n\nSpeaking in a video appeal released by Merseyside Police, Ms Korbel said: \"Like I taught my kids, you do something wrong, you own up to it.\n\n\"If anyone is hiding these guns they need to speak up because they need to be off the streets.\n\n\"No one, no one at all should have to go through this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The family of Olivia have released a video of the schoolgirl at a Christmas market\n\nMs Korbel said the family had been planning days out and a trip to buy Olivia's new school uniform shortly before she was killed.\n\nShe said: \"I didn't get that chance to go and get her school uniform. But I'll keep going, for Liv.\"\n\nMs Korbel said Olivia \"was amazing\" and \"she loved life\".\n\n\"She was my little shadow, She went everywhere with me. Everyone that she met, they fell in love with her.\n\n\"She left her mark on everyone that she met. She may only have been nine but she packed a lot in them nine years.\"\n\nMs Korbel broke down in tears as she described how her daughter would never stop talking, adding: \"That's what I miss the most, because I can't hear her talk.\"\n\nVarious arrests have been made in connection with the shooting death of Olivia Pratt-Korbel\n\nOlivia's father, John Francis Pratt, has also paid tribute to his daughter and called for anyone with information about her death to come forward.\n\nThe 34-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder was also arrested for attempted murder in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHe remains in custody and police were granted a further 36 hours on Monday night to continue questioning him.\n\nThe same extension was also granted regarding two men, aged 29 and 41, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nA fourth man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender on Sunday night is also being questioned.\n\nOlivia's death was one of three fatal shootings within a week in the city.\n\nPolice previously arrested two men, aged 33 and 36, on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder before releasing them on bail.\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 trial bank hub, run by the Post Office and shared by five mainstream banks, opened in Essex last year\n\nAnother 13 locations have been earmarked for shared banking hubs in areas where the last branch has closed.\n\nA swathe of branch closures have raised concerns about access to cash for those who need it, and difficulties for small businesses trying to deposit takings.\n\nTen other areas were previously identified, but the doors have yet to open on any of their new hubs.\n\nMinisters have prepared legislation to ensure people can access cash locally, while experts say hubs are not enough.\n\n\"Cash is disappearing at a frightening rate, and so are ATMs and branches and it is not acceptable to leave communities without access to cash,\" John Howells, chief executive of Link - which is the biggest interbank network in the UK - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"There is real investment and effort going in by the banks now…But now that pace needs to be picked up,\" he added.\n\nAt these hubs, customers of any bank can access their accounts, deposit cash and cheques, and withdraw money at any time. Trickier enquiries are dealt with by a representative from one of each of the major banks who each visit once a week.\n\nAmong the 13 new proposed banking hub sites, four are in Scotland and, for the first time, one is in Northern Ireland, in Kilkeel.\n\nThey will be in Brechin in Angus, Forres in Moray, Carluke in Lanarkshire, Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Axminster in Devon, Barton-upon-Humber in Lincolnshire, Lutterworth in Leicestershire, Royal Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, Cheadle in Staffordshire, Belper in Derbyshire, Maryport in Cumbria, Hornsea in Yorkshire, and also in Kilkeel.\n\nThe BBC visited a prototype shared banking hub in Rochford, Essex, and was told it had been \"a lifeline\" for many people living in the area after the last branch in town closed.\n\nRunning costs are the same as a small branch, but are shared between different banking groups that use it.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who chairs the Cash Action Group which is overseeing the project, said: \"Cash still matters hugely to millions of people across the UK and with the cost-of-living crisis biting, more and more people are turning to cash as a way of budgeting effectively. Banking Hubs are an important part of the solution.\"\n\nEach time a core banking service such as a cash machine or bank branch is closed, an assessment is carried out by Link - the organisation which currently oversees the UK's ATM network.\n\nThe review studies the cash needs of the community, such as how easy it is to travel to the nearest alternative service, as well as the demographics and vulnerability of local residents. The criteria are set by a group of banks and consumer representatives.\n\nThe latest locations have been identified as part of that work.\n\nHowever, it can take months for these new hubs to open. As well as finding a suitable premise, often changes are needed to ensure it is fully accessible and secure enough for banking services.\n\nThere has been some criticism that services have not yet started in any of the previously-announced locations for banking hubs, apart from the two trial premises in Rochford and Cambuslang, in Scotland.\n\nRon Delnevo, a business consultant with years of experience in the ATM industry, said that \"the promised hubs don't even scratch the surface in terms of satisfying the banking needs of the UK\".\n\nMark Aldred, of banking technology company Auriga, said: \"As we go into a cost of living crisis that's hitting households and businesses alike, these shared hubs are good on paper but could go further and faster.\"\n\nA Financial Conduct Authority spokesperson said: \"Firms need to pick up the pace and deliver more banking hubs. We expect this to be done as a priority.\n\n\"Banks and building societies must treat their customers fairly and provide alternatives to branches where needed. Banking hubs are one of a range of tools they can use to ensure communities have easy access to bank services and cash.\"\n\nIn addition to the hubs, withdrawal and deposit machines - which are unstaffed but can allow businesses to cash in their takings - will be placed in libraries and community centres and available during their opening hours.\n\nThey will be in Swanley and Faversham, both in Kent, Holywood in County Down, Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, Atherstone in Warwickshire, Billericay and Dunmow, both in Essex, Bourne in Lincolnshire, Holyhead on Anglesey, llfracombe in Devon, Swanage in Dorset, and Wallingford in Oxfordshire.\n\nThe government has been planning to bring in new laws to ensure people only have to travel a relatively short distance to access cash withdrawal and deposit services.\n\nThis is seen as vital to the future of cash, and particularly for its acceptance by businesses in rural communities who currently find they are shutting and travelling miles for their nearest banking services.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is it, folks' - Boris Johnson's speech in full\n\nOutgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged Conservatives to get behind his successor Liz Truss during a \"tough time\", in his farewell speech.\n\nMr Johnson has met the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where he tendered his resignation as PM.\n\nMs Truss has been formally appointed by the British monarch, before making her first speech as prime minister.\n\nThe UK's third female prime minister will announce her cabinet later.\n\nHer victory in the Tory leadership contest on Monday marked the end of Mr Johnson's turbulent premiership, less than three years after the Conservatives won a landslide in the 2019 general election.\n\nIn the face of a mounting economic crisis, Mr Johnson's successor has promised immediate action to deal with soaring energy prices, as well as tax cuts aimed at staving off a recession.\n\nHer plan, due on Thursday, is expected to include a freeze on energy bills worth billions of pounds, but the details of that policy are yet to be announced.\n\nSimon Clarke, who backed Ms Truss for the leadership and is tipped to become levelling up secretary, told the BBC he was anticipating \"a major intervention\" on energy bills.\n\nHe said energy \"will be the government's most immediate priority upon entering office\" and insisted the commitments Ms Truss made during the campaign on tax \"still absolutely stand\".\n\nIn his speech, Mr Johnson alluded to the ominous challenges Ms Truss will inherit when she takes office, acknowledging that this was \"a tough time for the economy\".\n\n\"This is a tough time for families up and down the country,\" Mr Johnson said in front of No 10 Downing Street. \"We can and we will get through it and we will come out stronger the other side.\"\n\nThe Queen met her new prime minister at Balmoral\n\nIn a pointed plea to his Conservative colleagues following a fractious party leadership race, Mr Johnson said \"it's time for politics to be over, folks\".\n\n\"It's time for us all to get behind Liz Truss and her team and her programme and deliver for the people of this country,\" he said.\n\nPaying tribute to his colleagues in government, Mr Johnson said they were the people who \"got Brexit done\", delivered \"the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe\", and \"organised those prompt supply of weapons to Ukraine\".\n\nBoris and Carrie Johnson bid goodbye to friends and supporters in Downing Street\n\nReflecting on the future of his career, Mr Johnson compared himself to \"one of those booster rockets\" that \"has fulfilled its function\".\n\n\"I'll be gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific,\" he said.\n\nHe then likened himself to Cincinnatus, a Roman statesman and military leader who battled against an invasion before returning to his farm.\n\nSome classics scholars pointed out Cincinnatus came out of retirement for a second term as leader of Rome.\n\nMr Johnson has not said publicly said what he will do after leaving office but there is speculation that he will remain as an MP for his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nHis former adviser Will Walden told the BBC's World At One he did not believe Mr Johnson would return to frontline politics.\n\n\"That is for two reasons - I don't think the Tory Party is used to going back in time... but more than anything, he needs to earn some money and he needs to move on,\" he said.\n\nMr Walden suggested Mr Johnson was dropping hints he could return because he wanted to \"rewrite the narrative... suggesting he still has a role to play and has been hard done by is part of that narrative\".\n\nAs Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie head to Balmoral, there's time to unpick some of the words he chose to use to mark his departure.\n\nThere was an extensive assembly of what he saw as his greatest hits: the coronavirus vaccine programme, Brexit and support for Ukraine among them.\n\nAnd then there were those references to the future: one wrapped in the imagery of space exploration; the other in classicist comparison.\n\nWill Mr Johnson really \"splash down invisibly in a remote corner of the Pacific\"?\n\nErr… no. Every syllable Mr Johnson utters, out loud or in print, will magnetically allure the cameras, microphones and reporters; it has been his greatest skill throughout his career: commanding attention.\n\nIn short, Mr Johnson is leaving office but won't leave the stage. We'll hear from him again.\n\nMr Johnson's premiership was marred by a string of controversies that gradually cranked up political pressure and discontent within his own party.\n\nIn June this year, Mr Johnson won a vote of no confidence in his leadership, but even then many Tory MPs remained resolved to turf him out of office.\n\nHis downfall as Tory leader and prime minister was sealed following a ministerial mutiny in July, triggered by the dramatic resignation of then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nMr Johnson resisted calls to quit - including from his newly appointed Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi - for 48 hours, until it became clear that he had lost the confidence of his party and his position was untenable.\n\nOnce Mr Johnson resigned as Tory leader, party members took part in a ballot to replace him and elected Ms Truss, who beat her rival Mr Sunak with 57% of the vote.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Johnson had left a legacy of \"scandal\" and urged his successor to fund a freeze on energy bills by adopting the party's plan for a windfall tax on gas and oil companies.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey called for a \"genuine freeze\" of energy bills as opposed to \"the loan system that it's rumoured that Liz Truss wants\".\n\nAnd SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said a general election should be held because Ms Truss appeared to be making policy proposals she does not have an electoral mandate to implement.\n\nMs Truss and Mr Johnson have made the 500-mile trip to Balmoral separately to have their audiences with the Queen and complete the ceremonial transition of power.\n\nTraditionally, the handover of power is done at Buckingham Palace, but the Queen - who has been suffering from mobility issues - decided to conduct the leadership succession from her Balmoral retreat.\n\nThe Queen will invite Ms Truss - as the leader of the largest party in Parliament - to form a government, making her the monarch's 15th prime minister.\n\nShe will then head back to London to deliver her first speech as prime minister, which is expected to take place outside 10 Downing Street - weather permitting.\n\nBeyond that, Ms Truss will finalise appointments to top jobs in her cabinet before facing MPs for the first time at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nThose predicted to join her cabinet include Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, former leadership rival Suella Braverman as home secretary, and James Cleverly as foreign secretary.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries have stepped down as senior ministers, with other members of Mr Johnson's team expected to follow.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Truss has started filling key advisory positions and reorganising how her Downing Street team will work.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC's World At One that he had been offered a job in Ms Truss's cabinet but turned it down in favour of staying on the backbenches.", "Bullitt specialises in rugged phones for the brands Cat and Motorola\n\nA British smartphone maker hopes to steal a march on Apple and Tesla boss Elon Musk with a new satellite-connected handset, the BBC has learned.\n\nIf there is no wi-fi or mobile network signal, the idea is the Bullitt phone will automatically link to one of two global satellite networks.\n\nThere is speculation that Apple's forthcoming iPhone 14 could have emergency satellite connectivity.\n\nMr Musk is also working on a satellite phone service with T-Mobile.\n\nHowever, last month he said plans were hampered by \"regulatory approval\" of satellite launches and added that the service would be unlikely to become available before the end of 2023.\n\nBullitt's service is due to launch in February 2023 and will initially enable users to send and receive text messages only.\n\nThe recipient will receive the message in the form of an SMS and can reply if they download Bullitt's app. It is free to use for them - but the Bullitt phone owner will have to pay a monthly subscription for the service.\n\nThe Reading-based firm declined to say how much it would cost but said it would be available in tiers, on a par with existing mobile tariffs and payable on top of a standard network contract. It has yet to release images of the device.\n\nAnd while Apple's service is rumoured to be for emergency use only in North America, Bullitt claims its phone will automatically switch to satellite in the absence of any other signal worldwide.\n\n\"What we've got is a smartphone launching in February that will be capable of two-way messaging, via satellite, with global coverage,\" said Bullitt co-founder Richard Wharton.\n\nAn example of the messaging app- the red dot indicates that it was sent via satellite\n\nMr Musk says that currently phones using his platform could have to wait up to 30 minutes to connect with a satellite. However, Mr Wharton said he believed that thanks to deals with two global satellite networks - which he declined to name - the wait would not be more than a few seconds.\n\nThe handset requires a bespoke chipset that has been developed over the last 18 months with an Asian manufacturer, he said. The battery drain would be minimised by the phone only seeking satellites in the absence of other signals, he added.\n\nSo-called \"not-spots\", where there is poor or no mobile coverage, exist all over the world, particularly in rural areas.\n\n\"We want to work with [network operators] because there are challenges with providing cellular coverage to 100% geography of a country, so what we are offering is that infill, where there are coverage black spots,\" said Mr Wharton.\n\nSatellite phones have traditionally been expensive with limited functionality, and satellite reception can also be disrupted by weather conditions.\n\n\"Satellite remains the next and last frontier in connectivity,\" said Paolo Pescatore, tech analyst at PP Foresight.\n\n\"It is encouraging to see providers starting to get serious about using satellite for the last mile. Ultimately reliable and robust connectivity is still highly sought-after among all users.\"", "Government documents, advice and experts repeatedly warned ministers about Rwanda's poor human rights record, the High Court has been told.\n\nCampaigners are challenging the Home Office's plan to send some cross-Channel migrants to Rwanda.\n\nA second stage to the case is expected to take place in October before the High Court gives its ruling.\n\nIn written submissions, lawyers flagged repeated instances of government concerns about the country.\n\nThe High Court was told the home secretary and government, including the Foreign Office and Downing Street, were \"themselves aware of, and appear to have had serious concerns, over Rwanda's present and historic human rights record\".\n\nThe lawyers said: \"Those concerns were articulated repeatedly by public officials.\"\n\nThey said that in many instances the government had publicly criticised Rwanda for its human rights record, adding: \"That was precisely why Rwanda was initially ruled out as a potential candidate for partnership in the planned migration policy.\n\n\"These concerns identified within the UK government about Rwanda's human rights record are not properly or accurately reflected in [government papers defending the scheme].\"\n\nSpeaking in court, Raza Husain QC, for the migrants, said: \"We make no bones about our submission that Rwanda is a one-party authoritarian state that does not tolerate political opposition. It is a regime that repeatedly imprisons tortures and murders those its thinks is its political opponents.\n\n\"Those who protest or dissent from government directives, including refugees, are faced with police violence.\n\n\"All of those observations are drawn from our own government officials.\"\n\nIn their submissions, the challengers said Home Secretary Priti Patel had broken the law by failing in her duty to take into account what the government's own officials had previously reported.\n\nIf she had considered those concerns, argue the claimants, the risks of sending anyone to Rwanda \"would have been obvious to her\".\n\nThe five-day hearing is possibly one of the largest and most complex ever challenges to a government policy.\n\nGovernment lawyers are expected to begin a defence of the Rwanda plan in court on Wednesday. In written submissions to the court, the Home Office says that ministers have the power to send migrants to Rwanda - and nobody would be at risk of abuse under the agreement between the nations.\n\nThe government has said its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will discourage them from crossing the English Channel.\n\nThe policy is aimed at people who arrive in the UK through what ministers call \"illegal, dangerous or unnecessary methods\", such as on small boats or hidden in lorries, when they could have claimed asylum in another safe country - such as France.", "Tory voters have chosen Liz Truss as their new leader and she will become prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nAs widely expected, the South West Norfolk MP beat Rishi Sunak to become leader of her party, Sir Graham Brady has announced.\n\nShe is due to go to Balmoral within 24 hours and be sworn in as the UK prime minister after Boris Johnson formally resigns.\n\nLive: Liz Truss to be next UK prime minister", "What's in the new transport secretary's in-tray\n\nNew Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan will have many issues to think about, including how to approach the ongoing wave of industrial action hitting the railways, where strikes could continue for months. There’s also a decision to be made on whether Avanti West Coast will get a new contract to operate trains on the West Coast mainline, after recently slashing its schedules amid a staffing crunch. More government funding announced last month will have saved some regional bus services for the next six months, but with passenger usage still below pre-Covid levels and costs rising, what happens after that? And will the £2 cap on fares promised for all of England, from January to March, only last for those 3 months? There's plenty to think about regarding aviation, and not just working with industry to make sure airlines and airports have enough staff for next summer. Sustainability and how the goal of \"net zero\" in aviation by 2050 can be achieved are a big focus for the industry. Other things on the list include how the current motoring taxes should be replaced as we move away from petrol and diesel vehicles, and how to ensure the electric vehicle charging infrastructure meets demand.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA heavy burden of responsibility falls immediately upon the shoulders of any new prime minister, often causing a silent quiver of nerves. For Liz Truss, self doubt does not form part of her lexicon.\n\nPeople who have met her in recent days say she is relishing the ride and is brimming with self-confidence.\n\nBut even the UK's new prime minister might admit in private that what she describes as \"eye-watering\" energy bills will present her with a hefty challenge, unprecedented since her hero Margaret Thatcher assumed office nearly half a century ago.\n\nWhen Lady Thatcher moved into Downing Street in 1979, the country had a good idea of their new prime minister. She had been leader of the opposition for four years.\n\nWhile Truss has been a cabinet minister for eight years, she has had a lower profile than Thatcher. And even those who know the foreign secretary are wondering what instincts she will follow.\n\nWill we see the return to the fore of the pragmatist who moved seamlessly from the Remain camp to the warm embrace of the Brexiteers? Or will she govern in the mode of her leadership campaign - a lady not for turning, in the words of Thatcher, who will focus on tax cuts?\n\nOver the past few days, BBC Newsnight has been speaking to people who know Truss to assess whether her past can tell us about her future. The consensus seems to be that we will see Liz Truss turning to both sides of her political past to guide her thinking.\n\nOver the weekend Truss announced that within a week of taking office, she will outline an emergency plan to help people with those energy bills. But in a \"fiscal event\" later this month, her new chancellor will outline a \"broader package\" that will hold fast to her campaign pledges.\n\nBaroness Morgan of Cotes, who entered parliament with Truss in 2010 and who served with her in cabinet, says we will see the two sides of the new prime minister's character in response to the energy crisis.\n\n\"I think that there'll be a combination of approaches,\" Baroness Morgan tells Newsnight. \"I think people are going to find it's quite hard to pigeonhole Liz in many ways.\"\n\nPaul Goodman, editor of the ConservativeHome website and someone who knew Truss during his time as an MP, says the new PM will need to put the UK on a war footing to both meet the energy crisis and to shore up her political support.\n\n\"The key to Liz Truss over many years has been her adaptability,\" he says. \"So although she has this reputation as an ideologue and she has very clear ideological roots - originally as a Liberal Democrat - she is somehow the darling of Leavers who in the referendum was a Remainer.\n\n\"She is the champion now of the Tory right, having once been a Liberal Democrat. And she's presented herself in this election as the new kid on the block when she's actually been in cabinet for the best part of 10 years. So she has extraordinary powers of reinvention and recovery.\"\n\nLiz Truss campaigned for Remain during the EU referendum, but quickly backed Brexit after the vote\n\nBut there could be political trouble in embracing strong state support to help people with energy bills. \"The difficulty for her would be this: among the people who elected her are a large body of people who want a different approach,\" Goodman says.\n\n\"So she would have to fall back for support on the body in the Conservative party that didn't vote for her, while irritating, if not angering, some of those that did. And that's going to be a very difficult political horse to ride.\"\n\nAn unlikely political mentor sees a more ideological figure. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, the former Labour defence secretary, encouraged Truss to pursue a political career when she was head of government relations at Cable & Wireless, where he served as a board member.\n\n\"Liz is somebody who gets on well with people,\" Robertson said. \"She has become much more ideological since the days when I would meet her occasionally in the House of Commons… I think she's going to turn out to be quite an ideological fixed-view person in No 10.\"\n\nRobertson knew her as a conventional budding politician who had attended Oxford and who would soon enter the world of Westminster think tanks. That conventional path was pursued in parliament when Truss followed David Cameron's lead in supporting Remain in the referendum.\n\nThe careers of many Tory Remainers were destroyed by that referendum. But it was the making of Truss.\n\nIn the aftermath of the referendum she intuited what would happen at the time when it was a genuinely open question about what sort of Brexit we'd end up with. \"The Leavers will win because they care more,\" she told friends.\n\nThat was a political judgment which led her to make an emotional commitment - she would throw her lot in with that side, lock stock and barrel.\n\nMr Goodman says her change of tack is more complicated than a simple case of a pivoting politician. \"My memory of the time is of a certain vibe emanating from Liz Truss which is: 'What's all this got to do with me? I'm trying to get on my with my job as [environment secretary] and this referendum seems to me a massive distraction from it.'\"\n\nHe added: \"So I don't feel it was just about pleasing the powers that be. But what happened then shows her powers of adaptability.\"\n\nChanging her mind is constant theme for Truss, who was an active Liberal Democrat at university. But her passion for politics, influenced by her left-wing activist parents as a child, has also been constant.\n\nTruss's success has led to something of a family split. Her mother Priscilla has put family ties before politics and is enthusiastically supporting her daughter. But her father John, a maths professor, is less reconciled to the idea of his daughter as a Tory prime minister, according to her friends.\n\nBut Liz Truss does take one core gift from her father into Downing Street: a passion for maths. And anyone invited to an interview with the prime minister had better expect a tricky maths challenge.", "The Environment Agency said the pollution was \"short term\" and did not expect it to last more than 72 hours\n\nPeople are being advised not to swim at 24 beaches in Devon and Cornwall because of bacterial pollution.\n\nThe Environment Agency blamed heavy rain for the problem, \"as we have seen over the last couple of days\".\n\nIt said the pollution was \"short term\" and did not expect it to last more than 72 hours.\n\nBeaches affected include North Sands in Salcombe and Goodrington near Paignton, both in Devon, as well as Summerleaze in Bude, Cornwall, said the agency.\n\nNorth Sands in Salcombe is among those affected\n\nAn agency spokesperson said there were a \"number of factors that can influence the quality of bathing waters\", including wind, sunlight, rain and tide.\n\n\"Sources of the bacteria can include water draining from agricultural and urban land during periods of heavy rain, as we have seen over the last couple of days,\" they said.\n\n\"Short term pollution cases are where we expect the pollution to last for no more than 72 hours.\"\n\nIt follows pollution warnings in August at more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in England and Wales after heavy rain overwhelmed sewer systems.\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.", "We take a look at who is known to be leaving government, and some of the new faces.\n\nIn her top team, Truss has appointed:\n\nJake Berry - who chairs the Northern Research Group of Tory MPs - is Tory chairman and minister without portfolio, and Wendy Morton is the first Conservative female chief whip.\n\nNew Chief Secretary to the Treasury Chris Philp, Attorney General Michael Ellis, foreign office minister Vicky Ford and security minister Tom Tugendhat will also attend cabinet.\n\nJames Heappey becomes minister for armed forces and veterans, while Graham Stuart is climate minister and Edward Argar is the new paymaster general.\n\nOn Monday, Home Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries made it known they would be standing down.\n\nMs Patel had been expected to be replaced at the Home Office but insisted leaving government was \"her choice\". Ms Dorries - a prominent figure in the Truss campaign - was asked to stay on, but plans to return to writing novels.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab - who backed Rishi Sunak in the leadership contest - has confirmed he is returning to the backbenches. So too are Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Health Secretary Steve Barclay, Levelling Up Secretary Greg Clark, and Northern Ireland Secretary Shailesh Vara.\n\nNadine Dorries and Priti Patel at celebrations for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer, who attended Cabinet, has also been sacked. As has another figure who attended Cabinet, party co-chairman Andrew Stephenson.\n\nAnother Sunak supporter - former Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove - has said he expects not to be a member of the new government.\n\nIt's thought unlikely Rishi Sunak himself will feature in Ms Truss's team - he told the BBC a return to the cabinet was \"not something I'm thinking about\".\n\nFormer Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC's World At One he had been offered a cabinet job but turned it down in favour of staying on the backbenches.\n• None The prime minister who resigned after just 45 days", "A survivor of the attack speaks to media outside the court on Monday\n\nEight suspects have gone on trial in Paris for links to a deadly lorry attack in the southern French city of Nice in 2016 which killed 86 people.\n\nThe suspects - who face between five years and life imprisonment - are accused of helping the attacker get weapons, and of logistical support.\n\nProceedings will be broadcast live to many of those affected by the attack.\n\nThis trial is the latest legal process over attacks of terrorism that have rocked the country since 2015.\n\nThe attacker himself was shot dead after driving a lorry into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, injuring more than 400.\n\nMohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, ploughed through a crowd of some 30,000 people who had been enjoying a fireworks display on France's national day.\n\nCareering through the coastal city's seafront boulevard Promenade des Anglais for more than 2km, the 31-year-old's victims included 15 children.\n\nThe so-called Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the massacre, but French investigators never found any proof that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had links with them.\n\nThe deadly attack came less than a year after the Paris attacks of November 2015 in which 130 people died - the worst peace-time attack the country has ever seen.\n\nA special French terrorism court built to deal with that attack is also being used in this latest trial over the attack in Nice.\n\nBut this trial is different, because it lacks any defendants accused of taking part in the attack itself - only defendants accused of aiding the attacker.\n\nThere are at least 865 civil plaintiffs who will take part, and nearly 250 of those will testify.\n\n\"The fact that the sole perpetrator is not there will create frustration. There will be many questions that no one will be able to answer,\" a lawyer for a victims' association taking part in the trial. said.", "Emergency services were called to an area near Thurso Castle on Saturday night\n\nA Highland aristocrat has died in a late-night accident at cliffs on the Caithness coast.\n\nAlexander Sutherland, Lord Strathnaver, was heir to the Earldom of Sutherland and an accomplished surfer. He is understood to have died in a fall.\n\nPolice said emergency services were made aware of concerns for a 40-year-old man near Thurso Castle just after 23:20 on Saturday.\n\nThurso lifeboat was among the rescue teams called to the scene.\n\nTributes have been paid to Lord Strathnaver, who lived in Golspie in Sutherland.\n\nIn a social media post, Mark Sutherland-Fisher, president of the Clan Sutherland Society in Scotland, said it was with a very heavy heart he had to inform clan members Lord Strathnaver had died as a result of a tragic accident near Thurso.\n\nHe said: \"Alexander was not only the heir to the Earldom of Sutherland but a widely popular figure in and around Golspie where most people just knew him as 'Al'.\"\n\nIn another post, Golspie Community Council said the whole community was shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic loss.\n\n\"On behalf of the community, Golspie Community Council extends our deepest condolences to Alexander's family, his many friends and all who loved him,\" it said.\n\nIn a statement, Police Scotland said: \"We were made aware of concern for a 40-year-old man near to Thurso Castle shortly after 23:20 on Saturday, 3 September.\n\n\"Emergency services attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\n\"His death is being treated as unexplained and inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\"\n\nThurso RNLI lifeboat was launched at 23:30 to a report of a person on rocks at Thurso East, an area of the coast near Thurso.\n\nMembers of the crew gave Lord Strathnaver CPR after reaching the shore in a small inflatable boat.\n\nThey also helped an ambulance crew and coastguard officers at the scene.", "The new PM called the Ukrainian and US presidents on her first day in office\n\nLiz Truss has rewarded her key allies with top jobs in a major reshuffle hours after succeeding Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng is made chancellor, James Cleverly becomes foreign secretary and Suella Braverman replaces Priti Patel as home secretary.\n\nOne of Ms Truss's closest friends, Therese Coffey, is appointed as health secretary and deputy PM.\n\nHer new cabinet will meet ahead of her first Prime Minister's Questions later.\n\nNone of those who backed her defeated rival, Rishi Sunak, will remain in her full cabinet, with Dominic Raab, Grant Shapps, George Eustice and Steve Barclay all returning to the backbenches.\n\nBut Ms Truss's press secretary said the changes would \"unify\" the Tory Party and pointed to senior roles for five of her leadership rivals: Suella Braverman, Tom Tugendhat as security minister, Kemi Badenoch as trade secretary, Penny Mordaunt as leader of the Commons, and Nadhim Zahawi as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.\n\nFor the first time, none of the top four \"great offices of state\" - prime minister, chancellor, home secretary and foreign secretary - is held by a white man.\n\nMeanwhile, the new PM made her first call to a fellow foreign leader, pledging the UK's ongoing support to Ukraine in a call with President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nNo 10 said Ms Truss was also \"delighted\" to accept an invitation to visit Ukraine.\n\nShe later spoke to US President Joe Biden, where the pair discussed the importance of the UK reaching an agreement with the EU over post-Brexit trading rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere are a handful of striking things about the composition of Liz Truss's cabinet.\n\nThere has been a near total purge of those who backed Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe only one who I can spot is Michael Ellis, the new attorney general for England and Wales.\n\nAnd even he will attend cabinet rather than being a cabinet minister, subtle though that distinction is.\n\nThis dominance of Truss campaign supporters around the Truss top table is already prompting grumbling among some Tory MPs, although we do await appointments to the more junior ranks in government.\n\nThe prime minister's desire for loyalty and building a government in her own image runs the risk of provoking rebellion down the track.\n\nMs Truss finished her first tranche of appointments late on Tuesday, with new the Chancellor, Mr Kwarteng, tweeting that getting the job was \"the honour of a lifetime\".\n\nHe is expected to spend his first day meeting chief executives of various banks to brief them on his outlook.\n\nMr Kwarteng is also understood to be finalising plans for energy bill support which would see a typical household bill capped at around £2,500 a year.\n\nBut Labour have asked where the money is coming from to fund the bill.\n\n\"We really haven't got the detail,\" Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy told the BBC.\n\n\"She is going to freeze bills. Where is the money coming from?\n\n\"Is it actually gonna come from consumers - bill payers down the line - or is it going to come from the oil and gas companies who have made huge profits, more than they imagined, and can actually afford to fund it.\"\n\nMs Truss has previously said she is not keen on a windfall tax on energy companies' profits.\n\nLiz Truss is set to face Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's questions later\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace was one of the few senior ministers to retain his job, where he has earned plaudits in his response to the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nNadine Dorries, who backed Ms Truss, said she had been asked by the new PM to stay on as culture secretary but had decided to quit front-line politics.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg, an early supporter of Ms Truss, was appointed business, energy and industrial strategy secretary.\n\nMr Sunak, the former chancellor whose resignation helped trigger the downfall of Boris Johnson, had already made it clear he did not expect to be offered a new job.\n\nBut his supporters had urged Ms Truss to appoint an \"inclusive\" cabinet and not simply surround herself with loyalists.\n\nMs Truss was appointed the 56th prime minister of the UK by the Queen, in a ceremony at Balmoral on Tuesday.\n\nShe returned to a rain-lashed Downing Street, where in a short speech, she vowed to grow the economy through tax cuts and reform; take action to deal with energy bills and put the health service on \"a firm footing\".", "Union leaders have spoken of \"huge anger\" among firefighters at falling pay\n\nThousands of firefighters and control room staff could go on strike as industrial unrest sweeps the country.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said 32,500 of its members across the UK are to vote on whether to launch a campaign of industrial action over pay.\n\nThe union said the move follows a 2% pay offer made in June, which has not been increased despite the rising rate of inflation.\n\nInflation hit 10.1% in the 12 months to July, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the first time it has hit double digits in 40 years.\n\nPay for a trained firefighter is around £32,000 per year.\n\nThe ballot is expected to be held in five weeks' time, with strike dates announced if the union backs them.\n\nThe FBU announcement was made just hours before new prime minister Liz Truss takes office, and follows a wave of UK industrial action this summer by tens of thousands of workers.\n\nEmployees across a swathe of different industries including rail, telecoms, ports and the postal sector have walked out, angry that pay rises being offered fail to match their rising food and energy bills.\n\nBarristers are currently staging an indefinite, uninterrupted strike, in an escalation of industrial action over pay which began in April.\n\nIf FBU members do walk out, it will be the first time they have done so in almost a decade.\n\nBack then the public was told that 999 calls would be answered, but non-emergency issues such as flooding or rubbish fires would not be dealt with.\n\nFBU general secretary Matt Wrack said: \"Taking strike action is always a last resort but our employers are increasingly leaving us with no choice.\n\n\"There is huge anger among firefighters at falling pay.\"\n\n\"The ball is now in the fire service employers' court. It is not too late for them to make a much better pay offer for consideration by our members.\"\n\nIn a statement the Home Office said: \"Central government has no role in setting firefighter pay in England, as it is the responsibility of the National Joint Council (NJC) which consists of representatives from both the employers' and employees' side.\n\n\"Firefighters work tirelessly to protect our communities and it is essential they are paid fairly for the important work they undertake. At the same time, any decision on pay must be justifiable to the taxpayer.\"", "The outgoing prime minister compared himself to \"one of those booster rockets\" that \"has fulfilled its function\" and pointed to what he said were his achievements in office, such as resolving the Brexit impasse, the vaccine programme during the pandemic and supporting Ukraine following its invasion by Russia", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK can \"ride out the storm\", Liz Truss has said as she became the country's 56th prime minister.\n\nGiving her first speech as PM in Downing Street, Ms Truss said her three early priorities would be the economy, energy and the health service.\n\nShe said her mission was to ensure \"prosperity for all\" and that she was \"determined to deliver\".\n\nShe replaces Boris Johnson who used his leaving speech to urge Conservative MPs to get behind the new prime minister.\n\nSpeaking in front of the door to No 10 after an autumnal downpour nearly derailed the planned event, Ms Truss said she was \"honoured\" to take on the role \"at a vital time for our country\".\n\nShe said the country faced challenges caused by Russia's \"appalling aggression\" in Ukraine and the aftermath of the Covid pandemic.\n\nHowever, she said the British people had \"the grit and determination\" to \"tackle those challenges\".\n\n\"As strong as the storm may be, I know that the British people are stronger.\"\n\nSetting out her initial aims, she said she would grow the economy through tax cuts and reform; take action to deal with energy bills and put the health service on \"a firm footing\".\n\nColleagues of the new prime minister gathered outside No 10 to hear Ms Truss's speech\n\nFollowing the speech, Ms Truss began to appoint the senior ministers who will sit in her cabinet.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng has been named chancellor, Therese Coffey is the new health secretary and deputy PM, and James Cleverly becomes foreign secretary.\n\nSuella Braverman, who ran against Ms Truss to be Conservative leader, replaces Priti Patel as home secretary.\n\nIn her first call as prime minister, Ms Truss spoke to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nDowning Street said the two leaders discussed the need to \"cut off funds fuelling Putin's war machine\".\n\nNo 10 also said Ms Truss had a conversation with US President Joe Biden in which they \"reflected on the enduring strength of the special relationship\".\n\nThe first address of a newly installed prime minister does more to shape, to frame their premiership than any utterance before, or after.\n\nLiz Truss's speech was her introduction to the country; a long standing minister well known at Westminster but much less so beyond.\n\nShorn of biography but heavy on belief, she sought to describe the country she now leads; how it is one of grit and courage, how she wants to be an \"aspiration nation\".\n\nThis was an attempt to meld the 2019 Conservative manifesto, which delivered the majority that allows her to govern, with the policy promises of this summer's campaign.\n\nA determination to build hospitals, schools, road and broadband sounded like what Boris Johnson called \"levelling up\", without using that slogan.\n\nTax cuts and help with energy bills, the centrepiece of her pitch for the job.\n\nHer challenges in office are both instant and colossal; her response to the energy bills crisis expected on Thursday.\n\nBefore that the appointment of ministers and Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMs Truss and her team will also be putting together their plan for helping people deal with rising energy bills.\n\nAn announcement is due on Thursday and is expected to include a freeze on energy bills worth billions of pounds.\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats have previously called for a freeze on energy bills to be funded through a windfall tax on the profits of gas and oil companies.\n\nMeanwhile in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans to freeze rent and rail fares in a bid to ease the cost of living crisis.\n\nMs Truss gave her speech after travelling back from Scotland where she was officially appointed by the Queen.\n\nPlans to speak outside were put into jeopardy following a burst of heavy rainfall which forced waiting colleagues and journalists to take shelter, while the podium was covered in a black bin bag.\n\nHowever, the rain subsided in time to allow Ms Truss to address the cameras from outside.\n\nDuring her speech, Ms Truss paid tribute to her predecessor Mr Johnson saying he would be remembered as a \"hugely consequential prime minister\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Johnson used his final speech as prime minister outside Downing Street to praise his colleagues in government.\n\nHe said they had \"got Brexit done\", delivered \"the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe\", and \"organised prompt supply of weapons to Ukraine\".\n\nMr Johnson - who was removed by his own MPs - also urged his Conservative colleagues to get behind Ms Truss saying: \"It's time for politics to be over, folks.\"\n\nReflecting on his own future, Mr Johnson likened himself to \"one of those booster rockets\" that \"has fulfilled its function\".\n\nThe outgoing prime minister also compared himself to Cincinnatus, a Roman statesman and military leader, who returned to his farm having battled against an invasion. However, he later came out of retirement for a second term as leader of Rome.", "The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has called the new health secretary's record on abortion rights \"deeply concerning\".\n\nTherese Coffey, appointed by new PM Liz Truss, has previously voted against extending access to abortion care.\n\nAbortion charities have accused Ms Coffey of putting her personal beliefs \"above expert clinical guidance\".\n\nBut Ms Coffey told the BBC abortion access already available in England will continue while she is in post.\n\nMs Coffey recently voted against making at-home abortion pills, introduced during the pandemic, permanently available in England and Wales.\n\nIt was a free vote in the Commons, meaning that MPs made a decision based on their own beliefs, rather than on party lines.\n\nWhen asked about the vote, Ms Coffey said she was \"a democrat and the vote was won in Parliament by people who wanted to make that permanent\".\n\n\"There are many other people who are exceptionally pro-abortion who did not want that to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"However Parliament voted, it's happened, and the regulations are already in place.\"\n\nShe said as health secretary, she would focus on \"what the vast majority of people use the NHS\" for - ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentists.\n\nIn June, when asked about her views on access to abortion in an interview with Sky News, Ms Coffey said: \"Abortion law isn't going to change in this country.\"\n\nMs Coffey, who is a practising Catholic, said she would \"prefer that people didn't have abortions but I am not going to condemn people that do\".\n\nAs a backbencher in 2010, Ms Coffey also introduced a motion in Parliament which called for \"mental health assessments\" for women seeking an abortion.\n\nHer motion in 2010 said: \"In its 14 March 2008 statement the Royal College of Psychiatrists advised that healthcare professionals who assess or refer women who are requesting an abortion should assess for mental disorder and for risk factors that may be associated with its subsequent development\" and called on the government to \"give its full backing to mental health assessments for women presenting for abortion\".\n\nShe voted against extending abortion rights to women in Northern Ireland, but wrote at the time this was because she supported devolution and did not believe the UK Parliament should be \"exercising direct rule on this issue\".\n\nMs Coffey also defended former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt after he said he believed the abortion limit should be reduced to 12 weeks, tweeting that the \"majority of European countries have [a] 12 week limit #abortion\".\n\nClare Murphy, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), said while politicians were entitled to their own views on abortion, what mattered was whether their \"personal convictions stand in the way of women's ability to act on their own\".\n\nMs Murphy told the BBC that by voting to revoke access to at-home abortion care, she was voting \"against the advice of leading medical bodies including Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Royal College of Midwives and the BMA\".\n\n\"To have a health secretary who would place their personal beliefs above expert clinical guidance is deeply concerning.\"\n\nMs Murphy said the UK should be \"a beacon for women's reproductive choice\", especially after the repeal of Roe v Wade, a legal precedent that safeguarded access to abortion in the US.\n\n\"Anti-abortion protest activity is escalating, with women and clinic staff facing intimidation while seeking to access and provide an NHS-funded service,\" Ms Murphy said.\n\n\"Every week, women with complex medical conditions are forced to continue pregnancies against their will because of a lack of appointments within NHS hospital settings.\n\n\"We need a health secretary who wants to improve access to a medical procedure that one in three women will need in their lifetime, not impose further restrictions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rosie Duffield calls for the government to enshrine in law \"a woman's right to choose\".\n\nWhen the new PM, Liz Truss, was foreign secretary, the UK government organised a multinational statement committing to the rights of women and girls as part of an intergovernmental conference it hosted in London in early July.\n\nIt was later amended to remove references to \"sexual and reproductive health and rights\" and \"bodily autonomy\".\n\nThe joint statement was signed by 22 countries before it was amended. One country, Malta, where abortion is illegal, has signed since the amendment.\n\nA question was tabled on 19 July 2022 to ask Ms Truss about the decision to remove reference to reproductive healthcare from the statement.\n\nForeign minister Vicky Ford responded on behalf of Ms Truss and said: \"In our capacity as chair of the event, we amended the statement we made at the Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference to make the final statement more inclusive of all perspectives and views to allow for a constructive exchange of views on all issues.\"\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy, who has campaigned to make abortion a human right in the UK, told the BBC: \"There's every reason to believe this new administration will lead to abortion access being reduced because the new prime minister herself removed a commitment to protecting this from her own international activity.\n\n\"It's why we have to put the freedom of women in the UK to choose to have an abortion beyond interference just as the government has pledged to protect freedom of speech from interference too.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The family of Olivia have released a video of the schoolgirl at a Christmas market\n\nThe dad of a nine-year-old girl who was shot in her own home has paid tribute to her, saying she was a \"real bright spark who loved to laugh\".\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel was fatally wounded as her mum tried to stop a gunman chasing another man into their home in Liverpool on the evening of 22 August.\n\nOlivia's father John Francis Pratt said her death cannot be in vain as he urged those with information to come forward.\n\nA 34-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder on Sunday remains in custody.\n\nMerseyside Police was given a further 36 hours on Monday evening to continue questioning the suspect, who was also arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThe same extension was also granted regarding two men, aged 29 and 41, who were held on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nA fourth man, arrested on Sunday night on suspicion of the same offence, is also being questioned.\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel's family say they do not want to see another family suffer\n\nIn a statement from the wider family, Mr Francis Pratt said: \"Words can't express the pain we are going through after Olivia was so cruelly snatched away from us.\n\n\"Those responsible need to know what they have done.\"\n\nHe described his daughter as a \"real bright spark who knew her own mind\" and who \"loved to laugh and make people laugh\".\n\n\"She could be a proper wind-up merchant and loved to wind her nieces up, particularly those who were older than her.\n\n\"And when they didn't like it, she'd just laugh and say 'don't forget I'm your aunty'.\"\n\nHe thanked those who had helped with the police investigation but pleaded for anybody else with information to speak to officers.\n\nA tribute was paid to Olivia on the big screen at Goodison Park on Saturday\n\nHe added: \"We know that most people on Merseyside are good-hearted and kind just like them and we all need to stand together.\n\n\"We don't want another child to lose their life in such horrendous circumstances and we don't want to see another family suffer like we are suffering now.\n\n\"Olivia's death cannot be in vain and we want people to feel safe and be safe.\n\n\"That can only happen if we all come together and make sure there is no place for guns, or those who use guns on our streets or in our communities.\"\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest by a gunman who had chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into her home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at about 22:00 BST.\n\nNeither of the men who entered the home had any links to her family.\n\nHer mother Cheryl Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door on the gunman.\n\nPolice previously arrested two men, aged 33 and 36, on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder before releasing them on bail.\n\nOlivia's funeral is due to take place at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot on 15 September.\n\nHer family has asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" for the service.\n\nA crowdfunding page set up to support Olivia's family has raised more than £40,000.\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.", "Russia has warned that it will not resume gas supplies along a key pipeline to Europe until sanctions are lifted.\n\nMoscow has blamed Western countries for its decision not to reopen the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after it was shut for three days for maintenance.\n\nWhen asked if supplies would resume pumping if sanctions were eased, a Kremlin spokesman said: \"Definitely\".\n\nGas prices soared on Monday due to mounting concerns over energy supplies.\n\nThe Dutch month-ahead wholesale gas price, a benchmark for Europe, was up as much as 30% in early trading on Monday. Prices in the UK rose as much as 35% before winding back to £4.50 per therm.\n\nWholesale prices have been very volatile in recent weeks. They fell sharply last week when Germany announced that its gas storage facilities were filling up faster than expected.\n\nEurope has accused Russia of using gas supplies to blackmail European countries because of the Ukraine conflict.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday: \"Pumping problems arose because of sanctions imposed against our country and against a number of companies by Western states, including Germany and the UK.\n\n\"There are no other reasons that would lead to problems with pumping.\"\n\nLast week, state energy firm Gazprom said that an oil leak in a turbine on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was behind the closure.\n\nBut this has been disputed by the European Union and Siemens itself, the German firm which maintains the turbine.\n\n\"Such leaks do not normally affect the operation of a turbine and can be sealed on site. It is a routine procedure within the scope of maintenance work,\" Siemens said in a previous statement.\n\nWhile the UK is not reliant on Nord Stream 1 for its gas, the Kremlin's decision to squeeze supplies to Europe has driven up the overall cost of wholesale gas.\n\nThe overall increase has been behind the spike in the energy bill price cap for consumers in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nMr Peskov criticised European leaders for the surge in bills: \"It is obvious that Europe is getting worse for people, entrepreneurs, companies, to live and work: less money is being earned, the standard of living is falling,\" he said.\n\nLiz Truss, who will become the UK's prime minister on Tuesday, has promised to announce a plan to deal with high energy bills soon after she enters office.\n\nHowever, UK businesses are not protected by a price cap and, last week, the British Chambers of Commerce warned firms would \"close their doors this winter\" if they were not given support with soaring bills.\n\nEnergy expert Bill Farren-Price told the BBC's Today programme that the \"crunch moment\" would come later in the year if demand is particularly high for gas and is going to exceed what can be imported.\n\nHe added that looking at action on energy bills would be the top priority for the incoming prime minister.\n\nA number of European governments have revealed plans to help businesses and consumers cope with surging energy costs. On Sunday, Germany announced a €65bn (£56.2bn) package which includes one-off payments to the most vulnerable and tax breaks to energy-intensive firms.\n\nOver the weekend, Sweden and Finland also announced multi-billion pound packages to support energy companies.\n\nOther European ministers have accused Russia of using energy supplies as an economic weapon against those supporting Ukraine. Moscow has denied it is deliberately restricting exports in the run-up to winter.\n\nEuropean governments are convinced Russia has weaponised the gas markets, by restricting supplies in order to push up prices.\n\nThis makes life harder for businesses and consumers, and tests their own commitment to supporting Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.\n\nBut we know that Russia makes huge sums from exporting oil and gas, so how can it afford to do this, especially when it has a war to pay for?\n\nWell for a start, with prices sky-high, it can make the same amount of money from selling much less gas than would ordinarily be the case.\n\nSecondly, gas sales are much less important to Russia financially than oil exports. But Europe really needs Russian gas, because it has limited alternatives.\n\nSo the gamble Moscow may be making is that while turning off the taps could ultimately hit its own revenues, its opponents will suffer a great deal more.\n\nThe pipeline had been due to reopen on Saturday but Gazprom made the announcement on shutting the pipeline on Friday shortly after the G7 nations agreed to cap the price of Russian oil in support of Ukraine.\n\nThe introduction of a price cap means countries that sign up to the policy will be permitted to purchase only Russian oil and petroleum products transported via sea that are sold at or below the price cap.\n\nBut Russia says it will not export to countries that participate in the cap.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said that Russia's actions could not only risk leading to a \"war winter\", but could potentially have a knock-on effect on businesses and its wider economy.\n\nThe Nord Stream 1 pipeline stretches from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany and can carry up to 170 million cubic metres of gas a day.\n\nIt is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG, whose majority shareholder is Gazprom.\n\nThis is not the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine that the pipeline has been closed.\n\nIn July, Gazprom cut off supplies completely for 10 days, citing \"a maintenance break\". It restarted again 10 days later, but at a much reduced level.\n\nOn Monday, the Opec+ group of oil producing nations has announced a small cut to its output at its monthly meeting.\n\nIts members, which includes Russia, said production would be reduced by 100,000 barrels per day in October, reversing an increase the group now says was for September only.\n\nAnalysts said the trim - announced following recent falls in crude oil prices - was largely symbolic.", "Former Scotland international Kenny Logan has revealed his \"huge shock\" at being diagnosed with prostate cancer.\n\nLogan, who won 70 caps for his country, was given the news in February.\n\nAfter choosing to have his prostate removed, the 50-year-old says he is \"95% back to normal\" three months after the operation.\n\n\"It's hard because when you're told you've got cancer... I literally fell over,\" Logan told BBC Breakfast. \"I had no symptoms whatsoever.\"\n\nStirling-born Logan, whose club career took him to Glasgow, London Wasps and London Scottish, made his international debut in 1992 against Australia at the age of 20.\n\nThe winger went on to score 13 tries for Scotland over an 11-year period before retiring after the 2003 World Cup.\n\nAppearing on the show alongside his wife, BBC presenter Gabby Logan, he said: \"I went to get a wellness check. I sat down with the guy and he said 'Everything's fine, your hormones are fine, but your PSA [Prostate-specific antigen] is high'.\n\n\"I said 'What does that mean?' He said 'It's to do with your prostate, you should probably get checked'.\n\n\"So I did and very quickly - within about three or four months - I had a biopsy and they said there's something there but we'll just keep an eye on it.\n\n\"The big figure he said to me was '40% of your mates have got this and they just don't know they've got it.' And this year, on February 7, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was a huge shock.\"\n\nLogan admitted he was \"pretty battered\" after surgery, but says he is now on the mend.\n\n\"I had to make three decisions,\" he said. \"Do you go for radiotherapy, take it out, or brachytherapy. So I decided to take it out. I'm now three months since the operation, had the prostate out, I'm probably 95% back to normal. I'm extremely lucky.\"\n\nIn May, another former Scotland international, Scott Hastings, also revealed he had cancer. The 57-year-old former British and Irish Lion has received chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.", "Strike action is expected to affect services in Craigavon, Coleraine and parts of Belfast\n\nMaintenance workers at the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) have begun strike action over pay.\n\nThe trade union Unite said the dispute involves about 300 of its members and would remain in place for four weeks.\n\nNIHE said that based on previous experience, the dispute could affect maintenance services in Craigavon, Coleraine and north and west Belfast.\n\nIt said it hoped to minimise disruption to its tenants and emergency repairs would be carried out.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, regional officer for Unite, Michael Keenan, said members are \"among the most vulnerable in society\".\n\n\"These people are desperate, this is why they're taking this action.\n\n\"Our members are among the lowest paid in Northern Ireland - they're visiting food banks, they just can't afford to work and that's why they've been forced into taking action.\"\n\nUnite says the strike could have a \"severe impact\" on tenants\n\n\"We will contact tenants directly about postponements of scheduled repair works and tenants can continue to report repairs as normal through our usual channels.\n\n\"We will monitor the impact on tenants on a daily basis as the strike action continues.\"\n\nThe Housing Executive said pay was subject to national collective bargaining arrangements.\n\nIt added: \"The pay award of 2021/22 for all Housing Executive staff was collectively agreed at a national level and the pay increases have already been implemented.\"\n\nIt said discussions were ongoing over a local claim submitted by Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (Nipsa) and Unite in June.\n\nMr Keenan, from Unite, said the blame for the strike \"rests entirely with the Housing Executive\".\n\n\"Everybody understands that inflation is biting into people's wages and people can't afford to heat their homes or buy food - understanding that doesn't put food on the table.\"", "Police say the chase ended in Kirkstall Gardens\n\nA man has been shot dead by police in south London.\n\nOfficers said they were pursuing a \"suspect vehicle\" at about 21:50 BST on Monday and ended the chase by making \"tactical contact\" in Kirkstall Gardens, Streatham Hill.\n\nThe victim, believed to be in his 20s, was subsequently shot and died in hospital at about 00:15.\n\nEfforts are under way to contact his family, the Met said, and the police watchdog is investigating.\n\nPolice cordons and road closures are in place.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said investigators had been sent to the scene to start gathering evidence.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all of those affected by this terrible incident,\" it said in a statement.\n\nA 39-year-old man, who lives on nearby New Park Road, said the car drove along his street before turning into Kirkstall Gardens.\n\nHe said: \"A police car came down Kirkstall Gardens and crashed into him.\n\n\"Another police car came in behind him and they had him locked in at the bottom of Kirkstall Gardens.\n\n\"The car was immobile when he was shot. The bang was really loud.\"\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: It is very nice to be back in the UK - Meghan\n\nIn her first speech in the UK since stepping down as a \"working royal\", the Duchess of Sussex told a young audience of her own struggle for self-belief.\n\nMeghan recalled her nervousness at the same One Young World summit eight years ago and having a \"pinch-me moment, where you just go: 'How am I here?'\"\n\nShe described her sense of self-doubt at being alongside world leaders when: \"I was the girl from Suits.\"\n\nPrince Harry accompanied her at the youth summit in Manchester.\n\nThis was the first visit to the UK by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex since the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and the first public address in the UK by Meghan since the couple's move to the United States.\n\nIt's also a visit that follows a strongly-divided reaction to an interview with Meghan last week, which re-opened claims of family tensions.\n\n\"It is very nice to be back in the UK,\" she began her keynote address at the One Young Summit in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall - after an earlier welcome from the city's mayor Andy Burnham.\n\nPrince Harry accompanied Meghan to the speech in Manchester\n\nIn a speech that side-stepped any controversy, the duchess described her own imposter-syndrome feelings when she attended the 2014 version of the event, when she was a TV actress and before meeting Prince Harry.\n\n\"I wasn't sure that I belonged. I was so nervous. I doubted myself and I wondered if I was good enough to even be there,\" she told her audience of young leaders from more than 190 countries.\n\n\"I was so overwhelmed by this experience. I think I even saved my little paper place card that said my name on it. Just proof that I was there,\" Meghan told the audience.\n\n\"I'm thrilled that my husband is able to join me here this time,\" she said, at an event with fees of over £3,000 for delegates, which organisers say are mostly funded by scholarships or charity partners.\n\nShe told the young delegates: \"You are the ones driving the positive and necessary change needed across the globe.\"\n\nCritics accuse the couple of still relying on royal connections to promote their new careers in the US\n\nMeghan's speech followed a coruscating address from the pop star Bob Geldof, who warned the young leaders not to turn into \"creeps\" if they were ever in power.\n\nThe Sussexes had travelled by train from London to Manchester for the first of a series of events on their UK visit.\n\nBut it's not known whether the duke and duchess will meet other members of the Royal Family this week, including the Queen, who is in Balmoral and due to hold an audience on Tuesday with the new prime minister.\n\nSources say an open invitation remains for a meeting with Prince Charles, although not one specifically issued for this week.\n\nThere is no confirmation about whether Prince Harry and Meghan will meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - with both couples near each other on the Windsor estate.\n\nBut there will be a trip to Germany to support plans for next year's Invictus Games for injured veterans and they will make an appearance at the WellChild Awards, celebrating the achievements of seriously-ill children, which will be held in London on Thursday.\n\nThe visit to the UK follows a blizzard of publicity surrounding Meghan's US interview with New York magazine The Cut and the first episodes of her Spotify podcast series.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the Queen will have an audience with the new UK PM at Balmoral, not Buckingham Palace\n\nPrince Harry has also been involved in a legal wrangle over the level of security provided to him and his family when visiting the UK. The prospect of a tell-all memoir from the prince also hovers in the background.\n\nMeghan's magazine interview, conducted in the sunshine of her Californian mansion, strongly divided opinion - with her supporters seeing it as a further account of why she needed to escape the pressures of life within the Royal Family.\n\nShe said she upset the \"dynamic of the hierarchy\" of the Royal Family \"just by existing\" - and suggesting unresolved disputes she said it \"takes a lot of effort to forgive\".\n\nBut her vociferous critics accused her of \"delusion\", seizing on quotes such as Meghan recounting being told that her marriage to Harry was greeted in South Africa with rejoicing the same as \"when Mandela was freed from prison\".\n\nThere were also accusations that having left their lives as working royals, they were still relying on that connection to promote their new careers and media ventures in the US.\n\nThis will be the couple's first visit to the UK since the Platinum Jubilee, when they attended events including a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nBut despite high levels of public interest that had been a low-key trip, with them staying out of the limelight for what was a celebration of the life of the Queen.\n\nTheir latest trip to the UK is against the background of further concerns about the health of the 96-year-old monarch.\n\nThe Queen has had to pull out of attending events such as the Braemar highland games and for the first time in her reign she has switched the location of the audience with a new prime minister, which will now be in Balmoral rather than Buckingham Palace.\n\nThree years ago when she appointed Boris Johnson, a photo of Prince Harry and Meghan was visible behind the Queen's handshake with her new PM. Much has changed for all of them since then.", "New Prime Minister Liz Truss used her victory speech to pledge to \"deliver on the energy crisis\" by dealing with bills as well as supplies.\n\nA freeze on energy bills is understood to be one of a number of options being worked on to help struggling households to cope with soaring costs.\n\nIt is expected that energy suppliers will be able to take out government-backed loans to subsidise bills.\n\nEnergy bosses have been meeting with government officials on the matter.\n\nA £100bn plan to freeze household bills was proposed by energy companies last month.\n\nUnder the proposal, bills would be subsidised and the current price cap of £1,971 for a typical family would be maintained for two years.\n\nThe BBC understands that a similar scheme will be used to limit the energy price increases being experienced by small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nAnd bigger companies may be offered tax breaks to help them through the period of high prices.\n\nMs Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak with 57% of party member votes to become the new Conservative leader.\n\nSpeaking after the announcement, she said: \"I will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people's energy bills but also dealing with the long-term issues we have on energy supply.\"\n\nIn response, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"There can be no justification for not freezing energy prices.\n\n\"There's a political consensus that needs to happen. She needs to ask the question, how she's going to pay for that? Labour made it clear, it needs to be a windfall tax on oil and gas companies.\"\n\nMs Truss's team is understood to have been working on a support package for energy bills \"for weeks\". An announcement on what they will do is pencilled in for this Thursday.\n\n\"Lots of measures have been considered, some have progressed and some have not,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nBusiness groups welcomed Ms Truss's appointment but urged her to take \"big bold action\" to help firms who, unlike households, are not protected by an energy price cap.\n\nFederation of Small Businesses chairman Martin McTague said soaring energy bills \"must be addressed urgently.\"\n\nAnd Tony Danker, the director general of the Confederation of British Industry, said he was \"hopeful\" that businesses would receive help.\n\n\"The cliff edge that's coming on new energy contracts [for businesses] are astronomical, and need smoothing,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm pretty hopeful this week that not only will the new prime minister tackle energy bills for households, she'll also look at businesses too.\"\n\nA freeze of the energy price cap - the limit on how much gas and electricity can cost in England, Scotland and Wales - would not necessarily require upfront government funding.\n\nIn an article for the Financial Times, Ms Truss' close ally Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said a government led by her would borrow more to help people through \"exceptionally difficult times\" during the energy price shock.\n\nMr Kwarteng - tipped to be named chancellor by Ms Truss - suggested he would look at the UK's rules on government borrowing and spending - called fiscal rules - to see if they still worked for the economy.\n\nThe Treasury is allowed to suspend its fiscal rules in the event of a \"significant negative shock to the UK economy\".\n\nHowever, Mr Kwarteng sought to reassure markets that the UK had space to borrow more and that it would be done in a \"fiscally responsible way\".\n\nDuring the leadership race, Ms Truss said she would reverse a 1.25% rise in National Insurance and would suspend an increase in corporation tax - the measures will cost a combined £30bn.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the National Insurance cut would be of greater benefit to higher earners rather than those on lower income.\n\nDuring an interview with the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Ms Truss said it was fair to give higher earners more money back through tax cuts. and recent Tory policy had failed to grow the economy.\n\nA plan to freeze energy bills for households is striking in its simplicity for those facing a tough winter - until you start considering how it can be funded, and other details.\n\nIt is likely to ultimately cost billions of pounds, and that may need to be paid back either through you paying extra on bills for the next decade, or through taxation if the government picks up the tab, or through extra borrowing.\n\nThey would seem to be main options, given Liz Truss has been clear that she is not keen on a windfall tax on energy companies' profits.\n\nAnd, remember, the price cap only covers domestic bills in England, Wales, and Scotland. Will there be anything similar for billpayers in Northern Ireland who have also seen the cost of heating and lighting homes rise? What about small businesses, who are also seeing bills surge?\n\nWe should not expect answers yet. We should wait for a policy announcement first.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the IFS, said \"simply cutting taxes, cutting National Insurance contributions for example, is not a strategy for growth\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme these measures would come on top of the billions the government would have to spend to help with energy bills.\n\n\"We'll have not just extremely high borrowing in the short run but also additional inflationary pressure,\" he said.\n\nLast month, Labour said the government should freeze household energy bills, outlining a £29bn plan that would stop the energy price cap going up for all homes.\n\nAt the time, Ms Truss dismissed the proposal as a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nThe Lib Dems have called for a price cap rise in October - which will take the typical household energy bill from £1,971 to £3,549 - to be scrapped. It proposed that the cost be covered by a windfall tax on energy company profits.\n\nMs Truss did not rule out a freeze during her Sunday interview with Laura Kuenssberg, but there is still a lack of clarity about how it could be funded.\n\nDerek Lickorish, chairman of pay-as-you-go energy supplier Utilita, said he and other industry bosses had been calling for a freeze to the energy price cap \"for some time\".\n\n\"We recognise it's going to be very expensive but if we don't the economy is going to crash and consumers won't know what to do, they won't know where to turn to for help,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.", "Russian forces were at the plant when a UN agency team visited last week\n\nShelling of Europe's biggest nuclear power plant could lead to unlimited release of radioactive materials - and Russian military equipment on site could undermine its security, the UN's nuclear agency has warned.\n\nRussia occupied the Zaporizhzhia plant at the start of its invasion of Ukraine and it has come under repeated attack.\n\nAfter a visit last week, UN's nuclear watchdog has called for a safety and security protection zone.\n\nIt said shelling must end immediately.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the report - saying it noted the \"presence of Russian military hardware on the territory of the nuclear power plant, pressure on our employees there, and makes clear references to the Russian military occupation\".\n\nHe added that he'd support a security zone if it was aimed at demilitarising \"the territory of the nuclear power plant\".\n\nThe plant lies on the southern bank of the River Dnieper, across the water from Ukrainian-held towns and military positions.\n\nBoth sides have accused each other of targeting the plant, occupied by Russian forces in early March.\n\nOn Tuesday, Russia accused Kyiv of hitting the area three times in 24 hours. Ukraine says Russia forces have used it as a shield from which to fire on nearby cities, although Russia insists they are guarding the site.\n\nHowever the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency is careful not to apportion blame to either side.\n\nShelling continued while a 14-strong IAEA team visited the site last week and its head Rafael Grossi warned at the time of a very real risk of nuclear disaster. Although most of the team left the plant after two days, it said two of its officials would remain there on a permanent basis.\n\nThe UN agency said a depleted staff were working in very challenging circumstances\n\nIn its report released on Tuesday, the agency highlighted the \"extremely stressful conditions\" facing the 907 Ukrainian staff working there under Russian military control.\n\nIt said the depleted staff should be entitled to family support and an appropriate work environment.\n\nThe IAEA detailed the damage to the plant and said while continued shelling had not yet triggered a nuclear emergency it did present a constant threat to safety that \"may lead to radiological consequences with great safety significance\".\n\nThere was an urgent need for \"interim measures\" to prevent a nuclear accident caused by military action, it added, saying all relevant parties would have to agree to a \"nuclear safety and security protection zone\" being set up to avoid further damage.\n\nRussian military, vehicles and equipment were seen around the plant and \"several military trucks\" were inside the turbine halls of two of the plant's six reactors, the agency said.\n\nIt warned that military equipment on site and clashes near vital areas undermined the plant's protection system and it called for the removal of vehicles that could interfere with safety systems.\n\nThe watchdog said staff had to secure permission from the Russian military to visit cooling ponds at the plant and it criticised the presence of nuclear officials from Russia's nuclear body, Rosatom. That could lead to possible friction when key decisions had to be made, it said.\n\nThe Russian ambassador to the UN said the IAEA should have blamed Ukraine for shelling the occupied nuclear plant.\n\n\"We regret that in your report ... the source of the shelling is not directly named,\" Vasily Nebenzya told a Security Council session attended virtually by Mr Grossi.\n\nAlthough it has six reactors, the Zaporizhzhia plant has only had two operating since the war began and just one reactor has been working in recent days.\n\nThree of the four lines providing power from Ukraine's grid have been put out of action during the fighting and on Saturday the UN watchdog said the last line had also been disconnected, leaving just one lower-power reserve line from a nearby thermal plant.\n\nUkrainian officials said on Monday that the last working reactor was disconnected from the grid after the last main power line went down.\n• None How risky is stand-off over Ukraine's nuclear plant?", "Forensic investigators at one of the crime scenes in Weldon, Saskatchewan\n\nCanadian police have launched a huge manhunt for two men suspected of stabbing at least 10 people to death in a rampage that has shocked the nation.\n\nTwo suspects named as Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson are on the run and considered armed and dangerous.\n\nVictims were found in 13 locations in the remote indigenous community James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon.\n\nIt is one of the deadliest acts of mass violence Canada has seen. PM Justin Trudeau said it was \"heartbreaking\".\n\nAt least 15 others were injured in the killing spree, with police urging residents to be extremely vigilant as they conduct a search across one of Canada's largest and most remote regions.\n\n\"I am shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks today,\" Mr Trudeau said in a statement. \"Those responsible for today's abhorrent attacks must be fully brought to justice.\"\n\nAs news of the stabbings broke, a dangerous person alert was sent to all mobile phones across the provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta - an enormous region almost half the size of Europe.\n\nA state of emergency was declared in the James Smith Cree Nation - a community of about 2,000 residents north-east of the village of Weldon, which is home to just 200 people.\n\n\"Do not leave a secure location. Use caution allowing others into your residence,\" Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) warned people across the area.\n\nNumerous checkpoints have been set up and drivers have been urged not to pick up hitchhikers.\n\nRhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer for Saskatchewan RCMP said that some people may have been targeted, while others are believed to have been \"attacked randomly\".\n\nThe suspects were last seen by members of the public in Regina at about lunchtime on Sunday, and may be travelling in a black Nissan Rogue, Officer Blackmore said.\n\nThe relationship between Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30, is unclear, and the authorities have so far provided no further details.\n\nBut in May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted poster for Myles Sanderson accusing him of being \"unlawfully at large\" in the region.\n\nAt a news briefing on Sunday evening, police said there could be more injured people than the 15 they already knew about, who had taken themselves to hospital.\n\nPolice refused to speculate on the motive behind the attack, but Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations suggested that they could be drug related.\n\n\"This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the Chiefs and Councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,\" Mr Cameron said.\n\nThe suspects have been identified as Damien Sanderson (left) and Myles Sanderson\n\nThe first emergency call was made to police at 05:40 local time on Sunday morning in the provincial capital Regina, about 280km (173 miles) south of Weldon.\n\nThis was quickly followed by many more calls for help, developing into what police described as a \"rapidly unfolding event\".\n\nAnne Lindemann, a spokesperson for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, told local media that additional staff had been called in to deal with an \"influx of casualties\".\n\n\"They are considered armed and dangerous... If you see the suspects or their vehicle, do not approach them, immediately leave the area and call 911.\"\n\nLogan Stein, a local journalist, told the BBC that the region was extremely remote. He said that the attackers appeared to have gone door-to-door attacking locals.\n\nChakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson - one of the elected leaders that head up the region- told the Regina Leader Post that everyone in the community had been affected.\n\n\"They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we're all related here, so it's pretty hard,\" Mr Sanderson said. \"It's pretty horrific.\"\n\nWeldon resident Diane Shier said her neighbour, a man who lived with his grandson, was killed, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported.\n\nHe was described by another resident, Robert Rush, as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s.\n\n\"He wouldn't hurt a fly,\" Mr Rush was quoted as saying.\n\nAnother victim has been named as mother of two Lana Head. Her former partner Michael Brett Burns told local media that he was \"hurt for all this loss\".\n\nCanada's Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said he had reached out to community leaders to \"offer Canada's full support and any assistance that will be needed in the coming days\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree days after a deadly stabbing spree in Saskatchewan, the surviving suspect's whereabouts remain unknown.\n\nThe announcement of a possible sighting of Myles Sanderson in the James Smith Cree Nation area on Tuesday turned out to have been a false alarm.\n\nHe has been the target of a major police manhunt since Sunday after the attack that left 10 people dead and 18 injured, not including the suspects.\n\nThe attack has rocked the otherwise peaceful Canadian region.\n\nPolice have warned people to \"take appropriate precautions\" in an alert sent to mobile phones in the area.\n\nTuesday's false alarm will probably do little to calm the tension felt in the indigenous community of James Smith Cree Nation, where most of the victims were found, and the nearby town of Weldon, which is mourning the loss of long-time resident Wes Petterson, 77, who is reported to have been murdered in front of his house.\n\nIn Weldon, a small town of some 200 residents with gravel streets, a neat grid of single-storey homes, two churches, a post office and corner shop, most doors remain shut, though there are plenty of media present.\n\nResidents are \"right now, pushing up against the glass, looking out their windows\", said Ruby Works, one of the few Weldon residents willing to speak to visiting media.\n\nThe nearby James Smith Cree Nation has also issued a plea for privacy and time to mourn, and some media have been asked to leave.\n\nSunday's attack has prompted messages of condolence from around the world - including from Britain's Queen Elizabeth, who is also Canada's head of state. She said she was mourning alongside all of Canada.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with those recovering from injuries, and grieving such horrific losses,\" the monarch said in a statement on Wednesday.\n\nSaskatchewan police initially said on Sunday they were looking for two suspects - brothers Damien and Myles Sanderson, aged 31and 32 respectively - who they believed might have travelled 300km (185 miles) south to Regina following the attacks.\n\nOn Monday, police revealed they had found Damien Sanderson's body that morning during the course of their investigation in a grassy area near a house on James Smith Cree Nation.\n\nPolice say his body had \"visible injuries not believed to be self-inflicted at this point\". But police did not say whether Myles Sanderson was believed to be responsible for his brother's death.\n\nThey also said they had charged both men on multiple counts, including Myles Sanderson with three counts of first-degree murder, despite him not being in custody.\n\nBeyond the search for Myles Sanderson, many questions remain in the case, including what drew the violence to Mr Petterson's doorstep.\n\n\"You can't find anything bad about him,\" said lifelong Weldon resident Doreen Lees, who was still using the present tense while speaking of her late friend whom she had known for three decades.\n\nMr Petterson was a gentle man, known around town for his homemade Saskatoon berry jam, and for the flower he liked to wear in his hat.\n\nHe would often drive Mrs Lees, 89, to the nearby community church where they both were members.\n\nThis past Sunday morning, a few hours before church services would usually begin, Doreen and her daughter Leona were on their front porch, taking in the view of the neighbouring fields while Leona had coffee.\n\nA man approached, holding a jacket over his mouth, and asked for a ride.\n\nDoreen Lees points out her friend Wes Petterson, killed on Sunday, in a Weldon community scrapbook\n\n\"He said, 'Can you help me? I've cut my face,'\" Leona said. Believing he was injured she called for help, but the man fled.\n\nDoreen and Leona are not sure whether it was one of the suspects, or someone else possibly involved, but police were quick to arrive that day and have since taken their statements.\n\nFor the first time ever, they have taken to locking their doors - but Leona has not stopped taking coffee on the porch in the morning.\n\n\"I did today, I will tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nAs the communities grapple with the grief, there have been appeals from police and indigenous organisations for people to come forward with any information.\n\n\"The uncertainty continues to cause immeasurable stress and panic among our families, friends, and neighbours,\" said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents all 74 First Nations of Saskatchewan, in a statement on Monday.\n\n\"They have already gone through enough. We must do everything we can to help end this tragedy without any more loss of life.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Chief Cameron alluded to issues of substance abuse, saying in a statement that \"this is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities\".\n\nMyles Sanderson's parole documents from earlier this year, first reported by the Canadian Press and obtained by the BBC, suggest a history of substance abuse. Evidence of violent behaviour, past convictions including assault charges and childhood trauma are also indicated in his file.\n\n\"These murders weren't just caused by individuals making decisions,\" said Niigaan Sinclair, head of indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba. \"And that's not a defence in any way.\"\n\nThe crimes were \"heinous, they were horrible\", said Prof Sinclair, who is Anishinaabe. \"But these brothers were born into trauma and are now sharing that trauma with those around them.\"", "The Audi driven by the man who had fallen ill was seen travelling at about 30mph in the outside lane of the M62\n\nA car whose driver had fallen seriously ill while at the wheel on a motorway was brought to a halt by a quick-witted motorist who had realised his plight.\n\nJohn Barlow said he spotted the Audi going slowly in the outside lane of the M62 near Leeds on Saturday. The driver was slumped with a bloodied face.\n\nMr Barlow managed to get his car ahead of the Audi and eased it to a stop before getting out to help the man.\n\nIt emerged the driver had suffered a seizure but was well enough to go home.\n\nMr Barlow, 59, from Middleton in Greater Manchester, said he first noticed the Audi travelling slower and slower and he pulled alongside to see the driver.\n\n\"He looked dead at the wheel. I could see his lips were blue and he had blood trickling down his face,\" Mr Barlow said.\n\nHe pulled into the lane ahead of the Audi, which was travelling at about 30mph (48km/h), before taking his foot off the accelerator and bringing both cars to a stop.\n\nJohn Barlow used his car to stop the vehicle after he spotted the driver was seriously ill\n\nThe incident happened at about 15:15 BST on Saturday on the M62 eastbound carriageway between junctions 29 and 30, a West Yorkshire Police spokesperson confirmed.\n\nOfficers said a man in his 70s had fallen ill and Mr Barlow's actions to stop the car had prevented a \"potential serious collision\".\n\nMr Barlow pulled in ahead of the ill man's vehicle and helped ease it to a stop\n\nAfter the Audi was stopped, another man helped Mr Barlow break into the vehicle.\n\nHe opened the seriously ill driver's airway by tilting his jaw backwards, at which point the Audi driver took in a gasp of air.\n\nOther drivers also stopped at the scene, bringing the four-lane carriageway to a halt.\n\nA physio and an off-duty police officer took over the first aid until paramedics arrived.\n\nMeanwhile, a doctor on the opposite carriageway of the M62 travelled to the next junction, turned round and battled through the backed-up traffic to get to work with a defibrillator.\n\nMr Barlow said: \"Everyone was amazing, it was a real team effort. They got the man on the floor, then the doctor jumped in as well.\"\n\nMotorists stopped to help the seriously ill driver, who had suffered a seizure at the wheel\n\nMr Barlow had been travelling to Pontefract with his wife Kirsty and son Joey, 7, to pick up a new kitten at the time of the incident.\n\nThe next day, he received a call from West Yorkshire Police thanking him and he was told the driver had suffered a seizure but was well enough to go home.\n\nHe said he hoped to meet the man he saved in the future, adding: \"I'd shake his hand and give him a hug.\"\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.", "Russia has been forced to buy military hardware from North Korea as sanctions squeeze Moscow's ability to supply its military, the US says.\n\nA US official revealed Moscow is in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from Pyongyang for use in Ukraine.\n\nAnd they said that Russia could be forced to buy additional North Korean weaponry as the war dragged on.\n\nBuying from North Korea is a sign of \"severe supply shortages\", they added.\n\nThe intelligence was first reported by the New York Times. Ukraine's defence ministry tweeted a mocking response to the report, saying that it showed \"Soviet weapons\" had \"exhausted their potential\".\n\nThe ministry said the while Ukraine was switching to Nato standards, Russia was heading in the direction of North Korean standards - be it in the field of \"weapons, politics or standard of living\".\n\nKim Jong-un's regime has blamed the US for the conflict and accused the West of pursuing a \"hegemonic policy\" that justified Russia's use of force.\n\nLast month, North Korea recognised the independence of Russia's two proxy statelets in eastern Ukraine - the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics - and vowed to deepen its \"comradely friendship\" with Moscow.\n\nRussia's Vladimir Putin said the two countries would expand their \"comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations\", according to Pyongyang state media.\n\nBroad economic sanctions have done little to damage Russia's income from energy exports, according to Finnish think tank the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.\n\nIt estimates Russia has made €158bn (£136bn) from surging fossil fuel prices during the six-month invasion, with EU imports accounting for more than half of that.\n\nBut the US thinks export controls and sanctions are affecting the Russian military.\n\nLast week, officials in the Biden administration told US media that the first shipments of Iranian-made drones had also been delivered to Russia.\n\nUS intelligence officers believe that Russian operators have travelled to Iran to receive training on the Mohajer-6 and Shahed series weapons.\n\nBut they told reporters recently that many of the drones had been beset by mechanical and technical problems since delivery.\n\nIran has officially denied delivering weapons to either side of the conflict, but in July US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Tehran was planning to supply Moscow with potentially hundreds of drones for its war in Ukraine, some with combat capabilities.\n\nOn Tuesday, UK defence officials said in a daily update that Russia was struggling to maintain its supply of battlefield drones in the face of significant \"combat losses\".\n\nIn other developments in Ukraine on Tuesday:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKremlin officials have added US actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn to Russia's \"stop list\", meaning they are now banned from entering the country.\n\nThey join the likes of fellow Hollywood star Morgan Freeman, US President Joe Biden and outgoing UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nRussia and some Western nations have been exchanging rounds of sanctions since the war in Ukraine began.\n\nOligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin have been issued with similar travel bans in the West.\n\nOn Monday the Russian foreign ministry named 25 high-ranking US officials, business people and actors and said they were banned from entering Russia \"on a permanent basis\".\n\nUS Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, four deputy commerce secretaries and six US senators appeared on the list.\n\n\"The hostile actions of the American authorities, which continue to follow a Russophobic course, destroying bilateral ties and escalating confrontation between Russia and the United States, will continue to be resolutely rebuffed,\" the ministry said.\n\nStiller and Penn have been outspoken critics of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and both have visited Kyiv since the start of the conflict.\n\nStiller - who is a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - made clear his feelings for Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on a trip he made to the country to mark World Refugee Day in June.\n\nIn a clip of the pair, the star thanks Zelensky for \"taking the time\" to meet him and says: \"You're my hero, you're amazing.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Penn, who is known for his political activism as much as he is for his films, fled Ukraine in March while filming a documentary about the conflict. He later said he considered joining Ukrainian forces to fight against Russia.\n\nThe two actors are now among 1,073 names on Russia's \"stop list\". It also includes US film director Rob Reiner, incoming British Prime Minister Liz Truss and scores of UK, US and EU officials.\n\nThe latest retaliatory measures from Russia come as a response to sanctions by the US administration. The latest were announced on Friday as part of a wider plan by the G7 to impose a price cap on Russian oil in a bid to scupper Moscow's ability to finance its war.\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the cap would also help fight inflation, which is on the rise in many of the world's economies.", "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\nRafael Nadal says he does not know when he will play again after losing in the US Open fourth round.\n\nThe 36-year-old Spaniard, whose wife is pregnant, was beaten in four sets by American Frances Tiafoe on Monday.\n\n\"I need to go back. I need to fix things, life, then I don't know when I'm going to come back,\" said the 22-time Grand Slam champion.\n\n\"I'm going to try to be ready mentally. When I feel that I will be ready to compete again, I will be there.\"\n\nNadal is scheduled to be playing in the Laver Cup, alongside Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, in London from 23-25 September.\n\nThe loss to 22nd seed Tiafoe was Nadal's first defeat in a Grand Slam this year.\n\nThe US Open, which he was bidding to win for a fifth time, was only the second tournament he had played since pulling out of the Wimbledon semi-finals with an abdominal injury.\n\nAfter an opening defeat by Borna Coric in Cincinnati, Nadal went to New York and was never fully comfortable in his opening two wins.\n\nThe second seed improved against France's Richard Gasquet but was overpowered by Tiafoe in front of a raucous home crowd in New York.\n\n\"The difference is easy: I played a bad match and he played a good match,\" said Nadal, who won the Australian Open and French Open titles this year.\n\n\"I was not able to hold a high level of tennis for a long time. I was not quick enough on my movements. He was able to take the ball too many times very early, so I was not able to push him back.\n\n\"Tennis is a sport of position. You need to be very, very quick and very young. I am not in that moment any more.\"\n\nNadal's defeat - along with that of Marin Cilic - means there will be a first-time Grand Slam winner in the men's singles.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How is the iconic red double-decker bus made?: Gregg Wallace goes Inside the Factory to find out\n• None 'You cannot just walk away, they'll kill you':", "A Malaysian businessman at the heart of the worst scandal to hit the US Navy in modern times has escaped house arrest, the US Marshals Service has said.\n\nLeonard Glenn Francis, known as \"Fat Leonard\", cut his ankle bracelet off before disappearing from his home in San Diego, California.\n\nHe is now reportedly on the run.\n\nHis escape comes three weeks before he was due for sentencing after pleading guilty in 2015 to bribing senior US Navy officers.\n\nFrancis had been the key figure behind a sprawling multi-million dollar bribery scheme that he operated by way of his Singapore-based company which serviced the US Navy's Pacific fleet.\n\nThe US justice department describes it as a colossal fraud that cost the navy tens of millions of dollars.\n\nFrancis, a colourful and at times enigmatic figure, used his influence with senior commanders to secure lucrative military contracts often involving the Indo-Pacific based 7th Fleet - the largest of the Navy's forward deployed fleets.\n\nProsecutors say he overcharged the navy to the tune of $35m (£30m) and plied navy officers with cash, gourmet meals, expensive cigars, rare liquor and wild sex parties in upscale hotels to procure the contracts.\n\nArrested in 2013 he pled guilty in 2015 to offering $500,000 in bribes to US Navy officers in an attempt to funnel official work towards his shipyards.\n\nDozens of navy officials have been ensnared in the case, with four officers having been found guilty, and 28 others, including contractors and naval officials, having pleaded guilty so far, say US media reports.\n\nBouts of bad health in recent years, including kidney cancer, saw Francis, now middle-aged, placed under house arrest while acting as a co-operating witness for the prosecution as he awaited sentencing.\n\nOn Sunday morning however, police officers arrived at his residence after being notified by the agency monitoring the device that there was a problem with his GPS bracelet.\n\nSupervisory Deputy US Marshal Omar Castillo confirmed to news outlets that Francis had cut off his ankle device and fled from his home.\n\n\"Upon arrival they noticed that nobody was home,\" he told news agency AFP news agency.\n\nNeighbours said they had seen moving trucks going in and out of his home in recent weeks, said Mr Castillo, who added that multiple leads were being investigated.\n• None US Navy officer 'bribed by cash and prostitutes'", "It was gone half 10 on Tuesday night and cabinet positions were still being filled - a self-imposed deadline from the prime minister approaching with the first meeting of the cabinet at 8.30 BST this morning.\n\nThere are a handful of striking things about its composition.\n\nThere has been a near-total purge of those who backed Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe only one who I can spot is Michael Ellis, the new attorney general for England and Wales.\n\nAnd even he will attend cabinet rather than being a cabinet minister, subtle though that distinction is.\n\nThis dominance of Truss campaign supporters around the Truss top table is already prompting grumbling among some Tory MPs, although we do await appointments to the more junior ranks in government.\n\nThe prime minister's desire for loyalty and building a government in her own image runs the risk of provoking rebellion down the track.\n\nOne adviser told me her top team needed to pass \"the Today programme test\" as it was put to me.\n\nCould they go on Radio 4 in the morning and answer questions from Nick Robinson and gang along the lines of: \"Minister, on 17 August you said this very disobliging thing about the now prime minister, how on earth can you now credibly serve in her cabinet?\"\n\nAnd yes, clearly some of Rishi Sunak's most gobby supporters might have found such a scenario a little tricky.\n\nAnd No 10 would have found it excruciating.\n\nBut there were members of Team Sunak whose support of the former chancellor was more understated, who might have been expected by many to still serve Liz Truss at the top table - and there is no place for them.\n\nTake Grant Shapps, the former transport secretary, one of Boris Johnson's best cabinet communicators, now on the backbenches.\n\nMr Johnson often faced a similar criticism in his appointments by the way - the accusation that he promoted based on loyalty rather than competence.\n\nNo 10 argues the cabinet represents the \"depth and breadth of talent in the Conservative Party\" and so point out five other contenders for the party leadership feature in it.\n\nThey insist too it will unify the party.\n\nAnother thing that is worth a mention - ethnic diversity.\n\nRewind not that many years and cabinets looked very blokey and very white, particularly in what are known as the great offices of state - the prime minister, the chancellor, the home secretary and the foreign secretary.\n\nNow it is the complete opposite, with Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng, Suella Braverman and James Cleverly.\n\nAnd a final observation: churn at the top of government.\n\nI've written here in the last few days about the turnover of prime ministers in recent years - four in the space of a little over six years.\n\nBut the churn extends to the cabinet too.\n\nWe had a long standing observer of Conservative politics on the BBC's Newscast podcast, Lord Barwell, who worked in Downing Street for Theresa May.\n\nHe made the point that there is just one survivor around the cabinet table from David Cameron's time as prime minister, six years ago.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces the plan to freeze rents until spring\n\nNicola Sturgeon has announced a rent freeze for public and private rented properties as part of efforts to help people struggling with rising bills.\n\nThe first minister said the cost-of-living crisis was a \"humanitarian emergency\" which could cost lives.\n\nHer government is to table emergency legislation banning evictions during winter and freezing rents until spring.\n\nThere are also plans to freeze rail fares and to boost the Scottish Child Payment to £25 per week from November.\n\nMs Sturgeon has also written to new Prime Minister Liz Truss, asking her to convene a four-nation meeting of political leaders to focus on helping households.\n\nThe plans were part of the first minister's annual Programme for Government speech, which comes at the start of each new year at Holyrood.\n\nShe said the legislative programme was deliberately focused on the cost-of-living crisis, which she said \"poses a danger not just to livelihoods but to lives\".\n\nMs Sturgeon called for action from UK ministers \"on a scale similar to the Covid response\", but said her government would also take further steps to \"strengthen the emergency safety net for those struggling to pay bills\".\n\nThis includes an increase in the Scottish Child Payment - a weekly payment to families who are in receipt of certain benefits - to £25 per week from 15 November. The scheme is also to be expanded to eligible under-16s, meaning more than 400,000 could benefit.\n\nScotRail fares are to be frozen until at least March 2023, with the government having taken the rail operator into public ownership earlier in the year.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon confirmed that emergency legislation would be tabled at Holyrood to protect tenants in private and socially rented homes.\n\nThis will include a moratorium on evictions during winter as well as a rent freeze, to run from today until at least the end of March next year.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's plans to freeze rents, ban evictions and raise the child payment to £25 a week will make the headlines today.\n\nBut these announcements were prefaced with a very stark warning from the first minister - that the Scottish government is getting short of cash.\n\nThat rising inflation has reduced their spending power and that larger-than-expected pay deals for public sector workers and other cost-of-living help will also limit what they can spend elsewhere.\n\nIn short, \"hard choices\" lie ahead and the Scottish government won't be able to do everything it would like.\n\nThat may not only mean rejecting new demands but potentially delaying or dropping some existing commitments.\n\nThe first minister did not give details. It seems that is being delegated to her deputy, John Swinney, who is due to make a separate financial statement tomorrow.\n\nThe Scottish Association of Landlords accused the the government of \"attacking landlords for political reasons\".\n\nChief executive John Blackwood said the proposals \"will only further reduce the supply of housing, putting more people at risk. This is not a solution, it will only cause more hardship.\"\n\nHe also said he had been \"inundated\" by landlords saying they would be removing their vacant properties from the rental market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Student renter Matthew Peacock: \"We need to look at actually rent reductions.\"\n\nIn her speech the first minister warned that her government faces \"hard choices\" in how these policies are paid for, with an emergency budget review being carried out.\n\nShe said it would mean \"stopping some things we planned to do, to fund what is essential to support people through this crisis\".\n\nThe other proposals announced as part of the Programme for Government included:\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she still aims to hold an independence referendum in October 2023, arguing that Holyrood lacks the powers \"we desperately need to respond to a crisis like this\".\n\nBut opposition parties hit out at this, saying it was a waste of time and money.\n\nHe called for the Scottish and UK governments to \"tackle the cost of living crisis jointly together\" and said Ms Truss would roll out plans in the coming days to alleviate the pressure on household budgets.\n\nMr Ross also said an independence referendum was \"unacceptable at a time when people are struggling - the wrong priority at the worst possible time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Landlord John Blackwood: \"Fewer and fewer people will rent out properties and tenants will really struggle to find a home.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the government \"needs to go further and go faster to avert this crisis\".\n\nHe said: \"Whether you voted yes or no, whether you voted leave or remain, your bills are going up right now - you need urgent action right now.\n\n\"You need a UK government to step in right now to impose an energy price freeze and a windfall tax, and you need an emergency cost of living act in Scotland right now to put more money in people's pockets.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the speech was \"thin gruel\" for anxious Scots, and that the government lacked the \"humility, creativity and ambition necessary to face the problems\".\n\nThe Scottish Greens - who are in government with the SNP - welcomed the announcements. MSP Ariane Burgess said the rent freeze would \"provide vital stability and support for tenants across Scotland at a time when many are suffering\".", "Warnings over potential sewage spills into the water are in place along the coast\n\nPollution warnings are in place for more than 100 British beaches after untreated sewage was discharged into the sea.\n\nThe warnings appear on the Safer Seas and Rivers Service, run by the charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), and are based on water firms' data.\n\nDischarges are allowed for example after heavy rainfall, to stop the sewage system being overwhelmed.\n\nBut there is mounting public anger at their impacts on rivers and beaches.\n\nSAS Chief Executive Hugo Tagholm told the BBC that the discharges came after just the \"slightest hint\" of rain.\n\nHe criticised the water companies' use of combined sewer overflows, which are designed to release sewage and rainwater in times of extreme heavy rain.\n\n\"Do they think this is a joke? Do they not realise how much anger there is about their profiteering and pollution?\" he said.\n\nIn parliament, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas urged the government to \"cut the crap\" and return the \"failing\" water industry to public hands.\n\nOver the last 24 hours, one company - Southern Water (SW) - has discharged untreated sewage into almost 30 bathing sites, including the popular resorts of Bognor Regis, Hastings and Cowes.\n\nSW's data also show it has released untreated water on 95 occasions since the beginning of September. Two storm discharge pipes, at Southsea East and Stokes Bay, were discharging for more than 24 hours.\n\nBy law, these kinds of sewage discharges are legal only in \"exceptional\" circumstances.\n\nIn a statement Southern Water said: \"Rain can overwhelm the combined sewer and drainage system which exists in many parts of our region. To protect homes, schools and businesses from flooding, storm overflows act as a release valve and release excess water into the sea. These discharges are heavily diluted, typically being 95% rainwater. There are around 15,000 storm overflows in England and approximately 1,000 in our region.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Environment Agency is warning people not to swim at more than 50 bathing water sites across England, because of the poor water quality.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency currently has poor water quality warnings at 18 of its designated bathing waters, while Natural Resources Wales has three water quality warnings in place.\n\nDuring an urgent question in the Commons on Tuesday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said discharges of raw sewage into waterways would be cut by a quarter by 2025.\n\n\"This is the first government to set a clear requirement on water companies to reduce the harm caused by sewage discharges and we've set this in law through the Environment Act,\" he said.\n\nCaroline Lucas accused ministers of \"going backwards\" on the issue.\n\n\"We have a so-called plan that allows water companies to continue polluting until 2035 in areas with significant importance to human and ecological health and until 2050 elsewhere, that's sanctioning almost 30 years more of pollution,\" she said.", "Liz Truss became prime minister on 6 September 2022, replacing Boris Johnson who was in post for slightly more than three years.\n\nShe was not the first choice of Conservative MPs - but she was the clear winner in a ballot of Tory members, who had the final say.\n\nTruss has been a government minister since 2012, and held cabinet posts under David Cameron, Theresa May and Johnson, most recently as foreign secretary.\n\nA Remain supporter at the 2016 EU referendum, who began her political journey at Oxford University as a Liberal Democrat, she is now an enthusiastic Brexiteer who has vowed to get back to traditional tax-cutting Tory values.\n\nTruss, who has two children, was elected to Parliament as MP for South West Norfolk in 2010 after serving as deputy director of think tank Reform.", "Liz Truss has risen from the obscurity and loneliness of being an opposition councillor on a Labour-dominated local authority, to the biggest job of them all.\n\nThere is more than a smidgen of ambition splashing around Westminster, and more than a few around here allow themselves to dream of becoming prime minister.\n\nFor Liz Truss, that ambition becomes reality tomorrow.\n\nI first came across her 13 years ago when I was a political reporter for BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nShe served on Greenwich Council, in south-east London, and fought an unwinnable parliamentary seat in the 2001 general election. At the 2005 general election, she came a distant second in a Labour-leaning marginal. Yet ahead of the 2010 general election, she had become the Conservative candidate for a safe Tory seat, South West Norfolk.\n\nBut all hell broke loose when an affair she had had with then Conservative MP Mark Field was exposed.\n\nIt became the basis of a tussle between David Cameron's modernising zeal and his desire to reshape the image of the party, and local activists who felt emasculated and hoodwinked.\n\nBut Liz Truss was to prove, as she has done repeatedly since, that she is a political survivor. She emerged from that skirmish to become a Conservative MP, and now rises to be prime minister having been a minister for a decade.\n\nOne long-standing former Greenwich councillor recalled to me that back in her town hall days Liz Truss was notably quiet during full council meetings, but got stuck into her committee work.\n\nShe has talked about it quite pointedly - telling the ConservativeHome website that being on the council's planning committee amounted to \"hours of my life I will never get back\".\n\nBut these apprenticeships for high office are admired by her supporters, and helped her relate to the voluntary party in a way Rishi Sunak simply couldn't.\n\nHe was never a councillor and landed the plum Conservative seat of Richmond, in the Yorkshire Dales, without having to try to persuade the unpersuadable in seats glued to their Labour loyalties.\n\nPerhaps their contrasting CVs go some way to explaining their very different approaches to the campaign: Liz Truss relishing the scrap, Rishi Sunak appearing more hesitant at times - and at others more uncomfortable - to get stuck into the noisier, sometimes grubbier side of politics.\n\nBut elation and back stories only get you to now. Liz Truss is confronted by the gargantuan task of government.\n\nThings will feel different. Very different. They are bound to - Boris Johnson was the very definition of a primary colours, performance prime minister. But she inherits the same challenges he was confronted by.\n\nGoverning when millions are confronted by unpayable bills. Governing during a war in Europe and in the aftermath of a pandemic. And governing a party that's already been in power for 12 years.\n\nAs I reported yesterday, we can expect to see Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly - but these appointments won't be announced until tomorrow, when Ms Truss formally takes office.\n\nThen there will be Prime Minister's Question Time, on Wednesday.\n\nThe Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's team are well aware of not making the same mistake - as they saw it - as Rishi Sunak did in his BBC debate with Liz Truss in late July, when he was accused of \"mansplaining\".\n\nThey are hopeful that Sir Keir's experience of taking on Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long Bailey, during the Labour leadership contest, proves he can be effective in debate without being accused of patronising.\n\nWe can expect an announcement from the new government on help with energy bills within days, likely on Thursday.\n\nThere will be very little if any honeymoon period for Liz Truss, as the country clamours for answers to huge questions the caretaker government of Boris Johnson in recent months felt unempowered to take on.\n\nAs you can read from my colleagues, there is inflation, Ukraine, energy security, the NHS with winter approaching, the contrails of Brexit and... a general election that isn't far away.\n\nThe Conservatives have consistently been some way behind Labour in the polls all year. And there has to be an election by January 2025 at the latest.\n\nPolitics is being reset, but it will continue to be competitive, noisy and unpredictable.\n\nWhile many things change, some never do.\n• None How Truss won the race to become PM", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nWales held firm to reach the World Cup play-offs for the first time thanks to a 0-0 draw against Slovenia on a nerve-shredding night in Cardiff.\n\nTeenager Carrie Jones came closest for Wales with several fine efforts, while home goalkeeper Laura O'Sullivan had to be alert to deny Mateja Zver.\n\nWales knew a point was enough to see them finish second and they kept their defensive discipline throughout.\n\nThey might even have won it, but Gemma Evans' header was superbly saved.\n\nThis was a night on which Wales knew they had history in their grasp, having never before been within a point of qualifying for the play-offs.\n\nIt was already a celebratory night in the Welsh capital with the crowd of 12,741 more than doubling Wales' record attendance of 5,445.\n\nPerhaps even more significantly, Wales' first home game of the campaign was watched by just 1,700 supporters, with the atmosphere - enhanced by Wales' fans' brass band - as loud as it has been for a Wales women's match.\n\nWales boss Gemma Grainger opted to field the same side that won in Greece on Friday, albeit in a less than convincing manner than some of their previous performances in the campaign.\n\nThat meant their most-capped player, Jess Fishlock, who picked up an injury on camp, was left on the bench in a 'break glass in case of emergency' scenario, as talented teen Jones kept her place following her goal in Volos.\n\nThe unchanged line-up meant all 10 of Wales' outfield players were Women's Super League players, a blessing and a curse considering the top flight does not get under way until the weekend.\n\nWales' players looked in pre-season mode in Greece, lacking the fluency they have shown throughout this campaign and that continued to be the case in an extremely tense first-half at the Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nIndeed, the visitors created more opportunities with captain Zver extremely influential as she gave defender Rhiannon Roberts a tough test on the night she celebrated her 50th Wales appearance.\n\nIt was Zver who had the first effort on goal after an uncharacteristic mistake from Rachel Rowe, but the Slovenian shot straight at O'Sullivan in the Wales goal after a driving run.\n\nWales' first effort came on 24 minutes when Jones found some space on the left, but Zala Mersnik saved as she cut inside.\n\nZver again gave Wales a worry on 27 minutes when her fiercely struck shot hit the roof of the netting, before Lara Prasnikar lashed over the crossbar when more composure was required.\n\nSlovenia simply had to keep on pressing and that opened spaces for Wales, with Ceri Holland stabbing wide after Kayleigh's Green cross.\n• None BBC to show five more years of Wales women\n\nGreen then came close to giving Wales the goal they craved, but her outstretched foot just failed to make contact with Jones' volley back across goal after Roberts' cross.\n\nWales began the second period with more purpose and Angharad James tested Marsnik as she sought to celebrate her 100th cap with a goal, before she turned provider, but Jones fired over from distance.\n\nJones was the fulcrum for Wales and felt aggrieved not to be awarded a penalty when Dominika Conc seemed to foul her right on the edge of the penalty area, before she tested Mersnik with a dipping, swerving effort that the Slovenia keeper did well to tip around the post.\n\nHowever, at the other end the threat never went away for Wales with the scores deadlocked and O'Sullivan saved when Kaja Korosec struck from distance.\n\nO'Sullivan could do nothing, however, other than hope, when Zver curled the ball just wide on 73 minutes.\n\nThis was a special night for Wales, but particular plaudits should go to O'Sullivan, the only amateur player in Wales' starting XI, who conceded only five goals in 10 qualifiers and saved her best two performances for clean sheets in Wales' final qualifiers.\n\nA huge chance for Wales to lift the tension came and went on 70 minutes when Gemma Evans rose unmarked from James' corner, but Mersnik showed incredible reflexes to repel her header.\n\nHowever, Wales held firm and will now look forward to the play-offs with their World Cup dream still very much alive.\n• None Attempt saved. Zala Kustrin (Slovenia Women) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kaja Erzen.\n• None Offside, Wales Women. Rachel Rowe tries a through ball, but Kayleigh Green is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Rhiannon Roberts (Wales Women) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Angharad James with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Rachel Rowe (Wales Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Carrie Jones.\n• None Attempt saved. Lara Prasnikar (Slovenia Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kaja Korosec.\n• None Hayley Ladd (Wales Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The long-running complaint concerned children's data - particularly their phone numbers and email addresses.\n\nSome reportedly upgraded to business accounts to access analytics tools such as profile visits, without realising this made more of their data public.\n\nInstagram's owner, Meta, said it planned to appeal against the decision. It is the third fine handed to the company by the regulator.\n\n\"We adopted our final decision last Friday and it does contain a fine of €405m [£349m],\" Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said.\n\nA Meta official told BBC News: \"This inquiry focused on old settings that we updated over a year ago and we've since released many new features to help keep teens safe and their information private.\n\n\"Anyone under 18 automatically has their account set to private when they join Instagram, so only people they know can see what they post and adults can't message teens who don't follow them.\n\n\"While we've engaged fully with the DPC throughout their inquiry, we disagree with how this fine was calculated and intend to appeal it.\n\n\"We're continuing to carefully review the rest of the decision.\"\n\nThe DPC regulates large technology companies with European headquarters in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt has never given such a large fine for a breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.\n\nBut last year, it fined WhatsApp €225m, while Luxembourg's data authority fined Amazon a record €746m.\n\nNational Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) child-safety-online policy head Andy Burrows said of Instagram's fine: \"This was a major breach that had significant safeguarding implications and the potential to cause real harm to children using Instagram.\n\n\"The ruling demonstrates how effective enforcement can protect children on social media and underlines how regulation is already making children safer online.\n\n\"It's now over to the new prime minister to keep the promise to give children the strongest possible protections by delivering the Online Safety Bill in full and without delay.\"", "Selling vapes to under-18s is illegal in the UK\n\nVaping among secondary-school children is rising, with nearly one in five 15-year-olds using e-cigarettes in 2021, a survey by NHS Digital suggests.\n\nAmong 11-15-year-olds, 9% say they are vapers - up from 6% in 2018.\n\nDoctors say children are being targeted by e-cigarette companies, with bright packaging, exotic flavours and enticing names.\n\nThe long-term effects of vaping remain unknown - but it is much less harmful than smoking cigarettes.\n\nThe UK has strict rules on safety, labelling and advertising to prevent children from vaping, a government spokesperson said.\n\nThe survey asked more than 9,000 pupils in 119 secondary schools in England about their habits between September 2021 and February 2022.\n\nIt found that the percentage of teenagers taking drugs and smoking cigarettes fell between 2018 and 2021 - and alcohol use was unchanged.\n\nOverall, 18% of 11-15-year-old pupils said they had tried drugs - down from 24% in 2018.\n\nCannabis is the most popular drug among this age group, with 6% saying they had taken it last year.\n\nOnly 3% of pupils said they were current smokers, a fall from 5% in 2018.\n\nThe charity, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), said it was \"encouraging\" to see the decline in smoking which is \"far more harmful than vaping\".\n\nVapes or e-cigarettes do not contain the harmful tobacco present in normal cigarettes but they do contain nicotine - the substance that makes people addicted to smoking.\n\nDisposable vapes, which are colourful and available in a host of sweet flavours, are growing in popularity among teenagers.\n\nSelling e-cigarettes or vapes to children is illegal in the UK and every vaping product sold containing nicotine must be registered by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut recently, trading standards told BBC News the market was being flooded by thousands of unregulated vaping products containing potentially harmful substances.\n\nAnd a BBC Radio 5 Live investigation found vapes being sold illegally to children in Newcastle.\n\nChild-health experts want rules tightened so vapes can be advertised only as an aid to stopping smoking, rather than as a fun and colourful lifestyle product.\n\nDr Mike McKean, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said he was \"deeply disturbed\" by the rise of vaping in children and young people.\n\n\"E-cigarettes remain a relatively new product and their long-term effects are still unknown,\" he said.\n\n\"It is clear that children and young people are being targeted by e-cigarette companies with bright packaging, exotic flavours and enticing names.\"\n\nIt was time for the UK government to introduce plain packaging - of e-cigarettes, as well as nicotine and non-nicotine e-liquids packs, Dr McKean said.\n\n\"If action is not taken soon, we run the risk of having generations of children addicted to nicotine,\" he added.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the UK had some of the strongest regulations in place to prevent children from vaping.\n\nFor example. there are rules for all vape products on safety, labelling and advertising - and they cannot resemble a food or cosmetic product. Nicotine strength is limited to 20mg/ml.\n\n\"We are clear that vaping should only be used to help people quit smoking - vapes should not be used by people under 18 or non-smokers,\" she said.\n\nThe results suggest pupils who frequently met up with friends outside their school or home were more likely to have recently smoked, drunk alcohol or taken drugs.\n\nOf pupils who met up with friends every day:\n\nThey were less satisfied with life than children who hadn't met up with friends for several weeks.\n• None NHS Digital survey on smoking, drinking and drug use among young people, 2021 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is seen on stage during for the Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023\n\nPrince Harry has praised the location of the next Invictus Games, calling Dusseldorf \"brilliant and filled with amazing people\".\n\nHe visited the German city to mark one year until the competition for injured military veterans is held there.\n\nSpeaking at Merkur Spiel-Arena, he said he was taken with the city's \"vibrant atmosphere\".\n\nHe was joined by Meghan, who made her first UK address this week after quitting as a working royal.\n\nPrince Harry said: \"From what I've witnessed today already, I have a good sense of how we will bring the motto of these games - A Home For Respect - to life.\n\n\"It is my belief that showing respect and appreciation is just as important as experiencing respect and appreciation. That's the spirit we're bringing to Dusseldorf.\"\n\nThe next Invictus Games will take place next September and the Sussexes have been meeting officials and potential competitors a year on from their start.\n\nMembers of the public clapped and raised their phones to take pictures of the couple as they were welcomed with a red carpet arrival in the German city.\n\nPrince Harry encouraged Invictus supporters to \"lean in\" and enjoy the games for injured veterans.\n\nSpeaking in Dusseldorf town hall, he said: \"I can't wait to hear the roar of the crowds, to feel the adrenalin of the competition and join in on the laughter and even the tears, happy ones of course, while we get to witness lives being changed right before our eyes.\"\n\nHe added: \"In our most vulnerable moments, encouragement is essential.\n\n\"So, I ask that we all do our part to provide space for these incredible servicemen and women to be honest, courageous and true to themselves.\"\n\nWith red carpets and walkabouts, when is a royal visit not a royal visit?\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's visit to Germany looked much like a royal trip from before they moved to the US.\n\nAlong with the UK engagements this week, it raises the bigger question of what kind of public role the couple will lead in future. Will they become a kind of parallel court, mixing celebrity with royalty?\n\nBecause there are big differences. While the Royal Family are very skilled at saying nothing, the Sussexes' media ventures will keep pushing them to say everything, about themselves, their opinions and their royal connections.\n\nLike Meghan's magazine interview last week and her Spotify podcasts, that will mean controversy alongside the publicity.\n\nBut the public interest in Meghan and Harry remains intense. Everyone has a view. Expect even more attention this week before they return to California.\n\nThis year's games were held in the Netherlands in April, where a film crew for a Netflix documentary called Heart Of Invictus - a series from Harry and Meghan's Archewell Productions following people competing at the event - was seen close to the couple.\n\nThe duke founded the Invictus Games to aid the rehabilitation of injured and sick military personnel and veterans across the world.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are due to return to the UK later for the WellChild Awards in London, where the duke is also due to speak.\n\nThose awards, taking place on Thursday, will celebrate seriously-ill children and young people, and those who have made a significant difference to their lives.\n\nMembers of the public clapped and raised their phones to take pictures of the couple\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex spoke to military personnel and dignitaries during their arrival in Dusseldorf\n\nOn Monday, the duchess told a young audience at the One Young World summit of her own struggle for self-belief.\n\nTheir latest visit to Europe comes amid the fallout from an interview with the duchess given to US magazine The Cut which saw Meghan say the couple \"upset the dynamic of the hierarchy\" of the Royal Family \"just by existing\".\n\nShe also spoke about Prince Harry's relationship with his father and gave details of their lives in California - where they moved after stepping back as working royals in 2020.\n\nOn Tuesday the latest instalment of the duchess's podcast, Archetypes, was released on Spotify.\n\nIn it she discusses marriage and the challenges of being a single, unmarried woman with actor Mindy Kaling.\n\nIntroducing the episode Meghan talks about how she planned her wedding as a 14-year-old for a school project.\n\n\"The message even at my feminist all-girls school was as traditional as it gets. First comes love. Then comes marriage.\"\n\nShe adds: \"The associations our society makes around unmarried women feels so outdated and I wanted to give them a refresh.\"", "Gareth Thomas is being sued by his former partner\n\nThe former Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas says he has faced a torrent of abuse after allegations he hid his HIV status from his partner.\n\nMr Thomas, who denies the allegations, said reaction to the civil case has affected his daily life.\n\nHe tweeted: \"I've been spat at in the street, called....AIDS spreader, told I should be locked up, that I should die, and much worse.\"\n\nHe is being sued by his ex-partner Ian Baum for £150,000 in damages.\n\nThe series of tweets also said: \"That being said, I also feel extremely fortunate and I want to thank people for the incredible wave of support they have shown me both personally and professionally at this time. It has been empowering.\n\n\"I am proud of who I am. I am far from perfect, but I am also far from the person I'm accused of being.\n\nMr Thomas denies the allegations from his former partner Ian Baum\n\n\"I am comfortable in my position and my defence speaks for itself. I will continue to fight these allegations and proudly continue my advocacy work undeterred with the same passion as always.\"\n\nThe ex-British and Irish Lions captain has admitted he did not tell his ex-partner he had HIV, but said he was never asked, according to High Court legal papers.\n\nThe document confirmed Mr Thomas and Mr Baum started a relationship at the end of 2013, and Mr Thomas said the couple did not have penetrative sex for the first four months because he had an injury.\n\nIt also said the issue of HIV was never discussed.\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 - also known as Alfie - 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\nIt is claimed he called Mr Thomas for an explanation and according to the documents, Mr Thomas was \"very repentant and apologetic\".\n\nGareth Thomas disclosed he was HIV positive in 2019\n\n\"It is denied that the defendant deliberately concealed his positive status, he was never asked by the claimant if he was HIV positive, and he never denied that he was,\" a document submitted by Mr Thomas's legal team said.\n\n\"It is admitted that the claimant did not expressly consent to the risk of HIV transmission from the defendant.\"\n\nHe has also been accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour to stop his HIV status from becoming known, which Mr Thomas denies.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Thomas revealed he was HIV positive, saying at the time that he wanted to \"break the stigma\" around the condition.\n\nHe also said at the time threats by various \"evils\" including the media led him to reveal his HIV status.", "US Open: Rafael Nadal stunned by Frances Tiafoe in fourth round Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFrances Tiafoe (right) had lost his previous two meetings with Rafael Nadal Coverage: 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 Rafael Nadal has been beaten in a Grand Slam for the first time in 2022, losing to Frances Tiafoe in the US Open fourth round. American Tiafoe thrilled the home crowd with a 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-3 win over four-time champion Nadal in New York. The defeat ended the Spaniard's bid for a record-extending 23rd major singles title. Nadal led the fourth set 3-1 before Tiafoe hit back, winning five games in a row to secure his quarter-final spot. He will face Russian ninth seed Andrey Rublev for a place in the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows. Tiafoe, seeded 22nd, threw his racquet to the floor and covered his face in disbelief as his victory was confirmed by a netted Nadal backhand. After thanking the crowd he covered his face with his towel, taking in the atmosphere on a raucous Arthur Ashe Stadium. \"Something special happened today,\" the 24-year-old said on court. \"I don't know what to say, I'm so happy. He's one of the greatest of all time and I played unbelievable.\" Nadal has never looked settled in New York this year but that is not to take anything away from Tiafoe, who played a clever match. Nadal's loss and the defeat for 2014 champion Marin Cilic who was beaten in five sets by Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz means there will be a first-time Grand Slam winner in Sunday's final. Alcaraz, 19, came through 6-4 3-6 6-4 4-6 6-3 in three hours and 53 minutes with the clock striking 02:24 in New York, a couple of minutes short of the latest-ever finish at Flushing Meadows. He will take on Italian 11th seed Jannik Sinner who also needed five sets to get past unseeded Belarusian Ilya Ivashka 6-1 5-7 6-2 4-6 6-3.\n• None Nadal not sure when he will play again after loss\n• None Norrie's run at US Open ends in last 16 Rafael Nadal was competing at his first US Open since 2019 Nadal went into this match with a 22-0 record in Grand Slams this year, having won the Australian Open and French Open titles before withdrawing from Wimbledon after his quarter-final victory with an abdominal injury. That injury restricted his build-up to the US Open with Nadal arriving at Flushing Meadows having played only once since, a defeat by Borna Coric in Cincinnati. He has struggled for fluency in New York, particularly in his second-round match against Fabio Fognini, and showed similar nerves on serve against Tiafoe. Having changed his ball toss to protect the injury that ended his Wimbledon campaign, Nadal looked shorn of speed and confidence on his serve, and was broken by Tiafoe at 3-3 in the opener. After losing the first set, Nadal disappeared off court with the physiotherapist for eight minutes and appeared to have strapping added to his wrists. Although his serve never clicked - he finished with nine double faults to nine aces - he was able to take advantage of one poor Tiafoe service game at 5-4 in the second, being gifted the set by a Tiafoe double fault. The third set mirrored the first, Tiafoe breaking for a 4-3 lead with a fine backhand winner, and the American delighted his home crowd as he closed it out with an ace. Nadal appeared reinvigorated in the fourth set and was helped by Tiafoe becoming distracted as the roof closed during his service game at 2-1 down. Nadal broke serve but Tiafoe, helped by two Nadal double faults, responded instantly, and produced some excellent counter-punching to break twice more on his way to clinching victory. Despite the defeat, Nadal could still move to the top of the men's rankings after the tournament following defending champion Daniil Medvedev's loss to Kyrgios on Sunday. Spain's Alcaraz and Norway's Casper Ruud would need to reach the final at least to have a chance to become the world number one. Frances Tiafoe had previously never gone beyond the fourth round in New York Tiafoe has endured some difficult losses in recent weeks, squandering strong positions against Taylor Fritz and Nick Kyrgios, but he showed no signs of nerves against Nadal. He has spoken before about the difficulties he and his family overcame together and his more unusual route into tennis. His father worked on a construction crew developing the Junior Tennis Champions Centre (JTCC) in Washington. With his mum working night shifts as a nurse, Tiafoe and his brother were often at the JTCC for long periods of time and subsequently developed their tennis skills on the courts there. He previously reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in 2019 but the win over Nadal is the biggest in his career to date. \"Honestly when I first came on the scene I wasn't ready for it mentally and mature enough,\" he said on court. \"I've been able to develop and I have a great team around me. \"I'm happy I won in front of my mum, my dad, my girlfriend and my team and to have them see what I did.\"\n• None How to fool the opposition effectively in sport: Sideways delves into the world of deception\n• None The raw and honest story of Paul Gascoigne and his turbulent life", "Liz Truss on a visit to Brussels in March\n\nIt's polite, of course, to congratulate the new leader of a neighbour and ally.\n\nBut the tone of EU leaders' messages to Liz Truss - seen here in Brussels as a hardliner on Brexit, and a hawk when it comes to Russia - reveals a lot more than a superficial \"well done\".\n\nUrsula von der Leyen, the European Commission chief, tweeted that the UK and EU were partners, facing current challenges together - but that she hoped as prime minister, Liz Truss would be \"constructive\", respecting agreements previously reached between the two sides.\n\nMEP Nathalie Loiseau, France's former Europe minister, was more direct, tweeting: \"I hope she will refrain from making things more difficult between the EU and the UK.\"\n\nPoliticians in Eastern Europe, meanwhile, who openly applaud the UK for its tough stance towards the Kremlin, were unreservedly warm.\n\nEstonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas tweeted a photo of her alongside Liz Truss during her time as British foreign secretary, saying: \"I'm confident our partnership will only grow.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut does Liz Truss actually need to worry about what EU leaders think of her?\n\nThe answer is very much yes. EU relations are a pressing issue for the incoming prime minister. The reason: despite the political separation of Brexit, pressing events in the rest of Europe can have, and are having, a considerable real-time impact back in the UK.\n\nWhen countries with a big economy like Germany, in its current hurried attempt to find alternatives to Russian energy, bids aggressively for Norwegian gas - a source the UK already relies on - that affects prices, and potentially even UK access to supplies.\n\nThe EU as a whole is now trying to find a common means of stabilising energy prices across the bloc. Analysts predict that will have quite an impact on the energy market - at least if EU countries, with their contrasting priorities, ever manage to reach an agreement.\n\nAs foreign secretary, Liz Truss promised to be \"robust\" with the French authorities to stop the rising number of refugees and other migrants trying to reach the UK across the English Channel. But being too assertive, or combative vis-à-vis Paris, is unlikely to guarantee that French co-operation needed from Calais.\n\nRelations weren't helped this summer when Liz Truss retorted that the \"jury was out\" on French President Emmanuel Macron, after she was asked if he was a friend or a foe to the UK.\n\nFrance's Europe Minister Laurence Boone recently commented that the next UK prime minister would need to be judged by their actions in office, rather than their words on the campaign trail.\n\nBut - off the record - European politicians view Ms Truss's words as a political gaffe, \"ill-befitting the future leader of one of the world's most powerful nations\", as a senior EU figure said to me. \"Here in Europe, the jury is out on Liz Truss,\" he added.\n\nConflict over the post-Brexit agreement with the EU on Northern Ireland is another likely flashpoint for the UK's incoming prime minister, with potentially huge and immediate consequences. The issue is complex, but the impact can be summed up in three simple words.\n\nEssentially, 10 days from now, we could see the introduction of costly trade barriers, imposed by the EU on the UK.\n\nSomething Liz Truss's rival Rishi Sunak warned loudly against, because of the huge pressure the UK economy is already under.\n\nOn 15 September, all eyes in Brussels will be firmly fixed on Liz Truss.\n\nThat's the day by which the UK is legally obliged to respond to infringement proceedings launched by the EU - alleging that the UK has failed to honour its commitments under the Brexit treaty on Northern Ireland signed by Boris Johnson and the EU - known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIf Liz Truss turns up the heat much further, the EU says it will respond first with targeted sanctions against the UK, eventually looking at suspending the entire post-Brexit trade deal, if no negotiated agreement can be found.\n\nSo, how might the UK's brand-new prime minister respond?\n\nShe could attempt to dial down the temperature with Brussels. But many EU figures I've spoken to are cynical.\n\nTake this blunt comment from a high-level diplomat from one of the EU's most influential countries: \"Ms Truss has shown she's keen to play to the political gallery at home. She cleverly utilised opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol and to the EU itself in the Eurosceptic right of her [Conservative] party, to garner support to become leader.\n\n\"Of course, as you say in English, the proof will be in the pudding once she settles into 10 Downing Street. But we Europeans are pragmatists, not political fantasists. Brexit was politicised from the start. That's unlikely to stop with Liz Truss.\"\n\nThe concern in Brussels is that within days of becoming UK prime minister, Liz Truss could choose to temporarily suspend parts of the protocol by triggering Article 16 of the Treaty.\n\nThat article may be triggered if either side believes the protocol is provoking \"serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that are liable to persist\" in Northern Ireland or diversion of trade.\n\nLiz Truss and the Johnson government she served have long said there were fundamental problems with the protocol, adversely affecting politics and society in Northern Ireland. They often threatened to trigger Article 16, and this summer they provoked outrage in Brussels and very much in Dublin when they introduced a bill in the UK parliament to override most of the core parts of the protocol unilaterally.\n\nThat bill is now going to the House of Lords - where it's expected to have a bumpy reception.\n\nMany in the EU suspect Ms Truss could be tempted to use Article 16 as a stop gap until the bill becomes law in the UK.\n\nGiven it is an international treaty agreed by both sides, Brussels says unilateral action to change the protocol is unacceptable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss says the UK government's proposed Northern Ireland Protocol changes are \"within international law\".\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Maroš Šefčovič, said on Friday that the EU would never walk away from the negotiating table. But he accused the UK of \"not engaging in any meaningful way\" with Brussels since February and of dismissing proposals and compromises the EU had offered to address issues with the protocol in Northern Ireland.\n\nIreland's prime minister, Taoiseach Mícheál Martin, says he'd welcome a meeting with Liz Truss early in her premiership: \"I think relationships are very important and I've always in my political life worked to build relationships with people. And the Irish-British relationship is particularly important.\"\n\nLiz Truss's team insists she prefers a negotiated outcome with the EU. The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill has been described by UK government figures as \"an insurance policy\".\n\nEU leaders say they view it as a loaded gun on the negotiating table.\n\nThe mood in Brussels and across European capitals is not optimistic.\n\n\"Germany is far more impatient with the UK under [Chancellor Olaf] Scholz than with [Angela] Merkel,\" a senior EU diplomat said to me.\n\nBerlin is also concerned about Liz Truss and her position on the crisis in Ukraine.\n\nTo date, European countries and the UK have worked well together over targeted sanctions against Moscow and sending weapons to help the Ukrainian military.\n\nBut splits have surfaced inside the EU as to how far military support should go and to what extent the aim should be to \"humiliate\" Russia into an unconditional surrender.\n\nLiz Truss has been more outspoken publicly than even the Ukrainians, suggesting back in April that Russia should be driven back to its pre-2014 borders.\n\nAs I mentioned at the start of this blog, EU members Poland and the Baltic States - geographically so close to Russia and feeling threatened by Russian President Vladimir Putin - agree wholeheartedly with Liz Truss's \"teach-Russia-a-lesson sentiment\", as one diplomat put it to me.\n\nBut big EU powers France, Germany and Italy say they are concerned that a cornered Vladimir Putin could lash out, possibly resorting to nuclear or biological weapons.\n\n\"I hope Liz Truss will be mindful and measured,\" a seasoned European figure told me.\n\n\"She hopefully won't fan the flames of European allies with extremist positions.\"", "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.", "The draft rules would have required foreigners to report romantic relationships with Palestinians within 30 days\n\nIsrael has dropped a controversial demand for foreigners visiting the occupied West Bank to report romantic links with Palestinians within 30 days.\n\nRevised rules also on foreigners living in, or wanting to, visit the territory remove a quota for university lecturers and students from abroad.\n\nThe Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, described them as \"racist measures\".\n\nIsrael says restrictions on travel into the West Bank are for security reasons.\n\nThe US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides said he had \"aggressively engaged\" with the Israeli government and continued \"to have concerns with the published protocols\".\n\nEuropean diplomats previously said they had brought up concerns \"at the highest level\" with the Israeli authorities.\n\nMr Shtayyeh has called on the US and EU to apply diplomatic pressure to make further changes.\n\nThe procedures affect thousands of foreign spouses, as well as Palestinians living in the diaspora, businesspeople, academics and volunteers.\n\nA senior source at the Co-ordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), the unit of the Israeli ministry of defence responsible for Palestinian civil affairs, told me they were intended \"for the convenience of foreigners\" and would allow requests for more long-term visas.\n\nIsrael captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War and continues to occupy it.\n\nIn February, Cogat published a lengthy document titled \"Procedure for entry and residence of foreigners in the Judea and Samaria area\" - using the biblical term that Israel uses to refer to the West Bank. It was meant to replace a four-page one.\n\nIsrael says the restrictions are necessary for its security\n\nHowever, petitions to the High Court delayed the rules from taking effect.\n\nThe updated document has removed a requirement for a foreigner starting a relationship with a Palestinian from the West Bank to tell Israeli authorities in writing within 30 days.\n\nThe revised draft adds new categories of work permits for teachers and doctors and removes a limit of 100 visiting lecturers and 150 students at Palestinian universities.\n\nIt also allows for the extension of foreigners' visas from 90 days to 180 days.\n\nIn addition, it now gives a route for nationals of Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, South Sudan and Morocco - all countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel - to apply for an entry permit, which it did not before.\n\nDespite the changes, Ambassador Nides raised questions \"regarding Cogat's role in determining whether individuals invited by Palestinian academic institutions are qualified to enter the West Bank, and the potential negative impact on family unity\".\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 Ambassador Tom Nides 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 new arrangements - which affect many Americans with dual nationality - have complicated recent discussions on Israel joining the US visa-waiver programme.\n\nThe new rules do not apply to those visiting Israel as well as Palestinian-controlled parts of the West Bank, nor Jewish settlements. In such cases, entry involves the Israeli immigration authorities.\n\nAs the basis for its authority, Cogat cites the Oslo Accords, interim peace agreements reached in the 1990s, which required Israeli approval to grant residency to foreign spouses and children of Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza, and approve visitor permits.\n\nHowever, Israeli lawyer Leora Bechor, who petitioned the High Court over the rules on behalf of the non-governmental organisation HaMoked, argues that it is \"in direct violation\" of these agreements in the way it deals with the Palestinian population registry.\n\n\"Instead of the Palestinian Authority determining which foreigners will receive Palestinian IDs, as required by the Oslo Accords, Israel appropriates that right under the new policy, designing a host of requirements so onerous that no foreign spouse can meet them,\" she says.\n\nShe says that many demands for change in the new document \"were completely ignored\" and that \"tight restrictions\" continue to affect all aspects of Palestinian civil society.\n\nThey new rules were published late on Sunday and are due to take effect on 20 October for a pilot period of two years.\n\nIsraeli officials say that further amendments are possible and that there are ongoing discussions with the Palestinian Authority, foreign diplomats and others.", "Nicola Sturgeon has announced a rent freeze for public and private rented properties as part of efforts to help people struggling with rising bills.\n\nThe first minister's government is to table emergency legislation banning evictions during winter and freezing rents until spring.\n\nThere are also plans to freeze rail fares and to boost the Scottish Child Payment to £25 per week from November.\n\nMs Sturgeon has also written to new Prime Minister Liz Truss, asking her to convene a four-nation meeting of political leaders to focus on helping households.\n\nOther measures in the programme for government included abolishing the controversial \"not proven\" verdict.\n\nScottish Tory leader Douglas Ross accused the first minister of playing to her supporters.\n\n\"The SNP and the Greens are failing to put their party politics aside in the face of these massive challenges that we're facing,\" he said.\n\n\"They're failing to pause their priorities to focus on the national interest.\n\n\"And they're failing to rise to the challenge of this crisis and be bold in their action, which the public expect.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar welcomed the Scottish Government's \"change of heart\" on rent freezes.\n\nThat's all from us here on the live page, have a good evening.", "BBC Chairman Richard Sharp has said ex-Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis was \"completely wrong\" to suggest the rebuke she received for on-air remarks about Dominic Cummings made \"no sense\".\n\nLast month in a keynote speech, Maitlis said the BBC's ruling against her was made \"without any kind of due process\".\n\nShe added it may have been \"a message of reassurance\" to the government, which the corporation has denied.\n\nSharp said she was \"a great journalist\" but had put opinions ahead of facts.\n\nIn 2020, the BBC said Maitlis broke its impartiality guidelines when she opened an episode of Newsnight by saying that Dominic Cummings, then former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser, had \"broken the rules\" with a lockdown trip to Durham and \"the country can see that, and it's shocked the Government cannot\".\n\nWhile giving her keynote MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival last month, Maitlis suggested that growing political pressure has led the media to censor itself.\n\nSpeaking at a House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee session on Tuesday looking into the modern media landscape, Mr Sharp, who became BBC Chairman in February 2021, said: \"While I thought the issues she raised were worthwhile and very good, she was completely wrong in saying the due process [regarding the Cummings comments] wasn't followed.\n\n\"I think probably to my mind that reflected also the fact that I disagree with her view of impartiality, which may mean that she can lead with her own opinions and follow-up with the facts.\"\n\nHe added: \"The issues around why it was found, both by us and then [broadcasting watchdog] Ofcom subsequently, that we had appropriately addressed the issue was because she led with her opinions.\n\n\"And as a great journalist it wasn't that her instincts were wrong, the issue is how the BBC does what it does, which is we have to provide the facts in an impartial way to the audience and allow them to draw their own opinions.\"\n\nThe corporation's director general Tim Davie, who was also appearing in front of the committee, added that while he thought Maitlis was an \"outstanding journalist\", he also disagreed with her criticism of the BBC's handling of the Cummings introduction. He was not the BBC's boss at the time of the ruling.\n\nIn her speech last month, Maitlis also suggested a BBC board member, believed to be Sir Robbie Gibb, was an \"active agent of the Conservative Party\".\n\nMr Sharp said on Tuesday he was \"disappointed\" with Maitlis's remarks about Sir Robbie, again saying she was \"completely wrong\".\n\nHe said Sir Robbie, who had 'liked' an apparently anti-SNP post on Twitter, was entitled to his view, though he'd \"prefer that non-execs refrain from tweeting around controversial or partisan issues\". They should, he said, \"seek to avoid getting involved in matters of controversy\", adding they are not required to, however.\n\nHe said he had been informed that Sir Robbie did not in fact 'like' the tweet in question, rather he had accidentally pressed the like button while scrolling through his Twitter feed.\n\nThe subject of Joe Lycett's widely-shared appearance on Laura Kuenssberg's new BBC Sunday morning show also came up.\n\nJoe Lycett is an English comedian and presenter\n\nThe stand-up comedian and presenter pretended to endorse the new prime minister Liz Truss, joking that he was \"incredibly right-wing\".\n\nWhile some praised the satire on social media, others were not so impressed and a frontpage headline in the Daily Mail the next day accused the BBC of anti-Conservative bias.\n\n\"Laura is exceptional,\" said Mr Davie, addressing the matter. \"We can debate the merits of that particular booking, [but] I don't think it displays BBC bias in the slightest.\n\n\"The audience saw it for what it was, by the way\".\n\nHe continued: \"I think by yesterday, with the front page and the headline we had 28 complaints, and they're up to 66 complaints. The audience saw it for what it was, it was bemusing.\"\n\nThe director general went on to say that Kuenssberg, the BBC's former political editor, had \"conducted herself... in an exemplary fashion in a slightly difficult situation\".\n\nThe BBC bosses were answering questions on the same morning Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced she was to leave her role, after just less than a year, in order to focus on her writing career.\n\nEarlier this year, Ms Dorries announced a two-year freeze of the licence fee and said attention would in due course turn to the BBC's funding model in the longer term.\n\nShe had previously tweeted that the next licence fund settlement would be the last.\n\nThe licence fee's existence is guaranteed until at least 31 December 2027 by the BBC's royal charter, which sets out the broadcaster's funding and purpose, and lengthy negotiations have already taken place between BBC bosses and the government over a future funding settlement.\n\nMr Davie said on Tuesday the BBC is under \"a lot of pressure\" regarding the licence fee and is looking at what the right funding method might be going forward, but stressed he does believe in a public-funding model.\n\nOn arrival into his role last year, Mr Sharp described the licence fee as the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC.\n\nA committee member also discussed BBC sports pundit Gary Lineker and his comments on social media.\n\nMr Davie said he has had discussions with Lineker over the years about him following BBC impartiality guidelines and feels he has made a \"massive improvement to where he was a few years ago\".\n\n\"I'm very supportive of Gary, I think he's a brilliant presenter, and I think it is work in progress in terms of where he draws the line, but we've had a good conversation, I think he understands the guidelines,\" he added.", "Edward Vines wrote to Emily Maitlis and her mother from prison\n\nA man who has an \"obsession\" with broadcaster Emily Maitlis has been given an eight-year prison sentence for repeatedly writing to her.\n\nEdward Vines was found guilty of attempting to breach a restraining order by writing to Ms Maitlis and her mother from prison.\n\nThe restraining order was originally made 20 years ago, and the court heard Vines had persistently breached it.\n\nJudge Mark Watson said Vines had \"made it plain\" he would not stop trying to speak to the journalist.\n\n\"You are 52 years of age and you are a highly intelligent and articulate man,\" the judge told Vines.\n\n\"You are tortured, in my judgement, by your preoccupation with Emily Maitlis. It is an obsession from which you are unable to escape.\"\n\nThe judge said Edward Vines was \"unable to escape\" his obsession\n\nThe letters were not read to the court but the judge said they did not contain \"threats or abuse\".\n\n\"They were an outpouring of emotions on your behalf,\" the judge said to Vines.\n\nHe was convicted by a jury of eight counts of attempting to breach a restraining order.\n\nThe court heard the letters did not actually reach Ms Maitlis and her mother because they were intercepted by staff at Nottingham Prison.\n\n\"The restraining order is meaningless to you,\" said the judge.\n\n\"The only thing stopping you from contacting Ms Maitlis is the protection given to her by your continued imprisonment.\"\n\nVines has allegedly offended again since his trial\n\nProsecution barrister Ian Way said Vines had breached or attempted to breach the restraining order 20 times since it was originally made in 2002.\n\nVines has previously been given prison sentences of four months, 18 months, 45 months, and three years, but his latest sentence is the longest.\n\nThe judge told Vines that he will serve half of the eight-year sentence in prison before being released on licence.\n\nBefore sentencing him, the judge asked Vines if he wanted to say anything in mitigation.\n\nVines said that he does not \"cause any nuisance to anybody\" in prison.\n\n\"I'm the most innocent and unobtrusive prisoner in prison that there can be, and I'm told that,\" he said.\n\nHe also said that he \"can't feel guilty\" because there had been no victim personal statements from Ms Maitlis and her mother.\n\n\"I'm oblivious to what's going through their minds,\" he said.\n\nThe court heard that Vines has allegedly offended again since being convicted at his most recent trial in July, by writing to Ms Maitlis's mother.\n\nHe is due to appear at Mansfield Magistrates' Court on 15 September in relation to this.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFootage showing that some residents in the earthquake-hit Chinese city of Chengdu were stopped from fleeing their compounds due to a Covid lockdown has sparked anger and disbelief online.\n\nSome in Chengdu say they were told to stay inside through a 6.6-magnitude earthquake on Monday that has killed at least 65 people.\n\nThose that ran out say they found the exits shut due to Covid restrictions.\n\nChengdu, home to 21 million people, is currently under strict lockdown rules.\n\nChina has a so-called zero Covid-19 policy, meaning that lockdowns are routinely imposed in communities when cases of the virus are detected.\n\nIn some instances, apartment buildings where at least one person has tested positive for Covid have been designated \"sealed areas\" - where residents are forbidden from setting foot outside their homes whether or not they have the virus.\n\nVideos shared on Douyin, China's TikTok platform, show panicked residents behind chained gates, shouting to be let out.\n\nIn one, a man swears at security guard, rattling what appears to be his apartment gates and trying to open it, shouting: \"Hurry up, open the door, it's an earthquake!\" In response, the guards say: \"It's over, the earthquake's already over.\"\n\nThis video showed residents behind gates asking to be let out\n\nAnother video claims to be an audio recording of a loudspeaker message that said: \"Go back home and do not gather here, it's just an earthquake. We [here in Sichuan] have a lot of experience [when it comes to earthquakes].\"\n\nOne man told the BBC he had run out of his 30-floor building after feeling the earthquake's tremors. When he realised he was trapped, he raised complaints among the crowd gathered at the gates.\n\n\"Which one is more important? The lockdown or the earthquake?\" Lu Siwei, a lawyer in Chengdu, had shouted.\n\nHe says his neighbour replied: \"Do not incite emotions and do not talk politics.\" After several heated rounds, Mr Lu says the man then physically assaulted him.\n\nThere have been no reports linking any fatalities from the quake to the restrictions on compounds, but such reports have sparked overwhelming criticism from those on microblogging site Weibo.\n\n\"It's a joke that we have to discuss such a question,\" said one commentator under a post from a local news site which quoted a lawyer saying citizens were \"constitutionally\" free to flee to safety. The post had received over 3.7 million views by Tuesday.\n\n\"I guess it's fine if I die inside the building, at least I didn't get infected,\" said another comment sarcastically.\n\nThe Chengdu Health Commission later posted on its official WeChat account that \"priority should be given to safeguarding the lives of the public in the event of earthquakes, fires, floods and other disasters\".\n\nChengdu, the capital of Sichuan, has been beset by a heatwave and drought this summer and last week was plunged into a lockdown after an increase in Covid cases.\n\nChina's Covid policies require cities to enter strict lockdowns - even if just a handful of cases are reported.\n\nHowever, Beijing's drive to ensure \"zero Covid\" has prompted rare public dissent from citizens.\n\nChina is the world's last major economy attempting to entirely stamp out Covid outbreaks, claiming this is necessary to prevent wider surges of the virus which could overwhelm hospitals.\n\nThe country has officially recorded fewer than 15,000 deaths since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "A British former trader has had a conviction in the US for \"rigging\" interest rates overturned in spite of pleading guilty.\n\nMike Curtler, formerly of Deutsche Bank, was among 38 former traders and brokers prosecuted after the US Department of Justice declared their conduct illegal 10 years ago.\n\nBut earlier this year a US appeal court decided no rules had been broken.\n\nMr Curtler's lawyer said they were \"extremely pleased\" with the decision.\n\nIn the past eight years, 38 former brokers and traders have been prosecuted over emails and messages asking colleagues to tweak their estimates of the cost of borrowing cash to suit their bank's commercial interests - a practice which the US Department of Justice declared to be illegal interest rate \"rigging\" in 2012, when it fined Barclays Bank for it.\n\nThe estimates of the interest rates banks were paying were submitted each morning as part of the process of arriving at Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate), the index that tracks the cost of borrowing cash.\n\nJust as the FTSE tracks the prices of shares, Libor tracks the interest rates banks are paying to borrow cash on the wholesale money markets.\n\nFor the past 35 years, it has been used to set interest rates on millions of residential and commercial loans around the world.\n\nTo work out Libor each day, 16 banks answer a question - at what interest rate could they borrow money? They submit their answers and an average is taken.\n\nThe evidence against Mike Curtler and other traders consisted of messages and emails asking for those interest rates to be submitted \"high\" or \"low\".\n\nMike Curtler admitted he had acted on the emailed requests and, faced with the risk of up to 15 years in a US jail if he went to trial, pleaded guilty.\n\nBut in January this year a US appeal court ruled that the requests were not illegal after all, acquitting former Deutsche Bank traders Gavin Black from Middlesex and Matt Connolly from New Jersey.\n\nNow US courts are acquitting even those who pleaded guilty, such as Mike Curtler, saying they must be viewed as innocent.\n\n\"I'm very glad the US courts have decided that what we did was not criminal. The past decade has been horrible but hopefully we can now start to rebuild,\" Mr Curtler told the BBC.\n\nMr Curtler's lawyer, David Krakoff, said: \"We are extremely pleased that Mike Curtler has been cleared and that the courts have decided that there was no wrongdoing whatsoever.\"\n\nA month ago New York court threw out the conviction of former trader Tim Parietti, 56, who had also pleaded guilty, ordering the government to repay a £1m fine.\n\nIt leaves the UK as the only country in the world where convictions for \"rigging\" interest rates have, so far, been sustained.\n\nNine have been convicted in the UK, including Tom Hayes, Peter Johnson, Jonathan Mathew, Alex Pabon, Jay Merchant, Christian Bittar, Philippe Moryoussef, Carlo Palombo and Colin Bermingham.", "Jason Grant was hired to help implement the legal right to free period products in Tayside\n\nA group in Tayside has scrapped the role of period dignity officer after facing a backlash for appointing a man.\n\nJason Grant's hiring sparked a heated online debate, with critics saying the job should have gone to a woman.\n\nThe area's period dignity working group says the role will be discontinued following \"threats and abuse\" to those involved.\n\nMr Grant was appointed to work with the group to ensure the legal right to free period products in public places.\n\nThe role was described as the first of its kind in Scotland.\n\nBut tennis legend Martina Navratilova described the decision to appoint a man as \"absurd\", while actress Frances Barber said she was \"fuming\".\n\nA spokesperson for the working group said: \"It is regrettable that given the threats and abuse levelled at individuals in recent weeks, the period dignity regional lead officer role will not continue.\n\n\"Support will continue to be provided to the colleagues and students who have been subjected to personal attack. Their safety and wellbeing is of paramount importance.\"\n\nThe group is now considering \"alternative ways\" of providing the \"vital\" services.\n\nMr Grant had been expected to lead a regional campaign across schools, colleges and wider communities to raise awareness of the new law and ensure that Scottish government funding is allocated appropriately.\n\nHis duties would also have included discussing issues around menopause.\n\nThe period dignity working group has representatives of Dundee and Angus College, Perth College, Angus Council and Dundee City Council.\n\nAt the time of the appointment, it said Mr Grant was the strongest candidate for the job.\n\nThe role was funded by the Scottish government, which said it was not involved in making appointments to such posts.\n\nMr Grant said at the time that being a man would help him \"break down barriers\".\n\n\"Although affecting women directly, periods are an issue for everyone,\" he added.\n\nHe has not responded to any of the criticism which followed his appointment.", "A date for a person's funeral cannot be confirmed until after their death has been registered\n\nFunerals in Northern Ireland are at risk of delay unless laws to ease the death management process are extended, Stormont has been warned.\n\nThe legislation was introduced during the Covid pandemic to allow electronic certification instead of paper-based.\n\nBut without a functioning government it will expire on 24 September.\n\nBBC News NI has seen a letter from the National Association of Funeral Directors to Stormont's finance department.\n\nIn it, the association's chief executive officer, Jon Levett, said allowing the deadline to lapse would have a \"significantly negative effect\" on how deaths are certified and processed in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt would mean a return to an in-person and paper-based system from 25 September.\n\nMr Levett warned that would lead to \"more pressure on our medical colleagues to complete the various forms\".\n\nAnd he added that it \"will create increased pressure on funeral directors to ensure all relevant paperwork\" is processed on time.\n\nThe letter continued: \"With each of these individual processes, any issues that may arise will not be easily corrected.\n\nConor Murphy says officials are exploring how to introduce new legislation \"as promptly as possible\"\n\n\"We are convinced this would have a significantly negative effect on the death management process, which would inevitably lead to delays in allowing families to bury their loved one.\"\n\nWhen someone dies, a date for the funeral cannot be confirmed until after the death has been registered.\n\nThe association said it recognised that without a functioning government at Stormont it may be difficult to extend the legislation.\n\nBut Mr Levett added that it was \"vitally important\" to do so in order to avoid \"the kind of delays being experienced in England and Wales\", where the emergency Covid legislation was not retained after March 2022.\n\nIn response, Northern Ireland Finance Minister Conor Murphy said it had been his intention to extend the laws for another six months, with the agreement of other ministers.\n\nBut he added: \"It does not look like this will be possible as there is currently no functioning assembly and the provisions will therefore fall.\"\n\nHe said he understood how beneficial changes to the system had proved over the past two years and that officials were exploring how to introduce new legislation \"as promptly as possible\".", "Top row, left to right: Christian Head, Thomas Burns, Lana Head. Bottom row, left to right: Gregory Burns, Robert Sanderson, Wesley Petterson\n\nA 62-year-old former first responder who was killed as she tried to help others and a kind-hearted 77-year-old widower are among the victims of a violent rampage in Canada that left 10 people dead and a nation in shock.\n\nPolice have released the full list of those killed in the stabbings in the province of Saskatchewan on 4 September.\n\nNine of the 10 victims are from James Smith Cree Nation, an indigenous community with nearly 3,500 members.\n\nOne victim, Wesley Petterson, is from Weldon, a quiet farming town nearby of about 200 people.\n\nLocals described Mr Petterson, the oldest of the victims at 78 years old, as a \"lovely\" man who was devoted to his community. Neighbour Ruby Works said she had been left devastated by his death.\n\n\"I couldn't even catch my breath,\" she told the Canadian broadcaster CBC, saying she was still in shock.\n\n\"If someone needed a hand, he helped. He was a kind-hearted man,\" Ms Works added about the man she had known since childhood and had looked on as an uncle.\n\n\"He didn't deserve this,\" she said. \"Both communities are destroyed. All lives are shattered.\"\n\nWeldon resident Robert Rush described Mr Petterson as a gentle man who \"wouldn't hurt a fly\".\n\nMr Rush added that Mr Petterson's adult grandson had been in the basement at the time of the attack. \"He stayed down there until they were gone,\" Mr Rush said.\n\nAnother of those killed was named as 61-year-old Gloria Burns.\n\nA former first responder, she had worked at the James Smith Cree Nation health clinic and her brother, Darryl Burns, said she \"had devoted her life to helping people\".\n\nFrom left to right: Gloria Burns, Carol Burns, Bonnie Burns and Earl Burns Sr\n\nMs Burns was killed in the attack after responding to initial calls for aid and while trying to help others in her home, her brother said.\n\n\"For her to go into a situation like this where [she was] helping people, even though it cost her life ... that's who she was,\" Mr Burns told CBC.\n\n\"She died helping people. And we have to pick up that torch and carry it.\"\n\nGregory Burns, 28, and his mother, Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns, 48, were also killed.\n\nIn a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Bonnie's brother, Mark Arcand, who is also chief of the Saskatoon Tribal Council, described his sister as a matriarch who loved taking care of her four children.\n\n\"Mama bear took care of her cubs,\" Mr Arcand said.\n\nHe said Bonnie died outside of her home after she ran out to help her son Gregory, who was stabbed first. Another one of her sons, 13-year-old Drayson, was also stabbed but survived.\n\n\"How could somebody do this to women and children?\" he said. \"Words can't express the pain that we are feeling.\"\n\nGregory's father and Bonnie's husband, Brian, wrote on Facebook: \"It's hard when my boys cry at night for their mom.\"\n\nThomas Burns, 23, and Carol Burns, 46, were also among the victims identified.\n\nPolice said they would not identify or confirm the relationships of those killed.\n\nAnother victim, mother-of-two Lana Head, has been identified by her former partner, Michael Brett Burns.\n\nHe told local media that she had worked as a security guard at Northern Lights Casino and had also been a commissionaire officer.\n\nThe 49-year-old lived in James Smith Cree Nation and leaves behind two daughters, Sable, 31, and Sage, 30. Just hours before the attack she had posted on social media that she had \"so many good memories to cherish\".\n\nFriends and family paid tribute to Ms Head. In a post to her Facebook page, one friend recalled her \"sweet demeanour and caring ways\".\n\nIn a tribute to Ms Burns, Michael Brett Burns wrote that she will be \"missed dearly\".\n\n\"I just hurt and tonight I cry alone,\" he added.\n\nChristian Head, 54, was also among the victims listed by police.\n\nA veteran, Earl Burns Sr, was also killed in the attack. He had been a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.\n\nVeteran Voices of Canada paid tribute to Mr Burns Sr, 66, in a social media post, writing that he \"gave his life to save his wife and grandchildren during the terrible attack\".\n\nPolice also identified Robert Sanderson, 49, as one of the victims.\n\nChakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson - one of the region's elected leaders - told the Regina Leader Post that everyone in the community had been affected.\n\n\"They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we're all related here, so it's pretty hard,\" Mr Sanderson said. \"It's pretty horrific.\"\n\nIndigenous rights groups in Canada have urged the federal government to provide support to the communities.\n\nDarryl Burns echoed that call, telling reporters that the local community was in chaos as it tried to come to terms with the \"massacre\".\n\n\"I know deep down we need healing and forgiveness. That's one of the things my sister taught. And that's one of the things I will carry out in her name,\" he said.", "A controversial four-metre wooden sculpture to mark the first radio broadcast is to be erected in Cardiff.\n\nThe first radio signal of its kind was transmitted by Guglielmo Marconi between nearby Lavernock Point and Flat Holm island in 1897.\n\nBut earlier this year there were calls to scrap the sculpture after councillors learned of Marconi's fascist links.\n\nCardiff Council said there will be no reference to Marconi on the sculpture.\n\nThe artwork will be approximately four metres high and will sit on a concrete plinth half a metre high, near the Cardiff Bay barrage.\n\nThe application was made in April this year for the sculpture, which was granted at the end of August.\n\nOn 13 May 1897, the world's first radio message was sent across open water.\n\nA transmitter was placed on Flat Holm, an island halfway across the Bristol Channel, and began sending a signal through a radio frequency.\n\nMarconi's receiver was examined by post office officials in Lavernock\n\nThe first attempt ended in failure, with the team member at Lavernock Point sat waiting for a non-existent signal.\n\nBut on 13 May, the instruments rang out with a clear spark, with a message of \"CAN YOU HEAR ME,\" which was received loud and clear.\n\nThe team then travelled to Brean Down Fort in Somerset to see if the transmission could travel further.\n\nA message was sent a distance of nearly 10 miles - a record at the time.\n\nThe message that was sent across the Bristol Channel from Brean to Lavernock in Wales\n\nDespite the scientific importance of the transmission, the idea of a commemorative statue is controversial.\n\nIn 2002, documents were found which show Marconi blocked Jewish scientists joining the Academy of Italy.\n\nHe marked shortlisted candidates with the letter \"E\", standing for Ebreo - the Italian word for Jew.\n\nMarconi was appointed to lead the Academy of Italy by the country's fascist leader Benito Mussolini.\n\nMussolini also made him a member of the Grand Council of Fascism, a ruling body of the government.\n\nA Cardiff Council spokesperson said: \"The work carried out by Marconi is just one small part of Flat Holm island's fascinating history, which stretches all the way back to the Bronze Age.\n\n\"The purpose of the proposed sculpture has always been to act as a symbol and encourage them to explore the full range of the island's history.\n\n\"None of that history, good or bad, can be deleted, but we have a responsibility to learn from it, and ensure it is presented in a way that's consistent with Cardiff's values as a tolerant and welcoming city.\n\n\"Therefore, while the intention is to move forward with the initial 'Radio Flat Holm' design, following a full review of the plans, there will be no reference to Marconi on the sculpture.\"\n\nThey added that they \"in no way condone Marconi's links to fascism and antisemitism\".", "We're now ending our live coverage of the arrest and death of the main suspect in the stabbing spree that claimed the lives of 10 people in Canada on Sunday.\n\nMyles Sanderson died after experiencing \"medical distress\" after his arrest on Wednesday, police said, without giving further detail.\n\nThey also declined to comment further on how his brother Damien, who is accused of helping in the murders, died earlier this week.\n\nHis body was found on Monday, and police say they suspect his brother may have killed him.\n\nOur live coverage was provided by Max Matza, Holly Honderich, Jessica Murphy, Nadine Yousif, Robin Levinson-King and Grace Conley, and edited by Rebecca Seales.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss promised to \"deliver\" a Tory victory at the next general election\n\nLiz Truss has promised to deal with surging energy costs and to cut taxes, after she won the Tory leadership contest to become the next PM.\n\nHer plan, set to be announced on Thursday, is likely to include a freeze on energy bills - though precisely how it would work is still unclear.\n\nMs Truss will be formally appointed by the Queen at Balmoral Castle later, after a final speech by Boris Johnson.\n\nThe 47-year-old, the UK's third woman PM, will then appoint her cabinet.\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Truss promised a \"bold\" programme of tax cuts to grow the flagging economy and to prevent the UK tipping into recession.\n\nShe will officially take the reins of power on Tuesday, bringing Mr Johnson's turbulent premiership to an end less than three years after the Conservatives' resounding election victory in 2019.\n\nMs Truss's most pressing decision as premier will be how best to shield households and businesses from the soaring international price of energy.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Truss told party activists at London's Queen Elizabeth II conference centre she would \"deliver on the energy crisis\" by dealing with bills and boosting the UK's domestic energy sources.\n\nUnder her plans, it is understood energy firms would be able to take out government-backed loans, which they would use to freeze or lower customers' bills.\n\nThe loans would be repaid from bills over the next 10-20 years.\n\nScottish Power, which proposed government-backed loans, has estimated that freezing bills for two years could cost nearly £100bn.\n\nSmall business are also expected to be offered some energy bill relief, though the details may not be included in Thursday's announcement.\n\nThere will be very little if any honeymoon period for Liz Truss, as the country clamours for answers to huge questions the caretaker government of Boris Johnson in recent months felt unempowered to take on.\n\nAs you can read from my colleagues, there is inflation, Ukraine, energy security, the NHS with winter approaching, the contrails of Brexit and... a general election that isn't far away.\n\nThe Conservatives have consistently been some way behind Labour in the polls all year. And there has to be an election by January 2025 at the latest.\n\nPolitics is being reset, but it will continue to be competitive, noisy and unpredictable.\n\nMs Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak with 57% of the vote, a narrower win than expected.\n\nThose predicted to join her top team include Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, former leadership rival Suella Braverman as home secretary and James Cleverly as foreign secretary.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said they would step down as senior ministers once Ms Truss becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Ms Truss on her victory and said she had the right plan to \"unite our party\".\n\nMs Truss paid tribute to her \"friend\" Mr Johnson in her victory speech, adding he would be \"admired from Kyiv to Carlisle\" for his record in office.\n\n\"Boris, you got Brexit done, you crushed Jeremy Corbyn, you rolled out the vaccine and you stood up to Vladimir Putin,\" she said.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the outgoing and incoming prime ministers are expected to travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for the handover of power, rather than Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen has been suffering from mobility issues and it is understood the change was made to prevent the need for any last-minute rearrangements.\n\nMs Truss has promised £30bn in tax cuts in an emergency Budget later this month, having blamed the tax burden for the UK's sluggish growth.\n\nHer proposed cuts include reversing the rise in National Insurance under Mr Johnson's tenure, temporarily ditching green levies on energy bills, and scrapping a planned rise to corporation tax.\n\nAs well as the domestic agenda, her in-tray also includes continuing to support Ukraine after its invasion by Russia and repairing a fractious relationship with the EU over Northern Ireland.\n\nFormer chancellor Rishi Sunak, who attacked her economic plans during the campaign, told the BBC he would offer her his \"full support\".\n\nHe said he will stand again to be an MP at the next general election, but is not expected to be in Ms Truss's cabinet.\n\nLabour has called on Ms Truss to expand the windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies to part-fund a six month freeze to domestic prices.\n\nThe party followed the Liberal Democrats earlier this summer in backing a freeze, along with the SNP.\n\nMs Truss, however, has ruled out further windfall taxes, saying during the campaign it \"sends the wrong message to international investors\".\n\nSpeaking earlier, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to work with Ms Truss to deliver a freeze, saying there was cross-party agreement on the idea.\n\nHe criticised her approach on the economy, arguing she had talked more in her campaign about cutting taxes for businesses than the cost of living crisis.\n\n\"That shows that not only is she out of touch, but that she's not on the side of working people,\" he added.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Breakfast Ms Truss's reported plan was not a freeze on energy bills but a loan and said instead energy companies should pay via a one-off tax on profits.\n\n\"What they are saying is families and pensioners should be paying for this for years to come,\" he said.\n\nSNP leader and Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon called for the price freeze to include businesses, which are not normally covered by the UK's energy price cap, and extra cash support.", "The Queen has appointed every prime minister since 1955\n\nThe Queen has appointed every prime minister since Anthony Eden in 1955, but Liz Truss was the first invited to Scotland.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the new PM did not meet the Queen in London at Buckingham Palace.\n\nInstead, the monarch held an audience with the new prime minister at Balmoral.\n\nThe Queen ascended to the throne in 1952, when Winston Churchill was prime minister. Here are images of her with all 15 leaders from her 70-year reign.\n\nThe Queen, with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, meets Sir Winston Churchill in 1953\n\nThe Queen shakes hands with Sir Anthony Eden in 1956\n\nHarold Macmillan, who also served as Oxford University chancellor, welcomes the Queen to the university in 1960\n\nThe Queen speaks to Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Lady Home during a reception at County Hall in 1964\n\nHarold Wilson with the Queen in 1969\n\nThe Queen with Edward Heath, Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon at Chequers in 1970\n\nThe Queen is welcomed to 10 Downing Street by Harold Wilson in 1976\n\nJames Callaghan meets the Queen for lunch at Windsor Castle in 1977\n\nThe Queen with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan at Buckingham Palace in 1984\n\nThe Queen with John Major, third left, and former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and James Callaghan in 1992\n\nThe Queen pictured with Tony Blair at Buckingham Palace as she invited him to form a government in 2002\n\nDavid Cameron at Buckingham Palace in 2010 as the Queen invites him to form a government\n\nTheresa May visited Buckingham Palace as she became prime minister in 2016\n\nBoris Johnson visited Buckingham Palace in 2019 to succeed Theresa May\n\nLiz Truss became the 15th prime minister to be appointed by the Queen as she took over from Boris Johnson", "Various arrests have been made in connection with the shooting death of Olivia Pratt-Korbel\n\nPolice will identify those responsible for the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel with the help of the local community, an assistant chief constable has said.\n\nMerseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Chris Green said already \"the community has stepped forward\".\n\nNine-year-old Olivia was killed as her mother tried to stop a gunman entering their house in Liverpool on 22 August.\n\nA 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHe remains in custody and police were granted a further 36 hours on Monday night to continue questioning him.\n\nThe same extension was also granted regarding two men, aged 29 and 41, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nA fourth man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender on Sunday night is also being questioned.\n\nOlivia's death was one of three fatal shootings within a week in the city.\n\nAppealing for information, Mr Green said: \"The community's been rocked and shocked by what has happened. Our thoughts and prayers go the families of the three people who have been killed over the last two weeks.\n\n\"But the community has stood strong and stepped forward.\n\n\"The response we have seen, whether it's providing information or just being resolute in a collective ambition to make sure that those individuals in our communities who are engaged in organised crime - the intimidation, the violence, the use of firearms - they've got no place in our society.\n\n\"The community has stepped forward and together we'll identify those responsible.\"\n\nA tribute was paid to Olivia on the big screen at Goodison Park on Saturday\n\nHe said dashcam footage, CCTV and other pieces of intelligence had been submitted by members of the public.\n\nMr Green continued to appeal for information but said community support had already allowed officers to \"make investigative decisions and take action\"\n\nPolice previously arrested two men, aged 33 and 36, on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder before releasing them on bail.\n\nThe child was shot in the chest by a gunman who had chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into her home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at about 22:00 BST.\n\nNeither of the men who entered the home had any links to her family.\n\nHer mother Cheryl Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door on the shooter.\n\nDuring the opening of Olivia's inquest on 30 August, Liverpool Senior Coroner Andre Rebello said armed response officers found her with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\nHe said a police officer had \"scooped\" up Olivia and ran with her to try to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nMerseyside Police has appealed for the public to come forward with information\n\nBut she was pronounced dead in hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of her death was a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nA minute's applause was held nine minutes into the Everton v Liverpool game on Saturday.\n\nAn anti-knife and gun crime banner was unfurled in the Bullens Road stand at the Premier League game stretching across both Everton and Liverpool supporters.\n\nOlivia's funeral is due to take place at St Margaret Mary's Church in Dovecot on 15 September and her family has asked mourners to wear a \"splash of pink\" for the service.\n\nA crowdfunding page set up to support Olivia's family has raised more than £40,000.\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 writer Alan Garner, 87, has become the oldest writer to be shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize.\n\nHis book Treacle Walker is up against five novels including Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These, the shortest ever to make the cut, with 116 pages.\n\nHowever, organisers said Treacle Walker is even shorter by word count.\n\nNoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Elizabeth Strout and Shehan Karunatilaka are also nominated.\n\nZimbabwean author Bulawayo makes her second appearance on the shortlist with her book Glory, an allegory seen through the eyes of animals.\n\nGarner's book, about an unlikely friendship between a healer and a young boy, took eight years to write.\n\nNoViolet Bulawayo was previously shortlisted for We Need New Names\n\nOn being the oldest ever to be recognised for the prize, he said that \"age, in itself, is irrelevant. However, as with all skills, an apprenticeship has to be served with practice, and experience\".\n\nThe £50,000 prize winner will be announced on 17 October, Garner's 88th birthday, at a ceremony at London's Roundhouse venue.\n\nAnimal Farm set in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe with the president a horse and his ambitious wife a Gucci-wearing donkey. It sounds unlikely and it is a bit weird when dogs, cats and peacocks are on social media or getting their nails done. But it - mostly - works.\n\nOutstanding. READ THIS BOOK. It will make you laugh, it will make you gasp. What is so impressive is that it takes a shocking story about racism and police violence in the United States and makes it so funny. It is also so fast-paced you cannot put it down.\n\nI suspect you will either love or hate this book. Part fairytale, part fable, it's a peculiar novel in which characters in comics come alive, mirrors sing, skies crack and the prose is punctuated with unfamiliar words such as hurlothrumbo and lomperhomock. But it is an astonishing work of imagination and once you finish it you feel you need to start again to try to make more sense of it.\n\nThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka\n\nThis book is difficult to categorise. With ghosts and spirits in the afterlife, it is part supernatural. But it also gives you a thorough grounding in Sri Lankan politics. And as the narrative gathers pace it becomes a whodunnit. The result is a thrilling read.\n\nSmall Things Like These by Claire Keegan\n\nIt is incredible how Claire Keegan manages to compress a whole world into 116 pages. This is an exquisite book, with not a word wasted. I was spellbound by the story set in an Irish town in 1985. But in many ways I wanted more and almost felt as if the story ended just as it started to unfold.\n\nI am so pleased Elizabeth Strout has made the shortlist because I am a huge fan of her Olive Kitteridge novels. This book is about another of her characters, Lucy Barton, and the friendship she rekindles with her ex-husband. Strout's writing about love, loneliness, ageing and grief is deceptively simple but profound.\n\nThe majority of the books are inspired by real events such as the murder of Emmett Till (Percival Everett's The Trees) and the fall of Robert Mugabe (Glory).\n\nChair of the judges, Neil MacGregor, said the chosen works all \"speak powerfully about important things\" that \"concern us all\".\n\nThe six authors represent five different nationalities.\n\n\"Each written in English, they demonstrate what an abundance of Englishes there are, how many distinct worlds, real and imaginary, exist in that simple-seeming space, the Anglosphere,\" MacGregor said.\n\nThe six shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book.\n\nLast year's prize was won by South African author Damon Galgut for The Promise.", "After returning from Balmoral on Tuesday, Liz Truss addressed the UK for the first time from Downing Street.\n\nShe pledged to get \"Britain working again\", deal with the energy crisis and make sure people could get GP and NHS services \"on a firm footing\".", "Pakistan's biggest lake, Manchar Lake, is on the verge of bursting its banks and flooding surrounding areas\n\nPakistani authorities are struggling to stop their biggest lake from bursting its banks after last-ditch attempts to lower water levels failed.\n\nManchar Lake, in Sindh province, is dangerously full after record monsoons that inundated swathes of Pakistan.\n\nThree breaches of the lake's banks so far - two to protect areas nearby - have displaced over 100,000 people.\n\nBut it could still overflow and rescue teams are racing to evacuate many more people who remain at risk of drowning.\n\nFloods in Pakistan have affected some 33 million people and killed at least 1,314, including 458 children, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Agency said.\n\nEstimates suggest the floods have caused at least $10bn (£8.5bn) of damage.\n\nSindh province produces half of the country's food supply, exacerbating fears of serious food shortages in a country already struggling with an economic crisis.\n\nPakistan's navy has been helping rescue some of those stranded - but many more remain at risk of drowning\n\nOn Sunday, officials breached Manchar lake after it had flooded two rural towns. The hope was the move would prevent it from further bursting its banks and inundating more densely-populated areas.\n\nThe move affected an estimated 400 villages - a total of 135,000 people. The decision to deliberately flood some villages is a controversial one - the lake straddles two districts, Dadu and Jamshoro, both home to hundreds of thousands of people, and about 80% of the region is underwater.\n\nNow residents near the lake are using government machinery to strengthen embankments to try to avoid a catastrophic, unplanned overspill.\n\n\"There are three breaches in the lake, two by plan, one is unplanned breach. It is our target that our big cities, towns, we can save them,\" Sindh's minister of irrigation Jam Khan Shoro told the BBC's Newshour programme.\n\nVillagers were warned to evacuate before the planned breaches. But local sources say not everyone was taken to safety in time - some didn't want to leave their homes or livestock, a lifeline for many in rural communities, and there are few places for them to go.\n\nThe military has been brought in to help with evacuations but mostly locals are coming to each other's aid.\n\nSome who've left their homes in the last few days ahead of the Manchar breach were taken to a nearby government-run facility that's being used as a shelter for the displaced, but the conditions leave much to be desired.\n\nMany displaced people are living on the roadside without shelter, food or clean drinking water.\n\n\"We have we got nothing here, we try to find food for our kids all day, some nights we sleep without food,\" one woman told the BBC.\n\n\"We are scared that the roof may collapse on us - it's damaged,\" another villager said. \"Our children are getting sick and we've been sleeping on the floor - there aren't beds for many of us.\"\n\nThose who are not cut off are trying to make their way to higher ground\n\nOfficials have said a little over a quarter of a million people are in shelters, a fraction of the 33 million Pakistanis affected. Relief efforts can't keep pace with demand - there is simply too much need and too few resources.\n\nDamaged infrastructure is also hampering aid and rescue operations. Some connecting roads in Sindh province have either collapsed, are flooded or are backed up for days with queuing traffic.\n\nPakistan is facing one of its worst climate-induced natural disasters in years, as record torrential rainfall and melting glaciers in the country's northern mountains have caused devastating floods.\n\nMeanwhile, UN children's agency Unicef said more children were at risk of dying from disease in Pakistan due to the shortage of clean water.\n\nThe disaster has also highlighted the stark disparity between countries that are the largest contributors towards climate change and countries that bear the brunt of its impact.\n\nPakistan produces less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions but its geography makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change.", "Donald Trump's Florida home was searched as part of an investigation into his handling of classified material\n\nA judge has granted Donald Trump's demand for a \"special master\" to oversee the case into his handling of classified materials.\n\nMr Trump is being investigated for allegedly taking documents with him when he left the White House.\n\nBut the \"special master\" is an independent lawyer who decides if any of the records are covered by attorney-client or executive privilege.\n\nThe move is seen as a blow to prosecutors and a win for Mr Trump.\n\nThe former president had asked for the special master to be appointed, while prosecutors had strongly opposed it - and the appointment is likely to slow down the justice department's ongoing criminal investigation.\n\nThat is because the judge has banned the government from reviewing or using the seized materials for its investigation until the special master's independent review has been completed.\n\nDepartment of Justice officials previously said that documents stored at former President Donald Trump's Florida home were likely to have been concealed as part of an effort to obstruct an FBI investigation.\n\nThe authorities say these documents should have been handed over to the National Archives - which US presidents are legally obliged to do upon leaving office.\n\nMr Trump, meanwhile, denies any kind of wrongdoing, arguing that as president he had declassified all the documents, and that they were kept securely at his Mar-a-Lago home.\n\nThe Department of Justice resisted Mr Trump's request saying that any presidential records seized in the FBI's 8 August search of Mar-A-Lago \"belong to the United States, not to the former president\".\n\nIt is not clear how long the special master's review will take.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers have argued some of the documents are covered by attorney-client privilege - a part of US law that allows people to keep conversations with their lawyers private.\n\nHis legal team have also claimed \"executive privilege\" over the documents, which allows presidents to keep certain communications under wraps.\n\nHowever, some legal experts argue that these moves are merely a tactic to delay proceedings - since the documents have already been looked at.\n\nBefore the decision was handed down, law professor and US constitutional law expert Aziz Huq told the BBC the demand for a special master was simply \"throwing sand in the gears\".\n\n\"It's unclear why a special master is required. A special master is usually used before the government sees the underlying material, and here the government has seen them,\" the former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.\n\nFormer federal prosecutor and former deputy attorney general for New York, E Danya Perry, said: \"What really strikes me here is it's too late... you can't unscramble the egg or put the genie back in the bottle. These documents have been reviewed.\"", "Benjamin Mendy is accused of raping women at his Cheshire mansion\n\nA young woman tearfully told detectives how she woke up in bed with Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy raping her, a court has heard.\n\nThe 28-year-old denies charges of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault.\n\nChester Crown Court was played a police interview in which the woman, who was 19 at the time, said she went to the footballer's house in Cheshire after a night out in Manchester in July 2021.\n\nShe said she fell asleep alone but \"woke up to find Ben on top of me\".\n\nThe woman said in the interview played to the jury she had been drinking champagne with Mr Mendy, his friends and other young women at China White night club.\n\nShe then returned to the footballer's mansion in Mottram St Andrew, near Prestbury.\n\nAfter spending time in the swimming pool, she said she became sleepy and went up to a top floor bedroom.\n\nShe changed out of the bikini she had brought with her and into her underwear and fell asleep, alone, in the double bed, the court heard.\n\nBreaking down in tears, she said: \"I woke up to find Ben on top of me, but I was on my side. It was horrific, I was on my period.\n\n\"I remember five seconds of it and him putting a towel under me.\n\n\"I remember saying, 'No. I'm on my period'.\"\n\nLouis Saha Matturie, 41, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault\n\nThe woman, who described herself as \"out of it\" or \"6/10\" drunk, is asked if there was \"any chance\" Mr Mendy could have thought she wanted to have sex with him that night.\n\nShe replied: \"No, because I don't know him that well.\"\n\nThe woman told how two or three months before the alleged rape she had sex with Mendy \"like a one-night thing\", but that she was sober and it was consensual.\n\nUnder cross-examination, Eleanor Laws QC, defending, suggested her account of what happened, waking up to find Mr Mendy raping her, was the \"exact same\" allegation made by her friend, who the footballer is also accused of raping the same evening.\n\nThe witness replied: \"I have not spoken to her.\"\n\nMr Mendy denies the rape, in the early hours of 24 July 2021, along with the rape of two other young women over the same 24-hour period.\n\nHe also denies five other counts of rape, one attempted rape and a sexual assault, all relating to seven young women, between October 2018 and August last year.\n\nHis co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault, relating to eight young women.\n\nProsecutors have described Mr Mendy as a \"predator\" who they claim turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game.\n\nIt is alleged Mr Matturie, Mr Mendy's friend and fixer, had the job of finding young women for sex.\n\nBoth men deny any offences and maintain if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.\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.", "Why on earth did you get rid of me?\n\nBoris Johnson didn't use that sentence, but he might as well have done.\n\nI'm writing this standing at the back of Downing Street, looking down towards the security gates and Whitehall, and the circling pods of the London Eye beyond.\n\nSome of the prime minister's most loyal allies are sharing hugs and souvenir snaps.\n\nAs Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie Johnson head to Balmoral, there's time to unpick some of the words he chose to use to mark his departure.\n\nThere was a defiance - a claim the rules had been changed. They hadn't.\n\nThe simple truth is: no prime minister has ever been able to stay in office without the confidence of their party. And he lost that.\n\nThere was an extensive assembly of what he saw as his greatest hits - the coronavirus vaccine programme, Brexit and support for Ukraine among them.\n\nBut also reference to a panoply of other policy priorities including better broadband, improved social care, new train lines.\n\nThis was less a list of achievements, but projects begun or hoped for but many not yet delivered.\n\nHis was a premiership terminated prematurely against Mr Johnson's will, and that frustration, that anger, was buttered with self-deprecation and wit.\n\nAnd then there were those references to the future: one wrapped in the imagery of space exploration, the other in classicist comparison.\n\nWill Mr Johnson really \"splash down invisibly in a remote corner of the Pacific\"?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is it, folks' - Boris Johnson's speech in full\n\nAnd aren't rockets fired towards the stars the ultimate televisual events, watched by millions and planned meticulously?\n\nEvery syllable Mr Johnson utters, out loud or in print, will magnetically allure the cameras, microphones and reporters. Commanding attention has been his greatest skill throughout his career.\n\nHe knows that and will revel in it - the student classicist even referencing a Roman dictator who made a comeback.\n\nI'm told his future interventions will focus on the aspects of his time in office of which he's most proud: Ukraine and what he calls \"levelling up\".\n\nIn short, Mr Johnson is leaving office but won't leave the stage.\n\nWe'll hear from him again.\n\nBut we still await the big speech of the day: when Liz Truss arrives here in Downing Street at teatime as prime minister.", "Chris Kaba died in hospital about two hours after he was shot\n\nA man shot dead by police after a chase in south London has been named locally as 23-year-old rapper Chris Kaba.\n\nMr Kaba was shot after a pursuit of a \"suspect vehicle\" that ended in Kirkstall Gardens, Streatham Hill, at about 21:50 BST on Monday.\n\nPastor Rachel Swaby said Mr Kaba was a rapper known as Madix and part of the MOBO-nominated drill group 67.\n\nKim Alleyne, 49, whose daughter Karima Waite was engaged to Mr Kaba, said he had been due to become a father.\n\nShe said: \"He was so loved. He was so funny. He was super-kind. Crazy. He was always happy. He'd do anything for you.\"\n\nKimberly Alleyne, right, said Mr Kaba was expecting a child with her daughter\n\nShe added: \"He was a fiancé, he was due to get married in five months' time. He's got a baby on the way that he's never going to see.\n\n\"It's horrible and so shocking and so sad.\"\n\nShe questioned why Mr Kaba was shot, adding that her daughter was \"in a tremendous amount of pain\". Ms Alleyne said had her daughter's fiancé been white he would have been given \"a chance to get out the car\".\n\nMs Swaby, a pastor at New Park Road Baptist Church, told the BBC she felt \"physically sick\" learning about the death of Mr Kaba.\n\nShe said: \"He was a young person in the community, obviously a talented rapper.\n\n\"He had a young family on the way and it just feels like his life has been cut short for no reason... I think something needs to be done to hold police to account.\"\n\nPeople laid floral tributes at the scene of the shooting\n\nMr Kaba's cousin Jefferson Bosela, 27, described the rapper as a \"loving, good person\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"I've put it out there he wasn't perfect… but regardless of that nobody deserves to be killed by the police unless there is an imminent or direct threat to the public, which at that moment in time, from what I'm hearing, he was not.\"\n\nDuring the chase, police used a tactic where they collided with the car they were pursuing to force it to stop.\n\nLocals said they heard gunshots and a police helicopter hovering overhead.\n\nA man, who lives on nearby New Park Road and wanted to remain anonymous, said: \"The bang was really loud. I was in my house with my gaming headphones on and I heard it.\"\n\nAnother man, who lives in Kirkstall Road and asked not to be named, said: \"I heard what sounded like one or two gunshots and then a lot of commotion.\"\n\nMr Kaba died in hospital about two hours after he was shot.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has started an investigation\n\nBell Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Streatham, said tensions were rising in the area following the shooting and called for police to release more information about what happened.\n\n\"People are drawing their own conclusions,\" the Labour politician said.\n\n\"They're looking back at what happened with Mark Duggan, looking back to 2011, and again looking back at the time when we don't get the information that we need about an incident on the basis that it's being investigated.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has opened an investigation, as is standard after a police shooting.\n\nThe independent body, which oversees police complaints in England and Wales, confirmed one shot was fired from a police issue firearm.\n\nIOPC investigators said they were examining police footage and CCTV from the area, as well as carrying out house-to-house inquiries.\n\nSal Naseem, IOPC London regional director, said: \"When the police use fatal force it is important that there is a robust, independent investigation to establish all of the circumstances surrounding what happened.\n\n\"It is natural that the community wants answers quickly but I would ask that people refrain from speculation that may be unhelpful to all of those affected.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination, which will determine a provisional cause of death, is set to take place.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Mbappé burst out laughing before Galtier gave his deadpan answer\n\nTop French football club Paris St-Germain has been criticised following a joke about the team using a private plane for a short journey.\n\nHead coach Christophe Galtier and star player Kylian Mbappé were asked about the French champions' recent jet trip to the western city of Nantes.\n\nMbappe laughed - and Galtier said the club was looking into the possibility of travelling by sand yacht, instead.\n\nFrench politicians urged the club to be more responsible over the environment.\n\nPSG won 3-0 at Nantes on Saturday, but the controversy started on Sunday when a senior official from French train operator SNCF tweeted: \"Paris-Nantes is less than two hours by TGV (high speed train).\n\n\"I renew my proposal of a TGV offer adapted to your specifications, for our common interest: security, speed, services and eco-mobility.\"\n\nWhen asked at a news conference on Monday, Galtier and Mbappé looked at each other and the striker burst out laughing.\n\nGaltier then responded: \"I knew this question was coming.\n\n\"To be perfectly honest with you, this morning we talked about it with the company who organises our trips and we're looking into travelling on sand yachts.\"\n\nMbappé was also asked for his views, but said he did not have any.\n\nA video of their comments immediately went viral, triggering angry responses from social media users, environmentalists and ministers.\n\nParis Mayor Anne Hidalgo tweeted: \"Are you serious, responding like this? Wake up guys???\"\n\nFrance's Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra added: \"We've become used to more relevant and responsible reactions than this - should we discuss?\"\n\nFinance Minister Bruno Le Maire told BFM TV on Tuesday: \"I love Mbappé, we can all have the giggles at the least opportune moment and it really was the least opportune moment.\n\n\"But we all have to take climate change seriously.\"\n\nHe added Galtier's irony had been \"out of place\". There is no comment from PSG so far.\n\nUsing private jets has become a big topic both in France and around the world this summer, with social media users often criticising their use amid a series of heatwaves, droughts and floods.\n\nMbappé and Galtier took questions after the short hop from Paris to Nantes\n\nEnglish Premier League clubs regularly fly for domestic matches due to convenience. For example, Manchester United had to defend their decision to fly to Leicester back in October 2021.\n\nThe club said they would not normally fly to the match - but their plans changed as there were reports of congestion on the M6.\n\nArsenal were also criticised for previously flying 14 minutes to Norwich in 2015, while Tottenham took a 20-minute flight to Bournemouth in the same year.", "As Liz Truss traversed the UK racking up the votes to defeat Rishi Sunak, in the same towns where she wooed the membership hustings, including in leafy apparently affluent areas, the size of the challenge she was vying to inherit was getting notably worse.\n\nThe situation on the ground has deteriorated for ordinary households and businesses, as prices continued to surge yet higher. And at the same time there has been an ominous turn in the markets for British government borrowing and in currency markets.\n\nThe combination of these two changes alter the reality of the situation she now takes on as prime minister. The question is how much it changes the immediate solutions she has promised as campaigner.\n\nFrom Durham to Derbyshire and Stoke-on-Trent and beyond, the stories we have reported on in many local communities show the real life depths of this cost of living crisis, even at current energy prices.\n\nThe surge in food prices is breaking the charitable model of food banks and food pantries that have emerged in almost every town and city.\n\nNot only has demand surged, turning many of last year's food charity donors into recipients of support, but supplies are now a problem.\n\nMany of these projects are reliant on surplus food stocks from supermarket supply chains. But supermarkets facing massive inflationary pressures, trying to avoid passing on all of those price hikes to consumers, have been trimming surplus stock, meaning there is less tinned goods available for donations.\n\nDemand up hugely, at a time when supply is a problem. This is just one manifestation of out-of-control inflation.\n\nJo Yendole from Stone Community hub says some people have stopped using hot water\n\nWe visited a facility in Stone, Staffordshire. Jo Yendole who helps run Stone Community hub said: \"One of the guys who's on licence from prison, sort of struggling to maintain his flat and the cost of his flat actually said he would prefer to go back to prison because it was easier because he just couldn't see how we were going to afford to live.\n\n\"And another lady who she was she's talking about the cost of gas and an energy prices said she'd completely turned her boiler off and wasn't using any hot water and was boiling a kettle. The gas price is not even affordable in the summer for her\".\n\nAt a pantry in Matlock, Derbyshire, which offers subsidised food at about a tenth of supermarket prices, Beverley Parker from Rural Action Derbyshire told me people were returning fresh food, because they could not afford refrigeration costs.\n\n\"We've heard of people switching off their fridges and freezers because they can't afford the electricity. You're risking your own health and that of your family, by eating food that hasn't been stored correctly.\n\n\"A lot of people are choosing to either get rid of their cars or not use them. Public transport in the countryside is limited at best. So we've we've even heard of people walking six miles from the food bank, and then six miles back home, because they can't afford the bus fare.\"\n\nAt another community hub in Peterlee, County Durham, I met dual-income working families who had started to grow their own vegetables and heard the co-ordinators tell of clients pre-emptively cancelling energy bill direct debits. Much of this happened even before the move in prices up to £3,549.\n\nWhile the energy companies have tried to pre-empt the arrival of Liz Truss with a ready to go plan to cancel the rise in the energy cap, that might not require upfront borrowing, there are still huge amounts of support being relied upon, even at existing bills.\n\nOne energy company boss, former government fuel poverty tsar Derek Lickorish who is chairman of Utilita, told me the reality for the poorest customers. A typical £50 on prepayment meters which would ordinarily last 12 days in winter, might only last two days from January.\n\n\"Liz Truss has said that she intends to solve this problem, and I welcome that. This is a war footing to my mind. It will affect government borrowing.\n\n\"If we don't, we're going to have major problems with customers having unaffordable bills. There'll be huge mental health problems, we will see businesses going broke, we'll see people losing their jobs and they want to have disposable income to spend with businesses. It really is Armageddon, if we don't deal with this, and that's what we've got to get on with it\".\n\nSo as we head towards some version of the energy companies tariff deficit fund being announced imminently by the new prime minister, she faces further pressure from the markets.\n\nThe dollar has been strong as the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, has indicated a sharper rise in interest rates. But sterling has fallen notably against the dollar and the euro.\n\nLong-term borrowing costs for the government have topped 3%, setting the floor for borrowing for mortgages and for businesses.\n\nThe government will have to work closely with the Bank of England\n\nThese are jitters rather than a crisis. In that context it was notable to see both Ms Truss and her likely Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, row back from her early campaign rhetoric criticising the Bank of England.\n\nThe government and Bank will need to work very closely together in the coming months.\n\nAn important difference with the pandemic bailout is there can be no expectation that the Bank will buy up most of the issuance of extra government borrowing. The Bank has already indicated it will do the opposite soon as part of \"reverse QE\". If the government needs to borrow more, it will have to find buyers for the debt among pension funds, insurers and foreign buyers, and pay a high price.\n\nIf the PM wants to abide by her campaign promises to make tens of billions of tax cuts, and help launch an energy bailout for both households and businesses, at a time when energy prices in markets could go yet higher, borrowing will have to go up in the first instance.\n\nBut if she does not help both sectors, disposable income will drain from the economy, and many small businesses will simply go bust, hiking up unemployment too.\n\nThe new prime minister already faced a very tricky balancing act between inflation and recession. The past month means the room for manoeuvre has got even smaller. Given this hand, Rishi Sunak may not end up regretting his loss.", "Damien Sanderson (left) was found dead but Myles Sanderson is still at large\n\nCanadian police have found the body of one of two brothers wanted for a mass stabbing attack that left 10 people dead and 18 injured in the province of Saskatchewan on Sunday.\n\nAn officer said Damien Sanderson, 31, had injuries that did not appear self-inflicted - but gave no details.\n\nHe was found at the James Smith Cree Nation, the indigenous community where most of the victims lived.\n\nSanderson's brother Myles is at large and dangerous, police say.\n\nThe stabbing spree has rocked the usually peaceful province, with police investigating 13 different crime scenes.\n\nThe suspects' motives remain unknown. Both were charged with murder, despite not being arrested.\n\nOn Monday police said Damien Sanderson's body had been found \"in a heavily grassed area in proximity to a house that was being examined\".\n\nHis injuries were \"not believed to be self-inflicted at this point\", police Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore told reporters.\n\nHis 30-year-old brother might also have sustained injuries and police have warned the public he might seek medical assistance. But police did not say whether he was responsible for his brother's death.\n\nMyles Sanderson, who was previously known to the police, is described as having an \"extensive and lengthy criminal record\" dating back a number of years.\n\nOn Monday evening, chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents all 74 First Nations of Saskatchewan, urged residents to report with any information about the attacks,\n\n\"Someone out there knows something,\" he said in a statement. \"We beg you to come forward for the sake of the families.\"\n\nIn Regina, the province's capital where the suspects were last seen alive, communities are on edge.\n\nBut in the city centre on Monday evening, there were no obvious signs of a manhunt. The city was mostly quiet as families gathered to enjoy the Labour Day holiday, the unofficial end to summer.\n\nEvery so often, that calm was interrupted by alerts ringing on mobile phones, warning of two adult male suspects, and then just one, still on the run.\n\n\"Every time a new alert is broadcast… the families and communities are holding their breath for fear of new fatalities or injuries,\" Mr Cameron said.\n\n\"This kind of violence, or any kind of violence has no place in our country,\" said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nHe said that \"tragedies like these have become all too commonplace\" - adding that Saskatchewanians and Canadians would be there for each other in \"times of difficulty and anguish\".\n\nMany of the victims were residents of the remote James Smith Cree Nation, home to about 2,000 people - leaving members of Canada's indigenous community especially shaken. A state of emergency was declared in Saskatchewan.\n\nCanadian media have identified some of the victims, although no official details have been provided by authorities.\n\nSaskatchewan's 1.2 million residents are scattered across 250,000 square miles. Clusters of tight-knit communities, separated by stretches of highways, dot the flat expanse of farmland. Most places feel remote.", "Prime Minister Liz Truss is understood to be planning to borrow billions to limit the expected sharp rise in energy bills for households and firms.\n\nIt is understood that a typical energy bill could be capped at around £2,500 with full details expected on Thursday.\n\nCurrently, a typical household's gas and electricity bill is due to rise from £1,971 to £3,549 in October.\n\nThe government's plans to subsidise bills means that customers will not be expected to repay the support.\n\nIt is unclear how long the government support will last, but the overall government support package is expected to total around £100bn.\n\nThe ultimate figure will depend on gas and energy price movements in the highly volatile international energy markets as well as how much additional support is offered to the most vulnerable.\n\nMs Truss has pledged to \"deliver on the energy crisis\" - with details expected to be announced on Thursday.\n\nEnergy bosses have insisted for some time that a government-backed superfund from which they could borrow to subsidise bills \"is the only game in town\".\n\nHowever, the government is understood to be reluctant to see money added to customer bills for up to 20 years so energy companies could pay back the loans.\n\nIt is also thought to be reluctant to add the cost to general taxation, given their pledges to be a tax cutting government.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng - tipped to be the new chancellor - has already indicated the government is prepared to borrow to support the economy.\n\nThis would be consistent with Ms Truss' position that the UK needs to break free of the Treasury's strict spending rules.\n\nNevertheless, the estimated £100bn is a sizeable sum to borrow at the same time as cutting taxes and boosting spending on defence and it could end up costing more than that, given the fluctuating price of wholesale gas.\n\n\"One of the dangers here is that it could even be more expensive than £100bn,\" said Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, contrasting it with the Covid-prompted furlough scheme, which cost £60bn-£70bn.\n\n\"There has to be a risk that energy prices stay high for a long time, perhaps even up to three or four years,\" he said. \"Then this starts being baked into public spending long-term.\"\n\nThe cost of UK government borrowing hit its highest level for eight years on Tuesday, with the yield on ten-year bonds rising above 3%. That reflects the market's expectation that the government will have to borrow more and means any future borrowing will be more expensive.\n\nMr Johnson said the plan to borrow to support energy bills was only one you would adopt \"if you can't think of anything else\" because it amounted to subsidising everybody's gas use, when the higher price suggested there was not enough gas available. That could lead to rationing, he suggested, and would mean high-income households would benefit by a much larger amount than those at the lower end.\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Get in touch.\n\nGovernment sources say that over time, new energy supply measures - such as cutting the link between renewable sources and the gas price - will lower costs while a growing economy will shrink the proportion of overall debt to the size of the economy.\n\nBusinesses are also expected to be offered some relief in the plan set to be announced on Thursday.\n\nUnlike households, businesses are not protected by an energy price cap. Many fixed-rate deals for business expire this October, exposing thousands of firms to full costs that could rise by four or five times or more. Thousands would go bust or cut their wage bills by firing staff.\n\nThe precise mechanism to help business may be more complicated and would be reviewed more frequently but reports suggest it could see the government mandate energy firms to offer specific reductions on the unit price of the energy businesses use.\n\nIncluding businesses could easily push the cost of the government's energy plan over £100bn.\n\nAlex Veitch of the British Chambers of Commerce said: \"It is encouraging that the government is seriously considering the support it can give to businesses during these very difficult times.\n\n\"But it remains to be seen whether these plans will go far enough in offering the help that many firms so desperately need.\"\n\nCraig Beaumont from the Federation of Small Businesses said: \"This commitment looks very promising, and arguably the best reassurance that small businesses need that some form of help with bills will follow - not just for households.\n\n\"The scope and reach of the help is going to be absolutely crucial to save hundreds of thousands of small businesses this winter.\"", "Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor and replaced by Jeremy Hunt after his mini-budget resulted in financial turbulence and a revolt from Tory MPs.\n\nHe has become Britain's second shortest-serving chancellor, lasting just 38 days in the role.\n\nThe long-time ally of Prime Minister Liz Truss, seen as her political soulmate, was appointed to the role on 6 September.\n\nSpeaking before Mr Kwarteng became chancellor, one friend told the Times that he and Ms Truss were a bit like \"Batman and Robin\", adding: \"They are both slight social misfits, amiable geeks, and have strong views which are in tune with each other.\"\n\nHe took over at Number 11 Downing Street at a critical time for the UK economy, with millions looking to him for help with soaring winter energy bills.\n\nAn Old Etonian who became the first black Conservative cabinet minister in 2021, he read classics and history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has a PhD in economic history. He is also a past winner of notoriously tough BBC quiz show University Challenge.\n\nFamily: Married to solicitor Harriet Edwards with one daughter\n\nMr Kwarteng's parents came to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960s. He was born in East London in 1975, the same year as Ms Truss.\n\nHis economist father and barrister mother gave him a traditional Ashanti first name, meaning \"born on Sunday\", when he was actually born on a Monday. He told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast his parents stayed silent on the matter when he jokingly pulled them up on it.\n\nThe Church was a strong part of his mother's life and she was a lifelong Conservative voter.\n\nHe was just three years old when Margaret Thatcher came to power, and she would remain prime minister until his GCSE year. He has said in the past that his mother deeply admired Mrs Thatcher as someone \"who wanted to rely on their own efforts\" and has described himself as a \"pragmatic Thatcherite\".\n\nHe attended the exclusive private school Eton College after winning a scholarship there, and went on to graduate with a double first from Cambridge University in classics and history.\n\nOne well-known anecdote about the young Kwasi Kwarteng harks back to his admissions interview for Trinity College. The self-confident 17-year-old told the tutor, who had arrived late and hadn't conducted many of these interviews before: \"Don't worry, sir - I'm sure you'll do very well.\"\n\nHe was part of the Cambridge team which won University Challenge in 1995, although he generated headlines for uttering a swearword after he buzzed in and forgot the answer to a question.\n\nHe has since questioned how much being good at quizzes \"relates to anything in what people call 'real life'\".\n\nKwasi Kwarteng appeared in the winning team for Trinity College, Cambridge, on University Challenge in 1994-95\n\nHe attended Harvard University in the United States on a Kennedy Scholarship, before returning to the University of Cambridge to complete a PhD in economic history in 2000.\n\nDuring his second stint at the university, Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now head of the V&A Museum, joked that then roommate Mr Kwarteng was \"quite ungovernable and dishevelled\".\n\nHe worked as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and a financial analyst at banks including JP Morgan in the City of London and got involved in Conservative politics as chairman of the Bow Group think tank.\n\nHe has remarked that \"politics was always something I was drawn to\", and he made his first attempt to become an MP in 2005. He stood as the Conservative candidate for Brent East at the general election, but came third. There was also an unsuccessful run for the London Assembly in 2008.\n\nHowever, he became part of the \"class of 2010\", a cohort of politicians entering Westminster for the first time that year. He was elected as MP for Spelthorne in Surrey and entered Parliament the same time as future colleagues Ms Truss, Priti Patel and Sajid Javid.\n\nHis maiden speech in the House of Commons came with some comments he described as \"controversial\", when he used the opportunity to criticise the former Labour government led by Gordon Brown and how it tackled the 2008 financial crisis.\n\n\"They have not once accepted any blame for what happened and they seem to think that we can just sail on as before,\" he said, also setting out the view that \"wealth creation is the most important element in getting us out of this recession\".\n\nAlthough Mr Kwarteng was tipped to become the Conservatives' first black cabinet member as early as 2006, he spent eight years as a constituency MP before he became a minister.\n\nHe backed Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and in 2017 became a ministerial aide to the then Chancellor Philip Hammond, before becoming a junior minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union.\n\nMr Kwarteng also co-authored the book Britannia Unchained with several Tory MPs, including Ms Truss. In the 2012 text, they claimed: \"Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.\" He has since distanced himself from this view.\n\nMr Kwarteng has used his spare time to write several books and pamphlets on topics from Mrs Thatcher's final six months in office to the British Empire and its legacy.\n\nHe has argued that \"the debate around Black Lives Matter and imperialism or colonialism has a cartoon-like view of history\", and has said he thinks that view is true on both sides of the issue.\n\nMr Kwarteng was a supporter of Boris Johnson who put him on the ministerial fast-track as energy minister in 2019.\n\nHe worked there for more than a year before becoming business secretary 18 months later.\n\nThe ascent has been described as a \"reward\" for his backing of Mr Johnson during the race for party leadership.\n\nThe realities of the pandemic and the soaring cost of energy, however, meant that his views on state intervention in industry moderated.\n\n\"There's nothing [better] to convert someone from being a radical free marketeer to seeing the virtues of government action than making them an energy minister,\" he said at a 2019 Conservative party conference event.\n\nThat same year, he married solicitor Harriet Edwards, having previously dated former Home Secretary Amber Rudd.\n\nHis political partnership with Ms Truss, a fellow member of the 2010 intake of MPs, paid dividends when she asked her close ally to serve as chancellor.\n\nBut the mini-budget he unveiled on 23 September spooked financial markets and prompted a drop in the value of the pound.\n\nAmid warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of England stepped in to buy government bonds in a bid to stabilise their value.\n\nThe chancellor said he had listened to criticism - including from within his party - and there was a U-turn on a plan to abolish the 45p rate of income tax for top earners.\n\nBut market turbulence continued, causing speculation that the government would announce a further reversal on its tax-cutting plans.\n\nThe day before his ejection from Number 11 Downing Street, Mr Kwarteng said \"our position hasn't changed\" - and that he would \"absolutely\" still be in his job a month later.", "The group is raising money for Prostate Cymru\n\nA cycling club has said it faces closure after being charged thousands of pounds on a charity bike ride in Spain.\n\nRiders said they were told to pay an €8,500 (£7,330) tariff by Spanish border officials when they collected their bikes.\n\nThe club raises money for Prostate Cymru and some of its members have been affected by prostate cancer.\n\nThe Spanish customs authority has been approached for comment.\n\nSome Welsh politicians said they were \"appalled\" by the charges.\n\nThey, along with the club, have been trying to find out why the tariff was applied as the riders were not given a clear reason.\n\nHuw Irranca-Davies MS said the charges had \"no good reason\" behind them, and suggested they could be a result of post-Brexit import fees, which he believes should not have been applied to riders on a charity event.\n\nThe cyclists, from the Tap It Out cycling club based in Pyle, Bridgend, had raised more than £16,000 for the cancer charity ahead of the 600-mile ride.\n\nSome team members flew to the starting point in Santander and sent their bikes by ferry.\n\nThe bikes were taken to Santander by ferry\n\nWhen they tried to collect the bikes however, they were faced with an unexpected fee.\n\nRiders said they appealed to Spanish customs officials to explain that it was a charity event, but they were unable to reach a resolution.\n\nThe team said their only option was to pay the fee or cancel the ride.\n\nHead of the group, Nicky Morgan, 46, said they raised the money from the club's accounts, but as a result they will now have to \"fold the club - shut it down\".\n\nThe trip had already been rearranged twice due to Covid, and Mr Morgan said organising the ride had been \"really stressful\".\n\n\"My jaw just dropped,\" he said, when the additional hurdle of a customs fees became apparent.\n\n\"We were doing a charity event. It never entered our minds that we were going to sell bikes or be accused of selling bikes.\"\n\nThe group is riding from Santander to Lisbon\n\nRhys Lloyd, 33, decided to take part in the ride to represent his dad who usually participates in the club's trips but is too ill.\n\n\"We all know somebody who's been directly affected (by prostate cancer),\" he said, adding that the group was passionate about raising funds for the charity.\n\nMr Lloyd said members of the group felt like they had been \"held for ransom\" and the cost would \"bleed a big hole into the club\".\n\nAnother rider, 48-year-old Scott Sidoli-Kenny, lost his mum to stomach cancer two years ago, and has lost colleagues to cancer too.\n\nWith one in eight men diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, he just wanted to \"raise the funds and awareness\" for Prostate Cymru.\n\nIn a letter to the Spanish customs authority, Huw Irranca-Davies MS and Chris Elmore MP said the charges \"negated the very purpose of the charity bike ride - to raise funds for Prostate Cymru which is a cause dear to so many people - but also has left a very sour feeling in relations\".\n\nThey went on to demand a \"full and immediate response explaining why these charges have been made\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales, Mr Irranca-Davies said he had a long history of supporting Prostate Cymru.\n\nHe added that he and other politicians had been unable to get in touch with the Spanish authorities, leaving them \"totally in the dark\" about why the fee had been imposed, but said that they'll \"keep on working to get the money back\" for the club.", "Haarlem in The Netherlands is set to ban most meat ads from public spaces because of the food's climate impact.\n\nIn what is thought to be the first such move by a city, it will enforce the ban from 2024.\n\nThe motion drafted by GroenLinks - a green political party - has faced opposition from the meat sector and some who say it stifles free speech.\n\nThe UN says livestock generate more than 14% of all man-made greenhouse gases, including methane.\n\n\"Meat is very harmful to the environment. We cannot tell people that there is a climate crisis and encourage them to buy products that are part of it,\" Ziggy Klazes, a councillor from GroenLinks who drafted the motion, told the Trouw newspaper.\n\nThe government of the city of 160,000 says it has not yet been decided whether sustainably produced meat will be included in the ad ban.\n\nThe proposal was also supported by MPs from the Christian Democratic Challenge party.\n\nThe backlash from the meat industry was swift.\n\n\"The authorities are going too far in telling people what's best for them,\" said a spokesman from the Central Organisation for the Meat Sector.\n\nThe right-wing BVNL party called it an \"unacceptable violation of entrepreneurial freedom\" and said it \"would be fatal for pig farmers\".\n\n\"Banning commercials from politically born motives is almost dictatorial,\" Haarlem BVNL councillor Joey Rademaker said.\n\nHerman Bröring, a law professor from the University of Groningen, said the ban could infringe on freedom of expression and lead to lawsuits from wholesalers.\n\nAbout 95% of people in the Netherlands eat meat, but more than half do not eat it every day, according to Statistics Netherlands.\n\nAmsterdam and The Hague have already banned adverts for the aviation and fossil fuel industries.\n\nBeef produces the most greenhouse gas emissions, which include methane. Lamb has the next highest environmental footprint but these emissions are 50% less than beef.\n• None Should we stop eating meat to fight climate change?", "Holiday Inn owner, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), has confirmed the company has been hit by a cyber-attack.\n\nIHG, which has some of the world's largest hotel chains, issued a statement saying it was investigating \"unauthorised access\" to a number of its technology systems.\n\nThe UK-based company said its \"booking channels and other applications\" had been disrupted since Monday.\n\nIt manages the Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Regent hotels.\n\n\"IHG is working to fully restore all systems as soon as possible,\" the company said.\n\nIHG confirmed it was assessing the nature, extent and impact of the incident and had implemented its response plans, including appointing external specialists to investigate the breach.\n\nThe company is also in the process of notifying regulatory authorities.\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"We will be supporting hotel owners and operators as part of our response to the ongoing service disruption. IHG's hotels are still able to operate and to take reservations directly.\"\n\nBut many people trying to book accommodation have been complaining.\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 Kim Sweat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis 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\nIHG did not say there had been any loss of customer data.\n\nIt also did not specifically say it was a ransomware attack, but most of the speculation points in that direction.\n\nLast month, a Holiday Inn in Istanbul was breached by LockBit, which released data stolen from the company.\n\nIt is not known if there is a connection between the attacks.\n\nThe hotel chain was also the target of a three-month security breach in 2017 when more than 1,200 of its franchised hotels in the US were affected.\n\nThe hack comes amid increased scrutiny on appropriate defences against cyber-attacks, particularly on Western financial institutions, in the wake of heightened geopolitical tensions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine early this year.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police in Tennessee say a body found on Monday is that of missing heiress Eliza Fletcher.\n\nThe 34-year-old mother-of-two was a teacher in the area, and the granddaughter of a local billionaire.\n\nShe was abducted while jogging early on Friday morning near the University of Memphis campus.\n\nCleotha Abston - a 38-year-old man with a previous conviction for abduction - has been charged with kidnapping and murdering Ms Fletcher.\n\nHer family issued a statement after the discovery of her body, saying they were \"heartbroken and devastated\".\n\n\"Liza was a such a joy to so many - her family, friends, colleagues, students, parents, members of her Second Presbyterian Church congregation, and everyone who knew her,\" they said.\n\n\"Now it's time to remember and celebrate how special she was and to support those who cared so much for her.\"\n\nWell-known in the community, Ms Fletcher was the granddaughter of the late Joseph Orgill III, a billionaire local hardware magnate and philanthropist. His company is now reportedly worth over $3bn (£2.6bn) and employs more than 5,000 people.\n\nMs Fletcher worked as a junior kindergarten teacher at St Mary's Episcopal School instead of for the family business.\n\nShe vanished at around 04:00 local time on Friday. CCTV footage showed a man approaching her and getting into a physical confrontation, forcing Ms Fletcher into a black SUV, according to police documents.\n\nShe was reported missing after failing to return home on Friday after her early-morning run, and her family posted a $50,000 (£43,330) reward for information.\n\nThe Memphis Police Department said officers had found a body at around 17:07 on Monday but stressed no identification had been made.\n\nSurveillance footage shows Eliza Fletcher running close to the University of Memphis campus\n\nOn Tuesday, officers said the deceased \"located yesterday in the 1600 block of Victor\" had been identified as Eliza Fletcher.\n\nAuthorities later confirmed the body had been found in the rear of a vacant duplex apartment.\n\nAt the time of the body's discovery, Cleotha Abston, who was arrested on Saturday, had been charged with aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence.\n\nAdditional charges for him have now \"been added for first-degree murder and first-degree murder in perpetration of kidnapping\", police said in the update.\n\nCleotha Abston, photographed in 2017 by the Tennessee Department of Correction\n\nHe was arrested after his DNA was detected on a pair of sandals found near where Ms Fletcher was last seen, according to an arrest affidavit.\n\nOfficers also found a vehicle at the address where he had been staying that matched CCTV footage of Ms Fletcher being forced into a similar car.\n\nVideo shows him spending over an hour cleaning his car after arriving at his brother's apartment complex just over three hours after Ms Fletcher was abducted.\n\nAccording to court documents, a witness said Mr Abston had been behaving erratically and had used carpet cleaner on his car's interior. The unnamed source also said he had washed his clothes in his brother's sink.\n\nHe attempted to flee when US Marshals arrived at the residence but was captured, the affidavit said.\n\nMr Abston previously served nearly 20 years in prison for kidnapping a prominent Memphis attorney in 2000 at gunpoint. He was released in late 2020.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries have said they will step down when Liz Truss becomes prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nThe BBC has been told Ms Dorries was asked to stay on but wants to return to writing books.\n\nMs Patel announced her decision in a letter to outgoing PM Boris Johnson in which said she would give Ms Truss her support from the backbenches.\n\nThe Witham MP said being home secretary had been \"the honour of my life\".\n\nMs Truss had been expected to remove Ms Patel from the position when she begins announcing her new ministerial team.\n\nHowever, Ms Patel - who has served as home secretary since 2019 - insisted leaving government was \"her choice\".\n\nShe also said it was \"vital\" that Ms Truss backed \"all aspects\" of the policies she had put in place on illegal migration.\n\nWriting to Mr Johnson, Ms Patel said: \"Britain had always been a beacon for freedom and democracy and I have been proud to work with you over the last three years to make that light shine brighter.\n\n\"All this has been achieved despite the relentless efforts of our political opponents and left-wing activists, lawyers and campaigners.\"\n\nAt one stage this summer, Priti Patel considered a leadership bid of her own. At least a dozen colleagues pressed her to do so.\n\nAnd some who would have supported her began to declare for other candidates. She - like the final two in the contest - was one of the most senior members of Boris Johnson's government.\n\nInsiders suggest she didn't discern any abilities in them that she didn't possess herself. So she endorsed neither of them - a potentially career-limiting move.\n\nWhile she would have been happy to stay at the Home Office, the rumours that Suella Braverman would replace her were solidified by sources close to Liz Truss.\n\nAt that point, Priti Patel probably decided to jump before she was pushed - though she sent her resignation pointedly to the current Prime Minister, not his successor.\n\nThus the process of transition in government has begun.\n\nAnd the speculation is whether Sunak supporter Dominic Raab may now follow suit.\n\nMs Dorries, who has been a strong ally of Mr Johnson, is stepping down after leading the culture department since 2021.\n\nIn the role, she championed the controversial Online Safety Bill which aims to introduce rules about how platforms such as Facebook and Twitter should deal with harmful content.\n\nBefore joining the cabinet, Ms Dorries wrote a series of novels including the best-selling Four Streets based on her experience of growing up in Liverpool.\n\nBBC politics editor Chris Mason said the Mid Bedfordshire MP had considered staying on as culture secretary but had decided to return to writing books.\n\nHours earlier, Ben Elliot resigned as Conservative co-chairman following Liz Truss's election as party leader.\n\nMr Elliot oversaw a huge increase in donations to the party from wealthy individuals after his friend Boris Johnson gave him the role in 2019.\n\nBut he has also faced questions over his business interests and fundraising methods.\n\nLast week, Labour urged Ms Truss and her then leadership rival Rishi Sunak to sack Mr Elliot if they became PM.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation, Mr Elliot said it had been a \"huge honour and privilege\" to serve the Conservative Party.\n\n\"I would like to thank Boris Johnson for appointing me, and wish Liz Truss every success in leading our great country, particularly given the challenges of the winter ahead,\" he added.\n\nBen Elliot reportedly wants to give Liz Truss freedom to appoint her own party chair\n\nA friend of Mr Elliot told the Daily Mail he wanted to give Ms Truss - who had earlier been announced the winner of the contest to succeed Mr Johnson as Tory leader and PM - the freedom to appoint her own party chair.\n\nThe nephew of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Mr Elliot was educated at Eton and is known for being well-connected.\n\nHis company, Quintessentially, helps provide its wealthy clients with all the trappings of a luxury lifestyle - from yacht hire and holiday booking to private concerts with pop stars.\n\nBut last year, he was warned by a lobbying regulator to keep his private business interests and public role as Tory co-chairman separate.\n\nThe Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL) had begun an investigation following reports suggesting Quintessentially had arranged access to top politicians for clients.\n\nThe watchdog found the company \"had not been engaging in consultant lobbying activity\" but said he should be \"cautious\" and ensure his two roles remain separate.\n\nMr Elliot's spokesman said at the time: \"The registrar has made clear that Quintessentially does not lobby government and therefore does not need to register as a lobbyist.\"", "The Eden Project is one of the good causes to have received National Lottery funding\n\nOutgoing National Lottery operator Camelot has dropped a legal challenge which was preventing the handover of the lottery licence to rival Allwyn.\n\nAllwyn has ended its counter-claim against Camelot for damages due to delaying the £6.4bn contract.\n\nBut Camelot, which started running the lottery in 1994, is still taking legal action against the Gambling Commission for giving the licence to Allwyn.\n\nThe Gambling Commission has said it had run a \"fair and robust\" competition.\n\nAfter losing out on the next licence which starts in February 2024, Camelot launched a legal challenge in April, claiming that the Gambling Commission had got the decision \"badly wrong\".\n\nThis led to the transfer of the licence to be blocked automatically.\n\nThe Gambling Commission asked the High Court to overturn this block, warning it could cause disruption to the lottery, meaning good causes would lose out on funds.\n\nIn late June, the court agreed to lift the suspension preventing the licence transfer, but Camelot appealed. It is this legal action which has now been dropped.\n\nCamelot said: \"It has become clear that the potential damages covered by the undertakings needed for the appeal to proceed would have been too large, and involved too great a commercial risk, for it to be reasonable to provide them.\"\n\nHowever, Camelot is still pressing ahead with its main legal claim challenging the decision to award the lottery licence to Allwyn.\n\nA trial is set to go ahead in January or February, and Camelot is expected to sue the regulator for an estimated £500m damages.\n\nCamelot said it \"will now co-operate with Allwyn and the Gambling Commission to facilitate an orderly transition to the fourth licence\".\n\nAllwyn said it \"looks forward to cooperating with Camelot and the Gambling Commission on the transition process\".\n\nAllwyn Entertainment was formerly known as Sazka. The lottery operator is owned by Czech oil and gas tycoon Karel Komarek.\n\nThe National Lottery is one of the world's largest lotteries and has raised more than £46bn for good causes across the UK.\n\nIt has also played a part in funding training and facilities over the past three decades for Great Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes.", "Throughout the leadership campaign Liz Truss's husband Hugh O'Leary kept very much in the background.\n\nHowever, now his wife is the UK's prime minister, he will have to get used to spending more time in the limelight.\n\nIn that respect he has something in common with another prime ministerial spouse - Philip May, Theresa's other half, who also kept a low profile.\n\nBy strange coincidence, the two men also spent part of their childhood in the Wirral town of Heswall.\n\nSpeaking to The Times, a former neighbour of Mr O'Leary's family remembered him as \"very earnest and very quiet but a lovely boy\".\n\nFor university, Mr O'Leary left the North West to study mathematical economics at the London School of Economics, after which he became an accountant.\n\nHis mathematical mind may well have been what attracted Ms Truss, who is the daughter of a mathematician and is said to be passionate about the subject.\n\nThe pair met at the Conservative Party conference, in Blackpool in 1997 - a bleak period for the party recovering from an electoral battering, but a happier time for the young couple.\n\nSpeaking to You Magazine in 2019, Ms Truss said she \"invited him ice skating and he sprained his ankle\".\n\nThe accident didn't put him off and they were married three years later. The couple have two teenage daughters.\n\nLike his wife, Mr O'Leary was keen to get involved in politics and stood - in 1998, 2002 and 2006 - to be a councillor in Greenwich, south London.\n\nHowever, unlike his wife, who became a councillor for Eltham South in 2006, he was unsuccessful.\n\nThat same year, the couple went through a tricky period when details of an affair between Ms Truss and her fellow Conservative Mark Field came to light.\n\nThis later led to an attempt by local party members to oust her when she was selected as the candidate for the South West Norfolk constituency.\n\nAt the time, Ms Truss said: \"I am really sorry about that [affair]. It's a mistake I made and as far as me and my husband are concerned, it's water under the bridge.\"\n\nReflecting on the incident in 2019, she said: \"It was a baptism of fire.\n\n\"It was difficult but… I was so determined to stay selected and I wasn't going to let… you know, I worked really, really hard and I won that selection fair and square.\n\n\"And, actually, even though it was a really unpleasant thing to go through, it made me stronger afterwards because I had to have that fight.\"\n\nAsked if it made her marriage stronger she replied: \"I think that's a separate thing. But I am really happily married.\"\n\nMs Truss is a keen Instagrammer but mostly prefers to keep her partner out of her social media posts.\n\nIn one exception in 2019, Ms Truss posted a picture of herself with her husband on Instagram at Blagdon Hall, in Northumberland with the caption: \"Love of my life. #happyvalentinesday\"", "People gathered at the family's home in Tallaght on Monday evening to release balloons in memory of the victims\n\nA vigil has been held for three siblings who died after they were attacked at their Dublin home in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nEight-year-old twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley and 18-year-old Lisa Cash were killed in the Rossfield estate in Tallaght.\n\nOn Monday evening a large crowd gathered outside the house.\n\nBalloons were released and candles were lit in memory of the trio as songs were played.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's one of the worst incidents I've come across,\" says Garda Commissioner Drew Harris\n\nGardaí (Irish police) are continuing to question a man in his 20s over the deaths.\n\nTeenager Lisa Cash had been looking after her brother and sister when a man known to them entered their home and killed them.\n\nIreland's police chief has described the killings as dreadful and traumatic.\n\nTwins Chelsea (left) and Christy Cawley died after what gardaí described as a \"traumatic\" incident\n\nGarda Commissioner Drew Harris said the incident had had a profound impact on both the community in the area and the police force.\n\nLisa Cash, Chelsea and Christy Cawley's 14-year-old brother is still in hospital with serious injuries.\n\nTheir mother, who is in her 40s and was not injured, has been released from hospital and is being supported by her family, gardaí said.\n\nThe Rossfield estate in Tallaght is usually a hive of activity but Monday afternoon was different.\n\nPeople came and went quietly from the house where Chelsea, Christy and Lisa were killed.\n\nJust around the corner, Chelsea and Christy's schoolmates returned for their first day back after the summer break but the twins were not there.\n\nFamily members have put up a sign outside the house: \"Our three angels. Our best friends. We will never forget.\"\n\nHearts in this community are broken, and hurt like this will take a long time to heal.\n\nThe man who was arrested remains at Tallaght Garda Station and gardaí said they were not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident.\n\nIt is believed a man travelled to the house in south-west Dublin by taxi before becoming violent.\n\nGardaí from the armed support unit used tasers and sprays to subdue the man, according to Irish national broadcaster RTÉ.\n\nLisa Cash, who also died, was a sister of twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley\n\nCommissioner Harris said that gardaí responded quickly when neighbours reported the incident.\n\nHe commended the officers involved, saying they showed great courage, fortitude and professionalism.\n\nA post-mortem examination of Lisa Cash has been conducted, with further examinations on the bodies of Christy and Chelsea Cawley expected to take place on Monday.\n\nThe principal of St Aidan's Community School, Kevin Shortall, paid tribute to former pupil Lisa Cash, who completed her final exams last year.\n\n\"The amount of teachers that reached out yesterday with stories about Lisa - she was so highly regarded and a lovely young girl,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nMr Shortall said Lisa was a \"great friend, great big sister\" and would be fondly remembered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Cash was a talented, beautiful young lady, says her former school principal\n\nHe said the school had put a critical incident plan in place and would provide spaces for people to \"be together and grieve\".\n\nDermot Richardson, a Sinn Féin councillor for the area, described the incident as \"horrendous\".\n\n\"This is raw, this is a really tragic incident that happened in Rossfield,\" he said.\n\nHe said that despite not being physically injured in the attack, the mother of the children would have \"wounds that will never heal\".\n\nPriest Father Bill O'Shaughnessy said it was a \"truly shocking moment\" for the Tallaght community.\n\nFriends of the family comforted each other at the vigil for the victims on Monday evening\n\n\"The fact that three young people were taken in such a violent manner is nothing short of shocking,\" he said.\n\n\"I was there yesterday morning getting ready for mass in St Aidan's church, just as the news was filtering through at that stage.\n\n\"The people who were coming to church were really finding it hard to understand what had happened.\n\n\"We're very much a parish and an area at the moment which is suffering in terms of trying to understand and reeling from the shock, particularly the neighbours - it's extraordinary.\"", "Former James Bond star George Lazenby has apologised after being accused of making \"creepy\" and \"disgusting\" comments in an on-stage interview.\n\nThe actor, who played 007 in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, was appearing as part of an Australian tour called The Music of James Bond.\n\nAudience members in Perth took offence at what they described as \"homophobic\" comments, and explicit anecdotes.\n\nLazenby said he was \" saddened to hear\" that his stories had offended fans.\n\n\"It was never my intention to make hurtful or homophobic comments and I am truly sorry if my stories that I have shared many times were taken that way,\" he wrote in a statement.\n\nThe 83-year-old Australian actor has been removed from all future performances on the tour.\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 George Lazenby 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\nTheatre producer Concertworks said it was \"extremely saddened and disappointed\" by Lazenby's \"language, comments and recollections\" throughout Saturday's show in Perth.\n\n\"These were his personal views and there is no excuse for this in today's society. They do not reflect the views of Concertworks,\" said the company's lawyer, Aaron Kernaghan.\n\nThe company has been in touch with concertgoers who raised concerns, and has issued an apology to its audience, performers and the Perth Concert Hall.\n\nIn the meantime, it has \"chosen to discontinue its relationship with Mr Lazenby\" and has commenced \"a thorough review of the matter\", Mr Kernaghan added.\n\nAccording to one audience member, Lazenby spent Saturday's interview \"talking about basically his sexual conquests\".\n\n\"He was homophobic, he swore, he certainly wasn't talking about his Bond movies,\" she told Perth radio station 6PR. \"He downplayed the Queen a day after she died,\" she added.\n\n\"It was absolutely unbelievable… At one point he named an Australian cricketer whose daughter he was chasing, and he said he dragged the daughter out of a pub and put her in a car in London, which again is of course horrific.\n\n\"It wasn't even charming, it wasn't even funny. It was creepy, it was offensive... He was disgusting, there's no two ways about it.\"\n\nAnother attendee described the interview as the \"self-interested misogynistic stories of George Lazenby's sexual prowess, intimate details of diarrhoea and objectification of women.\"\n\n\"It wasn't until a brave member of the public shouted, 'Excuse me, this is offensive', that the tension was released and George was jeered off stage and music saved the day,\" they told The West Australian newspaper.\n\nConcertgoer Joseph McCormack said on Twitter that at least one audience member \"called out the offence that Lazenby was causing\" during the show.\n\nA second caller to 6PR defended the actor, saying his stories were a deliberate \"exaggeration\" for comedic effect.\n\n\"He didn't kidnap [anyone], there was no rape. People were just getting so woke. [The show] was very entertaining until people were yelling out and booing.\"\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify the nature of Lazenby's comments.\n\nLazenby only donned 007's tuxedo once, for 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service\n\nThe West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO), who also performed at the show, distanced themselves from the actor in a statement released this weekend.\n\n\"His recollections were personal views that may have reflected a time where such behaviour was tolerated, but has never been acceptable,\" the orchestra wrote.\n\n\"His comments were his own and do not reflect our society today. His views are not shared or endorsed by WASO or Perth Concert Hall.\"\n\nAustralia's culture minister David Templeman added: \"I understand that the audience made their views clear about the content and good on them. \"\n\nLazenby was catapulted to fame in 1969 when he was cast to replace Sean Connery in the James Bond franchise.\n\nA former model with no prior acting experience, he only starred in one film - claiming to have turned down $1m in cash to reprise the role.\n\n\"Bond is a brute … I've already put him behind me. I will never play him again. Peace - that's the message now,\" he said at the time.\n\nCorrection: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Concertworks had contacted concertgoers to issue a refund.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNational League fixtures will go ahead from Monday after football paused as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nAll English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football was postponed over the weekend.\n\nMidweek English Football League (EFL) fixtures will also go ahead with a minute's silence held before matches, black armbands worn, flags to be flown at half-mast and the National Anthem to be played in stadiums.\n\nThe EFL said in a statement: \"With a national policing plan now in operation, the League and Clubs will continue to work with forces in respect of any challenges that may emerge regarding policing of specific fixtures.\"\n\nThe Premier League is also yet to make an announcement about the games to be played between 16 and 18 September.\n\nSome matches could be affected by a lack of resources such as policing, but issues will be reviewed on a game-by-game basis.\n\nA spokesperson for the National Police Chiefs Council said: \"UK Policing is working closely with other organisations to ensure events are held safely and with the appropriate security.\n\n\"Following the decisions of the Premier League and English Football League to cancel this weekend's matches, we will work with football clubs to try and ensure that, where possible, football fixtures can take place safely when balanced against the requirement to support national events and deliver day to day policing.\n\n\"This is a unique situation and we are working closely with everyone involved.\"\n\nWelsh football at all levels will resume on Tuesday, but the Football Association of Wales said guidance regarding fixtures due to be held on the day of the funeral \"will be provided in due course\".\n\nIn a statement earlier on Sunday, the National League - the fifth tier of English football - said: \"The League can confirm fixtures scheduled for week commencing Monday, 12 September will go ahead as scheduled.\n\n\"Clubs are asked, for all fixtures up until the funeral, to observe a one-minute silence prior to the game and to wear black armbands as a mark of respect.\"\n\nThe restart comes after the Football Association cleared fixtures to be played from Monday, when four FA Trophy games and two matches in the National League pyramid at Bradford Park Avenue and Chelmsford City will take place.\n\nThe Queen, Britain's longest ever reigning monarch, died on Thursday and a state funeral will be held on Monday, 19 September.\n\nUefa has moved Rangers' Champions League home game against Napoli from Tuesday to Wednesday, \"due to the severe limitations on police resources and organisational issues related to the ongoing events surrounding the national mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II\".\n\nMeanwhile, Tottenham have confirmed their Champions League game away to Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday is \"going ahead as planned.\"\n\nTen Premier League games were postponed over the weekend, including Monday's match between Leeds United and Nottingham Forest.\n\nPolicing games could be a factor in the decision if forces are redeployed to London before the Queen's funeral.\n\nThere are currently three matches scheduled to take place in the capital. Tottenham play Leicester on Saturday evening, while Brentford face Arsenal and Chelsea are at home to Liverpool on Sunday, 18 September.\n\nManchester City's Champions League home game with Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday is due to go ahead as planned, as is Manchester United's Europa League game with FC Sheriff in Moldova on Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThree Premier League matches have been postponed this weekend before the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nChelsea's home game with Liverpool and Leeds United's trip to Manchester United have been called off.\n\nBrighton against Crystal Palace had already been called off because of rail strikes and remains postponed.\n\nThe other league matches between 16 and 18 September will take place after football paused last weekend as a mark of respect following the Queen's death.\n\nThe Queen's funeral will be held on Monday 19 September.\n\n\"Following extensive consultation with clubs, police, local safety advisory groups and other relevant authorities, there was no other option but to postpone the three fixtures,\" said a Premier League statement.\n\n\"The Premier League would like to thank the UK Football Policing Unit and other police forces across the country, as well as our broadcast partners, for their support during this process, and will continue to liaise with them ahead of the weekend.\n\n\"For the matches being played during the period of national mourning, tributes will be paid to the Queen at Premier League stadiums.\n\n\"New dates for the postponed matches will be announced in due course.\"\n\nBrighton were scheduled to host Palace on Saturday and, while a rail strike on that day has been suspended following the death of the Queen, the game will not go ahead.\n\nThe other two postponed games were due to take place on Sunday.\n\n\"The UK Football Policing Unit and National Police Chiefs' Council have worked closely with the Premier League, English Football League and Football Association to balance the policing requirements following the death of Her Majesty the Queen, daily policing and enabling as many football matches as possible to go ahead as planned,\" said an NPCC statement.\n\nChelsea's game against Red Bull Salzburg in the Champions League on Wednesday is still on, but Arsenal's Europa League tie with PSV Eindhoven on Thursday has been postponed.\n\nAll English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football was postponed over the weekend but matches across the game are set to resume.\n\nEnglish Football League fixtures will return from Tuesday, while the Women's Super League and Women's Championship - due to start last weekend - will take place as scheduled.\n\nFootball will resume in Northern Ireland on Monday, while Welsh football will restart on Tuesday. and Scottish football on Wednesday.\n\nNational League fixtures will go ahead from Monday, along with all matches across grassroots football in England.\n\nThe Football Association confirmed all scheduled matches on the day of the Queen's funeral will be postponed.\n\nIn a statement, the FA said: \"All matches held at stadiums are subject to leagues and clubs working with the relevant authorities to stage these fixtures, as usual practice.\n\n\"We will be recommending to clubs, leagues and competitions across the country that a minute's silence is observed before matches are played, and that black armbands should be worn where possible.\"\n\nArsenal's match with PSV Eindhoven was scheduled to take place at Emirates Stadium on Thursday.\n\nUefa said a new date for the match would be communicated in due course.\n\nAbout 3,000 PSV fans were expected at the match.\n\nA Uefa statement, announcing the postponement, said: \"This is due to the severe limitations on police resources and organisational issues related to the ongoing events surrounding the national mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.\"\n\nAt EFL games, tributes will be paid to the Queen at grounds, with a minute's silence to be held before matches and the national anthem played.\n\nBlack armbands will be worn and flags will be flown at half-mast.\n\nIn a statement, the EFL said it would \"continue to work with forces in respect of any challenges that may emerge regarding policing of specific fixtures\".\n\nIt added: \"Consideration to individual circumstances will be made on a case-by-case basis, in line with standard match Safety Advisory Group protocols.\"\n\nThere are six Championship fixtures scheduled for Tuesday, alongside full programmes in League One and League Two. There are then six more Championship matches on Wednesday.\n\nWhat about other European fixtures?\n\nUefa has already moved Rangers' Champions League home game against Napoli from Tuesday to Wednesday \"due to the severe limitations on police resources and organisational issues related to the ongoing events surrounding the national mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II\".\n\nMeanwhile, Tottenham have confirmed their Champions League game away to Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday is \"going ahead as planned\", while Liverpool are hosting Ajax at Anfield on the same day and Celtic travel to Poland to face Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday.\n\nManchester City's Champions League home game with Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday is due to go ahead, as is Manchester United's Europa League game with Sheriff Tiraspol in Moldova on Thursday.\n\nIn the Europa Conference League, West Ham are away to Danish side Silkeborg on Thursday, while Hearts travel to Latvian side Rigas Futbola Skola.", "'We're staring into the abyss' - Former Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has been discussing the challenges facing the King and the UK as the country enters a new phase in its history. Dr Williams told the BBC’s Newscast podcast: “We’re a society staring into a little bit of an abyss in the next few months, where poverty and deprivation for quite a lot of people, are going to be a major issue.” Talking about the role of King Charles III, he said: “I think it is crucial that the new King give the message... that he's committed to a society where nobody gets forgotten.” He went on to say: “Lots of communities are faced with really impossible choices about energy, about food, about their general security. It’s the biggest thing I know on the agenda of the new prime minister and the new government. It’s a watershed moment for them just as much as for the monarchy.” Dr Williams said: “If we can get through this winter without collapse, we can manage with all those pressures, we will have sent a very important message to the other end of Europe that we are prepared to face some constraints for the sake of Ukraine.” Last Thursday, the government set out its energy support plan which included limiting energy bill rises for all households for two years, and six months for businesses. Newscast’s full interview with Dr Williams is available on BBC Sounds. This content is currently not available", "The Ukrainian military is making further gains in its counter-offensive against Russia.\n\nAs a result Russian forces have withdrawn from key eastern towns.\n\nUkrainian officials said troops entered Kupiansk, a vital eastern supply hub for Russian forces, on Saturday.", "NHS bosses have been told to make sure patients can access care if GPs close on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nNHS England has written to local bosses saying while GP services will be able to close on the bank holiday there needs to be enough out-of-hours care.\n\nThe letter also asked for scheduled Covid booster care home visits to be carried out as planned.\n\nIn another letter to hospitals NHS England said it expected a rise in patients not turning up for clinics.\n\nThere have been reports of some hospitals in England and other parts of the UK cancelling routine treatments due to take place on the day of the funeral too.\n\nThe letter to hospitals, signed by NHS England's chief operating officer Sir David Sloman, said NHS trusts should also have a method to identify overseas visitors and have plans to manage them and make sure they are charged \"appropriately\".\n\nThe letter addressing GP access, signed by NHS England's director of primary care Dr Ursula Montgomery, said GP practices would be contractually able to close their core services on Monday as it is a confirmed bank holiday.\n\nBut it added local health boards would need to \"urgently work to ensure sufficient out-of-hours services capacity is in place\".\n\nThe letter also said areas should look at rescheduling cancelled appointments and making sure patients can pick up prescriptions in advance.\n\nHealth bosses will also need to work with dentists so patients can access urgent dental care and medicines, it added.", "The Queen has arrived at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.\n\nAs her children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward looked on, her coffin was greeted with a guard of honour as it was carried inside.\n\nThe late monarch will remain in the throne room of the palace overnight.\n\nKing Charles is currently in London but will travel to Edinburgh on Monday.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "The cortege makes its way through the village of Ballater near Barmoral\n\nThousands of people turned out to pay their respects to the Queen on her final journey through Scotland.\n\nFamilies lined the streets on Sunday, saying they wanted to be part of an event their children would \"learn about in years to come\".\n\nThe cortege made a six-hour road trip from Balmoral to The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.\n\nThe 175-mile journey took it through Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Angus and Tayside before reaching Edinburgh.\n\nThousands gathered at designated viewing locations along the route.\n\nThe coffin was draped in the Queen's standard with a wreath made from some of her favourite flowers - white heather, dahlias and sweet peas - all cut from the gardens at Balmoral.\n\nChildren in Ballater wait for the cortege to arrive\n\nThe procession left the royal estate at 10:00. In Ballater the crowd stood in silence as the cortege moved through.\n\nThe community, less than eight miles from Balmoral, considered her more of a friendly neighbour than a monarch.\n\nResidents were used to seeing the Queen in the area, and many had frequent interactions with her.\n\n\"You can feel the emotion from everybody around here,\" said resident Cheryl Barr.\n\n\"She was a very powerful lady, but very gentle at the same time.\"\n\nPipes played in Aboyne as the coffin passed the village\n\nA helicopter overhead signalled the arrival of the procession in nearby Aboyne. The crowd had tracked progress watching the news on their phones.\n\nPipes played as a hush fell over the village, and a voice from the crowd said: \"You're on your way now.\"\n\nThe Thomson family travelled from Inverurie to be there. Mum Katherine - with children Megan, 10, and Katie, eight, and Pepper the dog - said the monarch was \"highly respected and well-loved\".\n\nShe added: \"It's such a historical event. She just reminds us of the kids' great-granny.\"\n\nThe Thomson family said the Queen was like their great grandmother\n\nJohn Palmer, 51, and his partner Kerry Davidson, 40, left Elderslie in Renfrewshire early on Sunday morning to reach the village.\n\n\"We just wanted to be here,\" Mr Palmer said. \"It was very poignant.\n\n\"She sat on the throne for 70 years and was respected around the world. She has been a constant in our lives.\n\n\"She was a remarkable woman. I still don't believe it, it's very sad.\"\n\nCrowds gathered in Holborn Street and King George VI bridge in Aberdeen\n\nFrom Aboyne the funeral cortege travelled through Banchory, where flowers were thrown over the car. Crowds applauded as the procession left the village, travelling on to Aberdeen.\n\nLarge crowds gathered in Aberdeen's Holborn Street and along King George VI Bridge - named after the Queen's father.\n\nAshleigh and Donald Wilson brought their two young daughters\n\nAshleigh said: \"In years to come my children will learn about her and learn about this moment. To show them they were here is important.\"\n\nAshleigh and Donald Wilson want their children to be part of a historic moment\n\nAt King George VI Bridge crowds fell silent for about 10 minutes as the coffin passed. As the tension lifted the cortege headed south towards Stonehaven.\n\nFrom Aberdeen it travelled on through Angus to Dundee.\n\nHere people began gathering from early morning to save a spot on the grassy banks of the Kingsway.\n\nFamilies and friends ate picnics on camp chairs, chatting about their affection for the Queen, before the procession reached the city at about 14:30.\n\nPeople line the A90 near Stracathro as the procession travels on to Dundee\n\nLinda McKichen, 60, arrived four hours early to see the cortege and said it was a \"heart-breaking\" occasion.\n\nShe added: \"It's like losing my mum. She's never not been in my life. This is a historic event, we'll certainly never have another queen like her.\n\n\"The Royal Family are human beings like the rest of us, and they've just lost a gran and mum. It's a really sad day.\"\n\nAlso in the crowd was Victoria Cowie, 22, a medical student at St Andrews University. She said it was a \"sombre moment\" but also a celebration of the monarch's life.\n\n\"I wanted to come and see the procession because the Queen was an incredible person,\" she said.\n\n\"She's really important to the UK.\"\n\nVictoria Cowie said it was a sombre moment as the Queen's coffin reached Dundee\n\nThe procession continued to Perth then over the Queensferry Crossing to Edinburgh.\n\nThe city's Royal Mile was stripped of its regular chaotic beat of bagpipes, street performers and tour guides.\n\nHushed chatter and an air of anticipation filled the streets as the royal cars approached.\n\nThe best vantage points were full as residents and curious tourists packed in along the endless lines of metal barriers.\n\nResidents and tourists packed the streets of Edinburgh to catch a glimpse of the Queen's coffin\n\nBradley Harkins, visiting Edinburgh from Chicago, said: \"There's a real sense that something major is happening.\n\n\"I was at the proclamation earlier and it sent shivers down my spine.\"\n\nRipples of applause followed the Queen's funeral cortege as it travelled through the centre of the capital.\n\nDillon Hay, visiting from Bangor in Northern Ireland, had been due to catch a flight but remained in the city to watch.\n\n\"We had to come and pay our respects while we were here,\" he said.\n\n\"I've actually found it emotional on behalf of my nanny, I rang her and she was in floods of tears.\"\n\nDillon Hay from Northern Ireland came to pay his respects while visiting Edinburgh\n\nThe Queen's coffin will remain overnight at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nOn Monday, there will be a procession from the palace to St Giles Cathedral - where it will rest for 24 hours to allow people to pay their respects.\n\nThe next day it will be flown from Edinburgh Airport to RAF Northolt before going on to Buckingham Palace, ahead of the Queen's funeral on Monday 19 September.", "Prince William has pledged to serve the Welsh people with \"humility\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales has pledged to serve the people of Wales with \"humility and great respect\".\n\nPrince William and his wife Catherine were named the Prince and Princess of Wales by King Charles III on Friday.\n\nIn a phone call with Wales' first minister, the prince is said to have acknowledged his and the princess's deep affection for Wales.\n\nThe prince also spoke of his hope the royal couple would visit Wales soon.\n\nKensington Palace said the prince expressed they would \"do their part to support the aspirations of the Welsh people\".\n\n\"The prince and princess look forward to celebrating Wales's proud history and traditions as well as a future that is full of promise,\" the palace said.\n\n\"They will seek to live up to the proud contribution that members of the Royal family have made in years past.\"\n\nThe prince spoke of wanting to meet First Minister Mark Drakeford and other Welsh leaders at the \"earliest opportunity\" and thanked him for his \"fitting tribute\" to Her Majesty The Queen.\n\nHe was stationed with his young family at RAF Valley on Anglesey, making a home there in the earliest months of Prince George's life.\n\nThe couple visited Wales to mark St Davids Day in March, when they were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nKing Charles III passed the title to his son during his first address to the nation following the death of the Queen, aged 96.\n\n\"Today, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru,\" said the King, who held the title for 64 years.\n\nFollowing in the footsteps of Princess Diana, who died 25 years ago, the Princess of Wales is said to \"appreciate the history\", but will \"want to look to the future as she creates her own path\", a source said following the announcement.\n\nPrincess Diana's title changed after her divorce from King Charles, and she became Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nThe princess has become the first since Princess Diana to use the well-known title, one that was also previously Camilla's but which she never used.\n\nCatherine described Diana as \"an inspirational woman to look up to\" following her engagement to Prince William in 2010.\n\nThe royal couple will also take the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall titles, previously held by the King and Camilla, the new Queen Consort.\n\nKing Charles was crowned Prince of Wales in front of huge crowds at at Caernarfon Castle\n\nThe King was only 20 years old when he was crowned Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, in 1969.\n\nThe investiture was watched by a TV audience of millions around the world - however it is a title that has divided opinion in Wales.\n\nAn opinion poll of 1,020 people in June 2022, conducted by ITV and YouGov, suggested that 46% of people thought there should be another Prince of Wales, while 31% did not.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess were last in Wales in June for rehearsals of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations at Cardiff Castle.\n\nThey were joined by Prince George and Princess Charlotte on their first official visit to Wales.\n\nPrince George, eight, and Princess Charlotte, seven, made their first official visit to Wales with their parents in June\n\nThe visit was Princess Charlotte's first to Wales, along with her brother George\n\nEarlier this year, in March, William and Catherine helped mark St David's Day in Wales.\n\nThey baked Welsh cakes with members of a youth club and received a warm welcome from crowds of people during visits to Abergavenny and Blaenavon.\n\n\"Don't judge my cooking. It's not Bake Off,\" said Catherine as the couple spent time in the kitchen at Blaenavon Hwb in Torfaen.\n\nThe royal couple's first home after their marriage in 2011 was on Anglesey, where the prince was working as a search and rescue helicopter pilot.\n\nTheir first child, Prince George, was born while they lived in Wales and they have since returned to visit old friends in north Wales.\n\nPrince William was a search and rescue pilot based at RAF Valley on Anglesey from 2010-13\n\nThe princess was regularly spotted in local supermarkets on Anglesey and she volunteered will the local Scout Association, and she also learnt how to sing the Welsh national anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.\n\nIn a statement Kensington Palace said: \"The prince and princess will spend the months and years ahead deepening their relationship with communities across Wales.\"\n\nCatherine was an active volunteer for the Scout Association on Anglesey", "The Queen pictured in January 2022 with her dachshund-corgi cross, Candy\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's corgis are going to live with her son Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nThe Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York will take on Muick and Sandy - two young corgis that the prince and his daughters gave the Queen as a present in 2021.\n\nThe Queen also had a dorgi - a dachshund-corgi cross - named Candy, which she was pictured with in January.\n\nHer Majesty owned more than 30 corgis during her lifetime.\n\nSo strong was the association that well-wishers almost immediately began asking who would adopt the dogs.\n\nA source close to Prince Andrew told the BBC: \"The corgis will return to live at Royal Lodge with the duke and duchess. It was the duchess who found the puppies which were gifted to Her Majesty by the duke.\n\n\"The duchess bonded with Her Majesty over dog walking and riding horses, and even after her divorce, she would continue her great friendship with Her Majesty, by walking the dogs in Frogmore and chatting.\"\n\nRoyal Lodge, a mansion in the grounds of the Windsor Estate, is the home of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, and Frogmore is an estate next to Windsor Castle.\n\nThe duke, 62, and his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, initially gave the Queen Muick and another puppy named Fergus last spring. The goal was to lift the Queen's spirits while her husband, the late Prince Philip, was in hospital and amid the Covid lockdown.\n\nPrince Andrew and the corgis have a lifelong association. (Pictured in 1966)\n\nMuick, pronounced \"Mick\", is a corgi, named after Loch Muick, on the royal Balmoral estate.\n\nFergus, a dorgi, was named after the Queen's maternal uncle, Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, who was killed in action during World War One. The puppy died in May aged just five months, reportedly due to a heart defect. The Queen was said to be devastated.\n\nPrince Andrew then gave her another corgi puppy, Sandy, on her official 95th birthday.\n\nThe Queen's dresser, personal assistant and longstanding friend Angela Kelly said recently that the new arrivals had proved a \"constant joy\" and \"always brought a smile to everyone's faces\".\n\nThe Queen was an enthusiastic corgi breeder, and owned more than 30 corgis and dorgis over six decades. Many were descended from Susan - the dog she received as an 18th birthday present from her father in 1944.\n\nThe royal household's breeding programme wound up several years ago, however, as the Queen was said to be unwilling to leave young dogs behind when she died.\n\nThere has been speculation that Prince Andrew, knowing this, may have assured his mother he would care for the dogs if the need arose.\n\nThe prince and his ex-wife the duchess have remained very close since their divorce in 1996, so her involvement does not come as a surprise.\n\nThe duchess said the Queen had been \"the most incredible mother-in-law and friend\" to her and that she would miss her \"more than words can express\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles III promised to follow the late Queen's \"selfless duty\" in his first address to both Houses of Parliament as monarch.\n\nThe King said Parliament was the \"living and breathing instrument of our democracy\" as he spoke in front of 900 MPs and peers at Westminster Hall.\n\nIt followed condolences from speakers of the House of Commons and Lords.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle, House of Commons speaker, said \"as deep as our grief is, we know yours is deeper\".\n\nAddressing the King on behalf of MPs, Sir Lindsay added: \"We know you hold the greatest respect, the precious traditions, the freedoms, and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government.\n\n\"We know that you will bear those responsibilities which fall to you with the fortitude, dignity, demonstrated by Her late Majesty.\"\n\nThe King, in his response, said: \"While very young, Her Late Majesty pledged herself to serve her country and her people and to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government which lie at the heart of our nation. This vow she kept with unsurpassed devotion.\n\n\"She set an example of selfless duty which, with God's help and your counsels, I am resolved faithfully to follow.\"\n\nState trumpeters played a fanfare as King Charles made his way through Westminster Hall at 10:25 BST while the Royal Standard was raised in place of the half mast.\n\nKing Charles was accompanied by his wife the Queen Consort while he addressed MPs and peers\n\nKing Charles said he \"cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us\" at Westminster Hall\n\nBuilt in 1097, Westminster Hall has played a significant role in British history across the centuries.\n\n\"I cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us and which reminds us of the vital parliamentary traditions to which members of both houses dedicate yourselves, with such personal commitment for the betterment of us all,\" the King said in his address.\n\n\"Parliament is the living and breathing instrument of our democracy. That your traditions are ancient we see in the construction of this great hall and the reminders of medieval predecessors of the office to which I have been called.\"\n\nAt the ceremony - which took place in the same hall where the Queen's coffin will lie in state later this week - the monarch, accompanied by Camilla, Queen Consort, were offered condolences on behalf of both Houses of Parliament.\n\nLord McFall paid tribute to the late Queen and said she \"captured the imagination of peoples across the globe\".\n\n\"We remember her commitment, her kindness, her humour, her courage and her fortitude as well as the deep faith which was the anchor in her life,\" he added.\n\n\"We are proud and humbled to welcome you as King.\"\n\nAlso among the attendees in the hall was Ugbana Oyet, the first black sergeant at arms in the role's history.\n\nMonday's visit to Westminster also saw members of both houses pledging loyalty to the new monarch.\n\nThe audience at Westminster Hall formed a \"who's who\" of contemporary politicians. Party leaders chatting amiably in the front few rows, cabinet ministers of decades past now in the House of Lords a few rows back.\n\n\"There is nobody in either House who has taken an oath of allegiance to anybody other than Queen Elizabeth,\" Conservative peer and former MP Lord Cormack said after the ceremony.\n\n\"I've been here 52 years, I've taken the oath 14 times. On Saturday for the first time to the new King.\"\n\nYounger parliamentarians, like Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who became Labour MP for Slough in 2017, were conscious of just how rare it is for MPs to be part of the transition to a new monarch.\n\n\"It is a very privileged position we find ourselves in,\" he said.\n\nAfter the ceremony, the King and Queen Consort travelled to Edinburgh, the city where the Queen's coffin has been lying-in-rest since Sunday.\n\nThere, they were greeted by large crowds before they continued on to the Palace of Holyroodhouse for the Ceremony of Keys.\n\nThe trip marks the start of a royal tour of all four nations of the UK.\n\nOne well-wisher among the crowd outside the palace thanked the King and the Queen Consort for the UK's support for Ukraine during the nation's conflict with Russia.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort were greeted by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as they arrived at Edinburgh Airport\n\nThe ceremony at Holyroodhouse was followed by a procession along the Royal Mile to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nThe King, alongside Princess Anne and Princes Edward and Andrew, walked behind the Queen's coffin as it made its way along the Royal Mile.\n\nThe Duke of York did not wear military uniform because he is no longer a working royal, although is expected to as a special mark of respect at a final vigil to be held at Westminster Hall.\n\nAt the cathedral, the Royal Family were joined by a congregation drawn from all areas of Scottish society for a service of thanksgiving for the Queen's life.\n\nThe King later returned to Holyroodhouse for an audience with Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, before making the short journey to the Scottish Parliament, where members delivered a motion of condolence.\n\nLater in the evening, the King and his family observed a vigil at the cathedral in honour of the Queen.\n\nHer coffin will remain at the cathedral for 24 hours for members of the public to pay their respects, before being flown back to RAF Northolt and then travelling on to Buckingham Palace.\n\nSince the Queen died at Balmoral on Thursday, thousands of mourners have laid flowers and tributes at places she lived, including Buckingham Palace, Sandringham House and Windsor Castle.\n\nMore than 750,000 could file past the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall during her lying-in-state later this week. Mourners wishing to do so have been warned queues could reach 20 hours.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall, the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, was the Queen Mother in 2002 when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nSir Peter Bottomley, father of the House of Commons, said he expected \"we'll see 10 times more than that\" this week.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It is a magnificent opportunity for people to come through Westminster Hall and actually feel the modernity of the monarchy and the tradition.\"\n\nSir Peter said the events of the past few days showed how in the space of a week you can change the head of state and the prime minister and have people taking to the streets \"with love and flowers\".\n\nThe lying-in-state begins at 17:00 BST on Wednesday and will last until 06:30 on Monday 19 September - the day of the Queen's funeral at Westminster Abbey.\n\nMembers of the public have been invited to take part in a minute's silence at 20:00 BST on Sunday, the evening before the funeral.\n\n\"The silence can be marked privately at home on your own or with friends and neighbours, out on your doorstep or street with neighbours, or at any locally arranged, community events and vigils,\" a spokesperson for No 10 said.", "A young King Charles arrives at Gordonstoun, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh\n\nWhen Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh went to watch the future King Charles III performing at Gordonstoun, their seats were reserved with pieces of paper which simply said \"Mum\" and \"Dad\".\n\nHis education at the independent boarding school, in Moray, was a significant departure from the royal norm.\n\nHe was the first Prince of Wales to be educated at a school rather than by private tutors. And his accession to the throne makes Gordonstoun the first senior school to educate a British monarch.\n\nThe school was founded in 1934 by a German Jewish educationist, Kurt Hahn, after he fled the Nazis. His vision was to create well-rounded citizens of the world, with a focus on life skills and service as much as academic achievement.\n\nKing Charles is shown his new school at Gordonstoun by Captain Ian Tennant on 2 May 1962\n\nThe young prince joined at the age of 13.\n\nOn his first day, on 1 May 1962, the then Prince Charles was flown to RAF Lossiemouth in a plane piloted by his father Prince Philip, who was one of Gordonstoun's first pupils. He was then driven about half a mile to the school.\n\nOver the next five years he studied the school's broad curriculum and took part in a range of activities away from the classroom. These includes sailing, being a member of HM's Coastguard unit, taking lead roles in drama productions, singing in the school choir, and playing trumpet and cello.\n\nHis performance as the king in a school production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, in 1965, received critical acclaim, with newspapers using a striking image of him on their front pages.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh joined other parents to watch the final performance.\n\nOther roles included the Duke of Exeter in Shakespeare's Henry V and the Pirate King in the school's 1967 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance.\n\nHe was described as \"the best actor in the school\" by Donald McLachlan in the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nHe was a member of the Debating Society and was an accomplished potter. He also went on regular sailing and walking expeditions in the Highlands and in his final year was head boy.\n\nKing Charles (second right) in a performance of Patience in 1965\n\nKing Charles performing as the Duke of Exeter (second from left behind the throne) in the school's production of Henry V in 1965\n\nKing Charles (front, centre) playing the cello in an orchestra of local children\n\nHe left Gordonstoun in 1967 with five O-levels in English Language, English Literature, History, Latin and French and two A-levels in History and French.\n\nHe achieved above average results which secured him a place to study archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University.\n\nIt was a surprise decision for a future king, who would have been expected to focus on specially-chosen subjects such as constitutional history.\n\nThere have been numerous reports that King Charles hated his time at Gordonstoun and that he struggled to cope in the tough environment.\n\nHowever, he has often played this down. During a House of Lords speech in 1975, he said: \"I am always astonished by the amount of rot talked about Gordonstoun and the careless use of ancient clichés used to describe it.\n\n\"It was only tough in the sense that it demanded more of you as an individual than most other schools did - mentally or physically.\n\n\"I am lucky in that I believe it taught me a great deal about myself and my own abilities and disabilities. It taught me to accept challenges and take the initiative.\"\n\nGordonstoun was founded with a focus on life skills and service as much as academic achievement\n\nThe previous year he told The Observer that he was glad he went to Gordonstoun.\n\n\"I didn't enjoy school as much as I might have, but that was only because I'm happier at home than anywhere else,\" he said.\n\n\"But Gordonstoun developed my willpower and self control, helped me to discipline myself… We went in for 'adventure'.\n\n\"We ran our own fire brigade, we had our own sea rescue service, mountain rescue, surf life-saving, coastguard, etc. It was adventure. And we were damn good.\"\n\nDuring the early days of Gordonstoun, the daily timetable included a morning run of 50 to 100 yards, followed by a warm shower then a cold one.\n\nKing Charles on his arrival at Gordonstoun in 1962\n\nA newspaper profile ahead of the king's 30th birthday noted that he had seemed \"temporarily unsuited\" for the rigours of Gordonstoun but added: \"Nowadays, he pays tribute to Kurt Hahn's tough training in self reliance and leadership.\"\n\nIt said Hahn's teaching had shaped his adult life, particularly in his approach to \"alienated and underprivileged\" youth.\n\nKing Charles was said to have liked fishing and hockey at school but \"loathed\" playing cricket. It was reported that his weakest subject was maths.\n\nIn 1964, he undertook a week's training at Portsmouth naval base with the cadet force from Gordonstoun to be taught basic sailing, rowing and navigation.\n\nWhile at Gordonstoun, the young prince lived in Windmill Lodge - now a female boarding house. His contemporaries describe the communal areas as warm and cosy, although it was customary to leave a window open in dormitories for ventilation.\n\nThe future king with the Queen during a visit to Gordonstoun in 1967\n\nOne former pupil said: \"In Windmill Lodge, at that time, everybody except the House Helper slept in dormitories, of which the smallest was four beds and the largest about six beds, I think, maybe one or two had eight.\n\n\"Charles was no exception… until he became the House Helper when, like his predecessors, he had his own study/bedroom.\n\n\"As for the beds themselves, everyone had identical beds, which were simple, modern and lowish (the kind that is nowadays called a divan). They were fairly comfortable and there were no complaints about them.\"\n\nCharles also took part in an exchange trip to a school in the Australian outback in 1966. He said it was \"rigorous\" and tougher than Gordonstoun, but he loved it.\n\nHe went on expeditions into the bush every weekend and ran two cross country runs a week.\n\nHe also wrote an account of his stay in the school magazine, in which he said: \"There is a lot of wood chopping done here but I'm afraid it's very essential as the boys boilers have to be stoked with logs and the kitchen uses a huge number.\n\n\"The first week I was here I was made to go out and chop up logs on a hillside in boiling hot weather. I could hardly see my hands for blisters after that.\"\n\nDuring his time at the school there were reports that he fell ill with pneumonia while camping out on the royal estate at Balmoral along with three other boys from Gordonstoun, and that he broke his nose while playing rugby at school.\n\nThe biggest scandal was over what was dubbed the Cherry Brandy Affair, in June 1963 - when the the King drank a cherry brandy at a hotel on the island of Lewis.\n\nNot only was he under the legal drinking age but it was also forbidden for Gordonstoun boys to drink alcohol.\n\nThe story made the papers and King Charles was spoken to \"strongly\" by the head teacher.\n\nHe later spoke about the incident in a radio interview, saying he had gone to the bar to escape \"people looking in the windows\" at him while he was waiting for a meal.\n\nHaving never been in a bar before, he said the \"most sensible\" thing to do was to have a drink.\n\n\"And being terrified not knowing what to do I said the first drink that came into my head, which happened to be cherry brandy, because I'd drunk it before when it was cold out shooting - and hardly had I taken a sip when the whole world exploded around my head. That's all.\"\n\nLisa Kerr, principal of Gordonstoun, said King Charles' life of service, love of the outdoors, enjoyment of the arts and intellectual curiosity had all been nurtured at the school.\n\n\"It was at Gordonstoun that he discovered a love of archaeology and became an accomplished actor and potter,\" she said.\n\n\"He also helped the community through his involvement in the Coastguard Service, and His Majesty remains a patron of the Coastguard to this day.\"\n\nShe added: \"Many of our former pupils who were his contemporaries talk of a quiet and talented student who blossomed at school, especially after an exchange trip to Australia. We wish him every success in his reign.\"", "Few settings can inspire awe and evoke the weight of history like Westminster Hall.\n\nIt hosted Henry VIII's Coronation Banquet in 1509, the trial of Guy Fawkes in 1606 and in modern times, speeches from era-defining figures such as Nelson Mandela, Presidents Obama and De Gaulle and, on five separate occasions, the late Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe 900 Parliamentarians present to witness King Charles III's first speech to both Houses of Parliament were acutely aware that history was unfolding before their eyes.\n\nFiling in from around 0900 BST, dressed in black, a \"who's who\" of contemporary politicians.\n\nThe party leaders were among the MPs offering their condolences\n\nParty leaders chatting amiably in the front few rows, cabinet ministers of decades past now in the House of Lords a few rows back.\n\nNot every MP and peer could attend, for they number way more than 900 in total.\n\nSo, for some, it was a case of first come first served - and plenty arrived early to make sure they would get a seat.\n\nThe King wanted this occasion to happen in Parliament, happen in public and happen quickly.\n\nAt a time when the oddities of the British constitution are exposed to sunlight - and television - it emphasised that the UK is and has long been a parliamentary democracy.\n\nThe King may be the Sovereign, but sovereignty lies with Parliament.\n\n\"There is nobody in either House who has taken an oath of allegiance to anybody other than Queen Elizabeth,\" Conservative peer and former MP Lord Cormack said after the ceremony.\n\n\"I've been here 52 years, I've taken the oath 14 times. On Saturday for the first time to the new King.\"\n\nThe condolences ceremony was, he said, \"a very simple, but extremely moving occasion\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe King looked occasionally towards the two Speakers, Lord McFall and Sir Lindsay Hoyle.\n\nOccasionally his gaze tilted towards the audience, occasionally to the floor. The Queen Consort, Camilla, looked straight ahead throughout.\n\nThroughout, the audience was a sea of expressionless, thoughtful faces seated silently.\n\nUntil, that is, they sang the National Anthem, with its new words to get used to.\n\nYounger parliamentarians, like Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who became Labour MP for Slough in 2017, were conscious of just how rare it is for MPs to be part of the transition to a new Monarch.\n\n\"It is a very privileged position we find ourselves in,\" he said.\n\nReflecting on the challenge facing the new King, he said: \"I am sure he will do an incredible job, just as his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II did.\"\n\nBoris Johnson was among MPs at Westminster Hall\n\nThe other overwhelming feeling that the ceremony evoked in those present was a sense of continuity, of the machinery of state moving seamlessly to transfer power.\n\n\"There hasn't even been a momentary gap,\" said Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, \"everything has gone on\".\n\nHe added: \"Traditions give us enormous continuity. They hold us at moments like this. There is no uncertainty. Everything moves as it should move and that is a good thing at a time like this.\"\n\nLabour MP Dame Margaret Hodge said: \"You felt it was a moment in history, with authority moving from one person to the other and I think it was both sad and important.\"\n\nAnd the King personified both that sense of continuity and the sense of grief.\n\nThat the passing of a monarch in her mid 90s can be unsurprising and yet still shocking.\n\nKing Charles and the Queen Consort process out of Westminster Hall\n\nFor some, it was a time to reflect on the mood of the nation.\n\nConservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said: \"It's strange to be celebrating something when we are all still mourning Queen Elizabeth's II's death and it must seem even stranger for His Majesty and his family.\n\n\"We just need to help each other through this very difficult period and these very turbulent times. I find that the country is calmed and stilled by this experience and I think it will help us with the challenges ahead.\"\n\nLike others we spoke to, newly-appointed security minister, and former Conservative leadership challenger, Tom Tugendhat, was in no doubt that the new King was equal to his task.\n\n\"It's quite remarkable to see an individual who has already given so much service to our country re-dedicate themselves, as the King just has, to guarding our laws, defending our democracy and championing our people. It's a remarkable example of service, integrity and duty and courage that I think we all need to learn from.\n\n\"He's got the example of the most extraordinary monarch we are blessed to have had, Elizabeth the Faithful, the most faithful of all our monarchs.\"\n\nThe King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard were much in evidence\n\nIt was also clear, from the reaction of his constituents, and other members of the public, that \"the level of support and loyalty to His Majesty is very, very strong\", he added.\n\nBrecon and Radnorshire MP Faye Jones, who was a senior researcher for the then Prince of Wales before entering Parliament, said: \"I organised his engagements around the country. So it is very special and very moving for me to see him now take up his new role as King.\n\n\"I know he's been preparing for the role for a very long time. He was an outstanding Prince of Wales so I have no doubt that he'll be a phenomenal monarch.\"", "After six months of war, it is still unknown what the Russian president will do next\n\nYou can normally expect Russian state TV's flagship weekly news programme to trumpet Kremlin successes.\n\n\"On the frontlines of the special operation [in Ukraine], this has been the toughest week so far,\" declared sombre-looking anchor Dmitry Kiselev.\n\n\"It was particularly tough along the Kharkiv front, where following an onslaught by enemy forces that outnumbered ours, [Russian] troops were forced to leave towns they had previously liberated.\"\n\nFor \"liberated\", read \"seized\". Moscow had occupied those areas months ago, but after a lightning counter-offensive by the Ukrainian army, the Russian military has lost considerable territory in north-east Ukraine.\n\nStill, Russian state media are putting a brave face on things. Officially, what happened in Kharkiv region isn't being referred to here as a \"retreat\".\n\n\"The Russian defence ministry dismissed rumours that Russian troops fled in disgrace from Balakliya, Kupiansk and Izyum,\" claimed the latest edition of the government paper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta. \"They didn't flee. This was a pre-planned regrouping.\"\n\nIn tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets, a military analyst took a different view: \"It's already clear that we underestimated the enemy. [Russian forces] took too long to react and the collapse came… As a result, we suffered a defeat and tried to minimise the loss by withdrawing our troops so they weren't surrounded.\"\n\nThis \"defeat\" has sparked anger on pro-Russian social media channels and among \"patriotic\" Russian bloggers, who have accused their military of making mistakes.\n\nSo has the powerful leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.\n\n\"If today or tomorrow no changes in strategy are made,\" Mr Kadyrov warned, \"I will be forced to speak with the leadership of the defence ministry and the leadership of the country to explain the real situation on the ground to them. It's a very interesting situation. It's astounding.\"\n\nIt's more than six months since Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the days that followed, I remember Russian politicians, commentators and analysts on TV here predicting that what the Kremlin calls its \"special military operation\" would be wrapped up within days; that the Ukrainian people would greet Russian troops as liberators, and that Ukraine's government would collapse like a pack of cards.\n\nInstead, more than six months on, the Russian army has been losing ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo, here's a key question: will this have political consequences for Vladimir Putin?\n\nAfter all, for more than 20 years, Mr Putin has, within the Russian elite, enjoyed a reputation for being a winner; for always managing to extricate himself from the tightest of spots; in short, for being invincible.\n\nI've often viewed him as the Russian version of famous escape artist Harry Houdini. Whatever knots or chains he got tied up in, Mr Putin always managed to slip free.\n\nThe last six months suggest that President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was a major miscalculation. Unable to secure a rapid victory, Russia got bogged down in a long, bloody offensive, and has suffered a series of embarrassing defeats.\n\nWhen an authoritarian leader's aura of invincibility fades, it can cause problems for the aforesaid leader. Vladimir Putin will know Russia's history. It hasn't ended well for past Russian leaders who fought wars and didn't win them.\n\nRussia's defeat by Japan led to the first Russian Revolution of 1905. Military failures in World War One sparked the 1917 Revolution and the end of the Tsar.\n\nPublicly, though, President Putin has no intention of ending up the loser.\n\nOn Monday, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists: \"[Russia's] special military operation continues and will continue until all the tasks that were initially set have been fulfilled.\"\n\nWhich brings us to the other key question: what will Mr Putin do next?\n\nYou'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who knows what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning. Much may depend on how accurate the information is that he is receiving from his military and intelligence chiefs.\n\nBut here are two things we do know: the Russian president rarely admits to making mistakes. And he rarely makes U-turns.\n\nIn Moscow, Vladimir Putin seemed relaxed as he opened a new Ferris wheel\n\nFrom what the state media is saying, we're already seeing signs that failures on the battlefield are being blamed on Western support for Ukraine.\n\nThere is one more uncomfortable question that's been in the background for months: if he cannot achieve victory via conventional weapons, would President Putin go nuclear?\n\nOnly a few days ago, Ukraine's military chief, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, warned: \"There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian armed forces.\"\n\nFor now, there are no open signs of panic in the Kremlin. Russian state TV is sounding more positive. It's been describing Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as \"a turning point in the special operation\".\n\nAs for the Kremlin leader, last Saturday - as reports were coming in from Ukraine that Russia was losing territory - back in Moscow, a relaxed looking Vladimir Putin was inaugurating a new Ferris wheel, the tallest in Europe.\n\nRussia's president still seems to believe that, like Moscow's new Big Wheel, his \"special operation\" will turn in his favour.", "As the Chief Executive of BBC News I have the honour to write the closing message on this page of thousands of tributes to Queen Elizabeth II. And it’s a message of thanks to every single person who has taken the time to share their story.\n\nWhen the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, we at the BBC wanted to create a place where people could come together to share their tributes, their photos and recollections.\n\nThe response has been incredible. We have received thousands of touching stories of meeting the Queen, special moments, memories and messages of condolence.\n\nThank you to everyone - from all over the world - for coming together here in this virtual space for very real acts a of remembrance.\n\nLooking at the contributions, the common theme that emerges is that the Queen had a way of making each person she met feel like the most important person in that moment.\n\nThank you again for helping us remember a woman whose promise to serve her people was fulfilled through a life of duty, which touched so many people.", "Transport bosses have confirmed that extra train services will be running for people travelling to London to pay respects to the Queen.\n\nA limited service will run through the night on some routes.\n\nDemand is expected to be particularly heavy from Wednesday, when the public can attend the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall from 17:00 BST.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said it was doing \"all it can\" to ensure smooth journeys during the period of mourning.\n\nThe Queen, who died on Thursday aged 96, will lie in state in Westminster Hall for four full days before her funeral, meaning the public will be allowed to view her coffin.\n\nHundreds of thousands, if not millions, are expected to travel to the capital.\n\nOnly a handful of operators will be putting on night trains and they are expected to be very limited.\n\nFor example, there will be an extra train per hour on some routes, and every two hours on some others.\n\nAvanti West Coast, which is still running a dramatically reduced timetable amid a staff shortage, will put on some more train services this week to help people travel to the capital.\n\nServices on Avanti's busiest route between Manchester and London are currently reduced to one per hour.\n\nFrom Tuesday until Thursday, between 9.35am and 5.55pm there will be four further trains from Manchester to London Euston, and four extra trains north from London to Manchester between 12.40pm and 8.40pm.\n\nOn Friday, Avanti will be running three extra trains each way, between the same times.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, told customers to check journey planners for the most up-to-date information.\n\nIt also warned that services to, and stations in, London would be \"extremely busy\" as a result and has urged passengers to leave plenty of time for travel during the official mourning period, which ends the day of the Queen's state funeral on Monday 19 September.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) and Network Rail said there were plans to ensure people could travel \"as easily as possible\".\n\n\"The transport industry is working hard to help people pay their respects in London and across the UK,\" said Sir Peter Hendy, chair of Network Rail.\n\n\"Please make sure you check before you travel as we expect the road and transport networks to be busy.\"\n\nNetwork Rail said a normal timetable would be running on the day of the funeral, rather than a reduced one that might operate on a regular bank holiday, along with some additional services.\n\nAndy Byford, TfL's transport commissioner, said that while normal services were scheduled on the London Underground, \"there may be short notice changes and diversions as a result of the large number of people travelling and necessary road closures\".\n\nSome underground stations will be busier than normal, TfL said, with some disruption expected due to some stations being temporarily closed, or normal routes in and around stations being changed.\n\nPeople have been told to avoid Green Park tube station if possible, and to use others such as Victoria, Piccadilly Circus and St James' Park.\n\nThe Elizabeth Line does not usually operate any services on a Sunday on the central section between Paddington and Abbey Wood, but this Sunday it will operate 12 trains an hour.\n\nSome bus services will be diverted because of road closures, including night buses, and some taxi ranks will be closed as cabs and coaches will be affected by road closures.\n\nNational Express said London Victoria Coach station will be closed on 19 September. All of its London services will be diverted via Wembley Stadium, with the exception of journeys between London and Dover, Ramsgate and Luton and Stansted Airports. These services will be diverted via Stratford and Baker Street instead.\n\nFor those travelling from further afield, Heathrow Airport has said some flights will be disrupted on Friday.\n\nJourneys could be cancelled or rescheduled in order to ensure silence over central London as the Queen's coffin is moved to Westminster Hall.\n\nAre you travelling to pay your respects to the Queen? Share your plans with us by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "There was a solemn hush as the procession moved through crowds on the Royal Mile\n\nThe crowds started building before first light.\n\nOn the Royal Mile in Edinburgh local people, visitors to the city and families staked their place, keen for a front row seat to history.\n\nBy the time King Charles III and his family began walking behind the procession to St Giles' Cathedral, the sombre crowds were 10-deep.\n\nAbove street level, windows were flung open and every possible vantage point was claimed.\n\nPeople clambered on to walls and railings, straining to get the best view, while others filmed from the windows of their flats overlooking the famous street.\n\nA solemn hush descended as the King, his brothers and sister followed the slow-moving hearse carrying their mother's coffin, save for shouts of \"God bless the Queen\" and \"God save the King\".\n\nOthers opted to queue for the opportunity to file past the Queen's coffin as it lies at rest in the cathedral.\n\nThey waited in the Meadows park for wristbands which would grant them access to pay their last respects.\n\nHolidaymakers Chris and Sue walked for nine miles to take their place on the Royal Mile for the procession.\n\nThe couple, from Rossendale, Lancashire, were on holiday near Musselburgh in East Lothian.\n\nChris joined the Army 45 years ago and was drafted in to help manage the route of the Queen's Jubilee procession in Oxfordshire in 1977.\n\n\"We booked our holiday six months ago, before all this happened,\" he said. \"We've just walked nine miles and we just made it in time. We are proud of ourselves and proud of our Queen.\n\n\"That was beautiful, very humbling to witness. People were so peaceful, everyone paying their respects. I am so glad we are here.\"\n\nSue (right) said it was \"moving\" to watch the Royal Family grieving\n\nSue and her daughter Zoe travelled from Stirling for the procession.\n\n\"It was lovely, it was so quiet,\" said a tearful Sue. \"I wasn't sure if people were going to cheer when it passed by but it was really nice and respectful.\n\n\"It's sad isn't it? We are watching a family grieving, and it's about respecting that. It's part of history. When it is sombre like that, it is just so moving.\n\n\"My dad was in the Army and he got an MBE so he met the Queen. I was brought up respecting the monarchy and I do think about what my dad would think. We did this for him.\"\n\nLinda Greenshields brought a flag her aunt waved at the late Queen's coronation\n\nAmong those waiting outside the cathedral was Linda Greenshields, who claimed her prime position at 07:00.\n\nShe travelled from Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, with a flag that her aunt had waved at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953.\n\n\"I had to come and pay my last respects,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I was just a few days old when the king died and I still have my coronation mug at home.\n\n\"It's going to be very emotional, she's just always been there - it's so sad.\"\n\nThousands lined the Royal Mile ahead of the procession behind the Queen's coffin\n\nJoyce, who lives \"just round the corner\" from the Palace of Holyroodhouse, sat on a fold-up chair doing a crossword on the Royal Mile.\n\n\"Normally everything would be in London so for people here, it has made a big difference and I feel you have got to take part in it,\" she said.\n\n\"I was stood in the West End for hours yesterday waiting for the coffin procession to come through but I wasn't sure whether I could stand for so long again so I've brought a chair today.\"\n\n\"She has given everything for all these years - I feel she gave up so much to do what she did. Her life could have been so different if she wasn't the Queen,\" she added.\n\nKeith Knowlton took his four children, including Frances, five, to the Royal Mile to witness history\n\nBoard games, colouring pads and tablets were in full supply for Keith Knowlton and his four children who had been on the Royal Mile since 07:00.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"They had school today but I thought it was worthwhile to take them out to witness this historic event.\n\n\"Living in Edinburgh for a few years now, we just felt it was important for our children to witness a piece of history.\n\n\"I have great respect for the Queen and truly believe, as an American, we have had not a stronger, faithful and more lasting ally than the Queen and I'm so grateful to have the chance to be here.\"\n\nJane Sutherland, 77, was \"umming and aahing\" about watching the procession, but she's glad she made the effort\n\nAustralian Jane Sutherland, 77, moved to Scotland in 1968 and now lives in Liberton, on the south side of Edinburgh. She set up a chair on the Royal Mile several hours before the procession was due to begin.\n\n\"I was only six or seven but I do remember the last King,\" she said. \"It was a big thing in Australia when he died.\n\n\"I saw people being interviewed at St Giles' Cathedral on the BBC at seven or eight o'clock this morning and was umming and aahing whether to come down, but I'm glad I did.\n\n\"It is good to be here in amongst people where it is all happening. It is so different. It is history.\"\n\nShe said she \"dragged the grandchildren\" to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to lay flowers and went to the proclamation announcing the accession of King Charles on Sunday.\n\n\"I think the Queen was the most wonderful person and a great example to everyone with her dedication and that smile of hers.\"\n\nJen wants her son, Theo, to have the same relationship with the Royal Family as her.\n\nJen and her eight-year-old son Theo, whose school had a local public holiday on Monday, had travelled from Falkirk to Edinburgh.\n\nThey were sat on the pavement on the lower half of the Royal Mile near the Palace of Holyroodhouse, more than three hours before the procession was due to begin.\n\n\"It is just part of history,\" Jen said. \"The Queen has always been part of my life. My grandma is a similar age and she has always been there. It's a bit strange.\n\n\"I want him [Theo] to have the same relationship with the Royal Family as I did. The Royals were always there and I don't think we should let that die.\n\n\"I don't know about anybody else but it makes me feel secure.\n\n\"It's strange but there's also a sense of jubilation because I have never known a King. My grandparents have, but it's a new beginning for me.\"\n\nViola booked her train to the UK as soon as the Queen's death was announced\n\nThe front row position along barriers outside St Giles' includes thousands of people who have travelled far and wide to witness this moment in history.\n\nViola Henkenhaf, 18, booked her trains and accommodation as soon as the Queen's death was announced on Thursday. The teenager has travelled from south-west Germany. She didn't want to miss this opportunity to convey her feelings.\n\nAlice Ferguson (centre) travelled to Edinburgh from Helensburgh to pay her respects\n\nAlice Ferguson travelled to Edinburgh from Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute to pay her respects.\n\nThe 68-year-old was in London in 1997 for Princess Diana's funeral and her granddaughter recently danced for the Queen at Windsor Castle.\n\nShe said: \"We love the Royal Family, we love the Queen and we want to pay our respects.\n\n\"I often used to say what will it be like when she is not here and now we have to face that. I think today it will really hit home she is not here - but never to be forgotten.\"\n\nAlice said the pictures of Princes Harry and William together at Windsor Palace was \"very special\", adding: \"It is so nice they have all come together.\"", "In the early days of the invasion, Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine fought back a Russian armoured column. Since then, it has suffered nightly Russian airstrikes and shelling, with dozens of civilians killed and hundreds injured. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway have spent the week with the Ukrainian forces as they fight to stop a further Russian advance.\n\nThis report contains material some viewers will find disturbing\n\nThe first casualty of war is time. Ask the young soldier at the front when the attack happened, or the old lady in the hospital bed when her home was shelled, and they look at you confused. Was it 24 hours ago, or 48? The days have become one, they tell you.\n\nIn Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, time is elastic. It's close to the border with Russia and the nightly shelling from Russian artillery and warplanes gives no rest. The past two weeks have seemed like an eternity, yet peace can be remembered as if it were yesterday.\n\nIn a frozen landscape on the city's north-eastern edge, 21-year-old Lieutenant Yevgen Gromadsky stands with hands outstretched. There are trenches dug in nearby. \"Outgoing,\" he says, lifting his right hand to accompany the thump of fire from his positions. \"Incoming,\" he says, and his left hand ticks up. With a crump, Russian shells are fired from their positions 900m away across snow-covered fields.\n\nThe shelling continues like clockwork at the edge of this bombed-out village - \"Incoming, outgoing, incoming, outgoing,\" Lt Gromadsky flicks his hands with each report.\n\nWe met only this afternoon, but already I know that just last week, his father Oleg was killed defending the city, and Lt Gromadsky is the seventh generation of military in his family. He plans for an eighth, in a free Ukraine.\n\nHe describes the fight so far, \"Sabotage groups are probing our lines out, we have direct tank battles. They shoot with mortar shells at first, and then tanks fire at our positions.\"\n\nWe move along the front lines from position to position. Inside his armoured vehicle, a Russian army hat - a trophy from their first capture - hanging from the ceiling, he continues, \"We are shooting back with anti-tank guided missiles and also the usual small arms. They dismount, they scatter, there's always a lot of people.\"\n\nInside the truck there are Mexican Day of the Dead air fresheners. Grinning skulls hanging from every corner as we bounce along rutted dirt road. On the floor, rocket-propelled grenade launchers roll around.\n\nFrom the front passenger seat Lt Gromadsky says, \"Sometimes they use this tactic - first, they raise a white flag above their equipment, then come closer to our positions. When we come up and kind of take them as prisoners of war, they start to open fire on our troops.\"\n\nThe position was attacked on Monday (or was it the day before, he wonders), two Russian tanks and an armoured vehicle. \"Don't worry, we are well defended,\" he says as he gestures to a pile of American-made Javelin guided anti-tank missiles. \"Lockheed Martin, Texas,\" is written on their casing. Nearby, is a pile of British next-generation light anti-tank weapon (NLAW) missiles. \"Eliminates even the most advanced tanks,\" its manufacturer Saab promises on its website.\n\nIt is bitterly cold and two puppies are playing around Lt Gromadsky's feet. His shoes are a pair of white Puma trainers - \"You need to be fast out here,\" he says.\n\nThe Ukrainians are improvising in this war. Their government has been criticised for being ill-prepared, and now there is a rush to bring men forward to the front. The regular army is being merged with civilian defence forces. At a marshalling point on the city's eastern edge, I watch as buses arrive with hundreds of freshly equipped soldiers. \"Where's my body armour?\" asks one. \"You'll get it at the front,\" yells an officer, and moments later they are gone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Our correspondent on the front line, with Ukraine’s troops - this report contains graphic images of casualties\n\nSome will be joining Lt Gromadsky's unit and working alongside a medic who goes by the name of Reaper. \"You've heard of the grim reaper, right?\" he asks. He's also in command of this defence line at the edge of a village. Many of the homes there have been destroyed or damaged by Russian shelling.\n\nHow are the Russians fighting, I ask. \"They fight like stupid animals,\" says Reaper. \"They fight like it's 1941 - they have no manoeuvrability, they just come to the front and that's all. They have a lot of people, a lot of tanks, a lot of vehicles, but we are fighting for our land, and we are protecting our families. it doesn't matter how they fight because we fight like lions and they won't win.\"\n\nBack in the rear, the field kitchen is in a coffee shop. The army cook is reassuringly large with a knitted hat atop his head. He offers bowls of steaming hot borscht - \"Have sour cream with it,\" he insists. There are piles of cakes and biscuits, made by local factories for the troops.\n\nI sit beside a 30-year-old battalion commander, Sergey. \"We see the enemy, we kill the enemy, there's no conversation, that's it,\" he says. He wants to know where I'm from. I tell him and he asks if it's true that British volunteers have come to fight for Ukraine. \"What aircraft have you given us,\" he says as he finishes his borscht.\n\nBut across the east and south of Ukraine, Russia has been advancing. The Russian army has met more determined resistance than it expected, but cities continue to fall. And for all their front-line courage, there is a recognition that their abilities on the ground will not be enough. Soldier after soldier says they need air defence, a no-fly zone.\n\nI get inside another armoured vehicle, which two weeks ago was doing cash pickups at the city's banks. It, too, has now been put into the war effort. As we drive through the city, with its wide boulevards, and fine buildings, we reach a Soviet-Era apartment complex. And there I meet Eugene, a great Viking of a man, heavily tattooed with an orange beard.\n\n\"If Kharkiv falls, then all of Ukraine falls,\" Eugene, 36, tells me. He's a part of a reconnaissance team working near apartment blocks. Some of the flats have taken direct hits and in the car park, a car lies ripped apart from another grad missile strike.\n\nWhat there isn't here in Kharkiv, is any surprise at the Russian attack. \"Since 2014 we knew they would come, maybe in a year, 10 years, or 1,000 years, but we knew they would come\".\n\nAt 04:55 on 24 February, Eugene received a call from a friend saying the attack was about to begin. \"Then I heard the rockets attack our city,\" he says. Like everyone else he hasn't been home since.\n\nLeaving the front to return to the centre of the city is almost like entering another world. The relentless Russian shelling has meant that most of the 1.5m population has fled. Few neighbourhoods have escaped some kind of damage. Early in the mornings, queues can still be seen at pharmacies, banks, supermarkets and petrol stations, as those who stayed behind stock up on supplies. A huge logistical and humanitarian effort is going on behind the scenes to keep Kharkiv running.\n\nBefore curfew I make my way to the city's Hospital Number 4 to meet Dr Alexander Dukhovskyi, head of paediatrics. Underneath his hospital whites, he's wearing a Miami Beach 2015 T-shirt, with the American flag. He hasn't gone home in weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Russia is using tactics refined over a decade in Syria\n\nHe laughs when I say that Russia says it isn't targeting civilians. Then, silently, he takes me down corridor after corridor of victims of Russian attacks. They are in the hallways because Russian shells have landed nearby, so the patients aren't safe in the wards with large windows. Most here were injured while at home.\n\nThe children's intensive care unit is on the ground floor. Its narrow windows catch the brilliant light from the snow outside and glint over the golden icons of saints above the nurses' station.\n\nIn a bed nearby is eight-year-old Dmitry. His toes poke out from under the blanket and a hand, bruised and bloodied peeks out too. His face is scraped and scarred with hundreds of marks, his right eye is not quite closed. A few days ago, the doctors removed a bullet from under his skull and vertebrae.\n\nIt is hoped he'll make a full recovery, but for the moment he's in a sorry state, with tubes taking out fluids from his small body in plastic bottles hanging beneath his bed. The thin blanket with tiny roses on it, rises and falls with his mechanical breathing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Doctors removed a bullet from between Dmitriy's skull and vertebrae\n\nVladimir Putin said he wanted to demilitarise Ukraine, instead he's creating a no-man's land. At night the city is in near total blackout. A steady beat of Russian strikes fall through the night.\n\nKharkiv was once Ukraine's capital - it has the parks, cathedrals, museums and theatres you would expect, as well as the Antonov aircraft factory and tank and turbine manufacturers.\n\nAll of the city is now a front line.\n\nAnd this, too, should come as no surprise. The Russian war-playbook has been perfected in Syria over the past 10 years. Surround, besiege, and terrorise the population. In Ukraine, as in Syria, the population is being bussed out of their home cities as Russian forces continue their advance.\n\nI meet an intelligence team, who drive with anti-tank missiles ready to use in the back of their vehicles. Again, I head to the city's edge, and pass through the front lines into a wasteland. Two petrol stations just outside the city that have been destroyed by shelling and gunfire.\n\nLying in the snow, are a dozen or so frozen Russian corpses. The men lie like wax figures, some with hands reaching out, their matted beards frozen stiff in the cold.\n\nThe guts of one are spilled across the forecourt. There are blood-red footprints around his corpse. Their weapons have been taken, and I ask Uta, one of the officers, what will happen to the bodies.\n\n\"What do you think will happen, we will leave them for the dogs,\" he says with a shrug.\n\nAnd at this miserable spot on Kharkiv's edge, unremarkable for its ordinariness two weeks ago, surrounded by frozen corpses, it's as if time is standing still.\n\nAre you or your family in Ukraine? Please share your experience if it is safe to do so 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. BBC News NI's Gareth Gordon looks back at the Queen's relationship with Northern Ireland\n\nRoyalty in the 21st Century is more about symbolism than power, but the Queen knew the power of symbols in the cause of reconciliation.\n\nIn June 2012, she greeted thousands at Stormont for a Diamond Jubilee party.\n\nEarlier the eyes of the world focused on an historic handshake with Martin McGuinness at Belfast's Lyric theatre.\n\nThe Queen and the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin in May 2011\n\nThe four-second handshake between the former IRA leader and the British monarch appeared to usher in a new era in 40 years of troubled history.\n\nA year earlier, the Queen had broken new ground in Dublin, joining the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, to lay wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.\n\nQueen Elizabeth at the National Convention Centre, Dublin, in 2011\n\nGiven that the garden is dedicated to those who died fighting British rule, this was another occasion that, at one time, would have seemed unimaginable.\n\nThen the Queen went on to charm her Irish audience at a state banquet when she spoke in Irish, greeting them: \"A Uachtaráin agus a chairde\" (president and friends).\n\nThere were some small, republican protests, but during a visit to the English market in Cork, most people seemed more than ready to welcome the Queen on the first visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch since King George V in 1911.\n\nIf these scenes were a novelty in Cork, not so north of the border where the Queen was a frequent visitor over the decades.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrived by steam train to open the new Bellarena Station village in County Londonderry in 2016\n\nIn fact, she took her first flight in an aircraft in 1945 when, as a teenage princess, she accompanied her parents to Northern Ireland on a two-day visit.\n\nFour years later, Princess Elizabeth was back, together with her husband, Prince Philip.\n\nThe couple returned in 1953 after the Queen's coronation.\n\nInevitably, given the politics of Ireland, not everyone was a fan. In 1966, the Queen opened a new bridge across the River Lagan in Belfast named in her honour. But as her motorcade wound through the city, a protester dropped a brick from a high building onto the bonnet of the Royal car.\n\nWhen the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, the Troubles were at their height. The IRA threatened to give the monarch a \"visit to remember\".\n\nSpectators lined the shores of Belfast Lough to watch the Queen arrive on board the Royal Yacht Britannia. She made a special reference to Northern Ireland in her Christmas message that year.\n\n\"No-where is reconciliation more desperately needed than in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen visited Pat O'Connell's fish stall at the English Market in Cork in 2011\n\n\"That is why I was particularly pleased to go there. No-one dared to promise an early end to the Troubles but there is no doubt that people of goodwill in Northern Ireland were greatly heartened by the chance they had to share the celebrations with the rest of the nation and Commonwealth.\"\n\nShe often expressed sadness after atrocities committed during the Troubles. But the murder that hurt her most personally had to be the IRA's assassination of Earl Mountbatten, in 1979.\n\nThe earl was her husband's uncle. She appeared to refer implicitly to his loss many years later in her Dublin speech.\n\n\"It is a sad and regrettable reality that through history our islands have experienced more than their fair share of heartache, turbulence and loss,\" she said.\n\n\"These events have touched us all, many of us personally, and are a painful legacy. We can never forget those who have died or been injured, and their families.\n\n\"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy.\n\n\"With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.\"\n\nThe then Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid showed the Queen the site of the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh, as part of the Golden Jubilee Tour in 2002\n\nAs the Troubles raged, the Queen did not visit Northern Ireland at all during the 1980s.\n\nBut she returned in the 1990s - praising the Ulster Defence Regiment in Lisburn, opening another new bridge in Belfast and meeting church leaders in Armagh.\n\nIn 2000, she presented the Royal Ulster Constabulary with the George Cross, then later that decade watched dance and drama in Londonderry, and toured the site of the Omagh bombing.\n\nAt Stormont, she praised the progress made towards peace.\n\n\"Life has never been straightforward here, but I welcome the real sense of normality that has, over recent years, been returning to the lives of ordinary people, even if tempered from time to time by moments of disappointment and pessimism. You now have a better future for Northern Ireland in your grasp,\" she told politicians.\n\nThe Queen's trip to the Giant's Causeway in 2016 was her first visit to Northern Ireland's best known tourist attraction\n\nHer last visit to Northern Ireland ended up being in 2016 - she had been due to visit Northern Ireland for a two-day trip in October 2021 to coincide with the centenary but it was cancelled on medical advice.\n\nThis was perhaps when the public first became aware of concerns surrounding the then 95-year-old's health.\n\nThroughout her reign, the Queen remained painfully aware of the tragedies that beset Northern Ireland.\n\nBut she seemed to take heart from the knowledge that she could play an important role in helping people put the past in perspective and concentrating minds on what she hoped would be a brighter future.", "Thousands of people have been queuing along the banks of the River Thames to view the Queen's coffin as she lies in state in London's Westminster Hall.\n\nQueues have been building since Wednesday morning, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to pay their respects before her funeral on Monday.\n\nA line of mourners hoping to view the coffin is snaking for around five miles from Westminster across Lambeth Bridge and along the river to Southwark Park. Some have queued for hours, sometimes overnight, in all weathers for a chance to pay their respects.\n\nWestminster Hall opened its doors to the public on Wednesday after a grand procession brought the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace. The lying-in-state will continue until 06:30 BST on Monday, the day of the state funeral. The government has warned people could face 30-hour waits to get in.\n\nThey will walk by the Queen's closed coffin, which rests on a raised platform, known as a catafalque, beneath the 11th Century hall's medieval timber roof.\n\nEach corner of the platform is being guarded in a continuous vigil by soldiers from units that serve the Royal Household.\n\nThe coffin is draped in the Royal Standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown, a wreath of white roses and dahlias and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre.\n\nThe grand hall is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, at the heart of British government.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nThe BBC has a dedicated live stream for those unable to travel to London. The service is available in the UK on the BBC home page, the BBC News website and app, iPlayer, BBC Parliament and the red-button. It is also available internationally via bbc.com/news.\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds of mourners packed the streets between Buckingham Palace and Westminster for the slow ceremonial procession to carry the coffin to the hall.\n\nIn the bright sunshine that followed the rain, the coffin made its way through the heart of the capital borne on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by seven black horses.\n\nA huge 18 hands-tall (183cm) veteran horse named Lord Firebrand, ridden by Capt Amy Cooper, led the procession and set the pace.\n\nThe gun carriage, known as the George Gun Carriage, carried King George VI's coffin in 1952 and was used in the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.\n\nTo the sound of funeral marches played by the Scots Guards and the Grenadier Guards, the procession stepped off at a slow pace of 75 steps per minute - a tempo typically reserved for such sombre occasions.\n\nKing Charles III, wearing full ceremonial uniform, followed behind the coffin on foot, accompanied by his siblings as well as his sons, Prince William, dressed in his Royal Air Force uniform, and Prince Harry in a morning suit.\n\nThe King and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, were among those following the coffin\n\nThe sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, evoked poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral 25 years ago, said royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.\n\nUp to 1,000 members of the armed forces in ceremonial dress took part in events surrounding the parade.\n\nBehind mounted Metropolitan Police, the procession was headed by the Household Cavalry and the Grenadier and Scots Guards. They were followed, just ahead of the Queen's coffin, by members of the Royal Household, those working closely with the Queen.\n\nFollowing the King and other royals behind the coffin and bringing up the rear of the procession were members of the King's former household, when he was known as the Prince of Wales.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex travelled to the hall by car.\n\nGuns were being fired from Hyde Park at one-minute intervals throughout the procession. Big Ben also tolled.\n\nAs her coffin passed by some in the crowd burst into tears, BBC correspondent Nick Beake said. Others made the sign of the cross, army veterans saluted their former commander-in-chief - while families embraced, he added.\n• None Procession for the Lying-in-State of Her Majesty The Queen - Gov.uk The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen's four children have been carrying out the traditional Vigil of the Princes around the coffin of their late mother in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.\n\nThe symbolic move sees four people - in this case King Charles III, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward - position themselves at each side of the coffin to stand guard for a short time.\n\nThe Princess Royal's appearance has made her the first woman to be part of the vigil, which has until now been carried out by male-only members of the Royal Family.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nTributes were paid to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Great North Run, where Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo and Kenya's Hellen Obiri won the elite men's and women's races.\n\nAfter multi-denomination faith leaders provided a \"moment of reflection\", a minute's silence was held and the national anthem played before the start of the elite men's race and mass start run in Newcastle.\n\n\"The overall feeling was that the Great North Run is about coming together,\" said race founder Brendan Foster.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport prior to the start, he added: \"We felt that in moments of mourning, as has been demonstrated across the country, people have wanted to come together.\n\n\"We felt it was in tune with what would have been the Queen's wishes, that she would have wanted people coming together as a community, to do what they were aiming for, to be the best version of themselves, to raise money for charities.\"\n\nIn the elite women's race, two-time Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Obiri won in a time of one hour seven minutes and five seconds for her second successive Great North Run title.\n\nFellow Kenyan and Olympic marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir was second, two seconds behind, while Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana finished third. Britain's Charlotte Purdue was fifth.\n\nHalf marathon world champion Kiplimo - who recently won double gold at the Commonwealth Games - crossed the line in 59 minutes 33 seconds to win the men's elite race.\n\nOlympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega was second, with his Ethiopian compatriot Kenenisa Bekele placed third.\n\nSix-time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir won the men's wheelchair race for an eighth time, while Commonwealth Games marathon silver medallist Eden Rainbow-Cooper won the women's wheelchair race.\n\n\"There was still quite a good atmosphere, but it's still quite a sad day,\" Weir told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's definitely a privilege even to race for Great Britain, and it's nice to get my first win under the King's flag, so it's a proud moment.\"\n\nA total of 60,000 people entered the 41st edition of the world's biggest half marathon.\n\nThis year's Great North Run saw it return to its usual 13.1 mile Newcastle to South Shields route, after changes were made in 2021 to make it Covid safe.", "Mourners wanting to pay their respects to the Queen are being warned to plan their train journeys to London in advance.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said services to, and stations in, the capital will be \"extremely busy\".\n\nThe group is asking people to leave plenty of time for travel during the official mourning period.\n\nHundreds of thousands, if not millions, are expected to travel to London to pay their respects to the Queen.\n\nA period of national mourning is now in place and will last until the end of the day of the Queen's state funeral on Monday, 19 September.\n\nThe Queen, who died on Thursday aged 96, will lie in state in Westminster Hall for four full days before her funeral, meaning the public will be allowed to view her coffin.\n\nOn the day of the funeral, the Rail Delivery Group - which represents all the rail operators - said it would not be possible to view both the funeral in London and then travel to Windsor where Her Majesty will be laid to rest.\n\nThe advice is to choose to view one or the other, and to leave plenty of time to get there.\n\nThe majority of tickets purchased before the Queen's death will be exchangeable or refundable until 18:00 the day before travel, with no administration charge. The advice is to check with your rail operator.\n\nJason Webb, the Rail Delivery Group's customer information director, said: \"Understandably, many people wish to pay their respects to Her Majesty the Queen during this period of national mourning.\n\n\"On the day of the funeral, Monday 19 September, people should plan carefully the timing of their journey home, as trains and stations are likely to be extremely busy.\"\n\nAll On The Board \"We half expected you to live forever\": All On the Board dedicates its whiteboard to the Queen\n\nWest Midlands Trains and South Western Railway offered their condolences to the Royal Family, and told customers travelling to the capital or Windsor to be prepared for services that will be much busier than usual.\n\nTransport for London also warned that roads and public transport in central London will be very busy and has advised travellers to allow \"plenty of extra time\" for their journeys and to avoid driving where possible.\n\nLondon Underground stations that are expected to be busier than usual include: Westminster, Green Park, Charing Cross, Embankment, Victoria, Waterloo, St James's Park, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch.\n\nIt has warned people that on the busiest days, some services may close temporarily at short notice.\n\nSome London bus routes, including night buses, will have a reduced service, while some taxi ranks will be suspended as cabs and coaches will be affected by road closures.\n\nAndy Byford, London's Transport Commissioner speaking on behalf of TfL, said: \"Our thoughts are with His Majesty The King and all members of the Royal Family following the death of Her Majesty The Queen.\"\n\n\"We are working with our partners to keep our city moving smoothly and to ensure that everyone who is planning to attend the memorial events can do so safely,\" Andy Byford added.\n\nHe advised all Londoners and visitors to the capital over the coming days to check before they travel using the latest real-time travel information, which is available on the TfL Go app and on the website tfl.gov.uk.\n\nOn Thursday, black cabs lined The Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace\n\nElsewhere in the city, London bus stops have also paid tribute by showing portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. On Thursday, London black cabs lined The Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace to silently pay their respects.", "The Queen's coffin has arrived at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh following a six-hour journey from Balmoral Castle.\n\nThe coffin passed through Aberdeen and Dundee before it was greeted by thousands of people on the city's Royal Mile.\n\nTravelling in the second car of the cortege was the Queen's daughter, the Princess Royal, and her husband Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nPrincess Anne will stay with the coffin as it makes its way to London in the coming days.\n\nCrowds had begun forming early in the day with mourners wishing to pay their respects to the Queen.\n\nThousands of people lined streets and roads across Scotland to pay their respects as the late monarch's coffin began its journey south.\n\nThere were a total of 45 vehicles in the funeral cortege, including police outriders and support vehicles.\n\nThe 175-mile journey from Balmoral to Edinburgh took more than six hours by road.\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of Edinburgh as the cortege made its way to the Palace of Holyroodhouse - the monarch's official residence in Scotland.\n\nThe Queen's youngest children - Princes Andrew and Edward - were waiting outside the Palace of Holyroodhouse for their mother to arrive. Princess Anne met them and they watched as the coffin was carried inside.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be moved in procession to St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh on Monday, where it will remain under vigil for 24 hours.\n\nMeanwhile, Charles was proclaimed king in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nKing Charles III was seen waving to well-wishers outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nNearby Green Park has gradually filled with floral tributes to the late Queen.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive in London on Tuesday. The Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall from Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They're just going to get away with it', said Mr Paris about the police who wrongly put him behind bars for four years\n\nTony Paris, one of the three men wrongly convicted of the 1988 murder of Cardiff woman Lynette White, has died.\n\nMr Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller, who became known as the \"Cardiff Three\", were jailed in 1990 but cleared at the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe real murderer, Jeffrey Gafoor, was convicted in 2003.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Paris' family confirmed he had died, aged 65. His daughter said she would continue to raise awareness and fight for those who face injustice.\n\nShe tweeted: \"I can't believe I'm writing this.. My dad Anthony (Tony) Paris has sadly passed. Anyone who knows me knows my dad is everything to me. It was me and him against the world. I will continue to raise awareness and fight for those who face injustice in his name. I love you dada!\"\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\nA subsequent inquiry into the original investigation led to the UK's biggest-ever police corruption trial.\n\nEight former South Wales Police detectives were found not guilty when the trial collapsed midway through due to disclosure failings.\n\nThe campaign to free the men by the Butetown community gained international recognition.\n\nCampaigners raised particular concerns over the way a confession was taken from Ms White's boyfriend, Steve Miller.\n\nThe campaign gained momentum and two years after the three were sentenced, the Court of Appeal ruled that a gross miscarriage of justice had taken place.\n\nThe Cardiff Three: Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi who died in 2011, and Tony Paris\n\nIn 1992 the convictions of the three jailed men were quashed and they were freed.\n\nMr Paris lost his father just weeks before he was freed by the appeal court in 1992.\n\nLast year, former Chief Constable of South Wales Police, Matt Jukes, said the men should be recognised as victims and he was \"sorry for the effect on their lives\".\n\nSpeaking during a special BBC documentary last year about the case, Mr Paris said: \"It's important, 30 years down the line, because although we've had apologies before, now the whole world can see we are innocent and we are victims.\"\n\nTony Paris, who worked in the steel industry and as a club doorman, in a photograph taken a few years before he was arrested\n\nJohn Actie, who was also wrongly accused but cleared by the jury, said: \"He was he was a character. He was a good guy.\n\n\"But underneath, he was suffering a lot of trauma. He was convicted. He was sent to a prison up in London, he'd never been to prison before.\n\n\"It's just hurtful that he's gone so early.\"\n\nMr Paris's nephew Michael, said his uncle had changed by the time he was acquitted.\n\n\"He was a completely different person,\" Mr Parris said, describing him previous as \"happy-go-lucky\".\n\n\"He spent most of his time as a recluse.\n\n\"He constantly used to talk about having nightmares about what happened, he was very, very depressed and he had a lot of mental health issues.\n\n\"He didn't attend any family functions. We always have a family barbecue yearly and I think he attended one because he did not feel comfortable being around a lot of people.\"\n\nCeri Jackson, creator and producer of the BBC Wales podcast Shreds: Murder in the Dock, which is about the fight for justice of the Cardiff Three, said she would remember Mr Paris as \"a man of immense dignity\".\n\n\"He was a gentle character who maintained a kind of sense of fun right up until the end, he had immense grace considering what happened to him, and he was an adored father of four,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"On the surface he would always be Tony, smiling and considering everybody else's feelings, but he was immensely damaged by what had happened to him, and certainly after he came out of jail he was a reclusive character.\n\n\"He'd gone from a fun-loving guy about town to one that really couldn't go out without enduring a huge amount of stress.\"\n\nTony having a swab taken by South Wales Police in a bid to end his link with the murder, just months before the real killer was arrested\n\nShe added Mr Paris was known to police before his arrest but in a very casual way. He had a couple of shoplifting convictions and a car fine, she said, but was not a criminal in the true sense of the word.\n\n\"He was known for avoiding trouble, if there was ever a danger of a fight Tony would try and calm it down, and try and make himself scarce because he wasn't a trouble maker - that just wasn't part of his character.\"\n\nThe story of the Cardiff Three is told in the BBC documentary A Killing In Tiger Bay, which is available on BBC iPlayer.", "Squid Game actor Lee Jung-jae (left) and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk with their Emmy awards\n\nSquid Game's Lee Jung-jae has become the first Asian star to win the Emmy award for best male actor in a drama.\n\nThe South Korean won for playing the main role of the increasingly desperate Seong Gi-hun in the hit Netflix show.\n\nThe show's creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, won the best drama series director prize, also the first Asian to do so.\n\nTed Lasso won best comedy series for the second year in a row, while outstanding drama went to Succession, also for a second year running.\n\nThe drama's British creator Jesse Armstrong made a jibe about the monarchy during his acceptance speech at the US TV industry's most prestigious ceremony of the year.\n\n\"It's a big week for successions - new King in the UK, this for us,\" he joked. \"Evidently a bit more voting involved in our winning than Prince Charles.\"\n\n\"Keep it royalist, keep it royalist,\" the show's star Brian Cox, who was also on stage, told him after the audience went fairly quiet.\n\nSuccession's Brian Cox (left) told creator Jesse Armstrong (right) to \"keep it royalist\" on stage\n\nArmstrong then added: \"I'm not saying that we're any more legitimate in our position than he is. We'll leave that to other people.\"\n\nAnother Succession cast member, Matthew Macfadyen, won best supporting drama actor for his portrayal of ambitious interloper Tom Wambsgans, which he said was a \"bonkers gift of a role\".\n\nHowever, Cox could not replicate last year's best actor win, losing out to Squid Game's Lee.\n\nFellow Briton Brett Goldstein was among the night's other acting winners, alongside Zendaya, Amanda Seyfried, Michael Keaton, Julia Garner and Jean Smart.\n\nEuphoria star Zendaya won her second Emmy for best lead drama actress in three years\n\nZendaya won best drama actress for a second time for playing teenage drug addict Rue in Euphoria, following her win in 2020.\n\n\"Anyone who has loved a Rue or feels like they are a Rue - I want you to know I'm so grateful for your stories, and I carry them with me, and I carry them with her,\" she said on stage.\n\nTed Lasso star Jason Sudeikis repeated his 2021 success by winning best leading comedy actor for playing the titular football coach.\n\nHis win was mirrored by his co-star Goldstein, who won best supporting actor in a comedy series for playing Lasso's assistant coach Roy Kent for the second year running.\n\nPopular newcomer Abbott Elementary, a mockumentary set in a US primary school, also had a share of the success when Sheryl Lee Ralph won best supporting actress in a comedy. She plays no-nonsense teacher Barbara Howard and is the first black actress to win in this category since 1987.\n\nShe sang the opening lines of Dianne Reeves' song Endangered Species after accepting her award, adding in an impassioned speech afterwards: \"This is what believing looks like.\"\n\nHer co-star and the show's creator Quinta Brunson won the award for comedy series writing, although her acceptance speech was partly overshadowed by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel lying down on the stage in an apparently comic moment after he lost a previous award.\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 Ashley Lee 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\nHotel satire White Lotus was the biggest winner overall, picking up 10 prizes including best limited series, beating competition including Inventing Anna and Pam & Tommy, a drama based on the relationship between Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.\n\nWhite Lotus also won best writing, best directing, best supporting actor for Murray Bartlett and best supporting actress for Jennifer Coolidge.\n\nSeyfried was also a producer on The Dropout\n\nSeyfried was named best lead actress in a limited series or anthology for her role as Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout, based on the real-life story of the disgraced biotech entrepreneur.\n\nShe beat stars including Lily James (Pam and Tommy), Toni Collette (The Staircase) and Garner (Inventing Anna).\n\nGarner didn't go home empty-handed, however, scooping best supporting actress for her role as Ruth in Netflix crime drama Ozark - the third time she has won the award for that role.\n\nKeaton won his first Emmy for his role as a small-town doctor in opioid crisis drama Dopesick, replicating his Golden Globe win earlier this year.\n\nKeaton, who took time out of the industry for a few years, referred to his \"doubters\" and \"believers\" during his speech.\n\n\"There have been some doubters. I've had some doubters. You know what? We're cool,\" he said.\n\nSinger Lizzo won her first Emmy for best reality competition for Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, a category recently dominated by RuPaul's Drag Race.\n\nThe show offers plus-size dancers the chance to compete to join the About Damn Time singer on tour.\n\nLizzo got teary during her speech and asked the audience to \"Make some noise for my big girrrls!\"\n\nLizzo was tearful as she collected her award, saying: \"When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media. Someone fat like me, black like me, beautiful like me.\"\n\nThere was a muted build-up to the event, with some pre-show festivities called off following the death of Queen Elizabeth II last week.\n\nThe British Film and Television Academy cancelled its traditional Hollywood tea party for nominees, while the Canadian consulate postponed its celebrations.\n\nBut beyond the Succession speech, it was not mentioned during the ceremony, which was hosted by Saturday Night Live comedian Kenan Thompson and was the first full-scale Emmys since the pandemic.\n\nThe Emmys are voted for by more than 25,000 members of the US Television Academy, which represents those in front of and behind the cameras.\n\nThis year's awards honour the best TV shows that premiered or streamed between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nEldar Eldarov won the rescheduled St Leger at Doncaster as British horse racing resumed and paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe world's oldest Classic had been put back 24 hours and a two-minute silence was observed before racing began.\n\nJockeys and trainers bowed their heads before a rendition of the national anthem.\n\n\"There is an emptiness as we lost a great friend and ambassador in the Queen,\" said jockey Frankie Dettori.\n\nDavid Egan partnered Eldar Eldarov, trained by Roger Varian, to victory in his first ride in the St Leger.\n\nRacing resumed in Britain on Sunday, having been called off as a mark of respect following the Queen's death on Thursday.\n\nThe Queen was a leading racehorse owner and breeder, who won the Leger with the filly Dunfermline in her silver jubilee year of 1977.\n\nChepstow's fixture also went ahead, while Musselburgh was called off with the Queen lying in state in nearby Edinburgh.\n\nNo meetings will take place on the day of the Queen's funeral on Monday, 19 September.\n\nWhile racing has lost one of its biggest supporters in the Queen, it has also been mourning the death of 13-year-old Irish rider Jack de Bromhead.\n\nThe son of Grand National and Gold Cup-winning trainer Henry, he died in a fall a week ago during a beach race in County Kerry.\n\nEgan, after winning on his first Leger ride, said: \"These Classics are fantastic. I'm obviously very sad for Her Majesty.\n\n\"It's a week today since Jack de Bromhead passed. He was the first person I thought about when I crossed the line. That was for him.\"\n\nThe 9-2 chance Eldar Eldarov, named after the MMA fighter by Bahrain owner Shaikh Khalid, was followed home by Haskoy but the runner-up was demoted to fourth for causing interference, with 11-8 favourite New London elevated to second and Giavellotto to third after a stewards' inquiry.\n\nWinning trainer Roger Varian said: \"As happy as we are, we are of course thinking of the Queen.\n\n\"It's been a tough week for the Royal Family, our thoughts are with them. Our thoughts are with the De Bromhead family. It's been a tough week for racing, but horses always give you a reason to look forward.\"\n\nDettori won the opening Champagne Stakes on Chaldean and followed up with Kinross in the Park Stakes - but there was no sign of his famous flying dismount.\n\n\"I didn't jump off out of respect to the Queen. We're carrying on, but it's still fresh in the memory,\" said the Italian.\n\nAsked for his recollections of the Queen, he said: \"I've got loads, we'd be here all day.\n\n\"We have to deal with it and we're going to miss her a lot.\"\n\nChaldean's trainer Andrew Balding's winners for the Queen included Tactical in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot two years ago.\n\n\"It's been a tough week. This result will maybe lift the mood a little bit at home (Park House Stables in Kingsclere), but it's a big hole to fill,\" he said.\n\n\"My father trained for her and my grandfather before that.\n\n\"We've been so privileged to have worked for her and known her so long. It's a great loss.\"\n\nBalding's Coltrane beat favourite Trueshan to take the Doncaster Cup.\n\nKyprios won the Irish St Leger at the Curragh for trainer Aidan O'Brien to take his unbeaten record this season to five and add to victories in the Gold Cup at Ascot and Goodwood Cup.\n\nHighfield Princess completed a hat-trick of Group One victories for John Quinn when taking the Flying Five Stakes.", "The couples went on an unexpected walkabout together in Windsor\n\nHeadline writers would have been thinking about \"Brothers in arms\" or maybe \"Brothers in grief\" for their coverage.\n\nThe sight of Princes William and Harry meeting the crowds together will become one of the stand-out and most unexpected images from what have been sombre days.\n\nWith their wives, Catherine and Meghan, they greeted people in Windsor, in a way that couldn't have been predicted last week, when the Sussexes returned to the UK.\n\nThe talk then was of feuds and unbridgeable differences between couples. They were said to be staying in houses close together on the Windsor estate, while emotionally many miles apart. The couple hadn't been seen together in public for more than two years.\n\nThat all changed on Thursday. If William and Harry were not planning to see each other, they were brought together in ways that couldn't have been predicted.\n\nIt already seems a long time ago, but as the news worsened about the Queen, and the country was checking for updates on their phones, the two brothers were both making rushed journeys to Balmoral.\n\nFamilies can fall out when there's a bereavement. Feelings are running high and are close to the surface. It's easy for old arguments to be brought back by grief.\n\nPrince Harry was given flowers by well-wishers\n\nBut losing a loved one can also bring unity, putting things into perspective and setting disagreements aside. It can be a time to come together.\n\nOf course, looking in from the outside, no one watching the TV pictures really knows what's happening. Was this only a show? Had they been told to send out this positive message?\n\nIt's going to be complicated and private between two brothers. And William and Harry have already faced the hard-to-measure sense of loss at an early age, with the death of their mother Diana.\n\nFor the waiting public, looking to show their own solidarity with the mourning Royal Family, they clearly warmed to the idea of William and Catherine, Harry and Meghan, appearing together. For a few minutes at least, the royal famous foursome were back. It tuned in to the public mood.\n\nAccording to royal sources, it was Prince William who had extended the invitation to Prince Harry and Meghan to go on this walkabout.\n\nEven if this is a moment of togetherness, there is no disguising that this is also a moment of great divergence. The brothers are on pathways about to take them in completely different directions.\n\nWilliam, now Prince of Wales, is now on a different path from his brother\n\nOn the death of the Queen, William became heir to the throne. He will be keenly aware of what now lies ahead. He has a new and much more important status than his brother.\n\nWilliam is now the Prince of Wales, the name that they both until yesterday used to call their father - that must seem strange enough in itself.\n\nWhen the reign of King Charles III was proclaimed at the Accession Council on Saturday, William was standing firmly behind the new monarch.\n\nIt's likely that the King and Camilla, now the Queen Consort, with William and Catherine will be the core group, almost a separate unit, at the heart of the monarchy. It was this foursome that often appeared together when Charles was standing in for his mother.\n\nPrince Harry is on a very different route, living with Meghan and his young family in California, with media ventures, charities and campaigns. They have to invent their own post-royal life, while still part of the Royal Family. They generate huge public interest, not always positive, and seem to live with a media tornado hovering above them.\n\nEven among the most carefully-choreographed steps of public mourning, there are still families and people falling out and making up.", "Ukrainian resistance fighters use drones to spot targets for the military\n\nAs Ukraine's military steps up its strikes on Kherson, hinting at a new offensive to recapture the region, there is another force working alongside. They are Ukraine's shadow army, a network of agents and informers who operate behind enemy lines.\n\nOur journey to meet the resistance fighters takes us through a landscape of sunflower yellow and sky blue to Mykolaiv. The first major town on Ukrainian-controlled territory west of Kherson, it has become the partisans' headquarters on the southern front.\n\nDriving through military checkpoints, we pass giant billboards showing a faceless, hooded figure alongside a warning: \"Kherson: The partisans see everything.\" The image is designed to make the region's Russian occupiers nervous and boost the morale of those trapped under their rule.\n\nA billboard warns collaborators \"Kherson: The partisans see everything.\"\n\n\"The resistance is not one group, it's total resistance,\" the man standing in front of me insists, his voice slightly muffled by a black mask he's pulled up from his neck so I can't see his face as we film him, in a room I can't describe so that neither can be found.\n\nShortly before this war, Ukraine bolstered its Special Forces in part to build and manage a resistance movement. It even published a PDF booklet on how to be a good partisan, with instructions on such subversive acts as slashing the tyres of the occupier, adding sugar to petrol tanks or refusing to follow orders at work. \"Be grumpy,\" is one suggestion.\n\nBut Sasha's team of informers have a more active role: tracking Russian troop movements inside Kherson.\n\n\"Say yesterday we saw a new target, then we send that to the military and in a day or two it's gone,\" he says, as we scroll through some of the many videos he's sent from the neighbouring region each day. One is from a man who drove past a military base and filmed Russian vehicles, another is from CCTV footage as Russian trucks pass by, daubed with their giant Z war-marks.\n\nSasha describes his \"agents\" as Ukrainians \"who have not lost hope in victory and want our country to be freed\".\n\n\"Of course they're afraid,\" he says. \"But serving their country is more important.\"\n\nWorking alongside Sasha are a team who fly drones into Kherson to spot targets for the military. Civilians, not soldiers, all are volunteers and they fundraise on social media to pay for their expensive kit.\n\nThe man in charge cultivated decorative plants before the war, but Serhii tells me he joined the fight to free the south after seeing the bodies of civilians executed in Bucha during the Russian occupation there. \"I couldn't just stay at home after that,\" he says. \"I didn't know what else I could do or think of, while this war is going on.\"\n\nThe task he chose instead is extremely dangerous. His team of four get shelled by the Russians every single time they go out, though no-one has been killed. \"I know to some extent it's a matter of chance,\" Serhii shrugs, and breaks into a soft smile. \"But at least if it happens to me, then I will know it was for a cause.\"\n\nSerhii joined the resistance in the south after the massacre in Bucha\n\nThe partisans are fighting to prevent Russia's hold over Kherson becoming permanent: to block a referendum that Moscow appears to be planning to stage. Russia has already introduced the rouble and its own mobile phone networks to the region and is pumping its propaganda from state-run TV channels into Ukrainian homes. Local journalists have either fled, or gone to ground.\n\nThe acting head of the region, Dmytro Butrii, now exiled to Mykolaiv and a small back office protected by sandbags, insists that a vote on joining Russia would be a sham, a \"total fake\" and unrecognised by any \"civilised\" government.\n\nThese days, that wouldn't matter much to Moscow.\n\nFor Russia, the region is strategic: it's the source of water for Crimea, which it annexed illegally in 2014, and the last section of a much-discussed 'land bridge', or stretch of territory that links Russia-proper to the peninsula.\n\nThe exiled head of the region, Dmytro Butrii, says a referendum would be a sham\n\nSome locals have switched sides to help the Russians. So Sasha's team are building a database of those \"collaborators\", using information from the inside. \"It's so that no one can claim later that they were with the resistance,\" he explains.\n\nBut it's also for intimidation. Partisans are encouraged to stick threatening posters outside the collaborators' homes with designs that include the person's face and a coffin, or a \"Wanted\" poster offering big rewards for their death. The activists then photograph the results to send to Sasha.\n\n\"There's a lot of graffiti. People write things like 'stuff your referendum' as well as sticking up their posters,\" Sasha describes his latest reports from Kherson. \"It shows how many people are not afraid: in a city with military patrols everywhere, they manage to print leaflets then walk round with glue when they could be stopped at any moment and things would end very badly.\"\n\nThere has been a spate of assassination attempts against those who've joined the Russians. A blogger was shot, an official in the Russian-installed administration was killed and others have been injured in car bombs. The most prominent figures to switch sides now wear body armour as a matter of course. The men I meet all say they have nothing to do with the attacks, but they have no sympathy either.\n\n\"Other than the word traitor and scum, I have no other words for them,\" Sasha shrugs. \"They're our enemy.\"\n\nVladimir Putin still claims his invasion of Ukraine is a \"liberation\" operation but in Kherson, his troops rule through force and fear.\n\nSince Russian forces occupied the region in March, hundreds of people have been detained, many of them tortured. Some have disappeared, unheard of for weeks. Others have been discovered dead or returned to their relatives from Russian custody in body bags.\n\nSources inside the city describe soldiers patrolling the streets and buses stopped at random for everyone inside to be checked. The slightest hint of support for Ukrainian rule, as little as a message or photo on your phone, can get you arrested.\n\nEvery time Oleh smiles in the mirror, the gaps in place of his teeth are a reminder of the beatings he endured by his Russian interrogators. He tells me they also broke seven ribs - three still haven't mended. His name is not really Oleh, but he's asked me not to reveal his identity.\n\nA member of the resistance, he witnessed the torture of another prisoner, Denys Mironov, who then died in Russian custody.\n\nOleh talks in chilling detail about what happened after 27 March when he and Denys were snatched from the street: he describes constant beatings in the first hours involving electric shock, suffocation and death threats. He's sure his interrogators were from the FSB security service.\n\nAt some point, his spirits fell so low that he contemplated ending his life, even attacking a guard so they would shoot him.\n\n\"They were looking for Nazis, so they beat me because I was bald. They reckoned they'd caught a damn Nazi,\" he answers, when I ask what information his captors had wanted. \"When they stripped me, they saw I had Simpsons underpants so they said I was an American agent and punished me for that.\"\n\nA month earlier, when the Russians invaded, Oleh and Denys had joined the territorial defence, Ukraine's volunteer army. But much of the military melted away with the first explosions and Kherson's remaining forces were quickly overwhelmed. So the men became partisans, working against the Russians from the inside.\n\n\"We got information on where their forces were based, and when they were on the move, and we passed that on to the military,\" Oleh explains, adding that he was involved in a lot more activity that he can't talk about.\n\nAnother partisan I met described helping Ukrainian forces escape in boats across the Dnipro when they were surrounded - and stealing weapons from the Russians. \"I'll tell you the rest when we win,\" he laughs when I press him for more.\n\nDenys, a 43-year-old with a wife and son - and a fruit and veg business before the war - began driving a bread van around Kherson, handing out food and scouting for intelligence as he went. He and Oleh were also collecting weapons, preparing to join the battle to liberate Kherson as soon as Ukraine launched the counter-offensive that everyone expected.\n\nInstead, the two men were detained and tortured.\n\nI asked Russia's FSB to explain what happened to these men and others. They didn't respond.\n\nIt was the middle of the first night before Oleh saw Denys again, and by then he could barely walk and was struggling for breath. Even so, the guards beat him some more. \"They hit him in the groin, then the face, then two men with batons took down his trousers and started to beat him near his kidneys,\" Oleh says, recalling how the tape holding a bag over his own head had worked loose enough for him to see.\n\n\"It was clear his lungs had been punctured and he'd been really badly hurt,\" he says. \"But if he'd been helped in time, his death could have been avoided. It's awful.\"\n\nOn 18 April the men were transferred to a facility in Crimea and the next day, Denys was finally taken to a military hospital where Oleh was sure he would recover.\n\nThe first Denys Mironov's family knew of his death was over a month later, when he was returned to Ukraine as part of a body swap.\n\nMany people left Kherson for safety soon after the Russians seized control. The government in Kyiv recently urged others to evacuate, warning that a military operation to retake the region was imminent.\n\nBut getting out isn't easy.\n\nRussian officials limit the number of vehicles crossing the frontline and only permit one route into Ukrainian-controlled areas, the road that heads north to Zaporizhzhia. Multiple military checkpoints on the way make it a no-go for Ukrainian men of fighting age. Even women and children face waiting weeks for places on free evacuation buses, or an exorbitant fee for a place in a private car.\n\nBut hundreds still flee each day, tumbling off buses or unfolding themselves from crowded, stuffy cars just before dusk into a supermarket car park that doubles as a reception area for those forced into exile in their own country. The adults look exhausted, the children's smiles are timid, as if they're not quite sure whether they're safe yet. Steam gushes from beneath the bonnet of a blue Lada like it's about to explode. After security checks, volunteers offer food and clothes and, for some, there are tearful reunions with waiting relatives.\n\nWe can't travel into Kherson now it's occupied, but the mood in this crowd reveals plenty about life there. Even on Ukrainian-controlled soil, people are wary of what they say. \"Will the Russians see this?\" some of the new arrivals want to know before I film or even record them speaking. Others shake their heads as I approach, and turn away from my microphone.\n\n\"It's tough there, the Russians are everywhere,\" Alexandra tells me, bouncing baby Nastya on her knee in the back of a car. Inside the aid tent an older woman is standing with two carrier bags at her feet looking lost and lonely. Struggling with tears, Svitlana tells me she's fled Kherson because her nerves are in shreds but her husband has refused to come with her. \"He said he's waiting for the Ukrainian army to come and liberate us,\" she says.\n\nAs night begins to fall, and more vehicles pull in, a man admits that his own family are running from more than the missiles. \"We know people are disappearing, it's true,\" he tells me, without giving his name. \"In Kherson, you don't go out in the evening.\"\n\nA resistance poster reads: Zaporizhzhia, land of death to the occupiers\n\nThe danger from shelling has increased in recent days, on both sides of the southern frontline.\n\nIn Mykolaiv the days usually start with explosions from 4am: down south, the Russian launch sites are so close that the warning siren only goes off after the first missile hits. One morning, sheltering in our hotel basement, I counted at least 20 explosions in the city, some close enough to shake the building. Once the curfew lifted, we found a nearby school in ruins, the playground swings blanketed in the thick grey dust of the collapsed sports hall.\n\nBut Ukrainian attacks have also increased, both in number and impact, as more powerful weapons supplied by the West have made it to the region and are making a difference. Residents in Kherson city have recorded multiple strikes on Russian ammunition depots. Bridges across the Dnipro, including the Antonivskiy, have also been hit multiple times, disrupting Russian supply lines.\n\nThe push to retake Kherson could be approaching.\n\nSasha believes many of those who have remained in the city are ready to stay and fight; those I've spoken to say support for Russian rule is minimal and the searches, detentions and beatings in recent months have shrunk that still further.\n\n\"When the army starts to invade, then people will be ready and will help,\" Sasha says.\n\nAfter his own brutal experience in Russian custody, Oleh is already back on the southern front to fight for his hometown, alongside Ukraine's partisan army.\n\n\"They can take the land, but they can't take the people,\" is how he puts it. \"The Russians will never be safe in Kherson, because the people didn't want them there. They don't like them. They won't accept them.\"", "The Duke of Sussex used this picture of himself with the Queen to accompany his tribute\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has remembered his grandmother's \"infectious smile\" in a touching tribute to the late Queen.\n\nDescribing Elizabeth II as a \"guiding compass\" in her commitment to service and duty, Prince Harry said he was grateful for the \"special moments\" they shared.\n\n\"You are already sorely missed, not just by us, but by the world over,\" he said.\n\nThe duke also thanked the Queen for her \"sound advice\".\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry echoed words spoken by the Queen's husband the Duke of Edinburgh: \"Life, of course, consists of final partings as well as first meetings.\"\n\nHe said: \"Granny, while this final parting brings us great sadness, I am forever grateful for all of our first meetings - from my earliest childhood memories with you, to meeting you for the first time as my Commander-in-Chief, to the first moment you met my darling wife and hugged your beloved great-grandchildren.\n\n\"I cherish these times shared with you, and the many other special moments in between.\n\n\"You are already sorely missed, not just by us, but by the world over.\n\n\"And as it comes to first meetings, we now honour my father in his new role as King Charles III.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"We, too, smile knowing that you and grandpa are reunited now, and both together in peace.\"\n\nHis statement is thought to have been held back a day and released on Monday out of respect for the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.\n\nThe duke used a photograph of him smiling with the Queen at the 2019 wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor, the daughter of the Queen's cousin Prince Michael of Kent, to accompany his tribute.\n\nPrinces Harry and William were joined by their wives, Meghan and Catherine, at Windsor on Saturday to view some of the flowers and messages left for the Queen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his tribute on Saturday, Prince William, now the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, said that while the world had \"lost an extraordinary leader\" he had lost his \"Grannie\".\n\nThe Sussexes, who live in California, had been in Europe last week when the Queen died, attending Invictus Games events.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: King Charles III leads the procession behind the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh\n\nThousands of people watched in near-silence as the Queen's coffin made its journey up the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Queen's children, led by King Charles III, walked behind the hearse as it drove from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nA service of remembrance was then held in the cathedral, where the Queen will lie at rest until Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is estimated that 20,000 people are in a mile-long queue to pay their last respects.\n\nAll four of the Queen's children - King Charles, Princess Anne, and Princes Andrew and Edward - later held a vigil for 10 minutes around the coffin of their late mother at the cathedral.\n\nEarlier they had walked behind the hearse, along with Princess Anne's husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nA car behind them carried Camilla, the Queen Consort, and Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, Prince Edward's wife.\n\nMeanwhile, many people have spent hours queuing through the night to file past the coffin, ahead of its journey to London.\n\nBy BBC Scotland's Andrew Picken, on the Royal Mile\n\nAs the procession edged closer the crowd fell silent and cries of \"she's here\" were heard.\n\nThere was a sea of hands holding phones in the air to try and capture the moment on camera while a barking dog momentarily put the police horses on edge.\n\nFrom the back of the crowd a cry of \"God Save the King\" came as the coffin passed the Canons' Gait pub.\n\nThe silence lingered for a few moments after the procession had passed as people collected their thoughts.\n\nThere was a respectful silence from the crowd earlier, which was 10 deep in places, as the procession to the cathedral took place on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe quiet was punctuated by the echo of ceremonial gunshots which were fired from Edinburgh Castle every minute.\n\nPolice Scotland said a 22 year-old man had been arrested in connection with a breach of the peace after footage appeared to show a man heckling the royal procession on the Royal Mile.\n\nThe King had addressed both Houses of Parliament earlier on Monday, before he and the Queen Consort flew to Edinburgh.\n\nHe was welcomed on the tarmac by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack and Edinburgh's Lord Provost, Robert Aldridge.\n\nThey then travelled to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where there was applause as the King and the Queen Consort met members of the public.\n\nThe monarch spent time shaking hands and also received gifts of flowers.\n\nKing Charles took part in the ancient Ceremony of the Keys\n\nKing Charles inspects an honour guard at the Palace of Holyroodhouse\n\nKing Charles then took part in the ancient Ceremony of the Keys, where he was handed the keys to the city by the lord provost.\n\nIn keeping with tradition, he handed them back, entrusting their safekeeping to the city's elected officials.\n\nKing Charles III also inspected a guard of honour from the Royal Regiment of Scotland.\n\nHe then led the procession to St Giles' Cathedral behind the Queen's coffin, which was draped with the Royal Standard in Scotland and dressed with a wreath of flowers.\n\nThe cathedral then hosted a service celebrating the Queen's life and her connection to Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Royal Regiment of Scotland place Queen's coffin on the catafalque\n\nThe Rev Calum MacLeod, who led the service, welcomed the Royal family, representatives of \"our nation's life\" and \"people whose lives were touched by the Queen in so many unforgettable ways\".\n\nHe said: \"We gather to bid Scotland's farewell to our late monarch, whose life of service to the nation and the world we celebrate. And whose love for Scotland was legendary.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon read a lesson during the service, which was also attended by Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nLater, Ms Sturgeon - who had an audience with King Charles at Holyrood - paid tribute to the Queen during a motion of condolence in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nShe hailed the Queen as \"a true and steadfast friend of this parliament\" who has been \"intrinsic to the story of modern Scotland\".\n\nKing Charles responded to the motion in the Scottish Parliament\n\nResponding to the motion, King Charles said: \"Through all the years of her reign, the Queen, like so many generations of our family before her, found in the hills of this land and in the hearts of its people a haven and a home.\"\n\nParaphrasing Robert Burns, he described the Queen as: \"The friend of man, the friend of truth, the friend of age and guide of youth.\n\n\"Few hearts like hers with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed.\"\n\nThe monarch also confirmed he was passing his Duke of Rothesay title to Prince William.\n\nMourners then started filing past the Queen's coffin at St Giles' Cathedral, including while the King and his siblings' stood in vigil on Monday evening.\n\nThe symbolic ceremony sees four people - in this case King Charles III, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward - position themselves at each side of the coffin to stand guard for a short time.\n\nThe Princess Royal's appearance has made her the first woman to be part of the vigil, which has until now been carried out by male-only members of the Royal Family.\n\nWhile the Queen lies at rest at St Giles' Cathedral, her coffin will remain under continuous vigil for 24 hours, guarded by the Royal Company of Archers.\n\nThe queue to view the coffin starts at George Square Lane/North Meadow Walk in The Meadows, where wristbands are being issued for entry to the cathedral.\n\nThe public have been warned the queue is likely to involve standing for a number of hours.\n\nMembers of the public filed past while the King and his three siblings posted a vigil around the coffin\n\nMourners were advised to bring their own food and drinks. Toilets are available and visitors are able to leave the queue briefly to use the facilities.\n\nThere are be airport-style security checks for entering St Giles' at George IV Bridge and certain restrictions apply on mobile phones, with photography and recording not permitted.\n\nThe Royal Household has asked that floral tributes are left at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Queen's coffin will be flown from Edinburgh Airport to Buckingham Palace.\n\nFrom Thursday, the Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall for four days. Her funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19 September.\n\nWhat are your memories of the Queen? Share your tributes and reflections by emailing yourqueen@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 yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Thousands of people have queued through the night to see the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh.\n\nThe line trailed far back along the paths of the city's Meadows, south of St Giles' Cathedral where the coffin is lying at rest.\n\nMourners had begun filing into the cathedral at on Monday evening, keen to pay their respects to the Queen and be part of a historic moment.\n\nElizabeth Mbulaiteye, who is from Uganda but lives in Glasgow, joined the queue at midday on Monday with her son Daniel and daughter Angel, and were still there eight hours later.\n\nElizabeth said: \"My mother was born in the same year as the Queen, so she was named Elizabeth. She loved the Queen, so she called me Elizabeth as well.\n\n\"She's 96 now, and on Saturday she travelled to Balmoral to pay her respects.\n\n\"When we were growing up, we were always very big fans of the Royal Family.. We wanted to come through today and be part of a historic moment.\"\n\nElizabeth Mbulaiteye (centre) said she wanted to be part of a \"historic moment\"\n\nCalum King 54, from East Linton in East Lothian, drove from Nottingham after his last training weekend with the Army reserves.\n\n\"Nearly 34 years ago, I swore an oath of allegiance to her. So it's only fitting that I say my goodbyes,\" he said.\n\nOnce he had finished queuing into the early hours of the morning, he was expecting to to go home in time for work on Tuesday morning.\n\nAhmad Zaky, Mutiara Tan, and Anindya Hapsari have just moved to Edinburgh from Indonesia to study for their MBAs and this was the first day of their course.\n\nAnindya said: \"We believe that this is only once in a lifetime.\n\n\"We never imagined that this would happen while we were studying in Edinburgh. \"\n\nAhmad Zaky, Mutiara Tan and Anindya Hapsari only recently moved to Edinburgh\n\nFiona and Matt Sigsworth, both 35, joined the Meadows queue at 19:00 in hopes that they might make St Giles' Cathedral by midnight.\n\nThey came wrapped up warm, with packed rolls and drinks to keep them going into the small hours travelling from the Coaltown of Balgonie, near Glenrothes in Fife.\n\nFiona, a teacher, said: \"It's once a lifetime and we wanted to pay our respects to an extraordinary woman.\n\n\"We're not royalists, but I respect and admire what the Queen has done for the country and the sacrifice and duty that she's shown for 70 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People from across the country travelled to Edinburgh to pay their respects to the Queen\n\nAs people continued to join the queues, the Salvation Army vans were offering hot drinks and rolls for the cold night ahead, with toilets and water stops stationed along the queue.\n\nCorey Burgher, 44, was there with stepdaughter Giovanna Giambastiani, 24, at 2:30am.\n\nMr Burgher, who works in the Royal Navy, said: \"We wanted to say our goodbyes to the boss.\n\n\"I didn't know her personally, but I met her when I was a kid. But I got quite emotional about it, it was quite a shock.\"\n\nIan Burns, 65, and wife Lina, 54, were still queuing by the university at 2am.\n\nLina, from Ukraine, had work at 9am but said: \"We are here to cherish the memories. She is the best role model in modern society. I haven't heard about anyone else as good as the Queen.\"\n\nBy 4am when David and Selda Dow joined the queue the night was colder and the park quieter as people shuffled forward in silence.\n\nSelda, a staff nurse, said: \"We went to the proclamation for the new King yesterday and we think he's doing really well.\n\n\"I've only met the Queen once briefly at the Holyrood Garden Party when I was 18 but she was lovely.\n\n\"So tonight we wanted to come and join the queue to pay our respects.\"\n\nBetty and Thomas Bremner brought granddaughter Zara to Edinburgh to see the Queen's coffin\n\nEarlier, those who had already been able to view the coffin told of their \"emotional\" experience in the cathedral.\n\nBetty and Thomas Bremner, from Kennoway in Fife, watched the coffin being driven along the M90 on Sunday before travelling to Edinburgh with granddaughter, Zara, on Monday.\n\n\"It was a privilege. It was serene, beautiful, you weren't rushed at all. It was just so peaceful, I'm glad I came, really glad I came,\" Mrs Bremner said.\n\nThey waited six hours to see the coffin. But the grandmother said: \"I would have stood all night, if I had to.\"\n\nHer husband said he found it surprisingly emotional.\n\n\"It was very, very sad actually. I didn't think I would shed a tear but it got to me in the end when I was walking through St Giles'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the Queen was \"absolutely on it\" when she spoke to him two days before her death\n\nBoris Johnson has said the late Queen Elizabeth II was \"bright and focused\" in their last meeting before his resignation as prime minister.\n\nHe tendered his resignation to the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Tuesday last week before she appointed his replacement, Liz Truss.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC he was moved by the Queen's \"sense of duty\" when her death was announced two days later.\n\nHe said he thought the British monarchy would endure thanks to the Queen.\n\nWhile she modernised and \"revolutionised\" the UK's constitutional monarchy, Mr Johnson said, her greatest achievement was assuring the succession to her son, King Charles III.\n\nThe 14th prime minister of the Queen's 70-year reign, Mr Johnson reflected on the late monarch's life and the impression she left on him during their encounters while he was in office.\n\nLike every prime minister, Mr Johnson held weekly audiences with the Queen to inform her about matters of national importance.\n\nDescribing their final meeting, when he offered his resignation, Mr Johnson said: \"Given how ill she obviously was, how amazing it was that she be so bright and focused. It was a pretty emotional time.\"\n\nIn the last of the BBC's series of interviews with former prime ministers, presenter Fiona Bruce asked Mr Johnson if he was ever too busy to attend his weekly audience with the Queen.\n\n\"No, you must be joking,\" Mr Johnson said, describing his regular meetings with the Queen as \"a fantastic break from everything else\" and \"a wonderful moment of tranquillity\".\n\nThe Queen appointed Liz Truss as prime minister last week, days before the monarch's death\n\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, some of those weekly audiences were held virtually while social-distancing regulations were in force in England, and across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson recalled how his government worked with Buckingham Palace to organise a special address to the nation, delivered by the Queen during the first lockdown in April 2020.\n\nIn it, the Queen reassured the nation \"we will meet again\", evoking the words of the Vera Lynn wartime song and the UK's blitz spirit during World War Two.\n\nMr Johnson said the message was \"incredibly important\", and even pop stars \"wouldn't have the same impact as that broadcast\".\n\nThe congregation wore masks and was socially distanced in line with Covid rules at the time, with the Queen seated alone.\n\nIt later emerged that Covid rule-busting parties were held in Downing Street on the eve of the funeral. \"How did you two get past that?\" Mr Johnson was asked.\n\n\"Because of her great sense of constitutional function she never got into that sort of conversation,\" Mr Johnson said. \"She was really absolutely focused on what she saw as the important issues. It's a very trusting environment, the audience with Her Majesty. So that never came up.\"\n\nWhat was discussed, though, \"was just about everything under the sun\", Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson said the Queen was an \"amazing authority about history, about politics\" and knew everyone, from former US President John F Kennedy, to former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.\n\nAnd he referred to the \"sweep of progress\" over the past 70 years, saying: \"That's why I think she should be Elizabeth the Great, by the way, because look at what happened to this country in her reign. The immeasurably advances in prosperity and opportunity and longevity, whatever your metric is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Boris Johnson pays tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II in Parliament\n\nWhen asked how he responded to the Queen's death, Mr Johnson - now a backbench Conservative MP - said he felt \"this slightly inexplicable excess of emotion\".\n\n\"Speaking entirely personally, for me it was a colossal thing,\" he said.\n\nFinally, Mr Johnson was asked if Charles - who was both the oldest and the longest-serving heir apparent in British history - would be different as King.\n\n\"I don't know that he will necessarily will be different in a fundamental way,\" Mr Johnson said, describing the succession as \"absolutely flawless\".", "The Seventeen Going Under singer says he has \"neglected\" himself for more than a year\n\nSam Fender has announced he is to take a short break from touring to look after his mental health.\n\nThe star took to social media to tell fans he and his band were \"burnt out\".\n\n\"My friends and colleagues have been worried about me for a while and it's not going to get better unless I take the time to do so,\" he wrote.\n\nFender's upcoming US headline shows will be cancelled, as well as gigs with Florence and the Machine and the Life is Beautiful Festival.\n\nHis rescheduled appearances at UK record stores are also affected.\n\nFender will play at St James' Park in Newcastle in June, fulfilling a \"childhood dream\"\n\nHowever, the North Shields star said he was \"super excited\" for Australia in late November and \"everything to come in 2023\", including June's homecoming gigs at Newcastle United's St James' Park, for which tickets sold out within minutes.\n\n\"It seems completely hypocritical of me to advocate discussion on mental health and write songs about it, if I don't take the time to look after my own mental health,\" his statement read.\n\n\"I've neglected myself for over a year now and haven't dealt with things that have deeply affected me.\n\n\"It's impossible to do this work on myself while on the road, and it's exhausting feigning happiness and wellness for the sake of business.\"\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 Sam Fender 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\nFender has won two Brit awards, both of which have been turned into beer hand pulls at the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields, where he worked and was discovered at the age of 18.\n\nBoth his albums, 2019's Hypersonic Missiles and 2021's Seventeen Going Under topped the UK charts, with the latter shortlisted for the Mercury music prize.\n\nFender said he was grateful to have such an awesome fan base\n\nFender said he was \"eternally overwhelmed\" by the \"love and support\" of fans and apologised, adding that \"the state of my wellbeing is starting to affect everything I do, including my performances\".\n\n\"I refuse to go out there and not give it my all every time, as you all deserve nothing else,\" he added.\n\n\"I can't express how grateful we are to have such an awesome fan base.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "The Queen pictured with Susan at Balmoral Castle, in 1952 - the year she became Queen\n\nSince the death of the Queen, questions have arisen about the fate of her corgis, the pets she has treasured since childhood. Now it has been revealed her beloved dogs will be looked after by her son Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, the Duchess of York. This is the story of how Elizabeth and her corgis became inseparable.\n\n1959: Queen Elizabeth II, aged 32 and a mother of two, sits designing a gravestone for her dog.\n\nSusan showed up on her 18th birthday, and would gatecrash her honeymoon a few years later, smuggled beneath a rug in the royal carriage after her wedding to Prince Philip.\n\n\"I had always dreaded losing her,\" the Queen wrote in her grief, \"but I am ever so thankful that her suffering was so mercifully short.\"\n\nThat Susan bit the royal clock-winder and a young palace sentry is a matter of record, though her epitaph leaves out such indiscretions. She was buried in the pet cemetery at Sandringham, started by famously committed mourner Queen Victoria.\n\nSusan's gravestone stands in the pet cemetery at Sandringham, the royal estate in Norfolk\n\nAn ending for one Pembroke Welsh corgi - but certainly not for Her Majesty, who was only just getting started.\n\nOver the next six decades, she would own more than 30 of Susan's descendants, single-handedly create a mass market for this stunted Welsh cattle dog, and accidentally invent the dorgi with the help of Princess Margaret's amorous dachshund, Pipkin.\n\nWhy corgis? The answer, which may resonate with parents, is that some friends had one in 1933 when Princess Elizabeth was seven years old, and she wanted one too.\n\nPembroke corgis were a familiar sight in Wales, but fairly new to England. The Duke of York, Elizabeth's father, approached a respected breeder named Thelma Gray who brought the family three puppies from her Rozavel kennels in Surrey to choose from.\n\nThey settled on a little corgi officially called Rozavel Golden Eagle, because he was the only one with a small stump of tail to wag - and they wanted to know when he was pleased. But the pup became known as Dookie, reportedly after the kennel staff heard the Duke of York was going to be his owner, and the nickname stuck.\n\nDookie was horribly behaved, biting courtiers and visitors with abandon - but that didn't stop a press photo of Elizabeth and the tiny tyrant charming the public and raising the Pembroke corgi's profile.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth pictured at Glamis Station with Dookie just after he joined the family\n\nAnother puppy, Lady Jane, arrived from the same breeder a few years later. Christmas 1936 then saw a royal PR coup in the form of a saccharine children's book - Our Princesses and Their Dogs - which styled the Yorks and their pets as \"one very human family\". The book, brimming with dog pictures and family values, went on sale just days before the Duke's elder brother abdicated, making him the new king.\n\nBuckingham Palace is extremely tight-lipped about anything to do with the Queen's dogs because they're seen as a \"private matter\". But it's clear the royals cottoned on early to the softening effect of a well-timed corgi.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her first corgis - Dookie and Jane - at her childhood home in Piccadilly, London, July 1936\n\nKennel Club figures show a clear spike in Pembroke corgi registrations in 1936, and another in 1944, the year Princess Elizabeth got Susan. She had made corgis cool, while they made her look warm.\n\n\"People - breeders - were servicing the market for a dog that has suddenly become very popular. It's the 101 Dalmatians effect,\" notes Ciara Farrell, the Kennel Club's Library and Collections Manager.\n\n\"You see it with advertising as well - the old English sheepdog on the Dulux advert in the 70s and 80s.\" Likewise, the Andrex puppy, a marketing masterstroke that's run for half a century.\n\nAway from the cameras, Princess Elizabeth and Susan were inseparable. Add to that a royal's awareness of lineage, and it's no surprise she turned to Thelma, provider of her childhood puppies, to find Susan a mate. Rozavel Lucky Strike was the dog for the job, and founded a line of Windsor Pembroke corgis, which continued for 14 generations.\n\nAs well as being the Queen's much-loved pets, the corgis were a connection to her father, and a more carefree time. Every puppy after Susan was a way of keeping part of that with her, and a reminder that life and dynasties go on.\n\nWhile her husband Prince Philip spent a lifetime walking a little behind his wife, the corgis scampered ahead - revelling in a freedom denied to the Queen herself. Princess Diana is said to have coined the phrase \"a moving carpet\" to describe the jumble of dogs that preceded her. But the Queen called them \"the girls\" and \"the boys\". In all her years of breeding, she never sold any of her puppies. All stayed with her, or were given to breeders, relatives or friends.\n\nTwo of the Queen's dogs escort her through the door, as she greets a visiting New Zealand rugby team at Buckingham Palace in 2007\n\nThe corgis went where the Queen went - from palace to palace. This included on helicopters, trains, and in limousines. At Christmas at Sandringham they each had their own stocking, filled by the Queen herself.\n\nBuckingham Palace has 775 rooms, but the corgis slept inside the Queen's private apartment. As royal author Penny Junor wrote in her book All The Queen's Corgis: \"There is a special corgi room where they have raised wicker baskets lined with cushions to keep draughts away.\"\n\nWalking them every day was a part of her routine before mobility issues affected her final months. And in bygone years, she liked nothing more than piling the pack into an elderly Vauxhall estate, donning a headscarf, and setting off for a drive.\n\nThe Queen took her dogs everywhere, including by plane. (Pictured in 1970)\n\nA typical dog's life doesn't feature thousands of acres to roam, or lavish meals - prepared in the royal kitchens - of steak, chicken breast, vegetables and rice. But Junor believes that in some ways, corgis gave the Queen a precious point of contact with everyone else.\n\nShe wrote: \"Dogs and horses are her passion and it is with them, and the people who share that passion, that she truly relaxes. Horses are a rich man's game but dogs are not. They are a great leveller, they attract people from all walks of life and, over the years, the Queen has had strong and genuine friendships with many of her fellow dog enthusiasts.\"\n\nBetween 1933 and 2018, the Queen always owned at least one corgi - but mostly it was many more than that. Prince Philip, who never shared his wife's fondness for the breed, was apparently heard to complain: \"Bloody dogs! Why do you have to have so many?\"\n\nAnd then there were the dorgis - initially the result of an illicit liaison between Princess Margaret's dachshund, Pipkin, and a corgi named Tiny in the 1970s. The Queen and Princess Margaret were so charmed by the outcome that they mated the dogs again, and about 10 dorgi pups were born over the years.\n\nThey've varied in appearance, with some ears pointing up, corgi-like, and others hanging down. But all of them had long tails and were smaller than pedigree corgis.\n\nThe Queen strokes her dorgi Candy, as she looks at memorabilia from her Golden and Platinum Jubilees in January 2022\n\nWhen a royal photographer asked how the mechanics worked given the height difference between corgis and dachshunds, the Queen replied: \"It's very simple. We have a little brick.\"\n\nIn some cases, when loved ones died the Queen even adopted their dogs. This included the Queen Mother's three corgis in 2002. According to Vanity Fair, when the Queen went to Clarence House to view her mother's body, she took the Queen Mother's corgis home with her directly.\n\nShe adopted another - Whisper - who had belonged to her former head gamekeeper at Windsor, Bill Fenwick, and his wife Nancy. The latter was a dear friend who helped with the Queen's corgi breeding for five decades, and one of the very few people whose calls were always put through to her no matter what.\n\nThe royal household's breeding programme ended several years ago, as the Queen was said to be unwilling to leave young dogs behind when she died. She was pictured with her surviving dorgi, named Candy, back in January. She also had two young corgis named Muick and Sandy, who were gifts from her son Prince Andrew and his daughters in 2021.\n\nIt has now been confirmed that the pair will go to live with the prince and his ex-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, at Royal Lodge, a mansion in the grounds of the Windsor estate.\n\nIt is unclear at time of writing whether Candy will join them.\n\nPrince Andrew and the corgis have a lifelong association. (Pictured in 1966)\n\nThe prince hasn't always profited from the corgis' presence. Junor observes that the Queen, \"essentially a very shy woman\" who was required to talk confidently to strangers, used the dogs to reduce her discomfort - including with her relatives.\n\n\"Her family refers to it as 'the dog mechanism' […] If the situation becomes too difficult she will sometimes literally walk away from it and take the dogs out. Prince Andrew is said to have taken three weeks to fight his way past the dogs to tell his mother that his marriage to Sarah Ferguson was in trouble,\" she wrote.\n\nThe Queen also deployed the dogs to put others at ease. War surgeon Dr David Nott described how the monarch got him through a lunch at Buckingham Palace when he had just returned from Aleppo, in war-torn Syria, and found himself unable to speak to her due to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).\n\nThe Queen sensed something was wrong and said, \"Well, shall I help you?\" before calling for her corgis, Dr Nott said.\n\n\"All of a sudden the courtiers brought the corgis and the corgis went underneath the table.\" The Queen opened a tin of biscuits. \"And so for 20 minutes during this lunch the Queen and I fed the dogs. She did it because she knew that I was so seriously traumatised.\"\n\nBecause Her Majesty lived to 96 years old, there are millions of people old enough to own dogs who have only ever known her as a grey-haired grandmother and great-grandmother.\n\nAs a result, corgis came to be viewed as an old person's breed for a time.\n\nTheir ascendency peaked in the 1960s with almost 9,000 puppy registrations, as the public cooed over pictures of the Queen with her young family and dogs. But from the late 1990s in particular the decline is marked, and 2014 was their annus horribilis. With just 274 new registrations, Pembrokes trotted into the Vulnerable Native Breed category in the UK.\n\nThen came Netflix, and salvation in the form of The Crown, whose first season in 2016 turned the clock back to the start of the Queen's reign. Sympathetically played by Claire Foy, whose nuanced performance included a litany of expressive ways to say the word \"oh…\", the youthful royal was frequently surrounded by a pack of corgis, as was Olivia Colman, her successor in the role.\n\nOlivia Colman in character as the Queen, with her co-stars\n\nFoy told Vanity Fair how the on-set dogs were bribed with treats and especially loved cheese, mulling: \"You sort of worry that they're going to have a heart attack when you're giving it to them. These Corgis are cheesed up to the max - they're eating like a whole block of cheddar every day. It's scary.\"\n\nNumbers rebounded, with corgi puppy registrations up by 16% in 2017 after the first season aired, and 47% in 2018 after the second. It wasn't just about The Crown. The James Bond skit starring the Queen and three royal corgis at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony also saw them tummy-roll back into the public consciousness.\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 Olympics 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\nEven Bridgerton - Netflix's wildly popular Regency romp - inserted a historically improbable corgi into series 2. Co-star reviews included \"doesn't move if he doesn't have a treat\", but audiences loved him.\n\nSocial media has also been vital to the corgi renaissance, as Chris Equale, owner of TikTok stars Hammy and Olivia, knows well.\n\nChris, 34, launched a viral sensation pretty much accidentally in April 2020, with a video of his corgi Olivia barking at the vacuum cleaner. \"It got 250,000 views in just under 20 minutes,\" he remembers.\n\nTwo years and seven million followers later, he's made more than 700 talking corgi skits. They include a running joke about the dogs' war with \"the dragon\" (their dust-blitzing nemesis), and the vacuum company has piled in to sponsor content.\n\nAsked what it is about corgis that charms people, he replies: \"There's something very unique about a corgi - it's just a dog you really want to root for. They're the greatest herders you'll ever see! But if you look at them at first glance it's like, is it a dog, is it a loaf of bread? There's something so lovable about them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Hammy and Olivia's owner on the breed's unique appeal\n\nThe Kennel Club's Ciara Farrell agrees corgi anatomy is central to their kitsch appeal.\n\n\"One of the things is that people love a big ear - something you can lean into if you're making a soft toy. They're a spitz breed, so pointy in the face, brings that foxiness in. They look sort of tough but cute.\"\n\nMr Equale sees the Queen as \"the pioneer of the breed\" which he describes as looking like an oversized potato, enthusing: \"I've only had these two [Hammy and Olivia] for like… seven years? So to do that 10 times over is just fascinating.\n\n\"At a dog park it's always the first thing that comes out of a passer-by's mouth: 'Oh you know those are the Queen's dogs!'\"\n\nCorgis and the Queen: A branding partnership known the world over\n\nThe breed was inextricably tied to the monarchy in the public imagination while the Queen reigned. But in the era of King Charles III, who once quipped that he prefers Labradors and is a long-time owner of Jack Russell terriers, can corgis expect another dip in popularity?\n\n\"I would hope not,\" says Ms Farrell. \"I think corgis have made great progress in recent years.\" She believes they'll always be the Queen's iconic dogs, but the more that potential owners see corgis online, the less vital a royal association will be.\n\n\"There's going to be a generation of people who use social media who will find them characterful and fun. I think they're here to stay, definitely.\"\n\nThis feature was first published on 3 June, 2022.", "Participants will provide saliva samples to be analysed by researchers\n\nPeople with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) are being sought to participate in the world's largest genetic study of the disease.\n\nThe study, DecodeME, aims to better understand the causes and symptoms of the condition to find treatments.\n\nThose taking part in the University of Edinburgh research will complete an online questionnaire about their health and provide a saliva sample.\n\nExperts are looking for 20,000 people to take part.\n\nMore than 250,000 people in the UK are affected by ME but the causes of the disease are still unknown and there is no diagnostic test or effective treatment.\n\nSymptoms include pain, \"brain fog\" and extreme exhaustion that cannot be improved with rest.\n\nIt is hoped the study by the MRC Human Genetics Unit, will reveal the tiny differences in a person's DNA that can increase their risk of developing ME, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).\n\nResearchers will test 20,000 samples of saliva to analyse whether the disease is partly genetic, and if so, study its cause to find effective treatments.\n\nThe study has been expanded to analyse the DNA of an additional 5,000 people who have been diagnosed with ME or CFS after having Covid-19, along with an anonymous survey to gain an insight into the experience of those with the condition.\n\nLead researcher Prof Chris Ponting said: \"This is the first sizable DNA study of ME/CFS, and any differences we find compared to control samples will serve as important biological clues.\n\n\"Specifically, we believe the results should help identify genes, biological molecules and types of cells that may play a part in causing ME/CFS.\"\n\nThe university is working in partnership with charity Action for ME and the Forward ME alliance of UK charities to study the lived experiences of those with the condition.\n\nChief executive of Action for ME, Sonya Chowdhury, said: \"People with lived experience of ME/CFS are at the very heart of the DecodeME project and our Patient and Participant Involvement group has worked closely with researchers on all aspects of the study.\n\n\"Their profound involvement has been so transformational that we firmly believe it sets a new standard for health research in this country.\"\n\nIndividuals with ME or CFS, aged 16 and over, who live in the UK are invited to take part from home by signing up on the DecodeME website.\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. The proclamation was read by the Norroy and Ulster King of Arms Robert Noel\n\nThe Accession Proclamation has been read at Hillsborough Castle in County Down, at the same time as ceremonies in Edinburgh and Cardiff.\n\nThe reading of the Principal Proclamation of the new King, Charles III, took place at St James's Palace in the City of London on Saturday.\n\nKing Charles is due to make his first visit to Belfast as monarch on Tuesday.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss is expected to accompany the King, along with Camilla, the Queen Consort.\n\nCharles became King following the death of his mother, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday and an historic meeting at St James's Palace formally confirmed his role on Saturday.\n\nAs part of a UK tour, the King and Camilla will arrive in Belfast on Tuesday before travelling to Hillsborough Castle.\n\nThe Queen first visited Northern Ireland just after the end of World War Two in 1945, when she was Princess Elizabeth.\n\nScott Carson, the Mayor of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, said the people of Hillsborough were eagerly awaiting the arrival of the King.\n\n\"I think there is a great sense of anticipation and positivity already in the air,\" he said.\n\n\"The Royal family and especially King Charles, have fond memories of Royal Hillsborough and Hillsborough Castle and he has enjoyed spending time here and I look forward to seeing him visit shortly and I know the people within Royal Hillsborough and the whole borough and across Northern Ireland are also eagerly awaiting that as well.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left in Hillsborough\n\nDuring Tuesday's visit, King Charles will meet the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, as well as local party leaders.\n\nHe is to receive a message of condolence led by the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe King and Queen Consort will then meet leaders from all the major faiths in Northern Ireland before a service of prayer and reflection at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.\n\nIn the midst of very heavy rain, the proclamation ceremony went ahead and in some ways it was quite symbolic as the Royal Family has come here in good times and in bad, in good weather and in bad.\n\nIt is a day to look forward as well as back.\n\nIt is a significant day here at Hillsborough Castle and another significant day is coming on Tuesday when King Charles III is due to make his first visit to Northern Ireland as monarch.\n\nHe came here 39 times as Prince of Wales.\n\nHis 40th trip to Northern Ireland will be as King Charles III and one of the places he will visit is Hillsborough Castle, the royal residence.\n\nOn Saturday, a gun salute at Hillsborough Castle marked the Principal Proclamation of King Charles.\n\nAt Hillsborough Castle on Sunday, the Accession Proclamation was read at 12:00 BST by the Norroy and Ulster King of Arms Robert Noel in front of an audience of dignitaries and members of the public.\n\nNorroy and Ulster King of Arms is one of the three senior officers of arms at the College of Arms in London, the heraldic authority for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and parts of the Commonwealth.\n\nThe proclamation event featured military in full ceremonial dress, a bugler and a 21-gun salute.\n\nSinn Féin said it would not be represented at the reading of the Accession Proclamation at Hillsborough Castle.\n\nHowever, the party said it acknowledged \"the positive role the Queen played in advancing peace and reconciliation\" and said that in recognition of this it would attend a number of events during the period of national mourning.\n\nThe Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)'s councillor Simon Lee was in attendance.\n\nThe party said it had \"not been prescriptive or prohibitive with its public representatives about attending events related to the death of Queen Elizabeth II\".\n\n\"It is for each representative to decide which events they attend, taking into account their personal circumstances and conscience.\n\n\"The SDLP Leader will attend a number of events in London this week and it is the intention of senior SDLP representatives to attend the motion of condolence and service of thanksgiving in Belfast on Tuesday.\"\n\nFollowing the formal regional proclamation at Hillsborough Castle, the document was read in several council areas by lord lieutenants or sheriffs.\n\nPeople from Northern Ireland are among thousands lining streets in the centre of Edinburgh as the Queen's funeral cortege makes its way to the Scottish capital from Balmoral Castle.\n\nNorthern Ireland woman Grace Cubitt is among thousands lining the streets of Edinburgh in anticipation of the arrival of the Queen's hearse\n\nGrace Cubitt, who is from Northern Ireland but has lived in Edinburgh for five years, said she had come on behalf of her family.\n\n\"We got here early, so we're just going to hold our spot for the next few hours so that we can pay our respects,\" she said.\n\nThe procession is due to enter from the west of the city, skirt by Edinburgh Castle and travel down the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse by about 16:00.\n\nAt 15:00 BST on Sunday, hundreds of people attended Belfast City Hall for a re-reading of the Accession Proclamation by the High Sheriff of Belfast, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor John Hussey.\n\nHe was in full ceremonial robes as he led the event in the main foyer.\n\nHundreds of people attended Belfast City Hall on Sunday for a re-reading of the Accession Proclamation by the High Sheriff of Belfast, DUP councillor John Hussey\n\nThe Lord Lieutenant of the County Borough of Belfast, Dame Fionnula Jay-O'Boyle, was also present.\n\nAfter the event, council members gathered in the main council chambers for a special meeting to pay tribute to the late Queen.\n\nThe band of the Royal Irish Regiment performed during the ceremony at Hillsborough Castle\n\nShuttle bus services to Royal Hillsborough from the Eikon Centre have resumed following a pause for the proclamation ceremony.\n\nVisitors are being warned parking is restricted and a one-way system is now in operation in the village.\n\nBelfast City Hall will be open until 20:00 BST on Sunday for people who want to sign the books of condolence. The building will also be open Monday to Friday from 09:30 until 20:00 BST.\n\nPeople have been leaving floral tributes in the Garden of Remembrance which is open 07:00 BST to 20:00 BST daily.\n\nVisitors are being warned of restrictions around Hillsborough Castle during the period of official mourning.\n\nThe Orange Order has suspended all planned parades until after the funeral.\n\nOther councils are holding events on Sunday:\n\nThe Queen's funeral will be held on Monday 19 September at Westminster Abbey in London.\n\nOn Saturday, during the Accession Council, the King approved the day of the Queen's funeral becoming a bank holiday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkraine's military says its forces have retaken over 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) during a rapid counter-offensive in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe remarkable advance, if confirmed, means Kyiv's forces have tripled their stated gains in little over 48 hours.\n\nPresident Zelensky put the figure at 1,000 sq km on Thursday evening, and then 2,000 sq km on Saturday evening.\n\nThe BBC cannot verify the Ukrainian figures, and journalists have been denied access to the frontlines.\n\nOn Saturday, the eastern counter-attack saw Ukrainian troops enter the vital Russian-held supply towns of Izyum and Kupiansk.\n\nBut UK defence officials have warned that fighting has continued outside those towns. And officials in Kyiv said Ukrainian forces were still fighting to gain control of a number of settlements around Izyum.\n\nRussia's defence ministry confirmed its forces' retreat from Izyum itself and Kupiansk, which it said would allow them\"to regroup\" in territory held by Moscow-backed separatists.\n\nThe Russian ministry also confirmed the withdrawal of troops from a third key town, Balaklyia, in order to \"bolster efforts\" on the Donetsk front. Ukrainian forces entered the town on Friday.\n\nThe pace of the counter-attack has caught the Russians off guard, and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov - a staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin - appeared to question Moscow's military strategy.\n\nIn a message posted to Telegram, Mr Kadyrov said if there was not a change in Russia's fortunes, he would be forced to question the country's leadership to explain the situation.\n\nMeanwhile President Volodomyr Zelensky accused Russia of targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine's east in response - leaving large swathes of territory in \"total blackout.\"\n\nPower was cut off completely throughout the entire Kharkiv and Donetsk regions depriving people of \"light and heat\", Ukraine's leader claimed on Twitter.\n\nOutages were also reported in several other areas near the frontline on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday, the head of the Russia-installed administration in the Kharkiv region recommended that its people evacuate to Russia \"to save lives\".\n\nUnverified footage on social media appeared to show long queues of traffic building up at border crossings. The governor of the Belgorod border region in Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said \"thousands\" of people had crossed into the country.\n\nMeanwhile, Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander of Ukraine's military, said his forces had advanced to within 50km (31 miles) of the Russian border.\n\nBut Russians still hold around a fifth of the country, and few imagine a swift end to the war.\n\nIn an interview with the Financial Times, Ukraine's defence minister Oleksii Reznikov hailed his troops, but warned of the potential for a Russian counter-attack.\n\n\"A counter-offensive liberates territory and after that you have to control it and be ready to defend it,\" Mr Reznikov said. \"Of course, we have to be worried, this war has worried us for years.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian advances - if held - would be the most significant frontline changes since Russia withdrew from areas around Kyiv in April.\n\nKupiansk served as Russia's main eastern supply hub and the loss of Izyum - which Moscow spent over a month trying to take at the beginning of the war - would be seen as a major humiliation for President Vladimir Putin.\n\nAccording to one military expert, the advance marks the first time since World War Two that whole Russian units have been lost.\n\nThe gains will also be seen as a sign that Ukraine's army has the capacity to retake occupied territory - crucial as Kyiv continues to ask hard-pressed Western allies for military support.\n\nUkraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said the latest developments showed its forces could end the war faster with more Western weapons.\n\nUkraine launched its counter-offensive in the east earlier this week, while international attention was focused on an anticipated advance near the southern city of Kherson.\n\nAnalysts believe Russia redirected some of its most seasoned troops to defend the city.\n\nIn addition to gaining ground in the east, Ukraine is also making gains in the south, an official said.\n\nNataliya Gumenyuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian army's southern command, said they had advanced \"between two and several dozens of kilometres\" along that front.\n\nBut Russian forces fighting on the southern front are said to have dug into defensive positions, and Ukraine's troops have faced heavy resistance since the offensive began.\n\nAnd in Kharkiv itself, one person was killed and several homes damaged on Saturday as Russian rocket fire hit the city, according to local officials.\n\nElsewhere, Ukraine's energy regulator, Energoatom, says the last reactor at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been shut down, and is not generating electricity.\n\nThe reactor had been generating energy for the plant itself for three days - it was shut down when external power was restored.\n\nThe Ukrainian operator said that to prevent an emergency, it was essential that shelling of the power lines connecting the station to the national grid be halted.", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is due to deliver a \"fiscal event\" this month\n\nNo 10 says a mini Budget to deliver tax cuts promised by Liz Truss will still take place this month, despite the death of the Queen.\n\nParliament has been suspended due to an official period of mourning, raising questions over whether the \"fiscal event\" might be delayed.\n\nThe new PM has vowed to cut taxes to boost the economy and help people with rising living costs.\n\nThe government could also give details on the cost of last week's energy plan.\n\nA date for the mini Budget has not been announced but is likely to be the end of next week.\n\nMPs are scheduled to begin a three-week break for party conferences after that, unless the dates for this are changed.\n\nThe Lib Dems have cancelled their conference, which fell during the official mourning period, but the Labour and Conservative Party gatherings - taking place afterwards - are expected to go ahead.\n\nThe government has not given an estimated cost for its plan, unveiled last week, to limit energy price rises, meaning a typical household energy bill would cost around £2,500 annually until 2024.\n\nThe plan, announced just hours before news of the Queen's death, could cost up to £150bn.\n\nDuring her campaign for the Tory leadership, Ms Truss promised to undo the rise in National Insurance under her predecessor Boris Johnson.\n\nShe has put the reversal at the centre of a \"bold\" package of tax cuts that she says are required to boost the UK economy and stop a recession.\n\nShe has also argued the cuts will help households, at a time when living costs are rising because of 40-year-high inflation.\n\nIn addition, she has also said she will use the mini Budget to temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills, in a bid to bring down prices for consumers.\n\nIt's understood that on a call to Treasury officials, new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng made it clear they should prepare for a change of direction.\n\nA source with knowledge of the call confirmed a report in the Financial Times that he said the department need to focus on growing the economy, to meet a target to return growth to 2.5% a year.\n\nIt follows the sacking of the Treasury's top official, Sir Tom Scholar, within days of Mr Kwarteng taking office.\n\nThe move has been seen as part of a pledge by Ms Truss to change \"Treasury orthodoxy\" - but has been criticised by two former heads of the civil service.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has confirmed that some new ministers are yet to be appointed because of the Queen's death last week.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the \"vast majority\" of appointments had been made but there were \"still a small number\" remaining.\n\nHe added these would not be done during a 10-day official mourning period, but would take place \"in due course\".\n\nAll Cabinet and senior roles have been filled, with Ms Truss rewarding key allies with top jobs and culling prominent backers of her leadership rival Rishi Sunak.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Queen’s coffin travels from Balmoral to Edinburgh\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's coffin has been brought to Edinburgh following a six-hour journey from Balmoral.\n\nMourners lined the streets as the hearse travelled from Aberdeenshire to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where her coffin will rest overnight.\n\nA respectful silence fell as people waited for the procession to pass by before they burst into polite applause and cheers.\n\nCrowds also gathered to hear King Charles III proclaimed across the UK.\n\nHe will travel up to Scotland on Monday and will be joined by members of the Royal Family as he accompanies his mother's coffin to the cathedral in the Scottish city.\n\nThe Queen's cortege left her home at Balmoral at around 10:00 BST, winding through Aberdeen and Dundee among other villages and towns, on its way to Edinburgh.\n\nHer coffin will lie under vigil in St Giles' Cathedral on Monday before heading to London ahead of her funeral on Monday 19 September.\n\nIn Ballater, Aberdeenshire, near Balmoral, flowers were thrown into the road ahead of the cortege by mourners.\n\nDown the road in Aboyne, pipes played as a hush fell over the village and the procession passed by, with one voice saying \"you're on your way now\".\n\nIn a field near Aberdeen farmers paid tribute by lining up their tractors.\n\nAs the cortege drove through Edinburgh city centre silence fell before there was applause from the crowd that had gathered.\n\nThousands of people lined Edinburgh's Royal Mile, waiting sombrely to pay their respects.\n\nThere was applause from mourners as the Queen's cortege travelled through the city centre\n\nPeople lined streets in cities, towns and villages as the sombre journey continued\n\nPallbearers carried the coffin into Holyroodhouse - the monarch's official Scottish residence\n\nThe Princess Royal, Princess Anne, travelled in the second car of the cortege on the 175-mile journey, accompanied by her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nShe curtsied as her mother's coffin was carried into Holyroodhouse - the monarch's official residence in Scotland - where it will lie at rest in the throne room.\n\nThe Duke of York and Earl and Countess of Wessex, who were there to receive the coffin, also bowed and curtsied respectively, alongside palace staff.\n\nThe country is in a period of national mourning until after the Queen's funeral next Monday.\n\nA series of constitutional and ceremonial events will take place over the coming days following her death aged 96 on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerials show the Queen's last journey from Balmoral\n\nEarlier at the start of the journey, six gamekeepers from her Balmoral estate placed the Queen's oak coffin into a hearse before she left Balmoral, her beloved private Scottish estate, for the final time.\n\nThe wreath on top of the coffin featured some of the Queen's favourite flowers, all cut from the estate - white heather, dahlias and sweet peas, phlox and pine fir.\n\nWhen the cortege reached Ballater, Aberdeenshire - the closest village to Balmoral - flowers were thrown in the road by mourners, many of whom regard the Queen and the Royal Family as neighbours.\n\nThe coffin will remain under continuous vigil for 24 hours at St Giles' Cathedral, with the public able to pay their respects.\n\nA service will be held at the cathedral in the evening.\n\nThe following day, Princess Anne will accompany her mother's coffin as it travels by plane from Edinburgh Airport back to Buckingham Palace, via RAF Northolt in north-west London.\n\nCrowds watch the funeral cortege of the Queen travel over the Queensferry Bridge\n\nThe cortege's six-hour journey came to an end in Edinburgh\n\nAmong those in the crowds was Dillion Hay, who was visiting Edinburgh from Bangor in Northern Ireland, said he had a flight to catch later but had come to pay his respects while he could.\n\n\"I've actually found it emotional on behalf of my nanny, I rang her and she was in floods of tears,\" he said.\n\nLinda McKichen, 60, arrived four hours early to see the cortege and said it was a \"heart-breaking\" occasion.\n\n\"It's like losing my mum. She's never not been in my life. This is a historic event, we'll certainly never have another queen like her,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, in Windsor, thousands gathered in the town to pay tribute to the Queen.\n\nRoads were closed, as floral tributes and cards continued to be placed outside the castle gates.\n\nWell-wishers view floral tributes to the Queen in Green Park near Buckingham Palace\n\nCrowds had also gathered to hear King Charles III officially proclaimed monarch in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nWhile he became king the moment his mother died, at a meeting of the Accession Council at St James's Palace on Saturday, he was formally confirmed in the role.\n\nThe proclamation has now been read in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as in other parts of England and in overseas territories.\n\nCrowds gathered in the Royal Mile in Edinburgh for the proclamation\n\nThe King was cheered by hundreds of well-wishers as he travelled to Buckingham Palace from nearby Clarence House to carry out audiences with representatives of the Commonwealth.\n\nThere he met with the Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Scotland - who publicly represents the association of 56 countries with historical ties to the UK.\n\nLater, the King hosted a reception for High Commissioners - ambassadors - from the 14 Commonwealth realms where he is also head of state, before meeting with the Dean of Windsor.\n\nOn Monday, he will visit Westminster Hall where both Houses of Parliament will express their condolences, before beginning his first trip around all four nations of the UK as monarch by flying to Scotland.\n\nIn his new role as Prince of Wales, Prince William spoke of his honour at being asked to serve the Welsh people in a call with First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrinces William and Harry were joined by Catherine and Meghan at Windsor as they viewed the tributes to the Queen and spent time talking to the crowd.\n\nThousands of people had gathered throughout the day outside the castle before the four arrived.\n\nAmanda Goldsmith was one of many who had come to Windsor to lay flowers, where she met the new Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"I shook William and Catherine's hands. She is so beautiful and was lovely. She spoke to me for ages.\n\nAmanda Goldsmith and husband Andrew Mitchell waited hours to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales\n\n\"I told them I was sorry for their loss and she said 'it's just not the same at the castle without the Queen'.\"\n\nMs Goldsmith, who had come from West Byfleet, in Surrey, with her husband Andrew Mitchell, said the Prince of Wales had commented on the flowers and cards left by children saying they were amazing.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex spent time speaking to those in the crowd\n\nOn Thursday Prince William and his brother Prince Harry had joined their father and other senior members of the Royal Family at Balmoral in Scotland as a statement was issued that the Queen was under medical supervision, before later that day it was announced that she had died.\n\nNow on the day that King Charles III was proclaimed King in a grand ceremony at St James's Palace, his sons were together in public outside Windsor, meeting some of the thousands who have been gathering since Thursday.\n\nFor many within the crowd the first sign that the royals were about to appear was when security placed barriers around the Cambridge Gate entrance and on Long Walk.\n\nThen suddenly there were cheers, children were raised on people's shoulders and everyone's phone was in the air to grab a picture as Princes William and Harry arrived with Catherine and Meghan.\n\nWilliam was made the Prince of Wales by his father, King Charles III\n\nThe last time William was joined in public by his brother at Windsor Castle was at the funeral of their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh in April last year.\n\nSilence then fell as the couples, united in grief, stopped to read the tributes, pointing out particular messages.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex held hands as they walked from the car and read the tributes, with Harry affectionately putting his hand on Meghan's back at one stage.\n\nApplause broke out again as the four royals then made their way to greet the waiting crowd, where they received dozens of bouquets.\n\nPriti Vyas, from Pinner, said she \"felt both happy and very emotional\" and was glad to have been able to speak to the Sussexes to give them her condolences.\n\nPriti Vyas said she could feel the \"warmth from Harry and Meghan\"\n\n\"We talked about the Queen, and Harry wanted to know if I had met her before,\" said Ms Vyas, adding that she had only seen her from a distance, once.\n\nShe said it had been lovely to speak to the couple, if only for a quick chat and that she had felt genuine \"warmth from them\".\n\n\"All four of them thanked me to be here waiting for them and I congratulated Kate and William.\n\n\"I just wish that their grandmother was here as well,\" she said.\n\nSukhjit Johal from Coventry also came to pay her respects and was glad to see the royals.\n\n\"Kate was bending to see all the children, if she heard anyone say her name she would turn round and try to talk to them - like the Queen did.\n\nSukhjit Johal and Julia were disappointed to not speak to the Royals\n\n\"They really seem to understand the nation has lost the Queen too - they're allowing us to grieve with them,\" she said, something she felt was \"really heartfelt\" when \"all of them are going through a deeper level of grief than the public\".\n\nJulia, from London, was close enough to catch a glimpse of the Prince of Wales and his brother.\n\nWhile William had appeared \"very sombre\" as his father was proclaimed King earlier in the day, she said he was smiling as he met the crowd.\n\n\"I could see Harry on the other side and he was reaching up high, trying to reach as many hands as possible.\"\n\nMoments before Prince William had met the crowd he had issued a tribute to his \"Grannie\", saying: \"She was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life\".\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales, with their children Prince George and Louis and Princess Charlotte moved to Windsor last month. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are living in the US, having left the UK in March 2020.", "Queen Elizabeth II's historic handshake with former IRA leader Martin McGuinness in Belfast on 27 June 2012\n\nWithin hours of the Queen's death, the warning went out from Sinn Féin headquarters.\n\nAn email reminded activists of party policy on social media posts.\n\nIt said it was important to be \"respectful\" and \"avoid using any form of personal abuse\" when engaging in social media.\n\nThere was no mention of the Queen's passing, but the message was delivered loud and clear.\n\nThose tempted to post or like messages mocking the Queen's death were told to think again.\n\nThat message was backed up by a post from the Andersonstown News, which reminded republicans the Queen bowed her head to dead IRA men and women.\n\n\"Maybe it is worth counting to 10 before hitting the tweet button tonight,\" the post read.\n\nBut despite their best efforts, those beyond the reach or influence of such messages let loose.\n\nBe it offensive chanting from fans at a Dublin soccer match or a cavalcade through a republican housing estate, the opportunity to gloat at the Queen's passing was too tempting to pass up.\n\nThe posts were shared and liked but they were also criticised by those who view the new relationship between the Royals and republicans in a different light.\n\nA transformation was triggered by the Queen on her visit to the Republic in 2011, a visit boycotted by Sinn Féin.\n\nSinn Féin Leader Michelle O'Neill signs a book of condolence for the Queen at Belfast City Hall\n\nBut since then, republicans have built on that moment with Martin McGuinness's multiple meetings and handshakes with the Queen.\n\nHis successor, Michelle O'Neill, typified the new relationship when, dressed in black, she reflected on the Queen's contribution to peace and reconciliation.\n\nShe also led the tributes to the Queen in the assembly chamber yesterday describing the late monarch as \"courageous and gracious\".\n\nLater in the book of condolence Ms O'Neill wrote: \"Deepest sympathies on this sad occasion. Thank you for advancing peace and reconciliation between our islands. First Minister-elect, Michelle O'Neill MLA.\"\n\nA Sinn Féin delegation will join the King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, at a special service marking the Queen's passing at St Anne's Cathedral later today.\n\nBut Sinn Féin will not be taking part in any events marking King Charles' accession to the throne.\n\nThat is where republicans draw the line.\n\nThose events are, says Sinn Féin, only for those who have an allegiance to the crown.\n\nThe fact the party has to remind the public where the boundaries are, reflects how far its relationship with the Royals has travelled.\n\nKing Charles, who was then Prince Charles, shakes hands with then Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in Galway in 2015\n\nThere is, according to party President Mary Lou McDonald, an open line of communication.\n\nKing Charles wrote what Mary Lou McDonald described as a \"lovely letter\" when she was recovering from Covid.\n\nShe wrote to the then Prince Charles and Queen to expresses her condolences at the passing of Prince Phillip.\n\nThe expected attendance of the Sinn Féin president, or vice president at the Queen's funeral next week in London, will further cement that relationship.\n\nBut beyond the handshakes, what political purpose does it serve?\n\nDoes it show Sinn Féin as the party ready for government in the Republic?\n\nNo more royal boycotts but instead a maturing relationship with the monarchy.\n\nIt may also prove to be a mood changer in the Stormont stalemate.\n\nBut don't expect Sinn Féin's new-found respect for royalty to be a political game changer.\n\nOnce the week of royal protocol is over, another protocol will be back at the heart of politics and parties will return to their trenches.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh returned to the Forth Road Bridge 50 years after officially opening it\n\nQueen Elizabeth II left her beloved Balmoral for the final time on Sunday on a journey that stirred memories of her life of service.\n\nHer cortege wended its way through villages and towns she knew well. It skirted cities where she opened hospitals, congratulated business leaders, met schoolchildren and greeted well-wishers.\n\nAs well as the villages of Aberdeenshire, where she was considered a neighbour as much as a monarch, it travelled through Aberdeen, then south through Angus, Dundee, Perth and Fife.\n\nSymbolically, Her Majesty's coffin was taken over Queensferry Crossing - a structure she opened in 2017.\n\nAlong this journey to her final resting place were the visible signs of the role she played in shaping modern Scotland.\n\nThe late Queen marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One at Crathie Kirk in August 2014\n\nAfter the Royal cortege left Balmoral it passed close to Crathie Kirk - the church where the Royal family have worshipped since Queen Victoria in 1848.\n\nIt was an important place to Queen Elizabeth, a woman of great faith. Just last weekend she hosted the Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.\n\nHe said she was \"obviously frail...[but] absolutely on the ball\", adding that she was \"very much very engaged with what was happening in the church and what was happening in the nation too\".\n\nThe late Queen spoke to the local butchers in Ballater before unveiling a plaque marking a Diamond Jubilee cairn in September 2012\n\nIt was also a link to the local community, which included the nearby village of Ballater, where she was considered a local by many.\n\nAfter flooding caused millions of pounds worth of damage in 2015, the late Queen later met residents affected in an official visit and praised local efforts to recover.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II launched the flow of oil from the Forties Field in the North Sea to BP's Grangemouth refinery\n\nThe coffin was driven along the A93 towards Aberdeen, before turning south and crossing the King George VI bridge, named after her father.\n\nThe city was the focus of many trips by the Queen. It was where she opened a children's hospital in 2005 and hosted a special sitting of the Scottish Parliament in 2002.\n\nBut it was perhaps her actions in Dyce in 1975 which had the most profound effect on the city - she pressed a gold-plated button which formally began the operation of the UK's first oil pipeline.\n\nThe 130-mile pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth served the Forties oilfield 110 miles east of Aberdeen.\n\nIt marked the beginning of a North Sea oil industry which brought thousands of new jobs and great prosperity to the north-east of Scotland.\n\nHowever, faced with a climate emergency and an energy crisis, Europe's oil capital is looking towards renewable sources of energy.\n\nShe met apprentices at the Michelin tyre factory in Dundee in 2016\n\nHeading south on the A90, the coffin took in the Kingsway - designed to commemorate Edward VII - through Dundee.\n\nDuring a trip to the city in 2016, the Queen met apprentices at the Michelin tyre factory's training school and workshop.\n\nHowever, two years later the company announced the closure of the site, with the loss of 850 jobs.\n\nMore than 300 million tyres had been produced in the plant, which opened in 1971. It finally closed in June 2020 and is now an \"innovation centre\".\n\nThe young Princess Elizabeth was with her parents and cousin at Glamis Castle in 1931 to celebrate her grandparents' golden wedding anniversary\n\nBetween Aberdeen and Dundee, the Royal coffin travelled along the A90, skirting the Angus town of Forfar.\n\nNearby is Glamis Castle, the ancestral home of the late Queen's maternal grandparents and a place where she is said to have spent many happy childhood holidays.\n\nIt was where her parents honeymooned and where her mother, Queen Elizabeth, gave birth to her sister, Princess Margaret in 1930.\n\nPrince William - now the Prince of Wales - graduated with a degree in geography\n\nPast Perth, the coffin travelled through Fife - a short hop from St Andrews where the late Queen's grandson William went to university and met his future wife, Catherine.\n\nShe joined Prince Philip, her son Charles and his wife, Camilla, at the graduation ceremony in June 2005.\n\nThe Queen was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh as she named the Royal Navy's biggest ever ship\n\nAs the coffin reached the most southerly point of Fife, it passed Rosyth - where the UK's largest warship was officially named in her honour, in June 2014.\n\nShe smashed a bottle of whisky against the side of the aircraft carrier at Rosyth dockyard.\n\nSix UK shipyards, and more than 10,000 people at more than 100 companies worked on HMS Queen Elizabeth.\n\nIt entered service in 2020 and is now the Royal Navy's Fleet Flagship.\n\nNicola Sturgeon looked on as the late Queen cut the ribbon on the Queensferry Crossing\n\nThe late Queen opened two bridges across the Forth during her 70 year reign - the Forth Road Bridge in 1964, and the Queensferry Crossing in August 2017.\n\nHer coffin crossed the new Queensferry Crossing, which links Fife to Edinburgh.\n\nShe returned to the Forth Road Bridge in 2014 to mark its 50th anniversary and was back just three years later to cut the ribbon on its £1.35bn replacement.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II said the Queensferry Crossing, the UK's tallest bridge, was a \"breath-taking sight\" and one of three \"magnificent structures\" across the Forth.\n\nAt the end of its journey, the Royal coffin was taken to the Palace of Holyroodhouse - the Royal residence opposite the Scottish Parliament building.\n\nThe late Queen officially opened the £431m building in 2004 - three years late and over budget.\n\nIn a speech to MSPs she acknowledged the construction's \"difficult and controversial birth\" and urged them to make Holyrood a \"landmark of 21st Century democracy\".\n\nShe returned in October last year to open the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood despite some Covid restrictions still being in place.\n\nThe leaders of the main political parties in Scotland greeted The Queen before the ceremony last year.\n\nIn a speech in the debating chamber, she paid tribute to those who made an \"extraordinary contribution\" during the pandemic.\n\nAnd she spoke of her happy memories of Scotland and her \"deep and abiding affection for this wonderful country\".\n\n\"It is often said that it is the people that make a place and there are few places where this is truer than it is in Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia aims to \"deprive people of light and heat\" by causing power cuts across eastern Ukraine in revenge for a Ukrainian counter-offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.\n\nBlackouts reportedly affected millions of people in the eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. The Kharkiv city mayor says power is now restored.\n\nIt comes after Ukraine said it had retaken over 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) in an eastern counter-offensive.\n\nThe BBC cannot verify these figures.\n\nKharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure left much of his city without power or water on Sunday evening.\n\nHe called it a vile and cynical attempt at revenge for the Ukrainian army's recent successes.\n\nWhat sounded like two further missile strikes were heard later in the evening, the BBC's international correspondent Orla Guerin reported from Kharkiv.\n\nMr Terekhov and the region's governor called for calm, saying the emergency services were working to repair damage and put out fires.\n\nThe governor of the neighbouring Sumy region said over 130 settlements in one district alone were without power.\n\nSimilar problems have been reported in Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.\n\nIn a defiant post on social media after the power cuts, President Zelensky accused Russia of carrying out \"terrorist acts\" by targeting civilian infrastructure.\n\n\"Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as terrible and deadly for us as your 'friendship and brotherhood',\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nIt comes after a remarkable Ukrainian advance, which if confirmed will mean Ukrainian forces have tripled their territorial gains in little over 48 hours.\n\nPresident Zelensky said 1,000 sq km had been retaken on Thursday evening. That figure rose to 2,000 sq km on Saturday evening, then to 3,000 on Sunday.\n\nUK defence officials estimated that Ukraine had recaptured territory at least twice the size of Greater London - more than 3,000 sq km - in the Kharkiv region since Wednesday.\n\nThey added that Ukrainian army's successes would have \"significant implications\" for Russia's overall operational design.\n\nJournalists have been denied access to the front lines but several videos on social media show Ukrainian troops present in towns and villages that were until recently held by Russia.\n\nUkrainian forces entered the key town of Balaklyia on Friday. Russia later confirmed the withdrawal of troops, to \"bolster efforts\" on the Donetsk front.\n\nThe vital Russian-held supply towns of Izyum and Kupiansk were taken by Ukraine on Saturday. Russia confirmed its forces' retreat from both towns, which it said would allow them to \"regroup\".\n\nValerii Marchenko, mayor of Izyum, said residents should be able to return to the town in about 10 days for the first time since it was captured by Russia in March.\n\nTwo-thirds of the population had fled, he told Newshour on the BBC World Service, but most wanted to go back despite extensive destruction and a lack of energy, water or communications.\n\nIzyum was probably the biggest logistical hub for the Russian army, he said, as it was a gateway to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in the Donbas region, where Russia wanted to advance.\n\nBut Russia still holds around a fifth of the country, and few imagine a swift end to the war.\n\nIn an interview with the Financial Times, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov warned of the potential for a Russian counter-attack.\n\n\"A counter-offensive liberates territory and after that you have to control it and be ready to defend it,\" Mr Reznikov said.", "The actress appeared as Mrs McClusky in 11 series between 1981 and 1991\n\nActress Gwyneth Powell, who played head teacher Mrs McClusky in teen soap opera Grange Hill, has died aged 76.\n\nThe Manchester-born actress loomed over the series for 10 years from 1981, as the stern-but-fair headmistress.\n\nShe also played Greg Davies' mother Polly in the Channel 4 sitcom Man Down, and appeared in shows like Holby City, A Touch Of Frost and Heartbeat.\n\nHer representative Matthew Lacey said Powell had died \"of complications following a major operation\".\n\nHe said she \"passed away peacefully\" with her husband, actor Alan Leith, and niece at her bedside last Thursday.\n\n\"Gwyneth will be greatly missed by her adoring family and friends along with her many fans from multiple TV appearances,\" he added.\n\nAppropriately, given her most famous role, Powell initially trained as a teacher before throwing herself into repertory theatre in the late 1960s.\n\nShe landed her first television role in the 1971 London Weekend Television drama series The Guardians - \"which was lucky because I'd just got married\", she later said.\n\n\"We'd bought a house but we had no way of paying the first month's mortgage, or indeed buying a wedding ring,\" she told the Grange Hill podcast Sausage On A Fork.\n\n\"I wore my mother's wedding ring to our wedding... And then I got The Guardians and we were secure.\"\n\nShe continued to secure regular work in the 1970s, with recurring roles on shows like Z Cars, Dixon of Dock Green and Emmerdale - but her career accelerated after being cast in Grange Hill, about life in an inner city comprehensive school.\n\nGrange Hill's willingness to tackle issues like bullying and drug use made it stand out from other children's programming in the 1980s\n\n\"At first, Mrs McClusky was written as a 'twin set and pearls' role, but I was quite young at the time and didn't want to play it like that,\" she later told the BBC.\n\n\"We started with the clothes and she was quite fashion conscious and chic. I was told by lots of people she was a great fillip to young women teachers who started applying for headships. The show had repercussions in all kinds of ways, and the character did too.\n\n\"My period did coincide with the Thatcher years. I think Mrs McClusky became memorable because we had a prime minister like that.\"\n\nShe stayed in the role for 11 series before asking to be written out, and always remained proud of its impact.\n\n\"It was the first series that dealt with real problems in a real way without being patronising,\" she said. \"I'm not saying it would change society, but maybe it helped a lot of young people.\"\n\nAfter leaving the show, she bought the rights to EM Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady novels - which explore the life of an upper middle-class Englishwoman during the Great Depression - and adapted them into a series of successful one-woman shows.\n\nPaying tribute to Powell, Patricia Hidalgo, director of BBC Children's and Education, said: \"We are very sorry to hear of the passing of Gwyneth Powell.\n\n\"Her famous portrayal of Mrs McClusky is one that will be fondly remembered by all those that grew up watching Grange Hill.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.\"", "The UK economy grew by 0.2% in July, according to official data, following a sharp drop in the previous month.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said the services sector was the biggest contributor to growth, helped by the UK hosting the Women's Euro Championship.\n\nHowever, while the economy expanded in July, the growth was slower than the 0.3% expansion analysts had expected.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) fell in June due to the extra bank holiday for the Queen's Jubilee.\n\nGDP - which measures all the goods and services produced by the UK - fell by 0.6% in June because of two fewer working days.\n\nAnalysts have said the bank holiday for Queen Elizabeth's state funeral on 19 September, as well as the 10 days of national mourning, could impact economic growth and push the UK into recession sooner than expected.\n\nLast month, the Bank of England said it expected the UK to fall into recession at the end of this year.\n\nA recession is defined as two consecutive quarters, or three-month periods, of shrinking output. Between April and June, the economy contracted by 0.1% compared with the previous quarter.\n\nIn July, the economy was helped by the Women's Euro Championships, which was won by England, and the the Commonwealth Games. Second-hand car sales were also strong.\n\nHowever, there was evidence elsewhere that consumer spending remained under pressure because of rising prices, as inflation reached a four decade high of 10.1% in July.\n\nThe Euro Championships, hosted by the UK, helped boost economic growth\n\nThe ONS said that between May and July, economic growth was flat compared with the previous three months.\n\nThe production and construction sectors both shrank in July. Production was hit by a fall in demand for energy such as electricity.\n\nThe ONS said that while this may have been due to \"higher than usual temperatures\", anecdotal evidence suggested \"that there may be some signs of changes in consumer behaviour and lower demand in response to increased prices\".\n\nJake Finney, economist at the accountancy firm PwC, said that although the economy grew in July, he now expects a contraction in the third quarter which runs between July and September.\n\n\"This would mean that the UK enters a technical recession for the first time since lockdown restrictions ended,\" he said.\n\nIt's not surprising that the economy grew in July compared to June - for the simple reason that June contained an extra bank holiday due to the Jubilee and there was therefore less economic activity than normal, flattering the figures for July by comparison.\n\nThere will be similar effects this month because of the extra bank holiday for the state funeral next week.\n\nSet aside these distortions though, and the figures suggest at the best stagnation and at worst recession coming earlier than the Bank of England predicted.\n\nWhile the services that makes up four-fifths of the economy grew, it was by less than most economists expected. Most of the growth is in business-to-business services such as IT or accountancy.\n\nIn consumer facing services, activity grew but remains 4.3% below its pre-pandemic level - a statistical glimpse of the real economic pain households have already been going through, even before a further rise in energy bills that is still anticipated next month.\n\nOther economists estimated the UK might see some growth following the government's decision to limit the rise in gas and electricity prices, as well as new Prime Minister Liz Truss's pledge to reverse a 1.25% rise in National Insurance.\n\nBut analysts also said the UK economy could be affected by the bank holiday for the Queen's funeral, with Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, expecting it to impact economic growth by 0.2%.\n\nHe said the extra public holiday could have a bigger impact on the economy than the extra day off for the Jubilee in June, \"as the hospitality and tourism sector likely won't benefit, but many businesses still will shut\".\n\n\"That said, many businesses will be able to catch up work, as most of them did in June.\"\n\nPantheon's Mr Tombs said: \"We continue to think that a recession will be narrowly avoided over the coming quarters.\"\n\nBut Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said: \"The disappointingly small rebound in real GDP in July suggests that the economy has little momentum and is probably already in recession.\n\n\"The government's utility price freeze is unlikely to change that.\"", "About 900 MPs and peers were in Westminster Hall to hear the King's address on Monday\n\nWestminster Hall is where the Queen's coffin will lie in state and where King Charles III addressed MPs and peers for the first time as monarch on Monday.\n\nBuilt in 1097, it is a huge building that has played a significant role in British history across the centuries.\n\nIt has hosted the trials of Charles I and Guy Fawkes, Henry VIII's coronation banquet and a Nelson Mandela speech.\n\nThe hall survived a devastating fire in the 19th Century that destroyed most of the rest of the Palace of Westminster.\n\nThe building of Westminster Hall was commissioned by King William II - the son of William the Conqueror - who wanted a significant construction project to impress his new subjects. Its stone walls were about 6ft (2m) thick and remain largely intact today, albeit extended in height and refaced during processes of restoration.\n\nIt acted as a banqueting hall - though was so large other smaller halls had to be built nearby for some occasions, with the royal household usually eating in one of those.\n\nFrom the 12th Century, Westminster became the administrative centre of the kingdom and the base for the Treasury.\n\nThe hall became the most common site for legal proceedings under the Magna Carta, in 1215, which stipulated there should be a fixed place where judges should sit.\n\nThat led to it being the location for the trials of Guy Fawkes - for plotting to blow up Parliament in 1606 - and of King Charles I.\n\nAlthough monarchs had been deposed or murdered before, the trial of Charles I in 1649 was the first time one had been tried in public and condemned to death while still reigning. Accused of tyranny and treason, the king was convicted within a week.\n\nEleven years later when the monarchy was reinstalled under Charles II, the bodies of some of the key men who had ordered his father's execution were exhumed and their bodies stuck on poles on one of the hall's towers. Oliver Cromwell's head was there for more than 20 years.\n\nIn modern times, the hall remains in regular use. Many visitors to the Houses of Parliament walk through the hall after entering the building and passing through security checks.\n\nParliamentary discussions happen there and it stages addresses from visiting dignitaries such as French President Charles de Gaulle in 1960, South African leader Nelson Mandela in 1996, Pope Benedict in 2010 and US President Barack Obama in 2011.\n\nMore than 200,000 people saw the Queen Mother's coffin in Westminster Hall in 2002\n\nThe first royal lying-in-state in the hall was that of Edward VII in 1910 and the most recent that of the Queen Mother in 2002 - the same year the Queen addressed MPs and peers on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee.\n\nBut it is not only royals who have lain in state in Westminster Hall - the same honour was extended to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill following his death in 1965 and to the victims of the R101 airship disaster of 1930.", "Energy suppliers have warned a plan to offer discounts on electricity bills for households that cut peak-time use risks failing because they are too low.\n\nNational Grid ESO is consulting on a scheme where people can save cash if they avoid high-power activities, such as cooking, when demand is high.\n\nBut energy firms Octopus and E.On said proposed payments to incentivise customers to sign up were too low.\n\nIt is hoped a scheme could be launched this winter after the consultation.\n\nLast week, the government announced it would limit energy bill rises for all households for two years, but typical yearly bills will still rise in October from £1,971 to a cap of £2,500. Before the extra support was announced, typical bills had been set to hit £3,349 a year.\n\nHowever, National Grid ESO has been consulting energy suppliers to explore how its scheme to pay people to cut electricity use at peak times could work.\n\nIt is understood the service will only be available to homes that have smart meters installed to sign up to. There are about 14 million households with electricity smart meters in the UK.\n\nThe Times first reported that both Octopus Energy and E.On had warned that the proposed payment to customers of 52p for each kilowatt-hour of electricity saved during peak times was too low, and would not encourage people to sign up.\n\nOctopus Energy, which trialled National Grid ESO's proposals with 100,000 of its customers, told the BBC it would be \"wrong to set a price before finding out what works for people\".\n\n\"Like in any new service, we need to find out what customers respond to and then adjust the price accordingly,\" it added.\n\nDuring its trial, Octopus added credit to the energy accounts of customers that took part. It also had a \"self-refund option\" where people could get the cash they had been paid by cutting peak-time use transferred to their bank accounts.\n\nOne energy industry source told the BBC that National Grid needed to offer more attractive rates to encourage enough people to sign up to its payment scheme.\n\n\"We really want this to work and we really want people to take part,\" the source added. \"If you have a bad experience in the test run, you're not going to join it again when it becomes the real thing.\n\n\"We need that incentive that changes the behaviour. The higher the payments to customers, the greater chance of success.\"\n\nIt is understood one supplier suggested the extra payments offered to customers avoiding peak-time use should be between £1 to £2 per kWh.\n\nE.On said it believed the current prices being discussed by National Grid ESO \"aren't going to be enough to persuade people to take part\".\n\n\"This activity is designed to be a last resort measure at times of stress on the grid and we feel the reward to customers should match recent prices and give people a real reason to take part,\" the company said.\n\nThe supplier said \"time-of-use tariffs\" would enable customers to \"reduce their bills simply by changing when they use energy to cheaper times\".\n\n\"It means they can lower carbon emissions by taking advantage of periods when there is plentiful renewable generation on the grid,\" a statement added.\n\nA spokesman for National Grid ESO said: \"As has been reported, two industry participants have provided feedback to the ESO as part of our ongoing consultation to define the scope and terms of the demand flexibility service we intend to launch this winter.\n\n\"As with all other feedback we receive as part of this consultation we will consider and review this information before submitting our final design to the regulator Ofgem to approve.\"", "Ready-to-eat smoked fish, such as smoked salmon, is too risky for some people to consume because of a rare chance of getting listeria food poisoning, UK food safety experts say.\n\nWhile most people would not become seriously ill, certain susceptible groups, including the over-65s, could.\n\nPregnant women and people with weak immune systems are also vulnerable.\n\nCooking the fish until it is steaming hot should kill any dangerous bacteria, making it safe for anyone to eat.\n\nThere have been eight recorded listeriosis cases so far this year in an ongoing outbreak in the UK, says the Food Standards Agency (FSA).\n\nListeriosis in pregnancy can cause miscarriages and severe sepsis (blood poisoning) or meningitis in newborn babies, experts warn.\n\nPeople over 65 and those with certain underlying medical conditions such as cancer, chronic liver or kidney disease, or who are taking medications which can weaken the immune system, might also develop meningitis and life-threatening sepsis if exposed to the bacterium that cause listeriosis.\n\nAs a precaution, these groups are being advised to avoid eating uncooked smoked fish.\n\nListeria bacteria are commonly found in the environment - in soil, for example - and can contaminate and grow on food, even if it is chilled in the fridge.\n\nSmoked fish, pate, cured meats and some soft cheeses such as camembert and brie have been linked with listeriosis.\n\nA joint FSA investigation with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has identified 14 linked cases of listeriosis since 2020, with eight of these since January 2022. Cases have been identified in England and Scotland. The majority of these individuals reported eating ready-to-eat smoked fish.\n\nDr Caroline Handford, acting head of incidents at the FSA, said: \"People can also further reduce the risk by keeping chilled ready-to-eat smoked fish cold (5C or below), always using products by their use-by date, following the storage instructions on the label, and cooking it until it is piping hot right through.\"\n\nProf Saheer Gharbia, from the UKHSA, said: \"Most people won't have any symptoms of the infection or will only experience mild symptoms such as abdominal pain or diarrhoea, which usually pass within a few days without the need for treatment.\n\n\"However, some people are at higher risk of much more serious illness.\n\n\"If you have any concerns about your health please speak to your midwife, GP or hospital specialist team.\"\n\nTo reduce your risk when preparing food at home:\n\nIf you develop a listeria infection, you might have:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince William visited Cardiff in June with his family\n\nPrince William will try to carry out his new role in a way fitting for modern Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had a \"very warm\" conversation with the prince after he and his wife Catherine were named Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nMr Drakeford said there was now time for Prince William \"to get to know Wales better\".\n\nHe added that he was not given advance notice of Friday's appointment, but this is not required by protocol.\n\nBBC Wales understands there was a courtesy call to the Welsh government about the new Prince of Wales shortly before the King's speech.\n\nThe first minister told BBC Radio Wales the prince was in a \"reflective mood\" during their telephone conversation on Sunday.\n\n\"He wanted to look forward, talk about the time he needs to take on the responsibilities, and fashion the job in the way that will be right for him and Wales in the 21st Century,\" said Mr Drakeford.\n\nPrince William and Catherine, as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, visited Platinum Jubilee rehearsals in Cardiff in June, along with their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nThe prince also previously lived on Anglesey while stationed at RAF Valley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shoppers deliver their verdict on Prince William being made Prince of Wales\n\n\"It was a very warm conversation, Prince William was very keen to reflect on the time he and his family have spent in Ynys Mon. A period that clearly means a great deal to him and he looks back on with enormous fondness,\" said Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"Given that the announcement was made so early in the reign of the new monarch, I think we can be sure it was given a great deal of thought.\"\n\nThe first minister said he had heard of the appointment by King Charles III at the same time as the public but would not have expected to be told in advance.\n\n\"There is absolutely no reason why the Welsh government would have been informed or consulted. This is not a job with any constitutional responsibilities,\" he said.\n\nMr Drakeford also said any investiture ceremony should not be a repeat of that of the prince's father at Caernarfon Castle in 1969.\n\n\"The Wales of 2022 is not the Wales of 1969,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think looking back and thinking that's a model for what needs to happen in the future would be a sensible way of approaching it.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"He should be allowed time to get to grips with what the job might mean, to get acquainted with the nature of modern Wales, the things that matter to people in Wales.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has held a \"very warm conversation\" with Prince William\n\nThere has been debate over the future of the role of the Prince of Wales, with an opinion poll of 1,020 people in June 2022, conducted by ITV and YouGov, suggesting 46% of people thought there should be another Prince of Wales, while 31% did not.\n\nHowever the first minister said now was not the time for that conversation.\n\nHe said: \"I think there is a debate there to be had, and it is absolutely proper. I don't think the debate needs to come to a climax in this week of all weeks.\n\n\"If I were asked for advice, [it would be] that the new Prince of Wales takes the time he needs.\n\n\"To think through what he would wish to achieve, to give himself the opportunity to become better acquainted with the Wales of today.\"\n• None What kind of king will Charles be?", "The DUP's Diane Dodds said she met the Queen on many occasions.\n\nShe recalled a meeting when her husband, Nigel Dodds, was lord mayor of Belfast.\n\nThe day before two policemen had been injured.\n\n\"When she came forward she inquired about the health of the policemen and then went on to say she had seen Nigel speaking on the news the previous night.\n\nShe said she took away two things: \"The Queen was touched by the violence and pain in Northern Ireland but in my naivety I was completely surprised that the Queen had been watching the six o’clock news.\"\n\nShe said the loss of the Queen meant different things for generations.\n\n\"For many of us it is another lost connection to parents and loved ones - a sense of a generation quietly fading away,\" Mrs Dodds said.\n\nHowever she said that to her very young grandchildren the Queen was the woman who had tea with Paddington Bear and had sandwiches in her purse.", "King Charles III and other royals followed the Queen's coffin in a procession up Edinburgh's Royal Mile.\n\nThe coffin was taken to St Giles' Cathedral for a service of remembrance, before mourners are allowed to pay their respects.\n\nThousands of people gathered along the Royal Mile to watch.", "The Ukrainian military has released these pictures of seemingly-abandoned Russian vehicles in a river\n\nUkraine says it has made significant gains in pushing back Russian troops, retaking more than 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) of territory in recent days. Jonathan Beale, the BBC's defence correspondent, takes a closer look at why they have been so successful - and what hurdles Ukraine's forces may still face in winning the war.\n\n\"Don't underestimate the Ukrainian's ability to surprise,\" a senior US military officer told me early this summer, just as Russia was continuing to make advances in the Donbas.\n\nUkraine's ability to surprise has become a hallmark of this war: from the Russian retreat from Kyiv, to recent attacks in Crimea. Now there's another surprise happening in the east of the country.\n\nUntil now, it was Russia making most of the advances here - albeit a slow and grinding affair that was proving costly to its army. Now it's Ukraine making the gains, taking back thousands of square miles of territory in just a matter of days.\n\nThe biggest gains for Ukraine have been in the east around the city of Kharkiv. The UK's latest defence intelligence report says that Ukraine has now liberated an area twice the size of Greater London - though it's difficult to establish the level of advances and continuing fighting with journalists kept well away from the frontline.\n\nUkraine says it has captured the strategically important cities of Izyum and Kupiansk - military hubs used by Russia to resupply its forces in the Donbas. Those losses alone would be a major blow to the Russian army.\n\nSurprise has been the key to Ukraine's advances. That and the intelligent use of western weapons - including US and UK long-range multiple rocket launchers, used to destroy Russian supply lines, ammunition dumps and command posts. Last week, the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said long range artillery had hit more than 400 key targets over the summer period.\n\nBefore the arrival of these weapons, Russia had always had a numeric advantage in terms of artillery. But now, the tables appear to have turned: US intelligence officials claim Russia is having to seek the help of North Korea to resupply them with millions of artillery shells, suggesting their stocks have been seriously depleted in the six months of fighting.\n\nThat impact of those western weapons - combined with Ukraine's determination to take back territory - has forced Russian forces and their proxies into what looks like a chaotic retreat. Images on social media show tanks, armoured vehicles, weapons and ammunition left behind in a rush and abandoned.\n\nInterestingly, the advance in the east has been much faster than the Ukrainians' well-publicised offensive in the south towards the city of Kherson. Ukraine had telegraphed that offensive long before it got under way, while keeping quiet about its plans for the east. It all now appears to have been part of its plan: if not a diversion, then a screen to hide what it was preparing in the east.\n\nIt's clear it successfully wrong-footed Russia. Over the past few months, Russia's been redeploying forces from the east to bolster its defences in the south. Both fronts are now vulnerable.\n\nBut Ukraine is finding it harder to make gains in the south where they're more exposed, having to fight in mostly open countryside. An advancing army needs more troops and firepower to overcome a defending army.\n\nRussian troops have left behind equipment in their rush to pull back from the frontlines\n\nThe danger for Ukraine may now be similar to the one Russia faced in the early stages of the war. Trying to advance on multiple fronts can prove costly - in terms of ammunition, equipment, and troops. The bigger the gains the longer the supply lines - which can then be targeted by a defender. There's also the risk that those forces that have advanced furthest - creating a bulge in the defensive line - could become surrounded.\n\nDespite the optimism, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has warned that Ukraine's forces in the east could now be more vulnerable to a Russian counter-attack. Seizing territory is not enough. An army has to hold the ground too. That might prove easier if the local population are behind you.\n\nUkraine's double-pronged offensive is still risky. It could easily suffer setbacks. But this is much more than simply seizing back land - even if that is the ultimate goal.\n\nUkraine is sending a signal to the world that it really believes it can win this war. It's already using these gains to appeal for more western weapons. And the offensive comes at a critical time - just before winter when it'll be harder to fight and the will of the west will be tested. The war is far from over. But Ukraine is once again showing the world its ability to surprise and overcome the odds.", "Video appears to show abandoned Russian tanks and military equipment that have been seized by Ukrainian troops.\n\nUkraine's military says its forces have retaken miles of territory from Russia, making its first significant gain in months. The towns of Izyum and Kupiansk, both key hubs for the supply of Russian forces in Donbas, were taken on Saturday. A Ukrainian counterattack in Kherson in the south continues\n\nRussia still holds about a fifth of the country, but the Russian retreat is being seen by many analysts as a very significant Ukrainian success.", "Will King Charles III turn his back on a lifetime of environmental campaigning?\n\nAs Prince of Wales he spent decades campaigning, cajoling, and convening meetings to drive action on environmental issues.\n\nAs king he is subject to different rules - the monarch is obliged to remain politically neutral.\n\nBut his friends and advisers say he will not cool on the issue of global warming.\n\nMight urging action on key global issues like climate change or biodiversity loss be part of what a modern monarchy looks like?\n\nKing Charles' interests have ranged from tropical forests to the ocean depths, from sustainable farming practices to water security. They began long before such concerns became mainstream.\n\nWithin months of his investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969, the 20-year-old Prince Charles wrote to Prime Minister Harold Wilson worried about the decline of salmon stocks in Scottish rivers. \"People are notoriously short-sighted when it comes to questions of wildlife,\" he complained.\n\nIncreasingly he has focused on tackling global warming, which he regards as one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced. He was a major presence at the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow last year, urging world leaders to work together to save the planet during a speech at the opening ceremony.\n\nWhen I interviewed him ahead of COP26 he told me \"It has taken far too long\" for the world to respond to the risks of climate change. I pointed out world leaders would soon be gathering to talk about the climate crisis, he responded: \"But they just talk, the problem is to get action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III interviewed by BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt last year: \"People should really notice how despairing some young people are\" about climate change.\n\nHe even said he understood why some people felt motivated to take to the streets with organisations like Extinction Rebellion, noting \"people should really notice how despairing so many young people are\".\n\nAs for the risk of not taking action, he was very clear: \"It will be a disaster. It will be catastrophic. It is already beginning to be catastrophic because nothing in nature can survive the stress that is created by these extremes of weather.\"\n\nThe veteran green campaigner Tony Juniper rates the new king as \"possibly the most significant environmental figure of all time\". Chairman of Natural England and a long-term adviser to Charles, Mr Juniper has spoken of the \"incredible depth\" of his knowledge and the \"absolutely enormous\" impact he has had.\n\nThe question is whether as king, Charles, will be so outspoken on this or any other issue.\n\n\"Everything we know about how he has thought about his accession, tells us he will be absolutely clear about his constitutional duties,\" says Jonathan Porritt, former head of Friends of the Earth and an ex-adviser to the new king.\n\nKing Charles has said as much himself. When asked in an interview in 2018 whether he would be a \"meddling\" king he replied \"I am not that stupid\" and referred to suggestions he would continue to lobby parliamentarians as \"nonsense\".\n\nWhen I asked him last year whether he thought the government of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson was doing enough to tackle the climate issue, he laughed. \"I couldn't possibly comment.\"\n\nAnd, last week, the new king acknowledged it would \"not be possible for me to give as much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply\".\n\nBut his passion for environmental issues will not suddenly evaporate. Much of his work had already taken place away from the glare of publicity.\n\n\"The King is a convener, connecting people and organisations in ways that open up possibilities and create solutions,\" says his former press secretary, Julian Payne. Charles would invite \"the best brains and the most experienced people and listen to their ideas and advice\".\n\n\"I suspect it is a modus operandi that will continue as he takes on this new role,\" says Mr Payne..\n\nCharles's approach to problem-solving has led to some unexpected initiatives. Look how he worked to engage the accountancy profession in tackling climate change, says Mr Porritt.\n\nHe recognised the world would need ways of calculating emissions and judging the progress of companies, says Mr Porritt. And, in 2004, he set up the Accounting for Sustainability Project, to attempt to begin to work out how that might be done.\n\nIn recent years he has worked to encourage the business community to help lead action on climate change. More than 500 chief executives - including the heads of some of the biggest financial institutions and businesses in the world - are now part of his Sustainable Markets Initiative.\n\nThey are described as a as a \"coalition of the willing\" and have signed up to his \"Terra Carta\" pledges, agreeing to \"rapidly accelerate the transition towards a sustainable future\".\n\n\"We need a vast military-style campaign to marshal the strength of the global private sector,\" Charles said when he opened COP26.\n\nOne senior British politician told me he could imagine Charles making a similar speech as king. \"You won't hear him expressing a view on fracking,\" he said, \"but I can imagine him making a speech on the need to take more urgent action on climate.\"\n\nUS Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry hopes King Charles will still press for action on climate\n\nUS President Joe Biden's climate envoy, John Kerry, agrees. He has said he hopes Charles will continue to press for action on climate.\n\n\"It is a universal issue, it is not ideology,\" Mr Kerry told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, \"It's about the survival of the planet. I can't imagine him not wanting to [press for action on climate] and feeling compelled to use the important role as the monarch and urge the world to do the things the world needs to do.\"\n\nTackling climate change is, after all, an obligation on governments that is enshrined in UK law.\n\nThe Climate Change Act requires the government reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\nAll the main parties agree it is an important priority. Prime Minister Liz Truss has already said her government will \"double down\" on reaching the target.\n\nSo, here's a question King Charles III will have already considered: how controversial is it for a British monarch to express general support for something that is already enshrined in law.\n• None What kind of king will Charles be?", "Major shops and businesses across the UK shut their doors as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.\n\nKing Charles III approved a bank holiday on Monday for the state funeral at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt was up to employers to decide whether to give staff the day off to observe the national day of mourning.\n\nMany supermarkets and shop chains decided to close their doors, while others limited opening hours.\n\nHere's an at-a-glance guide to what was open and closed on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nIt is thought more than a million people travelled to London for the state funeral so some convenience stores stayed open to give them access to food and drink.\n\nJohn Lewis is among the stores that will close in order to mark the Queen's funeral\n\nDepartment stores Harrods, Selfridges, John Lewis and House of Fraser have shut their doors, while some shopping centres were showing the funeral on big screens.\n\nCenter Parcs backtracked on its plan to ask guests to leave on Monday after complaints from angry holidaymakers\n\nHoliday resort Center Parcs backtracked over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral. Guests have been allowed to stay but on-site facilities including restaurants are shut. Butlin's holiday resort stayed open on Monday, with some changes to arrival times. Some leisure operators decided to close their doors as a mark of respect.\n\nEastEnders fictional pub the Queen Vic played tribute to the Queen in a special scene\n\nSome of the UK's largest pub and restaurant chains stayed open as a place for communities to come together to remember the Queen.\n\nOther aspects of daily life have also been put on hold on the day of the state funeral.\n\nPost offices were closed after Royal Mail announced its services would be suspended. Some of the UK's biggest strikes by postal workers and rail staff have also been put on hold.\n\nMajor London train stations will be open and hundreds of extra train services have been scheduled with some running through the night.\n\nPharmacies such as Lloyds and Well Pharmacy were shut all day.\n\nSome funerals that were scheduled for Monday have been postponed, in some cases at the request of the bereaved families and others because cemeteries and crematoria are closed for the day.\n\nThe government advised on its website that the additional bank holiday \"will allow individuals, businesses and other organisations to pay their respects to Her Majesty and commemorate Her reign, while marking the final day of the period of national mourning\".\n\nAlthough it says that some businesses \"may wish to consider closing or postponing events\", there is no statutory entitlement to time off for workers.", "Covid infections in the UK have fallen to their lowest level since October last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says.\n\nFewer than a million people had the virus in the last week of August - about one in 70, down from one in 15 in mid-July.\n\nCovid is decreasing in England and Wales, but staying constant in Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nMillions of the most vulnerable are being offered booster jabs.\n\nHealth experts have predicted there will be a jump in Covid and flu infections in the run-up to this winter, and anyone who is eligible for an extra vaccine should boost their protection against both illnesses.\n\nThe autumn booster campaign began across most of the UK last week, with care home residents vaccinated first. Everyone aged 50 and over will be invited over the coming weeks.\n\nMany will receive one of two recently-updated vaccines which target the Omicron variant, as well as the original virus.\n\nAbout 944,700 people in the UK had coronavirus in the week ending 28 August, according to the ONS - down from 1.1 million the week before.\n\nThis is the lowest since October 2021, although infections also fell below a million in late May and early June this year.\n\nCovid rates by nation for the end of August are:\n\nMost English regions recorded falls in infections and most age groups too. Only among young people aged 17-24 and over-70s were there no signs of any change in trend.\n\nThe ONS has said it will be monitoring the effects of schools reopening for the start of the new term on Covid levels in the coming weeks.\n\nThe groups who qualify for an autumn booster in the UK are:\n\nThe most vulnerable will be prioritised first.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vanessa Nathakumaran: \"I'll stay from now on - I don't want to miss the chance\"\n\nPeople have begun claiming their spot to see the Queen lying in state at Westminster Hall - 48 hours early.\n\nVanessa Nathakumaran, from Harrow, was the first person to arrive on the south side of Lambeth Bridge, just after 12:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe 56-year-old said she was \"really happy\" to be the first person in the queue after stewards told her where the line was set to start.\n\nBarriers are being put in place along the route where crowds will wait.\n\nPeople will be able to see the Queen lying in state from 17:00 on Wednesday until 06:30 on Monday, the day of her funeral.\n\nMs Nathakumaran, who is staying at a hotel in Lambeth so she does not miss the opportunity to pay her respects, said she was \"really surprised as I was only just finding out the way and the layout, and in the end I found out from the stewards this is going to be the start.\n\n\"I thought I'll stay from now on, I don't want to miss my chance.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our part is to say a last goodbye, which is sad but I wanted to make sure I would be part of it.\n\n\"I started queuing up from today as I heard the queue is going to be very long, they're expecting about three quarters of a million people will be coming at some point.\"\n\nVanessa Nathakumaran and Anne are the first people to claim their spot in the queue\n\nSixty five-year-old Anne, who did not want to give her surname, joined her two hours later, after she found out where the queue was when she saw Ms Nanthakumaran on the news.\n\nHaving left her Cardiff home at 03:00, she said waiting for days to pay her respects was \"nothing to me\".\n\nDecked out with a Welsh flag and chair, Anne has plenty of letters from the Queen and royal magazines to keep her company over the coming days.\n\nAs for food, she said she would be ordering a Deliveroo straight to her in the queue or \"shall ring Scott's (seafood restaurant in Mayfair) and say 'hello, this is a Welsh lady living by Lambeth Bridge, could you deliver me some fish?'\"\n\nBushra Awais, from Tooting, made this banner hanging on a tree in Green Park and said she would join the queue\n\nSecurity staff and stewards are lined up at regular intervals along the queue route, which stretches from Parliament's tourist entrance at Cromwell Green down Millbank, past the Lords and Victoria Tower Gardens, across Lambeth Bridge and loops back north on the other side of the river past the Covid Memorial Wall.\n\nPortaloos and crowd control infrastructure, such as barriers and temporary flooring, have been set up inside Victoria Tower Gardens, which is likely to be the peak of the queue before it leads into Cornwall Gardens.\n\nWristbands will be handed out to allow people to leave the queue for short amounts of time.\n\nAmy Christophers (left) and Jerri Lee were debating whether to join the queue\n\nAway from the queue, mourners laying flowers in Green Park were deciding whether to join the queue.\n\nAmy Christophers, from Cornwall, said the warning that it could take 30 hours to see the coffin might put her off.\n\n\"I love most things about Britain but queuing is one of the things I don't like,\" she added.\n\nHowever, her friend Jerri Lee, from Essex, said that would not put her off as \"the Queen is worth 30 hours\".\n\nNicola, from Midway Towns, said she had a plan to avoid a lengthy stay: \"I reckon drive up in the middle of the night, join the queue then. I reckon it will go down so you're not queuing as long.\"\n\nCatherine (left) with her friend Nichola said she would like to see the Queen lying in state out of respect for her grandparents\n\nCatherine, from south-east London, said: \"The Queen was our Queen, but my grandparents were huge royalists so if they were here today, they would definitely do it so you're kind of doing it for the past generations as she was their Queen as well.\n\n\"It's brought the people in my family who are deceased, my grandparents, alive again because I feel as if they're here paying their respects through me.\"\n\nDuring the lying-in-state period, the Queen's closed coffin will rest on a raised platform called a catafalque inside Westminster Hall, in the Houses of Parliament.\n\nThe coffin will be draped in the Royal Standard with the orb and sceptre placed on top. Each corner of the platform will be guarded around the clock by a vigil of soldiers from units from the Sovereign's Bodyguard, the Household Division, or Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.\n\nAhead of the lying-in-state, a ceremonial procession will take place on Wednesday afternoon which will see the coffin travel from Buckingham Palace to Westminster.\n\nMembers of the public can watch the procession in person at ceremonial viewing areas along the processional route, or at a screening site in Hyde Park.", "Proclamation ceremonies have taken place across the UK and events across the Commonwealth to mark the new King.\n\nKing Charles III accession to the throne was formally confirmed on Saturday at St James's Palace.", "The royal siblings came together to follow the hearse through the streets of Edinburgh\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's four children were seen in public together for the first time since her death in Balmoral.\n\nKing Charles, the Princess Royal, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward were walking behind the Queen's hearse as it made its way towards St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.\n\nIt was a poignant sight. Children following the coffin of their mother. It doesn't matter how old the children are, at that moment they become children again.\n\nAnd they looked a little stiffer and slower, carefully keeping in step with each other, flanked by cameras and ceremonial guards.\n\nThey looked solemn as they climbed up the Royal Mile. In the space of the past 18 months they've lost both their parents. There's a loneliness that comes with that even with the world's press watching.\n\nThere was a quiet dignity too. Princess Anne has faithfully accompanied her mother's coffin since it left the privacy of Balmoral and the 72-year-old was walking behind it for this stretch too dressed in her Royal Navy ceremonial uniform. She'll stay with it until the Queen lies in state in Westminster Hall.\n\nFunerals, like weddings, put people back into a family setting. But these royal siblings have had their roles fundamentally changed in the last few days.\n\nThe procession went from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral\n\nKing Charles has begun a new life as his mother's has ended. He's taken on one of the highest-profile jobs in the world at the age of 73.\n\nHe is now the centre of attention, commander-in-chief as well as chief mourner, and walked holding out a field marshal's baton in his hand.\n\nThe Queen's insignia was still stitched on his uniform, where soon his own letters will replace hers.\n\nAlongside his own private grief he's had an intense timetable of meetings, public and private, travelling to talk to politicians and planners, interspersing his new duties as King with his role in the progress of the funeral.\n\nHe has been pushed into the limelight when most people would want to hide away.\n\nThe hereditary principle means that as Charles and his heirs move to centre-stage, others in the family are inexorably eased to the edges, no longer the children of the monarch. Distant branches on the royal tree.\n\nPrince Andrew, 62, was marching uphill too. He had his medals, but as he's no longer a working royal he wasn't wearing a military uniform, unlike his brothers and sister.\n\nHe was staring straight ahead, perhaps thinking how much his life has changed too.\n\nThey walked along Edinburgh streets that are usually noisy with tourists. Today there were even bigger crowds, but with a sense of quiet and curiosity.\n\nThere was the sound of horses' hooves on the cobbles and a sea of mobile phones held up by people recording a few moments of history going past them.\n\nThen with more ceremony and salutes, the coffin and the Queen's children entered the cathedral for a service with hymns, music and prayers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The traditional Vigil of the Princes has taken place in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh\n\nLater on Monday evening the four children gathered together again in silent vigil facing outwards from the mother's coffin in the cathedral for the Vigil of the Princes - a long-standing tradition last performed during the Queen Mother's funeral. In their private grief they bowed their heads as members of the public continued to file past to pay their respects.\n\nThe coffin had travelled with flowers on top, including from the Queen's estate in Balmoral. A crown was added for the first time, the grandeur stepping up at each part of the journey, which will culminate next week in a state funeral.\n\nThe church is named after Saint Giles and maybe the royal siblings might have envied his lifestyle. He was a hermit who lived in the woods where no one could find him.", "A gun salute at Hillsborough Castle has marked the Principal Proclamation of King Charles.\n\nMembers of the public have gathered in the Royal village over the weekend to pay their respects to the Queen.\n\nKing Charles will travel to Northern Ireland, with Camilla, the new Queen Consort, on Tuesday as part of a UK tour before the Queen's funeral on 19 September.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss is expected to accompany the King on his UK tour.\n\nVisitors are being warned of restrictions around Hillsborough Castle during the period of official mourning.\n\nParking is restricted and a one-way system is now in operation in the village.\n\nCharles became King immediately following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, but a historic meeting at St James's Palace formally confirmed his role on Saturday.\n\nThe King and Camilla will arrive in Belfast on Tuesday.\n\nThey will then travel on to Hillsborough Castle to view an exhibition on the Queen's long association with Northern Ireland.\n\nKing Charles will then meet Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, as well as other party leaders.\n\nHe is set to receive a message of condolence led by the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe King and Queen Consort will then meet leaders from all the major faiths in Northern Ireland before a service of prayer and reflection at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.\n\nShots rang out at Hillsborough Castle at 11:00 BST as a 21-gun salute by members of the 105th Regiment Royal Artillery at Hillsborough Castle marked Charles III being proclaimed as king.\n\nCrowds of people had flocked to the royal residence on free buses to pay their respects.\n\nA lone bagpiper played the national anthem as sash-wearing members of the Orange Order stood alongside families with young children, some of whom covered their ears amid the gunfire.\n\nHundreds of floral tributes of every colour lined the castle's gates, gleaming in the mid-morning sunshine.\n\nCarol McKeown and Lindsey Bell came to Hillsborough Castle with their daughters\n\nSisters, Carol McKeown and Lindsey Bell, who travelled from County Tyrone, said that it was like \"losing a family member for all of us\".\n\n\"There is no one like her, I can remember her in the 80s and to me, she has always looked the same, a grandmother figure for us all,\" Ms McKeown said.\n\nMs Bell also brought her daughters as it was \"important\" for them to be a part of history.\n\nThree serving soldiers, who cycled from Portadown to Hillsborough Castle on Saturday morning, said they felt it was their \"duty\" to attend.\n\nTheir cycling regalia, emblazoned with poppies, was the same used by their team who cycled the French battlefields in 2019 for charity.\n\nInfluential figures from Northern Ireland - Lord Nigel Dodds, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Dame Arlene Foster, Peter Robinson and Lady Chief Justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan - were among those attending the Accession Council at the palace in London.\n\nAfterwards, the Principal Proclamation was read from the balcony of the palace, announcing him as King Charles III.\n\nThe Queen's funeral will be held on Monday 19 September at Westminster Abbey in London.\n\nDuring the Accession Council, the King approved the day of the Queen's funeral becoming a bank holiday.\n\nMPs were then offered the opportunity to pledge their allegiance to the King in the House of the Commons.\n\nIt is understood that a similar opportunity will be presented to members of the Northern Ireland Assembly when it can be recalled from its current suspension.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI on Saturday, Sir Jeffrey said he was confident the King will continue to take a very keen interest in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP leader added: \"I think he will bring a continuing stability to our nation.\"\n\nMany people have been paying their respects to the Queen at Hillsborough Castle\n\nMany events this weekend have been postponed or cancelled, including Orange Order parades until after the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe order's grand secretary Rev Mervyn Gibson said it was the right thing to do.\n\n\"Simply because of the esteem in which the Queen was held - this is our monarch, this is our head of state,\" he said.\n\n\"This is someone who many of us loved and cherished that has passed away and it's fitting that we take these steps.\"\n\nA Catholic priest in west Belfast, Fr Martin Magill, said the Queen's visit to Dublin a decade ago showed her commitment to peace.\n\n\"Those were very significant moments - the speech in Dublin Castle, beginning in Irish, the very, very carefully worded, gracious speech,\" he said.\n\n\"Those things made a difference, as of course did the handshake with Martin McGuinness - symbolism here is very important.\"\n\nWhile people are welcome to pay their respects at Hillsborough Castle, the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has warned there are strict security rules in place.\n\nA park-and-ride facility has been put in place from the Eikon Centre, Halftown Road, Lisburn, and there is no public access to the castle other than via this service.\n\nTranslink said that on Sunday, the public shuttle bus services will operate from 16:00 to 20:00 BST from the Eikon Centre (subject to change).\n\nMore information and guidance can be found on the Cabinet Office mourning period guidance web page.\n\nFurther information on the public transport services is available on Translink's website.\n\nOn Sunday, the High Sheriff of Belfast, John Hussey, will be joined by the Lord Lieutenant for Belfast, Dame Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle, for a re-reading of the Accession Proclamation at City Hall at 15:00 BST.\n\nFollowing the re-reading of the proclamation, Belfast City Council members will hold a special meeting to pay tribute to the Queen.", "Ukrainian officials have said Russia is targeting infrastructure to get revenge for their counter-offensive.\n\nThey say targets include a thermal power station and water facilities.\n\nThis has resulted in blackouts which have reportedly affected around nine million people.", "Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have hailed Queen Elizabeth II as \"the greatest ever leader\", saying she was \"courageous and gracious\".\n\nThey were speaking as King Charles III prepares to make his first visit as monarch to Belfast on Tuesday.\n\nSinn Féin's Alex Maskey, Speaker, said it was important the assembly came together \"in recognition of a long life given to public service\".\n\nA book of condolence is being opened in Stormont's Great Hall.\n\nThe first to speak was Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill who said the Queen was \"a courageous and gracious leader\".\n\nShe said that, with her former party colleague, the late and ex-deputy first minister Martin McGuinness, she met the Queen in 2012 and in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Her warmth, kindness and unfailing courtesy towards us was appreciated,\" she said.\n\n\"She made real efforts and in good faith to build relationships with those of us who were Irish.\"\n\nGordon Lyons, DUP, said the Queen \"had a unique capacity to bring us together.\"\n\nHe called her the \"greatest ever leader\" with a devotion to duty \"to the very end\".\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long hailed the Queen's \"unswerving dedication to duty, right to her final hours\".\n\n\"She personified something which most could admire,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a graciousness, a generosity as to how she did her work - but also a twinkle in her eye.\"\n\nYou could call it the Queen's last act of reconciliation in Northern Ireland.\n\nA chamber better known for its deep political divisions was united to remember the late monarch.\n\nRepublicans and unionists united in their praise of the Queen.\n\nOn her last visit to Stormont, the Queen said politics here was \"not straight forward\".\n\nToday it felt like it was.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said the Queen was \"current, accessible, approachable in a changing world\".\n\n\"Her Majesty epitomised service,\" he said, adding that her visit to Ireland was \"extraordinary\".\n\nShe had shown \"courage, leadership and generosity of spirit\" and \"won the hearts of the Irish people\".\n\nMatthew O'Toole, SDLP, said what was remarkable was the Queen's \"ability to win respect and affection from people from a huge range of backgrounds\".\n\nHe paid tribute to her \"extraordinary contribution to reconciliation\" across Ireland and Great Britain.\n\n\"The sorrow of this nation is palpable but so, too, is the gratitude for the life and the reign of Queen Elizabeth II,\" said TUV leader Jim Allister.\n\nHe said her service was \"unstinting and unparalleled\" and she had a capacity for empathy.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen's coffin has been brought to Edinburgh after a six-hour journey on Sunday from Balmoral.\n\nThe Queen is lying at rest at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, before being taken to St Giles' Cathedral ahead of her journey to London ahead of her funeral on 19 September.\n\nThe Assembly Commission has followed the other legislatures in closing Parliament Buildings to the public during the period of mourning. A link to the official online books of condolences are being posted on the assembly website.\n\nAs with other legislatures, it has been agreed that written questions will not be tabled during the period of official mourning.\n\nCharles became King following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday and an historic meeting at St James's Palace formally confirmed his role on Saturday.\n\nFurther proclamations took place in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh on Sunday.\n\nAs part of a UK tour, the King will arrive in Belfast on Tuesday before travelling to Hillsborough Castle.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort is expected to accompany him, and Prime Minister Liz Truss will be attending church services in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.\n\nOn Tuesday, King Charles will meet the new Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, as well as local party leaders.\n\nHe is to receive a message of condolence from the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nKing Charles III greets members of the crowd along the Mall during an impromptu walkabout following the death of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nThe King and Queen Consort will then meet leaders from all the major faiths in Northern Ireland before a service of prayer and reflection at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin will be attending the service along with Irish preisdent Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina Higgins.\n\nSimon Coveney, the Irish minister for foreign affairs, will also attend.\n\nIn advance of the King's visit, there will be some traffic disruption around Belfast City Hall - including Donegall Square North, Wellington Place and Chichester Street with road closures put in place on Monday evening.\n\nMeanwhile, anyone who wants to be at Royal Hillsborough during Tuesday's visit can use a shuttle bus service from 07:00 to 10:30 BST departing from both Lisburn train station and the Eikon Centre.\n\nGeneral public shuttle bus services to and from Royal Hillsborough will resume again from 16:00 BST - 20:00 BST (subject to change).\n\nParking is not permitted in Royal Hillsborough.\n\nOn Saturday, a gun salute at Hillsborough Castle marked the Principal Proclamation of King Charles.\n\nOn Sunday, the Accession Proclamation was read at the castle by the Norroy and Ulster King of Arms Robert Noel in front of an audience of dignitaries and members of the public.\n\nThe event featured military in full ceremonial dress, a bugler and a 21-gun salute.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen: People from Northern Ireland and Republic in Edinburgh for historic day\n\nWith the thanksgiving service over, the cobbled streets of Edinburgh feel a little less tightly packed.\n\nEarlier, in preparation for the Queen's funeral procession, the space from the street to the barriers along the Royal Mile was several people deep.\n\nDavina Hull from Lurgan in County Armagh had been there waiting from early morning.\n\nShe said: \"It went so quickly, but there was this calmness in the air when the Queen's coffin approached.\n\n\"It was special to be here.\"\n\nMs Hull travelled from Lurgan, County Armagh to Edinburgh to pay her respects to Queen Elizabeth II\n\nNow, the Queen's coffin will lie in St Giles' Cathedral for 24 hours to allow members of the public to file past and pay their respects.\n\nThe line for St Giles' is already long and continuing to grow.", "The Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday, after her coffin has been lying in state for the last four full days.\n\nHere is your guide to what will happen, day by day.\n\nMonday is the day of the Queen's state funeral. It is also a bank holiday in the UK.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state will end at 06:30 BST when the last people will file past her coffin. The doors to Westminster Abbey will then open at 08:00 ahead of the funeral.\n\nAt 10:44, the Queen's coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and it will be drawn by 142 sailors from the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III will walk behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nThe procession will be led by a massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force - numbering 200 musicians.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive at the Abbey at 10:52. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.\n\nAt around 11:55, the Last Post will sound, followed by a national two-minute silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12:00.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will travel in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. The King and senior royals will walk behind the coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will follow the procession by car. Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals.\n\nFrom there the coffin will be taken by a state hearse to Windsor. Shortly after 15:00, the hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nThe three-mile (5km) avenue will be lined with members of the armed forces.\n\nA committal service will then begin at 16:00. Attended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, it will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nAfter, the Queen will then be lowered into the royal vault.\n\nLater in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen will be buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "President Biden has paid tribute to those who lost their lives on the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks on US soil.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Biden referenced a message sent from the late Queen Elizabeth II at the time.", "The Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral for their silver wedding anniversary in 1972\n\nThe Queen's love of her home in Balmoral in Royal Deeside was well known.\n\nShe spent most summers at the 50,000-acre country estate in Aberdeenshire, usually with her beloved husband Philip and family by her side.\n\nSurrounded by countryside, Balmoral Castle is where she spent many a happy holiday - from visiting with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary as a small child, to the final months of her life.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip with children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Charles (left to right) in the grounds of Balmoral in 1960\n\nShe hosted numerous royal garden parties there and enjoyed watching events at the nearby Braemar Highland Games with other members of the Royal Family.\n\nShe spent much of Prince Philip's last years with him at Balmoral - they remained there together during lockdown and spent their 73rd wedding anniversary there in November 2020.\n\nBalmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when the estate and its original castle were bought from the Farquharson family by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband. The house was then found to be too small and the current Balmoral Castle was commissioned.\n\nBalmoral Castle has been a residence of the Royal Family since 1852\n\nThe castle itself is an example of Scottish baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Environment Scotland as a category A listed building. The new castle was completed in 1856 and the old castle demolished shortly afterwards.\n\nIt remains private property of the Queen and is not part of the Crown Estate.\n\nIt is a working estate, including grouse moors, forestry and farmland, as well as managed herds of deer, Highland cattle, and ponies.\n\nThe Royal Family were at Balmoral when Princess Diana died on 31 August 1997 and it initially became the focus of the aftermath.\n\nAfter attending a private service at Crathie Church, the Queen and the Royal Family stop to look at floral tributes left for Princess Diana, at the gates of Balmoral Castle, in September 1997\n\nThe Sunday morning after her death, the Queen and Princes Charles, William and Harry attended a church service at nearby Crathie Kirk.\n\nOn their way home they viewed the floral tributes and messages left by the public.\n\nHere are some more images of the Queen and her family at Balmoral over the years:\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary on the way back to Balmoral after attending church at nearby Crathie in September 1932\n\nThe Royal Family during a visit to Balmoral Castle in 1951, Princess Elizabeth is with her children Prince Charles (left) and Princess Anne\n\nQueen Elizabeth II with her children Charles (right) and Anne, posing in Balmoral in 1952\n\nThe Queen plays with Prince Charles and Princess Anne at the castle windows in 1952\n\nThe Queen watches her son Prince Charles driving in a toy car on the grounds of Balmoral Castle\n\nPresident Eisenhower with the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral Castle in September 1959\n\nQueen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in a field with Highland cattle at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen at the writing desk in her study at Balmoral in 1972\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip in the study at Balmoral in 1976\n\nQueen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with theirs three sons, Edward, Charles and Andrew for their 32nd wedding anniversary at Balmoral on 20 November 1979\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip on holiday at Balmoral Castle in 2005\n\nThe Queen and members of the Royal Family break into laughter as they watch the tug-of-war during the Braemar Gathering in 2006\n\nThe Queen attends a garden party at Balmoral Castle in 2012\n\nThe Queen signs a message at Balmoral that was carried in the Commonwealth baton ahead of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games\n\nThe Queen arrives at Crathie Kirk with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in August 2019\n\nThe Queen inspects the Balaklava Company, 5 Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland at the gates at Balmoral, as she takes up summer residence at the castle in August 2021\n\nChildren from Crathie Primary School present the Queen with a card at the Balmoral Estate's cricket pavilion in October 2021\n\nQueen Elizabeth receiving the new prime minister, Liz Truss, in the drawing room at Balmoral on Tuesday\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "The arrests of protesters after the death of Queen Elizabeth II are \"deeply concerning\", free-speech campaigners have said.\n\nPolice in Scotland have charged two people, while a man was arrested and de-arrested in Oxford.\n\nThe arrests came at events to mark the Queen's death and proclaim King Charles III Britain's new monarch.\n\nIn London, as queues began for the lying in state, the Met Police said people \"have a right to protest\".\n\nA 22-year-old man has now been charged in connection with a breach of the peace after the Duke of York was heckled during the procession of the Queen's coffin in Edinburgh on Monday.\n\nVideos on social media showed a man shouting at Prince Andrew as he walked behind the hearse, before being dragged to the ground by two bystanders.\n\nIt comes after a 22-year-old woman was charged in connection with a breach of the peace after an accession proclamation for the King outside St Giles' Cathedral a day earlier.\n\nBoth have been released and will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date.\n\nOn the same day, Symon Hill, 45, was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence after shouting \"Who elected him?\" during another accession proclamation in Oxford.\n\nThames Valley Police said he was later de-arrested and was assisting officers \"voluntarily\".\n\nRuth Smeeth, chief executive of Index on Censorship, said the arrests were \"deeply concerning\", adding: \"We must guard against this event being used, by accident or design, to erode in any way the freedom of expression that citizens of this country enjoy.\"\n\nSilkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, said police officers had a \"duty to protect people's right to protest as much as they have a duty to facilitate people's right to express support, sorrow, or pay their respects\".\n\nJodie Beck, policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, said it was \"very worrying to see the police enforcing their broad powers in such a heavy-handed and punitive way\".\n\n\"Protest is not a gift from the State, it is a fundamental right,\" she said.\n\nHuge numbers of people are expected to flock to the capital over the coming week\n\nAlso on Monday, a protester holding a sign reading \"Not my King\" outside parliament ahead of the King's arrival at Westminster Hall was ushered away by police.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a member of the public had been asked to move from outside the Palace of Westminster \"in order to facilitate vehicle access and egress through the gates\" but had not been arrested or asked to leave the wider area.\n\nThe Met also responded to a video circulating on social media in which an officer is heard asking for the details of a man who had held up a blank piece of paper and expressed an intention to write \"Not my King\" on it. The officer - who was reportedly from another force brought in to assist the Met - is heard saying the message \"may offend people\".\n\nA statement from Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy reads: \"The public absolutely have a right to protest and we have been making this clear to all officers involved in the extraordinary policing operation currently in place.\"\n\nAround 1,500 military personnel will work alongside police and civilian stewards to manage the huge numbers of people expected to flock to London over the next week.\n\nThe new Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said his force faced a \"massive challenge\".\n\n\"We will have a safe event, but we're going to be putting thousands of officers into this because of the level of security required and the millions of people who want to pay their respects,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman would not comment on individual arrests, but said: \"More broadly, obviously, this is a period of national mourning for the majority, the vast majority of the country.\n\n\"But the fundamental right to protest remains as a keystone of our democracy.\"", "Ulf Kristersson is likely to be the new prime minister if the right-wing bloc wins\n\nSweden's election was too close to call on Sunday night, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said.\n\nExit polls at first predicted victory for the incumbent left-wing coalition, but results later suggested the right-wing bloc could narrowly win.\n\nCrime and integration of communities were major issues in the campaign, and the far-right Sweden Democrats look set to become the second-largest party.\n\nIt could take until Wednesday for all votes to be counted.\n\nSoon after polls closed, an early exit poll by Sweden's public broadcaster suggested Ms Andersson's coalition of four left-wing parties would narrowly win, with 49.8% of the vote compared to 49.2%.\n\nBut the left's celebrations were perhaps premature, as later partial results put the right-wing group ahead, with a projected 176 of 349 seats in parliament after 94% of electoral districts were counted.\n\nAs the race is so close, the final result may have to wait until all votes, including postal and advance votes, are counted over the next few days.\n\nWhatever the result, the far-right Sweden Democrats have made significant gains, appearing to become the country's second-largest party behind the Social Democrats.\n\nHowever, its leader, Jimmie Akesson, is unlikely to become prime minister even if the right-wing bloc wins the largest number of seats. Instead, Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is likely to take that role, with the Sweden Democrats hoping to become part of his government.\n\nSwedes are used to complex coalition politics but even here this election race has been viewed as nail-biting and at times confusing by voters from across the spectrum.\n\nThere is a lot to digest. Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrat party looks certain to remain the largest. Yet this election could be a victory for the right. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats are on course to come in second place. But it's the leader of the third largest party, the Moderates, who would become prime minister in a future right-wing government, since he's seen as the most palatable option within the bloc of right parties hoping they've edged a majority. And there's still a chance things could change, as more votes are counted.\n\nA right-wing government would represent a major departure for Sweden after eight years of Social Democrat-led governments. At a coffee shop in central Stockholm this morning, I overheard two voters worried about a deepening anti-immigrant rhetoric. But a cab driver from Argentina I chatted to told me he's not worried about life changing dramatically, arguing that the deadlock between the right and left blocs could still make it hard for whichever side gets in to push through major policy changes.\n\nBorn out of a neo-Nazi movement at the end of the 1980s, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats entered parliament with 5.7% of the vote in 2010, increasing this to 17.5% in 2018. It looks set to win more than 20% this time.\n\nModerate Party leader Ulf Kristersson orchestrated a major shift in Swedish politics in 2019 by starting talks with the Sweden Democrats, who had long been treated as pariahs by other political parties.\n\nSweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson celebrated as the vote was counted\n\nMagdalena Andersson's Social Democrats have governed Sweden since 2014 and dominated the country's political landscape since the 1930s.\n\nVoter turnout in this election was expected to be high, with more than 80% of the country's 7.8 million eligible voters expected to cast ballots.\n\nThe election campaign has been dominated by rising gang shootings, immigration and integration issues, and soaring electricity prices.\n\nWhile the violence was once contained to certain locations, it has spread to public spaces such as parks and shopping centres, sparking concern among ordinary Swedes in a country long known as safe and peaceful.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Micheál Martin tells the BBC about the need to nurture relations between the UK and Ireland\n\nQueen Elizabeth's death is a reminder to the UK and Ireland that they need to \"proactively nurture the relationship\", the Taoiseach (Irish PM) told the BBC.\n\nMicheál Martin noted the monarch's trip to Ireland in 2011 was a \"watershed moment\" for relations between the two.\n\nIt was the first trip by a British sovereign to the independent state and saw the Queen greeted by large crowds.\n\nIt was a diplomatic success, and left the Irish with a \"fondness\" for the Queen, Mr Martin said.\n\nHer passing, he added, had left him with a sense of \"deep sadness\" - but also with hope for the future relationship between the UK and Ireland, which has come under strain amid the British government's plan to scrap parts of the post-Brexit trade deal it agreed with the EU.\n\n\"I would like to think that the visit of Queen Elizabeth II first of all to Ireland, her passing would give us all time for reflection, and will remind us of the need to proactively nurture the relationship between Britain and Ireland to enhance it in the time ahead,\" the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) said during an interview with the BBC's Fergal Keane.\n\n\"And that this moment gives us that opportunity for reflection and for resetting, in a good way, that relationship.\"\n\nThe sight of the Irish flag at half-mast above City Hall spoke to the genuine affection of Cork people for Queen Elizabeth. Inside a book of condolence was filled with messages praising the Queen as a \"healer\" and \"peacemaker\".\n\nOne hundred years ago Cork was at the centre of the insurgency which pitted guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army against the forces of the British Crown. Following an IRA ambush in 1920, parts of the city - including the original City Hall - were destroyed by police and soldiers.\n\nTwo Lord Mayors who died in the conflict are commemorated by statues outside City Hall. One was assassinated by undercover police. His successor died on hunger strike in a British jail.\n\nYet by the time she arrived in Cork in 2011 it seemed sure that largescale political violence had ended on the island of Ireland. The Troubles in Northern Ireland had been brought to an end by the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and violent activism was confined to small dissident Republican groups.\n\nThe Queen's visit signalled a closeness between the two countries after years of careful negotiation and compromise.\n\nMr Martin said the four-day visit had almost been about \"lightening the load of history\" - a history which had seen the British rule over Ireland for hundreds of years before the creation of the Irish Free State and the partition of Northern Ireland in 1922.\n\nIt saw the Queen speak a few words in Irish - a language once banned under British rule - at a state dinner in Dublin Castle, the former seat of British power in Ireland, and lay a wreath in Dublin's Garden of Remembrance - a park dedicated to Irish people who fought against the British.\n\nIt was her bowing her head in the Garden of Remembrance which struck Mr Martin in particular.\n\n\"It was a great, great gesture - more than a gesture, an act - that really meant a lot to people, and I think what it really said was, A hundred years on, we all must mature and evolve and have that generosity of spirit which allows us to look back on history in a much more informed, non-prejudicial way.\"\n\nThe Queen also visited Croke Park during the 2011 trip, the site of the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1920\n\nHowever, he pointed out that King Charles III, then the Prince of Wales, had also played a role with his own visit in 1995, and then again in 2002 and 2015. He noted on the final visit, the King had made \"again a very generous speech remembering all who had died\". The Royal Family, he pointed out, had suffered their own hurt with the killing of Lord Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, in an IRA bombing.\n\n\"All of that has helped the cause of reconciliation - the basic idea we have a lot in common now,\" he added.\n\nMr Martin also paid tribute to the new King's \"great messages about climate change\".\n\n\"He was there long before many, in terms of wildlife, biodiversity and climate change. That to me is leadership - in terms of pointing people in the right direction to protect future generations.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian forces outnumbered Russians by eight to one in last week's counter-attack in the Kharkiv region, Russia's top occupation official there says.\n\nVitaly Ganchev told Russian TV that Ukraine's army had taken villages in the north and broken through to the Russian border.\n\nUkraine says it has regained control over 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) of territory in a potential breakthrough in the six-month war.\n\nThe BBC cannot verify these figures.\n\nThe Ukrainian army says it took back 20 villages in the past 24 hours alone, in its continued counter-offensive in the north-east of the country.\n\nIt also said its forces have taken control of around 500 sq km in the southern Kherson region of the country.\n\nUK defence officials say the Ukrainian army's successes will have \"significant implications\" for Russia's overall operational design.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was, however, undeterred, saying operations in Ukraine would continue \"until all the tasks that were initially set\" had been fulfilled.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin is constantly being updated with the latest developments, he added.\n\nRussia said its forces were carrying out strikes in those areas that Ukraine had retaken recently.\n\nThis included targets in Izyum and Kupiansk which were taken by Ukraine on Saturday. Russia confirmed its forces' retreat from both towns, which it said would allow them to \"regroup\".\n\nValerii Marchenko, mayor of Izyum, told the BBC the Ukrainian army was in his city and the state flag had been raised.\n\nThe military is now engaged in cleaning up the war-torn city and Ukrainian forces are searching for Russian soldiers potentially hiding in people's houses.\n\nMr Marchenko said that after \"about 10 days\", residents who had to flee the city would be able to return \"safely\".\n\nRussia has been accused of targeting civilian infrastructure in revenge for setbacks on the battlefield.\n\nA wave of missile strikes on Sunday caused power cuts across the region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe blackouts reportedly affected millions of people in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions.\n\nUkraine's Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said the priority now was to secure the territorial gains made in a week of rapid advances in the Kharkiv region.\n\nThe White House said Ukraine's troops were \"fighting hard\" and pledged ongoing backing from the US as Ukrainian forces \"continue to defend their democracy against Russian aggression\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian army appears to have abandoned large quantities of equipment and ammunition as it withdrew from areas it had held since the first weeks of the war.\n\nAnd a Russian battle-tank maker has switched to \"round-the-clock\" production after these setbacks, according to reports.\n\nWorkers at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil, Russia's largest armoured vehicle manufacturer, have reportedly not been allowed to go on vacation due to the \"production necessity\".\n\nUkraine's rapid progress seems to have stunned Russia. The Kremlin says its troops are regrouping, but pictures from some liberated areas in the Kharkiv region suggest a hasty departure by the invading forces, with military vehicles, ammunition, and equipment left behind.\n\nIf the gains are confirmed - and if they hold - it's the most significant change on the frontlines since Russian troops left the Kyiv region five months ago. The extraordinary advance would mark a humiliating setback for Russia, and be a boost to Ukraine's position that it can push the Russians out while asking for more Western weapons.\n\nPresident Zelensky has talked about a possible breakthrough, suggesting that more advances could happen before winter. But the country still faces huge challenges. Around a fifth of it remains under occupation and, in the south, Ukrainian troops have reportedly faced more resistance in their offensive, as Russia has fortified its positions.\n\nUkraine feels it has the momentum, and is pushing forward. But questions remain about how far it can go.", "King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward follow the Queen's coffin as it is taken along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral for a service of remembrance.\n\nOn arrival at St Giles' Cathedral, pallbearers carried the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, which was draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland.\n\nThe coffin is made of English oak and lined with lead - a traditional design choice for members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe Crown of Scotland was placed on the Queen's coffin during the service. Historically, the crown has been used in ceremonies to represent the sovereign's presence.\n\nIt was placed on the coffin by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, the 16th Duke of Hamilton, and it will remain there while thousands of people pay their respects.\n\nAs well as the royals, the guest list included politicians, council officials, members of the armed forces, war veterans, judiciary and consular officials. There were also representatives from various Scottish charities of which the Queen was patron, and people involved in the arts, sports, emergency services and faith groups.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss was there - she'd also attended the morning events at Westminster Hall in London.\n\nEarlier in the day, King Charles III had inspected the Guard of Honour as he arrived for the Ceremony of the Keys at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nThe monarch was presented with the keys of the city of Edinburgh.\n\nWell-wishers greeted the King in the garden area set aside for floral tributes to the late Queen outside the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nThe King met Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh Airport after travelling from London with the Queen Consort.\n\nThousands of people waited on the Royal Mile to watch as he and other royals joined a procession behind the Queen's coffin.\n\nIn the morning King Charles was at Westminster Hall, which is where the Queen's coffin will lie in state later this week. At a ceremony the speakers from both Houses of Parliament - Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Lord McFall - addressed the King on behalf of MPs and peers.\n\nAhead of the arrival of the monarch, about 900 MPs and peers, including Prime Minister Liz Truss and Labour leader Kier Starmer, gathered in the hall.\n\nFormer prime minister Boris Johnson was also in attendance.\n\nLord McFall of Alcluith welcomed the King and Queen Consort to Parliament. He said Queen Elizabeth II was both \"a leader to - and a servant of - the people\".\n\nHe added that she possessed \"commitment, kindness, humour and courage, as well as the deep faith that was the anchor in her life\".\n\nCommons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said the loss of the Queen is felt across the UK and the entire Commonwealth, \"which she did so much to nurture\".\n\n\"Deep as our grief is, we know yours is deeper,\" he added.\n\nFollowing his address, Sir Lindsay passed his speech to King Charles.\n\nReplying, King Charles III said he could not help but feel the weight of history which surrounds those in Westminster Hall and which \"reminds us of vital Parliamentary traditions, to which MPs and peers dedicate themselves\".\n\nFollowing the ceremony, King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort, flew to Edinburgh.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Massive flames raced up the building's side as smoke billowed out\n\nAn enormous fire has engulfed a skyscraper in the Chinese city of Changsha, state media reports.\n\nFootage posted on social media showed massive flames racing up the 42-storey building's side as office workers rushed to evacuate the building.\n\nThick clouds of black smoke billowed out of the structure, which is a regional office for China Telecom.\n\nAuthorities said the flames have since been extinguished and that no casualties had yet been reported.\n\nImages posted on social media showed firefighters aiming jets of water at the blackened facade of the 218m (715ft) tall structure in a race to put the fire out.\n\nAn entire side of the skyscraper appeared to be engulfed in flames at one point.\n\nIn another video, dozens of people could be seen fleeing the scene as flaming debris rained down from the skyscraper's upper floors.\n\nThe BBC has not yet been able to verify the footage and it is not currently clear what caused the fire.\n\nAccording to state media, the building was completed in the year 2000 and is positioned near a major ring road in the city of Changsha, the 10-million person capital of Hunan province, in south-central China.\n\nIn a statement reported by AFP news agency, state-owned telecommunications company China Telecom confirmed the incident, saying it was extinguished \"by around 16:30 (local time)\".\n\n\"No casualties have yet been discovered and communications have not been cut off,\" a company spokesperson said.\n\nSizeable fires are a common occurrence in China, where earlier this year a huge chemical plant in Shanghai erupted in flames.", "On Monday, President Zelensky raised the Ukrainian flag in the recently-liberated city of Izyum. The BBC visited soon afterwards to find a city cut off from power and water, but relieved at the arrival of Ukrainian troops.\n\nThe closer you get to Izyum, the more evidence there is of Russia's rapid retreat.\n\nUkrainian soldiers are grouped by the roadside near the city, inspecting the spoils of war with broad smiles.\n\nThere are two abandoned Russian tanks - the Ukrainian flag already planted on one of them. Troops hug in celebration as they try to use one tank to tow the other out of a ditch.\n\nJust inside the city another abandoned tank sits in the middle of the road - like a monument to Russia's defeat. A local man poses in front of it for a selfie, giving the tank a thumbs down.\n\nTwo women emerge from a minivan with a handful of small bags, including some groceries. Larissa, 61, and her friend Victoria, are returning to the city for the first time.\n\nPeople had been huddled in the centre of the building to keep warm when an airstrike hit\n\nLarissa says they left at the beginning of the war and are happy to be back. But the situation is complicated, as her home in the city centre was damaged. After speaking to us they set off on foot to stay with friends.\n\nTouring the city, we see many shelled and blackened buildings. Across the road from the damaged city council building, a few dozen people stand in a quiet queue in the afternoon rain waiting for aid, including jars of pickles, dried goods and bottled water.\n\nThe city is without running water, electricity or heat.\n\nThe dead are still being counted here but local officials saw 47 people - children among them - killed in an airstrike on a five-story block of flats back in March. The attack left a gaping hole in the middle of the building.\n\nAt the building today, we have a clear view into some of the apartments. A TV sits on a table in a top-floor flat. A few floors below, clothes still hang neatly in the wardrobe, as if their owner might wear them again. Three smiling women stare out of a photograph in a small album lying in the rubble.\n\nTatiana, 69, who lived in the building for 22 years, points out her singed balcony on the second floor.\n\nShe says the attack happened in the morning. She wasn't there because she had gone to the shelter.\n\nNeighbours who had taken shelter in the apartment block grouped together in the centre of the building for warmth, she says. The airstrike hit the centre of the building.\n\nOutside a city administration building - which was used by the Russians as their command centre - a Russian sign still hangs over the door, but a charred Russian flag has been thrown in the bin.\n\nInside boxes of files are scattered around in offices. At a nearby police station - where the Russians detained people in the cells - we find piles of Ukrainian passports. Local police say they were confiscated by the Russians during the months of occupation.\n\nTatiana, outside the building where she lived for 22 years", "Chris Kaba, who was due to become a father, died in the early hours of 6 September about two hours after he was shot\n\nThe police watchdog will examine whether race was a factor in the fatal shooting of a black man by an officer.\n\nChris Kaba, who was unarmed, was shot on 5 September after a pursuit that ended in south London. His family has accused the Met Police of racism.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is conducting an investigation into the shooting.\n\nMr Kaba's family criticised how long the investigation may take to give answers.\n\nIn a statement the family's lawyer Daniel Machover said: \"Six to nine months for this investigation is unacceptably long and lacks urgency.\n\n\"It indicates insufficient resources to do the job.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it \"will examine whether or not Mr Kaba's race influenced any actions taken by the police\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"We must explore all of the circumstances surrounding Mr Kaba's death including: how the officers came to be aware of the vehicle Mr Kaba was driving; if they had any prior knowledge of Mr Kaba; and their decision-making and actions on 5 September.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police firearms officer who shot the 24-year-old is suspended from duty.\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Amanda Pearson said: \"We continue to fully support the IOPC investigation as they work to establish the facts and try to answer the many questions Mr Kaba's family and others have around his tragic death.\n\n\"We've been spending this week speaking with local communities across London, including our Independent Advisory Groups - we know how important it is we listen to their views and concerns and explain as far as we can what is happening. We welcome more of these important conversations.\"\n\nThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the IOPC \"must go wherever the evidence takes them\".\n\nHe added: \"I fully understand the grave concerns and impact of Chris Kaba's death on black Londoners across our city and the anger, pain and fear it has caused across our communities - as well as the desire for justice and change.\n\n\"The IOPC have confirmed to me that they are fully committed to carrying out a thorough and comprehensive investigation to establish all of the facts - with all key findings made public. I'm clear that the independent investigation must be fearless and leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nThe IPOC said it had been in contact with Mr Kaba's family regarding the investigation, which is expected to take six to nine months to complete.\n\nA coroner's inquest into the death is due to open on 4 October.\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.", "In a pine forest at the edge of Izyum the stench of death filled the air as a mass exhumation got under way.\n\nThe earth is giving up its secrets. Ukrainian officials believe war crimes have been committed, which they are determined to document.\n\nAround 100 Ukrainian emergency service workers wearing blue plastic coverings dug into the earth, opening makeshift graves.\n\nThey are trying to establish the cause of death of hundreds of people buried in a forest at the edge of the city, recently liberated by advancing Ukrainian forces.\n\nIzyum, invaded in April, was used by Russia as a key military hub to supply its forces from the east.\n\nThe exhumation was conducted mostly in silence, as police and prosecutors looked on. One officer put his head in his hands. Another walked away.\n\nKharkiv regional prosecutor Olexander Ilyenkov says there is no doubt war crimes have been committed here.\n\n\"In the first grave, there is a civilian who has a rope over her neck. So we see the traces of torture,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said almost everyone died because of Russian soldiers.\n\n\"Some of them were killed, some were tortured, some were killed because of Russian Federation air and artillery strikes.\"\n\nSome graves were marked with a name, but most only had numbers\n\nUkraine was determined to show this disturbing sight to the world. Convoys of international journalists were brought to watch on.\n\nThe burial ground - beside an existing cemetery - contains row after row of graves, marked by crude wooden crosses.\n\nNames were written on a few, but most were marked only by a number. The burials here were carried out under the orders of the Russians when they were in control.\n\nUkrainian police say there are 445 new graves at the site, but some contain more than one body. It's unclear how all of them died. Many are said to be civilians, women and children among them.\n\nProsecutors say some were killed by Russian shelling and others were victims of a Russian airstrike on an apartment block in March, in which 47 people were killed.\n\nOfficials say one grave contained around 20 soldiers, some with their hands bound and one with a noose around his neck. The body of a man in military uniform was exhumed and zipped into a white body bag.\n\nAs the graves were opened there were sporadic explosions in the distance as the security forces worked to de-mine the area.\n\n72-year-old Hryhorii came to the burial site today to see the grave of his wife, Ludmilla. He told us she was killed on 7 March during heavy shelling in Izyum.\n\nHryhorii's wife is buried at the site\n\nHe first had to bury her in the yard of their home, then she was reburied in August. Now her remains will be disturbed once again.\n\nIt's only now, since the Russians have been pushed out, that Ukraine can carry out detailed investigations here, and can determine how many victims the occupiers left behind.\n\nA woman who lived opposite the forest told us Russians troops had kept locals away from the cemetery.\n\nA local man named Maxim appeared at the burial site, asking journalists to record his account of torture.\n\nHe said he was detained by the Russians in early September, and released by Ukrainian forces when they arrived in Izyum last Saturday (10 September).\n\nHe showed us the marks on his wrists caused by handcuffs, and said he had been subjected to electric shocks.\n\nA senior advisor to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC evidence of torture was found in some areas recently retaken by Ukrainian forces.\n\n\"We saw wildly frightened people who were kept without light, without food, without water, and without the right to justice,\" Mykhailo Podolyak said.\n\nKharkiv prosecutor Mr Ilyenkov said several similar burial sites had been found in areas recently retaken by Ukrainian forces.\n\nUS national security spokesman John Kirby said reports of the graves in Izyum were \"horrifying\" but \"in keeping with the kind of depravity and the brutality with which Russian forces have been prosecuting this war against Ukraine\".\n\n\"We're going to continue to actively support efforts to document war crimes and atrocities that Russian forces commit in Ukraine and to assist national and international efforts to identify and hold Russians accountable,\" he added.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron condemned \"in the strongest possible terms\" what he described as the \"atrocities\" committed in Izyum.\n\nBritish lawyer Nigel Povoas, who specialises in the prosecution and investigation of major international and transnational crime and who has just returned from Izyum, told the BBC's Newshour he would not be surprised if the exhumations revealed evidence of war crimes.\n\n\"I think that the early signs at the moment - although it's very very early - is that some of the bodies have died from shelling or malnutrition and a lack of healthcare,\" he said. \"But as normal bodies are tested and the cause of death determined, I would expect there to be also evidence of torture and executions, because it follows a pattern of what's been happening in the occupied territories.\"", "Major shops and businesses across the UK shut their doors as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.\n\nKing Charles III approved a bank holiday on Monday for the state funeral at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt was up to employers to decide whether to give staff the day off to observe the national day of mourning.\n\nMany supermarkets and shop chains decided to close their doors, while others limited opening hours.\n\nHere's an at-a-glance guide to what was open and closed on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nIt is thought more than a million people travelled to London for the state funeral so some convenience stores stayed open to give them access to food and drink.\n\nJohn Lewis is among the stores that will close in order to mark the Queen's funeral\n\nDepartment stores Harrods, Selfridges, John Lewis and House of Fraser have shut their doors, while some shopping centres were showing the funeral on big screens.\n\nCenter Parcs backtracked on its plan to ask guests to leave on Monday after complaints from angry holidaymakers\n\nHoliday resort Center Parcs backtracked over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral. Guests have been allowed to stay but on-site facilities including restaurants are shut. Butlin's holiday resort stayed open on Monday, with some changes to arrival times. Some leisure operators decided to close their doors as a mark of respect.\n\nEastEnders fictional pub the Queen Vic played tribute to the Queen in a special scene\n\nSome of the UK's largest pub and restaurant chains stayed open as a place for communities to come together to remember the Queen.\n\nOther aspects of daily life have also been put on hold on the day of the state funeral.\n\nPost offices were closed after Royal Mail announced its services would be suspended. Some of the UK's biggest strikes by postal workers and rail staff have also been put on hold.\n\nMajor London train stations will be open and hundreds of extra train services have been scheduled with some running through the night.\n\nPharmacies such as Lloyds and Well Pharmacy were shut all day.\n\nSome funerals that were scheduled for Monday have been postponed, in some cases at the request of the bereaved families and others because cemeteries and crematoria are closed for the day.\n\nThe government advised on its website that the additional bank holiday \"will allow individuals, businesses and other organisations to pay their respects to Her Majesty and commemorate Her reign, while marking the final day of the period of national mourning\".\n\nAlthough it says that some businesses \"may wish to consider closing or postponing events\", there is no statutory entitlement to time off for workers.", "Thousands of people have been queuing along the banks of the River Thames to view the Queen's coffin as she lies in state in London's Westminster Hall.\n\nQueues have been building since Wednesday morning, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to pay their respects before her funeral on Monday.\n\nA line of mourners hoping to view the coffin is snaking for around five miles from Westminster across Lambeth Bridge and along the river to Southwark Park. Some have queued for hours, sometimes overnight, in all weathers for a chance to pay their respects.\n\nWestminster Hall opened its doors to the public on Wednesday after a grand procession brought the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace. The lying-in-state will continue until 06:30 BST on Monday, the day of the state funeral. The government has warned people could face 30-hour waits to get in.\n\nThey will walk by the Queen's closed coffin, which rests on a raised platform, known as a catafalque, beneath the 11th Century hall's medieval timber roof.\n\nEach corner of the platform is being guarded in a continuous vigil by soldiers from units that serve the Royal Household.\n\nThe coffin is draped in the Royal Standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown, a wreath of white roses and dahlias and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre.\n\nThe grand hall is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, at the heart of British government.\n\nThe last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.\n\nThe BBC has a dedicated live stream for those unable to travel to London. The service is available in the UK on the BBC home page, the BBC News website and app, iPlayer, BBC Parliament and the red-button. It is also available internationally via bbc.com/news.\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds of mourners packed the streets between Buckingham Palace and Westminster for the slow ceremonial procession to carry the coffin to the hall.\n\nIn the bright sunshine that followed the rain, the coffin made its way through the heart of the capital borne on an open gun carriage of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by seven black horses.\n\nA huge 18 hands-tall (183cm) veteran horse named Lord Firebrand, ridden by Capt Amy Cooper, led the procession and set the pace.\n\nThe gun carriage, known as the George Gun Carriage, carried King George VI's coffin in 1952 and was used in the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.\n\nTo the sound of funeral marches played by the Scots Guards and the Grenadier Guards, the procession stepped off at a slow pace of 75 steps per minute - a tempo typically reserved for such sombre occasions.\n\nKing Charles III, wearing full ceremonial uniform, followed behind the coffin on foot, accompanied by his siblings as well as his sons, Prince William, dressed in his Royal Air Force uniform, and Prince Harry in a morning suit.\n\nThe King and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, were among those following the coffin\n\nThe sight of the brothers together, walking behind the coffin, evoked poignant memories of their mother Diana's funeral 25 years ago, said royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.\n\nUp to 1,000 members of the armed forces in ceremonial dress took part in events surrounding the parade.\n\nBehind mounted Metropolitan Police, the procession was headed by the Household Cavalry and the Grenadier and Scots Guards. They were followed, just ahead of the Queen's coffin, by members of the Royal Household, those working closely with the Queen.\n\nFollowing the King and other royals behind the coffin and bringing up the rear of the procession were members of the King's former household, when he was known as the Prince of Wales.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex travelled to the hall by car.\n\nGuns were being fired from Hyde Park at one-minute intervals throughout the procession. Big Ben also tolled.\n\nAs her coffin passed by some in the crowd burst into tears, BBC correspondent Nick Beake said. Others made the sign of the cross, army veterans saluted their former commander-in-chief - while families embraced, he added.\n• None Procession for the Lying-in-State of Her Majesty The Queen - Gov.uk The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Live TV coverage of Great Britain's matches on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nGreat Britain failed to reach the Davis Cup Finals knockout stage after Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury lost the key doubles rubber against the Netherlands.\n\nThe Group D tie in Glasgow had been level at 1-1 after Dan Evans won in the singles before Cameron Norrie lost to set up a nail-biting finale.\n\nBut Murray and Salisbury lost a thriller 7-6 (7-0) 6-7 (6-8) 6-3 to Wesley Koolhof and Matwe Middelkoop.\n\nVictory puts the Dutch and the United States into November's next stage.\n\nLeon Smith's side take on Kazakhstan on Sunday but neither side can advance, while the Netherlands will meet the United States on Saturday to decide who goes through to the Malaga event as group winner.\n\nA minute's silence was held again before play started and the tie is being played without the usual music between games, as a mark of respect during the period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe permutations in this tie were straightforward for the hosts - win or you're out.\n\nAnd after British number one Norrie lost 6-4 6-2 to Botic van de Zandschulp in a below-par performance to cancel out number two Evans' 6-4 6-4 win against Tallon Griekspoor, it all came down to the doubles.\n\nAndy Murray has had by far the biggest cheers this week when his name has been announced, with the three-time Grand Slam champion returning to the men's team tournament for the first time since 2019.\n\nHe had spoken of his regret at the \"mistake\" of skipping the Davis Cup last year and about how he was now ready to help the team this year even if he did not end up playing.\n\nHe ended up playing twice but could not rescue the tie.\n\nHe and Salisbury broke in the first game of the match and went 3-1 up but were broken to love to allow the Dutch to make it 4-4 and eventually take it to a tie-break, where they did not drop a point.\n\nThe Britons may have started to sense things might not go their way when Middelkoop won the most unlikely point in that tie-break, where he had been sprawled across the floor midway through the point only to leap up acrobatically and volley a winner at the net.\n\nBut there were still more twists to come as a closely fought second set headed into a seemingly inevitable tie-break.\n\nA series of stunning winners from Murray triggered ovations before complete silence as a smash from Middlekoop brought up match point.\n\nSalisbury held his nerve - and his serve - in style with a booming delivery that Middelkoop could only hit long and the Britons then claimed the set when a Murray shot caught the net in a lucky spot to trigger wild celebrations from their watching team-mates, including a jubilant lap of honour from Evans.\n\nBut missed chances at 3-3 and a loose service game from Salisbury in the next game pooped the party as Murray hit wide to hand the Dutch pair a break that left them serving for the match.\n\nHaving had to wait 50 minutes since their previous match point they were not about to miss another chance and secured the victory when Murray netted.\n\n\"It just sucks, because these matches have come down to a few points and they've not gone our way,\" Murray told a news conference after what was his 50th Davis Cup rubber.\n\n\"I have been fortunate to play a lot of these matches over the years, and, you know, come through them. That hasn't happened this time around and I feel sad about that, because I think we had the possibility to have a really good run here.\"\n\n'Best' team fail to deliver on home soil\n\nGreat Britain had arrived in Scotland with what they felt was their strongest team ever in terms of depth, boasting three top-50 singles players as well as the world's top and third-ranked doubles players.\n\nThey were beaten 2-1 by the United States on Wednesday in an agonisingly close and draining encounter, with all three matches going to three sets and with play finishing at nearly 01:00 BST.\n\nThe Netherlands tie was another quality affair but questions are sure to be asked about whether Leon Smith got his team selections right and why a team that was so strong on paper is not going to be competing for the trophy in Malaga.\n\nThe fifth and unused member of the GB team was Neal Skupski, the third best doubles player in the world who was runner-up in the men's doubles final alongside one of Friday's Dutch opponents Koolhof.\n\nThe player who may be most disappointed with their performance might be Norrie, who looked out of sorts for a large part of his opening match against American Taylor Fritz and even larger parts of this defeat against Van de Zandschulp.\n\nThe Briton had beaten the Dutchman 6-1 6-2 just a few weeks ago in Canada but was outplayed by him here, with the world number 35 dominant on serve as he racked up 13 aces and also hit 18 winners to Norrie's four in a thoroughly deserved win.\n\n\"That's not a player that's of my ranking, and that's me on a really bad day,\" Norrie said.\n\n\"That's not the level that I have. That's not the level that I'm capable of. I'm disappointed with that.\"\n\nMurray said he was particularly disappointed to have lost in front of home fans, who had chanted, sung and banged their drums throughout the tie, which was being played without its usual music at changeovers out of respect for the period of national mourning.\n\n\"We had again really a great atmosphere out there again today. I've loved all of the chances I got to play here,\" the 35-year-old said.\n\n\"And obviously, when you get to sort of my age and this stage of your career, I don't know how many opportunities I'll get to still be part of this team.\"\n\n\"It sucks\" says Andy Murray, who was left rueing hitting a forehand second-serve return into the net on a break point midway through the deciding set.\n\nAfter saving two break points at 3-3, the Netherlands then won the final 10 points of the match.\n\nWhen GB won the Davis Cup in 2015, Murray (with help from brother Jamie in the doubles) contributed 11 of the team's 12 points.\n\nSo what makes this defeat even more frustrating is that British men's tennis now has genuine strength in depth.\n\nThere will be no trip to Malaga in November to contest the knockout stages, and if GB aren't awarded yet another wildcard for next year's Finals, they will need to chance their arm in a qualifying tie in February.", "Mr Putin (far left) and Mr Xi (far right) met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand\n\nVladimir Putin has acknowledged China's \"concern\" over Ukraine, in his first face-to-face talks with President Xi Jinping since the Russian invasion.\n\nBut speaking in Uzbekistan, Mr Putin also thanked China for its \"balanced position\" - and said US \"attempts to create a unipolar world\" would fail.\n\nMr Xi said China was willing to work with Russia as \"major countries\".\n\nChina hasn't endorsed Russia's invasion but has grown trade and other ties with Moscow since it was launched.\n\nThe two leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand comes at a crucial point in the Ukraine war, as Russian troops lose ground in parts of the country.\n\n\"We highly value the balanced position of our Chinese friends when it comes to the Ukraine crisis,\" Mr Putin told Mr Xi, on only his second foray abroad since February's invasion.\n\nRevealing that China had \"questions and concern\" about the situation in Ukraine, he said he understood.\n\n\"During today's meeting, we will of course explain our position,\" Mr Putin said.\n\nIn contrast to Mr Putin's statement, the Chinese government readout after the meeting notably did not mention the Ukraine war.\n\nBut it said Russia and China would extend \"strong mutual support\" on core interests. Together, the two would play \"a leading role in injecting stability into a world of change and disorder\", and Beijing called their partnership \"as stable as mountains\".\n\nThe invasion has plunged Moscow into its worst crisis with the West since the Cold War and has sent global food and energy prices soaring.\n\nIt also poses a huge challenge for China - whose relations with the West have nosedived in recent years over issues including human rights and the future of Taiwan.\n\nMr Putin and Mr Xi have met dozens of times over the years but their latest talks received particular scrutiny.\n\nTheir growing relationship - which they characterise as a bulwark to Western dominance - signifies a major shift in the world order following the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.\n\nThe roles are reversed now, with China the dominant partner, having risen to become an economic superpower.\n\n\"Putin is getting more out of it than Xi - Russia is quite isolated internationally,\" Professor Emeritus Rosemary Foot, a senior research fellow in international relations at Oxford University, told the BBC.\n\n\"So it's important to show that China is a supportive partner, not an ally but certainly a supportive actor. There is a close relationship.\"\n\nFor Mr Xi, who described Mr Putin as \"an old friend\", the optics of the meeting were also significant.\n\nHe is seeking a historic third term at a Communist Party congress next month, and his visit to Central Asia is the first time he has left China since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nHis trip comes amid fresh lockdowns in China, where his \"zero Covid\" policy is still in place. While the rest of the world has opened up, Beijing continues to shut down entire cities and provinces every time cases flare up.\n\nChina and Russia have long sought to position the SCO, founded in 2001 with four ex-Soviet Central Asian nations, as an alternative to Western multilateral groups. India, Pakistan and Iran are also members.\n\nDuring their last meeting in February - when Mr Putin travelled to Beijing for the Winter Olympics at Mr Xi's invitation - the two sought to demonstrate their close ties, famously declaring they shared a friendship with \"no limits\".\n\nDays later Russia invaded Ukraine, prompting international condemnation and sanctions, while putting the China-Russia relationship under an intense spotlight.\n\nBeijing has urged an end to hostilities and stressed the importance of national sovereignty. But it has also refused to call the war an invasion, as Russia refers to it as a \"special military operation\".\n\nIn recent weeks China has sent troops to take part in joint military exercises with Russia, and sent senior officials to meet Russian counterparts. It has also come to Russia's economic aid as Western sanctions were imposed.\n\nThis relationship has been a win-win for both countries. With Europe reducing its dependency on Russian oil and gas, China has increased its purchases, which it is reportedly getting at discounted rates.\n\nLast month Beijing also agreed to pay for gas in Russian roubles and Chinese yuan, giving Moscow a much-needed alternative to dollars as a foreign reserve, while furthering China's interests in boosting the yuan as an international currency.\n\nThe two leaders met in Beijing during the Winter Olympics\n\nBut China appears to have drawn a line.\n\nUS intelligence says Moscow is so desperate for weapons, it has turned to Iran and even North Korea for supplies. It has also apparently approached China - but there has been no indication so far that Beijing has agreed.\n\nSome experts believe that despite the rosy picture of comradeship, Mr Xi will want to maintain some distance between him and Mr Putin for several reasons.\n\n\"It would be spectacularly inept to choose the moment of maximum Russian tactical retreat in Ukraine to lean into Moscow even harder than Beijing already has,\" said Evan Feigenbaum, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a recent commentary.\n\nAnother concern for Mr Xi is that former Soviet Central Asian countries, four of which are members of the SCO, do not support Russia's invasion of Ukraine - which also used to be part of the USSR.\n\n\"[Mr Xi] must be very aware that Central Asia is unhappy and nervous about what's going on,\" Prof Foot told the BBC.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer's decision to retire from tennis is a \"sad day\" for sport, his great rival Rafael Nadal has said.\n\nFederer, a 20-time Grand Slam champion, announced on Thursday that he would retire after the Laver Cup this month.\n\nOnly Spain's Nadal, with 22 majors, and Serbia's Novak Djokovic, with 21, have more men's Grand Slam singles titles than the 41-year-old.\n\n\"Dear Roger, my friend and rival. I wish this day would have never come,\" Nadal posted on social media.\n\n\"It's a sad day for me personally and for sports around the world.\"\n\nNadal defeated Federer 24 times in 40 matches during one of the most celebrated rivalries in tennis history.\n\n\"It's been a pleasure but also an honour and privilege to share all these years with you, living so many amazing moments on and off the court,\" Nadal said.\n\n\"We will have many more moments to share together in the future, there are still lots of things to do together, we know that.\n\n\"For now, I truly wish you all the happiness with your wife, Mirka, your kids, your family and enjoy what's ahead of you. I'll see you in London.\"\n• None Quiz: How much do you know about Federer at the Grand Slams?\n• None Federer v Sampras - 21 years on: 'It was a change of era, a lift-off moment'\n\n'The most complete game of his generation'\n\nFederer made his professional debut aged 16 in 1998 and won his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2003.\n\nThe chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Ian Hewitt, congratulated Federer on a \"truly remarkable career\".\n\n\"He will forever be celebrated as one of our greatest Wimbledon champions, having lifted the trophy eight times from his 22 appearances at the All England Club,\" Hewitt added.\n\n\"He has the most complete game of his generation and captured the hearts of sports fans around the world with an amazing quickness on the court and a powerful tennis mind,\" she tweeted.\n\nFormer world number one Rod Laver also wrote on Twitter: \"Thank you for everything Roger. See you soon.\"\n\nEighteen-time Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova said of Federer's announcement: \"What a heartfelt message, full of love, life, hope, passion and gratitude. Which is exactly how Roger played the game we love so much. Thank you, thank you thank you, for all the magic!\"\n\nStan Wawrinka, who won doubles gold for Switzerland alongside Federer at the 2008 Olympics, said: \"Forever grateful for all the memories on and off the court. Tennis will never be the same without you. Enjoy the next chapter in your life with your beautiful family.\"\n\nATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi said: \"He spearheaded an incredible new era of growth and elevated the popularity of our sport. Few athletes have transcended their field in such a manner.\"\n\nFormer British number one Annabel Croft told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"When I think of Roger Federer, I think of his grace, his fluidity, his beauty, the way he played tennis.\n\n\"What a great icon for the sport, he sort of transcended it.\n\n\"He was also someone who was incredibly strong mentally. For most of the matches he played he had a massive big target on his back. But he seemed to enjoy and relish [being] under pressure.\"\n\nUS Open champion and men's world number one Carlos Alcaraz tweeted that Federer \"has been one of my idols and a source of inspiration\", while the highest ranked female player, Iga Swiatek, thanked Federer for everything he had done for the sport of tennis.\n\nFormer Swiss Davis Cup captain Claudio Mezzadri referred to Federer as \"much more than just a tennis player\".\n\n\"It's an unbelievable career, he played for 24 years. He played more than 1,500 matches. It's something impossible to think. He was such a nice guy, he was great to watch with the elegance and style he had, and still has, but he also was a great man outside the court,\" Mezzadri told BBC Radio 5 Live.", "Inside Westminster Hall, what struck me most was the incredible peace - the silence. It is a hall that I have been into many times. The silence was created not merely by the absence of the noise of our modern age, not merely by the fact there are no phones, no chatter, but something different.\n\nThis was not the silence of an ancient church or a cathedral. The thick deep pile carpet that has been laid on these ancient stones has seen to that - it muffles every footstep. No, the only silence here was in the wake of the \"tap tap\" once every 20 minutes. For the changing of the guard, \"tap tap\" is the signal that the change is about to happen.\n\n\"Tap tap\" - it came again. When the guards lowered their swords, \"tap tap\" one more time, as they lowered their heads bowed in respect. Beneath the bearskins, beneath the hats and caps, you see the faces of ordinary men and women proud to serve their country, to do their duty to pay their own special respects to the, now dead, Queen. They will not move, barely blink for 20 minutes, creating the scene that thousands upon thousands are coming here to witness, to say that they were there.\n\nOver the years, over the decades, I have seen some pretty extraordinary sights in Westminster, but nothing like what I witnessed in the early hours of this morning. Earlier, outside the hall in front of me was a full dress rehearsal for the Queen's state funeral - the Horse Guards with their shining helmets and red sashes.\n\nThere was the massed ranks of the guards who will stand guard for Her Majesty the Queen on Monday. This is what we will see and hear and join in as a nation, united in mourning. I was standing just outside Westminster Hall underneath a magnificent window presented to the Queen by members of Parliament back at the time of her Diamond Jubilee. I looked back at the people who have queued eight or nine hours through the night to take one last look at Her Majesty the Queen. One last look at the coffin topped with the magnificent crown.\n\nIn the queue, I spoke to them - they had no idea what it was they were about to experience.\n\nWhat I wanted to understand is why people who aren't as lucky as me - who had to queue for hours through the night - were willing to do so for a brief moment of seeing the Queen lying in state. There's always a danger when you are a journalist that people repeat back to you what they have heard other people say on radio and television - that it is a moment of history, or that they wish to pay their respects or that they want to see things for themselves.\n\nI found that when you probe a little deeper, what comes up again and again is a reference to how Elizabeth II carried out her duties, and not just the length of time she was on the throne. In other words the values that she stood for - duty, sacrifice, service.\n\nAs one woman told me that for her it was personal, the Queen symbolised her father's generation - one who believed in duty and commitment and service.\n\nIn other words, she represented a set of values, not merely a symbol as the Monarch. But it was her behaviour, the way she lived her life.\n\nAnother woman described her as an absolute icon - a fantastic person who cared about her people.\n\nThe few words that the Queen did publicly express over 70 years were used to bring people together, or to empathise - as she did so successfully during the pandemic. On other occasions she used them to reach out, as she did on her historic visit to Ireland in which she met with Martin McGuinness, the former IRA leader - the organisation which had murdered her cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten.\n\nThe question all of this raises that can't be answered now is whether this is about respect for the woman who has died, or for the institution of the Monarchy.\n\nAs Prof David Olusoga told me on the Today programme this morning, this is surprising and yet it is not unusual. Surprising because it hasn't happened for 70 years but not unusual because it is how people in this country have reacted to the death of previous monarchs.\n\nWhat remains to be seen is whether those who don't feel moved, or do feel somewhat alienated by the sheer level of coverage of this event, will connect with the new King and eventually his successor the Prince of Wales - when, and if, he becomes the monarch. So the questions about the links between the monarchy and empire, or hierarchy, deference, and class, have not gone away - they will be asked in the future.\n\nBut here and now, what is striking is the extent to which the death of a 96-year-old woman has united people across all four nations, across all classes, across generations and across all backgrounds.", "Facebook groups are using the carrot emoji to hide anti-vax content from automated moderation tools.\n\nThe BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the emoji appears in place of the word \"vaccine\".\n\nFacebook's algorithms tend to focus on words rather than images.\n\nThe groups are being used to share unverified claims of people being either injured or killed by vaccines.\n\nOnce the BBC alerted Facebook's parent company, Meta, the groups were removed.\n\n\"We have removed this group for violating our harmful misinformation policies and will review any other similar content in line with this policy. We continue to work closely with public health experts and the UK government to further tackle Covid vaccine misinformation,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nHowever, the groups have since re-appeared in our searches.\n\nOne group we saw has been around for three years but rebranded itself to focus on vaccine stories, from being a group for sharing \"banter, bets and funny videos\" in August 2022.\n\nThe rules of the very large group state: \"Use code words for everything\". It adds: \"Do not use the c word, v word or b word ever\" (covid, vaccine, booster). It was created more than a year ago and has more than 250,000 members.\n\nMarc Owen-Jones, a disinformation researcher, and associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, was invited to join it.\n\n\"It was people giving accounts of relatives who had died shortly after having the Covid-19 vaccine\", he said. \"But instead of using the words \"Covid-19\" or \"vaccine\", they were using emojis of carrots.\n\n\"Initially I was a little confused. And then it clicked - that it was being used as a way of evading, or apparently evading, Facebook's fake news detection algorithms.\"\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 Marc Owen Jones 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 2021 data from the Office for National Statistics suggested that there was a one in five million risk of dying from the Covid vaccine, compared with a risk of 35,000 deaths per five million of dying from Covid itself, if unvaccinated.\n\nAn example of a Facebook group using the carrot emoji in place of the word or symbol for vaccine.\n\nThe tech giants use algorithms to trawl their platforms for harmful content - but they are primarily trained on words and text, wrote Hannah Rose Kirk in a blog for the Oxford Internet Institute.\n\nMs Rose Kirk was part of a research team which created a tool called HatemojiCheck: a checklist for identifying areas where AI systems do not handle emoji-based abuse very well.\n\n\"Despite having an impressive grasp of how language works, AI language models have seen very little emoji,\" she said. \"They are trained on a corpora of books, articles and websites, even the entirety of English Wikipedia, but these texts rarely feature emoji.\"\n\nThe platforms have already come under fire for failing to block or remove emojis of monkeys and bananas when posted as a racist gesture on the accounts of black footballers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rio Ferdinand: \"I have to explain the monkey emoji to my kids\"\n\nIf the Online Safety Bill comes into law in the UK, the tech giants will face steep penalties for failing to identify and quickly removing harmful material on their platforms. But there are concerns that tools currently in use are not good enough to cope with the sheer volume of content that is posted, and the nuance and cultural differences that can cloud meaning.\n\nEmojis can have multiple meanings, alongside whatever is officially declared by Unicode, the consortium which manages them.\n\nThe US Drug Enforcement Agency issued a poster demonstrating how emojis can be used to discuss illegal drugs.\n\n\"It's a modern form of steganography: writing and hiding a message in plain sight, but such that unless you know where to look you don't see it,\" said Prof Alan Woodward, a cyber-security expert at Surrey University.\n\n\"What all of this demonstrates is the futility of trying to automate moderation of content to prevent the sharing of 'harmful' material,\" he said. \"At the very best you will be playing a game of whack-a-mole, as people develop new dialects with which to communicate.\"\n\nFacebook said last year that it had removed more than 20 million pieces of content containing misinformation about Covid-19 or the vaccine since the start of the pandemic.\n\nIt also says it removes content which claims vaccines in general are more dangerous than the disease they protect against, or that they are toxic.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has criticised the tech giants for not doing enough to tackle the spread of misinformation about the vaccine online.\n\nHe said he hoped Facebook will do more to fight \"the outrageous misinformation\" about coronavirus vaccines being spread on its platform.", "Turnbull presented BBC Breakfast for 15 years, and later moved to the commercial radio station Classic FM\n\nFriends and colleagues of former BBC broadcaster Bill Turnbull have paid tribute to him at his funeral service.\n\nTurnbull, who hosted BBC Breakfast for 15 years and was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018, died on 31 August, aged 66.\n\nHis funeral service was held at the Holy Trinity Church in Blythburgh in Suffolk, where he had lived.\n\nHis BBC Breakfast co-host Sian Williams said he was \"an extraordinary man\".\n\nTurnbull's two sons and son-in-law were among the six pallbearers carrying his oak coffin into the church, which is just off the A12 near Southwold\n\nSusanna Reid (left) arrived at the church with Sian Williams, who said it was \"a day of sadness and reflection\"\n\nOther broadcasters, including Charlie Stayt, Susanna Reid and Naga Munchetty, were among those at the service.\n\nTurnbull's two sons and son-in-law were among the six pallbearers carrying his oak coffin, adorned with a red rose and purple bouquet, into the church.\n\nOther famous names who attended included Martha Kearney, Mike Bushell, Louise Minchin, Charlotte Hawkins and Nick Robinson.\n\nTurnbull (far left) presented BBC Breakfast with (left to right) Sian Williams, Susanna Reid and Charlie Stayt\n\nNaga Munchetty said Turnbull was \"passionate about the audience\"\n\nWilliams, his friend of 30 years and BBC Breakfast co-host for more than a decade, said: \"Bill was an extraordinary man and I don't think he quite ever realised the impact he had on other people.\n\n\"I met somebody just yesterday at the hospital where I work - he was a porter and he said 'I went to get checked [for prostate cancer] because Bill told me to' and that impact has been felt throughout the UK.\n\n\"He was a mate, he was a very loyal friend, and he was great to sit next to for 11 years. We trusted one another and respected one another... I'll remember him with a smile, he made me laugh.\"\n\nTurnbull hosted BBC Breakfast for 15 years and also fronted Songs of Praise and game show Think Tank.\n\nAfter leaving the BBC in 2016, he joined Classic FM and continued presenting shows on the network until recently.\n\nBill Turnbull was a regular fixture at Adams Park where he had been a fan of Wycombe Wanderers for more than 20 years\n\nA signed Wycombe Wanderers shirt with the number 60 had been placed on a bench outside the church to mark Turnbull's support for the football club.\n\nCurrent BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who shared the red sofa with Turnbull for several years, said: \"He was passionate about the job and passionate about the journalism and passionate about the audience.\n\n\"The audience was all that mattered, and all that does matter, and Bill never forgot that - he was a joy to sit beside.\"\n\nShe added that she would remember Turnbull as a \"funny, charming, cheeky guy\".\n\nBroadcasters Martha Kearney and Charlie Stayt were among the former colleagues who also attended\n\nWilliams added: \"I wish he were able to understand how much he was valued, and I think it is incredible the number of people here who just wanted to come and celebrate and pay their respects to him.\n\n\"I think the reason that so many people have turned out today to pay their respects - to think about him and share memories of him and to celebrate him - is because he was a good man.\"\n\nRobinson, presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, said he was \"going to miss him terribly\".\n\n\"People sometimes say people who present TV shows get paid a vast amount of money, they get a lot of praise and it's easy. And it is easy, but the funny thing is hardly anybody can do it well,\" he said.\n\n\"Bill Turnbull did it brilliantly because he was a seriously good journalist, but he also was a human being who could reach out, empathise and be warm with people, from presidents, kings and queens down to people talking about their pets.\"\n\nNick Robinson said people may say TV presenting is easy \"but funnily enough I do not know anybody else as good as Bill Turnbull at doing it\"\n\nDavid Kogan, one of Turnbull's former editors, said he was \"as close to me as a brother could be\".\n\n\"As a friend he was a very funny companion with whom I went on long trips, we listened to music, we went to football, he was a man who had great depth of personality and character, great depth of friendship and family. He was a great guy,\" he said.\n\n\"I've witnessed Bill for the last five years fighting this illness with incredible strength of will, and his family also fighting it with their incredible levels of support, and in the last few weeks of his life, when the battle was clearly being lost, he was a man who was not going to give up life easily.\n\n\"It was a tragic moment when we lost him; we lost him far too young; it is a very emotional day and we will miss him.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Artem says he was held by Russians in a police cell for more than 40 days, and was electrocuted\n\nIn north-eastern Ukraine, a counter-offensive has seen the nation's forces recapture swathes of territory, and drive out Russian troops.\n\nBut in the newly-liberated areas, relief and sorrow are intertwined - as accounts emerge of torture and killings during the long months of Russian occupation.\n\nArtem, who lives in the city of Balakliya in the Kharkiv region, told the BBC he was held by Russians for more than 40 days and was tortured with electric shocks.\n\nBalakliya was liberated on 8 September after being occupied for more than six months. The epicentre of the brutality was the city's police station, which Russian forces used as their headquarters.\n\nArtem said he could hear screams of pain and terror coming from other cells.\n\nThe occupiers made sure the cries could be heard, he said, by turning off the building's noisy ventilation system.\n\n\"They turned it off so everyone could hear how people scream when they are shocked with electricity,\" he told us. \"They did this to some of the prisoners every other day... They even did this to the women\".\n\nAnd they did it to Artem, though in his case only once.\n\n\"They made me hold two wires,\" he said.\n\n\"There was an electric generator. The faster it went, the higher the voltage. They said, 'if you let it go, you are finished'. Then they started asking questions. They said I was lying, and they started spinning it even more and the voltage increased.\"\n\nArtem told us he was detained because the Russians found a picture of his brother, a soldier, in uniform. Another man from Balakliya was held for 25 days because he had the Ukrainian flag, Artem said.\n\nA school principal called Tatiana told us she was held in the police station for three days and also heard screams from other cells.\n\nWe visited the police station, and saw the Lord's Prayer scratched on the wall of one of the cramped cells, alongside markings to indicate how many days had passed.\n\nUkrainian police officers say as many as eight men were held in cells intended for two people. They say locals were scared to even pass the station when the Russians were in charge, in case they were grabbed by Russian soldiers.\n\nDestroyed military vehicles abandoned by Russian forces line the roads of Balakliya\n\nIn Balakliya's city centre, where the Ukrainian flag flies again, crowds gathered around a small truck carrying food supplies. Many in the queue were elderly and looked exhausted, but there were happy reunions too as friends embraced each other for the first time since the Russians were driven out.\n\nJust a short walk away at the end of a lonely laneway, some of their victims lie hastily buried by their neighbours. A crude wooden cross marked the makeshift grave of a taxi driver called Petro Shepel. His passenger - whose identity is still unknown - lies next to him.\n\nThe stench of death filled the air as the police exhumed their remains, and zipped them into body bags.\n\nThe authorities say the two men were shot near a Russian checkpoint on the last day of the occupation.\n\nPetro's mother, Valentyna, looked on as the bodies were exhumed, and she railed against the Russians who killed her only son.\n\n\"I want to ask Putin, why did he shoot and kill my son?\" she cried.\n\n\"What for? Who asked him to come here with such threatening weapons? Not only did he kill our children, but he killed us, their mothers.\n\n\"These days I am a dead woman. And I want to address all mothers of the world: rebel against that assassin.\"\n\nOn the road to Balakliya, we saw military vehicles marked with the pro-war \"Z\" symbol - apparently abandoned by the Russians as they fled.\n\nIn a nearby village, we were shown the extensive damage to the school. Local authorities said this was one of the last acts of destruction before the Russians were driven out.\n\nStanding in the ruins, the regional head of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, said the critical task now was to restore water and electricity supplies, but there are concerns the power lines could be mined.\n\nAsked by the BBC if he thought the Russians could return he replied: \"We are in war, there is always danger\".", "Alex Belfield was convicted of four charges following a trial at Nottingham Crown Court\n\nA former BBC radio presenter found guilty of stalking four people including broadcaster Jeremy Vine has been jailed for five and a half years.\n\nAlex Belfield, who now runs a YouTube channel, stalked his victims by harassing them online.\n\nHis trial heard he made YouTube videos about them, posted messages on social media, sent emails, and also encouraged his followers to target them.\n\nThe judge said one of his victims came close to killing himself.\n\nBelfield had harassed this victim, BBC Radio Northampton presenter Bernard Spedding, for nine years and some of his followers had sent him death threats.\n\n\"He was seconds away from taking his own life as a result of your conduct,\" the judge, Mr Justice Saini, told Belfield.\n\n\"You made this highly successful and confident radio presenter lose all joy in life and turned him into a shell.\"\n\nThe judge said that while Belfield did not physically approach or watch his victims, the effects were just as damaging.\n\n\"The stalking you committed was not the conventional type which is popularised in the press,\" he said.\n\n\"Your methods were, however, just as effective as a way of intimidating your victims, and were in many ways much harder to deal with.\"\n\nThe judge said he agreed with some of the witnesses in the case, who said Belfield had \"weaponised the internet\".\n\nBelfield was found guilty of \"simple\" stalking in relation to BBC presenter Jeremy Vine\n\nBelfield, who is 42 and from Nottingham, was originally charged with stalking eight different people, who were mostly current or former BBC staff.\n\nThe full wording of the charges stated 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 two of the complainants - Mr Spedding, who is known as Bernie Keith, and videographer Ben Hewis.\n\nFor each of these charges he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, to run consecutively.\n\nThe judge said Belfield \"bombarded\" Mr Spedding - who had previously been friends with Belfield - with Facebook messages and emails, and made \"highly abusive\" YouTube videos containing false allegations.\n\n\"He had no escape from you,\" the judge told Belfield.\n\nThe judge said it was an aggravating factor that Belfield's harassment was public, as this caused his social media followers to also abuse Mr Spedding over a \"lengthy period\".\n\n\"In some cases this has extended to death threats,\" he said.\n\nVictim personal statements were not read out in court, but Mr Hewis tweeted his after the sentencing.\n\n\"From his very first email and in the majority of communications thereafter, he used my wife and children as his main weapon to terrify, intimidate and blackmail me,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Blocking was also a futile exercise as Belfield continued to seek out new ways to get to me when others failed. When blocked on Twitter he used other accounts to see what I was tweeting and routinely publicly mocked me to his social media followers, posting screengrabs he could only have obtained by using an account that I hadn't blocked.\"\n\nIn relation to Jeremy Vine and theatre blogger Philip Dehany, Belfield was found guilty of two lesser offences of \"simple\" stalking, which does not require serious alarm or distress to be proved.\n\nFor each of these offences he was sentenced to 13 weeks, also to run consecutively.\n\nThe judge said Belfield had made \"wholly false\" allegations about Mr Vine stealing £1,000 of BBC licence payers' money, in a video which was viewed by more than 400,000 people.\n\n\"You were not a whistleblower in any sense but developed a fixation with pursuing Mr Vine with a campaign of abuse,\" the judge said.\n\nBelfield also published Mr Vine's address to a \"mass audience\", the judge said.\n\n\"Although you at no stage committed any physical acts, Mr Vine considered himself and his family to be at risk from you and his followers,\" the judge told Belfield.\n\n\"He had to ask his family to watch out for you and to take care in and around their home address.\"\n\nBelfield made videos throughout his trial and posted them on YouTube\n\nBelfield was found not guilty of stalking Rozina Breen, Liz Green, Helen Thomas and Stephanie Hirst.\n\nMs Breen had been his boss at BBC Radio Leeds, Ms Green had been a fellow radio presenter, Ms Thomas had been Ms Breen's boss, and Ms Hirst joined BBC Radio Leeds as a presenter after Belfield left.\n\nThe judge made restraining orders in relation to all of the complainants, including those Belfield was not convicted of stalking.\n\nIn relation to the women, the judge said: \"Each of them suffered a campaign of harassment by email and social media communications. Each of them suffered serious mental health problems arising from Mr Belfield's conduct.\"\n\nThe judge explained he did not question the verdicts of the jurors, but was applying the civil standard of proof when making the restraining orders.\n\nMs Breen tweeted that she was glad to finally have justice after 10 years.\n\n\"Despite four women not securing guilty verdicts, today's custodial sentences are a welcome relief,\" she wrote.\n\nThe verdicts in relation to each complainant, in the order they appeared on the indictment, were:\n\nIn mitigation, barrister David Aubrey KC said Belfield had not intended to cause his victims distress, but could now see that he had.\n\n\"He now has developed the insight that he didn't have before,\" Mr Aubrey said.\n\n\"He said he could see their distress in court and feels deeply sorry for what he did.\"\n\nThe judge told Belfield he will serve up to half of his sentence in prison and the remainder on licence. He warned him he could then be recalled to prison if he commits a further offence.\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.", "A planned meeting between Liz Truss and US President Joe Biden before the Queen's funeral has been cancelled, Downing Street has said.\n\nNo 10 said a \"full bilateral meeting\" between the PM and Mr Biden would instead take place at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.\n\nIt is thought holding the talks after the period of national mourning would allow more wide-ranging discussions.\n\nMs Truss met her counterparts from New Zealand and Australia on Saturday.\n\nThe prime minister held informal talks with Jacinda Ardern and Australian premier Anthony Albanese at Chevening House in Kent.\n\nAnd Number 10 confirmed Ms Truss will see Irish Taoiseach [prime minister] Micheál Martin, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, and Polish President Andrzej Duda at Downing Street on Sunday.\n\nAlthough she met Mr Biden when she was foreign secretary, next week's UN meeting with him in New York will be Ms Truss's first as UK prime minister.\n\nMonday's funeral will be one of the biggest diplomatic events of recent years, with some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries expected to attend.\n\nIt is providing Ms Truss with an opportunity to meet foreign counterparts less than two weeks after taking office.\n\nBut Downing Street had stressed that talks this weekend would not be formal bilateral meetings because of the official 10-day mourning period following the death of the Queen.\n\nIt would not be issuing summaries of the discussions as would normally happen after the PM's meetings with foreign leaders, No 10 added.\n\nAs a former foreign secretary, Liz Truss is not exactly new to rubbing shoulders with world leaders.\n\nShe'll see a lot of them over this weekend.\n\nMeeting them as prime minister, though, is different and the first meeting with the US president is always the biggest for a new PM.\n\nWhen Liz Truss and Joe Biden do sit down, it will be closely scrutinised for any indications of the health, or otherwise, of the \"special relationship\".\n\nI'm told that holding it after the official mourning period means it can be much more focused on business rather than reflecting on the Queen.\n\nThere is a lot of business to tackle.\n\nJoe Biden is no fan of Liz Truss's approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol, for a start.\n\nThe US has suggested it is \"not conducive\" to the other not-so-small matter of a trade deal.\n\nAll this will have to wait though, until later in the week.\n\nIn advance of her talks with Ms Truss, Ms Ardern said the death of the Queen would be the \"focus of conversation\", and they were also likely to discuss Ukraine and the UK's free trade agreement with New Zealand. announced last October.\n\nIt was thought the meeting between Ms Truss and Mr Albanese focused on trade, after the signing of a deal between the UK and Australia in December.\n\nMs Truss also held a phone call with the President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, on Saturday in which he expressed his condolences on the death of the Queen.\n\nThe meeting with the Irish Republic's prime minister comes at a time of strained relations with the EU over post-Brexit checks in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK is refusing to apply some of the checks it signed up to in the Brexit withdrawal deal, prompting a series of lawsuits from the EU.\n\nLiz Truss met Joe Biden in Glasgow last November, when he attended the COP 26 climate summit\n\nMr Martin has expressed concern about legislation Ms Truss introduced as foreign secretary enabling the UK to alter the legal commitments it signed up to in the exit treaty in 2019.\n\nMs Truss is expected to meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for talks at the UN meeting in New York next week.\n\nThe state funeral service in Westminster Abbey on Monday is expected to be attended by hundreds of foreign dignitaries, including politicians and royalty.\n\nSyria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Russia and Belarus have not been invited - whilst Iran, North Korea and Nicaragua have been asked to only send a senior diplomat.\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping is on the guest list for the funeral ceremony but is not thought likely to attend.\n\nA Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday that no decision had been made on whether they would be sending a delegation, although press reports have suggested China's vice-president will attend.\n\nMs Truss is expected to have a phone call with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman on Saturday evening.\n\nThe de facto ruler's invitation to the Queen's funeral has sparked protests from human rights campaigners. A declassified CIA report concluded that he had authorised the murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi - allegations denied by the crown prince.", "The ride-hailing company said it was investigating after several internal communications and engineering systems had been compromised.\n\nThe New York Times first reported the breach after the hacker sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to the newspaper.\n\nUber staff were told not use the workplace messaging app Slack, the report said, quoting two employees.\n\nShortly before the Slack system was taken offline, Uber employees received a message that read: \"I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach.\"\n\nIt appeared that the hacker was later able to gain access to other internal systems, posting an explicit photo on an internal information page for employees.\n\nUber said it was in touch with authorities about the breach.\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 Uber Comms This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere has been no indication that Uber's fleet of vehicles, its customers or payment data have been affected by the hack.\n\nUber pays a subscription fee to HackerOne, a bug bounty platform based in California. Bug bounty programs are used by a lot of big businesses - essentially they pay ethical hackers to identify bugs.\n\nSam Curry, one of the bug bounty hunters, communicated with the Uber hacker. \"It seems like they've compromised a lot of stuff,\" he said.\n\nMr Curry said he spoke to several Uber employees, who said they were \"working to lock down everything internally\" to restrict the hacker's access.\n\nHe said there was no indication that the hacker had done any damage or was interested in anything more than publicity.\n\nChris Evans, chief hacking officer for HackerOne, told the BBC: \"We're in close contact with Uber's security team, have locked their data down, and will continue to assist with their investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen messages from someone who claims that various Uber admin accounts are under their control.\n\nThe New York Times reports the hacker is 18 years old, has been working on his cyber-security skills for several years and hacked the Uber systems because \"they had weak security\".\n\nIn the Slack message that announced the breach, the person also said Uber drivers should receive higher pay.\n\nThe saying goes in cyber-security that \"humans are the weakest link\", and once again this hack shows that it was an employee being fooled that let the criminals in.\n\nAlthough the saying is true, it's also extremely unkind.\n\nThe fuller picture emerging here shows that this hacker was highly skilled and highly motivated.\n\nAs we saw with recent breaches of Okta, Microsoft and Twitter, young hackers with plenty of time on their hands and a devil-may-care attitude can persuade even the most careful employees into making cyber-security mistakes.\n\nThis form of hacking through social engineering is even older than computers themselves - just ask infamous former hacker Kevin Mitnick, who was sweet-talking his way around telephone networks back in the 70s.\n\nThe difference today is that hackers are able to combine the gift of the gab with very sophisticated and easy-to-use software to make their job even easier.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFormer Wales rugby union captain and legendary broadcaster and commentator Eddie Butler has died at the age of 65.\n\nAfter rising to prominence with club side Pontypool, Butler played 16 times for Wales between 1980 and 1984, captaining the side on six occasions and scoring two tries.\n\nThe number eight was called up to the British and Irish Lions squad that toured New Zealand in 1983.\n\nAfter retirement he became a respected rugby broadcaster.\n\nButler died in his sleep on a charity trek in Peru.\n\nHe was a pivotal part of the Pontypool side that was created by Ray Prosser and dominated Welsh club rugby in the late 1970s and early 1980s, captaining the side between 1982 and 1985.\n\nButler had also played for Cambridge University from 1976-1978 while studying French and Spanish at Fitzwilliam College.\n\nButler's first cap came in Wales' 18-9 Five Nations win against France in January, 1980.\n\nHe retired from international rugby in 1985 aged 27 and having worked as a teacher in Cheltenham for three years, Butler then joined Radio Wales as a press and publicity officer in 1984.\n\nWhile still playing for his beloved Pontypool, Butler went on to work for a property development company.\n\nHe started his newspaper journalism career with the Sunday Correspondent in 1988 before stints with Observer and the Guardian and returned to BBC Wales in 1990 after being brought back in by new head of sport Gareth Davies.\n\nCurrent BBC director-general Tim Davie paid tribute to \"a wonderful wordsmith\" who had shaped so much of the organisation's output.\n\n\"Everyone at the BBC is shocked and saddened by this very sad news,\" Davie said. \"Eddie was a brilliantly gifted commentator, writer and reporter whose passion for the game of rugby union shone through every broadcast.\n\n\"A wonderful wordsmith with a rich, iconic voice, he provided the definitive soundtrack to some of the greatest moments in rugby's history. He will be much missed by all of us and our thoughts are with his family at this sad time.\"\n\nDirector BBC Cymru Wales Rhuanedd Richards said: \"The world of rugby and broadcasting has lost one of its greats today. A giant in his sport as well as in stature, his knowledge of rugby - the ins and outs, foibles and triumphs - knew no bounds.\n\n\"One of Eddie's greatest talents was his ability to capture and convey the meaning and the emotion of our great sporting moments with authenticity and a brilliant wit that took his audience on a journey.\n\n\"He understood his audience, he understood Wales and he understood our passion for the game. Eddie's voice will be synonymous with so many great sporting memories, and it really is difficult to imagine these future moments in the world of rugby without him.\n\n\"I speak for all my colleagues at BBC Wales when I say that we'll miss him so much. Our hearts go out to his wife Sue and the children at this incredibly sad time and we send them our thoughts and deepest condolences.\"\n\nWelsh Rugby Union chairman Rob Butcher said of Butler: \"He proudly represented his country as a player, was a mainstay in press boxes around the world long after he retired from the game and has been prolific in the way in which he has served Welsh rugby in both the written and spoken word over decades.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers go to his family, who we also know well and cherish, and his close friends and colleagues at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"He was a unique individual and the game in Wales owes him a debt of gratitude for his contributions both on and off the pitch.\"\n\nAfter McLaren's retirement, Butler became the BBC rugby lead commentator where he formed a notable partnership with the likes of former England hooker Brian Moore and ex-Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies.\n\nButler will be remembered for his brilliant prose that accompanied montages for major sporting and political events, with the final one marking the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nHe also commentated on Olympic sports and the Invictus Games, as well as lending his voice to stirring montages for the BBC's NFL highlights programmes.\n\nIn 2010, Butler joined a host of former Wales captains who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise funds for Velindre Hospital, Cardiff's specialist cancer treatment centre.\n\nButler presented history series on the BBC including Wales and the History of the World, Hidden Histories, Welsh Towns at War in 2014 and two series of Welsh Towns in 2015.\n\nHe was also an author after publishing three novels and two non-fiction books.\n\nAway from rugby and broadcasting, Butler campaigned for Welsh independence in recent years.\n\nHis passing prompted tributes and condolences from inside and outside rugby union.", "PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were murdered while on duty in 2012\n\nThe father of a police officer who was murdered while on duty has said that 10 years on from the attack, there is still \"no moving on\" for her family.\n\nGreater Manchester PCs Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32, were killed in an ambush on 18 September 2012.\n\nBryn Hughes, who set up a fund in his daughter's name, said it kept \"her legacy alive\".\n\nPaul Bone said there remained a hole in his heart over his daughter's death \"which you can never actually fill\".\n\nThe unarmed officers were shot and attacked with a grenade while responding to what was believed to be a routine burglary report in Mottram, Tameside.\n\nDale Cregan, who lured them to their deaths while on the run from police for previous killings, received a whole life jail term in June 2013 after admitting their murders.\n\nBoth fathers told BBC North West Tonight that they still struggled to come to terms with what happened.\n\n\"A hole in your heart is there,\" Mr Bone said.\n\n\"You can never actually fill it but you sort of get used to it.\"\n\n\"[There's] no way you can forget what happened and forget your own daughter.\n\nMr Hughes added that \"as a family, there is no moving on\", adding: \"But I don't think you want to move on.\"\n\nBryn Hughes and Paul Bone have opened up about the grief they shared\n\nSince their daughters' deaths, the fathers have campaigned for their sacrifice to be officially recognised and Mr Hughes has launched a bid for the Elizabeth Cross medal to be given posthumously to emergency services workers killed in the line of duty.\n\nThe medal, first awarded in 2009, is currently given to relatives of members of the armed forces who have been killed in action since the end of World War Two or as a result of a terrorist attack.\n\nMr Hughes, who set up the PC Nicola Hughes Memorial Fund to help those dealing with grief due to violent crime, said it \"keeps her legacy alive\".\n\n\"I don't need anything to keep her memory alive as her memories are with me,\" he said.\n\n\"But it keeps her legacy and Fiona's. It's important we don't forget the sacrifice they made.\"\n\nHe added that he had forced himself to push on after his daughter's death.\n\n\"You could quite easily withdraw into yourself and become a recluse and I know for a fact Nicola wouldn't want that,\" he said.\n\nA service will be held at the Nicola and Fiona memorial garden at Hyde Police Station at 10:40 BST on Sunday, which will include a minute's silence.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davies said although 10 years had passed since the officers' deaths, the \"emotion and grief is still felt on anniversaries such as this and reminds us of the dangerous situations officers face on a daily basis\".\n\n\"On Sunday, we will come together with Nicola and Fiona's families and honoured guests, to reflect on the passing of a decade since they made the ultimate sacrifice for the oath they took as police officers,\" he 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.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Scottish Secretary Alister Jack have been taking part in the vigil around the Queen's coffin as she lies in state in Westminster Hall.\n\nThe two cabinet members took their positions side-by-side, dressed in dark uniforms, on Thursday afternoon.\n\nBoth politicians are members of the Royal Company of Archers, which functions as the monarch's bodyguard in Scotland.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is being guarded in Westminster Hall 24-hours-a-day by units from the Sovereign's Bodyguard, the Household Division or Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.", "The alleged victims were among thousands who have been lining the banks of the Thames to view the Queen's coffin\n\nTwo women were allegedly sexually assaulted in the queue to attend the Queen's lying-in-state, a court heard.\n\nAdio Adeshine is accused of exposing himself and pushing into the mourners from behind as they waited in line at Victoria Tower Gardens on Wednesday.\n\nHe is charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.\n\nThe 19-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nOutlining the allegations, prosecutor Alex Adowale, said: \"The defendant was part of the queue to see the resting in state of Queen Elizabeth II.\"\n\nHis alleged victims are said to have been among the thousands of people who have been lining the banks of the River Thames to view the Queen's coffin.\n\nThe court heard the first complainant allegedly noticed Mr Adeshine because she had not previously seen him, despite having waited in the queue with the same people for hours.\n\nShe is said to have noticed him getting closer to her before feeling something touching her back, then turned to see he had exposed himself.\n\nThe woman later allegedly saw Mr Adeshine acting in a similar way towards another woman, before security were alerted and police called.\n\nHe is said to have thrown his phone into the River Thames before entering the water himself.\n\nBut the court heard Mr Adeshine was arrested shortly after coming out of the river.\n\nDeputy Chief Magistrate refused to grant Mr Adeshine bail, remanding him in custody ahead of his next appearance at Southwark Crown Court on 14 October.\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.", "Interest rate hikes by central banks around the world could trigger a global recession in 2023, the World Bank has said.\n\nCentral banks have raised rates \"with a degree of synchronicity not seen over the past five decades\" to tackle soaring prices, it said.\n\nRaising rates makes borrowing more expensive to try to bring down the pace of price rises.\n\nBut it also makes loans more costly, which can slow economic growth.\n\nThe warning from the World Bank comes ahead of monetary policy meetings by the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England, which are expected to increase key interest rates next week.\n\nOn Thursday, the World Bank said the global economy was in its steepest slowdown following a post-recession recovery since 1970.\n\nIt said a study found that \"the world's three largest economies - the US, China and the euro area - have been slowing sharply\".\n\n\"Under the circumstances, even a moderate hit to the global economy over the next year could tip it into recession,\" it said.\n\nSigns of economic difficulties are already emerging. On Thursday, delivery giant FedEx warned investors that a sharp and unexpected slowdown in activity, especially in Asia and Europe, would cause revenue to be hundreds of millions of dollars short of forecasts.\n\nThe firm said it planned to close dozens of offices and reduce service in response to the drop in demand.\n\nThe news sparked a widespread sell-off of FedEx shares, sending them down more than 20%. Shares in other delivery firms, including Amazon, Deutsche Post and Royal Mail, also fell.\n\nIn the face of recession risk, the World Bank called on central banks to coordinate their actions and \"communicate policy decisions clearly\" to \"reduce the degree of tightening needed\".\n\nInflation, which is the rate at which prices rise, hit a 40-year-high in the US and UK in recent months.\n\nThis was driven by higher demand as pandemic restrictions eased, and as the war in Ukraine boosted energy, fuel and food prices.\n\nIn response, central bank policymakers have raised interest rates to cool demand from households and businesses.\n\nHowever, big rate increases increase the risk of recession as it can cause an economy to slow.\n\nEmployees look out of the now defunct Lehman Brothers building in New York\n\nCentral banks do not typically run policy decisions by their counterparts.\n\nThey have in the past, however, coordinated their actions to support the global economy.\n\nIn 2007, a global financial crisis was precipitated by a subprime mortgage crisis in the US.\n\nThis developed into a full-blown crash after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank in September 2008.\n\nA month later, the Fed, along with the European Central Bank and central banks in Canada, Sweden and Switzerland, jointly lowered their key interest rates.\n\nThey said in a statement that the \"intensification of the financial crisis has augmented the downside risks to growth and thus has diminished further the upside risks to price stability\".\n\n\"Some easing of global monetary conditions is therefore warranted,\" they added.", "Argentina's Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - who survived an assassination attempt after a gunman's weapon jammed - has said she is alive \"because of God and the Virgin Mary\".\n\nIn her first public comments since the 1 September attack in Buenos Aires, she also revealed that Pope Francis called her the very next day to comfort her.\n\nFernando Sabag Montiel, 35, and his girlfriend Brenda Uliarte, 23, have been charged with attempted murder.\n\nThey both deny any involvement.\n\nSpeaking at a meeting with priests and nuns on Thursday, Ms Fernández de Kirchner, 69, said: \"I feel that I am alive because of God and the Virgin Mary, really.\n\n\"So it seems to me that if I had to thank God and the Virgin I had to do it surrounded by priests.\"\n\nShe also expressed gratitude to the Pope, a fellow Argentine, for calling her just hours after the failed attack.\n\n\"Pope Francis called me very early the next day. We were talking on the phone and he told me something like this: that acts of hate, acts of hate and violence, are always preceded by words and by verbs of hate and violence,\" the vice-president said.\n\nThe incident happened as Ms Fernández de Kirchner greeted supporters outside her home.\n\nA small crowd had gathered to show its backing for the vice-president, who is currently on trial for corruption, when a man pointed a handgun at her head. The moment was captured on video.\n\nThe gun did not fire, but Argentina's President, Alberto Fernández, later said it had been loaded with five bullets. \"Cristina is still alive because, for some reason yet to be confirmed, the gun ... did not fire,\" he said in a televised address.\n\nPresident Fernández described it as \"the most serious incident since the return of democracy\" in 1983.\n\nFernando Sabag Montiel, who was born in Brazil but has lived in Argentina since he was a child, was arrested at the scene minutes after the incident. His girlfriend was detained several days later.\n\nInvestigators are still trying to establish the motive behind the attack on Ms Fernández de Kirchner, a left-wing politician who, while immensely popular with her supporters, has alienated many during her years as one of Argentina's most influential politicians.\n\nBefore she became vice-president in 2019, she served as Argentina's president from 2007 to 2015 and as first lady from 2003 to 2007.", "They say the specimen captures a key moment in the evolution of the blood-pumping organ found in all back-boned animals, including humans.\n\nThe heart belonged to a fish known as the Gogo, which is now extinct.\n\nThe \"jaw-dropping\" discovery, published in the journal Science, was made in Western Australia.\n\nThe lead scientist, Prof Kate Trinajstic from Curtin University in Perth told BBC News about the moment she and her colleagues realised that they had made the biggest discovery of their lives.\n\n\"We were crowded around the computer and recognised that we had a heart and pretty much couldn't believe it! It was incredibly exciting,\" she said.\n\nThe fish are perfectly preserved in boulders found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia\n\nUsually, it is bones rather than soft tissues that are turned into fossils - but at this location in Kimberley, known as the Gogo rock formation - minerals have preserved many of the fish's internal organs, including the liver, stomach, intestine and heart.\n\n\"This is a crucial moment in our own evolution,\" said Prof Trinajstic.\n\n\"It shows the body plan that we have evolved very early on, and we see this for the very first time in these fossils.\"\n\nHer collaborator, Prof John Long from Flinders University in Adelaide, described the find as \"a mind-boggling, jaw-dropping discovery\".\n\n\"We have never known anything about the soft organs of animals this old, until now,\" he said.\n\nThe Gogo fish's heart had two chambers, one above the other, which went on to evolve into the human heart\n\nThe Gogo fish is the first of a class of prehistoric fish called placoderms. These were the first fish to have jaws and teeth. Before them, fishes were no bigger than 30cm, but placoderms could grow up to 29.5ft (9m) in length.\n\nPlacoderms were the planet's dominant life form for 60 million years, existing more than 100 million years before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth.\n\nScans of the Gogo fish fossil showed that its heart was more complex than expected for these primitive fish. It had two chambers one on top of each other, similar in structure to the human heart.\n\nThe researchers suggest this made the animal's heart more efficient and was the critical step that transformed it from a slow-moving fish to a fast-moving predator.\n\nThe researchers scanned inside the boulders to discover a liver, stomach, intestines and a heart, shown in red\n\n\"This was the way they could up the ante and become a voracious predator,\" said Prof Long.\n\nThe other important observation was that the heart was much more forward in the body than those of more primitive fish.\n\nThis position is thought to have been associated with the development of the Gogo fish's neck and made space for the development of lungs further down the evolutionary line.\n\nA fossil of the head of a Gogo fish with large eye sockets\n\nDr Zerina Johanson of the Natural History Museum, London, who is a world leader in placoderms, and is independent of Prof Trinajstic's team, described the research as an \"extremely important discovery\" that helps to explain why the human body is the way it is today.\n\n\"A lot of the things you see we still have in our own bodies; jaws and teeth, for example. We have the first appearance of the front fins and the fins at the back, which eventually evolved into our arms and legs.\n\n\"There are many things going on in these placoderms that we see evolving to ourselves today such as the neck, the shape and arrangement of the heart and its position in the body.\"\n\nThe discovery fills in an important step in the evolution of life on Earth, according to Dr Martin Brazeau, a placoderm expert at Imperial College London, who is also independent of the Australian research team.\n\n\"It's really exciting to see this result,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The fishes that my colleagues and I are studying are part of our evolution. This is part of the evolution of humans and other animals that live on land and the fishes that live in the sea today.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After days of lying-in-state, the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has made its final journey as part of a grand state funeral. It travelled first to Westminster Abbey, for a religious service in front of a congregation of thousands, and then to Windsor Castle for a more intimate committal service and, in the evening, a private burial.\n\nIt has been a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony the like of which has not been seen since the last state funeral, of Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. The Queen made personal additions to the plans, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in the heart of London, where people queued for hours to view her coffin, came to an end in the early morning. A short distance away, at Westminster Abbey, the doors then opened for guests to start arriving ahead of the funeral service at 11:00.\n\nHeads of state from across the world flew in to join members of the Royal Family to remember the Queen's life and service. Senior UK politicians and former prime ministers were also there.\n\nMembers of royal families from across Europe, many of whom were blood relatives of the Queen, were also in attendance.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was lifted from the catafalque at Westminster Hall, where it has been resting since Wednesday afternoon, and was taken to Westminster Abbey, for her funeral service.\n\nShe was carried to the abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. The carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten and was used for the Queen's father, George VI, in 1952.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is topped with the Royal Standard, the Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's orb and sceptre and a wreath made up of flowers and foliage chosen by the King, picked from Buckingham Palace and the King's homes of Clarence House and Highgrove.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family, including the new king and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, followed the gun carriage in procession.\n\nThe Pipes and Drums of the Scottish and Irish regiments lead the ceremony, along with members of the Royal Air Force and the Gurkhas.\n\nThe route was lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and a guard of honour stood in Parliament Square made up of all three military services, accompanied by a Royal Marines band.\n\nThe Queen's life-long sense of duty was remembered at her state funeral service, attended by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey.\n\nA state funeral, typically reserved for kings or queens, follows strict rules of protocol, such as a military procession.\n\nThe abbey, hosting the funeral service, is the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned, including the Queen's own coronation in 1953. It was also where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947.\n\nThere hasn't been a monarch's funeral service in the abbey since the 18th Century, although the funeral of the Queen Mother was held there in 2002.\n\nThe service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby giving the sermon. Prime Minister Liz Truss read a lesson.\n\nThe Dean began the service by speaking of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nAmong the hymns was \"The Lord's my shepherd\" sung to the Crimond tune, which hails back to a parish in Aberdeenshire not far from the Queen's Balmoral estate, the location of her death. The hymn was also sung at the Queen's wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTowards the end of the funeral service the Last Post - a short bugle call - was played followed by a two-minute national silence.\n\nThe national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end just after midday.\n\nThe Queen's coffin was then drawn in a walking procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner.\n\nWith the route lined with military personnel and police, Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession moved slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were fired every minute from Hyde Park.\n\nCrowds of mourners lined the route to catch a glimpse of the coffin and military parade, which stretched for more than a mile and involved hundreds of members of the armed forces.\n\nThe procession was led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was made up of seven groups, each with its own band. Members of the armed services from the UK and the Commonwealth, the police and the NHS were involved.\n\nOnce again, the King and members of the Royal Family walked behind the gun carriage bearing the Queen's coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex joined the procession in cars.\n\nOnce at Wellington Arch, the coffin was then transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle. Crowds threw flowers towards the vehicle as it passed by.\n\nWindsor Castle, continuously inhabited by 40 monarchs across almost 1,000 years, had special significance to the Queen throughout her life. As a teenager she was sent to the castle during the war years as London faced the threat of bombing, and more recently she made it her permanent home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor just after 15:00 and continued in walking procession up Windsor Castle's Long Walk.\n\nCrowds and members of the armed forces lined the three-mile (5km) avenue.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family joined the cortege in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.\n\nThe castle's Sebastopol and Curfew Tower bells tolled every minute and gun salutes were fired from the castle's grounds.\n\nJust after 16:00, the coffin entered St George's Chapel for a committal service.\n\nSt George's Chapel is the church regularly chosen by the Royal Family for weddings, christenings and funerals. It is where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was held.\n\nAttended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, the committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nThe service, whose congregation was largely made up of current and former staff from the Queen's household and private estates, included traditions symbolising the end of her reign.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre were removed from the top of the coffin by the Crown Jeweller, separating the Queen from her crown for the final time.\n\nAt the end of the last hymn, the King then placed the Queen's Company camp colour, or flag, of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin. The Grenadier Guards are the most senior of the Foot Guards carrying out ceremonial duties for the monarch.\n\nAt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Baron Parker, \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the white staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe Queen was then lowered into the royal vault and the Sovereign's piper played before a blessing and the singing of God Save the King. The performance by the piper at Windsor was something the Queen had personally requested, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nIn the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Russian mercenary boss has defended the idea of sending prisoners to fight in the Ukraine war after a video showed him recruiting at a prison.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group, said those who do not want to send convicts to fight should send their own children instead.\n\nEarlier, leaked footage showed him telling inmates they would be freed if they served six months with his group.\n\nThe Wagner group is believed to have been fighting in Ukraine since 2014.\n\nIn a statement published on social media after the video went viral, Mr Prigozhin said that if he were in prison he would \"dream of\" joining the Wagner group to \"pay my debt to the Motherland\".\n\nHe added a message to those who do not want mercenaries or prisoners to fight.\n\n\"It's either private military companies and prisoners, or your children - decide for yourself.\"\n\nHowever, the statement did not explicitly address the video or admit that it was genuine.\n\nThe UK's defence ministry said the recruitment of prisoners indicated that Russia was suffering from a \"critical\" shortage of combat infantry troops.\n\nThe video - verified by the BBC - would confirm long-held suspicions that Russia hopes to increase troops by recruiting prisoners.\n\nRussian law does not allow prisoners to be freed in exchange for military or mercenary service, but Mr Prigozhin said in the video that \"nobody goes back behind bars\" if they serve with the Wagner group.\n\n\"If you serve six months, you are free,\" he said. But he warned potential recruits against desertion, adding: \"if you arrive in Ukraine and decide it's not for you, we will execute you\".\n\nThe video appears to have been taken in the prison's exercise yard. It is not known who filmed it, when, or how it was released.\n\nThe BBC geolocated the footage to a penal colony in Russia's central Mari El Republic. Facial recognition tools suggested the recruiter was Mr Prigozhin, and this was separately confirmed by multiple sources.\n\nThe BBC has previously identified links between the group and Mr Prigozhin, known as \"Putin's chef\" - so-called because he rose from being a restaurateur and caterer for the Kremlin.\n\nIn the past, the Putin ally has denied a connection with the organisation.\n\nBut in the leaked prison video, the oligarch can be seen telling inmates that he is a \"representative of a private war company\".\n\n\"Perhaps you heard the name - Wagner Group,\" he asked the group of prisoners.\n\nThe group, whose origins are shadowy, has been deployed in Ukraine, Syria and several African conflicts.", "Police in Bucha examine a body unearthed in a field. At least 500 dead have been found since the Russians left.\n\nWhen the Russians retreated from Bucha, a massive operation began to find and document the dead. BBC News joined the local police officers and bereaved families as they carried out their grim task.\n\nPolice Chief Vitaliy Lobas was sitting at a child's desk in an abandoned school in Bucha, collecting the details of the bodies.\n\nEvery few minutes, Chief Lobas, who has broad shoulders and short dark hair, and rarely uses an unnecessary word, received a call on his mobile phone, and the brief conversations went the same: a location, a few details, a phone number of a relative or friend.\n\nBefore the Russians came, Lobas was an ordinary local police chief, the head of Buchanksy District 1, who spent his days dealing with ordinary local crime and the occasional murder. Since the liberation of Bucha, he has spent his days in this abandoned school classroom, where school posters still hang on the walls, coordinating the massive operation to find the dead.\n\nIn front of Lobas on the school desk there was a map of Bucha, a once peaceful and little-known suburb of Kyiv that is now a sprawling crime scene. The area was occupied by Russian forces for a month as they attempted to assault Kyiv, and its liberation a little over a week ago has begun a slow and painful process of uncovering horrors.\n\nEach time the phone rang, Lobas consulted the map in front of him, and on a plain piece of paper he wrote down the necessary information in neat handwriting, one line per body. By mid-morning, he had filled one side of A4 and moved on to the reverse. The previous day there had been 64 bodies, he said. The day before, 37. He did not know how many there would be that day, but he was expecting the number to jump by around 40 because a mass grave was being dug up nearby. Lobas is only in charge of one part of this region, and many more bodies are being found outside his jurisdiction.\n\nVitaliy Lobas, the head of Buchansky District 1 police department, takes a call in his command post in a school classroom.\n\nLobas paused occasionally to go to the school playground for a cigarette, but even these moments were interrupted by calls about bodies or problems relating to the collection of bodies. It was raining in Bucha, and one of the vans that ferried corpses to the morgue had become stuck in the mud. A tractor needed to be found quickly, because there was a limited number of vans and a large number of bodies. Lobas generally delegates the field work to his deputies, but in cases of particularly grave crimes he goes himself.\n\n\"When people have been shot in the head with their hands tied behind their back, for example, I will go,\" he said.\n\n\"When the bodies have been burned I also go.\"\n\nAbout mid-morning, a call came in from Dmytro Kushnir, a 24-year-old police deputy in one of Lobas's units, to log a body that had been reported behind an apartment building on the outskirts of Bucha.\n\nWhen Kushnir arrived at the building, which stood alone on an otherwise undeveloped green area on the edge of woodland, he found two men behind the building at the place where the property line met the woods. They were wearing blue surgical gloves and standing over the partially decomposed body of a man who appeared to have been shot in the back of the head. The body lay on a stained white duvet decorated with red flowers and was surrounded by empty bottles of beer and spirits. The blue surgical gloves initially gave the men the appearance of medical officials, but they introduced themselves as Volodymyr and Serhiy Brezhnev, the dead man's father and brother. Lying on the blanket was Vitaliy Brezhnev, a 30-year-old former cook who, until the Russians arrived, lived a peaceful life with his girlfriend on the sixth floor of the apartment building that now towered over his corpse.\n\nSerhiy Brezhnev stands over his brother's body. \"He was a kind-hearted man, he gave his all,\" Serhiy said.\n\nA passport picture of Vitaliy that Serhiy carried while he searched for his brother\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy had lost contact with Vitaliy a month earlier, when the Russians seized control of Bucha and communications went down. It was impossible to enter the suburb to check his building, so they searched for him for a month online, scouring social media in vain for evidence that he was alive.\n\nWhen the Russians finally retreated, a little over a week ago, Serhiy got a call from Vitaliy's girlfriend and she told them the story. The Russians had assaulted the apartment building and blasted their way into every apartment with a shotgun, she said, demanding people handed over their SIM cards and keys. They interrogated her and Vitaliy in separate rooms, beat them, and shot their dog, she said. Then they took her down to the basement with a group of other residents and bolted the door, but took Vitaliy away separately and told her she wouldn't see him again, and she didn't.\n\nAs soon as the Ukrainian army declared Bucha safe to re-enter, Volodymyr and Serhiy set out for the apartment building. Inside, they found blood smeared on the floor in the stairwells and personal photographs from people's apartments strewn around. On every door you could see the holes from the shotgun blasts - sometimes one, sometimes four or five. Doors with steel plates had been crowbarred. On one wooden door, where the lock hadn't given way to repeated shots, the Russian soldiers appeared to have become frustrated and blown a hole right through the middle of the door into the apartment. Behind another door, it was clear the homeowners had pushed a heavy table up against the frame in a failed attempt to keep the invaders out.\n\nEvery door in Vitaliy Brezhnev's apartment building had been blown open with a shotgun.\n\nWhen Volodymyr and Serhiy reached the sixth floor they saw that the shotgun had been used on the door of Apartment 83. A rank odour came from inside. The Russians had trashed the apartment and pried open the air vents and even the bathroom drain, looking for money, Serhiy guessed. When he entered Vitaliy's bedroom he suffered the first of several blows to his hopes of finding his brother alive. On the pillow there was a deep blood stain and blood was sprayed up the walls behind the bed. Among the mess on the floor there were two 7.62mm bullet casings - the calibre used by the Russian army in their rifles.\n\n\"You could see that a man had been killed here,\" Serhiy said. \"But there was no body.\"\n\nSo Volodymyr and Serhiy began to search for Vitaliy, knowing that their search was now probably for a body and not a son and brother they could hold again in their arms. Serhiy was carrying a passport photograph of Vitaliy. \"We searched and searched,\" he said, \"and at first we were looking for his face.\"\n\nWarning: Readers may find some of the following images distressing\n\nThe scene inside Vitaliy's bedroom. \"You could see a man had been killed here,\" Serhiy said.\n\nVitaliy Brezhnev's body was found behind his apartment, where the property line met the woods.\n\nBehind the building, next to the woods, they found what appeared to be a shallow grave, and they began to dig. It took time to exhume the remains there. First they saw a flower-patterned duvet they didn't recognise and their hearts found some hope. But when they brought the body up they saw that inside the duvet there was a curtain from Vitaliy's apartment. Then they saw the dead man's shoes and thought they recognised them. The light was fading by that point and they had to be home before curfew, so they covered the body with the sheet. Embers of hope remained.\n\n\"Today was the final touch,\" Serhiy said, the following day, looking down at the body. \"Today we took his shoes off and we saw his feet.\"\n\nBecause Vitaliy's feet had been inside socks and shoes they were better preserved than the rest of his body after a month in the earth.\n\n\"We saw the shape of his feet,\" Volodymyr said.\n\n\"Then we looked at the shape of the nose and the hands,\" Serhiy said. \"And we knew it was our bloodline.\"\n\nVolodymyr replaces the thin sheet that covered the body where it lay\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy waiting for the van that collects the bodies. Eventually they gave up.\n\nVolodymyr had purchased the small apartment in Bucha two years earlier - an investment in his son's future. Vitaliy had been a cook in a restaurant in Kyiv, until the pandemic hit and he was laid off. He did some work in construction and was looking for something more stable, but he had a girlfriend he loved and a dog, and now an apartment in a nice neighbourhood. He loved to fish and hunt, and forage for mushrooms in his spare time, and cook.\n\n\"He was living a peaceful life here,\" Serhiy said. \"He was a normal guy, that's all, a kind-hearted man. He gave his all.\"\n\n\"He was a son and a brother,\" Volodymyr said, trying to hold back his tears.\n\nAt the front of the apartment building, Officer Kushnir was filling out his police report. Volodymyr went to his car and took two small pieces of cardboard and wrote his name and phone number and Vitaliy's name and address on each. Then he asked some neighbours for clear tape to cover the ink, because the rain was beginning to fall harder on Bucha, and he went back to the body, without surgical gloves this time, to tie one piece of card to Vitaliy's ankle and one to his wrist.\n\n\"I do not want to lose my son,\" he said.\n\nOfficer Kushnir finished his report and called it in. Chief Lobas would arrange for the van that collected the bodies to stop by. Volodymyr and Serhiy took shelter from the rain and waited for the van to arrive.\n\nFamilies in Bucha attached tags to their loved ones or put passports in their pockets, so as not to lose them again.\n\nAs the day wore on, Chief Lobas's classroom command post got busier. Officers came and went, filing crime scene reports. The list on Lobas's desk got longer and his phone kept ringing.\n\nA dead woman had been found in a well next to a destroyed column of Russian tanks. There was a body on the ninth floor of an apartment building. A driver of one of the vans called to say he couldn't find the body he had been sent to collect. A woman came in to the classroom in person to report that her neighbour was dead. \"I understand everything,\" Lobas told her, keen to move on. \"We will try to collect him today.\" Lobas's father called. \"Dad, I am too busy,\" he said. \"Everything is OK.\"\n\nTwo of Bucha district's police departments had been destroyed in the Russian assault and Lobas was struggling for resources. There were not enough body bags. His team had also been whittled down over the preceding days to those who had shown themselves capable of withstanding this new work. \"Those who were weak went at the very beginning,\" he said. There was little room for sentiment amid the scale of the task.\n\nLobas received another call. \"Nine?\" he said. \"Where?\"\n\nThe call was coming from a unit in a neighbouring police department. Nine bodies were buried in a field nearby. Lobas hung up and dialled one of his mobile units. \"The team there is exhausted and they have no body bags left,\" he said. \"They have been collecting bodies all day. Please go and help them now. Find body bags and help them to pack the bodies.\"\n\nNine graves, dug by neighbours behind apartment buildings in Bucha.\n\nThe nine graves were laid out neatly in a row at the edge of the field, behind a corrugated fence at the end of a dirt track. The dead had been buried by their neighbours during the Russian occupation and now they were being exhumed by their neighbours, with the help of the police.\n\n\"Some of these people died because they could not get medicine and some were killed by Russians,\" said Gennadiy, a 45-year-old Ukrainian from one of the buildings by the field, who had helped to bury the the bodies and was doing the most work now to bring them up.\n\n\"These were our neighbours,\" Gennadiy said, a look of deep anger set in his face. \"Here is Uncle Tolya from the building next door and a neighbour of his. Here is another person I knew from the next building. This man has a bullet wound, we didn't know him but we found a passport on his body. This elderly woman had severe diabetes and we tried to take her out of Bucha but there was no green corridor, so she died. This man went for a walk with his dog and didn't come back. We are not pathologists but it looks like he was shot.\"\n\nGennadiy, a resident who buried his neighbours, helps to bring them up from their graves.\n\nThe work to remove the bodies was hard. They had been buried well in deep graves, and the rain was soaking into the mud and making it slippery. Gennadiy, in a green plastic rain cape, climbed into each grave, one after the other, and shovelled the earth from around the bodies so that thick straps could be tied around them to hoist them up.\n\nEach body had been wrapped in whatever was at hand - curtains, blankets of different colours and patterns. They were examined by the police and any obvious wounds photographed with an iPhone. Enough body bags had been found, and after a while the van arrived. In the dirt on its back doors, someone had scrawled '200' - the military identifier for the transport of the dead. The bodies were loaded inside. The sky was grey and the rain kept falling.\n\nAt Vitaliy's apartment building, Volodymyr and Serhiy had waited as long as they could for the van to arrive. It was getting dark and they needed to get home. Vitaliy's body would have to spend another night on the ground. They were too late now to make the 9pm curfew in Kyiv, but at the military checkpoints along the route they showed the death report and were waved through.\n\nAt sunrise the next morning, the father and son got up and began the drive back to Bucha. They could not wait for the van any longer, and they loaded Vitaliy's body into the back of their car and set out for a morgue in the town of Boyarka, about an hour's drive south.\n\nBefore the invasion, the staff at the Boyarka morgue were used to handling about three bodies a day, the vast majority of them deaths from natural causes. Since Bucha was liberated, they have been autopsying about 50 bodies a day, 80% of which were violent deaths, said Semen Petrovych, 39, who has been the forensic expert there for 16 years.\n\nThe Boyarka morgue used to receive three bodies a day. Now it is autopsying about 50.\n\nThe morgue, a small outbuilding at the back of a hospital on the edge of town, where Boyarka meets the forest, had just acquired two rented refrigerator trucks and both were full of bodies. Body bags lay on the floor by the trucks and against the fence nearby and either side of the entrance to the morgue.\n\n\"There are not enough staff and there is not enough room,\" said Petrovych, the forensic expert. \"Even if we had more people, where would we put the bodies?\"\n\nNormally he would do a careful autopsy on every body and print a death certificate. \"Now we just dissect them quickly and write something simple by hand,\" he said.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy were not alone in bringing a body themselves. Private cars pulled up to the morgue and bodies were brought out wrapped in blankets and rugs. Relatives and friends came searching. Tatiana Zhylenko was looking for the body of the father of a friend who was abroad. \"He had his passport on his chest,\" she told the staff. Oleksander Zakovorotnyi came for his father-in-law, who, when the Russians cut the gas supply in the depth of winter, rigged up a makeshift heater using a gas cylinder, but fell asleep and was poisoned when the flame went out.\n\nSerhiy Brezhnev helps carry Vitaliy's body bag out from the morgue, to await fingerprinting.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy waited outside until they were called in to identify Vitaliy. They stood inside the cramped, low-ceilinged morgue, where there were bodies on the floor and on every gurney and the smell was overpowering. They had to squeeze between two gurneys, beside an open corpse, to get close to Vitaliy's body, and they searched it for scars they could remember. They repeated to the pathologist that they thought they recognised his feet. Volodymyr looked away and looked back. He was wrestling with doubt and hope.\n\nAfterwards, he walked behind the refrigerator truck and stood alone sobbing, his chest heaving with his tears. Vitaliy was brought out, his body bag tagged number 552 - the 552nd body processed by this small morgue since the beginning of the year, nearly double the figure in a normal year, the extra hundreds all condensed into one week.\n\nThe police took fingerprints and told Volodymyr and Serhiy that the formal identification would take around a month, because of the backlog, but otherwise they were free to take him to the cemetery to be buried.\n\nThe line of body bags at the Bucha cemetery, waiting to be processed and buried.\n\nBecause Vitaliy was already identified, he was placed by his family straight into a casket.\n\nRather than wait for the body van, Volodymyr and Serhiy lifted Vitaliy carefully again into the back of their car and drove him the hour or so back to Bucha, past the rows of destroyed homes and places where bodies had laid in the streets for weeks. At the cemetery, which was already full, new graves were being dug outside the boundary fence on a thin strip of earth along the side of the road. A priest intoned the funeral rites over a coffin. The mother of the dead man wailed. In the near distance, past the line of the forest, enormous booms sounded as unexploded ordnance was detonated. Volodymyr and Serhiy drove into the cemetery and unloaded Vitaliy next to a long line of body bags arrayed on the ground.\n\nBecause Vitaliy had already been identified and would be buried here in Bucha, he was placed into a simple wooden casket with maroon fabric and afforded the small dignity of resting inside a brick building on the cemetery grounds. He would be buried in two days' time.\n\nVolodymyr and Serhiy left the cemetery and Volodymyr decided that, even though it was far from their home in Kyiv, he would buy a plot there for his wife Lily, Vitaliy's mother, who was suffering from end-stage cancer, so that when the time came she would be near to her son.\n\nTwo days later, on a bright, cold morning in Bucha, the family gathered at the cemetery. Once again, Volodymyr and Serhiy took the lead and went inside the brick building to prepare to carry the casket. Lily sat outside on a bench, smoking a cigarette, alone among the body bags. The casket was carried to a stone plinth and the family gathered around it while the priest read the funeral rites and two elderly women from the church held the incense burner and sang. Then Vitaliy was taken by the van marked 200 to one of the fresh graves along the roadside outside the cemetery and laid to rest. Volodymyr was still wrestling with doubt. \"I am still hoping that the fingerprints will show this was not my son,\" he said.\n\nThe family gathers for a small funeral service for Vitaliy\n\nVitaliy Brezhnev was buried on Monday 11 April, in a fresh grave by the road\n\nLater that day, back at the abandoned school in Bucha, Chief Lobas was sitting at his schooldesk, listening carefully to a man who had come in person to ask for help finding a relative he heard was in a mass grave. The man had been to the large mass grave by the church, he said, but they redirected him to the police. He wanted to give Chief Lobas a picture, but Lobas explained that this was not the way things were done. \"We cannot go around opening all the body bags holding this picture,\" he said. \"Do you understand? It will waste too much time.\"\n\nLobas explained that they had to begin burying the unidentified bodies because there was not enough space at the morgues. But he assured the man that fingerprints and photographs were being taken and would be kept. \"Even though the people themselves are buried the information remains,\" he said. \"The photographs remain.\"\n\nThe calls kept coming in - a body on Yablunska Street, another body next to a school. \"We have cleared these two addresses already, give us more to collect,\" Lobas said. He saw a window for a cigarette and went to the playground. The number of bodies each day was already beginning to fall, and he thought the job might be finished soon. \"There are no weekends here now, we will keep working until the collection of the bodies is complete,\" he said. He flicked his cigarette away. His phone was ringing.", "Eating a big breakfast and a smaller dinner could aid weight loss by making you feel less hungry, say researchers.\n\nScientists precisely controlled people's meals to compare the impact of a large breakfast or a large dinner.\n\nThe University of Aberdeen team found people burned the same calories whenever they had their biggest meal of the day.\n\nBut appetite was noticeably smaller after big breakfasts, which could make it easier to stick to a diet.\n\nThe researchers were investigating the world of \"chrono-nutrition\" and how the food we eat is affected by the rhythms of our body's internal clock. One idea is the evening is a bad time to eat, because the body clock shifts our metabolism towards sleep.\n\nThe 30 volunteers had all their meals prepared for them for more than two months with breakfast, lunch and dinner adding up to about 1,700 calories a day.\n\nThey spent one month having a huge breakfast using up nearly half their daily calories, followed by a smaller lunch and an even smaller evening meal. In the other month the volunteers had their big meal in the evening rather than the morning.\n\nPeople's metabolism was precisely measured using doubly labelled water, which is denser than normal water and can be tracked as it leaves the body.\n\nThe results, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, found the timing of a big meal made no difference to how many calories were burned, to people's resting metabolic rate or the amount of weight they lost.\n\nThe key difference was to appetite or hunger levels, which were suppressed by the large breakfast.\n\nProf Alexandra Johnstone said that was likely to be crucial in the real world when the amount of food available was not being controlled.\n\nShe told me: \"The studies suggest, for appetite control, the big breakfast was a winner.\n\n\"If you can start your day with a healthy big breakfast, you are more likely to maintain physical activity levels and maintain that control over appetite for the remainder of the day.\"\n\nThe researchers say a fry-up is not the healthiest breakfast around\n\nThe breakfasts in the study included smoothies, yoghurts, eggs, sausages and mushrooms, and all contained plenty of protein which helps people feel full.\n\nIt is not clear why a bigger breakfast lowers appetite. The researchers say it is more complicated than having a full stomach in the morning and then sleeping when it is empty.\n\nProf Johnstone said there were ideas around the brain's appetite and reward systems being \"more in tune for the first meal of the day\" as it breaks the overnight fast.\n\nHowever, the results are in contrast to most people's eating habits.\n\n\"People are trying to maximize their sleep and don't have time in the morning to either prepare or sit down and eat a larger meal, and therefore, by default, eat a larger evening meal,\" said Prof Johnstone.\n\nThe scientists are now investigating what happens when shift workers eat in the middle of the night, and trying to establish whether people should eat according to chronotype (whether they are naturally a morning or evening person).\n\nDr Duane Mellor, a dietitian at Aston University, said: \"If you are thinking about changing your diet, think about times when you get hungry and may go for an extra snack.\n\n\"If that is in the morning, then having a bigger breakfast may help. Equally if you are an evening nibbler, having a more substantial evening meal instead and eating smaller meals in the day could help.\"\n• None Metabolism peaks at one and tanks after 60 - study", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III speaks in Welsh in a historic moment for a monarch\n\nKing Charles III said Wales held a \"special place\" in the Queen's heart as he gave a speech in Welsh on his first visit as the new monarch.\n\nHe addressed members of the Welsh Parliament in a remembrance event at the Senedd as part of the King and Queen Consort's tour of the UK nations.\n\nIn a bilingual speech, King Charles gave the Senedd his \"heartfelt thanks for your kind words\".\n\nHe added that it had been a \"privilege to be Prince of Wales for so long\".\n\nThe King said Prince William, who was appointed Prince of Wales last week, had a \"deep love\" for the nation.\n\nHe said the \"ancient title\" dated to the time \"of those great Welsh rulers like Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, whose memory is still rightly honoured\".\n\nThanking Members of the Senedd for their condolences following the death of the Queen at the age of 96 last week, the King said that \"through all the years of her reign the land of Wales could not have been closer to my mother's heart\".\n\nKing Charles III meets schoolchildren and the rest of the crowds outside Llandaff Cathedral on his first visit to Wales as a monarch\n\n\"Roedd lle arbenig i Gymru yn ei chalon,\" he said, which translates as \"Wales had a special place in her heart\".\n\n\"Fel fy mam annwyl o'm blaen, rwy'n gwybod ein bod ni oll yn caru'r wlad arbennig hon,\" he added, which translates as \"like my beloved mother before me, I know we all share a love for this special land\".\n\nAs Prince of Wales, Charles often delivered passages of speeches in Welsh - including at the first official opening of what was then called the assembly, in 1999.\n\nHe told the Senedd it had been a \"privilege to be Prince of Wales for so long\"\n\nHe added in English: \"I know she took immense pride in your many great achievements, even as she also felt with you deeply in time of sorrow.\n\n\"It must surely be counted the greatest privilege to belong to a land that could inspire such devotion.\n\nKing Charles III and the Queen Consort received a posy of flowers from a five-year-old Keira Hillebert as they left Llandaff Cathedral\n\n\"Having visited the Senedd regularly since it was founded, and having heard your heartfelt words today, I know we all share the deepest commitment to the welfare of the people of this land, and that we will all continue to work together to that end.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said in his audience with the King on Friday, King Charles spoke of his concern about how people in Wales would cope in the coming months with the cost of living crisis.\n\nMr Drakeford told Talk TV: \"He is concerned as to how people will manage through what is going to be a difficult winter.\n\n\"He was interested to tell me about some of the projects that he has heard of, or become involved in dealing, for example, with food waste, making sure that we don't waste a precious resource when some people might be going without.\"\n\nHundreds of well wishers greeted the royal couple in Cardiff Bay, where they also met Welsh Youth Parliament members who told them about their work\n\nThe last reigning monarch to visit Wales was Queen Elizabeth II when she officially opened the sixth Senedd term in October 2021\n\nKing Charles had Welsh lessons at Aberystwyth University before his investiture at Caernarfon Castle in 1969. His tutor was the academic Tedi Millward, a Welsh nationalist campaigner.\n\nAfter Dr Millward's death in 2020, the then-Prince Charles paid tribute to him, but admitted he may not have been his finest pupil.\n\nElin Jones, the presiding officer of the Welsh Parliament, said the use of Welsh in the King's speech to the Senedd, was \"hugely significant\".\n\nThe Llywydd said it \"shows the world that Wales has two languages\".\n\n\"It's used by the King and used by the people on the streets as well, and that's a significant moment,\" she told BBC Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The King went to Llandaff Cathedral, the Senedd and a reception at Cardiff Castle\n\nKing Charles III's speech in the Senedd was a historic step for a British monarch.\n\nWhile his mother Elizabeth spoke small phrases in the Welsh language, the King's speech on Friday was bilingual, switched from English to Welsh throughout.\n\nIt was a mark of respect by the monarch for the culture of Wales, in the similar way that the entire visit was recognition of the place the Welsh Parliament and government have in the UK constitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III was the longest serving Prince of Wales before he became monarch\n\nBoth are important in the context of a language which activists had fought in the past to protect, and institutions that had a rocky few early years at the dawn of devolution 23 years ago.\n\nIt is unlikely to be enough to change views on the monarchy, like those held by the protesters outside Cardiff Castle on Friday.\n\nHowever, there have been few expressions of republicanism in this period of mourning from senior figures in Welsh public life.\n\nThat is despite the personal views of First Minister Mark Drakeford and Senedd Presiding Officer Elin Jones - both republicans who have taken a full part in this week's proceedings.\n\nKing Charles arrived in Cardiff via helicopter from his Gloucestershire home of Highgrove following a day of rest after a week of duties since the death of the Queen.\n\nHe and the Queen Consort were greeted by a gun salute at Cardiff Castle as they set foot on to Welsh soil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A gun salute takes place at Cardiff Castle to honour new king\n\nHundreds of people lined the streets of Llandaff to greet the King and Queen Consort with cheers and flag waving on their way to a prayer and reflection service for the Queen at the Llandaf Cathedral.\n\nA fanfare of trumpeters from the Regimental Band of the Royal Welsh greeted the King at the cathedral's west door before Mr Drakeford gave a reading from the Old Testament.\n\nKing Charles III and the Queen Consort sang a number of hymns during the service, including traditional Welsh song Cwm Rhondda\n\nArchbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Andrew John, delivered an address to the congregation - which included Prime Minister Liz Truss in her first visit to Wales as prime minister - in both English and Welsh.\n\nPaying tribute to her \"extraordinary legacy of service and devotion\", the archbishop said the Queen had transformed the monarchy and provided a reassuring constancy through the decades.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss is greeted by Dean of Llandaff Cathedral Michael Komor on her arrival\n\nThe archbishop said the late Queen's skilful use of \"soft power\" came to the fore during her visits to Aberfan after the disaster there in 1966 when the community found her presence \"deeply consoling\".\n\nThe hour-long service included hymns Pantyfedwen (Tydi A Wnaeth Y Wyrth), God is Love Let Heaven Adore Him and Cwm Rhondda and their visit to Llandaff ended with King Charles and the Queen Consort meeting schoolchildren in the crowd as they left the cathedral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grace said she felt really excited and really pleased that she got the opportunity to meet the king\n\nThe King and Queen Consort attended a condolence event for the late Queen Elizabeth II at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay before a reception at the city's castle.\n\nThe royal couple met military personnel and faith leaders there, while Aberfan Wives group were also among those invited.\n\nDenise Morgan and Gloria Davies said the Queen had made a \"bond\" with the mining village after the disaster, when 116 children and 28 adults killed where killed when a colliery spoil tip collapsed, catastrophically engulfing a primary school and surrounding houses.\n\nThe Band of the Royal Welsh, joined by military goat Lance Corporal Shenkin IV, played the national anthem\n\nMs Morgan said the Queen's visit to the village eight days after the tragedy was \"at the right time\", adding: \"I don't think she came as the Queen, I think she came as a mother too.\n\n\"Because she looked around and she could see the devastation and the look on people's faces.\"\n\nMs Morgan said she believed the King would \"continue that bond with Aberfan and the people of Aberfan\".\n\nThe Band of the Royal Welsh played the national anthem as the royal couple made their way to the front of the castle, with military goat Lance Corporal Shenkin IV stationed at the front.\n\nAfter cries of \"God save the King\", the King smiled and waved before heading into the castle for an audience with Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nBut there were also boos and chants of \"not my king\" as the King entered the castle, in the city centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This was the moment King Charles III arrived at Cardiff Castle with Camilla, the Queen Consort\n\nAbout 100 protesters were stood next to the castle gates, and another group opposite held up placards saying \"no to monarchy, no to Charles\" and \"democracy now\".\n\nThe protestors were being led by former Plaid Cymru Senedd member Bethan Sayed.\n\nProtesters were heard booing and chanting as King Charles entered Cardiff Castle\n\nThe King is a familiar face in the country, having visited regularly in his former role as the Prince of Wales.\n\nIt was his second visit to the Senedd in less than a year. In October 2021, he opened the new term of the Welsh Parliament, along with Camilla, now Queen Consort, and the Queen in her last visit to Wales.\n\nKing Charles had an audience with First Minister Mark Drakeford at Cardiff Castle", "A jersey worn by basketball icon Michael Jordan during the opening game of the 1998 NBA Finals has been sold for a record $10.1m (£8.8m).\n\nIt is the most a piece of sporting memorabilia worn during play has fetched in history.\n\nAuction house Sotheby's says it drew \"palpable excitement\" from collectors.\n\nIt was reminiscent of a sporting season - chronicled in Netflix documentary The Last Dance - which saw Jordan winning his sixth and final NBA title.\n\nOn Thursday, Sotheby's said Jordan's Chicago Bulls jersey attracted a total of 20 bids.\n\nSotheby's head of streetwear and modern collectables, Brahm Wachter, said bidders were \"eager to own a rarefied piece of history\".\n\n\"Today's record-breaking result... solidifies Michael Jordan as the undisputed G.O.A.T, proving his name and incomparable legacy is just as relevant as it was nearly 25 years ago,\" Wachter said. G.O.A.T is an acronym for \"greatest of all time\".\n\nThe jersey outstripped a previous record of $9.28m, paid for a shirt worn by football star Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup.\n\nIt was auctioned with a June 1998 Sports Illustrated magazine, which features Jordan on the cover.\n\nThe Chicago Bulls trailed Utah Jazz 85-88 in the opening game\n\nJordan is seen by many as the best player in the history of basketball. He spent most of his career with the Chicago Bulls, became a global icon and helped raise the NBA's profile around the world.\n\nAlthough the Chicago Bulls lost the opening game of the NBA Finals against Utah Jazz, it won the next three games. Then Utah Jazz took the next game by two points.\n\nIn the sixth game, Jordan put the Bulls up 87-86 with just 5.2 seconds left on the clock, and secured his final NBA title.\n\nThe comeback was cheered by basketball fans around the world.\n\nJordan had abruptly retired from basketball in October 1993, following the murder of his father in North Carolina. The star had won seven scoring titles and led the Chicago Bulls to three straight championships.\n\n\"I have always stressed... that when I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time to leave,\" Jordan said.\n\nJordan, who is now aged 59, hung up his boots for the final time in 2003.", "The queue to see the Queen Elizabeth lying-in-state stretches from Westminster Hall all the way past Tower Bridge, along the south bank of the River Thames.", "Migrants outside the vice president's residence in Washington DC on 15 September.\n\nTwo buses carrying migrants were sent from Texas to just outside Vice-President Kamala Harris's residence in Washington DC on Thursday, amid a growing political row over immigration.\n\nThe state's Republican governor said the move was intentional and called for tighter immigration policies.\n\nIt comes a day after Florida sent migrants to a Massachusetts island.\n\nBoth states appear to be escalating a tactic which has seen Republican states send migrants to Democratic areas.\n\nAs political tension over the number of people arriving at the US-Mexico border grows, states such as Texas and Arizona have sent thousands of migrants to cities such as Chicago, New York and Washington DC which they accuse of failing to fully enforce immigration laws.\n\nWhile legal experts say the tactic will likely be challenged in court, it remains unclear what the legal basis for such a challenge would be.\n\nImmigration groups in both Washington DC and the wealthy Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard said they were not given an advance warning about the arrivals.\n\nFootage shown on Fox News showed two buses - reportedly carrying between 75 and 100 people - arriving near the vice-president's residence and migrants, who were mostly from Venezuela, gathering their belongings and standing nearby. A non-governmental organisation later came and reportedly transported them to a church.\n\n\"Harris claims our border is 'secure' [and] denies the crisis,\" Texas Governor Greg Abbott later wrote on Twitter. \"We're sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job and secure the border.\"\n\nAmong the migrants on the buses in Washington were Delinyer Mendoza and his partner Maybel, a young Venezuelan couple who arrived in the US five days ago after an arduous trek through Central America and Mexico.\n\nWhile officials in Texas told the couple they were headed to Washington, the pair only learned that they were at the vice-president's house when told by journalists.\n\n\"We didn't know,\" Maybel said. \"We're finding out about this from you all... we're in limbo and were just going to walk around not knowing where we were.\"\n\nThe pair said they planned to spend the day with a local humanitarian organisation before heading north to New York, where Mr Mendoza has family.\n\nAnother migrant, Cuban national Leonardo Perdomo, told Reuters that he had boarded a bus in Texas after officials offered him passage to Washington \"free of charge\".\n\nA local volunteer helping the migrants, Carla Bustillos, was quoted as saying that immigration organisations were only told about the arrivals at the last minute. \"While we're doing this political show, we have human beings feeling that their suffering is being exploited,\" she said.\n\nThe migrants, including children, arrived in Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday afternoon\n\nIn a similar move on Wednesday, two planes carrying migrants were flown to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The resort is a traditional summer destination for Hollywood stars and former President Barack Obama is among those who have holiday homes in the area.\n\nThe migrants, including children, arrived at about 15:00 (11:00 GMT) on Wednesday without any warning, according to Massachusetts State Senator Julian Cyr.\n\nOfficials and volunteers then \"moved heaven and earth\" to set up the response like \"we would do in the event of a hurricane\", he said. Migrants were given food and clothing as well as being tested for Covid.\n\nMany did not know where they were, according to Massachusetts state Representative Dylan Fernandes. They had been told they would be given housing and jobs, he said.\n\nOn Twitter, Mr Fernandes described the move as an \"evil and inhumane\" plot to use \"human lives - men, women and children - as political pawns\".\n\nSpeaking at an event in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis said the state was willing to help facilitate the movement of migrants to be able to go to \"greener pastures\".\n\nHe also said Florida was not a \"sanctuary\" state. So-called sanctuary cities in the US are cities that have policies to aid undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"All those people in DC and New York were beating their chest when Trump was president, saying how they were so proud to be sanctuary jurisdictions,\" Mr DeSantis said. \"The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk.\"\n\nAleksander Cuic, an immigration lawyer and the director of the Immigration Clinic at Case Western Reserve University's school of law, said that while he believes efforts to relocate migrants in this way will be legally challenged, it is still unclear what - if any - laws may have been broken.\n\n\"The big question is what they are being told, and if there is any sort of fraud or inducement,\" he told the BBC. \"But how would anyone know if there's nothing in writing? It could be that they [the migrants] are willingly saying they'll go if there are jobs and opportunities.\"\n\nMr Cuic added that authorities in Texas and Florida are likely to argue they \"are doing the same thing\" as the government, which regularly moves detained migrants around the country.\n\nGovernor DeSantis has previously cited Martha's Vineyard as a possible destination for migrants being sent out of his state, telling reporters last year that if they were, the \"border would be secure the next day\". This year, Florida representatives set aside $12m (£10.4m) for transporting migrants.\n\nIt is unclear how many migrants Florida plans to send to other states. The BBC has reached out to Governor DeSantis' office for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said walking behind the Queen's coffin \"brought back a few memories\" of his mother's funeral as he spoke to well-wishers in Norfolk.\n\nPrince William said it had been \"challenging\", as he and the Princess of Wales viewed floral tributes left outside Sandringham House.\n\nHe and his brother walked behind the gun carriage in Wednesday's procession, echoing Princess Diana's funeral.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family conducted visits as official mourning continued.\n\nAfter viewing some of the hundreds of tributes to the late monarch, who died last week, outside the gates at Sandringham, Prince William and Catherine spoke to those gathered there.\n\nSpeaking to one woman, Prince William said: \"I mean the walk yesterday was challenging, it brought back a few memories...\"\n\nAmong those he spoke to was receptionist Jane Wells, from Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, who said she had told the prince how proud his mother would have been of him.\n\n\"He said how hard it was yesterday because it brought back memories of his mother's funeral,\" she said.\n\nCaroline Barwick-Walters, of Neath in Wales, said she told Prince William \"thank you for sharing your grief with the nation\", and that he replied \"she was everybody's grandmother\".\n\nPrince William, then 15, and his brother, Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex, then 12, walked with their father, King Charles III, behind the coffin of their mother, Princess Diana, in September 1997.\n\nThey were side by side again as they solemnly escorted the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster on Wednesday.\n\nThe sight of Prince William and Prince Harry walking side-by-side behind the Queen's coffin in Wednesday's procession to Westminster Hall evoked immediate memories of the two brothers at the funeral of their mother.\n\nThe comments to well-wishers in Sandringham suggest it's something also felt by Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, as he said how hard it was for him when it \"brought back a few memories\".\n\nIt's 25 years since the death of Princess Diana, but it's an image of loss that still resonates. It's a reminder of the traumatic impact on the young lives of the two brothers - and both of them have often spoken of how much the loss of their mother is still in their thoughts.\n\nBereavement at such a young age has been previously described by Prince William as a \"pain like no other pain\".\n\nAnd Prince Harry has spoken of his mother's continuing influence. \"I feel her presence in almost everything that I do now,\" he said earlier this year.\n\nSpeaking in 2017, Prince Harry described walking behind his mother's coffin as a child as something that would not happen now.\n\nHe told Newsweek: \"I don't think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don't think it would happen today.\"\n\nPrinces William and Harry at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997\n\nThey joined their father King Charles in walking behind the Queen's coffin on Wednesday\n\nSandringham House has been a royal residence for four generations of British monarchs for a period of more than 150 years, and has traditionally been where the Queen spent her Christmas break.\n\nShe gifted Anmer Hall, a Georgian country house which is part of the Sandringham estate, to Prince William and Catherine after their wedding.\n\nThe couple made it their main home for several years while their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte were young.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, the King returned to Highgrove, his country home in Gloucestershire, where a spokesman said he was attending to state business.\n\nOther members of the Royal Family have also been on visits on Thursday.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex - the Queen's youngest son Prince Edward and his wife Sophie - met well-wishers and viewed tributes in Manchester's St Ann's Square.\n\nThe couple were shown a book of condolence at Manchester's Central Library, before lighting a candle in memory of the Queen at Manchester Cathedral.\n\nThe Princess Royal - the Queen's only daughter Princess Anne - travelled to Glasgow to meet representatives of organisations of which the Queen was patron.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of the Royal Family marched behind the Queen's coffin as it travelled from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where she is lying-in-state.\n\nThousands have queued for hours to view the coffin, which people can visit 24 hours a day until 06:30 BST on 19 September - the day of her funeral.\n\nAt 20:00 on Thursday the queue was nearly five miles (8km) long, with queuing time estimated to be eight-and-a-half hours.\n\nMany more people are expected to come to the capital to pay their respects over the next three days, as the country prepares to say a final farewell to its longest-reigning monarch.\n\nSome details have been released for the Queen's state funeral, which will be held at Westminster Abbey and is likely to be one of the biggest single ceremonial events staged in Britain since World War Two.\n\nThousands of people have left flowers and tributes outside Sandringham House\n\nPrincess Anne, the Princess Royal, spoke to crowds in Glasgow\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex lit a candle in memory of the Queen at Manchester Cathedral", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of the public captured the fireball shooting across the sky above Scotland\n\nA fireball seen shooting through the skies from Scotland and Northern Ireland was a meteor, experts have said.\n\nHundreds of people reported seeing the \"shooting star\" across the UK skies at about 22:00 on Wednesday.\n\nScientists have used video footage captured by the public to work out whether the object was a meteor or space junk, and where it came from.\n\nIt would have landed in the sea south of the Hebrides if it reached Earth.\n\nSpace rock that enters Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor, but fragments that survive the journey to reach the ground are called meteorites.\n\nManmade objects left orbiting Earth - such as a satellite parts - are described as space junk. There are tens of thousands of pieces of space junk bigger than 10cm (4in) in orbit around the Earth and they can burn up like meteors as they enter the atmosphere.\n\nThe UK Meteor Network have now announced that the object, which was seen burning through the atmosphere for about 20 seconds, was \"definitely a meteor\".\n\nAlmost 800 witness reports from the UK and Ireland were recorded overnight.\n\nThe UK Meteor Network said the object came to a stop between 50km and 100km (31-62 miles) west of Islay.\n\n\"It came on an asteroidal orbit and entered the atmosphere at 14.2 km/s,\" the network tweeted. \"The observed portion of the trajectory covered over 300km.\n\n\"If any meteorites did fall, they ended up in the ocean.\"\n\nThe expert group said it was \"now 100% confident this was a small part of an asteroid\".\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\nKevin Morgan, from UK Meteor Network, had earlier told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland the speed it was travelling at could indicate that it was space junk.\n\nAfter questioning whether it could have been part of Elon Musk's SpaceX programme, the network of citizen scientists, tweeted: \"We have checked the Starlink de-orbit and it would not have come anywhere near the UK.\n\n\"At this point we cannot find any known space junk or satellite de-orbit that could account for this fireball. We are looking at the data again.\"\n\nThe International Meteor Organization said the majority of witness reports were from Central Scotland but there were also sightings from the Black Isle and Kinnaber in the east, near Montrose and as far south as London.\n\nInitial calculations showed the object was travelling NNE and could have landed in the Atlantic Ocean \"south of the Hebrides\".\n\nSteve Owens, astronomer and science communicator at the Glasgow Science Centre, said the sighting was \"incredible\".\n\n\"I was sitting in my living room at exactly 22:00 and I saw out of the widow due south this brilliant fireball - this meteor - streaking across the sky,\" he said.\n\n\"I could tell it was something special. I could see through broken cloud that it was fragmenting - breaking apart with little bits coming off it.\n\n\"Normally if you see a meteor or a shooting star, they are just tiny little streaks of light lasting a fraction of a second but this one was streaking across the sky for at least 10 seconds, probably longer.\n\n\"It travelled from due south all the way across to the west. It was a pretty incredible sight.\"\n\nHe said it was unlikely, but not impossible, that it would have reached the ground, and may have reached the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nMr Owens said: \"Normally these little shooting stars burn up and everything vanishes and evaporates in the atmosphere, but the thing last night was bigger than a little bit of dust which causes normal shooting stars.\n\n\"The one last night might have been the size of a golf ball or maybe a cricket ball, maybe even bigger than that.\n\nJames Williams saw it from his front garden in the southside of Glasgow and managed to record it on his mobile and his doorbell camera. He described it as being \"all different colours like a firework but 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDanny Nell, 21, was walking his dog in Johnstone, just west of Paisley and Glasgow, when he saw the fireball.\n\n\"I was walking my dog and it was strangely enough 10pm on the dot and I just saw the flash in the sky and pulled out my phone and recorded it,\" he told the PA news agency.\n\n\"I thought it may be a firework at first because there was a lot of Scottish football on but quickly realised it wasn't and just grabbed my phone to see if I could catch it.\"\n\nDr Aine O'Brien described the sighting as a \"wonderful, beautiful thing\"\n\nThe UK Fireball Alliance announced on Thursday evening that the fireball was a \"natural object\".\n\nDr Aine O'Brien, from the University of Glasgow and a member of the alliance, urged people to report their sightings on their website.\n\nShe said: \"Hopefully it was a meteorite and given how long it went for, maybe we've got the first Scottish meteorite in over 100 years.\"\n\nScientists will use the videos of the fireball to triangulate where it came from and track where it would have landed if it didn't burn up in the atmosphere, Dr O'Brien said.\n\nShe said it was not something to worry about.\n\n\"It's just a wonderful, beautiful thing. We getting shooting stars, meteors all the time.\"\n\nDr O'Brien added that it was just \"lucky\" that the weather conditions and the timing of the fireball meant many people could see it and record it.\n\nDr Marc Sarzi, head of research at the Armagh Planetarium, said the fireball was a \"very spectacular one\" but he did not think it was a \"major event\".\n\nHe said meteor showers made of little particles left behind by comets normally occurred over the summer.\n\nIf this fireball was caused by a meteor, it \"would probably leave behind a nice piece of asteroid,\" he said.", "Thursday has been a quieter day than others over the last week - with King Charles at Highgrove House before he heads to Wales tomorrow, and the Queen's coffin lying in state for a first full day.\n\nBut there's still been a wave of activity across the country, including a walkabout in Norfolk by the new Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nLet's take a look at some of the key moments of the day.\n\nThursday began with an early-morning rehearsal of the Queen's funeral. This photo was taken at around 03:00 BST Image caption: Thursday began with an early-morning rehearsal of the Queen's funeral. This photo was taken at around 03:00 BST\n\nThe new Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, headed to Sandringham House to see flower tributes to the Queen Image caption: The new Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, headed to Sandringham House to see flower tributes to the Queen\n\nLondon school children joined Muslims from across the UK at Regent's Park Mosque to honour the life of Queen Elizabeth II and to mark the accession of King Charles III Image caption: London school children joined Muslims from across the UK at Regent's Park Mosque to honour the life of Queen Elizabeth II and to mark the accession of King Charles III\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack (centre left) and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace (centre right) stood guard by the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall. They're both members of the Royal Company of Archers Image caption: Scottish Secretary Alister Jack (centre left) and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace (centre right) stood guard by the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall. They're both members of the Royal Company of Archers\n\nThousands are still queuing to see the Queen's coffin lying in state; the estimated wait time is at least eight hours Image caption: Thousands are still queuing to see the Queen's coffin lying in state; the estimated wait time is at least eight hours\n\nThis aerial shot shows dozens of people leaving Westminster Hall after paying their respects to the Queen Image caption: This aerial shot shows dozens of people leaving Westminster Hall after paying their respects to the Queen\n\nOver in New York, the UN General Assembly held a special session as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II Image caption: Over in New York, the UN General Assembly held a special session as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II", "King Charles with head bowed at his mother's coffin\n\nKing Charles with Princess Anne and Princes Edward and Andrew have held a silent vigil around the Queen's coffin.\n\nWearing military uniform, they stood with their heads bowed for about 10 minutes as the public filed past.\n\nPrince Andrew wore his uniform for the occasion, despite being stripped of his military titles.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II will lie in state at Westminster Hall until her funeral on Monday.\n\nAfter the vigil ended, members of the public applauded them as they left Westminster Hall.\n\nOther members of the Royal Family, including the Queen Consort, Camilla, the Countess of Wessex and Michael of Kent, watched from the gallery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe King, with his brothers and sister, also observed a vigil for the Queen as she lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh earlier this week.\n\nUntil Friday, Prince Andrew had not worn military uniform at the events marking his mother's death, unlike his siblings who are working Royals with military titles.\n\nAn exception allowing Prince Andrew to wear military uniform was made for the vigil.\n\nThe 62-year-old stepped down as a working royal in 2019 after a Newsnight interview that addressed his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Duke of York was later stripped of his military titles.\n\nPrior to the vigil, Prince Edward thanked the public for their support, saying: \"We have been overwhelmed by the tide of emotion that has engulfed us and the sheer number of people who have gone out of their way to express their own love, admiration and respect to such a very special and unique person who was always there for us.\n\n\"And now, we are there for her, united in grief.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Queen's grandchildren, including the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, will also observe a vigil by the late monarch's coffin.\n\nAt King Charles' request, Prince Harry will wear a military uniform for the occasion, like his brother Prince William, in line with the exception made for his uncle Prince Andrew.\n\nIt will be the first time Prince Harry has been seen in military uniform since stepping back as a senior royal in 2020.\n\nMourners filed past the royals as they stood in silent vigil around the coffin at Westminster Hall\n\nA special exception was made to allow Prince Andrew to wear his uniform after he was stripped of his military titles earlier this year\n\nThe Queen's daughter, Princess Anne, accompanied her mother's coffin as it travelled from Scotland to London\n\nThe Queen Consort, the Countess of Wessex and the Duke of Kent were among the royals at Westminster Hall\n\nMourners wanting to see the Queen lying in state have been warned of long waits and cold temperatures overnight\n\nThe Queen's death has touched many across the globe, and thousands of mourners joined a five miles (8km) long queue across London to pay their respects.\n\nShe was the longest serving monarch in British history, and the queue to see her lying-in-state at Westminster Hall currently has a wait time of at least 24 hours, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said.\n\nBut despite the official statement, people have told the BBC they were able to get through the queue from Southwark Park to Westminster Hall in 12 hours overnight.\n\nThe Queen died aged 96 last Thursday at her Scottish estate in Balmoral.", "Thousands are expected to spend the night on the Mall in central London, in the hope of bagging a good spot to watch the funeral procession tomorrow.\n\nAmong them are David and Bonnie Robertson from Lillington, Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.\n\n\"We got here at about 11 this morning when there were only two or three huddles of people, but now the front of the railing is full,\" said Mr Roberts, 66.\n\nHe said the couple had been planning to be in London for the Queen's funeral for four or five years.\n\n\"We thought wouldn't it be great just to be part of that history.\"\n\n\"Everyone is very friendly,\" he said, \"and some have even got better-looking sandwiches than us.\"\n\nBut, he added, \"underneath there's sort of a layer of solemnity going to come to the surface tomorrow I think.\"\n\nThe funeral procession takes place in central London on Monday Image caption: The funeral procession takes place in central London on Monday", "Tens of thousands of passengers are set to be affected by a French air traffic control strike on Friday.\n\nRyanair has cancelled 420 flights, most of which were scheduled to fly over France, affecting 80,000 passengers.\n\nEasyJet has cut 76 flights, British Airways has cancelled 22, while Air France said it would only run 45% of its short-haul flights.\n\nSeparately, on Monday 15% of Heathrow Airport's schedule will be altered during Queen Elizabeth's state funeral.\n\nTo ensure the skies over London fall quiet during the events, there will be flight cancellations, including 100 British Airways flights and four Virgin Atlantic flights.\n\nThe strike action in France is being taken by the SNCTA air traffic control union in a row over wages, as inflation soars, and recruitment.\n\nRyanair says all passengers affected have been notified. The low-cost carrier normally operates more than 3,000 flights per day.\n\nNeal McMahon, Ryanair operations director, said it was \"inexplicable\" that thousands of European citizens and visitors \"will have their travel plans unfairly disrupted\".\n\n\"It is inexcusable that passengers who are not even flying to or from France are disrupted,\" he said.\n\nHe said French laws protect French domestic flights, but not ones flying over the country.\n\n\"It is time that the European Union step in and protect overflights so that European passengers are not repeatedly held to ransom by a tiny French air traffic control union,\" he said.\n\nBudget rival EasyJet said it had cancelled flights at the request of French authorities.\n\nEasyJet said: \"While this is outside of our control, we would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience they may experience.\"\n\nBritish Airways said along with the 22 cancelled flights to and from Heathrow, there could be some extra delays on Friday.\n\nAir France is only running 45% of its short and medium-haul flights, and 90% of long-haul. It has also warned that delays and last-minute cancellations cannot be ruled out.\n\nThe flight cuts affect the whole of France, the French civil aviation authority DGAC said. It added that it was currently working with the European air travel regulator Eurocontrol to help airlines avoid the country's air space.\n\nStrikes across the aviation industry caused severe disruption to Europe's summer traffic, including ground and cabin personnel, who are seeking pay rises to cope with increased living costs amid high inflation.\n\nIn July, several strikes by firefighters and staff at Paris's Charles De Gaulle airport led to cancellations and delays.\n\nSeparately, Heathrow Airport said Monday's flight schedule would change during the Queen's funeral.\n\nHeathrow said that all take-offs and landings on Monday will be delayed for 15 minutes before and after the two-minute silence at the end of the funeral.\n\nFollowing that, there will be no arrivals between 13:45 and 14:20 during the procession of the hearse, and no departures between 15:03 and 16:45 for the ceremonial procession via the Long Walk to Windsor Castle.\n\nBetween 16:45 and 21:00, departures will be reduced to support the committal service at St George's Chapel.\n\nFlights will also be diverted around Windsor Castle \"to minimise noise during the private family service and interment\", it said.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority has issued guidance which means that air passengers whose flights are cancelled or badly delayed on Monday because of Heathrow's changes will not legally be entitled to financial compensation. That is because these are likely to be deemed extraordinary circumstances.\n\nHowever, airlines are offering customers refunds or re-bookings.", "Members of Scotland's biggest teaching union have rejected a 5% pay offer and backed strike action.\n\nThe EIS union said 78% of its members took part in a consultative ballot over pay and conditions.\n\nA total of 94% of those taking part voted to reject the 5% pay offer put forward by local authority body Cosla and 91% supported strike action in pursuit of a better pay offer.\n\nA statutory strike ballot of EIS members will now take place.\n\nIf teachers back strike action in this statutory ballot then the EIS will move to take industrial action at schools across Scotland.\n\nOn Thursday, the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association revealed its members had also rejected the 5% pay deal, with the majority saying they would back strike action without an improved deal.\n\nEIS general secretary Andrea Bradley said: \"This is an overwhelming ballot result which demonstrates, very clearly, the collective view of Scotland's teachers with regard to their pay: Cosla and the Scottish government must do better.\n\n\"The current offer, of 5%, represents a real-terms pay cut of 7% for teachers, yet employers have lauded this as a generous proposal.\n\n\"The message from today's ballot result is very clear: we are not going to accept this pay proposal, and we are prepared to take strike action in pursuit of a fair pay settlement.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: \"We are committed to supporting a fair pay offer for teachers through the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers, the body that negotiates teachers' pay and conditions of service.\n\n\"Industrial action would not be in anyone's interest, least of all learners and parents.\"\n\nCosla has been locked in industrial disputes with education staff and cleansing workers in recent months.\n\nWorkers at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) had been due to carry out a series of strikes in the coming weeks but this action was suspended following a new pay offer.\n\nThe SQA said its new offer would mean an overall average consolidated increase of 5.9%, excluding pay progression.", "A Chinese government delegation has been banned from attending the lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth II, according to parliamentary sources.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is understood to have refused a request for access over Chinese sanctions against five MPs and two peers.\n\nQueen Elizabeth will lie in state in Westminster Hall until she is buried on Monday.\n\nChina says it is still considering whether to attend the funeral.\n\nA high-ranking official from Beijing had been expected to be amongst the guests, but a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said earlier on Friday that no decision had been made.\n\nThe spokeswoman, Mao Ning, said they had not seen reports about the Westminster Hall ban, which first emerged on the Politico website.\n\nBut she added: \"As a host, the UK is certainly familiar with diplomatic protocols and proper manners of receiving guests.\"\n\nSir Lindsay told the BBC: \"It's better I don't comment because everything has security implications. It would be wrong of me to do so.\"\n\nDowning Street declined to comment, with a spokesperson saying \"admission to Parliament is a matter for Parliament\".\n\nLast year, China imposed travel bans and asset freezes on nine Britons - including seven parliamentarians - for accusing Beijing of mistreating Uyghur Muslims.\n\nThat led to China's ambassador to the UK being banned from Parliament - a move which has now been extended to a delegation that wanted to pay their respects at Queen Elizabeth's lying-in-state.\n\nUK-China relations are already strained and this ban is unlikely to help.\n\nThe Queen's coffin is currently lying in state in Westminster Hall, part of the parliamentary estate, before Monday's state funeral at nearby Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe funeral will be one of the biggest diplomatic events of recent years, with some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries expected to attend, including US President Joe Biden.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said it was a convention that countries with which the UK has diplomatic relations should be invited to state funerals.\n\nSyria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Russia and Belarus have not been invited - whilst Iran, North Korea and Nicaragua have been asked to only send a senior diplomat.\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping is on the guest list but is not thought likely to attend.\n\nFormer Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith is among UK parliamentarians to be sanctioned by China\n\nAccording to the parliamentary rule book Erskine May, control of Westminster Hall is shared between the Lord Great Chamberlain - who is appointed by the monarch - and the speakers of both the Commons and the Lords.\n\nThere is no specific mention regarding control of access for an occasion such as a lying-in-state, but when it comes to \"invitations to foreign dignitaries to address both Houses in Westminster Hall\" these are \"ordinarily\" issued by the agreement of all three.\n\nLast September, Sir Lindsay and House of Lords Speaker Lord McFall told China's ambassador to the UK he could not come to Parliament because of Beijing's sanctions.\n\nAt the time, that ban was criticised by the Chinese government as \"despicable and cowardly\".\n\nOn Thursday, the group of seven MPs and peers, including former Tory ministers Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Tim Loughton, urged the Foreign Secretary to withdraw an invitation to President Xi of China to attend the Queen's funeral.\n\nIn a letter, they said it would be \"wholly inappropriate\" for the Chinese government to be represented, given its human rights record.\n\nSir Iain, one of the five MPs placed under Chinese sanctions last year, said he would like to \"applaud\" the Commons Speaker for banning the Chinese delegation from Parliament.\n\n\"He's standing firm, and I think the government should have stood firm as well,\" he told BBC News.\n\nSeveral Western countries have imposed sanctions on officials in China following rights abuse allegations against the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority group.\n\nChina has detained Uyghurs at camps in the north-west region of Xinjiang, where allegations of torture, forced labour and sexual abuse have emerged.\n\nIt has denied the allegations of abuse, claiming the camps are \"re-education\" facilities used to combat terrorism.", "Queen Elizabeth II was the first reigning British monarch to visit New Zealand\n\nSir Tipene O'Regan has dedicated his life to battling the Crown as a leader of the Ngāi Tahu tribe, trying to redress the horrors of New Zealand's colonial past.\n\nAnd yet he holds a deep affection for Queen Elizabeth II, a respect he believes she earned.\n\n\"She had a huge sense of probity and what was right. And she also understood very much the mixed history of colonialism,\" says the 83-year-old, who has been named New Zealander of the Year for 2022, and is known to be a shrewd negotiator on behalf of his Māori tribe.\n\nHe is speaking to the BBC at a Māori heritage centre in Christchurch. He walks to a plaque on the wall, stops and points at it with his elaborately carved tokotoko or ceremonial walking stick, a symbol of his authority and status.\n\n\"A lot of people ask me: what are some of the greatest achievements in your lifetime O'Regan - well that there is one of them.\"\n\nThe plaque contains an extraordinary apology from the Crown written in both English and Māori.\n\nIt expresses \"profound regret\" for the illegal seizure of Māori land by British colonisers. This particular document on the wall in Christchurch is specific to the Ngai Tahu tribe.\n\nBut the first apology was enshrined in law and signed personally by the Queen in 1995. The original document also returned 39,000 acres of land the British had forcibly taken in the Waikato region - this was the first major settlement of historical confiscation claims, and the only New Zealand law to be given royal assent in person by the Queen.\n\n\"That had a profound impact on our whole conversation in this country. And she knew precisely what she was doing as she framed those words,\" Mr O'Regan says.\n\n\"That has always impressed me about both her and those of her children that I've engaged with. They are very literate in the nuances of our political and cultural evolution.\"\n\nSir Tipene O'Regan, a senior representative of his Māori tribe, holds a deep affection for Queen Elizabeth II\n\nNew Zealand's relationship with the Queen started well. It's thought that three out of every four people lined the streets to see the royal couple when she became the first reigning monarch to visit the country in 1953. She was 26 and became the Queen just the year before.\n\nHer tour schedule had her meeting Maori leaders for a matter of minutes. But she tossed that notion aside after the Māori Princess Piki invited her to talk over a cup of tea.\n\nThe bonds deepened after Princess Piki became the Māori Queen of Waikato-Tainuiregion. The two met many times.\n\nBut not every visit was so cordial.\n\nOne of the most heated was in 1990. She was there to celebrate the 150th anniversary of New Zealand's founding document - the Treaty of Waitangi. It was signed by Queen Victoria in 1840 and contains a solemn promise by the Crown to protect Māori culture and lands.\n\nOne protester, angry at protracted treaty settlements, flung a wet black T-shirt at her.\n\nThe Queen responded in her speech: \"We are strong enough and honest enough to learn the lessons of the last 150 years and to admit that the Treaty has been imperfectly observed.\"\n\nMr O'Regan described this as \"the epitome of British understatement\".\n\nBut it was, at the very least, an acknowledgment that the relationship between monarch and Māori needed work.\n\nMaori say Queen Elizabeth's efforts don't mean they have \"moved on\" from their colonial past\n\n\"The wrongs were more institutional, but Queen Elizabeth was very quick to be there in person to do all she could do to right that wrong,\" says Ngira Simmonds, chief of staff to Māori King Tūheitia.\n\n\"But this is hard. I don't want to give the impression that we've all just moved on. We've not.\"\n\nThere has been an evolution in Māori culture and heritage during Queen Elizabeth's lifetime.\n\nAt a Te Pa o Rakaihautu Māori school in Christchurch, the long hallway between classrooms is adorned with hundreds of pupil portraits - all with traditional Tā moko or facial tattoos painted on.\n\nRangimarie Parata-Takuru, the school chair, is moved to tears as she tries to explain what this means to her.\n\n\"This would not have been possible in school when I was growing up. You had to leave your Māori heritage at the school gates if you wanted to succeed,\" she says.\n\n\"These children here get to be themselves. They get to be Māori and they get a chance to succeed.\"\n\nSome of the girls at the school are organising a fundraiser to go horse riding. All thoughts of the British monarchy are far from their minds.\n\nBut when asked about it, they all have an answer.\n\n\"I did hear she was a very lovely Queen to all of us and she did respect our Māori culture,\" said 12-year-old Maisha.\n\nThe school's hallway is lined with portraits of Maori children\n\n\"She's a big part of New Zealand and she will have a big legacy,\" she added.\n\nSeveral of them talked about how some people were \"mean\" to them because of their darker skin colour.\n\n\"Some people look down on us Māori,\" said 11-year-old Kourage. \"If they get to know us more - they will see that we are nice.\"\n\nMr O'Regan had spoken of his dream to pursue \"a healthy bicultural society\". But these comments suggest that there is still a lot of work to be done.\n\nThe death of the Queen will certainly give many in New Zealand pause for thought about what the future holds.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said earlier this week that her government will not pursue any moves to change the country into a republic for now, but she did say a referendum could happen in her lifetime.\n\nNew Zealanders don't get up in the morning and discuss the constitution over coffee. But it may become a part of the country's conversation in the future.\n\nWhen Maisha was asked what she thought of King Charles III, she said that the Māori people already have a King.\n\nBut, she added, \"it's alright to have another one\".", "The Queen's state funeral will be held on Monday, after her coffin has been lying in state for the last four full days.\n\nHere is your guide to what will happen, day by day.\n\nMonday is the day of the Queen's state funeral. It is also a bank holiday in the UK.\n\nThe Queen's lying-in-state will end at 06:30 BST when the last people will file past her coffin. The doors to Westminster Abbey will then open at 08:00 ahead of the funeral.\n\nAt 10:44, the Queen's coffin will be taken in procession from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey in the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy.\n\nThe carriage was last seen in 1979 for the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and it will be drawn by 142 sailors from the Royal Navy.\n\nKing Charles III will walk behind, alongside the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex. Behind them will be the Queen's grandsons, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips.\n\nThe procession will be led by a massed pipes and drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force - numbering 200 musicians.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will arrive at the Abbey at 10:52. The state funeral will begin at 11:00.\n\nAt around 11:55, the Last Post will sound, followed by a national two-minute silence to be observed in the Abbey and throughout the UK. Reveille, the national anthem and a lament, played by the Queen's piper, will bring the state funeral service to an end at around 12:00.\n\nFollowing the service, the coffin will travel in procession from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch. The King and senior royals will walk behind the coffin.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Sussex and the Countess of Wessex will follow the procession by car. Big Ben will toll at one-minute intervals.\n\nFrom there the coffin will be taken by a state hearse to Windsor. Shortly after 15:00, the hearse will drive the coffin along Long Walk to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nThe three-mile (5km) avenue will be lined with members of the armed forces.\n\nA committal service will then begin at 16:00. Attended by a smaller, more personal congregation of about 800 guests, it will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.\n\nAfter, the Queen will then be lowered into the royal vault.\n\nLater in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen will be buried together with her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George's Chapel.\n• None Your complete guide to the Queen's funeral", "Queues are likely at London Underground and train stations on Monday as people travel to see the Queen's funeral.\n\nMonday will see one of the UK's biggest transport operations with more than a million people expected to travel to the capital, Transport for London said.\n\nMajor London train stations are staying open all night, with extra services being put on - some through the night.\n\nHowever, railway lines between Slough and Paddington have been blocked due to overhead wire damage.\n\nThe problem is affecting services run by Great Western Railway, Heathrow Express and the Elizabeth Line, and is disrupting travel from Heathrow Airport and Reading into London.\n\nNetwork Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy has warned that trains will be \"extremely busy\", particularly in London on Monday afternoon and evening following Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral.\n\n\"To help us provide the best possible experience and avoid lengthy queues at stations we're asking people not to rush home after the funeral and the processions, but to take their time and experience London on this memorable day,\" he said.\n\nTransport staff will be around to help elderly or vulnerable passengers and are advising people to keep an eye on the most up-to-date travel information.\n\nOn Sunday, footfall at London stations was up 10% from a week earlier, but some stations saw even bigger rises with Waterloo and Charing Cross up by more than 20%.\n\nAndy Byford, commissioner of Transport for London (TfL) said: \"The day of the funeral will be one of the busiest, biggest, challenges TfL has ever faced,\"\n\nHe said the capital had seen \"huge numbers of additional passengers\" since the Queen died at Balmoral on 8 September, but demand will \"reach a climax\" on Monday.\n\nHe said: \"We're ready for probably one of the busiest days Transport for London has ever faced...we're preparing for potentially a million people just within the footprint of the royal palaces and Hyde Park.\"\n\nLondon train stations including Victoria, Waterloo, Charing Cross and Euston will be open throughout the night across the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThree Tube stations - Westminster, St James's Park and Hyde Park Corner - will be closed for most of Monday morning to avoid being overcrowded.\n\nSome stations will also have stationary \"welfare trains\" so people have somewhere to shelter at all hours. Many shops, restaurants and toilets will remain open in train stations as well.\n\nLNER, which is not running \"night trains\", has already announced an Azuma train will be stationed at London King's Cross station all night, with staff on-hand to assist.\n\nAvanti is also putting on extra charter services to help ease congestion between Manchester and London. Four extra services will run on Monday.\n\nTransport for London has set up a special control centre in Southwark\n\nTfL says it will invite customers on its services to observe the two-minute silence at around 11:55 on Monday.\n\nTfL says buses will pull over for it, if it is safe and practical to do so, and switch their engines off. The Underground, Overground and other rail services in London will also invite passengers to take part but services will continue to run.\n\nAs it will be a bank holiday, peak travel restrictions have been lifted.\n\nAlthough trains and Tubes have been busy in the past few days, particularly in central London around mourning events, overall passenger usage remains below pre-Covid levels.\n\nMany commuters and business people are thought to have stayed away from the city centre.\n\nAnyone who bought Anytime, Off-Peak, or Super Off-Peak train tickets can get full refunds during the mourning period if the tickets were bought before the Queen's death was announced.\n\nRoad closures and diversions are expected to continue for several days after Monday, as event infrastructure is removed, TfL said.\n\nNational Highways is also warning people to allow extra time travelling in out of London, as motorways and major roads will be very busy.\n\nMotorists are advised to avoid central London because of road closures.\n\nMotorway service stations will remain open, although there might be reduced levels of services at some locations on Monday.\n\nHeathrow Airport has also warned people to take public transport instead of driving to the airport on Monday because of road closures around Windsor.", "The queue to see the Queen lying in state at Westminster Hall is at capacity and has been paused for new joiners, the government has said.\n\nBut there was confusion as some people said security staff had let them join the line since entry had been stopped.\n\nThe line is now about five miles (8km) long, stretching to Southwark Park in south-east London.\n\nThousands have paid their respects to the Queen, who is lying in state at Westminster until 06:30 BST on Monday.\n\nAfter the queue grew overnight, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said at 09:50 that entry to Southwark Park, where the queue officially ends, would be paused for \"at least six hours\".\n\nAt one stage electronic signs along the route warned those in line that they would be queuing for at least 14 hours.\n\nRegular updates on the queue are being published on Twitter, with a live queue tracker also available on YouTube.\n\nA separate queue for people with accessibility needs is also at capacity, the department said.\n\nBBC correspondent Frank Gardner said a police inspector has told people waiting to join that queue there would be no wristbands granting entry until at least noon on Saturday.\n\nAt Southwark Park, some of those initially turned away said they had travelled hundreds of miles and were on their second attempts to access the queue.\n\nIn a moment of confusion, stewards at the park appeared to allow about 100 people into the park after the pause was announced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: David Beckham's 12-hour wait to see the Queen\n\nJane Sebutinde said she was on her way when she heard the queue would be paused. \"Currently with my health I can't queue for 14 hours, I thought it would be four hours,\" she said.\n\nFor many of those currently in the main queue, latest estimates suggest they will not enter Westminster Hall until after midnight.\n\nThe Met Office advised those in the queue to be prepared for \"cool evenings\" with overnight temperatures expected to be as low as 8C (46F).\n\nAmong those waiting to pay their respects to Her Majesty was former England footballer David Beckham, who was seen queuing in Victoria Tower Gardens.\n\nHe told the BBC he had been queuing for about 12 hours, having joined at about 02:00, and had been sharing food with those around him.\n\n\"We all want to be here together, we all want to experience something where we celebrate the amazing life of our Queen and I think something like this today is meant to be shared together,\" he said.\n\n\"So the fact we've been here, we're eating Pringles, sherbet lemons, sandwiches, having coffee, donuts as well.\"\n\nWhen asked how he was managing, the ex-England captain said his knees were okay but \"it's the back and the feet\" that were feeling the effects of 12 hours of queuing.\n\nOne woman who was queuing behind him spoke of her shock at seeing the former Manchester United and Real Madrid star waiting alongside members of the public.\n\n\"Big respect to him, he's stood with us and he's paid his respects how he wants to and I think that's amazing.\"\n\nLater, Beckham appeared solemn as he entered Westminster Hall to pay his respects. He had to wait for the changing of the guard to take place before he filed past the Queen's coffin and bowed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen Elizabeth II: The six mile queue to see the Queen lying in state\n\nThe queue follows the south bank of the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster, through Lambeth, Southwark, and into Bermondsey.\n\nAmbulance teams have treated 435 members of the public along the route of the queue over the past two days, London Ambulance Service said, with 42 of those requiring hospital treatment.\n\nThe majority of incidents were faints and collapses resulting in head injuries, the service said.\n\nA man has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court after two women were allegedly sexually assaulted in the queue to attend the Queen's lying-in-state.\n\nMeanwhile, a row has broken out over who is allowed to skip the queue to pay their respects to the late Queen after it emerged MPs and Lords had special access.\n\nThe announcement of the queue's pause came shortly after it was confirmed Queen Elizabeth II's grandchildren would hold a 15-minute vigil at Westminster Hall on Saturday evening.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex will observe the vigil alongside six of their cousins. The royal brothers will both wear military attire for the occasion, after a request from their father, King Charles.\n\nThe King and his siblings, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex, will hold a similar vigil on Friday evening.\n\nKing Charles is in Wales for his first official visit as monarch.\n\nThe former Prince of Wales and Camilla, the new Queen Consort, attended a prayer and reflection service for the Queen at Cardiff's Llandaff Cathedral and met members of the public at Cardiff Castle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queue for the Queen worth 'the pain and anxieties'\n\nAre you unable to join the queue to pay your respects to the Queen? 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.", "Ukraine's recent counter-offensive will not change Russia's plans, Vladimir Putin has said in his first public comments on the matter.\n\nIn a rapid counter-attack, Ukrainian forces say they captured over 8,000 sq km (3,000 sq miles) in six days in the north-eastern Kharkiv region.\n\nBut Mr Putin said he was not in a hurry, and the offensive in Ukraine's Donbas region remains on track.\n\nHe also noted that Russia had so far not deployed its full forces.\n\n\"Our offensive operation in the Donbas is not stopping. They're moving forward - not at a very fast pace - but they are gradually taking more and more territory,\" he said after a summit in Uzbekistan.\n\nThe industrial Donbas region in east Ukraine is the focus of Russia's invasion, which Mr Putin falsely claims is necessary to save Russian-speakers from genocide.\n\nParts of the Donbas have been occupied by Russian-backed separatists since 2014. The Kharkiv region, where Ukraine's recent counter-attack was launched, is not part of the Donbas.\n\nIn Friday's comments, Mr Putin threatened a \"more serious\" response if Ukrainian attacks continue.\n\n\"I remind you that the Russian army isn't fighting in its entirety... Only the professional army is fighting.\"\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\nSo far, Russia has not officially declared war on Ukraine and only refers to its invasion as a \"special military operation\".\n\nBut after Russia's recent losses, some pro-Kremlin commentators have called for more forces to be mobilised. A recent leaked video which appears to show an attempt to recruit convicts to a private military company suggests Russia is struggling to find enough men willing to fight.\n\nLater on Friday, US President Joe Biden reiterated his call on Russia to refrain from using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.\n\nSpeaking during an interview with CBS News, Mr Biden said such action would \"change the face of war unlike anything since World War Two\".\n\nPresident Putin put the country's nuclear forces on \"special\" alert following its invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nThe Russian leader has rarely left his country since then.\n\nThis week's visit to the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan - where he met the Chinese leader Xi Jinping - highlights his need to foster ties with Asian countries after being sidelined by the West.\n\nBut even there, leaders have expressed concern over the invasion.\n\n\"Today's time is not a time for war,\" Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Mr Putin.\n\nAnd on the previous day, Mr Putin hinted that Xi Jinping also disapproved.\n\n\"We understand your questions and concerns\" he told the Chinese leader in reference to the war.", "The rapper accepted a plea deal a day before her case was due to come to trial\n\nCardi B has admitted two offences arising from a brawl in a strip club, as part of a deal that means she will avoid a trial and possible jail time.\n\nThe Grammy-winning rapper, born Belcalis Almanzar, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and second-degree reckless endangerment, and was sentenced to 15 days community service.\n\n\"I've made some bad decisions in my past that I am not afraid to face and own up to,\" she said in a statement.\n\nIn court, the 29-year-old admitted organising and participating in two attacks on employees of the Angels nightclub in New York in 2018.\n\nAccording to authorities, the incidents grew out of a feud between Almanzar and two sisters - one of whom she believed was having an affair with her husband, the rapper Offset.\n\nProsecutors said that, on the first night, Almanzar and her entourage struck the victim, a bartender, pulling her hair, punching her and slamming her head into the bar.\n\nTwo weeks later, they returned, throwing alcohol, bottles and a hookah pipe at the first victim's sister.\n\nAsked to confirm the details in court, Almanzar did so quietly, admitting she had offered a friend $5,000 (£4,000) over Instagram to assist her in the confrontation.\n\nAs well as community service, the rapper has been ordered to stay away from the victims, identified as Jade and Baddie Gi, for three years.\n\nShe accepted the plea deal one day before the case was due to come to trial, the New York Times reported.\n\nDozens of fans attended court to show their support for the star\n\nThe musician's lawyer, Drew Findling, said she wanted to draw a line under the case.\n\n\"There are too many things that she has planned for her family, for her career and for the community and she just felt, quite honestly, that a three-week jury trial was going to be a distraction from the things that she felt was most important and so, hence, we made contact with the prosecution,\" he told the New York Post.\n\nIn her statement, the rapper said: \"Part of growing up and maturing is being accountable for your actions. As a mother, it's a practice that I am trying to instil in my children, but the example starts with me.\n\n\"These moments don't define me and they are not reflective of who I am now.\"\n\nMelinda Katz, the Queens district attorney, said in a statement: \"No-one is above the law. In pleading guilty today, Ms Belcalis Almanzar and two co-defendants have accepted responsibility for their actions.\"\n\nCardi B rose to fame with the track Bodak Yellow in 2017, topping the Billboard chart and becoming one of rap's most colourful and outspoken performers.\n\nHer debut album, Invasion of Privacy, won the Grammy for best rap album in 2019, and she has scored global number one hits with the Latin-flavoured I Like It and the X-rated WAP, a duet with Megan Thee Stallion.\n\nAfter Thursday's hearing at Queens County Criminal Court in New York, she was mobbed by dozens of fans and court employees.\n\n\"In all my years of covering court cases, I've never seen this,\" said NBC news reporter Melissa Colorado on Twitter. \"Court staff cheering for a defendant who accepted a plea deal as she walks out of the court room.\"\n\nOne employee even asked the rapper for a photo, Colorado added.", "A rehearsal for the state funeral was held overnight on Thursday\n\nQueen Elizabeth II made personal additions to plans for her funeral day, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nAmong the touches requested by the Queen is the playing of a lament by her piper.\n\nThe state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday is likely to be one of the biggest single ceremonial events staged in Britain since World War Two.\n\nA national two-minute silence will be held as the service draws to a close just before midday.\n\nThe order of service, with its choice of music and readings, is expected to reflect more of the Queen's personal choices for the funeral.\n\nPalace aides said the Queen had been consulted on all the arrangements.\n\nAmong those who have confirmed their attendance at the state funeral, which starts at 11:00 BST, are US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nAlongside royalty, politicians and world leaders will be 200 people who were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours, including those who helped with the response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA former police officer awarded the George Cross after being shot at 15 times is also among those due to attend the state funeral.\n\nTony Gledhill, 84, said: \"I'm incredibly moved to be involved.\"\n\nThe official organiser of Monday's events, the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, said his role was \"both humbling and daunting\".\n\nHe said the solemnity of the last few days of mourning and the constitutional process was the \"envy of the world\".\n\nThe duke, who took on the hereditary position in 2002, said Monday's service would aim to \"unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths\".\n\nEvents on Monday will begin with the funeral procession, which will see the Queen's coffin conveyed from Westminster Hall, where she is lying in state, to the nearby Abbey.\n\nPrince Harry the Duke of Sussex and his brother William, the new Prince of Wales, will once more walk side-by-side behind the Queen's coffin during the procession.\n\nThe Queen's coffin will be carried on the gun carriage that was used for the funerals of Edward VII, George V, George VI and Sir Winston Churchill. It will be pulled by 142 Royal Navy sailors.\n\nTowards the end of the service, the Last Post will be played, followed by a national two-minute silence. The conclusion of the state funeral, expected at 12:00, will be marked by a lament played by the Queen's piper.\n\nAfter the Abbey service, the Queen's coffin will be carried in a further procession to Wellington Arch - led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and members of NHS staff.\n\nIt will then be conveyed to Windsor by road, before a committal service takes place at 16:00 at St George's Chapel, led by the Dean of Windsor and with a congregation including the Royal Family and some of the Queen's personal staff.\n\nAs the Queen's coffin is lowered into the royal vault, the Archbishop of Canterbury will read a blessing and the Queen's piper will play a lament.\n\nThe Crown Jeweller will be in attendance to collect the crown from the Queen's coffin and convey it back to the Tower of London.\n\nA final private burial service for close family members will be held at 19:30.\n\nThe Queen will be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, where she will rest with her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year.\n\nThe skies over London will be quiet during the two-minute silence, as Heathrow airport stops all departures and arrivals for 30 minutes from 11:40.\n\nSeparate changes to operations at the airport will ensure silence overhead during the ceremonies in Windsor.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast a special programme for Monday's funeral from 08:00 to 17:00 on BBC One and iPlayer.\n\nHow will you be watching the funeral? Do you have any specific plans? Email: yourqueen@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 yourqueen@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\nA playhouse fit for a future Queen was the gift given by the people of Wales to a young Princess Elizabeth in 1932.\n\nThe miniature two-storey thatched cottage - called Y Bwthyn Bach - was built in Cardiff and presented to her parents, the then-Duke and Duchess of York, who travelled to the city to accept the gift for their daughter's sixth birthday.\n\nIt was later installed in the grounds at the family's home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, where it was enjoyed by Princess Elizabeth and her younger sister Princess Margaret.\n\nIt still stands today and has become a favourite for generations of royal children for decades.\n\nFor the little Cardiff girl who handed over the keys of the house to the Royal Family while dressed in traditional Welsh costume, it was a playhouse she could only admire from afar.\n\nJean Sharman with the Duchess of York during the royal visit to Cardiff to see the playhouse\n\nPreviously speaking to the BBC, Jean Sharman, whose father had helped make the miniature cottage, said: \"Princess Elizabeth must have been thrilled to have had it.\n\n\"I think it was charming and inside you wanted to touch everything because it was so small, in miniature, lovely china.\n\n\"[I thought] 'Oh, isn't she lucky', then I probably went home discontented because I didn't have it. I'm sure I felt that.\"\n\nPrincess Elizabeth was the first of many royal children to enjoy playing in Y Bwthyn Bach\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her sister and parents outside Y Bwthyn Bach at Royal Lodge\n\nHowever, the playhouse nearly did not make it to Windsor.\n\n\"It was twice dispatched on a lorry,\" according to Olwen Hedley, in her book Round and About Windsor and District.\n\n\"For the first time, the journey was only half accomplished when an accident occurred and the cottage was found to be on fire.\n\n\"It was taken back, the slight damage quickly repaired and soon Y Bwthyn Bach arrived without further mishap at the Royal Lodge, where a charming setting had been prepared for it on the south side of the garden.\"\n\nY Bwthyn Bach - Welsh for The Little Cottage - was a carefully planned miniature version of a real-life home.\n\nDesigned by architect Edmund Willmott, the house was built by Welsh craftsmen from materials left over from the construction of Llandough Hospital in Vale of Glamorgan, which opened in 1933.\n\nWith four, 5ft-high rooms - two upstairs and two downstairs - the playhouse was the perfect place for the future Queen and her sister to play and entertain members of the Royal Family.\n\nIn the cream-walled parlour, Welsh dolls shared an armchair, while a small Welsh dresser displayed blue and gold china and a bookcase containing Beatrix Potter books.\n\nThe playhouse helped create special memories for the young princess\n\nWith a working electric cooker, fridge and running water in the kitchen - as well as tiny pots and pans, food cans and brooms - they could bake cakes and \"play house\".\n\nWhile upstairs, a bathroom had a towel with an \"E\" embroidered in pastel pink and the bedroom had a bed and cradle.\n\nFor a home in the 1930s, it was very modern and even had its own working miniature telephone.\n\nMs Hedley, writing in her book, which was first printed in 1948, said Y Bwthyn Bach had played \"a special part in the childhood of both Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret\".\n\n\"Right up to the time when state duties claimed first place in their lives, no-one else was responsible for the care of the cottage, which now remains a treasured possession telling unmistakably of the joy it has given,\" she added.\n\nSince then, the cottage has been enjoyed by the Queen's children and grandchildren.\n\nPrincess Beatrice updated Y Bwthyn Bach with some input from her grandmother\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter, Princess Beatrice, oversaw a refurbishment of the cottage and gave former BBC presenter Andrew Marr a tour of it as part of The Diamond Queen series, which was broadcast in 2012 to celebrate Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne.\n\nNew curtains and upholstery were added, the paintwork was refreshed, the roof was rethatched and the cottage was rewired.\n\nThe original blue colour scheme was replaced by pale green sofa coverings and cream curtains with tiny dark pink flowers.\n\n\"Granny was very clear that for all the fabric she wanted very little designs. It's such a little house that she wanted little flowers and patterns,\" she said.\n\n\"Granny and her sister played here growing up. And we have been lucky enough to play here and cousins and second cousins. It's a real family treat.\n\n\"It's the most glamorous Wendy house ever.\"", "The stabbing took place on Great Windmill Street\n\nA police officer has been left with a potentially life-changing injury in a central London attack that also saw her colleague stabbed in the neck.\n\nThe stabbing near Leicester Square at 06:00 BST is not related to the Queen's death or terror-related, police say.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan branded the incident \"utterly appalling\" at a \"momentous time for our country\".\n\nA man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nThe Met described the stab wounds as \"significant\"\n\nThe female officer was stabbed in the arm before her male colleague ran after the \"frenzied\" suspect and a tussle ensued, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said.\n\nThe male officer was \"very seriously injured\" after being stabbed three times in the neck and once in the chest but should make a full recovery, he added.\n\nOther colleagues joined and fired a Taser at the suspect during the \"violent struggle\" on Great Windmill Street, near Shaftesbury Avenue. He was subdued then arrested, Sir Mark said.\n\nHe has since been discharged from hospital into police custody.\n\nThere is a large police presence on Haymarket\n\nForensic teams have been sent to the scene\n\nThe officers' families have been told about the \"very concerning\" attack, Scotland Yard said.\n\nPraising the officers' bravery, Sir Mark said: \"It's a reminder to me that with all the calls for reforming the Metropolitan Police, which are absolutely necessary, we should never forget that we've got thousands of dedicated men and women going out every day who are prepared to be brave for Londoners.\"\n\nThe stabbing took place close to Haymarket, between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, which is home to many of London's theatres and Chinatown.\n\nLeicester Square, an area usually bustling with commuters and tourists, is almost completely inaccessible to the public.\n\nPolice lines stretch from Haymarket south to Leicester Place, with the northern half of the square completely shut off.\n\nSeveral police officers are patrolling the cordon, with the strongest presence on Coventry Street, near the junction with Haymarket.\n\nIn the no man's land between the police tape, there are a few police cars and vans. I also spotted an incident response vehicle left nearby.\n\nThere is a sense of confusion among those in area.\n\nShop owners tell me they came to work and saw the police setting up the cordon, but eyewitnesses are hard to come by as it seems the attacks happened too early for anyone to see in an area famed for its nightlife.\n\nOvernight, two other officers were injured, including one who was driven into by a car in south London, according to London's mayor.\n\nMr Khan said: \"These brave officers were doing their duty and assisting the public at this momentous time for our country.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with them, their loved ones and police colleagues following this disgraceful attack.\"\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said she was \"concerned\" about the attack and praised the bravery of police officers.\n\nMartin Hewitt, the chair of police chiefs, described the attack as \"terrible news\".\n\nAccording to Home Office data, 11,730 constables were assaulted with injury across England and Wales during the year ending March 2022, a rise of 3% from the 12 months before, although this does not include the most serious cases.\n\nSome 2,800 Metropolitan PCs were assaulted with injury during the year ending March 2022 - almost a quarter of the total.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Train drivers are set to stage more strikes in October as part of a long-running dispute over pay, the BBC understands.\n\nDrivers at 12 train companies are expected to strike on 1 and 5 October.\n\nAslef, the train drivers' union, has not commented on the proposed industrial action out of respect ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.\n\nA strike had been planned for 15 September, but was postponed following the announcement of the Queen's death.\n\nAslef will not be making any public statements or comments on further strike action until Tuesday.\n\nBut the managing director of rail operator LNER, David Horne, tweeted that the trade union Aslef had indeed notified it of strike action on Saturday 1 October and Wednesday 5 October.\n\nMr Horne said LNER had already suspended ticket sales for these dates and it would confirm as soon as possible which services will be running.\n\nA rail industry source told the BBC that they found it \"incredible\" and \"utterly disrespectful\" that the Aslef leadership announced fresh strike action on Friday.\n\n\"This a time when the entire rail family is working hard to support the hundreds of thousands of people who wish to pay their respects to Her Majesty the Queen during this time of national mourning,\" they said.\n\nA series of large-scale rail strikes has already happened in recent months, causing disruption for millions, with unions wanting pay increases in line with the rising cost of living.\n\nRail bosses say they want to give workers a pay rise. But they and the government insist changes are needed to \"modernise\" the railway, end some outdated working practices and save money.\n\nThey argue that with passenger revenue lower than before the pandemic, and after billions of public money kept services going, neither taxpayers nor passengers should have to pay more to cover the funding gap. So higher wages must be funded by reforms.\n\nThey have also accused unions of a \"total disregard\" for passengers.\n\nThe latest strike action is expected to affect travel to and from the Conservative party conference, which is due to take place in Birmingham between 2 and 5 October.\n\nThe London Marathon is also taking place on 2 October.\n\nDuring her campaign, Prime Minister Liz Truss pledged to introduce new restrictions on trade unions, which drew severe criticism from the likes of the Trade Unions' Congress as an \"attack on fundamental British liberty\".\n\nOne of her proposals included ensuring that a minimum level of service is provided in some sectors, including the railways.\n\nUnions currently have to give two weeks' notice of planned strike action.\n• None How much are rail workers paid?", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\n\"You have to wonder if he's from the same planet.\"\n\nOver the past 20 years it was not only Novak Djokovic who wondered if Roger Federer had been crafted and dropped onto Centre Court by the tennis gods.\n\nFederer, who has announced he will retire later this month, was also one of a select few who could draw you in and grab your heart, while seemingly reaching perfection.\n\nOthers may now have won more titles - let's leave the 'GOAT' debate for another day - but for many the once stroppy youngster was sport at its pure best.\n\nWith a graceful swish of a forehand, a pinpoint delivery of a serve or a gentle wave to the crowd, the Swiss legend gained fans unlike anyone before him.\n\nThe 41-year-old's skills were learned on the courts of the Swiss National Tennis Centre in Basel.\n\nAs a teenager he was supremely talented but known for his temper. It is said he was given the punishment of cleaning toilets after one costly throw of the racket aged 16.\n\nIt may now be a distant memory but Federer's penchant for petulance continued into his early years on the professional tour.\n\n\"It took me like two years to find that fire and ice,\" he said in 2018. \"The fire to win but the ice coolness to absorb losses and bad mistakes. Then my career went through the roof.\"\n\nIn truth, when Federer found that state his game did not just go through the roof, it continued into another stratosphere.\n\nAfter making his name as a 19-year-old by beating Pete Sampras at Wimbledon in 2001 and a year after the death of his influential early coach in a car accident, Federer won his first of a record eight men's SW19 titles in 2003 - and cried during his post-match interview with Sue Barker to endear himself to a nation.\n\nIn the four years that followed he won 11 of the 16 available Grand Slams in a period of dominance the sport had rarely seen.\n\nA swagger, shown in the gold-trimmed cardigans worn on court, was now fully justified.\n\nAnother eight Slams would come across the next 11 years but Federer's story, and his popularity, has been shaped by crushing lows too.\n\nThe first came in 2008 when he was beaten in the Centre Court gloom by Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon final - a five-set epic widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis contests of all-time.\n\nSix months later when the Spaniard denied him again in the Australian Open, the Swiss broke down in tears.\n\n\"God this is killing me,\" he said.\n\nA great was forced to bare his soul.\n• None Quiz: How well do you remember Federer at the Grand Slams\n\nBut in June 2009, Federer was overcome again - this time shedding tears of joy - after responding to the previous loss by winning a long-awaited first French Open title.\n\nThat completed the career Grand Slam, a feat only five men had previously achieved although both Nadal and Djokovic have matched it since.\n\nThree more wins quickly followed, including a victory over an emotional Andy Murray at Wimbledon in 2012, but for five years afterwards it seemed as though Federer's Grand Slam tally would remain at 17, as the first signs of serious injury began to seep into his career.\n\nTo come, though, was a second golden period for Federer - one shorter but no less remarkable.\n\nNow aged 35, and after six months out with a knee injury, he won the 2017 Australian Open - Nadal, of course, the opponent in another five-set thriller.\n\nAfter a winning forehand Federer screamed in disbelief, while the world cherished another encounter between great rivals turned friends. His eighth win at the All England Club, and a sixth in Australia, followed in the next 12 months.\n\nFederer's legacy will of course be intertwined with that of Nadal and Djokovic, who gatecrashed the Swiss' one-man party at the top of the men's game and made it an event for three.\n\nFederer set the benchmark at 20 Grand Slams but, while struggling for fitness in much of the past three seasons, has seen first the Spaniard and then the Serb go past his major tally.\n\nThroughout it all, though, Federer has been number one for fans and also sponsors.\n\nHe sits alongside Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James and Tom Brady in a list of the world's richest sportspeople.\n\nFederer and another tennis great Serena Williams, who also announced her retirement last month, have not just excelled in the sport. They have transcended it.\n\nWherever he has gone, Federer has been cheered by spectators, none more so than at Wimbledon this year when he was given the most raucous reception among a cast of legends as part of Centre Court's centenary celebrations.\n\nSuch is his longevity, two generations do not remember a sporting landscape without him.\n\nTouching tributes following Federer's retirement have come from Nadal and further afield, a regular theme that \"tennis will never be the same again\".\n\nFederer, plus Nadal and Djokovic who look set to play on for a while yet, have left the next generation with a task similar to following The Beatles at Glastonbury.\n\nThe Swiss will appear once more on the professional tour, in the Ryder Cup-style Laver Cup later this month - a tournament he has helped create. Given it is more than a year since he last played, what standard he will be able to reach is not clear.\n\nTennis fans will descend on London, however, even if just to say one thing;\n\n\"Thank you Roger, for the memories.\"", "The Queen's grandchildren, including the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, will observe a 15-minute vigil on Saturday at her lying-in-state.\n\nAt King Charles' request, Princes William and Harry will both wear military uniform for the occasion.\n\nThe brothers will be joined by Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Lady Louise Windsor, and James, Viscount Severn.\n\nPrince Harry has worn a morning suit at public events since the Queen's death.\n\nIt means the vigil will be the first time he has been seen in military uniform since stepping back as a senior royal in 2020.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II will lie in state at Westminster Hall until Monday, the day of her funeral, with the lying-in-state queue stretching as far as Southwark Park.\n\nPrince Harry, who served two tours in Afghanistan as part of the Army, now lives in California with his wife Meghan and their two children.\n\nPrince Harry's spokesperson previously said he would \"wear a morning suit throughout events honouring his grandmother\".\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"His decade of military service is not determined by the uniform he wears and we respectfully ask that focus remain on the life and legacy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales will stand at the head of the Queen's coffin, while the Duke of Sussex will stand at the foot, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe King's request now means Prince Harry will wear military uniform for the vigil, in line with an exception already given to the Duke of York.\n\nPrince Andrew will be allowed to wear his own military uniform at a vigil observed by the Queen's children later on Friday, despite stepping back from royal duties in 2019.\n\nKing Charles and his three siblings, Princess Anne, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex, will stand in a vigil at the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall.\n\nThey previously did so as the Queen lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, Prince Edward thanked the public for their support.\n\nHe said: \"We have been overwhelmed by the tide of emotion that has engulfed us and the sheer number of people who have gone out of their way to express their own love, admiration and respect to such a very special and unique person who was always there for us.\n\n\"And now, we are there for her, united in grief.\"\n\nOn Monday, Prince Harry wrote of his grandmother's \"infectious smile\" as he paid tribute to her.\n\nHe described the \"special moments\" they had shared, including his memories of the Queen attending his passing-out parade in 2006 when he became an officer in the British Army.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex wearing military uniform at his wedding, alongside his brother the Prince of Wales\n\nQueen Elizabeth smiles with Prince Harry during his passing out parade at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst in 2006\n\nThe Queen's children, led by King Charles, held a vigil at the lying in state at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh", "After six months of war, it is still unknown what the Russian president will do next\n\nYou can normally expect Russian state TV's flagship weekly news programme to trumpet Kremlin successes.\n\n\"On the frontlines of the special operation [in Ukraine], this has been the toughest week so far,\" declared sombre-looking anchor Dmitry Kiselev.\n\n\"It was particularly tough along the Kharkiv front, where following an onslaught by enemy forces that outnumbered ours, [Russian] troops were forced to leave towns they had previously liberated.\"\n\nFor \"liberated\", read \"seized\". Moscow had occupied those areas months ago, but after a lightning counter-offensive by the Ukrainian army, the Russian military has lost considerable territory in north-east Ukraine.\n\nStill, Russian state media are putting a brave face on things. Officially, what happened in Kharkiv region isn't being referred to here as a \"retreat\".\n\n\"The Russian defence ministry dismissed rumours that Russian troops fled in disgrace from Balakliya, Kupiansk and Izyum,\" claimed the latest edition of the government paper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta. \"They didn't flee. This was a pre-planned regrouping.\"\n\nIn tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets, a military analyst took a different view: \"It's already clear that we underestimated the enemy. [Russian forces] took too long to react and the collapse came… As a result, we suffered a defeat and tried to minimise the loss by withdrawing our troops so they weren't surrounded.\"\n\nThis \"defeat\" has sparked anger on pro-Russian social media channels and among \"patriotic\" Russian bloggers, who have accused their military of making mistakes.\n\nSo has the powerful leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.\n\n\"If today or tomorrow no changes in strategy are made,\" Mr Kadyrov warned, \"I will be forced to speak with the leadership of the defence ministry and the leadership of the country to explain the real situation on the ground to them. It's a very interesting situation. It's astounding.\"\n\nIt's more than six months since Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the days that followed, I remember Russian politicians, commentators and analysts on TV here predicting that what the Kremlin calls its \"special military operation\" would be wrapped up within days; that the Ukrainian people would greet Russian troops as liberators, and that Ukraine's government would collapse like a pack of cards.\n\nInstead, more than six months on, the Russian army has been losing ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo, here's a key question: will this have political consequences for Vladimir Putin?\n\nAfter all, for more than 20 years, Mr Putin has, within the Russian elite, enjoyed a reputation for being a winner; for always managing to extricate himself from the tightest of spots; in short, for being invincible.\n\nI've often viewed him as the Russian version of famous escape artist Harry Houdini. Whatever knots or chains he got tied up in, Mr Putin always managed to slip free.\n\nThe last six months suggest that President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was a major miscalculation. Unable to secure a rapid victory, Russia got bogged down in a long, bloody offensive, and has suffered a series of embarrassing defeats.\n\nWhen an authoritarian leader's aura of invincibility fades, it can cause problems for the aforesaid leader. Vladimir Putin will know Russia's history. It hasn't ended well for past Russian leaders who fought wars and didn't win them.\n\nRussia's defeat by Japan led to the first Russian Revolution of 1905. Military failures in World War One sparked the 1917 Revolution and the end of the Tsar.\n\nPublicly, though, President Putin has no intention of ending up the loser.\n\nOn Monday, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists: \"[Russia's] special military operation continues and will continue until all the tasks that were initially set have been fulfilled.\"\n\nWhich brings us to the other key question: what will Mr Putin do next?\n\nYou'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who knows what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning. Much may depend on how accurate the information is that he is receiving from his military and intelligence chiefs.\n\nBut here are two things we do know: the Russian president rarely admits to making mistakes. And he rarely makes U-turns.\n\nIn Moscow, Vladimir Putin seemed relaxed as he opened a new Ferris wheel\n\nFrom what the state media is saying, we're already seeing signs that failures on the battlefield are being blamed on Western support for Ukraine.\n\nThere is one more uncomfortable question that's been in the background for months: if he cannot achieve victory via conventional weapons, would President Putin go nuclear?\n\nOnly a few days ago, Ukraine's military chief, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, warned: \"There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian armed forces.\"\n\nFor now, there are no open signs of panic in the Kremlin. Russian state TV is sounding more positive. It's been describing Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as \"a turning point in the special operation\".\n\nAs for the Kremlin leader, last Saturday - as reports were coming in from Ukraine that Russia was losing territory - back in Moscow, a relaxed looking Vladimir Putin was inaugurating a new Ferris wheel, the tallest in Europe.\n\nRussia's president still seems to believe that, like Moscow's new Big Wheel, his \"special operation\" will turn in his favour.", "Heathrow Airport has said about 15% of its schedule will be altered on Monday during Queen Elizabeth's state funeral.\n\nThis is to ensure the skies over London fall quiet during the events, it said.\n\nThere will be flight cancellations as a result, including 100 British Airways flights and four Virgin Atlantic flights.\n\nSeparately tens of thousands of passengers are set to be affected by a French air traffic control strike on Friday.\n\nAmong the cancelled flights will be many that fly over France, not just to and from the country.\n\nHeathrow said that all takeoffs and landings on Monday will be delayed for 15 minutes before and after the two-minute silence at the end of the funeral.\n\nFollowing that, there will be no arrivals between 13:45 BST and 14:20 BST during the procession of the hearse, and no departures between 15:03 BST and 16:45 for the ceremonial procession via the Long Walk to Windsor Castle.\n\nBetween 16:45 BST and 21:00 BST, departures will be reduced to support the committal service at St George's Chapel.\n\nFlights will also be diverted around Windsor Castle \"to minimise noise during the private family service and interment\", it said.\n\nIn a statement, Heathrow apologised for the inconvenience but said that \"as a mark of respect, operations to and from the airport will be subject to appropriate changes in order to avoid noise disruption at certain locations at specific times on Monday\".\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued guidance which means that air passengers whose flights are cancelled or badly delayed on Monday because of Heathrow's changes will not legally be entitled to financial compensation. That is because these are likely to be deemed extraordinary circumstances.\n\nHowever, airlines are offering customers refunds or re-bookings.\n\nBritish Airways said its cancellations were on short-haul European flights where multiple services run on the same route, and that it was adding larger aircraft where possible to help customers re-book on operating flights.\n\nAlternatively they can choose to have a refund. No long-haul BA flights will be affected but some will be re-timed.\n\nVirgin Atlantic also apologised for the inconvenience. A spokesperson said passengers on the affected flights, between Los Angeles, San Francisco and Heathrow, would be rebooked on alternative same-day services wherever possible, or could rebook for later dates, take a voucher or request a refund.\n\nIt said the airport and airlines were working closely with the air navigation service provider NATS to minimise the impact of these restrictions on passengers.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson added that extra staff would be on hand in terminals to support passengers, and that people were encouraged to travel on public transport instead of by car, because roads around the airport would be extremely busy.\n\nOther changes at Heathrow during the period of national mourning include observing the National Moment of Reflection with a one-minute silence at 20:00 on Sunday, showing the Queen's funeral on screens at the airport on Monday, and closing non-essential shops.\n\nShops deemed \"essential\", such as WH Smith, Boots and Travelex, will remain open along with restaurants, cafes and pubs.\n\nSeparately, tens of thousands of passengers are set be affected by a French air traffic control strike on Friday.\n\nRyanair has cancelled 420 flights, most of which were scheduled to fly over France, affecting 80,000 passengers.\n\nEasyJet is cancelling 76 flights, British Airways will cancel 22, while Air France said it would only run 45% of its short-haul flights.\n\nThe SNCTA air traffic control union said the walkout was over wages, as inflation soars, and recruitment.\n\nRyanair said all passengers affected had been notified this morning. The low-cost carrier normally operates more than 3,000 flights per day.\n\nNeal McMahon, Ryanair operations director, said it was \"inexplicable\" that thousands of European citizens and visitors \"will have their travel plans unfairly disrupted\".\n\n\"It is inexcusable that passengers who are not even flying to or from France are disrupted,\" he said.\n\nHe said French laws protect French domestic flights, but not ones flying over the country.\n\n\"It is time that the European Union step in and protect overflights so that European passengers are not repeatedly held to ransom by a tiny French air traffic control union,\" he said.\n\nRyanair called for other European air traffic controllers to be allowed to manage flights over France to ease the impact.\n\nBudget rival EasyJet said it had cancelled flights at the request of French authorities.\n\nEasyJet said: \"While this is outside of our control, we would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience they may experience.\"\n\nBritish Airways will cancel 22 flights - or 11 return - to and from Heathrow, including some which fly over France. It also said there could be some extra delays on the day.\n\nAir France KLM said the French civil aviation authority - DGAC - had asked airlines to cut their Friday schedules from all French airports by 50%.\n\nAir France said it would only run 45% of its short and medium-haul flights, and 90% of long-haul. It also warned delays and last minute cancellations could not be ruled out.\n\nThe flight cuts affect the whole of France, the DGAC said, adding that it was currently working with the European air travel regulator Eurocontrol to help airlines avoid the country's air space.\n\nStrikes across the aviation industry caused severe disruption to Europe's summer traffic, including ground and cabin personnel, who sought pay rises to cope with increased living costs amid high inflation.\n\nIn July, several strikes by firefighters and staff at Paris' Charles De Gaulle airport led to cancellations and delays.", "Celia Marsh died in 2017 after eating a super-veg rainbow flatbread labelled as vegan\n\nThe manufacturer of the supposedly dairy-free yoghurt used in a Pret A Manger wrap eaten by a woman with a severe allergy broke down in tears at her inquest.\n\nCelia Marsh went into anaphylactic shock and died in the centre of Bath, shortly after eating the food.\n\nThe yoghurt produced by Planet Coconut contained starch supplied by Tate & Lyle PLC, the inquest heard.\n\nThe starch was identified as the possible source of the contamination.\n\nMrs Marsh, a 42-year-old mother of five, from Melksham in Wiltshire, died on 27 December 2017 despite the efforts of passers-by and paramedics to save her.\n\nA chemist who analysed the wrap previously told the inquest he believed it contained milk.\n\nPlanet Coconut is the UK manufacturer and distributor of products developed by Australia-based yoghurt company CoYo.\n\nBethany Eaton, the managing director of Planet Coconut, broke down in tears as she gave evidence at the inquest at Ashton Court, Bristol.\n\nShe told the hearing she had set up Planet Coconut with her husband in 2011 to manufacture dairy-free products and purchased a licence from CoYo founder Henry Gosling for exclusive UK rights.\n\n\"Dairy-free is something I am passionate about which is why we bought the CoYo licence,\" Ms Eaton said.\n\n\"I didn't ever dream it would contain dairy after he (Henry Gosling) sold me a licence.\n\n\"He said it was made in an allergen-free environment. He had a very good relationship with Tate & Lyle.\"\n\nCelia Marsh brought the wrap from a Pret A Manger branch in the centre of Bath\n\nMaria Voisin, the senior coroner for Avon, asked Ms Eaton whether she considered testing the starch.\n\nShe replied: \"We never tested the product because I was assured and believed it was being made in an allergen-free environment.\n\n\"I was told there was a separate line or facility that was entirely allergen-free and that's what we relied upon.\"\n\nShe said that since Mrs Marsh's death all products are now tested, irrespective of the source.\n\n\"I regret buying a licence and trusting the word of someone else,\" added Ms Eaton.\n\nAn earlier version of this story referenced 'sugar giant Tate & Lyle' but this has now been corrected and Tate & Lyle Sugars are in no way involved in this story.\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.", "Police denied eyewitness reports that Mahsa Amini had been beaten\n\nA 22-year-old Iranian woman has died days after being arrested by morality police for allegedly not complying with strict rules on head coverings.\n\nEyewitnesses said Mahsa Amini was beaten while inside a police van when she was picked up in Tehran on Tuesday.\n\nPolice have denied the allegations, saying Ms Amini had \"suddenly suffered a heart problem\".\n\nIt is the latest in a series of reports of brutality against women by authorities in Iran in recent weeks.\n\nMs Amini's family say that she was a healthy young woman with no medical conditions that would explain a sudden heart problem.\n\nHowever, they were informed she had been taken to hospital a few hours after her arrest and the family said she had been in a coma before she died on Friday.\n\nTehran police said Ms Amini had been arrested for \"justification and education\" about the hijab, the headscarf which is mandatory for all women to wear.\n\nHer death comes in the wake of growing reports of repressive acts against women, including those judged not to be complying with Islamic dress code being barred from entering government offices and banks.\n\nMany Iranians, including pro-government individuals, are expressing their outrage on social media platforms regarding the very existence of the morality police, also known as Guidance Patrols, and are using hashtags that translate as Murder Patrols.\n\nVideos have emerged on social media appearing to show officers detaining women, dragging them on the ground, and forcefully whisking them away.\n\nMany Iranians blame the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, directly. An old speech of his is being reshared on social media in which he justifies the role of the morality police and insists that under Islamic rule, women must be forced to observe the Islamic dress code.\n\nThe latest episode will only deepen the divide between a large part of Iran's young and vibrant society and its radical rulers, a rift that seems ever harder to mend.", "There's always plenty of cameras around when Timothée Chalamet is on the red carpet\n\nTimothée Chalamet has made history as the first man to appear solo on the cover of British Vogue's print edition.\n\nThe US actor wears a pearl necklace on the front of this month's magazine in a shoot styled by editor Edward Enninful.\n\nIn an interview inside, Timothée reveals Leonardo DiCaprio gave him some simple career advice when they worked together on last year's Netflix comedy Don't Look Up.\n\n\"No hard drugs and no superhero movies,\" he says Leo told him.\n\nLittle Women star Timothée is known for his style and fashionable red carpet looks.\n\nIn one of the photos in the October edition, the 26-year-old ditches his trademark curly hair for a mohawk while, in another, he can be seen in a leather jacker and leather trousers.\n\nEnninful says he was waiting \"for the moment to feel right\" to have a man on the cover of the fashion monthly for the first time in its 106-year history.\n\nHe describes Timothée as \"a young actor at the peak of his early career, who calls to mind the Deans and DiCaprios of past decades, but with a relationship to a new generation that dismantles old-fashioned notions of masculinity\".\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 British Vogue 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 video interview with Enninful, Timothée says it is an \"honour\" to be a Vogue cover star, joining the ranks of stars like Rihanna, Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga.\n\nHe also speaks about how the Covid pandemic made him realise that he had to deal with \"real adulting\" - just like everyone else.\n\n\"Taxes and the dentist and real adulting, you know?\n\n\"I should have been trying to get my adult feet under myself a little bit earlier than I did,\" he says.\n\nTimothée might be the first man to appear on the print cover solo in the UK, but some Twitter users have pointed out that Zayn Malik appeared on a digital cover in 2018.\n\nAnd the magazine's sister publication, US Vogue, made headlines across the world in 2020 when his former One Direction bandmate Harry Styles appeared on its cover in a dress.\n\nTimothée became an international star after appearing in 2017 film Call Me by Your Name, which also earned him an Oscar nomination.\n\nHe's set to appear in the upcoming Willy Wonka prequel, a musical about the character's early life.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A moose collision will inflict serious damage on the passenger compartment\n\nAn innovation to improve safety on the roads for Swedish drivers has won one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes.\n\nThe moose crash-test dummy was developed by IT engineer Magnus Gens to see how cars would crumple when they collided with big wildlife.\n\nThe annual spoof awards for quirky science are supposed to \"make us laugh but then make us think\".\n\nAlthough to be honest, the more you think about it, there is not much that is humorous about fatal accidents.\n\nOther awards this year included a Literature Prize for research that examined the impenetrability of legal documents; and a Physics Prize for the study that sought to understand formation swimming in ducklings.\n\nThe science humour magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research, hands out the Ig Nobel awards.\n\nThe ceremony is a light-hearted affair that is usually put on at Harvard University in the US, but for the last few years has been conducted through a webcast because of Covid concerns.\n\nMagnus and his fellow Ig Nobel laureates received their awards virtually - from real Nobel Laureates, as has become the custom.\n\nMagnus had to learn about moose anatomy\n\nThe number of moose, or elk, collisions in Sweden each year is thought to run into the thousands. Ten or more of these will result in the deaths of the vehicle occupants.\n\nMagnus told BBC News he was proud of his award and the renewed focus it put on his research, which was actually conducted a decade ago as the topic of a Master's thesis.\n\n\"It's certainly been fun and intriguing for me to reopen the thought processes from that time,\" he said.\n\nMagnus first had to study the anatomy of the moose to make a dummy that would replicate a real-world animal; not just its size and shape but also the varying density across its body.\n\nHis \"moose manikin\" was eventually constructed from a series of thick rubber plates and slung from a frame by wires. Cars were driven into it at various speeds.\n\nThe dummy was constructed out of thick rubber plates, cut to shape\n\nSlow-motion video was used to capture the damage process.\n\n\"A moose will weigh something like 250kg (550lb) or 300kg, but the car weighs maybe 2,000kg. And what this means is that the automobile doesn't slow down enough on impact for the airbags to be triggered,\" Magnus recalled.\n\n\"It's a terrible impact. You will see the windshield explode and all of the glass will end up in the lap and in the face and in the torso of the passengers in the front seat. And it almost tears the roof off the car.\"\n\nA number of vehicle manufacturers picked up his moose dummy design for follow-up experiments.\n\nHere's a full list of the 2022 Ig Nobel winners. Each team received a cash prize - of a 10 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe, and a paper trophy. This trophy came as a PDF document that could be printed and assembled to make a three-dimensional gear with teeth. The gear teeth were pictures of human teeth.\n\nApplied Cardiology Prize: Eliska Prochazkova and colleagues, for seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize.\n\nLiterature Prize: Eric Martínez and colleagues, for analysing what makes legal documents unnecessarily difficult to understand.\n\nBiology Prize: Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, for studying whether and how constipation affects the mating prospects of scorpions.\n\nMedicine Prize: Marcin Jasiński and colleagues, for showing that when patients undergo some forms of toxic chemotherapy, they suffer fewer harmful side effects when ice cream replaces one traditional component of the procedure.\n\nPhysics Prize: Frank Fish and colleagues, for trying to understand how ducklings manage to swim in formation.\n\nIt has long been recognised that ducklings/goslings will follow their mother in formation\n\nEngineering Prize: Gen Matsuzaki and colleagues, for trying to discover the most efficient way for people to use their fingers when turning a knob.\n\nArt History Prize: Peter de Smet and Nicholas Hellmuth, for their study \"A Multidisciplinary Approach to Ritual Enema Scenes on Ancient Maya Pottery\".\n\nPeace Prize: Junhui Wu and colleagues, for developing an algorithm to help gossipers decide when to tell the truth and when to lie.\n\nEconomics Prize: Alessandro Pluchino and colleagues, for explaining, mathematically, why success most often goes not to the most talented people, but instead to the luckiest.", "A trial in August ended in a jury being discharged after failing to reach a verdict and the media was barred from reporting the retrial until its conclusion\n\nA barrister has been jailed for four years for raping a woman.\n\nThe woman, who met Jacobs through the Tinder dating app, said she twice told him to stop and screamed at him before he moved away after 20 to 30 seconds.\n\nJacobs, from South Woodford, east London, said he believed the woman had consented. He shouted from the dock \"I didn't do it\" after he was convicted.\n\nJurors found him guilty after deliberating for four hours and 47 minutes to find him guilty of rape, by a majority verdict of 10 to two, following a retrial.\n\nJacobs appeared anxious and agitated in the dock before shouting: \"I didn't do it, I didn't do it. I was telling you the truth. I could have lied but I told you the truth. Oh my God.\"\n\nBefore briefly adjourning the court, Judge John Hillen KC told the defendant to \"calm down\".\n\nJailing Jacobs, Judge Hillen said the evidence showed the defendant had taken \"absolutely no steps\" to check if the woman consented to anal sex and the jury would have decided it was not reasonable for him to think she had.\n\nStephen Rose, defending, said the court was dealing with a \"mistake by the defendant of a few seconds\".\n\nPreviously, the court had heard how the couple met through Tinder in the summer of 2017. It was on their third date that the rape took place.\n\nIn a videoed interview played in court, the woman told police what happened.\n\nShe said Jacobs told her to \"wait a minute\" before forcing himself on to her.\n\n\"I told him to stop twice and he did not. I screamed 'get off', then he stopped and he did move away,\" she said.\n\n\"At that point I was just face down. I did not know what to do with myself, in quite a lot of pain.\"\n\nShe said: \"He asked me if I was going to report it to the police. He asked me if he would see me again, and then he also offered me paracetamol.\n\n\"There was no discussion, absolutely no warning, there was no touching, foreplay, warning. There was nothing.\"\n\nThe woman was examined at a specialist sexual assault clinic and found to have a fresh laceration measuring 2.5cm by 2mm, jurors were told.\n\nExperts agreed such an injury was likely to have been inflicted with \"at least moderate force\", the court heard.\n\nJacobs denied he had used the woman's body to \"pleasure himself\", saying: \"That's not what I am about.\"\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 pound has fallen to a new 37-year low against the US dollar after figures showed UK retail sales fell sharply in August as the rise in the cost of living continued to hit households.\n\nThe larger-than-expected drop in sales volumes of 1.6% prompted fresh concerns over the state of the economy.\n\nSales across all retail sectors fell in August as households cut back in the face of rising prices.\n\nOne analyst suggested the figures showed the UK is already in recession.\n\nSterling fell more than 1% against the dollar to $1.1351 at one point, its lowest since 1985, following the release of the retail sales figures. The pound recovered later to climb above $1.14.\n\nThe pound has been falling against the US currency for most of the year, partly due to the strength of the dollar. A weak pound means Brits travelling overseas will find their spending money will not stretch as far.\n\nThis comes at a time when UK inflation, which is the rate at which prices rise, is running at a near 40-year high, despite slipping to 9.9% from July's 10.1%.\n\nThe Bank of England has predicted the UK will fall into recession towards the end of this year and it is expected to keep increasing interest rates in a bid to curb inflation.\n\nOlivia Cross, assistant economist at Capital Economics, said August's retail sales figures backed up the consultancy's view that the UK economy is \"already in recession\".\n\nA recession is defined by the economy getting smaller for two consecutive three-month periods.\n\n\"Retail sales will probably continue to struggle as the cost of living crisis hits harder in the coming months,\" Ms Cross said.\n\n\"But nonetheless the Bank of England will still have to raise interest rates aggressively.\"\n\nHigher prices, along with upcoming energy bill rises in October, have led households to tighten their belts when it comes to spending.\n\nThe government announced the Energy Price Guarantee last week to help people with energy bills. The support will see annual energy bill for a typical household capped at £2,500 for two years.\n\nTypical energy bills were set to rise to £3,549 a year and even higher in 2023, before the government intervened.\n\nMs Cross, of Capital Economics, said that because of the intervention, any recession would be \"smaller and shorter\" than it had expected previously.\n\nMartyn Beck, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said the government support \"should ease both the income squeeze and lift consumers' sentiment, suggesting the outlook for retailers isn't as gloomy as could have been the case\".\n\n\"However, real household incomes are still on course for a significant fall over the next 12 months or so,\" he added.\n\nThe government is expected to set out the estimated cost of plans to cap energy prices in a \"mini-Budget\" next Friday, as well as tax cuts pledged by Prime Minister Liz Truss in a bid to boost the economy.\n\nSterling's fall to a fresh 37-year low against the dollar today is not isolated. The pound also hit its weakest level against the euro for nearly a year and a half.\n\nSo while the big picture movement is strength in the US dollar, there continues to be specific additional pressure on the pound sterling in international markets.\n\nThis morning's trigger was far weaker than expected retail sales figures. But markets await next Friday and the extent of borrowing required for the government's energy plan and tax cuts.\n\nThe eurozone too is heading for recession, but there is little comfort in such company.\n\nThe risk is that a weaker currency, makes imports of essentials, from energy to food, more expensive, prolonging the period of high inflation. And if the UK's nearest trading partners are also in recession, exporters will not see significant benefit from a weaker pound.\n\nThe fall in retail sales continues the slide since the summer of 2021, when all Covid restrictions were removed, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The drop seen in August was the largest month-on-month fall since December 2021.\n\nSales of food, online, non-food and fuel all fell in the month, the ONS said.\n\nSupermarkets' sales volumes also fell by 0.9% in August, but alcohol and tobacco sales rose by 6.3%.\n\n\"Feedback from retailers suggests that consumers are cutting back on spending because of increased prices and affordability concerns,\" the ONS said.\n\nDanni Hewson, AJ Bell financial analyst, said people were \"clearly thinking hard about what they spend their money on\".\n\n\"It's just not stretching as far as it used to, and essentials have to come first. But even essentials are costing more and with the spectre of unmanageable fuel bills looming large people did the only thing they could, cut back,\" she said.\n\nShoppers are shunning \"big ticket\" purchases, such as washing machines\n\nAccording to the ONS, department stores saw a large drop in sales in August - 2.7% - while sales in clothing shops fell by 0.6%.\n\n\"Big ticket purchases are being put off and that's unlikely to change in the coming months,\" said AJ Bell's Ms Hewson.\n\nOn Thursday, John Lewis revealed that while its shopper numbers were higher than last year, customers were spending less and avoiding buying as many \"big ticket\" items.\n\nThe department store and its supermarket chain Waitrose reported a loss of £99m for the first half of its trading year. Waitrose said it sales were down 5% on last year, with basket sizes shrinking by \"nearly a fifth\".\n\nFood prices have been increasing around the world following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has been one of the main factors pushing up prices at supermarket tills.\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of retail sales online fell to 25.7% in August from 26.3% in July, but the figure remains significantly above pre-pandemic levels.", "Global warming is likely to have played a role in the devastating floods that hit Pakistan, say scientists.\n\nResearchers from the World Weather Attribution group say climate change may have increased the intensity of rainfall.\n\nHowever there were many uncertainties in the results, so the team were unable to quantify the scale of the impact.\n\nThe scientists believe there's roughly a 1% chance of such an event happening in any coming year.\n\nIn the two months since flooding began in Pakistan, tens of millions of people have been affected, with around 1,500 dying because of the rising waters.\n\nThe intensity of the downpours saw the river Indus burst its banks, while landslides and urban flash floods swamped many areas.\n\nRight from the start, politicians pointed to climate change as having made a significant contribution to the desperate scenes.\n\nBut this first scientific analysis says the picture is complex.\n\nCertainly, the crippling heatwaves that gripped India and Pakistan earlier this year were easier to attribute, with researchers finding that climate change had made them up to 30 times more likely to happen.\n\nBut extreme rainfall events are hard to assess. Pakistan is located on the edge of the monsoon region where the rainfall pattern is extremely variable from year to year.\n\nFurther complications include the impact of large-scale weather events such as La Niña, which also played a role in the last major floods in Pakistan in 2010.\n\nDuring the 60-day period of heaviest rainfall this summer scientists recorded an increase of about 75% over the Indus river basin, while the heaviest five-day period over the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan recorded a rise in rainfall of around 50%.\n\nThe researchers then used climate models to determine how likely these events would be in a world without warming.\n\nSome of the models indicated that the increases in rainfall intensity could all be down to human-caused climate change - however there were considerable uncertainties in the results.\n\nPeople queuing for food in the wake of damaging floods\n\n\"Our evidence suggests that climate change played an important role in the event, although our analysis doesn't allow us to quantify how big the role was,\" said Friederike Otto from Imperial College London, one of the report's authors.\n\n\"What we saw in Pakistan is exactly what climate projections have been predicting for years. It's also in line with historical records showing that heavy rainfall has dramatically increased in the region since humans started emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And our own analysis also shows clearly that further warming will make these heavy rainfall episodes even more intense.\"\n\n\"So while it is hard to put a precise figure to the contribution of climate change, the fingerprints of global warming are evident.\"\n\nThe researchers say that the heavy rainfall that Pakistan endured this year now has around a 1% chance of recurring in any given year, although this estimate does come with a large range of uncertainty as well.", "Donald Trump's Florida home was searched in August as part of an investigation into his handling of classified material\n\nA veteran New York judge will review the classified files seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate last month.\n\nJudge Raymond Dearie, 78, will serve as the so-called special master - an independent lawyer tasked with deciding if any of the documents will be off limits in future legal proceedings.\n\nHe must present his findings by November.\n\nAnd while the Department of Justice initially opposed the suggestion, it did not raise an issue with Mr Dearie's candidacy. It had, however, opposed other candidates it said lacked relevant experience.\n\nMr Dearie, who has presided over numerous high-profile cases in one of the country's busiest legal districts, will now be given access to the entire inventory of 11,000 documents taken from Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on 8 August. Of these, around 100 are said to be marked as classified.\n\nThe search was part of a criminal investigation into the former president's handling of classified materials, and whether he improperly removed records from the White House and took them to Mar-a-Lago.\n\nThe authorities say these documents should have been handed over to the National Archives - which US presidents are legally obliged to do once they leave office.\n\nBut Mr Trump, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, has argued that some of the documents are protected by privilege. This means they cannot be used in potential legal proceedings and it is up to Mr Dearie to decide if this is the case.\n\nThe former president has not addressed directly why the files were at Mar-a-Lago. He has said he declassified the documents while president, but there are questions over whether this is legally relevant and if the formal process was followed.\n\nOn Thursday, US federal Judge Aileen Cannon appointed Mr Dearie and also said the government could not use the seized materials for its investigation until the special master's independent review was complete.\n\nThe justice department had earlier said it would appeal the restrictions on its use of the documents. Whether or not an appeal is filed, the latest developments will almost certainly slow the department's criminal investigation.\n\nMr Dearie has previously served on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. This secretive court handles requests by investigators for surveillance warrants against suspected spies and foreign agents in the US.\n\nHe was one of the judges who signed off on a request from the FBI and Department of Justice to monitor Mr Trump's former campaign adviser, Carter Page, as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.\n\nDespite this, he was still put forward as a candidate by Mr Trump's lawyers.\n\n\"It speaks volumes that Trump proposed him and the justice department did not object,\" Steve Gold, a law professor who previously worked as a clerk for Mr Dearie, told the BBC. \"He has handled major cases and intense media interest.\"", "A soldier walks among the graves found in the forest\n\nUkraine says hundreds of graves have been found outside Izyum, days after it was re-taken from Russia.\n\nWooden crosses, most of them marked with numbers, were discovered in a forest outside the city by advancing Ukrainian forces.\n\nAuthorities said they would start exhuming some of the graves on Friday.\n\nIt is not yet clear what happened to the victims, but early accounts suggest some may have died from shelling and a lack of access to healthcare.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, the head of Ukraine's national police service said most of the bodies belonged to civilians.\n\nIhor Klymenko told a news conference that although soldiers were also believed to be buried there, there was so far no confirmation.\n\nEarlier, Ukrainian authorities told the BBC more than 400 bodies were thought to be buried at the site.\n\nMykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, that \"many places of mass burials\" had been discovered in some liberated areas.\n\n\"We saw many places where people were tortured,\" Mr Podolyak said. \"We saw wildly frightened people who were kept without light, without food, without water, and without the right to justice. Because there was no authority there, there were only people with weapons.\"\n\nThe UN says it hopes to send a monitoring team to the city in the coming days.\n\nA spokesperson for the body's human rights' office said it would be trying to find out whether those who died were civilians or military personnel, and the cause of any of the deaths.\n\nIzyum, invaded in the early days of the war, was used by Russia as a key military hub to supply its forces from the east.\n\nIn his nightly address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the \"necessary procedural actions\" had begun in the area.\n\n\"We want the world to know what is really happening and what the Russian occupation has led to. Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izyum... Russia leaves death everywhere,\" he said. \"And it must be held accountable for that.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader was referring to alleged mass graves found this spring in Bucha, near the capital Kyiv, and also near Mariupol - the key south-eastern Ukrainian port now occupied by Russian troops.\n\nAndriy Yermak, the head of President Zelensky's office, tweeted a photo of the alleged mass burial site, also saying that more information was expected on Friday.\n\nMuch of Izyum lies in ruins, with one local politician telling reporters that up to 80% of the town's infrastructure has been destroyed, and bodies are still being discovered in the rubble.\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 Andriy Yermak This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIzyum and a number of other cities in the Kharkiv region were liberated earlier this month during a swift Ukrainian counter-offensive that appeared to have surprised Russian troops and left them unprepared to defend their positions.\n\nUkraine says it has identified more than 21,000 possible war crimes - including killing civilians and rape - committed by Russian troops since President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of the country on 24 February.\n\nInvestigators and journalists found what appeared to be evidence of the deliberate killing of civilians in Bucha and other nearby areas.\n\nThe International Criminal Court has already sent a team of investigators and forensics experts to Ukraine to investigate this.\n\nThe Russian government has repeatedly denied targeting civilians, accusing Ukraine and the West of fabricating evidence.\n\nIn a separate development on Friday, the prosecutor general of the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic was killed in a bomb blast, according to Russian news agencies.\n\nSergei Gorenko was reported to have died along with his deputy in an explosion at his office in the regional capital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "I never planned to watch a live stream of the Queen lying in state, but sometimes you find yourself at a tipping point.\n\nFor me, it was learning that millions of people had already tuned in to the feed from Westminster Hall. Human beings have an insatiable desire to feel like they belong and, last time I checked, I qualify as human.\n\nIntrigued, I loaded the feed on to my iPad as I researched an interview with a US indie band.\n\nTwo hours later, I was still watching.\n\nIt's not as if anything startling happened in that time. There was certainly nothing to compare with the royal guard who fainted to the ground early on Thursday morning. But the long and silent queue of people paying their respects has a uniquely meditative magic of its own.\n\nServicemen with medals from Iraq and Afghanistan salute the Queen. Others cross themselves with a mumbled \"thank you\". One woman blew a kiss.\n\nBored children twist on their parents' arms and pull itchily at uncomfortable dresses. A baby in a pram clutches a Paddington bear.\n\nMany of the mourners at Westminster Hall have served under the Queen in the military\n\nThis being Britain, no-one seems entirely sure what to do in the presence of death. Some people curtsey awkwardly, some glance warily at the coffin. At one point, an Asian couple bow thoughtfully and, for the next five minutes, everyone else feels like they have to do it, too.\n\nAnd the queue shuffles ever forward in quiet contemplation.\n\nMore than 750,000 people are expected to have filed through Westminster Hall by Monday. Watching them, even at home, is strangely moving.\n\n\"Do you think you'll go?\" asks my mum on the phone from Northern Ireland. \"I think if I was in London I would. I was born the year she was made Queen, so it felt like you knew her, even if you didn't\".\n\nMy son, arriving home from school to find me still watching the feed, is less impressed.\n\n\"That's the line-up thing to see the Queen,\" he observes. \"It's creepy. Dead body.\"\n\nI quickly pause to Google what happened when the Queen's father, George VI, lay in state 70 years ago; and the similarities are striking.\n\nA Pathé newsreel captures a queue stretching three miles into central London, waiting patiently through the snowy nights of February 1952, with the doors of Westminster Hall only opening in daylight.\n\n\"Their night rest they give to the king,\" the newsreader intones decoratively. \"Keeping vigil that they may make their last salute to a beloved monarch.\"\n\nJust like Queen Elizabeth II, the King's coffin was raised on a catafalque and draped in his royal standard, surrounded by the brass cross of Westminster Abbey and the four candles from the tomb of the Unknown Warrior.\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 British Pathé This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe most noticeable difference? The clothes.\n\nIn 1952, everyone wore their Sunday best. Neatly pressed suits, black ties, tasteful hats. On today's live feed, you could see everything from the red berets of the Royal Military Police to tracksuits and Mountain Warehouse waterproofs. There are women in hijabs and wearing papooses and, memorably, a man dressed as the Tardis.\n\nIt's a sign of how much society changed over the Queen's reign - the shedding of protocol and deference that has, in some quarters, called the very existence of the monarchy into question.\n\nBut it also illustrates the modernisation she ushered in. People like my mum came to think of her as \"our Queen\". And that sentiment is evident in the thousands of people who are queuing for up to 30 hours to say goodbye. Mourners dab tears away with crumpled tissues. One woman reads a speech from a notebook. Sadly, the feed doesn't capture what she's saying.\n\nThe queue has become a phenomenon on social media in its own right\n\nEventually, as I succumb to work, the feed becomes background noise.\n\nI'm reminded of the Beatles' Get Back documentary, another fly-on-the-wall film that apparently never ended. After sitting rapt for the first episode, I let the others play out as I got on with my day. It was a nice companion. I'd be making a cup of tea and Ringo Starr would be in the corner, coming up with the chords for Octopus's Garden.\n\nI think that helps explain the unexpected viewership of the Queen's lying in state. It fits into a trend for slow television - long, contemplative programmes that evolve glacially over hours and even days. It began in 2009 when the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) televised a seven-hour train journey from Bergen to the capital of Oslo; and came to the UK in 2015, with BBC Four screening footage of the Dawn Chorus and the making of a glass jug.\n\nThe broadcast from Westminster Hall affords the same opportunity for thoughtful reflection, whether you're mourning the Queen or contemplating a loss of your own.\n\nIt's not lost on me that this sort of public gathering wasn't possible for Prince Philip's memorial last year. Many of the mourners are still wearing face masks, and will have passed the National Covid Memorial Wall as they arrive in Westminster. The Samaritans are on hand to help those who are overcome.\n\nAnd suddenly I'm remembering my own grandmother's funeral, during the lockdown back in Northern Ireland.\n\nOnly 15 people were permitted to attend but, as the hearse set off for the cemetery, dozens of relatives, friends and acquaintances gathered on the rain-soaked street where my parents live, to send her off.\n\nThat simple gesture was one of the most moving moments of my life. And while the royals are used to crowds greeting their every move, I suspect they will be similarly overwhelmed by this week's display of affection.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The queue to see the Queen lying in state at Westminster Hall has reopened after entry was officially paused for seven hours, the government has said.\n\nBut mourners have been warned to expect waiting times of at least 19-and-a-half hours and cold overnight temperatures.\n\nDespite the official statement people told the BBC they had managed to join the queue throughout the day.\n\nThe line is now about five miles (8km) long, stretching to Southwark Park in south-east London.\n\nThousands have paid their respects to the Queen, who is lying in state at Westminster until 06:30 BST on Monday.\n\nA separate queue for people with accessibility needs has been paused until midday on Saturday, the government said.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) had said entrance to the main queue had been paused around 10:00 this morning after it had grown on Thursday and overnight into Friday.\n\nHowever, people locally said the park and entrance to the line were only closed for around 30 minutes, with another queue then forming outside the park before the gates were soon reopened.\n\nAt 17:05 the government announced that entry to the queue, at Southwark Park, had been resumed.\n\nThe government has said entry could be closed again should capacity be reached once more.\n\nRegular updates are being published on Twitter, with a live queue tracker also available on YouTube.\n\nThe Met Office has said overnight temperatures were expected to be as low as 8C (46F) and the government has said warm clothing is recommended.\n\nOn Friday evening all entry slots had been allocated for the queue for people with accessibility needs, the DCMS said.\n\n\"For everyone's comfort, please do not attempt to join the accessible queue before midday tomorrow,\" the department said.\n\nEarlier, Andrea, who is disabled and joined the queue with her mother, told BBC Radio 5 Live they had been abruptly told to \"go home because we're not going to let anybody else through\".\n\n\"We tried to speak to some of the stewards, and they were very nice but they just kept repeating the mantra that we had to return home and that they weren't going to let anybody else come in to get a timed slot,\" she said - adding she thought people had joined the line for people with accessibility needs after the closure of the main queue.\n\n\"I find it a bit ironic that the main queue is allowed to go on, it's just been temporarily suspended, but we've been told to go home and come back the next day - when we're disabled,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen Elizabeth II: The six mile queue to see the Queen lying in state\n\nThe queue follows the south bank of the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster, through Lambeth, Southwark, and into Bermondsey.\n\nOne of those who did manage to make it onto it was former England footballer David Beckham who told the BBC he had waited for more than 12 hours to \"celebrate the amazing life of our Queen\".\n\nHe shared doughnuts and crisps with fellow mourners and posed for photographs while waiting in line, before bowing before the Queen's coffin once he had entered the hall.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it had treated 435 members of the public along the queue route over the past two days, with 42 of those requiring hospital treatment.\n\nThe majority of incidents were faints and collapses resulting in head injuries, the service said.\n\nMeanwhile, a man has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court after two women were allegedly sexually assaulted in the queue to attend the Queen's lying-in-state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queue for the Queen worth 'the pain and anxieties'\n\nAre you unable to join the queue to pay your respects to the Queen? 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.", "A row has broken out over who is allowed to skip the queue to pay their respects to the late Queen.\n\nMPs and members of the House of Lords do not have to queue and can take four guests each to the lying-in-state.\n\nThe majority of Parliamentary staff can also avoid the queues - but people working for MPs must stand in line.\n\nCleaners and security guards employed by contractors in Parliament must also queue - prompting claims they are being treated as \"second class citizens\".\n\nThere are hundreds of cleaners working across the Parliamentary estate. An estimated 160 of their jobs have been outsourced. Because they don't work directly for the parliamentary administration, they will not be entitled to gain access to the fast track queue.\n\nThe PCS trade union said it was \"time for them to be treated as equals\".\n\nShortly before 10:00 on Friday, the government announced the public queue was being paused for at least six hours after reaching capacity.\n\nThe official estimate for queuing time had risen to at least 14 hours.\n\nAt 17:05, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said entry to the queue in Southwark Park had reopened.\n\nBut it added in a tweet that the expected queueing time for mourners was now over 24 hours and that temperatures overnight were likely to be cold.\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner are among the MPs who have attended the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall.\n\nMembers of the public are able to attend 24-hours a day until 06:30 BST on Monday - the day of the Queen's funeral - but the queue will close before then to ensure as many people as possible can get in.\n\nMany have waited more than eight hours for the opportunity to pay their respects.\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, which represents civil and public servants as well as private sector workers on government contracts, said: \"It's symbolic that hard-working security guards, cleaners and catering staff in Parliament are treated as second-class citizens.\n\n\"As we usher in a new era, it's time for them to be treated as equals and at least given a pay rise to help them through the cost-of-living crisis and beyond.\"\n\nThose who work for MPs or peers must also queue with the public to attend the lying-in-state.\n\nOne MP staff member said many were upset by this, adding: \"We've seen in the parliamentary response to a succession of scandals involving the bullying and sexual harassment of MPs' staff that we are treated as an after-thought, and this is yet another example.''\n\nAccording to an internal House of Commons memo, leaked to The Spectator, MPs' staff have been told that \"it is not possible to open up access further without the risk of impacting access for queuing members of the public\".\n\nSome of the members of the public who had waited for several hours to pay their respects were infuriated by the fact MPs and peers were allowed to take four guests with them when they skipped the public queue.\n\n\"Personally, I think it's outrageous,\" said Christina from Balham in south London. ''I can understand that for security reasons MPs might not want to stand in the public queue but they shouldn't be able to take four guests in and neither should the peers.\"\n\nLouise, from Keston in south-east London, also said she felt this was unfair, adding: \"This day is supposed to be for the people.\"\n\nBut other people who had just emerged from Westminster Hall did not mind.\n\n\"I'm not bothered, it's one of the perks of their job,'' said Alan, from Kent. He and his wife Sue were pleased to have progressed along the queue in five hours.\n\nAlan and Sally Prince from London also said they ''weren't fussed'', in part because they had really enjoyed being in the queue. \"The atmosphere was fun. It felt like the nation was coming together,\" they said.\n\nFormer England football captain David Beckham arrived at Westminster Hall on Friday afternoon after queuing for more than 12 hours.\n\nSpeaking outside, he said: \"It is emotional for everybody involved. Her Majesty was someone special and will be missed just by everyone.\"\n\nFigures from the London Ambulance Service (LAS) show 435 members of the public were treated along the route of the queue on Wednesday and Thursday.\n\nA total of 42 were taken to hospital. The LAS said the majority of people involved had fainted or collapsed, resulting in head injuries.\n\nThe BBC is live streaming as people file past so that those unable to make it to London are able to pay their respects at home.", "A still from a video released by Kyrgyz border guards, which they said showed fighting on the border\n\nAlmost 30 people have been reported killed and dozens injured in clashes on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.\n\nFighting regularly flares up between the two former Soviet states, whose border has been disputed since the collapse of the USSR.\n\nA fresh skirmish which began earlier in the week continued on Friday, despite the two countries agreeing a ceasefire.\n\nBoth sides blame the other for beginning the violence and breaching the ceasefire.\n\nSome 24 people in Kyrgyzstan have so far been killed, the Kyrgyz health ministry said on Friday.\n\nEarlier reports from Tajikistan said at least three people had been killed there.\n\nAlmost 20,000 people have fled their homes to avoid the violence, a regional branch of the Red Cross reported.\n\nThe conflict has renewed fears of an all-out war between the two countries.\n\nThe dispute flared up on Wednesday with at least two people killed in three separate incidents.\n\nKyrgyz border guards accused Tajikistan of taking positions on part of the border that has not been demarcated, while Tajikistan said Kyrgyz guards had opened fire without provocation.\n\nThe countries share a 1,000-km (600-mile) border, more than a third of which is disputed.\n\nRussia - which has close ties with both countries - has offered to mediate, calling for \"urgent\" measures to stop the violence on Friday.\n\nA ceasefire took effect from 16:00 local time (10:00 GMT), but Kyrgyzstan said two of its villages were later shelled.\n\nIt accused its neighbour of using tanks and armoured personnel carriers.\n\nIn turn, Tajikistan accused Kyrgyz forces of shelling an outpost and seven villages with \"heavy weaponry\".", "Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and friends from across the globe were among the 2,000 guests at the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHere's who was in the abbey, and where they were seated.\n\nClosest to the Queen's coffin were her four children and their spouses. King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, sat alongside the Princess Royal and her husband, the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sat directly behind the King while the Prince and Princess of Wales sat across the aisle from them.\n\nAll of the Queen's eight grandchildren sat in the front two rows, days after they stood together in vigil at the lying-in-state. Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, seven, were the Queen's only great-grandchildren to attend the service.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife the Duchess of York was in the second row next to her daughter Princess Eugenie.\n\nShe sat next to the Queen's nephew, the Earl of Snowdon. The earl, David Armstrong-Jones, is the son of the Queen's late sister, Princess Margaret and the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.\n\nHis sister Lady Sarah Chatto, who was close to the Queen, was also at the service with her husband Daniel Chatto and her two sons.\n\nOther members of the Queen's family sat in the first few rows included her cousins, the Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent.\n\nSome of the Queen's god children were also there including Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer.\n\nClose friends also attended. Ladies-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey and Dame Mary Morrison, were seen arriving alongside Angela Kelly, the Queen's personal dresser and one of her closest confidents.\n\nThe Queen Consort's children were invited - Laura Lopes, second from left, and Tom Parker Bowles.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary were alongside other cabinet ministers. All of the UK's surviving former prime ministers were also seated in the quire of the abbey.\n\nIn the middle row was Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson, Philip May, Theresa May, David Cameron, and Samantha Cameron.\n\nIn the front row were Sarah Brown, Gordon Brown, Cherie Blair, Sir Tony Blair, Lady Norma Major and Sir John Major.\n\nAll monarchs were invited to the funeral and the vast majority flew to London for it.\n\nDenmark's Queen Margrethe II - now the only female monarch in the world - sat opposite King Charles close to the coffin.\n\nOther kings and queens from The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Norway and Belgium also attended - as did the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.\n\nIt also marked the first international visit for the Emperor and Empress of Japan since they ascended the throne three years ago.\n\nMalaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah were seated behind King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government were thought to have been in the abbey.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and his wife Jill were sat in the 14th row behind the Polish president Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda.\n\nThe president of France, Emmanuel Macron, was with his wife Brigitte. Mr Macron, who met the Queen three times, had said that she had been \"a friend of France, a kind-hearted queen, who has left a lasting impression on her country and her century\".\n\nOther heads of government who were there included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is among those not invited\n\nRepresentatives from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan were not invited. This is because the UK does not have full diplomatic relations with these countries.\n\nNo-one from Russia, Belarus and Myanmar was invited either.\n\nDiplomatic relations between the UK and Russia have all but collapsed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was \"not considering\" attending the funeral.\n\nThe invasion was launched partially from the territory of Belarus. And the UK has significantly scaled back its diplomatic presence in Myanmar since a military coup last year.\n\nNorth Korea (DPRK) and Nicaragua were invited to send only ambassadors, not heads of state.\n\nHuman rights groups had criticised the decision to invite Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The prince has been accused by Western intelligence of ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Prince Turki Bin Mohammed al Saud attended the funeral instead.\n\nGraphics by Mark Bryson, additional reporting by Daniel Rosney and the Visual Journalism team", "Liz Truss is due to to meet with world leaders including Mr Biden, at the UN General Assembly\n\nLiz Truss has said a new trade deal with the United States is unlikely in the \"short to medium term\".\n\nThe prime minister is in New York for the UN General Assembly, where she will meet US President Joe Biden.\n\nThe UK government had previously promised a post-Brexit trade deal with the US by 2022.\n\nLabour said the lack of a trade deal with the US \"is costing billions in lost potential trade opportunities and holding back growth\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of her flight to the US, Ms Truss said: \"There aren't currently any negotiations taking place with the US and I don't have an expectation that those are going to start in the short to medium term.\"\n\nIn May, the UK signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the US state of Indiana.\n\nThe US is Britain's biggest individual trading partner and accounts for £1 in every £6 of UK trade.\n\nA deal to make it easier for the two nations to trade with each other had been a much-coveted jewel for the government's post-Brexit crown.\n\nBut those hopes were dashed in the early months of the Joe Biden's administration. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Trade Secretaries - first Liz Truss, then Anne-Marie Trevelyan - conceded the US had other priorities. President Biden made clear protecting US jobs came first. Resuming free trade discussions has not been on the agenda.\n\nInstead, US-UK meetings focused on co-operation around issues such as China and Ukraine.\n\nWhy did Ms Truss choose to raise this explicitly today? Perhaps to get in first and imply that it is the UK's choice.\n\nBut also to signal that any threat from the US to refrain from talks unless the UK backed down on an option to dissolve the Northern Ireland Protocol would be empty.\n\nFor it is Brexit itself - a policy President Barack Obama, when Mr Biden was his deputy, previously said would leave the UK at the back of the queue for a deal - that's likely to have played a key role in America's refusal to return to the negotiating table.\n\nLabour's shadow international trade secretary Nick Thomas Symonds said: \"The admission that there is no prospect of a trade deal with the USA is terrible news for the UK economy.\n\n\"There is no doubt that the blame for this mess lies at the door of the prime minister, who tarnished the UK's international reputation as foreign and international trade secretary.\n\n\"This is an embarrassment for Liz Truss.\"\n\nMs Truss said she will use her speech at the UN to try and rally support for Ukraine and ending international energy dependence on Russia.\n\nMs Truss pledged that her government will match or exceed the £2.3bn support given to Ukraine's \"inspirational\" troops over the last seven months\n\nSince Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces invaded Ukraine on 24 February, only the United States has sent more military aid to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Truss will point to the recent success of Ukraine's counter-offensives as examples of what the country can achieve with Western backing.\n\n\"Ukraine's victories in recent weeks have been inspirational,\" Ms Truss said. \"Time and time again these brave people have defied the doubters and showed what they can do when given the military, economic and political support they need.\"\n\nMs Truss's visit to the US is her first foreign trip as prime minister.\n\nPolitical activity and government business have been paused until after the Queen's funeral, which Ms Truss attended alongside other politicians, foreign dignitaries and members of the Royal Family.\n\nShe is due to meet with world leaders, including Mr Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nAhead of her meeting with Mr Macron, Ms Truss said she wanted to have a constructive relationship with France and there were a number of issues they need to work together on.\n\nShe had previously declined to say whether Mr Macron was a \"friend or foe\" during the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nPrepare for the roaring return of politics.\n\nFamilies, businesses, the country face grave threats: soaring prices, crippling fuel costs, the prospect of recession.\n\nBut, with the funeral now over, the arguments resume - and the demands for action will be loud.\n\nThe prime minister is already on her first foreign trip in the job.\n\nIt will mean the returning political conversation will have a diplomatic air - in its opening few hours at least - rather than an immediately intense domestic scrappiness.\n\nBut that will be back before you know it.\n\nSupporting Ukraine was a key policy plank of the previous UK government led by Ms Truss's predecessor, Boris Johnson.\n\nOn a visit to Ukraine last month, Mr Johnson said the West must endure rising energy bills to help the country drive out Russia.\n\nMPs will return to Parliament on Wednesday, when they can swear a new oath of alliance to King Charles III, if they wish.\n\nBusiness Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg is expected to set out government's energy support package for businesses, but this is yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe package was part of a plan to limit energy bill rises for businesses and all households for two years, unveiled hours before the Queen's death was announced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liz Truss announces energy price guarantee for next two years\n\nOn Thursday, Health Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Thérèse Coffey is due to make an announcement about her plan for the NHS this winter.\n\nA mini-budget, described as a \"fiscal event\" to outline the government's economic plans, will then take place on Friday.\n\nIn it, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to deliver tax cuts promised by Ms Truss during her campaign to be Conservative Party leader.\n\nMs Truss has promised to use the mini Budget to undo a rise in National Insurance and cancel a planned hike in corporation tax.\n\nShe has also said she would temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills to bring down prices for consumers.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nDavid Beckham and Tyson Fury have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her state funeral.\n\nSport came to a standstill once more on Monday as a mark of respect for the UK's longest-serving monarch, with sporting personalities and organisations sharing condolences.\n\nFormer England football captain Beckham remembered Her Majesty as a \"unique, inspirational and caring leader\".\n\nHeavyweight boxing champion Fury said: \"May she rest in heaven for eternity.\"\n\nBeckham, who queued for 13 hours to see the Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall, wrote on Instagram: \"Our Queen is home. Today we said a final farewell to Her Majesty The Queen.\n\n\"This week the world has mourned the loss of a unique, inspirational and caring leader. People from all walks of life came together in their thousands to show gratitude for our beloved Queen.\n\n\"Alongside the incredible ceremony and tradition we have watched a loving family grieve for a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother with dignity and dedication.\n\n\"Her legacy of service and devotion to duty will endure. Long live the King.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Fury posted a video online in which he said: \"I've been off social media for the last 10 days mourning in respect for our Queen who's died.\n\n\"I hope the funeral goes well, condolences to the full family and may she rest in heaven for eternity.\"\n\nThe English Football League wrote on its Twitter page: \"On the day of the funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the EFL and its clubs would like to join the nation in reflecting on the late Sovereign's remarkable life of service to the country, and our thoughts are with the Royal Family.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Premier League side Southampton posted a photo of the Queen handing the FA Cup to their captain Peter Rodrigues after the 1976 final win over Manchester United at Wembley - the last time she presented the trophy.\n\nHorse racing, Her Majesty's favourite sport, originally had meetings scheduled at Leicester, Warwick, Hamilton Park and Wolverhampton on Monday, before the date of the funeral was confirmed.\n\nA number of notable sporting figures attended the funeral at Westminster Abbey, including the Queen's racing manager John Warren, who on Saturday described her \"remarkable ability to get so much pleasure out of any horse, no matter what level that horse was able to achieve\".\n\nHe said: \"If we had done our best, if we were able to get the equivalent of a D student a C grade with best endeavour, that itself was tremendous. The horse had the last word and that's what was fascinating for the Queen.\"\n\nMoments of silence had been held across British sporting fixtures at the weekend.\n\nOn Saturday, Premier League and Women's Super League clubs paid tribute to the Queen as the competitions returned to weekend action for the first time since her death.\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 Queen's committal service has taken place at St George's Chapel, Windsor.\n\nDuring his sermon, the Archbishop of Canterbury said the late Queen touched \"a multitude of lives\" during her 70-year reign.", "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he doesn't see Canada breaking ties with the British Crown anytime soon.\n\nThe complexities of moving away from a constitutional monarchy are not what \"Canadians are overly taken up with right now\", he told the BBC.\n\nHe said he appreciated the \"steadiness\" of the current system.\n\nMr Trudeau is also facing controversy after a video captured him singing a song by British rock band Queen in a London hotel over the weekend.\n\nThe short video clip, which began circulating on social media late Sunday, shows the prime minister singing Bohemian Rhapsody as Quebec musician Gregory Charles plays the piano.\n\nMr Trudeau's office confirmed on Monday the authenticity of the video, and said it was captured at the lobby of the Corinthia London Hotel on Saturday evening as part of a small gathering with members of the Canadian delegation.\n\nMusician Mr Charles told the Toronto Star he played \"a few UK tunes as a spontaneous homage\".\n\nThe prime minister and his wife, Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, have been in London since 16 September to attend Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.\n\nThe couple travelled alongside a delegation that includes Governor General Mary Simon, former prime ministers, indigenous leaders, and recipients of the Order of Canada - the second-highest civilian honour in the country - including Canadian actress Sandra Oh and Mr Charles.\n\nMr Trudeau's remarks and support for the monarchy come as some debate its future in Canada in light of the Queen's death.\n\n\"There's a nice balance to the system we have that I think is going to continue to serve Canadians extraordinarily well,\" Mr Trudeau told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nIn Canada, the monarch - now King Charles - is the head of state. The monarchy serves a mainly symbolic role, with the power to govern entrusted to the Canadian government.\n\nChanging the current system would need approval from both the House of Commons and the Senate in parliament, as well as the unanimous consent of all 10 provinces.\n\nMr Trudeau also reflected on his first time meeting the Queen as a child, when his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was prime minister.\n\n\"I was seven years old and I had to rush back from school to meet her,\" he told the BBC, recalling how he was he had to keep his shoes scrubbed for the event.\n\n\"Of course I got them all muddy, so I remember just before running home having to go into the school washroom with a buddy of mine, cleaning off my shoes so I could have clean shoes for meeting the Queen,\" he said.\n\nIt was an important moment, he added, even in a prime ministerial household that saw many world leaders walk through its doors.\n\n\"I just remember looking up at her back then and and having her being just lovely and thoughtful and gracious with me even even at that point,\" Mr Trudeau said.", "A woman set fire to her headscarf during a protest in Tehran on Monday\n\nWomen have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws.\n\nCrowds cheered when women burned their hijabs on a bonfire in Sari on Tuesday, the fifth successive day of unrest.\n\nActivists said a woman was among three protesters shot dead by security forces in Urmia, Piranshahr and Kermanshah.\n\nAuthorities accused protesters of killing two civilians in Kermanshah as well as a police assistant in Shiraz.\n\nAt least seven people are now reported to have been killed since protests against the hijab laws and morality police erupted after Mahsa Amini's death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rana Rahimpour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 22-year-old Kurdish woman from the north-western city of Saqez died in hospital on Friday, after spending three days in a coma.\n\nShe was with her brother in Tehran when she was arrested by morality police, who accused her of breaking the law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf, and their arms and legs with loose clothing. She fell into the coma shortly after collapsing at a detention centre.\n\nThere were reports that police beat Ms Amini's head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles, Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif said.\n\nThe police have denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered \"sudden heart failure\". But her family has said she was fit and healthy.\n\nMahsa Amini, 22, died in hospital in Tehran on Friday\n\n\"Mahsa Amini's tragic death and allegations of torture and ill-treatment must be promptly, impartially and effectively investigated by an independent competent authority, that ensures, in particular, that her family has access to justice and truth,\" Ms Nashif said.\n\nShe noted that the UN had received \"numerous, and verified, videos of violent treatment of women\" as morality police expanded their street patrols in recent months to crack down on those perceived to be wearing \"loose hijab\".\n\n\"The authorities must stop targeting, harassing, and detaining women who do not abide by the hijab rules,\" she added, calling for their repeal.\n\nAn aide to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei paid a visit to Ms Amini's family on Monday and told them that \"all institutions will take action to defend the rights that were violated\", state media reported.\n\nSenior MP Jalal Rashidi Koochi publicly criticised the morality police, saying the force was a \"mistake\" as it had only produced \"loss and damage\" for Iran.\n\nFollowing the 1979 Islamic Revolution, authorities in Iran imposed a mandatory dress code requiring all women to wear a headscarf and loose-fitting clothing that disguises their figures in public.\n\nMorality police - known formally as \"Gasht-e Ershad\" (Guidance Patrols) - are tasked, among other things, with ensuring women conform with the authorities' interpretation of \"proper\" clothing. Officers have the power to stop women and assess whether they are showing too much hair; their trousers and overcoats are too short or close-fitting; or they are wearing too much make-up. Punishments for violating the rules include a fine, prison or flogging.\n\nIn 2014, Iranian women began sharing photos and videos of themselves publicly flouting the hijab laws as part of an online protest campaign called \"My Stealthy Freedom\". It has since inspired other movements, including \"White Wednesdays\" and \"Girls of Revolution Street\".\n\nMs Nashif also expressed alarm at \"the reported unnecessary or disproportionate use of force\" against the thousands of people who have taken in part in protests since Mahsa Amini died.\n\nHengaw, a Norway-based organisation that monitors human rights in predominantly Kurdish areas of Iran, said a 16-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were killed when security forces opened fire at protesters on Tuesday night in Piranshahr and Urmia, which are both in West Azerbaijan province.\n\nThe group also reported that security forces shot dead a woman at a protest in the neighbouring province of Kermanshah.\n\nAccording to Hengaw, three male protesters were killed by security forces in Kurdistan province on Monday - one in Saqez, Ms Amini's home city, and two others in the towns of Divandarreh and Dehgolan. Another man shot in Divandarreh that day succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday, it 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 2 by Golnaz Esfandiari This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere has been no confirmation of those deaths from authorities, but the prosecutor in the city of Kermanshah told the Tasnim news agency that two people were killed by \"anti-revolutionary elements\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe state-run Irna news agency meanwhile said a police assistant died of injuries he sustained in violent clashes with protesters in the southern city of Shiraz on Tuesday.\n\nIn Tehran, videos posted online showed women taking off their headscarves and shouting \"death to the dictator\" - a chant often used in reference to the Supreme Leader. Others shouted \"justice, liberty, no to mandatory hijab\".\n\nA woman who took part in a protest on Monday in the northern city of Rasht sent BBC Persian photographs of what she said were bruises she suffered as a result of being beaten by riot police with batons and hoses.\n\n\"[The police] kept firing tear gas. Our eyes were burning,\" she said. \"We were running away, [but] they cornered me and beat me. They were calling me a prostitute and saying I was out in the street to sell myself.\n\nAnother woman who protested in the central city of Isfahan told the BBC's Ali Hamedani: \"While we were waving our headscarves in the sky I felt so emotional to be surrounded and protected by other men. It feels great to see this unity. I hope the world supports us.\"\n\nTehran Governor Mohsen Mansouri tweeted on Tuesday that the protests were \"fully organised with the agenda to create unrest\", while state TV alleged that Ms Amini's death was being used as an \"excuse\" by Kurdish separatists and critics of the establishment.", "The Queen's name has been inscribed on a new ledger stone in the Windsor chapel where she was buried on Monday.\n\nThe late monarch was laid to rest with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the George VI Memorial Chapel - alongside her parents and sister.\n\nBuckingham Palace says the stone replaces a black slab naming George VI and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.\n\nThe names of the Queen and Prince Philip are included under a metal star of the Order of the Garter.\n\nThe fresh stone set into the floor also includes the dates of when all four were born, along with the years of their deaths next to their names.\n\nThe stone has \"George VI 1895-1952\" and \"Elizabeth 1900-2002\" written on it, followed by the metal star, and then \"Elizabeth II 1926-2022\" and \"Philip 1921-2021\".\n\nAll four royals were members of the Order of the Garter, which has St George's Chapel, located in the grounds of Windsor Castle, as its spiritual home. The order of chivalry dating back to medieval times is made up of the monarch and other senior figures including former prime ministers and former military chiefs.\n\nWhen Philip died in April 2021, his coffin was placed in the Royal Vault of St George's so that it would be ready to move to the memorial chapel when the Queen died.\n\nThe Queen's sister Princess Margaret, who died in 2002, was cremated and her ashes were initially placed in the Royal Vault, before being moved to the George VI memorial chapel with her parents' coffins when the Queen Mother died just weeks after her.\n\nThe chapel is a pale stone annexe that was added on to the north side of the building behind the North Quire Aisle in 1969.\n\nThe Queen (second from left) pictured with her father King George VI, mother Elizabeth, sister Princess Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh (far left)\n\nA peak audience of around 28 million UK viewers tuned in for the Queen's state funeral at Westminster Abbey and committal service in Windsor on Monday.\n\nHowever, her burial took place in the evening in a private service attended by King Charles III and the Royal Family.\n\nKing Charles decreed on 9 September, the day after the Queen died following her 70-year reign, that a period of mourning would be observed until seven days after the funeral.\n\nHe is believed to have flown to Scotland on Tuesday with the Queen Consort to grieve privately.\n\nThe pair were pictured in a vehicle which arrived at RAF Northolt and was reportedly bound for Balmoral - the estate on which the King's Scottish home of Birkhall is located.\n\nOther members of the Royal Family are not expected to carry out official engagements, and flags at royal residences will remain at half-mast until 8am after the final day of royal mourning.\n\nWindsor Castle is currently closed to the public and will reopen on 29 September.\n\nThe new ledger stone in the chapel replaces the one featuring the names of the Queen's father and mother", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss: \"I will always work to make sure we are helping those who are struggling.\"\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss has said she is prepared to take \"difficult decisions\" such as removing a cap on bankers' bonuses to boost the economy.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Ms Truss said that spurring economic growth may mean doing unpopular things.\n\nHer government is considering removing a cap on bankers' bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules.\n\nSpeaking in New York ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden, the PM said she was about \"delivering for people\".\n\nBBC Political Editor Chris Mason asked Ms Truss whether she was happy to see bankers getting bigger bonuses and for the rich to get richer.\n\n\"What I want to see is a growing economy,\" Ms Truss said.\n\n\"If that means taking difficult decisions which are going to help Britain become more competitive, help Britain become more attractive, help more investment flow into our country, yes, I'm absolutely prepared to make those decisions.\"\n\nLabour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Pat McFadden, said there was nothing difficult about lifting the cap on bankers' bonuses.\n\n\"This is a bizarre move that will do nothing to support growth, and comes straight from the tired Tory playbook on trickle-down economics which haven't worked for them over the last decade,\" the Labour MP said.\n\nPresident Biden tweeted earlier that he was \"sick and tired\" of the theory that cutting taxes for business and the wealthy would see the benefits \"trickle down\" into the pockets of poorer workers.\n\nAlthough apparently not intended as a swipe at Ms Truss, the comment underlines the political differences between the two leaders ahead of their meeting.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said it was \"ludicrous\" to suggest President Biden was referring to Ms Truss in the tweet.\n\nHe said the world's democracies were \"not prescriptive\" in how they achieve economic growth.\n\nMs Truss has admitted a new trade deal with the United States is unlikely in the \"short-to-medium term\" and that no discussions are currently underway.\n\nThe UK government had previously promised a post-Brexit trade deal with the US by 2022.\n\nThere has been lots of talk of a new era in the last few weeks, for obvious reasons.\n\nNow, with political argument returning, it is language the prime minister is embracing, about her premiership and the challenges she - we - face.\n\n'We are entering a new era. It is a more insecure era,' she told me.\n\nInsecure abroad, insecure at home. The core of her political strategy is turbo-charging economic growth — and, for now at least, being willing to embrace the unpopular.\n\n\"Difficult decisions\" as she put it - such as allowing bankers to get bigger bonuses.\n\nThere are two big questions for her: will it work, and will people like it?\n\nShe doesn't have long to find out the answers, with a general election two-ish years away.\n\nIn her Chris Mason interview, Ms Truss said she wanted to forge closer ties with the UK's allies.\n\n\"It is a more insecure era. We face an increasingly aggressive Russia, an assertive China. We need to work more closely with our allies, and we also need to get the British economy growing so that we have that security for all of our citizens.\"\n\nIn a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in New York, Ms Truss agreed to enhance UK-France co-operation on energy to cut costs for households.\n\nIn Downing Street's account of the meeting, there was no mention of contentious issues that have strained Anglo-French relations since the UK left the European Union.\n\nNeither the unauthorised migrant crossings of the English Channel, nor the post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland were discussed, in a meeting described as \"constructive\" by Downing Street.\n\nMr Macron and Ms Truss were meeting face-to-face for the first time, weeks after the she questioned whether the French President was a friend or foe.\n\n\"I now believe in proof, in results,\" Mr Macron said. \"There is a will to re-engage, to move on and to show that we are allies and friends in a complex world.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier, Ms Truss said \"we are facing incredibly tough economic times\" after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic \"pushed up energy prices\".\n\nShe said higher energy bills were \"a price worth paying\" for the UK's long-term security.\n\nTypical household energy bills will rise to £2,500 a year from 1 October, in part due to reductions in Russian gas exports during the war in Ukraine.\n\nUnder Ms Truss's plans, energy bills will be frozen at that level for the next two years.\n\nThe scheme is likely to be paid for by increased government borrowing, but the full details will be announced on Friday as part of a mini-Budget.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Truss will use her speech to the United Nations General Assembly to rally support for Ukraine and highlight the threat from authoritarian states such as Russia and China.\n\nThe PM will argue that democratic nations should prioritise economic growth and security to win the new era of strategic competition.\n\nMs Truss will also reiterate her commitment to protecting the UK and its allies, including by increasing defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030.\n\n\"Just as we are building a plan for growth at home, we are also developing a new blueprint for our engagement with the world,\" the PM is expected to say.\n\n\"We will build resilience and collective security - because they are vital for freedom and democracy.\"", "It was a day when people stood still - on the streets and in their homes - to witness Queen Elizabeth II's final journey.\n\nRoyals and world leaders were inside Westminster Abbey. But outside there were many more, ordinary mourners lining the streets of central London. And further beyond - in living rooms and parks, in pubs, cinemas and town squares - the British public marked the first state funeral for nearly six decades in millions of individual ways.\n\nIn Doncaster, Alistair Mitchell brought afternoon tea and sandwiches for his mother, who had not been able to make the journey to London. At the Curzon cinema in Sheffield, there were no pre-show trailers, or the sound of rustling popcorn - just an audience dressed mostly in black as they watched the ceremony. Blackpool's illuminations were switched off.\n\nAt 06:32 BST, the final mourner filed past the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall as her four-and-a-half-day lying-in-state drew to a close. The Queue had come to end. But overnight, Monday's crowd was already gathering. At Horse Guards Parade, it was 10-people deep before 08:30. By 09:10, viewing areas for the procession route were full.\n\nAt The Mall, the Rowlassons - Kyre, 23, his mum Beveley, 41, and granddad Fred, 72 - had secured a front-row spot, after setting off from Birmingham the previous day. All three had spent the night on the ground in their sleeping bags. Had they slept? \"Not a wink,\" says Kyre.\n\nAnd then, at 10:44, the Queen's coffin began its short journey to Westminster Abbey.\n\nAs she went to switch on her television, Liz Perry, 59, was struck by the silence outside her living room, in Derby. It was, Liz thought, as if a blanket had been draped over the entire street - clearly, all her neighbours were tuning in too.\n\nAt St Anne's Church, in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, Sue Lalor had taken her seat in a pew. A screen above the altar was showing the service. Sue could have watched at home but that would have meant doing so alone. \"This was a moment I wanted to share with other people,\" she said.\n\nNot everyone in the country has been as caught up in the emotion of recent days but some 250 miles (400km) away in Harwich, Essex, landlord Nick May agreed with Sue. His first instinct had been to close his pub, The Alma, out of respect, but his staff persuaded him to stay open.\n\n\"This is a group moment of grief,\" Nick said. Gathered in the bar were about 35 people from around the coastal town. Several were veterans. Others, said Nick, had lost parents or grandparents and saw the Queen as a reminder of times past.\n\nWaiting for the service to begin, Andrew Smith stood in Birmingham's Centenary Square and felt goosebumps rising on his arm. He and his wife Margaret, from Barnwell, Northamptonshire, were in the city to celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary.\n\nMargaret's mind was on 1953, when she had been taken to watch the Queen's coronation at her nan's house and later to a street party. \"She's like our grandmother, she's always been there,\" Margaret said, visibly emotional.\n\nAt 11:00, the funeral was under way. The Very Rev David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster, spoke of the Queen's \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nMeanwhile, in Manchester's Cathedral Gardens, rain was falling. Rebecca Watson, 38, thought of those who had filed through the streets of London over the weekend to witness the Queen's lying-in-state and resolved to stay where she was. \"If people have been in a queue for 14 hours I think we can cope with this,\" she said.\n\nAs she watched in a park in Hastings, Jo Musson, 62, who had set off on holiday from her home in Worcestershire in her campervan before the Queen's death, worried that she had not packed any black clothes.\n\nInside Westminster Abbey, the congregation began to sing The Lord Is My Shepherd. More than 300 miles away in Belfast, Simon Freedman, 51, from Coleraine, County Londonderry, thought of his mother, Olive. It had been her favourite hymn, but when she died of Covid in 2020 at the age of 79, the family had been unable to hold a service in which they could sing it. \"I knew when that hymn came on I'd shed a tear.\"\n\nAhead of the two minutes' silence, everyone in the Royal British Legion, in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, stood, bowed their heads, and sang along to the national anthem.\n\nAfterwards, a lone bagpiper played a lament. For Emma Parsons-Reid, 55, watching at home in Ely, Cardiff, with family and neighbours, it was at this point that the Queen's death struck home. \"For the first time, it felt real,\" she said.\n\nOn The Mall, many spectators had watched the service on their phones. As the Queen's coffin made its way towards them, spectators stood on tiptoes, with children lifted on to shoulders, as the crowd collectively craned its necks for a final glimpse.\n\nThen, as the procession passed, they fell silent.\n\nIn Windsor, a committal service would be held at St George's Chapel - where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was also held.\n\nDianne Turner, 62, didn't intend to go to Windsor's Long Walk to watch the funeral procession. She had wanted to be in the crowds in central London when she had set off from Somerset but there were problems with the trains so she went to Windsor instead.\n\nAs she watched the committal service on the screens at Windsor, she wept. \"I think I got so emotional because my mum loved the Queen and this would have meant a lot to her.\" Dianne had never met the Queen, but - like so many others - felt as though she had.\n\nBy the time the state hearse slowly passed Dianne, taking Queen Elizabeth II towards her final resting place, businesses had already begun to reopen. Life was returning to normality.\n\nBut not entirely as before. People had paused and thought about what was gone.", "It is hard to see how a vote can take place when Ukraine still controls much of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions\n\nFour areas of Ukraine under Moscow's control have announced plans for urgent so-called referendums on joining Russia, which would pave the way for Russian annexation.\n\nRussia's invasion has stalled in recent months and Ukraine has recaptured swathes of territory in the north-east.\n\nNow Russian-backed officials in the east and south say they want votes on joining Russia starting this week.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin had been expected to give an address to the nation on Tuesday evening but sources close to the Kremlin indicated later that it had been postponed, with no reason given.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday that \"sham 'referendums' will not change anything\".\n\nThe international community has never recognised the Crimea annexation, but it has long been clear that Russia intends to rubber-stamp its takeover of other occupied regions in the same way.\n\nAnnexing more Ukrainian territory would enable the Kremlin to claim Russia itself was coming under attack from Nato weapons. Russia launched its invasion on 24 February.\n\nThere is speculation that Russia may announce a mass mobilisation, to beef up its forces in Ukraine. The Russian parliament has approved tougher punishments for crimes such as desertion, damage to military property and insubordination during mobilisation or combat operations.\n\nThe deputy head of Russia's Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said early on Tuesday that holding votes in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk - also known as Donbas - would correct \"historical justice\" and be irreversible: \"After the amendments to the constitution of our state, no future leader of Russia, no official, will be able to reverse these decisions.\"\n\nSoon afterwards the two breakaway Russian-backed authorities in Donetsk and Luhansk said they would stage votes on 23-27 September. They were both recognised as independent by Mr Putin three days before Russian troops invaded Ukraine from the north, east and south.\n\nRussian-installed officials in the southern region of Kherson said they would also hold a vote, and a similar declaration came from Russian-occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia. Russian state media said people would be able to vote in person or remotely.\n\nFor months, Russian-installed authorities have tried to hold self-styled referendums. There was never any hope of a free or fair vote, and the continuing war has made it impractical even to try to annex areas not fully under their control. Ukraine's counter-offensives have made that harder still.\n\nWhile most of Luhansk has been in Russian hands since July, on Monday the Ukrainian leader in Luhansk announced that the army had recaptured the village of Bilohorivka.\n\nMuch of Donetsk remains under Ukrainian control, although Russia has seized the coastal strip along the Sea of Azov.\n\nAlthough Russian forces quickly captured Kherson at the start of the war, Ukrainian forces have regained some territory and Russian-installed authorities have faced repeated attacks. Earlier attempts to hold a vote there were postponed.\n\nMuch of Zaporizhzhia is still under Ukrainian control, including the regional capital of the same name. Even though the 2014 vote in Crimea was widely rejected as illegal, and boycotted by a large number of residents, Russia's military were in control of the peninsula.\n\nUkrainian forces are not far away from the city of Donetsk and on Monday the Russian-backed mayor accused them of shelling the city, killing at least 13 people.\n\nAny attempt to further annex sovereign Ukrainian territory is bound to infuriate leaders in Kyiv and destroy any hope of a negotiated solution.\n\nUkrainian defence ministry adviser Oleksiy Kopytko suggested the vote plan was a \"sign of hysteria\" in Moscow. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday night \"the occupiers are clearly in a panic\".\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the votes were a \"sham\", while France's Emmanuel Macron condemned the idea as \"cynical\" and a \"parody\" that would obviously not be recognised by the international community. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said they had no legitimacy and were \"a further escalation in Putin's war\".\n\nRespected Russia analyst Tatiana Stanovaya saw the latest move as an \"unequivocal ultimatum\" from Russia to Ukraine and the West. She said that if they did not react appropriately Russia would fully mobilise its armed forces for war. Annexation would give Mr Putin the right, as he saw it, to use any weapons to protect territory deemed by Moscow to be Russian.\n\nThere have been growing calls from some quarters in Russia for full mobilisation of the armed forces. Mr Putin still describes the invasion as a \"special military operation\".\n\nIn a sign that the Kremlin was preparing to back the referendums, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that from the start of the operation Russia had wanted residents to have the decision: \"The whole current situation confirms that they want to be masters of their fate.\"", "Justin Trudeau's office has defended the Canadian PM, after he was filmed singing by a piano in a London hotel, two days before the Queen's funeral.\n\nIn a video shared on social media, the prime minister can be seen singing Bohemian Rhapsody by the British rock band, Queen.\n\nThe Queen was Canada's head of state, and Mr Trudeau designated 19 September a national day of mourning in Canada.\n\nCritics accused the PM of a lack of respect - but others defended him.\n\nThe video has been shared on social media, but while a spokesperson for the prime minister confirmed it was genuine, it is not clear who filmed it.\n\nIt was taken at the Corinthia, where the Canadian delegation was staying, on the evening of Saturday 17 September.\n\nMr Trudeau can be seen in a T-shirt, leaning on a piano as Gregory Charles, a musician from Quebec and recipient of the Order of Canada, plays Bohemian Rhapsody.\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\nHe sings famous lyrics including \"easy come, easy go, little high, little low\", and \"any way the wind blows\".\n\nMr Charles told Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail the group sang with him for two hours, and that it was \"a lot of fun\", reminding him of Caribbean funerals in blending sombre moments with those celebrating life.\n\nBut the video has drawn criticism from some Canadian commentators and members of the public.\n\n\"Embarrassing doesn't even begin to cover it,\" wrote Andrew Coyne, Globe and Mail columnist, on Twitter.\n\n\"He's the prime minister, in a public place, on the eve of the Queen's funeral. And this is how he behaves?\"\n\nVivian Bercovici, a former Canadian ambassador to Israel, said: \"He is the Canadian prime minister representing Canada at a week of mourning for the Queen. Our head of state. This isn't about Justin. But he should grow up.\"\n\nBut others said the issue had been exaggerated.\n\nEmmett Macfarlane, an associate professor of political science at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, wrote on Twitter: \"He's... singing. Of all the embarrassing things Justin Trudeau has said and done, this doesn't rank.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Trudeau said: \"After dinner on Saturday, [the] prime minister joined a small gathering with members of the Canadian delegation, who have come together to pay tribute to the life and service of Her Majesty.\n\n\"Gregory Charles, a renowned musician from Quebec and Order of Canada recipient, played piano in the hotel lobby which resulted in some members of the delegation including the prime minister joining.\"\n\nThe spokesperson pointed out \"the prime minister has taken part in various activities to pay his respects for the Queen\".\n\nSome took a light-hearted view of the issue.\n\nMusic journalist Adam Feibel joked: \"I don't think that Justin Trudeau singing Bohemian Rhapsody was disrespectful to the queen but I know enough about karaoke to assume it was disrespectful to Queen.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch moments from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nThe nation has paid a final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, with a state funeral and military procession.\n\nWorld leaders and foreign royalty joined King Charles III and the Royal Family in the congregation at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people lined the streets as the coffin was taken to Windsor where she was laid to rest.\n\nAt the funeral, the Dean of Westminster paid tribute to the Queen's \"lifelong sense of duty\".\n\nThe Very Rev David Hoyle spoke of her \"unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth\".\n\nThe Queen's funeral cortege was borne on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy\n\nThe Royal Family joined in with singing the hymns at St George's Chapel\n\nThe day began with final respects being paid by members of the public who had queued up to see the Queen's lying-in-state in Westminster Hall.\n\nThen, in a spectacle not seen for generations, her coffin - on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors - was taken in a solemn procession to Westminster Abbey.\n\nKing Charles III walked alongside his siblings, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex walked side-by-side behind their father along a route lined by representatives of all parts of the military.\n\nAs the funeral procession entered the abbey, world leaders, politicians and foreign royalty stood as her coffin was carried up the aisle to be placed on a catafalque, draped in the royal standard with the Imperial State Crown, orb and sceptre on top.\n\nSome of the youngest members of the family were in attendance at the abbey - the Queen's great-grandchildren Prince George and Princess Charlotte, aged nine and seven, sat with their parents the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary were present alongside cabinet ministers and all of the UK's surviving former prime ministers, seated in the abbey's quire.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government joined the 2,000-strong congregation at the abbey - as well as US President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, there were French President Emmanuel Macron, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan.\n\nEurope's royal families were strongly represented - with kings and queens from Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and The Netherlands. Denmark's Queen Margrethe II - now Europe's longest-reigning monarch - sat opposite King Charles close to the coffin.\n\nThe Emperor and Empress of Japan also attended, alongside other overseas royalty including Malaysia's King and Queen and King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.\n\nThe hearse carrying the Queen is covered with flowers that were thrown by well-wishers on the way to Windsor\n\nThousands of people flocked to Windsor to catch a glimpse of the State Hearse driving to St George's Chapel\n\nThe religious service heard church leaders highlight the affection in which the Queen has been held by many people.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: \"People of loving service are rare in any walk of life. Leaders of loving service are still rarer.\n\n\"But in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.\"\n\nHe also spoke of how the Queen had declared on her 21st birthday \"that her whole life would be dedicated to serving the nation and Commonwealth\".\n\nHe added: \"Rarely has such a promise been so well kept. Few leaders receive the outpouring of love we have seen.\"\n\nWestminster Abbey is bound up with parts of the Queen's own personal history - it was where she was married and where her coronation took place. Her funeral heard Psalm 23 - The Lord Is My Shepherd, which was sung at her wedding.\n\nAs the abbey service came towards its end, the Last Post was played - by the same musicians who performed it at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral at Windsor last year - before the nation came to a standstill for two minutes' silence.\n\nThe Queen's piper then played a traditional lament before the King stood silently as the national anthem was sung.\n\nAmong the personal touches at the ceremony was a handwritten message from the King, which was placed on top of the coffin in a wreath of flowers cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace, Highgrove House and Clarence House at his request. It read: \"In loving and devoted memory. Charles R.\"\n\nA handwritten card from King Charles was placed on top of his mother's coffin\n\nMembers of the Royal Family walked behind the Queen's coffin in a procession from Westminster Hall\n\nPrince William and Prince Harry walked side-by-side behind their father in the procession\n\nUS President Joe Biden and his wife Jill arrive at Westminster Abbey\n\nThe event was watched on television by millions of people across the country and around the world.\n\nFor those not invited, big screens were put up in cities across the UK, while some cinemas, pubs and other venues showed the event.\n\nThousands lined streets and gathered in parks around the capital to listen to the service, with many moved to tears.\n\nIt was the first state funeral since Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965 and the biggest ceremonial event since World War Two.\n\nPeople lining the procession route in London fell silent for the funeral service\n\nStudents at Gordonstoun School in Moray, where King Charles III once boarded, were among those watching the service\n\nThe funeral was watched worldwide, including at this station in Seoul, South Korea\n\nAfter the funeral, the Queen's coffin was taken by gun carriage to Wellington Arch and then on to its final journey to Windsor Castle and a committal service.\n\nThroughout the route, many thousands of mourners lined up to make their own emotional farewell.\n\nThe procession passed through Horse Guards Parade, where the Queen had presided over scores of many Trooping the Colour ceremonies, and down the Mall - where it was greeted with cheers and applause.\n\nAs the Queen's coffin passed Buckingham Palace for the last time, staff stood outside to say their final goodbyes.\n\nThe funeral cortege then drove the 28 miles from London to Windsor along a route that avoided motorways - to allow as many as possible to pay their final respects.\n\nThousands of people packed Windsor's Long Walk as the Queen made her last journey to the castle, where she and Prince Philip spent the Covid lockdown.\n\nOne of those was Sandy Mar who camped overnight in order to catch a glimpse of the procession.\n\nThe 54-year-old said she was \"very emotional\" when she heard the news that the Queen had died and \"cried like mad\" when she saw the funeral procession.\n\n\"When she passed through the gate I felt very emotional,\" Ms Mar said.\n\n\"I broke down, I cried like mad, I feel like we lost a good lady, we will never see a long-serving Queen like that again.\"\n\nThe Queen's two corgis made an appearance outside the chapel, while her fell pony Emma stood to one side as the procession made its way to the Queen's final resting place.\n\nThe committal service was conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, with a blessing from the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nAs the service neared its end, the crown jeweller removed the instruments of state - the imperial state crown, the orb and sceptre - from the coffin before they were put on the altar, symbolising the end of the Queen's reign.\n\nKing Charles then placed on the coffin a small crimson regimental flag called the Camp Colour - traditionally used to indicate the location of the commanding officer.\n\nThe Lord Chamberlain, former MI5 chief Lord Parker, also \"broke\" his wand of office and placed it on the coffin. The snapping of the staff signals the end of his service to the sovereign as her most senior official in the Royal Household.\n\nThe coffin was then lowered into the royal vault, before the Sovereign's Piper played a lament.\n\nThe Queen was laid to rest on Monday night together with the Duke of Edinburgh at a private family service in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel, a statement on the Royal Family's official website said.\n\nWhen Prince Philip died 17 months ago, his coffin was interred in the Royal Vault of St George's - ready to be moved to the memorial chapel when the Queen died.\n\nThe Queen's parents and sister Princess Margaret are also buried in the vault.\n\nUnlike the rest of the day, the event was not televised. A senior palace official had said previously it would be \"entirely private, given it is a deeply personal family occasion\".", "More than 90 videos and images from the next edition of the Grand Theft Auto franchise have been leaked online by a hacker, the game's developers say.\n\nThe leaked content was posted on Sunday after what is being described as one of gaming's biggest security breaches.\n\nRockstar Games said it remained unclear how the \"network intrusion\" occurred, but confirmed \"early development footage\" from GTA VI had been stolen.\n\nThe footage was put on the GTAForums site by a user called teapotuberhacker.\n\nThe hacker claimed to have gained access to the data by breaching Rockstar's internal feed on the Slack messaging app, and invited executives to negotiate to avoid further leaks.\n\nAdditional revelations could include source code, assets, and testing builds from both GTA 5 and GTA 6, which could be damaging to the company's operations.\n\nWhile the original post has since been removed by moderators, it has been spread widely on social media. Rockstar has reportedly issued takedown orders to remove the footage from YouTube and Twitter.\n\nThe footage showed animation tests, level layouts and some gameplay demonstrations, and it appeared to confirm a long-running rumour that the game will feature the series' first playable female protagonist.\n\nThey also revealed the game's setting in a fictionalised version of Miami which was also the setting on 2002's GTA: Vice City.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the company said it was \"extremely disappointed to have any details of our next game shared with you all in this way\".\n\n\"Our work on the next Grand Theft Auto game will continue as planned and we remain as committed as ever to delivering an experience to you, our players, that truly exceeds your expectations,\" it added.\n\nRockstar confirmed it was developing the game earlier this year, with industry insiders anticipating a 2024 or 2025 release date.\n\nSome fans had speculated that the leak could see the game's release delayed, but executives said they did not anticipate \"any long-term effect on the development of our ongoing projects\".\n\nGTA 5 has sold more than 170 million copies since its release in 2013, making it one of the most successful video games of all time.\n\nIn 2020, its online mode is estimated to have generated more than $900 million (£788 million) alone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As the latest instalment of the Grand Theft Auto launches, Marc Cieslak explores the game's fictional home, Los Santos.", "Union jacks around the UK and the world had been flying at half-mast since the Queen's death\n\nFlags on British government buildings around the world are flying at full-mast once again, as the period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II draws to a close.\n\nThe Queen was buried in a private ceremony in Windsor on Monday evening, following a state funeral in London and military procession to Windsor Castle.\n\nBut the Royal Family will continue to observe another week of mourning.\n\nSenior royals are not expected to carry out any public duties during this time.\n\nFlags at royal residences will remain at half-mast until 08:00 BST on 27 September - the day after their mourning period ends.\n\nBuckingham Palace has said royal household staff, representatives of the household on official duties and troops committed to ceremonial duties will also observe the extended mourning.\n\nA clean-up operation is under way after hundreds of thousands of people across the UK flocked to London to watch the Queen's funeral.\n\nCouncil workers wearing black ribbons and bows were deployed to pick up litter and remove sand on roads around Westminster.\n\nCleaners at Southwark Council in south London worked an extra 24 hours during the time mourners queued to visit the Queen lying-in-state - removing seven tonnes of rubbish in the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch moments from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nOn Monday, world leaders and foreign royalty joined a 2,000-strong congregation at Westminster Abbey for the funeral, where the Dean of Westminster paid tribute to her \"lifelong sense of duty\".\n\nArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby spoke of the affection so many people felt for the late monarch. \"Few leaders receive the outpouring of love we have seen,\" he added.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government were in the abbey - including US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.\n\nRoyal families from around the globe also attended - with kings, queens and emperors from Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, Malaysia and Jordan present.\n\nThousands of people flocked to Windsor to catch a glimpse of the State Hearse driving to St George's Chapel\n\nAfter the funeral, the Queen's coffin was taken by gun carriage to Wellington Arch in London and then on to its final journey via funeral cortege, along a route that avoided motorways to allow as many as possible to pay their final respects.\n\nMany thousands of people lined the streets to see the procession taking her coffin to to Windsor Castle and a committal service.\n\nAs a day of spectacle and mourning drew to a close, the UK's longest-reigning monarch was laid to rest alongside her late husband the Duke of Edinburgh and in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, found inside St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nThe scale of the funeral and mourning arrangements over the 10-day period, which included a miles-long queue snaking along the south bank of the River Thames to see the Queen's lying-in-state, led to what police described as \"probably the biggest operation we're likely to launch in the UK\".\n\nWith thousands flocking into central London and dignitaries from around the world gathering to pay their respects, the funeral represented the \"final and most complex phase\" of the operation, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nMore than 3,000 officers from almost every force in the country were in London to help with the security for the funeral, including snipers stationed on rooftops and armed police, horseback teams and other specialist units patrolling the streets.\n\nThere were 67 arrests made on Monday as part of that police operation for a range of offences.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people queued to visit the Queen lying-in-state in Westminster Hall, with some mourners waiting all night to pay tribute.\n\nCulture Secretary Michelle Donelan said the government was crunching the final figures, but at least 250,000 people are estimated to have stood in line to pay their respects.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"The queue was phenomenal. It was a real team effort to enable people to have that moment to say goodbye. I want to thank everyone involved.\"\n\nPolice officers from around the country were deployed to London to help keep the capital safe\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss said that she was \"hugely honoured\" to have been invited to form a government by the late Queen in her final days.\n\nShe spoke of the \"outpouring of love and warmth\" towards Elizabeth II, adding the events since her death had been a fitting tribute.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's political editor Chris Mason in New York, she said: \"I think the work that's been done by the civil service, by the Royal Household on the funeral, has really paid fitting tribute to somebody who contributed so much to the modern world - not just in Britain, but right, right around the world.\"\n\nThe royal galleries will reopen later this week while the Royal Family continues mourning for another week.\n\nDuring this time, the Royal Family will not do any public engagements unless the King gives special permission.\n\nThe Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace in central London, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Queen's Gallery in Edinburgh will all reopen to visitors on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how the nation said farewell to Queen Elizabeth II", "Questions about Mahsa Amini's death dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday\n\nTehran's police chief says the death of a woman in custody was an \"unfortunate\" incident he does not want repeated.\n\nMahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma last week, hours after morality police held her for allegedly breaking hijab rules.\n\nWitnesses accused officers of beating her, but Police Brig-Gen Hossein Rahimi denied such \"cowardly accusations\".\n\nHer death sparked protests in the capital and western Iran, where two people were reportedly killed in clashes with riot police on Monday.\n\nVideos posted on social media appeared to show a crowd throwing stones in the town of Divandarreh and later running after coming under fire.\n\nOther footage showed protests in the capital, where women removed their headscarves and shouted \"death to the dictator\" - a chant often used in reference to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rana Rahimpour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Amini, an ethnic Kurd who was from the western city of Saqez in Kurdistan province, died in hospital on Friday after spending three days in a coma.\n\nShe was detained outside a metro station in Tehran on Tuesday by morality police. They accused her of breaking the law requiring women to cover their hair with a headscarf, and their arms and legs with loose clothing.\n\nAccording to witnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van that took her to a detention centre.\n\nPolice rejected the allegation and said she suffered \"sudden heart failure\" while waiting with other women at the facility to be \"educated\".\n\nThey released CCTV footage that showed a woman they identified as Ms Amini talking with a female official, who grabs her clothing. She is then seen holding her head with her hands and collapsing to the ground.\n\nThe interior minister said on Saturday that Ms Amini \"apparently had previous physical problems\".\n\nHowever, her father told pro-reform news outlets on Sunday that she was \"fit and had no health problems\". He also said his daughter had suffered bruising to her legs and that the CCTV footage showed an \"edited version\" of events.\n\nOn Monday, Brig-Gen Rahimi expressed sympathy to Ms Amini's family, but insisted that she suffered no physical harm.\n\n\"The evidence shows that there was no negligence or inappropriate behaviour on the part of the police,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe death triggered widespread criticism of the actions of the morality police, which recently launched a crackdown on \"improper clothing\".\n\nProtests erupted in Saqez after her funeral on Saturday, with security forces reportedly opening fire on a crowd that marched towards the local governor's office.\n\nThere were also clashes between protesters and riot police in Sanandaj, Kurdistan's capital, on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nKurdish human rights group Hengaw said on Sunday that at least 38 people were injured in the two cities.\n\nHengaw reported the deaths of two protesters following Monday's clashes in Divandarreh, which is located between Saqez and Sanandaj. It also said a 10-year-old girl was shot in the head in Bukan, a city in West Azerbaijan province.", "The Queen’s coffin came back to the place she called home, Windsor Castle.\n\nIt was driven in the state hearse up the Long Walk, lined up with huge crowds, after an elaborate and sombre procession though London.\n\nSenior members of the Royal Family joined the procession as the state hearse approached St George's Chapel.\n\nKing Charles III, Princess Anne, Princes Andrew and Edward, as well as Princes William and Harry walked behind the hearse.", "As the Chief Executive of BBC News I have the honour to write the closing message on this page of thousands of tributes to Queen Elizabeth II. And it’s a message of thanks to every single person who has taken the time to share their story.\n\nWhen the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, we at the BBC wanted to create a place where people could come together to share their tributes, their photos and recollections.\n\nThe response has been incredible. We have received thousands of touching stories of meeting the Queen, special moments, memories and messages of condolence.\n\nThank you to everyone - from all over the world - for coming together here in this virtual space for very real acts a of remembrance.\n\nLooking at the contributions, the common theme that emerges is that the Queen had a way of making each person she met feel like the most important person in that moment.\n\nThank you again for helping us remember a woman whose promise to serve her people was fulfilled through a life of duty, which touched so many people.", "Four tracks have reopened but services will finish early\n\nServices have started running out of Paddington railway station a day after trains became entangled in overhead power cables.\n\nFour tracks reopened at 09:30 BST after engineers worked overnight but some trains are subject to delays and cancellations.\n\nServices will also finish before 22:00 to allow further work on the lines.\n\nPeople who headed to London and Windsor for the Queen's funeral proceedings on Monday were badly hit by cancellations.\n\nLarge queues also formed at London Waterloo during the afternoon as people tried to make their way home from the capital.\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 Greg McKenzie 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 issues began at about 06:30 after one train became entangled in overhead wires. The same then happened with subsequent services passing through Hayes and Harlington station, with about two miles (3.2km) of cabling damaged.\n\nGreat Western Railway (GWR), Heathrow Express and Elizabeth line services were all affected.\n\nWhile all four tracks are now open, overhead electric wires are only in operation on two of the lines.\n\nThe first Elizabeth line train to Heathrow since Monday morning departed Paddington at 10:17.\n\nNo trains had been able to run from Paddington station to West Drayton and Heathrow Airport, although from early on Tuesday morning there was a shuttle service to Ealing Broadway every 30 minutes.\n\nWhile the disruption continues, National Rail has advised:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nHave you been affected by the disruption at Paddington station? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tears and laughter as MPs and peers pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II\n\nPoliticians from both Houses of Parliament have gathered to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II and share their memories of the late monarch.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss described the Queen as one of the world's greatest-ever leaders, as she opened two days of special tributes in Parliament.\n\nMPs and ex-PMs paid their respects in personal speeches that aroused both tears and laughter in emotional scenes.\n\nA minute's silence was held to remember the Queen after 70 years on the throne.\n\nBoth Houses of Parliament are sitting on Friday and Saturday to allow politicians to pay tribute to the Queen, following her death on Thursday.\n\nFriday's proceedings in Parliament paused at 18:00 BST for MPs and peers to watch the new king, Charles III, deliver a televised address to the nation, his first as monarch.\n\nEarlier, King Charles III was greeted by crowds singing \"God save the king\" outside Buckingham Palace, where he held his first in-person audience with Ms Truss.\n\nOn Saturday, Ms Truss and senior ministers will attend the Accession Council at St James's Palace, where Charles will be formally proclaimed king.\n\nIn Parliament on Friday, MPs and peers from all sides, dressed in dark clothing, paid tribute to the Queen by sharing memories of their own encounters with her.\n\nThere have been many anecdotes about the Queen's wisdom, sense of humour and ability to put people at their ease.\n\nSome MPs laughed uproariously as former Prime Minister Theresa May recalled how mortified she was when the Queen caught her returning a dropped piece of cheese to a plate, as she helped prepare a picnic at Balmoral.\n\n\"I looked at her. She looked at me. And she just smiled. And the cheese remained on the table.\"\n\nBut the session began in solemn fashion, as Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle invited a packed Commons chamber to rise and observe a minute's silence.\n\nMPs stood for a minute's silence as they gathered for tributes to the Queen\n\nAs the silence ended, Sir Lindsay described the Queen as a \"devoted monarch\" who had seen 57 complete sessions of Parliament during her reign in a brief speech.\n\nMs Truss, who was appointed prime minister by the Queen just three days ago at Balmoral, paid tribute to her \"sheer humanity\", which she said had made her \"loved and admired\" all over the world.\n\nShe said her reign had been \"dignified but not distant\" and credited her with re-inventing the British monarchy for the modern age.\n\nThe Queen's successor, her eldest son King Charles III, now carried the \"awesome responsibility\" of the British crown, added the prime minister.\n\n\"The crown endures. Our nation endures. And in that spirit, I say God save the King.\"\n\nCheers of approval erupted from MPs, with some shouting \"God save the King\" from the side gallery in the moments after Ms Truss's speech concluded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss: Queen 'one of the greatest leaders the world has known'\n\nNext to speak was the leader of the Opposition, Labour MP Sir Keir Starmer, who reflected on the tumultuous political events of recent times and the extraordinary national change heralded by the Queen's death.\n\n\"When everything is spinning, a nation requires a still point, when times are difficult, it requires comfort, and when direction is hard to find, it requires leadership,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"The loss of our Queen robs this country of its stillest point, its greatest comfort, at precisely the time we need those things most.\"\n\nHe said the Queen had enjoyed a \"personal relationship with us all\", based on \"total commitment\" to duty and a \"deep devotion to the country, the Commonwealth, and the people she loved\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson - who offered the Queen his resignation as prime minister at Balmoral on Tuesday - reflected on that meeting, saying the late monarch \"was as radiant and as knowledgeable and as fascinated by politics as ever I can remember\".\n\nPraising the late monarch as \"Elizabeth the Great\", he recalled her \"humility\" and, like other former leaders, spoke of informal gatherings with the Royal Family, at Balmoral.\n\n\"Unlike us politicians, with our outriders and our armour-plated convoys, I can tell you as a direct eyewitness that she drove herself in her own car with no detectives and no bodyguard, bouncing at alarming speed over the Scottish landscape to the total amazement of the ramblers and the tourists we encountered.\"\n\nMrs May described her weekly prime ministerial meetings with the Queen as \"a conversation with a woman of experience and knowledge and immense wisdom\".\n\n\"They were also the one meeting I went to, which I knew it would not be briefed out to the media,\" Mrs May said, to laughter from MPs.\n\nHarriet Harman, who is known as Mother of the House, told MPs about the Queen's kindness after she lost her senior government role in 1998.\n\n\"My diary was empty, and my phone stopped ringing. My office was astonished to get a call from Buckingham Palace. No one else wanted to have anything to do with me, but the Queen wanted to see me.\n\n\"I was invited to take tea with the Queen for her to thank me for my service as secretary of state.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May shares an amusing story about how down-to-earth the Queen was\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford used his speech to draw attention to the Queen's well-known affection for Scotland, where she spent her final days at Balmoral Castle.\n\n\"The relationship between Scotland and the Queen was one of shared admiration,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"Indeed, whilst she was everyone's Queen, for many in Scotland, she was Elizabeth, Queen of Scots.\"\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said she was one of the few MPs to remember the Queen's coronation in 1953.\n\nThe veteran Labour MP shared fond memories of the Queen's sense of fun, and choked back tears as she hailed \"a remarkable person, a remarkable monarch\".\n\nMeanwhile in the Lords, the newly appointed leader of Parliament's upper house, Lord True, led tributes to the Queen, calling her an \"anchor of stability in a changing world\".\n\nEnding his moving tribute, Lord True looked poignantly at the sovereign's throne, where the Queen had sat for numerous state openings of Parliament, and said: \"Thank you, Ma'am. May you ever rest in peace as you will ever rest in our hearts.\"\n\nHis words were followed by those of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who spoke of the Queen's \"profound sense of being called by God\" and her dry sense of humour.\n\nAnd former Labour cabinet minister Lord Blunkett recalled how the Queen came to his aid after he ended up facing the wrong way as he knelt during a royal audience.\n\nThe blind peer said the Queen, in a \"careful and never patronising way\" managed to \"gently - by touching my arm - shift me round\".\n\nOn Saturday evening, Parliament will be postponed until after 21 September, during a period of national mourning.", "The new operator of the National Lottery has said it hopes to more-than-double the amount of money allocated for good causes.\n\nAllwyn Entertainment has been formally awarded the licence to run the lottery from February 2024.\n\nIt comes after Camelot, which ran the lottery for 30 years, dropped a legal challenge which was preventing the handover of the £6.4bn contract.\n\nThe Gambling Commission said it can now \"commence the transaction\".\n\nJustin King, chairman of Allwyn, said: \"Today's award formally marks a fresh start for the National Lottery.\n\n\"We have exciting plans for this important and cherished institution, crucially raising even more proceeds for good causes across the country, improving the player experience through the latest technology and ensuring safe participation.\"\n\nAfter losing out on the next licence, Camelot launched a legal challenge in April, claiming that the Gambling Commission had got the decision \"badly wrong\". The commission has said it had run a \"fair and robust\" competition.\n\nThe legal action led to the transfer of the licence to be blocked automatically but this block has now been lifted, the commission said.\n\nAndrew Rhodes, chief executive officer of the Gambling Commission said: \"We are pleased to have officially awarded the fourth licence to Allwyn following a highly successful competition and the court's decision to lift the suspension on the award process.\"\n\nAllwyn Entertainment was formerly known as Sazka. The lottery operator is owned by Czech oil and gas tycoon Karel Komarek. Allwyn runs lotteries in Austria, the Czech Republic and Greece.\n\nThe National Lottery is one of the world's largest lotteries and has raised more than £46bn for good causes across the UK.\n\nIt has also played a part in funding training and facilities over the past three decades for Great Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Mexico's western coast on the same day the country marked the anniversaries of two devastating quakes which killed thousands of people.\n\nThe 7.6 magnitude quake hit the coastal states of Michoacan and Colima shortly after 13:00 local time (18:00 GMT).\n\nSo far, one person is known to have been killed, officials said.\n\nBut on Monday night, US officials issued a tsunami warning for parts of Mexico's western coastline.\n\nThe US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that waves reaching up to 3m (up to 9ft) above the tide level could hit coastal areas overnight.\n\nThe tremors originated at a depth of 15km (9.32 miles), near the town of La Placita de Morelos.\n\nA mandatory evacuation order was issued in Mexico City after the quake, but Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said that so far there had been no reports of damage.\n\nIt came just an hour after the city had held emergency disaster drills. Local resident Karina Suare told the AFP news agency that the strong shakes \"felt terrible\".\n\nPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador tweeted that he had spoken with Michoacan's Governor Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla and been assured that there were only reports of \"material damage\" to the region.\n\nEarlier, Mr López Obrador had taken part in a flag raising ceremony to commemorate the victims of two previous deadly earthquakes.\n\nIn 1985, tremors with a magnitude of 8.0 hit the capital, Mexico City. Thousands of people were killed, with wide-ranging estimates of the final toll. Hundreds of buildings collapsed and the event is said to have caused between $3bn and $4bn (£2.6bn and £3.5bn) worth of damage.\n\nAnd in 2017, some 370 people were killed in the city of Puebla in central Mexico after it was rocked by a 7.1 magnitude quake, which also saw more than 40 buildings collapse.\n\nErnesto Lanzetta, a local business owner in Mexico City, eluded to the conspicuous nature of the date, telling Reuters news agency that \"there's something about the 19th\".", "Pop singer Ed Sheeran has paid tribute to Jamal Edwards, saying he owed his career to his late friend's support.\n\nThe star was speaking at a memorial for Edwards, who founded the online music platform SBTV and was made an MBE for services to music in 2014.\n\nThe entrepreneur died in February at the age of 31.\n\n\"I really don't think I would have been given the opportunities that I was given had it not been for Jamal putting his arm around me,\" Sheeran said.\n\n\"I was slogging on the acoustic singer-songwriter scene for a very long time, just blending in... And Jamal was this sort of tastemaker.\"\n\nEdwards gave Sheeran his first break on in 2010, getting him to perform the future single You Need Me, I Don't Need You on his YouTube channel.\n\nThat video was how the star's manager, Stuart Camp, and record label Atlantic first discovered him.\n\n\"A lot of people assume that [because] I write songs and I perform, I probably would\" have become famous anyway, Sheeran said.\n\n\"I actually don't agree with that... I was one of many.\n\n\"I really don't think I would have been allowed through certain doors if it hadn't been for Jamal,\" he continued, adding: \"He was just all about finding people and showing people new opportunities, at a time where the industry was mostly based in London.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTuesday's memorial also served as the inaugural fundraising event for the Jamal Edwards Self-Belief Trust, which aims to help young people at risk of homelessness, and to provide entry points to the media industry for people who might not otherwise have the opportunity.\n\n\"His generosity is what we want to continue,\" his mother, the Loose Women presenter Brenda Edwards, told BBC News.\n\n\"He was always about championing young people. That was his main aim.\"\n\nEdwards had also devoted his free time to helping the homeless, she added.\n\n\"He would go to the homeless shelter and give food out and give talks to young people every single Christmas. I would cook Christmas dinner... and he wouldn't be back until 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night - and we'd have to wait until he came back.\n\n\"So we're just going to try and do our best to continue exactly what he's done,\" she added. \"Nobody can do what Jamal did, but I'm going to give it a good try.\"\n\nEdwards founded SBTV \"on a £20 phone\" while he was still at school - but the channel went on to launch the careers of artists like Dave, Skepta, Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sandé.\n\nIt was pivotal in documenting and promoting the rise of London's grime scene, which Edwards saw as \"like the punk movement, in terms of lyrics and rebellious attitude\".\n\nAs his fortune grew, he expanded into other entrepreneurial ventures, often with a focus on improving the lives of disadvantaged young people; and shared his experiences in the best-selling book Self Belief: How to Be a Success on Your Own Terms.\n\nHe died suddenly in February from a heart attack after taking cocaine and drinking alcohol, a coroner concluded.\n\nEdwards' mother, Brenda, and Tracey Parry-Knight, CEO of the Jamal Edwards Trust, gave a heartfelt and emotional speech\n\nTuesday's memorial, held in London's new Here at Outernet venue, also saw performances from Jessie Ware, Lewis Capaldi and Max Cyrus, with Hollywood star Terry Crews hosting the gala.\n\nThe event featured a star-studded auction which had a host of \"money-can't-buy experiences\" including a meal-for-two with Luther star Idris Elba, and a David Beckham-signed Inter Miami t-shirt.\n\nOrganisers said the event raised more than £100,000 on the night.\n\nCrews, who is best known for the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, said he had first met Edwards on a promotional trip to London in 2014.\n\n\"We did the media thing but afterwards, we started to talk. And I just was like, 'Man, I love what you're about. I love everything you're doing. How can I help you?\n\n\"So we exchanged numbers, and every time I came to London ever since, I sat down with Jamal and hung out with him.\n\n\"We had all these visions and all these plans... And man, when I found out that he passed, I couldn't believe it.\"\n\nCrews said he wanted to be involved in the fundraiser to \"to continue the mission that Jamal started\", calling him a \"visionary\" who had changed hundreds of people's lives.\n\nJessie Ware, who dedicated a cover of What You Won't Do For Love to Edwards, agreed that he had left a significant impact on Britain's music scene.\n\n\"He was the platform for so many artists that are leading the way in music,\" she said, remembering him as a \"generous, warm, funny\" friend, with whom she shared a dance at Sheeran's wedding.\n\n\"His legacy lives everywhere, which is such a special, important thing,\" she added.\n\n\"I'm sure he'll be somewhere watching this [event] and be really annoyed that he's not in the room, on the dance floor.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A man has denied murdering a university student who went missing from her Bradford home earlier this year.\n\nThe body of Somaiya Begum, 20, was found near Fitzwilliam Street on 6 July after she had been reported missing two weeks earlier.\n\nMohammed Khan, 52, of Thornbury Road, appeared by video link at Bradford Crown Court on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to murder.\n\nA trial date has been set at the crown court for 28 February 2023.\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.", "Blooms of gold, pink and deep burgundy, sitting amid rich green foliage, adorned the Queen's coffin during her funeral service. The colourful flowers and plants, taken from the gardens of royal properties, were chosen for their symbolism.\n\nAt King Charles III's request, the wreath for Her Majesty's funeral contained flowers and foliage cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House in London - and Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.\n\nIt included foliage chosen for its symbolism:\n\nIn among the flowers was a handwritten card which read: \"In loving and devoted memory, Charles R.\"\n\nThe Imperial State Crown, and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, were on top of the coffin with the wreath\n\nThe Queen's coffin was carried into Westminster Abbey\n\nThe handwritten card from King Charles: \"In loving and devoted memory, Charles R\"\n\nThe flowers in the Queen's funeral wreath featured scented pelargoniums, garden roses, autumnal hydrangea, sedum, dahlias and scabious, all in shades of gold, pink and deep burgundy, with touches of white, to reflect the colours in the Royal Standard flag on which it sat.\n\nRoyal funeral wreaths have traditionally been sombre, in white and green tones, says Gemma Kavanagh, from London florist Moyses Stevens, but the colours of the flowers can also be chosen to reflect a flag - which is what we saw on Monday.\n\nKing Charles is well-known for his commitment to the environment and, at his request, the wreath was made in a sustainable way - without the use of floral foam but, instead, created in a nest of English moss and oak branches.\n\nRosemary, a herb, has long been a symbol of remembrance because herbalists thought it was good for memory, says Prof Fiona Stafford, author of The Brief Life of Flowers. \"But rosemary is also associated with love and loyalty, and it was used for marriage bouquets or for burials, as well for strewing on the dead. So it's a really, really appropriate one to be part of the wreath,\" she says.\n\nRosemary also featured when the King gave his first TV address to the nation. He was flanked by a portrait of his mother on one side and a small silver vase with sweet peas and sprigs of rosemary on the other.\n\nThe Queen loved flowers from her garden - every Monday, the gardeners at Buckingham Palace would send up a fresh posy of flowers for her desk when she was in residence. Gardener Alan Titchmarsh recalled in an article that the Queen \"loved primroses, lily-of-the-valley and other modest blooms far more than elaborate exotics; something that speaks volumes about her personality\".\n\nUnlike Monday's colourful wreath, more traditional white funeral wreaths sat atop the Queen's coffin on her final journey from Balmoral, via Edinburgh, to Westminster Hall in London. But all included personal flowers cut from royal gardens.\n\nWhen the Queen's coffin left Balmoral Castle, it was accompanied by a wreath made of dahlias, sweet peas, phlox, white heather and pine fir, all collected by her staff from the Balmoral Estate. The sweet peas echoed the Queen's choice of flowers for her husband, Prince Philip's wreath in 2021.\n\nThe wreath on top of Her Majesty's coffin in Scotland was more white\n\nWhen she was lying in state in Westminster Hall, the wreath included pine from the gardens at Balmoral - and pittosporum, lavender and rosemary from the gardens at Windsor.\n\nFlowers on top of the coffin in Westminster Hall\n\nThe Queen was buried with Prince Philip in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, Windsor on Monday. The flowers in St George's Chapel included:", "Train drivers and railway workers are set to stage the largest strike to date as part of a long-running row over pay.\n\nMembers of the Aslef and RMT unions will walk out on 1 October in order to bring the rail network to an \"effective standstill\", union bosses said.\n\nJust 10% of services are likely to run on Saturday, with travel to and from the London Marathon as well as the Tory Party conference potentially affected.\n\nTrain drivers will then take a second day of industrial action on 5 October.\n\nAslef, which is the union for train drivers, has confirmed that 9,000 drivers at 12 train companies across the country will walk out on both 1 and 5 October.\n\nMeanwhile the RMT, which represents rail workers including guards and signalling staff, said it has given notice to Network Rail, which maintains the country's railways, as well as to 14 train companies that its 40,000 members will strike on 1 October.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, the industry body representing train operators, claimed that \"thousands\" of runners taking part in the London Marathon could have their journeys disrupted.\n\nThe race is on 2 October which is not a strike day but services could be disrupted following industrial action because trains are not in the correct locations.\n\nMany participants may also travel ahead of the event.\n\n\"These strikes will once again hugely inconvenience the very passengers the industry needs to support its recovery from the ongoing impact of the pandemic,\" said the Rail Delivery Group.\n\nThe Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, from 2 October to 5 October, is also expected to be hit by disruption and cancelled services.\n\nThe latest strike action comes after a series of large-scale walk outs in recent months as unions seek pay increases in line with the rising cost of living.\n\nRail bosses claim they want to give workers pay rises but they and the government insist changes are needed to \"modernise\" the railway, to end some working practices and to save money.\n\nThe RMT said its decision to hold further strikes was due to \"no further offers from the rail industry to help come to a negotiated settlement\".\n\nMick Lynch, the union's general secretary, said the large-scale action would send a \"clear message to the government and employers that working people will not accept continued attacks on pay and working conditions at a time when big business profits are at an all-time high\".\n\n\"We want a settlement to these disputes where our members and their families can get a square deal. And we will not rest until we get a satisfactory outcome,\" he added\n\nTrain drivers' union Aslef, gave notice of the latest strike to the train companies on Friday, but did not make a a public announcement at the time now \"as a mark of respect for the monarch\".\n\nA strike had been planned for 15 September, but was postponed following the announcement of the Queen's death\n\nThe union said it had successfully negotiated pay deals with nine train companies this year, but remained in dispute with some firms which it claimed hadn't offered any deal and where drivers hadn't had a pay increase since 2019.\n\n\"We would much rather not be in this position. We don't want to go on strike - withdrawing your labour, although a fundamental human right, is always a last resort for this trade union - but the train companies have been determined to force our hand, said Mick Whelan, Aslef's general secretary.\n\nThe BBC understands members of the TSSA union are also expected to strike on 1 October, but this has not been officially confirmed.\n\nIn separate disputes, Arriva Rail London members, Hull Trains and bus workers at First Group Southwest will also take strike action on October 1st.\n\nIt's likely that about 10% of usual Saturday services will be able to run on 1 October. For the first time in the ongoing wave of strike action, both Aslef and the RMT will strike on the same day, meaning the number of trains running could be half of previous RMT strikes.\n\nThe rail industry will now be putting together their contingency plans, with more detail expected at the end of the week.\n\nWhat gives the RMT strikes such nation-wide impact is the involvement of Network Rail signallers, which means a fraction of usual trains can run even in areas where train companies are not directly involved in strike action. When Aslef's train drivers get involved, few or no trains at all can run on affected train operators' routes.\n\nIf the strikes go ahead, these will also be the first train strikes since Anne-Marie Trevelyan replaced Grant Shapps as Transport Secretary.\n\nShe has already invited the general secretaries of Aslef, RMT and TSSA for meetings. This signals a desire to be seen to take a less adversarial approach than her predecessor. However, it doesn't mean the substance of the government's position has changed.\n\nHow will you be affected by the rail strikes? 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch moments from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nA peak audience of around 28 million viewers watched the Queen's funeral in the UK on Monday, making it one of the country's biggest ever TV events.\n\nMore than 50 UK channels broadcast the service, as the nation paused to pay a final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe overall audience peaked at 12:25 BST, as her coffin was carried through the streets from Westminster Abbey.\n\nAround 20 million people watched on BBC One at that time, while ITV's audience numbers peaked at 5.3 million.\n\nThe BBC says 32.5m viewers watched at least three minutes of its coverage.\n\nThe overnight figures from ratings body Barb do not include all viewers watching through streaming apps like BBC iPlayer and ITV Player, or those who saw it on big screens outdoors or in cinemas, churches or pubs.\n\nThe world's media broadcast from outside Westminster Abbey\n\nAn average of 26.2 million viewers watched the Westminster Abbey funeral service between 11:00 and 12:00 across all channels, with 18.5 million of those watching on the BBC.\n\nIn comparison, Princess Diana's funeral in 1997 had more than 32 million UK viewers.\n\nA similar number are thought to have watched England's World Cup victory in 1966, although that occurred before the modern TV ratings system began.\n\nAlmost 27.7 million watched Boris Johnson's Prime Ministerial statement on 10 May 2020, when he set out a plan to ease the first Covid lockdown.\n\nAnd the London 2012 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies each attracted almost 24.5 million viewers.\n\nThe TV ratings don't include those who watched the service in churches, cinemas and on outdoor big screens\n\nMonday's royal funeral was shown live across most BBC channels - with a signed version on BBC Two - and all ITV and Sky stations.\n\nChildren's channels CBBC and CBeebies stuck with their usual programmes, while Channel 5 broadcast the Emoji Movie and Stuart Little - drawing both criticism and praise from parents online.\n\nChannel 4 chose to broadcast the Queen's coronation from 1953 and other royal documentaries.\n\nMost commercial channels did not air adverts on the day, meaning the increased viewing did not result in a financial benefit.\n\nThe BBC's coverage of the funeral and processions through London was anchored by Huw Edwards, with David Dimbleby taking over when the cortege reached Windsor for a later committal service.\n\nDimbleby was following in the footsteps of his father Richard, who played a similar on-air role at the funeral of George VI in 1952 and the Queen's coronation the following year.\n\nThe Queen's funeral was on the front pages of Tuesday's newspapers\n\nKirsty Young was also on the BBC presenting team on Monday, while Tom Bradby and Julie Etchingham led the coverage on ITV. Anna Botting and Dermot Murnaghan were on air for Sky, and Alastair Stewart led the GB News team.\n\n\"This was a reminder once again of what quality national broadcasters we have,\" wrote the Times' TV critic Carol Midgeley. \"From Fergal Keane's gentle, poetic voiceover to Alastair Bruce's wealth of knowledge on Sky News, none of them messed up or misspoke despite the huge potential to do so during such a long, nerve-racking live event.\"\n\nMany observers commended the commentators for knowing when to let the pictures and sounds of the occasion tell the story.\n\n\"The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II was at its most poignant, and its most beautiful, when the broadcasters said nothing at all,\" wrote the Daily Telegraph's Anita Singh.\n\nThe BBC said a total of 32.5 million people tuned in to Monday's events across its channels and live iPlayer feed for at least three minutes.\n\nHundreds of millions more are likely to have watched the proceedings around the world, with Piers Morgan providing commentary on Fox News in the US and Christiane Amanpour among the line-up on CNN.", "Tears were shed when the Sri Lankans reconnected with loved ones by phone\n\nUkraine's recapture of the city of Izyum has brought multiple allegations of atrocities under Russian occupation. Among the accounts emerging is that of a group of Sri Lankans held captive for months. Here, they tell their story.\n\n\"We thought we would never get out alive,\" says Dilujan Paththinajakan.\n\nDilujan was one of seven Sri Lankans captured by Russian forces in May. The group had just set out on a huge walk to safety from their homes in Kupiansk, north-eastern Ukraine, to the relative safety of Kharkiv, some 120km (75 miles) away.\n\nBut at the first checkpoint they came across, they were captured by Russian soldiers. The Sri Lankans were blindfolded, their hands tied, and taken to a machine tool factory in the town of Vovchansk, near the Russian border.\n\nIt was the start of a four-month nightmare which would see them kept prisoner, used as forced labour, and even tortured.\n\nWARNING: You may find some of the details below about abuse distressing.\n\nThe group had come to Ukraine to find work, or study. Now, they were prisoners, surviving on very little food, only allowed to use the toilet once a day for two minutes. On the occasions they were allowed to shower, that too was restricted to just two minutes.\n\nThe men - mainly in their 20s - were all kept in one room. The only woman in the group, 50-year-old Mary Edit Uthajkumar, was kept separately.\n\nMary Edit Uthajkumar, 50, said months of solitary confinement had taken a toll\n\n\"They locked us in a room,\" she said \"They used to beat us when we went to take a shower. They didn't even allow me to meet the others. We were stuck inside for three months.\"\n\nMary, her face already scarred by a car bomb in Sri Lanka, has a heart condition, but didn't receive any medicine for it.\n\nBut it was the impact of the solitude which really took its toll.\n\n\"Being alone, I was so tense,\" she says. \"They said I was having mental health issues and gave me tablets. But I didn't take them.\"\n\nOthers have been left with even more visible reminders of what they had endured: one of the men removed his shoes to show his toenails had been torn off with pliers. A second man reportedly also suffered that torture.\n\nThe group also spoke of being beaten for no apparent reason - of Russian soldiers who would get drunk and then attack them.\n\n\"They hit me across the body many times with their guns,\" said 35-year-old Thinesh Gogenthiran. \"One of them punched me in the stomach and I was in pain for two days. He then asked me for money.\"\n\n\"We were very angry and so sad - we cried every day,\" Dilukshan Robertclive, 25, explained.\n\n\"The only thing that kept us going was prayer - and family memories.\"\n\nRussia has denied targeting civilians or committing war crimes, but the Sri Lankans allegations come alongside many other reports of atrocities committed by Russian occupying forces.\n\nUkraine has been exhuming bodies from a burial site in forest near Izyum, some of which show signs of torture. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said \"more than 10 torture chambers have already been found in the liberated areas of Kharkiv region, in various cities and towns\".\n\nThe liberated Sri Lankans with Ukrainian police in Kharkiv\n\nFreedom for the seven Sri Lankans finally came when the Ukrainian military began retaking areas in eastern Ukraine earlier this month - including Vovchansk.\n\nOnce again, the group was able to begin their walk towards Kharkiv. Alone, and without their phones, they had no way to contact their families.\n\nBut finally, their luck changed: someone spotted them along the way and called the police. One officer offered them their phone.\n\nThe moment Ainkaranathan Ganesamoorthi, 40, saw his wife and daughter on the screen he broke down in tears. Other calls followed, more tears flowed. Eventually, the group huddled around the surprised police chief, engulfing him in a hug.\n\nThe group have been taken to Kharkiv, where they are getting medical attention and new clothes, while sleeping in a rehabilitation centre with a pool and gym.\n\n\"Now I feel very, very happy,\" says Dilukshan, with a broad smile.", "The new culture secretary has said she will \"re-examine the business case\" for privatising Channel 4.\n\nMichelle Donelan's predecessor Nadine Dorries set out plans to take the broadcaster out of public ownership.\n\nMs Donelan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she was \"making sure that we still agree with that decision\".\n\nThe proposal has faced opposition from the channel's executives, while TV production companies have warned it would have a \"devastating impact\".\n\nMs Donelan said on Tuesday: \"As the prime minister said, we do need to re-examine the business case and that's certainly what I'm doing.\n\n\"We're looking especially at the business case for the sale of Channel 4 and we're making sure that we still agree with that decision.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm the type of politician that bases their decisions on evidence, that bases their decisions on listening, and that's what I'll be doing over the coming weeks.\"\n\nThe future of channel 4 has widely debated\n\nMs Donelan, who took over at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) two weeks ago, was also asked about BBC funding, saying it was \"no secret\" that she had \"been a sceptic for a long time of the licence fee\".\n\nShe said the BBC's \"unique\" coverage of the death and funeral of the Queen had underlined how important it was to make the corporation \"sustainable\" in a changing media landscape.\n\n\"For me that means it's even more important to make sure the BBC is sustainable in the long-term,\" she said.\n\n\"When you look at platforms like Amazon, like Netflix, it makes you question whether in the modern-age, when the media landscape is changing so remarkably, that it is sustainable. We need to ask that question.\"\n\nShe added: \"The prime minister spoke in the [leadership] campaign about the importance of decriminalising not paying the licence fee - we know that it particularly impacts women. We know the ramifications of that.\n\n\"These are big, big issues that we should be questioning and looking at again.\"", "The Queen's last two corgis have appeared during her coffin's procession to Windsor Castle, as if out waiting for their mistress's return.\n\nMuick and Sandy were pictured in the quadrangle at Windsor Castle as she approached St George's Chapel.\n\nThe dogs - one on a red lead and one on a blue - were held by two pages in red tailcoats.\n\nEmma, the Queen's fell pony, was also seen, standing on grass in a gap in the flowers along the Long Walk.\n\nThe monarch was patron of the Fell Pony Society for 40 years, first bred one in 1952, and was seen riding them even into her later years.\n\nThe Queen's coffin passes by her fell pony Emma in the procession up the Long Walk, Windsor\n\nEmma stood amongst the blooms left for the Queen\n\nThe Queen loved corgis throughout her adult life, having been given her first, Susan, on her 18th birthday.\n\nIn the decades that followed, more than 30 of Susan's descendants numbered among her dogs and she gave a huge boost to the popularity of the breed.\n\nThe Queen's dogs were often at her side throughout meetings at Royal houses and palaces.\n\nThe two dogs have been entrusted to the care of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York following the Queen's death.", "Mike Ashley is to step down from the board of Frasers Group, owner of the Sports Direct chain that the retail billionaire founded 40 years ago.\n\nMr Ashley had already handed over the running of the group to his son-in-law Michael Murray earlier this year.\n\nFrasers said Mr Ashley would not be standing for re-election as a director, and would leave the board next month.\n\nThe company also announced that Mr Ashley will provide the company with £100m worth of funding.\n\nIn a statement, the firm also said Mr Ashley would continue to be available to the board and management for advice \"when called upon\".\n\nMr Murray, Frasers' chief executive, said Mr Ashley had \"built an incredible business over the past 40 years\".\n\nMr Ashley has been one of the High Street's most prominent and colourful figures since founding his business. He first entered the fitness industry as a squash coach before opening his first High Street sports shop in Maidenhead, Berkshire, in 1982.\n\nThe Sports Direct business grew as Mr Ashley bought up well-known names such as Dunlop, Slazenger and hat-maker Kangol. It is now the UK's largest sportswear retailer, with more than 400 stores.\n\nIn 2007, Mr Ashley floated the business as a public company on the London Stock Exchange in a move which valued it at £2.5bn.\n\nLater that year, his public profile increased when he bought majority control of Newcastle United. However, his tenure was criticised by fans over his ownership style and perceived lack of investment, and he sold his stake in the club in October last year.\n\nAs well as buying brands, the Sports Direct group also bought chains such as lingerie firm Agent Provocateur and luxury fashion chain Flannels.\n\nMike Ashley may be stepping down from the board of Frasers Group but he is by no means out of the picture though. He is still the group's controlling shareholder with a stake of nearly 70% and has agreed to lend the business £100m.\n\nStarting out as a single sportswear shop, his retail empire now includes the likes of Game, Jack Wills, and Evans Cycles.\n\nThe move does, however, mark a significant change of the guard and one which may bring major change to the business, of which Mr Ashley built the foundations for 40 years ago.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Ashley bought the House of Fraser department store chain for £90m and the following year he changed his company's name from Sports Direct International to Frasers Group.\n\nAs his retail empire grew, Mr Ashley frequently courted controversy. His dealings with the City started badly when shares in Sports Direct halved shortly after the company's flotation.\n\nMany investors were unhappy at the way the company was run, but in a Sunday Times interview Mr Ashley called them \"cry babies\", telling the paper: \"Sports Direct should come with a government health warning - this stock is not for the fainthearted.\"\n\nIn 2017, London's High Court heard that the businessman once hosted a management meeting in a pub where he drank 12 pints and vomited into a fireplace.\n\nThe company was also accused of building its success by exploiting workers. In 2016, in a hearing before MPs, Mr Ashley admitted workers at its Derbyshire warehouse had been paid below the minimum wage and that its policy of fining staff for being late was unacceptable.\n\nMr Ashley stepped away from running Frasers Group when he handed over the role of chief executive to Mr Murray in May this year.\n\nMichael Murray, Mike Ashley's son-in-law, took over as chief executive of Frasers Group\n\nShortly after taking over the role, Mr Murray became Mr Ashley's son-in-law after marrying his daughter, Anna, in a lavish ceremony at Blenheim Palace.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in May, Mr Murray said that Mr Ashley was \"not pulling the strings\".\n\n\"We have vocal debates. We agree, we disagree. But ultimately the decision lies with me on the outcome of where we take the company.\"\n\nMr Murray is in line for a £100m pay-out if he can double Frasers' share price to £15 within the next three years.\n\nIn order to get the payment, the company's share price needs to reach £15 for 30 trading days in a row before October 2025. The shares are currently trading at about £7.70.", "Madeleine McCann disappeared while on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007\n\nThe parents of Madeleine McCann have lost the latest stage of a battle over legal judgements made about claims from a Portuguese police detective.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann appealed to the European Court of Human Rights over a Portuguese decision in their libel challenge over Goncalo Amaral's claims.\n\nHe alleged in a book that they were involved in their daughter's disappearance.\n\nThe McCanns said they were \"naturally disappointed\" with the court ruling.\n\nThree-year-old Madeleine disappeared from a holiday apartment in the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.\n\nMr Amaral was originally the lead detective on the case, but he was removed after criticising British police.\n\nThe McCanns were initially placed under investigation by Portuguese police, but were removed as suspects in the case in July 2008.\n\nThe couple sued Mr Amaral for libel and were awarded £358,000 in damages by a Portuguese court, but an appeal against the decision was later upheld by the country's Supreme Court.\n\nIn their case at the European Court, the couple said the Portuguese courts had failed to uphold their right to a private life and their presumption of innocence.\n\nIn a judgement on Tuesday, however, the court said that the couple were already public figures before Mr Amaral's book was published and that any damage to their reputation had been caused by the fact they had been declared suspects, not Mr Amaral's claims.\n\nIt also said that, in its ruling, Portugal's Supreme Court had not \"made comments implying any guilt... or even suggesting suspicions against\" the McCanns, and so their complaint concerning their right to be presumed innocent was \"manifestly ill-founded\".\n\nIn a statement issued through their lawyers, the couple said: \"The focus is now rightly on the search for Madeleine and her abductors.\n\n\"We are grateful for the ongoing work by the British, German and Portuguese police.\n\n\"We hope that, with the help of the public, hard work and diligence we can eventually find those responsible for Madeleine's disappearance and bring them to justice.\"\n\nA German man, Christian Brueckner, has previously been declared an official suspect in the case.\n\nHe is serving a prison sentence in Germany for separate offences and had denied involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.", "Barristers on strike in England and Wales have been urged to return to work during their first round of negotiations with the justice secretary.\n\nBrandon Lewis said \"constructive\" talks were held with the Criminal Bar Association and the Bar Council but justice should \"get moving\".\n\nThe strikes over pay for legal aid work are set to delay thousands of cases.\n\nCBA chairman Kirsty Brimelow said the group was \"willing to negotiate\".\n\nShe told MPs in September that barristers felt there was \"no alternative\" to strike action after meetings with Mr Lewis's predecessor Dominic Raab were requested \"repeatedly\" to no avail. Some meetings were held with junior ministers and Ministry of Justice officials.\n\nMr Lewis, who was appointed in his new role two weeks ago, said: \"I met the Criminal Bar Association and Bar Council to emphasise the need for striking barristers to return to work and get justice moving again.\n\n\"It was a constructive initial meeting and discussions will continue to deliver for victims.\"\n\nThe meeting was initially meant to take place last week but was delayed after the Queen's death.\n\nThe CBA is asking for a 25% rise in pay for legal aid work, representing defendants who could not otherwise afford lawyers.\n\nMembers have rejected the government's 15% pay offer, saying it would not kick in immediately or apply to existing cases.", "ITV presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were seen in Westminster Hall on Friday\n\nThis Morning host Holly Willoughby has said \"we would never jump a queue\" after being accused of skipping the line for the Queen's lying-in-state.\n\nThe ITV presenter and her co-host Phillip Schofield were accused online of avoiding the wait to file past the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall.\n\nPeople stood for many hours in a line that stretched miles across London.\n\nIn a special This Morning programme on the Queen, Willoughby said their visit was \"strictly for reporting\".\n\nThe social media backlash came after the presenters were spotted on Friday on a live feed that streamed the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday morning during a segment recapping events since the Queen's death, Willoughby said she and her co-host were accredited as broadcasters to be able to enter the hall.\n\nShe said: \"Like hundreds of accredited broadcasters and journalists we were given official permission to access the hall.\n\n\"It was strictly for the purpose of reporting on the event for millions of people in the UK who have not been able to visit Westminster in person.\n\n\"The rules were that we would be quickly escorted around the edges to a platform at the back.\n\n\"In contrast, those paying respect walked along a carpeted area beside the coffin and were given time to pause.\n\n\"None of the broadcasters and journalists there took anyone's place in the queue and no-one filed past the Queen. We of course respected those rules.\n\n\"However, we realise that it may have looked like something else, and therefore totally understand the reaction. Please know that we would never jump a queue.\"\n\nThe segment also showed Willoughby and Schofield outside Parliament reflecting on the atmosphere of the lying-in-state they had just witnessed inside Westminster Hall.\n\nAccredited journalists were escorted to an area at the back of that hall where they could gather material for a set time.\n\nIn the live stream footage, the presenters were seen wearing lanyards with press passes.\n\nWilloughby's statement comes after people complained on social media that the two presenters appeared to have been \"fast-tracked\", in contrast to some members of the public who had to wait overnight in long queues.\n\nOne person who had waited in line said: \"My 12-year-old daughter queued with us for 13 hours overnight...\n\n\"I can't believe this sorry excuse for a justification from ITV and that Holly and Phillip have gone along with this.\"\n\nComparisons were also made with former England captain David Beckham and fellow ITV presenter Susanna Reid, who queued along with the public for hours.\n\nSchofield did not comment on the backlash during Tuesday's programme but said observing the Queen's lying-in-state was one of the \"most profound moments\" in his life.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"Any allegations of improper behaviour are categorically untrue.\"\n\nIn a statement a UK Parliament spokesperson confirmed they did give media accreditation to journalists who requested access to Westminster Hall \"for the purpose of reporting on the event for the millions of people in the UK and globally who haven't been able to visit Westminster in person\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: David Beckham's 12-hour wait to see the Queen", "Prepare for the roaring return of politics.\n\nFamilies, businesses and the country face grave threats: soaring prices, crippling fuel costs and the prospect of recession.\n\nIt is two-and-a-half months - 76 days - since Boris Johnson said he was resigning as prime minister, draining his already crippled government of its remaining authority.\n\nAnd then, a little over 48 hours after Liz Truss became prime minister, the Queen died. What many described as a zombie government had been replaced by a Trappist one; politics understandably falling silent during the period of mourning.\n\nBut, with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth now over, the arguments resume - and the demands for action will be loud.\n\nThe prime minister is already on her first foreign trip in the job, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.\n\nWhile there, Ms Truss will meet plenty of world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, for a re-arranged one-on-one conversation that had originally been scheduled to happen in London.\n\nNo matter that it felt like the United Nations gathered in London for the funeral of the late Queen. This is the actual UN.\n\nIt will mean the returning political conversation will have a diplomatic air - in its opening few hours at least - rather than an intense domestic scrappiness.\n\nBut that will be back before you know it. This is a government that wants to give the impression that it is in a hurry, and it has catching up to do.\n\nSo there will be a blitz of announcements between now and the weekend.\n\nWe're told the new government's overriding mission is delivering economic growth. And, in the short term, there are two other priorities: help with energy bills and a plan for the NHS.\n\nExpect a sense of continuity Johnson on some issues, such as support for Ukraine.\n\nAnd expect a hawkish scepticism about China from Ms Truss when she addresses the UN.\n\nThe long journey from the warmth of David Cameron taking Chinese President Xi Jinping for a pint just seven years ago to the current downright frostiness continues.\n\nOn the economy, there is a markedly different approach. The strategy is economic growth, even if the hoped-for means of delivering it cause a row.\n\nIt is in that context that we should see the plan to lift the cap on bankers' bonuses, an idea which, in isolation, would appear to many to be politically crazy when so, so many people are struggling to pay for their groceries or fill up their car.\n\nBut expect to hear ministers argue it means the very best (read very best paid bankers in the world) will want to ply their lucrative, economy-expanding trade here again, and in so doing - or at least so the theory goes - pay lots of tax in the UK.\n\nThe call for growth means we'll also hear about fracking and the licensing of drilling for oil in the North Sea, with the added justification of increasing the UK's energy security in an uncertain world.\n\nThese ideas, alongside the tax cuts promised by Ms Truss in her leadership campaign, will be at the core of the mini Budget presented by the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday.\n\nLong gone will be the mantra of balancing the books from the era of Mr Cameron and George Osborne.\n\nInstead, we see the prospect of falling taxes, a vast rise in spending to help with energy bills and little expectation of spending cuts elsewhere.\n\nAnd so key among the tools and techniques deployed in the hope of economic growth: borrowing. Big time.\n\nIncidentally, central to the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's diagnosis of Britain's contemporary problems is a fascinating overlap with his new opponent, Ms Truss - the sclerotic growth of the last decade.\n\nBut expect the suggested remedies and medicines from the two sides to differ considerably. And so the rows will be stark, the ideological dividing lines clear, and the stakes high.\n\nWhat then of energy bills and the NHS?\n\nThe public row about bills may have paused when the Queen died. But the pain did not.\n\nOne reporter friend of mine once told me about news that \"it is not old until it's told\".\n\nThe government's plan to help with energy bills has been announced but it was rapidly overtaken by events at Balmoral, where the Queen died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liz Truss announces energy price guarantee for next two years\n\nThe precise nature and cost of the help hasn't been comprehensively explained, examined and scrutinised. In the coming days, that process will begin - and the plan to help businesses will be set out too.\n\nThe rather more sluggish help for companies compared to households is, those in government explain, because the energy market for businesses is much more complicated.\n\nDespite Ms Truss's initial aversion to what she called \"handouts\", the scale of the crisis had the capacity to bankrupt people and firms - and so bankrupt her government before she began, making a big intervention inevitable.\n\nAnd the intervention is big. It is considerably more expensive than the furlough scheme and, in reality, a blank cheque, for it is impossible to know what the overall cost will be given the fluctuating price of gas.\n\nThe argument inside government is that the alternative would have been more expensive, both in its social costs and on the exchequer.\n\nAnd then there is the NHS. We can expect an announcement about plans for the winter from the new Health Secretary for England and Deputy Prime Minister Thérèse Coffey.\n\nWaits to get an ambulance, waits to get a GP appointment, waits to get an operation are long, long and long for many.\n\nThat matters for millions and, politically, is potentially incredibly dangerous for ministers.\n\nA tough winter for the NHS, the prospect of industrial action looming, added to what we are already seeing in the justice system, leaves some senior figures in the Labour Party pondering whether a critique of the government centred on examples of state failure - where the infrastructure of what ministers manage is simply not working - would hit home.\n\nIf examples of this really start to stack up, the political peril for the prime minister is obvious.\n\nThe best ministers can hope for is to keep the NHS out of the headlines. That would be a metric of success. But achieving it will, I suspect, be near impossible.\n\nMs Truss has inherited a party that has spent the summer scrapping with itself and where a chunk of her backbenchers are sceptical of both her and her economic strategy.\n\nShe inherits, too, a party that has been in government for 12 years.\n\nEternal youth is no easier to achieve in politics than it is in life, although Conservative MPs hope yet another facelift at the top, a new leader, may tempt the electorate to look at them afresh.\n\nThe opinion polls, for now at least, suggest the new prime minister has quite the challenge ahead.\n\nLabour, the Scottish National Party and the Liberal Democrats each have their tails up and a general election is just two-ish years away.\n\nFrom the silence and solemnity of the last 10 days, politics is now back and it's going to be noisy.", "The Treasury is considering removing a cap on bankers' bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules.\n\nSources said no final decisions had been made, but confirmed chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng considered it a way of making London a more attractive place for global banks to do business.\n\nCity bosses have long complained about the EU-wide bonus rules which cap bonuses at twice an employee's salary.\n\nThey say they lead to higher base pay that pushes up banks' fixed costs.\n\nThose costs cannot be adjusted in line with the firm's financial performance, they add, making the UK less attractive than the US or Asia.\n\nPeople close to Mr Kwarteng confirmed reports in the Financial Times that the new chancellor is considering the move.\n\nCritics have argued that uncapped bonuses lead to the kind of excessive risk taking that spawned the financial crisis of 2008.\n\nBut others argue that other new rules that can hold senior managers personally and potentially criminally responsible for misconduct, plus the ability to claw back bonuses years after they are granted, achieve a sufficient disincentive.\n\nTaking the lid off bankers' pay at a time when many households are facing hardship from the rising cost of living will undoubtedly provoke outrage in many quarters.\n\nThe proposal \"sends a rather confused signal when people are being squeezed in terms of the cost of living, and the government is trying to encourage pay restraint in the public sector\", Andrew Sentance, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, told the BBC.\n\n\"To appear to allow bankers to have bigger bonuses at the same time, doesn't look very well timed. There may be some longer term arguments for pursing this policy but I think the timing would be very bad if they did it now.\"\n\nRachel Winter, from Killick & Co, told the BBC: \"It's an absolutely terrible time for this headline when you've got inflation [at] a 40-year high, you've got so many people struggling with the cost of living, do we really want to be reading headlines about banker bonuses?\n\n\"Arguably the banks do pay a lot of tax, so I think the chancellor is looking at ways to boost the UK economy to get more banks to come to London, to stay in London and pay more tax.\"\n\nRemoving the cap is just one of a number of deregulation initiatives being considered.\n\nThe government is also keen to relax rules limiting the amount insurance and pension funds can invest in assets that are harder to sell at short notice - such as long-term infrastructure projects.\n\nThese rules are part of pan-European regulations collectively known as Solvency II.\n\nBut the Bank of England is concerned that relaxing the rules could expose pensioners' savings to greater long-term risk and that lowering the amount of ready cash firms are required to hold could see them pay out any money freed up to their shareholders rather than invest in projects favoured by the government.\n\nPitting the Treasury and the financial services industry against the Bank of England is seen as a key test of the Bank's independence and senior officials at the Bank have privately conceded the fight over Solvency II is a political one they could well lose.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng laid out his \"unashamedly pro-growth plan\" for the economy at a gathering of senior bankers two weeks ago.\n\nHe would argue that the instincts that persuade him to cut banking regulations are the same instincts that persuaded him to throw a £100bn-plus shield over businesses and households to prevent high energy prices causing a job-and-growth-killing recession.", "Ukrainian forces have recaptured swathes of north-eastern Ukraine in a dramatic counter-offensive this month\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he believes Russia's leader is seeking an end to the war he began in Ukraine, and that a \"significant step\" will be made.\n\nHe said his impression from recent talks with Vladimir Putin was that he wanted to \"end this as soon as possible\".\n\nUkraine has recaptured swathes of its territory this month.\n\nThe Turkish leader indicated things were \"quite problematic\" for Russia.\n\nMr Erdogan spoke of having \"very extensive discussions\" with Mr Putin at a summit in Uzbekistan last week.\n\nIn an interview with US broadcaster PBS, the Turkish leader said he gained the impression that the Russian president wanted a speedy end to the war.\n\n\"He is actually showing me that he's willing to end this as soon as possible,\" Mr Erdogan said. \"That was my impression, because the way things are going right now are quite problematic.\"\n\nHe also said 200 \"hostages\" would soon be exchanged between the two sides. He gave no further detail of who would be included in such a prisoner swap.\n\nPresident Erdogan, pictured with President Putin on Saturday, has tried to steer a middle path as an ally of both Russia and Ukraine\n\nMr Erdogan has repeatedly sought to mediate during the war, promoting a \"balanced\" stance for Nato member Turkey, while opposing Western sanctions on Russia.\n\nHe helped the UN mediate a resumption of grain exports from Ukraine and said last week he was trying to organise direct ceasefire talks.\n\nMeanwhile, two months after Russian forces seized control over the entire eastern region of Luhansk, Ukraine has reclaimed part of the territory.\n\nLuhansk's Ukrainian leader Serhiy Haidai said Russian forces had retreated from the village of Bilohorivka - but were doing all they could to dig in elsewhere.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said \"the occupiers are clearly in a panic\".\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Erdogan accused the West of adopting a policy of \"provocation\" towards Russia and warned that the war was unlikely to end \"any time soon\".\n\nLast week the Russian leader said he was open to meeting the Ukrainian president, but that Mr Zelensky was not. He told India's prime minister he wanted to end the fighting \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHowever, Russia has not given any indication that it is prepared to accept Kyiv's demands for a full withdrawal from Ukrainian territory, including areas seized in 2014.\n\nCrimea was annexed by Russia at the time, and now ex-President Dmitry Medvedev has said that Russian-backed separatists should hold \"referendums\" on annexing the territories of Luhansk and Donetsk - which are known as Donbas.\n\nPresident Putin has repeatedly identified \"liberation\" of Ukraine's Donbas region as Russia's main goal. \"Referendums in Donbas are essential,\" said Mr Medvedev, who is now deputy head of Russia's security council.\n\nLocal Russian-backed leaders in Luhansk and Donetsk have also called for urgent referendums, and Ukrainian defence ministry adviser Oleksiy Koptyko suggested they were a \"sign of hysteria\" in Moscow, as well as an attempt to spur Mr Putin into action.\n\nAs well as recapturing much of the Kharkiv region in the north-east, Ukrainian forces have launched a counter-offensive in the southern region of Kherson, forcing its Russian-installed leader to delay a referendum on joining Russia.\n\nAsked by PBS whether Russia should be allowed to keep any territory it had taken since February, and whether that should be part of a peace deal, Mr Erdogan said: \"No, and undoubtedly no.\"\n\nHe also said that \"lands which were invaded will be returned to Ukraine\". It was not clear whether he also included territory held by Russian-backed separatists since 2014.\n\nAsked whether Russia should be allowed to keep Crimea - which it annexed in 2014 - Mr Erdogan said that since then, Turkey had been talking to Mr Putin about returning the peninsula \"to its rightful owners\" but that no progress had been made.", "A man was jailed in 2019 for planning to murder Rosie Cooper\n\nA Labour MP who was the target of a murder plot has stood down to take up a role in the NHS after admitting \"events I have faced have taken their toll\".\n\nWest Lancashire MP Rosie Cooper said the decision to become chairman of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust had come after a \"lot of soul searching\".\n\nJack Renshaw was jailed for life in 2019 for planning to murder the MP.\n\nA court heard the 23-year-old had wanted to \"replicate\" the murder of Jo Cox.\n\nThe far-right extremist pleaded guilty to buying a machete to kill Ms Cooper and making threats to kill police officer Det Con Victoria Henderson.\n\nHis plot was foiled by whistleblower and former National Action member Robbie Mullen.\n\nMs Cooper said she had taken the decision after considerable \"soul searching and reflection\".\n\n\"The events I have faced over the last few years are well documented and undoubtedly have taken their toll,\" she said.\n\nJack Renshaw was foiled when a whistleblower revealed his plans\n\nShe said it had been \"an incredible honour and privilege\" to have served the people of West Lancashire for the last 17 years.\n\n\"I have loved every minute, even in the most difficult times,\" she said.\n\nMs Cooper had recently been re-selected to stand in her constituency as the Labour Party candidate in the next general election.\n\nA by-election is expected later in the autumn.\n\nBut the Labour councillor said she understood why Ms Cooper, who previously worked for the NHS and has served on the Health and Social Care Committee, had taken on the role.\n\nMs Gibson said the MP had been a health campaigner for many years and it was \"something close to her heart\".\n\nShe praised her work, including her campaign for a railway station in Skelmersdale and her push to make British Sign Language a recognised language after her own experience of growing up with deaf parents.\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 Treasury is refusing to publish a forecast of the UK's economic outlook alongside this Friday's mini-Budget.\n\nIndependent forecaster the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has already provided a draft to Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, the BBC understands.\n\nThe Treasury Select Committee says a forecast is \"vital\" given recent government moves to curb living costs.\n\nThe mini-Budget is expected to see the government reverse a rise in National Insurance and scrap a planned increase in corporation tax, which reports say could cost £30bn.\n\nThe draft forecast the OBR has provided does not include the impact of the energy bill help. It has offered to provide a forecast including this impact, but that has been rejected.\n\nThe fact the offer has not been taken up is raising some concerns about whether the government's tax and spending policy is \"flying blind\", given predictions that the UK is facing a lengthy recession.\n\nMPs on the Treasury Select Committee wrote to the chancellor on Tuesday seeking assurance that an OBR forecast would be published.\n\n\"These forecasts are a vital indicator of the health of the nation's finances, and provide reassurance and confidence to international markets and investors,\" said the committee's chairman, Mel Stride.\n\n\"There has been a deterioration in our economic outlook since the last OBR forecast in March. There have been significant fiscal interventions since then and we are told there will be further significant interventions including major permanent tax cuts to be announced on Friday.\n\n\"Under these circumstances, it is vital that an independent OBR forecast is provided.\"\n\nThe OBR is obliged to produce economic forecasts twice a year, usually accompanying the Autumn Budget and Spring Statement.\n\nOn Friday, there will be no independent assessment about whether permanent tax cuts and some one-off spending increases are consistent with the government's Budget rules.\n\nThe lack of OBR forecast also means it will not cast judgement on the impact of the new tax measures on growth - a key target for the government which wants to increase the trend rate of growth to 2.5%.\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said: \"Given the exceptional circumstances our country faces, we have moved at immense speed to provide significant energy bill support for households and businesses, and are acting swiftly to set out further plans to kickstart economic growth later this week.\n\n\"We remain committed to maintaining the usual two forecasts in this fiscal year, as is required.\"\n\nIn its latest long-term forecast in July, the OBR said trend growth had fallen from 2.2% to 1.4%, partly because of a declining size of the workforce.\n\nIn the City, where in recent weeks the value of the pound sterling has fallen and the cost of borrowing for the UK government has risen, there is some expectation that the Treasury will imminently have to formally increase its \"remit\" for borrowing.\n\nThe Financing Remit is given to the Debt Management Office based on a forecast for borrowing. Extra sales of government loans, known as gilts, also need to be co-ordinated with the Bank of England, which is planning to sell off some of the gilts it owns, as it starts to reverse its long-running programme of stimulus.\n\nGovernment insiders say that the main motivation behind Friday's announcements is to enact the PM's leadership campaign promises as quickly as possible, and that a full forecast will accompany an upcoming Budget statement.\n\nThe cost of the energy package, for example, could vary considerably depending on market prices for gas, and the ability of the government to renegotiate expensive contracts for renewable energy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's seven surviving prime ministers attended Westminster Abbey to bid farewell to the Queen.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Liz Truss was joined by Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Sir Tony Blair, and Sir John Major.\n\nAll seven were pictured seated alongside one another at the funeral with their spouses.\n\nThe Queen's reign spanned the tenure of 15 prime ministers in total, the first of which was Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nAmong her last acts was to accept the resignation of Mr Johnson and invite Ms Truss to form a government.\n\nIn a tribute following the Queen's death, Ms Truss described her as the \"rock on which modern Britain was built\" and said her \"devotion to duty remains an example to us all\".\n\nMrs May was accompanied by her husband Philip, while Mr Johnson attended the service with his wife Carrie\n\nThe service saw Ms Truss deliver a Bible reading, John 14:2, which recounts Jesus's farewell address to his disciples at the last supper.\n\n\"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you,\" it reads.\n\nSir Tony and Sir John could both be seen wearing their stars of the Order of the Garter, the most senior form of knighthood in the British honours system, outranked in precedence only by the Victoria Cross and the George Cross.\n\nAs members of the Privy Council, all seven prime ministers also appeared at the Accession Council ceremony, at which the King was formally proclaimed Britain's monarch, at St James's Palace last week.\n\nEach of them will have spent considerable amounts of time in the Queen's company during their periods in office.\n\nThroughout her reign, the Queen held weekly private audiences with the prime minister of the day, and would also often invite them to visit her at Balmoral Castle during her summer breaks on the estate.\n\nPaying tribute after her death, Mr Brown recalled the Queen's generosity as a host.\n\n\"She made you feel at home by bringing other guests that she knew you would like,\" he said. \"There was a book in your room that she had chosen specially from her library for you to read.\n\n\"That was the kindness and generosity and the considerate nature that she had.\"\n\nSpeaking during celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, Mr Cameron said his time as prime minister had offered \"no finer moment than each week having the almost unique ability to sit down, in private, with Her Majesty and being able to call on her sage advice and wise counsel\".\n\nGordon Brown and Sir Tony Blair served as Labour PMs from 1997 to 2010\n\nSir John Major's wife, Norma, as by his side, while Cherie Blair accompanied Sir Tony\n\nThe service was also attended by hundreds of world leaders and foreign dignitaries, including US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, and heads of government from across the Commonwealth.\n\nArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby delivered a sermon in which he reflected on the nature of public service and leadership.\n\n\"People of loving service are rare in any walk of life,\" he said. \"Leaders of loving service are still rarer.\n\n\"But in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.\"", "A World War Two pilot, who was a prisoner of war at the camp made famous by the film The Great Escape, has died aged 102.\n\nCaptain Vyvyan Howard, from Banbury, was captured and held at the German Stalag Luft III camp after his plane was shot down in 1941.\n\nDuring that time, he aided attempts to dig tunnels under the perimeter fences.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"quiet wisdom\" following his death at a nursing home in Banbury, Oxfordshire.\n\nMr Howard joined the Royal Navy as a pilot shortly before the start of World War Two and was shot down and captured in the ill-fated Kirkenes raid in the north of Norway.\n\nCaptain Howard had 36 years' service with the Royal Navy before his retirement\n\nHe spent two-and-a-half years at the Nazis' Stalag Luft III POW camp in Lower Silesia, now part of Poland.\n\nDuring that time, he helped in escape attempts immortalised in the films, The Wooden Horse and the Great Escape.\n\nIn the wooden horse attempt, he and others continuously jumped over a vaulting horse which covered the trap door to an escape tunnel.\n\nWhile not among those who made it clear of the camp during the 1944 Great Escape, he used his fluent German to engage the guards in conversation to distract them from covert digging of tunnels - codenamed Tom, Dick and Harry.\n\nIn January 1945 the camp was marched westward in treacherous winter conditions in the so-called Long March, before being liberated by British forces at Lubeck in May.\n\nThis photograph shows the moment Vyvyan Howard and others were captured in 1941\n\nMr Howard later said he owed his life to advice from a Polish soldier who told him \"don't ever take your boots off\", to prevent his feet from swelling.\n\nAfter the war, he continued his career in the Fleet Air Arm and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) for gallantry during the Suez Crisis.\n\nHis knowledge of Polish, picked up in the POW camp, led him to become a naval translator and he eventually became the British Naval Attaché in Bonn, West Germany.\n\nRecalling his wartime experiences on his 100th birthday in 2019 he said: \"It was bloody awful but you were in it and that was it - you couldn't just walk out of the door.\"\n\nHis son, also called Vyvyan, said: \"In common with a lot of people of that generation, a lot of the war experiences only came out later in life.\n\n\"He had a quiet wisdom - family came first. He was a wonderful man,\" he added.\n\nA funeral service for Captain Howard is due to be held at Mollington Parish Church on 30 September.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Nine million people have been told to evacuate their homes as Japan is battered by one of the worst typhoons the country has ever seen.\n\nThe super typhoon Nanmadol has killed two people and injured almost 90.\n\nIt hit Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands, on Sunday morning, and is set to reach Honshu, the largest island, in the coming days.\n\nTens of thousands of people spent Sunday night in emergency shelters, and almost 350,000 homes are without power.\n\nTransport and business has been disrupted, and the country is braced for extensive flooding and landslides.\n\nNanmadol has brought gusts of up to 234km/h (145mph), and some areas were forecast 400mm (16 inches) of rain in 24 hours.\n\nBullet train services, ferries, and hundreds of flights have been cancelled. Many shops and other businesses have closed, and sandbags have been put in place to protect some properties.\n\nThe typhoon made landfall near the city of Kagoshima, on the southern tip of Japan's most southerly island, Kyushu, on Sunday morning.\n\nA river in Kyushu has burst its banks.\n\nState broadcaster NHK said one man was killed when his car was submerged in flooding, and another died after being buried in a landslide. One more person remains missing, and 87 have been injured.\n\nLocal video footage shows roofs ripped off buildings and billboards toppled over.\n\nThe storm is forecast to turn east and pass over Japan's main island of Honshu before moving out to sea by Wednesday. The capital, Tokyo, has experienced heavy rain, with the Tozai underground line suspended because of flooding.\n\nA level-five alert, the highest on Japan's disaster warning scale, has been issued for more than 500,000 people in the Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Oita, Kumamoto and Yamaguchi areas.\n\nA total of around nine million people have been ordered to evacuate parts of the Kyushu, Shikoku and Chugoku regions after a level four alert.\n\nNanmadol has been categorised as a super typhoon by the US Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC), a term applied to storms with sustained wind speeds of 240km/h (150mph) or more. It is the equivalent of a category four or five hurricane.\n\nPrime Minister Fumio Kishida has delayed a visit to New York, where he is due to give speech at the UN General Assembly, until Tuesday, to monitor the impact of the storm.\n\nScientists have predicted a very active hurricane season this year, influenced by a natural phenomenon known as La Niña.\n\nWarmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic and Caribbean as a result of climate change may also have an impact.\n\nThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said intense tropical cyclones will likely increase on a global scale.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Typhoon Nanmadol bears down on Japan - what's the forecast?", "Many UK firms taking part in a four-day working week trial have said they will keep it in place after the pilot ends.\n\nMore than 70 firms are taking part in the scheme where employees get 100% pay for 80% of their normal hours worked.\n\nAt the halfway point in a six-month trial, data shows that productivity has been maintained or improved at the majority of firms.\n\nThough some \"old-fashioned\" companies taking part in the trial had found the shift to a four-day week \"trickier\".\n\nJoe O'Connor, chief executive of 4 Week Global, which is running the scheme across a number of countries, said: \"We are learning that for many it is a fairly smooth transition and for some there are some understandable hurdles - especially among those which have comparatively fixed or inflexible practices, systems, or cultures which date back well into the last century.\"\n\nThe trial is being run by 4 Day Week, a group campaigning for a shorter working week, along with Autonomy, a think tank and researchers at Cambridge and Oxford universities.\n\nOf the 73 companies in the trial, 41 firms responded to a survey midway through the scheme. Around 86% of those surveyed said they would keep the four-day week policy going after the trial ends.\n\nThe majority of firms said it is working well for their business, while 95% said productivity had stayed the same or improved during the shorter week.\n\nMore than 3,300 employees are getting one paid day off per week through the course of the trial.\n\n4 Day Week said that employees had benefitted from lower commuting and childcare costs and claimed that a parent with two children would save £3,232.40 on average per year or roughly £269.36 per month.\n\nWill Stronge, director of research at Autonomy, said: \"A four-day week with no loss of pay could play a crucial role in supporting workers to make ends meet over the next few years.\"\n\nWaterwise, which campaigns to decrease how much water is used in the UK, is one of the firms taking part in the scheme and says its team are now \"pretty happy\" - but it took some getting used to.\n\n\"It wasn't a walk in the park at the start.\" said Waterwise managing director Nicci Russell. \"But no major change ever is.\n\n\"We have all had to work at it,\" she said. \"Some weeks are easier than others and things like annual leave can make it harder to fit everything in, but we're much more settled with it now overall than we were at the start.\"\n\n\"We certainly all love the extra day out of the office and do come back refreshed. It's been great for our wellbeing and we're definitely more productive already.\"\n\nThe UK trial is part of pilots happening in the US, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.", "On top of Her Majesty's coffin was a wreath, the Imperial State Crown, and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre\n\nEven when you know something important has happened, it can still have the power to shock. Particularly when you see it with your own eyes. I had a close-up view inside Westminster Abbey, and that electric moment came when the Queen's coffin was brought up the aisle.\n\nThis was history before us, solemn, spectacular and intense.\n\nHeads of state, dignitaries and local community heroes, side by side on this once-in-a-lifetime guest list, suddenly stood up to attention together. The significance of the moment was almost audible. The chatter, the WhatsApps, texts and Tweets from the crowded pews stopped in its tracks. There was a sharp intake of breath.\n\nWe were watching something that we'd remember all our lives. An era was ending, step by step, right before our eyes, here and now, as the soldiers carrying the coffin shuffled up the aisle.\n\nDuke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince and Princess of Wales and their children George and Charlotte, in Westminster Abbey\n\nThe pallbearers prepare to lay the coffin down in front of the Royal Family\n\nKing Charles stared straight ahead. Maybe one of his medals was for surviving the exhaustion of the past 11 days. He looked like he must be aching for rest, and who could blame him?\n\n\"We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we carry nothing out,\" sang the choir, sending up their voices into the high gothic arches.\n\nThe congregation of the century was gathered for this state funeral. The Royal Family, NHS workers, political heavyweights, so many world leaders that they had to be loaded onto buses like schoolchildren on an outing.\n\nUS President Joe Biden had travelled in an armour-plated car called the Beast. Others of us had come in an overcrowded sea of people called the District Line.\n\nPresident Biden, holding hands with Jill Biden, looked around the abbey before taking a seat at the side. It can't be often that a US president is not the centre of attention.\n\nEx-prime ministers were clustered together, nodding awkwardly like Doctor Whos from rival eras.\n\nUS President Biden holds hands with his wife, Jill, as they arrive at Westminster Abbey\n\nThe congregation included current Prime Minister Liz Truss and former prime ministers Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair and Major\n\n\"Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts,\" sang the choir.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex, William and Harry, were on different sides of the aisle looking sombre - and anyone trying to read the expression of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, or Catherine, Princess of Wales, were faced with the wide brim of their hats.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron had arrived earlier and stood in the aisle slightly lost, like someone looking for friends at a wedding.\n\nFour candles stood around the coffin. The orb and sceptre glowed. The Imperial State Crown was poking up from behind the spray of flowers. On the top of the crown was a big blue sapphire once worn on a ring by Edward the Confessor more than 900 years ago.\n\nIt was an extraordinary spectacle to witness first-hand - the plumed helmets, the convoys of overseas royals, the sea of black mourning clothes, the security whisperers, the bright clerics' robes and the heralds dressed like a pack of cards.\n\nEven the statues in Poet's Corner seemed to be craning round to see.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss looked tense but held steady as she went up for her reading. \"Let your heart not be troubled.\"\n\nThe congregation stood up to sing the Lord's My Shepherd. It's one of those hymns that lulls you into its sadness. Voices begin to catch. \"Though I walk through death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill.\"\n\nYou could feel the static in the air.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, had the impossible task of doing justice to the longest reign in British history. He spoke straight to the point. A woman of deep faith had gone to her final rest in the firm conviction of her beliefs. She had every expectation that we would \"meet again\".\n\nBut at the centre of everything here was the Queen's coffin and her mourning family, an inescapable message of what had happened. This was a moment to say goodbye.\n\nA trumpet played the Last Post. The silence that followed was even louder. This was how things end. In this immense quiet an era was closing. This was our moment of history. Time doesn't stand still, it never does, whether for a head of state or a nurse on a shift. The New Elizabethan era in which most of us had grown up had finished. The 20th Century boys and girls were now grey-haired parents and grandparents. Everyone has their own story to remember.\n\nA piper played a lament as the Queen was carried slowly towards the abbey doors, the same doors where she'd once stood on her wedding day as a 21-year-old bride. On her coffin was a sprig of myrtle grown from a cutting from her wedding bouquet.\n\nThe guests stepped outside into the daylight, stunned witnesses to something momentous. It wasn't just that we'd said farewell to the Queen, it was the recognition that we'd lost part of our own lives.\n\nThis was a date to be underlined in a future text book. A chapter closing. But the area around the abbey had been sealed tight with security and there were no crowds on the pavement. We were in a new era and outside there was silence.\n• None 'She made each person she met feel important' - your tributes to the Queen", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Exclusive CCTV footage, from Nantes Atlantique Airport, shows the last time Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson are seen alive\n\nThe pilot of Emiliano Sala's plane told friends the aircraft was \"dodgy\" before the flight that killed the Argentine footballer, it can be revealed.\n\nDavid Ibbotson is heard in audio exclusively obtained by the BBC saying \"I'll be wearing my life jacket\" on the journey from France to Wales.\n\nHe told a friend he heard a \"bang\" on a previous flight. The plane crashed into the English Channel in 2019.\n\nIt comes as footage shows the last moment the pair were seen alive.\n\nSala had just become then Premier League side Cardiff City's £15m record signing from French club Nantes when the plane crashed into the English Channel, killing them both.\n\nHe was flown by Mr Ibbotson - a part-time pilot who didn't have a licence to carry paying passengers and whose body has never been found - back to western France to say his goodbyes and collect some belongings.\n\nHe flew to Nantes on Saturday, 19 January, and planned to return on the Monday - the day of the crash.\n\nAudio of a telephone call to a fellow pilot has been exclusively obtained by the BBC, revealing the technical difficulties Mr Ibbotson had on the journey to France.\n\nIn it, he says he heard \"a bang\" during the flight and complained that he could feel a \"very low mist\" inside the 35-year-old Piper Malibu plane.\n\n\"I'm mid-Channel and 'bang',\" Mr Ibbotson told friend, Kevin Jones, about his flight to Nantes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LISTEN: In audio obtained by the BBC, pilot David Ibbotson revealed the plane he was taking Sala to Cardiff on was \"dodgy\".\n\n\"I'm flying along and then 'boom'. I thought, 'what's wrong?' So I put everything forward and checked my parameters, everything was good and it was still flying, but it got your attention.\"\n\nHe added: \"That Malibu, occasionally you've got like a mist every so often. You can feel it, very, very low throughout the airframe.\"\n\nMr Ibbotson, 59, said he also realised the Piper Malibu's left brake pedal wasn't working after landing at Nantes Atlantique Airport. \"This aircraft has got to go back in the hangar,\" he told his friend.\n\nThe conversation was accidentally recorded and has since been obtained by the BBC's Transfer: The Emiliano Sala Story podcast.\n\nGoing through security at Nantes Airport is the only time Emiliano Sala is seen with pilot David Ibbotson\n\nAhead of the flight back to Cardiff, Mr Ibbotson added: \"Normally I'd have my life jacket between my seats but tomorrow I'll be wearing my life jacket.\"\n\nThe only two people on the plane were Emiliano Sala and Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, in North Lincolnshire, whose body has never been found.\n\nThe footballer had also expressed his fears about the aircraft in a voice note sent to his closest friends as the plane was taxiing on the runway at Nantes Atlantique Airport.\n\nThe player told them, \"man, I'm scared\" and that the plane he was on \"looks like it's falling apart\". \"I don't know if someone will look for me because they won't find me,\" Mr Sala told his friends about a potential crash.\n\nRadar contact was lost when the aircraft was 22 nautical miles (40 km) north-north-west of Guernsey\n\nCardiff City FC had offered their new signing a commercial flight, via Paris, but he wanted more time to say goodbye to friends and team-mates in Nantes before returning to Wales for his first training session with his new club.\n\nSo Willie McKay, the man who helped broker the transfer, chartered a private flight - directly between Nantes and Cardiff - through another pilot, David Henderson.\n\nBecause Henderson couldn't undertake the request, he called in Mr Ibbotson.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Footage from the search and rescue team of the Piper Malibu on the floor of the English Channel\n\nAbout an hour after take-off from runway three, in Nantes, Piper Malibu N264DB lost radar contact over the English Channel, and air and sea rescues were launched.\n\nThe plane had been flying at 5,000ft but the pilot lost control while descending to avoid clouds and crashed into the English Channel, just north of the Channel Islands, at an estimated 270mph (434km/h).\n\nAir accident investigators found the footballer would have been \"deeply unconscious\" from carbon monoxide poisoning and that the pilot would have probably been affected too.\n\nThe player's body was recovered from the wreckage when it was discovered 68m (223ft) below the English Channel, two weeks after the crash. Plane N264DB was left on the seabed.\n\nMr Ibbotson's body has never been found.\n\nHenderson, who arranged the flight, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for recklessly endangering the safety of an aircraft in the way he organised the trip and using a plane commercially without permission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Smiling Adnan Syed is cheered as his conviction is tossed\n\nA US judge has quashed a Baltimore man's murder conviction in a case that spawned hit true crime podcast Serial.\n\nAdnan Syed was 18 when he was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, whose body was found buried in the woods in 1999.\n\nProsecutors last week asked the court to throw out his conviction, saying a year-long case review had turned up two alternative suspects.\n\nMr Syed will be released into home detention.\n\nThe 41-year-old's shackles were taken off in court on Monday after he spent nearly 23 years behind bars.\n\nBaltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn said she was vacating his conviction \"in the interest of fairness and justice\", adding the state had failed to share evidence that could have helped his defence at trial.\n\nThe decision does not mean he is innocent. Judge Phinn has ordered a new trial.\n\nA jury found Mr Syed guilty in 2000 of premeditated murder, kidnapping, robbery and false imprisonment.\n\nProsecutors argued he was a scorned lover who had strangled Ms Lee, his classmate at Woodlawn High School, and - with the help of a friend - hid her body in Baltimore's Leakin Park. They relied in part on mobile phone location data that has since been proven unreliable.\n\nEvery appeal Mr Syed filed over the past two decades was denied, including his most recent attempt in 2019.\n\nIt was the 2014 podcast Serial that focused worldwide attention on the case and cast doubt on Mr Syed's guilt. Episodes of the show have been downloaded more than 340 million times. The case has also spawned other works, including an HBO docuseries in 2019.\n\nThe Baltimore State Attorney's Office, which studied the case over the past year alongside Mr Syed's latest defence attorney, said on Wednesday that he deserved a new trial.\n\nProsecutors said they lacked \"confidence in the integrity of the conviction\" and had identified two new potential suspects who were known to police since the 1999 murder.\n\nNeither suspect has been named, but officials said both had documented records of violence towards women, including convictions that occurred after Mr Syed's trial. One suspect was cleared from the investigation into Ms Lee's death after failing a lie-detector test, a method no longer admissible in many US courts.\n\n\"Our prosecutors have been sworn to not only aggressively advocate on behalf of victims of crime but when the evidence exists to exonerate those that have been falsely accused and convicted,\" lead prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said outside the court.\n\nShe was interrupted by loud cheers as Mr Syed exited the building through a scrum of cameras and supporters.\n\nBefore the ruling, the victim's brother told the court through tears that he was \"not against the investigation\", but had been blind-sided by prosecutors.\n\n\"Every day when I think it's over... or it's ended, it always comes back. It's killing me,\" said Young Lee.\n\n\"This is not a podcast for me. This is real life - a never-ending nightmare for 20-plus years.\"\n\nSteve Kelly, a victim's rights lawyer for the family, said the Lees had been \"shut out of the legal process\" and were \"deeply disappointed\" with the way they had been treated.\n\n\"All they wanted was information,\" said Mr Kelly. \"If the truth is that somebody else killed their daughter, they want to know that more than anyone.\"\n\nSerial Productions, which produced the podcast, has just released a new episode - the 13th - about the latest in the legal saga.\n\nIt reports that last year Mr Syed's legal team applied for a review of his sentence under a new Maryland law which applies to those given more than 20 years in prison for crimes committed when they were under 18 (Mr Syed was 17 at the time of the murder).\n\nAs part of this sentence review, an official in Baltimore city's state attorney's office examined the case files - and found two handwritten notes relating to information phoned in about a potential alternative suspect, the podcast reports. It was these notes that were not shared with the defence team in violation of legal protocol, it says.\n\nSerial brought international attention to the murder of Hae Min Lee and was one of the first hit podcasts of the past decade's boom in audio content.\n\nIt was followed by other shows which raised questions about existing murder convictions or drew attention to cold cases - attracting big audiences and also, possibly, having an impact on the course of justice. They include", "Yassar Yaqub was shot dead by police on the M62\n\nAn armed officer leant out of a car window and fatally shot a man during a police stop on the M62 in West Yorkshire, an inquest has heard.\n\nYassar Yaqub was shot when the Audi car he was travelling in was stopped on the M62 near Huddersfield in January 2017.\n\nAn inquest at Leeds Crown Court heard a loaded pistol was found in the footwell under the front passenger seat, where Mr Yaqub had been when he was shot.\n\nThe inquest, before a jury, is expected to last eight weeks.\n\nAfter the jury was sworn in, the inquest was told four unmarked police cars had been \"tracking\" Mr Yaqub and his \"friends or associates\" before they travelled from Bradford to Huddersfield.\n\nThe Recorder of Leeds, Judge Guy Kearl, said Mr Yaqub was the passenger in an Audi A4 being driven by Mohsin Amin.\n\nBehind them was a VW Scirocco carrying Rexhino Arapaj and David Butlin.\n\nThe police cars - known as Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta - were carrying armed officers.\n\nJurors heard that as the Audi and VW left the M62 at junction 24, known as Ainley Top, the four police cars \"boxed them in\" and came to a stop.\n\nJudge Kearl said: \"The police officer in the front passenger seat of the Alpha car, who will be known by the code name B39, lowered the front offside window, and leant out of it as he was holding his police-issued firearm.\n\n\"He pointed it directly towards the occupants of the Audi. What was then said and exactly what actions were taken by the occupants of the Audi and Alpha cars, are matters which are at the heart of this inquest, matters which, therefore, you will need to determine.\n\n\"What is clear is that officer B39 fired his gun three times at Yassar Yaqub, who was seated in the front passenger seat of the Audi.\"\n\nThe inquest heard officer B39 was about 1.5m away from Mr Yaqub when he shot him with two of the bullets hitting Mr Yaqub in the chest and causing \"catastrophic blood loss\".\n\nJurors were told that a loaded pistol was found in the footwell, and a silencer and further ammunition were found in the glovebox.\n\nThe judge said: \"It will not surprise you to learn that the event of stopping the Audi and Volkswagen did not just happen out of the blue.\n\n\"You will hear the police had been interested for some time in Mr Yaqub before January 2 2017.\"\n\nThe inquest heard from Mr Yaqub's partner Zoe Summers, the mother of his two children, who were aged six months and 11 years when he died.\n\nMohammed Yaqub, Yassar's father, said his son was \"well respected in the community\"\n\nShe said: \"I always felt lucky to have Yassar in my life, especially as we got older.\n\n\"He had such a kind, loving nature and only wanted the best for people around him.\"\n\nA tribute from the couple's daughter Jasmine said: \"I miss my dad more than anything.\n\n\"His presence made me so happy, I wanted to be around him forever but now all I have are memories and pictures, which I will hold on to forever.\"\n\nHis father, Mohammed Yaqub, told the hearing his son was \"well respected in the community and never out of employment\".\n\nHe fought back tears as he said: \"He was a natural father, he loved (his children) with his whole heart and taught them to be kind to others.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "The California mother has been sentenced to 18 months in prison\n\nA California woman who faked her own high-profile kidnapping has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for making false statements to the FBI.\n\nSherri Papini, 39, went missing in November 2016 after going for a run.\n\nShe appeared three weeks later on Thanksgiving claiming two Hispanic women had kidnapped her, sparking a multi-state manhunt.\n\nThe FBI later concluded she was staying at an ex-boyfriend's house and had injured herself as part of the scheme.\n\nIn a US District Court in Sacramento on Monday, Papini apologised, saying she was guilty of lying and \"dishonour\".\n\n\"I am so sorry to the many people who have suffered because of me - the people who sacrificed for the broken woman I was, the people who gave willingly to help me in a time that I so desperately needed help,\" she said, reading from a prepared statement.\n\n\"I am choosing to humbly accept all responsibility.\"\n\nUnder an April deal with prosecutors, Papini pleaded guilty to one count each of lying to a federal officer and mail fraud.\n\nIn a sentencing memo, Papini's lawyer William Portanova blamed the hoax on her \"painful early years [that] twisted and froze her in myriad ways\".\n\nMr Portanova had asked for minimal prison time, telling the court the humiliation of her actions would be its own life sentence.\n\nIn exchange for Papini's guilty plea, prosecutors sought a lighter sentence - between eight and 14 months in custody - far below the 25 year maximum she could have faced.\n\nPapini also agreed to pay $300,000 (£231,000), part of which will cover the costs of the police investigation. She will also spend three years under supervised custody after her release from jail.\n\nNews of her disappearance first emerged in November 2016, when her husband reported her missing after she failed to collect their children from daycare.\n\nThree weeks later, she was found battered and bruised on the side of the road claiming she was abducted at gunpoint. The FBI concluded this March that the whole affair was staged.\n\nIn a criminal complaint, the FBI said she had been staying voluntarily at a former boyfriend's home and had been communicating with him using prepaid \"burner phones\" as early as December 2015.\n\nHer lawyer, Mr Portanova, has previously said she suffered from mental health issues.\n\nIn the sentencing memo, he referenced her \"chameleonic personalities\", which he said pathologically \"drove her to simultaneously crave family security and the freedom of youth\".", "With the military parade and venerable hymns, the Queen's state funeral service was steeped in tradition. But amongst the pageantry and ceremony were some deeply personal touches too.\n\nThey were reminders that this was not only a nation's farewell to a monarch, but a heartfelt tribute to a mother, grandmother, churchgoer and dog lover.\n\nTwo of the Queen's beloved corgis Muick and Sandy awaited the procession carrying her coffin to St George's Chapel inside Windsor Castle.\n\nOne on a red lead and one on a blue, they were escorted by two pages in red tailcoats as the coffin of their beloved former owner came past.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York, will take on the two young dogs that the prince and his daughters gave the Queen as a present in 2021.\n\nHer Majesty owned more than 30 corgis during her lifetime. So strong was the association that almost immediately after her death, well-wishers began asking who would adopt the dogs.\n\nEmma, the Queen's fell pony, also greeted the procession, standing in a gap in the floral tributes on The Long Walk - an avenue leading to Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Princess of Wales wore a four-row Japanese pearl choker necklace with a curved diamond clasp, which once belonged to the Queen.\n\nThe Queen, who commissioned the design using cultured pearls from the Japanese government, wore it regularly in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIt had previously been loaned to Diana, the former Princess of Wales, in 1982. Catherine wore it for the first time in 2017 to celebrate the Queen and Prince Phillip's 70th wedding anniversary and later for his funeral in 2021.\n\nThe princess also wore a pair of diamond and pearl earrings known as the Bahrain Pearl Earrings, which she had been given by the Queen.\n\nThe earrings feature a large Bahrain pearl hanging from one large round diamond stud, from which four smaller round diamonds and three baguette diamonds are also suspended. They were given to the Queen as a wedding present by the Hakim of Bahrain in 1947.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex also paid tribute to Her Majesty through her choice of jewellery for the funeral, by wearing a pair of pearl stud earrings, which the Queen had given her as a gift for her wedding to Prince Harry.\n\nThe service at Westminster Abbey closed to the haunting sound of bagpipes, played by the Queen's personal piper.\n\nFor 70 years, largely without exception, the Piper to the Sovereign would play each morning for 15 minutes beneath the Queen's window, wherever she was resident.\n\nThe inclusion of Pipe Major Paul Burns - who had served since 2021 - was a personal request of the Queen, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nHe played the traditional lament \"sleep, dearie, sleep\" - the sound of which appeared to fade as he turned and walked down the internal steps of Westminster Abbey.\n\nHe is the 17th Piper to the Sovereign - the role was created by Queen Victoria in 1843 after she grew fond of the sound of bagpipes on a visit to the Highlands with Prince Albert.\n\nAt King Charles III's request, the wreath for Her Majesty's funeral contained flowers and foliage cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House in London - and Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.\n\nIt included foliage chosen for its symbolism: Rosemary for remembrance, Myrtle, the ancient symbol of a happy marriage, cut from a plant that was grown from a sprig in The Queen's wedding bouquet in 1947, and English oak, a national symbol of strength, in a nod to the Queen's constancy and steadfast duty. It also symbolises strength of love.\n\nAmong the flowers was a handwritten card which read: \"In loving and devoted memory, Charles R.\"\n\nThe Lord's My Shepherd was one of the hymns sung by the 2,000 mourners at Westminster Abbey. It was said to have been a personal favourite of the Queen, and was also sung at her wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947 at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe young Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret had summoned the Master of Choristers to Buckingham Palace in the lead-up to the wedding and sang for him the particular version she wanted to be used.\n\nThe Royal Wedding at Westminster Abbey in 1947\n\nThe hymn's roots have been traced back to a parish in Aberdeenshire, not far from Balmoral Castle, where the Queen passed away.\n\nThe hymn ends: \"Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me, and in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be.\"\n• None Queen and her corgis - how the dogs first stole her heart", "Large crowds gathered in central London on Monday to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she made her final journey from Westminster to Windsor.\n\nThe coffin, topped with the Royal Standard and Imperial State Crown, was carried to Westminster Abbey on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, drawn by 142 sailors. King Charles III and other senior members of the Royal Family followed behind on foot. Streets around Westminster were packed with people hoping to catch a glimpse of the procession from Westminster Hall to the Abbey, where the funeral service was held. Some 2,000 guests were inside the Abbey for the funeral service, including wider members of the Royal Family and dozens of world leaders and politicians from across the globe. While the streets of Westminster were packed, other parts of London were eerily quiet with many people using the Bank Holiday to gather round TV screens at home to watch the historic events. Big Ben tolled at one-minute intervals as the procession made its way slowly through the streets of the capital. Gun salutes were also fired every minute from Hyde Park. Among the personal touches was a handwritten message from the King, which was placed with a wreath of flowers cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace, Highgrove House and Clarence House at his request. It read: \"In loving and devoted memory. Charles R.\" After the coffin was transferred from carriage to hearse at Wellington Arch, it then travelled by road to Windsor Castle. There were further crowds of people along the route and thousands more waiting in Windsor, where there was another short procession. Two of the Queen’s corgis, Muick and Sandy, were also waiting for the procession at Windsor Castle - as was Emma, the late monarch's pony. There was a final ceremony at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, where the Imperial State Crown and the Orb and Sceptre were removed from the coffin by the Crown Jeweller. They will eventually be returned to the Tower of London.", "The committal service took place in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle\n\nTributes have been paid to the Queen's \"unstinting service\" at a ceremony held in St George's Chapel, Windsor, where she was later laid to rest.\n\nThe ceremony, led by the Dean of Windsor, was attended by 800 people, including royalty and staff.\n\nBut only family members remained as the Queen was buried alongside her late husband the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThe hearse arrived in Windsor following her state funeral service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe state hearse made its way to the Berkshire town, with flowers still on its bonnet and roof from well-wishers who had thrown them as the royal cortege made its way from Wellington Arch in London.\n\nThe route avoided motorways to allow as many people as possible to pay their last respects.\n\nThousands of people on that route looked on, some of them applauding, as the hearse passed them by.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen's journey on the Long Walk to Windsor Castle\n\nThe procession made its way about one mile along the Long Walk up to Windsor Castle, with members of the Armed Forces lining the way.\n\nKing Charles III then walked behind his mother's coffin, accompanied by the Queen's other children - the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex and Peter Phillips also joined them in the procession to St George's Chapel.\n\nThousands lined the Long Walk in Windsor as the coffin processed to the castle\n\nThe Queen's coffin, draped in the royal standard with imperial state crown, orb and sceptre on top, was lifted from the state hearse into the chapel where it sat on a catafalque.\n\nThe Dean, the Very Rev David Conner, began the ceremony by praising a \"life of unstinting service\" to the nation and Commonwealth.\n\nHe said of the Queen: \"In the midst of our rapidly changing and frequently troubled world, her calm and dignified presence has given us confidence to face the future, as she did, with courage and with hope.\"\n\nThe crown jeweller removed the instruments of state - the imperial state crown, the orb and sceptre - from the coffin before they were put on the altar, symbolising the end of the Queen's reign.\n\nKing Charles then placed on the coffin a small crimson regimental flag called the Camp Colour - traditionally used to indicate the location of the commanding officer.\n\nThe coffin was then lowered into the royal vault, before the Sovereign's Piper played a lament.\n\nGuests at the service included the late Queen's staff past and present, alongside prime ministers of countries of which the monarch was head of state.\n\nAt the separate private burial service on Monday evening, the Queen was laid to rest with her late husband Prince Philip in the King George VI Memorial Chapel.\n\nThat service was only attended by the Royal Family - details of it have not been disclosed, with Buckingham Palace calling it a \"deeply personal family occasion\" - but the burial was confirmed on the official Royal Family website.\n\nThe chapel houses the remains of the Queen's father George VI, her mother the Queen Mother and sister Princess Margaret.\n\nThe King and other members of the Royal Family processed behind the Queen's coffin when it reached Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen's corgis Muick and Sandy made an appearance as the Queen's coffin processed at Windsor Castle\n\nEarlier, King Charles III walked behind his mother's coffin as it proceeded from Westminster Hall to the abbey.\n\nAbout 2,000 people gathered at the service, including world leaders and royalty.\n\nThis was the first state funeral since Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965 and was the biggest ceremonial event since World War Two.\n\nPlanning of the order of service for the ceremony was discussed with the Queen over a number of years.\n\nSt George's Chapel is where the Queen worshipped at Easter and celebrated baptisms, confirmations and weddings during her reign.\n\nIn a touching gesture, the Queen's faithful corgis Muick and Sandy also made an appearance at Windsor castle.", "The procession carrying the Queen reached Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, where the coffin was transferred to the state hearse.\n\nWho is in the main procession?", "File photo of a mourner placing a flower bouquet outside the British Consulate General\n\nA Hong Kong man who went to the British consulate on Monday night to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, among scores of mourners, has been detained.\n\nLocal reports say the man, 43, played several songs on his harmonica, including one linked to 2019 protests, as well as the British national anthem.\n\nHe was detained under the colonial-era sedition law, police told BBC Chinese.\n\nThis law had until recently been rarely used by prosecutors.\n\nBut the past few months have seen an increasing number of people charged under this law, including five speech therapists who were found guilty earlier this month of publishing \"seditious\" children's books.\n\nFootage shared widely on social media shows the man standing outside the consulate playing \"Glory to Hong Kong\", the unofficial anthem of protesters during 2019 pro-democracy protests, on his harmonica.\n\nA large crowd, which had gathered to watch an online live broadcast of the later Queen's state funeral in the UK, is seen singing along to the tune.\n\nThe song's lyrics make reference to the \"tears on our land\", and also mention \"democracy and liberty\".\n\nPolice told the BBC the man had been detained on suspicion of carrying out an \"act with seditious intent\".\n\nHong Kongers have over the past week been lining up for hours to pay their respects to the Queen, in what has been perhaps the biggest display of affection for the late monarch seen outside the UK.\n\nThe city, formerly a British colony, returned to Chinese rule in 1997.\n\nUnder the terms of the handover, China agreed to govern Hong Kong under the principle of \"one country, two systems\", where the city would enjoy \"a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs\" for the next 50 years.\n\nBut a crackdown on protests, Beijing's imposition of its national security law and only allowing \"patriots\" to govern are seen by many as reneging on that promise.", "Video posted online showed the aftermath of an explosion in a square in western Donetsk\n\nThirteen people have been killed and others wounded in a series of explosions in the separatist-run city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to its Russian-backed mayor.\n\nAlexei Kulemzin blamed \"punitive\" Ukrainian shellfire for the deaths. There is no comment from Ukrainian officials.\n\nDonetsk has been controlled by Russia's proxy authorities since 2014.\n\nThey have repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of targeting the city.\n\nIndependent confirmation is hard to come by on the ground in separatist-held areas of the east. However, local authorities said nine 150mm shells were fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, from a village to the west of the city.\n\nLocal leader Denis Pushilin accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting civilians at a bus-stop, a shop and a bank.\n\nAlthough Russian forces have seized areas of the Donetsk region further south since the invasion began in February, they have struggled to push the Ukrainian army back from the outskirts of the city itself.\n\nUkrainian forces have launched counter-offensives in the south as well as the north-east, and their most dramatic progress has come this month in the northern Kharkiv region.\n\nThe head of Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, shared video of a Ukrainian tank crossing a pontoon bridge, and said Ukraine now controlled the left bank of the Oskil river, seen as the front line in north-east Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's armed forces said they had pushed across the river at the weekend\n\nIf Ukrainian forces are able to maintain a foothold on the eastern side of the Oskil, it will represent a breakthrough. Mr Haidai said the next target would be liberating the city of Lyman, which was seized by Russian forces in May.\n\n\"Luhansk region is right next door. De-occupation is not far away,\" he claimed.\n\nIn his nightly address late on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that recent days may have looked like a lull of sorts: \"But there will be no lull. There is preparation for the next series... For Ukraine must be free. All of it.\"\n\nRussia was accused on Monday of targeting a nuclear plant in the south.\n\nUkrainian nuclear operator Enerhoatom said a rocket landed 300m (1,000ft) from nuclear reactors at the country's second-largest plant in Mykolaiv region, called the South Ukraine plant.\n\nThe UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it was told by Enerhoatom that the impact temporarily disrupted three power lines, but the plant remained connected to the grid, with all three reactors functioning normally.\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 Defense of Ukraine 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 Defense of Ukraine\n\nUkraine's - and Europe's - biggest nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia has come under repeated fire since it was occupied by Russian forces at the start of the war and the IAEA has called for a safety zone to protect it. The IAEA said the situation there \"remains fragile and precarious\". Its six reactors are in a shutdown state, but are getting essential power to remain safe.\n\nMeanwhile, the Kremlin has denied allegations of war crimes after some 450 bodies were uncovered in burial sites in the liberated city of Izyum.\n\nThe discovery has prompted the European Union's presidency, currently held by the Czech Republic, to call for an international tribunal into Russia's invasion.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the revelations were \"a lie, and of course we will defend the truth in this story\". He said the \"scenario\" was the same as in the town of Bucha near Kyiv, where local authorities say at least 458 civilians were murdered during Russia's occupation.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukrainian counter-offensives would not change Russia's military plans in the east of Ukraine.\n\nThe ministry of defence in Moscow posted video on Monday that it said showed attack helicopters destroying Ukrainian manpower and equipment.\n\nHowever, according to the UK's defence intelligence update, it was \"highly likely\" that Russia had lost four combat jets in Ukraine in the past 10 days as its air force took greater risks to support ground forces under pressure from the Ukrainian advances.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War says Russia is relying increasingly on \"irregular volunteer and proxy forces\" instead of its conventional military units.\n\nRussia says it is fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine - a claim widely dismissed - and that it is threatened by the Nato alliance's strong relations with Ukraine.\n\nThe actual civilian death toll is believed to be thousands higher. Tens of thousands of combatants have been killed or injured.\n\nRussia, a global energy supplier, is locked in an economic struggle with the West which imposed sweeping sanctions in response to the invasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin failing on all his strategic military objectives - UK", "Campaigners say they are determined to win access to the area\n\nAn eighteen-year campaign to get legal recognition for a path through bluebell woods has stumbled over a landowner's appeal.\n\nOne campaigner told an inquiry she has been walking the path in Tredomen, Caerphilly county, since she was a child in the 1950s.\n\nBut a woman who bought land there in 2002 said the path was not in use and crosses her property.\n\nA report from the planning inspectorate is expected in October.\n\n\"We're determined, we don't want to lose this footpath as we only have one left,\" said Susan Smith, 74, telling an inquiry she has been walking the path since she was a little girl.\n\nIn 2017 she resubmitted an application, first started in 2005, to have a public right of way declared between Park Lane, Tredomen, and an existing footpath. In 2019 Caerphilly council agreed to the proposal.\n\nBut landowner Ellen Salton appealed, telling the inquiry by Welsh government agency Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW) there was no clear path and the area was not used by residents.\n\nShe put up \"private property\" signs to deter residents, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).\n\nThe woodland path (pictured 17 years ago) has been closed to the public since a landowner appealed against its status as a right of way\n\nResidents argued the signs did not appear until two or three years after Ms Salton bought the land.\n\nShe claimed there was a \"conspiracy\" against her.\n\nPlanning inspector Janine Townsley must decide, on the balance of probabilities, whether the path was used for at least 20 years prior to 2002 without \"force, secrecy or permission\".\n\nThat was the view of council planning officer Stefan Denbury, who made the 2019 decision.\n\nHe has been accused of \"inexperience\" by Ms Salton's representative.\n\nAndy Dunlop told the inquiry: \"This order should not have been made if a proper investigation had occurred.\"\n\nA map showing the route of the path from Park Lane in Tredomen to an existing footpath\n\nBut the council's barrister, Howard Leithead, said Mr Denbury was a \"professional officer with a professional qualification\".\n\nHe also responded to Ms Salton's claim the area was not used by residents.\n\n\"If people weren't using that path, why would they campaign so hard for so many decades for the right to do it?\" Mr Leithead asked the inquiry.\n\nResident Diana Tura described the bluebell woods along the path as her \"sanctuary\".\n\n\"All the people in Tredomen just want to keep what we have, nothing more,\" she said.\n\nAnother community member, Brian Elliot said: \"We have used the through route over many decades consistently,\" adding the community wants access to the \"peaceful\" area.\n\nBut David Horgan, who owns a nursery in the area, spoke in support of Ms Salton. He said he had never walked the footpath described by the residents.\n\nDuring the past four years, the path has remained closed while the appeals process takes place.\n\nMrs Smith said she was disappointed the path had been closed during that period, adding she would like to see the path go back to how it was \"straight away\" if the order is approved.", "Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and friends from across the globe were among the 2,000 guests at the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHere's who was in the abbey, and where they were seated.\n\nClosest to the Queen's coffin were her four children and their spouses. King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, sat alongside the Princess Royal and her husband, the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sat directly behind the King while the Prince and Princess of Wales sat across the aisle from them.\n\nAll of the Queen's eight grandchildren sat in the front two rows, days after they stood together in vigil at the lying-in-state. Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, seven, were the Queen's only great-grandchildren to attend the service.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife the Duchess of York was in the second row next to her daughter Princess Eugenie.\n\nShe sat next to the Queen's nephew, the Earl of Snowdon. The earl, David Armstrong-Jones, is the son of the Queen's late sister, Princess Margaret and the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.\n\nHis sister Lady Sarah Chatto, who was close to the Queen, was also at the service with her husband Daniel Chatto and her two sons.\n\nOther members of the Queen's family sat in the first few rows included her cousins, the Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent.\n\nSome of the Queen's god children were also there including Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer.\n\nClose friends also attended. Ladies-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey and Dame Mary Morrison, were seen arriving alongside Angela Kelly, the Queen's personal dresser and one of her closest confidents.\n\nThe Queen Consort's children were invited - Laura Lopes, second from left, and Tom Parker Bowles.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary were alongside other cabinet ministers. All of the UK's surviving former prime ministers were also seated in the quire of the abbey.\n\nIn the middle row was Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson, Philip May, Theresa May, David Cameron, and Samantha Cameron.\n\nIn the front row were Sarah Brown, Gordon Brown, Cherie Blair, Sir Tony Blair, Lady Norma Major and Sir John Major.\n\nAll monarchs were invited to the funeral and the vast majority flew to London for it.\n\nDenmark's Queen Margrethe II - now the only female monarch in the world - sat opposite King Charles close to the coffin.\n\nOther kings and queens from The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Norway and Belgium also attended - as did the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.\n\nIt also marked the first international visit for the Emperor and Empress of Japan since they ascended the throne three years ago.\n\nMalaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah were seated behind King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.\n\nAbout 100 presidents and heads of government were thought to have been in the abbey.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and his wife Jill were sat in the 14th row behind the Polish president Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda.\n\nThe president of France, Emmanuel Macron, was with his wife Brigitte. Mr Macron, who met the Queen three times, had said that she had been \"a friend of France, a kind-hearted queen, who has left a lasting impression on her country and her century\".\n\nOther heads of government who were there included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is among those not invited\n\nRepresentatives from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan were not invited. This is because the UK does not have full diplomatic relations with these countries.\n\nNo-one from Russia, Belarus and Myanmar was invited either.\n\nDiplomatic relations between the UK and Russia have all but collapsed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was \"not considering\" attending the funeral.\n\nThe invasion was launched partially from the territory of Belarus. And the UK has significantly scaled back its diplomatic presence in Myanmar since a military coup last year.\n\nNorth Korea (DPRK) and Nicaragua were invited to send only ambassadors, not heads of state.\n\nHuman rights groups had criticised the decision to invite Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The prince has been accused by Western intelligence of ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Prince Turki Bin Mohammed al Saud attended the funeral instead.\n\nGraphics by Mark Bryson, additional reporting by Daniel Rosney and the Visual Journalism team", "The UK is weighing up whether to attend a new European political \"club of nations\" next month.\n\nThe first meeting of the \"European Political Community\" is due to be held in Prague in early October.\n\nDowning Street wants to see more detail on the summit before Prime Minister Liz Truss commits to attending it and no final decision has been made.\n\nThe European Political Community is an idea championed by the French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nHe proposed it, in May, as a \"new space\" for co-operation.\n\nMr Macron suggested the group could discuss security, energy and transport as well as the movement of people, particularly the young.\n\nThe broad intention is to establish a forum that goes beyond the immediate 27 EU member states.\n\nSimilar ideas have been floated for decades but this is the first big push for such a forum since Brexit.\n\nUK officials are said to be seeking assurances that the meeting will not be too dominated by EU countries or institutions.\n\nBritain would want to see other \"big players\" from outside the EU in attendance.\n\nAll 27 members of the EU are set to be invited as well as the UK, Ukraine, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey.\n\nSix Western Balkans nations are also likely to be invited, along with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.\n\nEU officials have told the BBC that a \"save the date\" memo has gone to capitals, with formal invitations to follow.\n\nBut, before responding, there are indications Britain also wants to consult Ukraine's government, as well as the defensive military alliance, Nato.\n\nThe inaugural meeting of the \"European Political Community\" is due to take place on 6 October in the Czech capital, Prague.\n\nThe Czech Republic currently holds the rotating European Council presidency.\n\nA provisional agenda suggests discussions would centre on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the economy and Europe's energy crisis.\n\nHowever, there are few details about what such a \"political community\" would look like in the longer-term.\n\nCritics, within the EU, are wary of what they see as a \"vague\" French-led project.\n\nThere's also suspicion that France, a known sceptic of EU expansion, wants to create a \"parking lot\" for countries who aspire to join the European Union.\n\nEU leaders have insisted the community would not \"replace\" its enlargement policy.\n\nUkraine became an official EU candidate country in June while numerous Western Balkans nations have been in the process of trying to join the bloc for years.\n\nGetting Britain around the table, to discuss core issues facing the continent, is now a key aim - according to some EU diplomats.\n\nThere are hopes the gloomy economic outlook and energy crisis could bring Liz Truss to the table.\n\nHowever, there are concerns that the new UK prime minister will ultimately turn down the offer, in part to avoid antagonising some Conservative Eurosceptics.\n\nTiming has also been raised as an issue with the summit taking place just a day after the Conservative party conference.\n\nAs foreign secretary, she said that Nato and the G7 were the UK's \"key\" military and economic alliances.\n\nHer predecessor as prime minister, Boris Johnson, appeared to express interest in the proposal, even claiming \"paternity\" of it.\n\nThe new UK government is said to have given the issue \"limited\" attention so far, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nMs Truss is expected to hold talks with President Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the UN General Assembly in New York, within the coming days.\n\nRelations between Brussels and London have been strained by the row about post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland; an issue the pair are expected to discuss.", "Green spaces in cities provide benefits to people and nature\n\nClimate change threatens the health and survival of urban trees, with more than half of species already feeling the heat, according to a new study.\n\nCity-dwelling oaks, maples, poplars, elms, pines and chestnuts are among more than 1,000 tree species flagged at risk due to climate change.\n\nScientists want better protection of existing trees and for drought-resistant varieties to be planted.\n\nTrees have cooling effects and provide shade, making cities more liveable.\n\nMany trees in urban areas are already stressed because of climate change, and as it gets warmer and drier, the number of species at potential risk will increase, said Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez of Western Sydney University in Penrith, Australia.\n\nCity and street trees can improve physical and mental health, are important in social integration and can mitigate the effects of temperature rises - something that hit home during the pandemic, he said.\n\n\"All these benefits are mainly provided by big mature trees so we need to make sure that what we are planting today will get to that stage where they can provide all those benefits for future generations,\" he told BBC News.\n\nLondon was among five UK cities studied\n\nThe researchers used the Global Urban Tree Inventory - a database recording more than 4,000 different trees and shrubs planted in 164 cities in 78 countries - to assess the likely impact of global warming on the trees planted along streets and in parks.\n\nOf the 164 cities analysed, more than half of tree species are already at risk in some cities due to rising temperatures and changes in rainfall. And by 2050, this proportion is predicted to rise to more than two-thirds.\n\nClimate risk for species in urban areas is particularly high in cities in tropical regions, and in vulnerable countries such as India, Niger, Nigeria and Togo.\n\nIn the UK, the researchers looked at five cities: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, London and York.\n\nThey found that drier weather under climate change is expected to have a big impact on trees, particularly in York, London and Birmingham.\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature Climate Change.", "Mariana Mamonova appears heavily pregnant in a video of the prisoner exchange Image caption: Mariana Mamonova appears heavily pregnant in a video of the prisoner exchange\n\nMariana Mamonova, a Ukrainian medic who is more than eight months pregnant, is among the prisoners released by Russia.\n\nShe can be seen in a video of the prisoner exchange, released by Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday.\n\nShe was being held in the notorious Olenivka prison camp in the unrecognised Donetsk People's Republic after being captured in April in Mariupol.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC before her release, her husband spoke about his fears over the wellbeing of his wife and unborn baby - the couple's first.\n\n\"A baby can't be kept in those conditions, so they could just take it away,\" Vasilii said.\n\nMariana was reportedly held under extremely difficult conditions at the prison camp.\n\nA fellow prisoner, Anna Vorosheva, said she was in a cell with more than 20 other women when she first arrived and had to sleep on the floor.\n\n\"Straight away, everyone tried to help her - giving her food, making sure she got fresh air,\" Ms Vorosheva, who was released in July, told the BBC.\n\nEventually she was moved to a smaller room with fewer people, and her cellmates ensured that she was able to sleep on one of the room's two beds each night.\n\nAt first, Mariana assumed that she would be a priority for a prisoner swap. But as her due date at the end of September approached, she began to fear she would give birth in captivity, and became increasingly worried that her baby would be taken from her.\n\nFrustrated at the lack of news, her family decided to go public with Mariana's story in August, drawing attention to her case in the Ukrainian media.\n\nStill weeks passed with no progress, but finally - just days before she is due to give birth - her family received the good news that she had been released.\n\nMariana Mamonova is a medic in the Ukrainian armed forces Image caption: Mariana Mamonova is a medic in the Ukrainian armed forces", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man sentenced for carrying a knife at a protest in Leicester at the weekend said he was influenced by social media.\n\nAdam Yusuf, 21, received a suspended jail sentence after admitting possessing a knife at a march on Sunday.\n\nThe protest followed unrest on Saturday in which 25 officers and a police dog were injured.\n\nIt came amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities.\n\nLeicestershire Police's temporary chief constable, Rob Nixon, told the BBC that social media had played a \"huge role\" in fanning the flames.\n\n\"There are significant things on there which are false,\" he said, citing assaults of people and attacks on religious establishments as examples.\n\n\"My plea is that please, if people are seeing information on social media, if they can't validate it, please don't circulate it.\n\n\"Because what we know people are doing is they are receiving fake news via social media and then they are forwarding it on, so it's amplifying the problem, and it's raising fear.\"\n\nRob Nixon said police had been outnumbered by groups of hundreds of people\n\nYusuf, of Bruin Street in Leicester, is one of two people who have already been sentenced in relation to the disorder.\n\nLeicester Magistrates' Court heard Yusuf told the probation service he had been \"influenced by social media\" in relation to events taking place near where he lived and was \"upset\".\n\nHe was sentenced to a year in prison, suspended for 18 months.\n\nSentencing Yusuf, the magistrate told him: \"This behaviour will not be tolerated and brings shame on our city and community relationships.\"\n\nPolice say 47 people have now been arrested in relation to disorder in the city since 28 August.\n\nOf these, two people were arrested on Saturday and 18 were arrested on Sunday.\n\nMr Nixon said arrests will continue \"for several weeks, if not months\".\n\n\"We have about a 50-strong investigation team that are wrapping across all of these different elements and I know that we're starting to identify imagery of people,\" he said.\n\nThere was a further protest in Belgrave Road on Sunday afternoon\n\nOn Monday, Amos Noronha, 20, of Illingworth Road, Leicester was jailed for 10 months after pleading guilty to possession of an offensive weapon following his arrest on Saturday night.\n\nA third man, Lukman Patel, 31, of Homeway Road, Leicester, remains in custody after pleading not guilty to possession of an offensive weapon and racially aggravated harassment/alarm/distress.\n\nPolice said \"proactive patrols\" continued in East Leicester overnight between Monday and Tuesday, and no new incidents had been reported.\n\nMr Nixon said officers faced \"significant aggression\" over the weekend and 25 were now known to have been injured, although none of the injuries were serious.\n\nHe said the main disorder on Saturday had been sparked by a protest, and police had not known so many people would become involved.\n\n\"At one point we had got a group of probably 200 on one side and we ended up with a group of probably 600 or 700 on the other,\" he said.\n\n\"So you've got 800 or 900 people in a really close area, being protected by about 100 or so officers, and I think my officers did an amazing job in really difficult circumstances.\"\n\nAnother protest involving about 100 people followed on Sunday, but police said the area was quiet overnight into Monday.\n\nPolice closed several side streets in the Humberstone Road area during the unrest\n\nThe arrests have included people from outside of the city, including some from Birmingham.\n\n\"I think there are people from outside of Leicester that are going onto social media and talking about 'let's get behind this, let's travel to Leicester',\" said Mr Nixon.\n\n\"So they are stoking up people from outside of Leicester to try and join a fight, which is probably being fuelled by the social media rhetoric.\"\n\nCommunity leaders in the city have joined police in calling for calm.\n\nCity Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said: \"We often talk about the good community relations in Leicester, but you can never be complacent about it, you can never take it for granted.\n\n\"It is always a work in progress and it is quite clear there is work to be done here.\"\n\nReading a joint statement from the Hindu and Muslim communities, Pradip Gajjar said: \"The two faiths have lived harmoniously in this wonderful city for over half a century.\n\n\"We arrived in this city together, we faced the same challenges together, we fought off racist haters together, and collectively made this city a beacon of diversity and community cohesion.\n\n\"We together call upon the immediate cessation of provocation and violence both in thought and behaviour.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "HS2 Ltd said the injunction \"...will not, and is not intended to, stop legitimate protest\".\n\nHS2 Ltd has been granted an \"extensive\" injunction along the length of the high-speed line from London to Crewe to help tackle unlawful protests.\n\nThe order makes going onto HS2 land without permission or disrupting work a potential contempt of court - the offence of ignoring a judge's ruling.\n\nIt will not only apply to identified protestors but to \"persons unknown\".\n\nHS2 welcomed the court judgement and said it was \"not intended to stop legitimate protest\".\n\nA High Court judge sitting at Birmingham's Civil Justice Centre, Mr Justice Julian Knowles, said the injunction struck \"a fair balance between the rights of the individual protestors and the general right and interests of HS2 and others who are being affected by the protests, including the national economy.\"\n\nLegal experts say this court order is one of the most far-reaching of its kind in English legal history.\n\nOpponents have argued it will stifle peaceful opposition and even hamper ecologists who need access to monitor the build.\n\nProtests against the line have cost an estimated £122 million.\n\nMr Justice Knowles took more than four months to consider almost 8,000 pages of evidence, including plans, statements and maps.\n\nThe order covers a range of scenarios, including people \"interfering with\" access to the land or \"delaying or hindering\" any HS2 work.\n\nMr Justice Knowles said he was \"satisfied that there has been significant violence, criminality and sometimes risk to the life of the activists, HS2 staff and contractors.\"\n\nHe added that, while he had \"anxiously considered the geographical extent of the injunction along the whole of the HS2 route\", he had decided that \"such an extensive injunction is appropriate.\"\n\nHe said he had studied the land plans and found that \"they are clear, detailed and precise. I reject any suggestion that they are unclear. They clearly show the land to which the injunction… will apply.\n\n\"I am satisfied that the trespass and nuisance will continue, unless restrained, and that the risk is both real and imminent.\"\n\nBreaking the injunction would be a contempt of court, which can lead to jail.\n\nAn HS2 spokesperson said it would not be used to stop law-abiding protestors and said: \"As Mr Justice Knowles makes clear, this injunction will not, and is not intended to, stop legitimate protest.\n\n\"Instead, we hope the injunction will prevent the violence, intimidation, and criminal damage these protests have frequently caused, harming the HS2 project and those working on it, and costing the UK taxpayer millions of pounds.\"\n\nRicardo Gama from the law firm Leigh Day said it was \"definitely one of the biggest\" injunctions ever sought.\n\nHe said the only comparable case was the injunction used to evict the Insulate Britain protestors, which applied across the whole of the strategic road network.\n\n\"It criminalises a future action in a much more clear-cut and draconian way than the criminal law does,\" said Mr Gama. \"If there is a criminal offence, then there are safeguards in legislation and case law about what the offence constitutes and what the defence might be.\"\n\nAnti-HS2 activist Mark Keir said there had been \"no justice\" and called the awarding of the injunction \"a democracy-crippling decision\" that was \"deeply worrying\".\n\nLegal documents submitted to the court argued that: \"Given the extent of the HS2 Land, the term has a clear chilling effect on all forms of protest against HS2.\n\n\"Some HS2 land passes through high-density urban areas with multiple roads and public highways... It also covers woodland and other areas with public access and public rights of way.\"\n\n\"Most of HS2 land is not subject to any physical demarcation or barrier... Notwithstanding the 283 pages of maps which have been produced, the breadth scope and complexity of the land subject to the proposed injunction is such that it is in practical terms not possible for persons to reliably ascertain the scope of the injunction.\"\n\nIn the Chiltern hills Keith Hoffmeister walks on a footpath which now crosses HS2 land\n\nThe HS2 line passes through the Chiltern hills, where there are over 2,000 miles (3,219km) of footpaths.\n\nAccording to the Chiltern Society, many have had to be diverted because of the construction, and there is a concern that walkers could mistakenly break the injunction and commit a criminal offence.\n\nKeith Hoffmeister, a society volunteer said: \"There is a danger that they set off on a nice walk across the countryside and start walking across a footpath that they might not even be aware is crossing HS2 land.\n\n\"If they strayed off that footpath there is the potential for them to be committing a criminal offence - and likewise with the footpath maintenance volunteers who may be straying offline in order to cutback hedges. They could easily stray off the footpath and again be prosecuted by HS2 for trespassing.\"\n\nMatthew Stanton said the scope of the injunction was \"absolutely massive.\"\n\nMatthew Stanton, head of planning and advocacy at Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust, said he was also worried volunteers and staff monitoring the impact of HS2's work on wildlife and their habitats might inadvertently find themselves wandering onto private land and falling foul of the injunction, if it were applied too strictly.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned about the impact the injunction will have on people's ability to monitor the work HS2 is doing in terms of ecological impact and that's because we have already had experiences where people feel intimidated going near HS2 land and we are concerned that security staff of HS2 will feel even more emboldened with such an injunction behind them.\n\n\"It's one thing trying to stop people having illegal camps on HS2 land but, if that is what HS2 wants, then just have an injunction that says that - don't have a catch-all injunction that basically means they can threaten to imprison anyone who even slightly affects their operations.\"\n\nHS2 was originally meant to connect London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Work has already started on the first phase, linking London and the West Midlands. The next section will extend the line to Crewe. The final phase was to take HS2 to Manchester and Leeds. But the Leeds leg is being scrapped.\n\nThe government says HS2 will cut Birmingham to London journey times from one hour 21 minutes, down to 52 minutes.\n\nThe London and Birmingham leg was due to open at the end of 2026. But this is now expected between 2029 and 2033.\n\nThe second phase was due to open in 2032-33, but has been pushed back to 2035-2040.", "Molly saw large amounts of material around self-harm, suicide and depression on social media\n\nAlmost five years after she took her own life, the inquest into the death of teenager Molly Russell is due to begin.\n\nMolly, 14, killed herself in 2017 after viewing material about self-harm, suicide and depression, on social media sites such as Instagram and Pinterest.\n\nHer father Ian, a campaigner for online safety, hopes it is a turning point.\n\n\"I hope that we will learn lessons and that it will help produce the change that's needed to keep people safe, to keep people alive,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMr Russell, from Harrow, north-west London, believes long-term exposure to harmful material contributed to Molly's death.\n\nMolly's story provided fresh impetus for new legislation to regulate so-called big tech companies. The Online Safety Bill is still making its way through Parliament and is due a third reading in the Commons.\n\nMeta, which owns Instagram, and Pinterest are officially taking part in the inquest, which is due to last two weeks. It will hear evidence from executives from both companies, after they were ordered by the coroner to appear in person.\n\nMeta is likely to be questioned about a number of internal documents revealed by the former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen. These include research carried out by the company into the impact of the platform on the mental health of young people.\n\nIn the last six months of her life, Molly used her Instagram account up to 120 times a day, liking more than 11,000 pieces of content. She is thought to have used the image-sharing site Pinterest more than 15,000 times over the same period.\n\nThe coroner, Andrew Walker, has already been warned that some of the content is \"pretty dreadful\" and difficult even for adults to look at for extended periods of time.\n\nGed Flynn, chief executive of Papyrus, which works to prevent suicide in young people, said Mr Russell's campaign to prevent future deaths was \"a hugely significant contribution to the agenda of suicide prevention in this country\".\n\n\"We have to change the way we accept the power of the tech giants,\" he said.\n\nMolly used her Instagram account up to 120 times a day\n\nOthers believe that the inquest may prove to be a \"watershed moment\". Andy Burrows, head of child safety online policy at the NSPCC, said: \"Molly's death is a tragedy that is all too relatable to all parents who worry about the risks their children face online.\n\n\"For the first time we will see big tech representatives questioned under oath about how their products may have contributed to the death of a child.\"\n\nA Meta spokesperson told the BBC: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with Molly's family and we will continue to assist the coroner in this inquest. We have never allowed content that promotes or glorifies suicide and self-harm.\"\n\nIn a statement, Pinterest told BBC News: \"Combating self-harm is a priority for us as we strive to ensure that Pinterest plays a positive role in people's lives.\"\n\nHowever, Matthew Bergman, a lawyer from the Social Media Victims Law Centre, in Seattle, in the US, says the proceedings will be closely watched in North America.\n\n\"Regardless of the outcome, the fact that Meta senior personnel have been forced to testify in a proceeding like this one is a significant step toward accountability.\"", "Lil Baby had been due to perform at the Breakout Festival in Vancouver\n\nLil Baby sparked chaos when he dropped out of a Canadian music festival's headline slot at the last minute.\n\nThe rapper's set was pulled just 30 minutes before the end of the Breakout Festival in Vancouver, with organisers explaining the 27-year-old was unwell.\n\nVideos online appear to show chaotic scenes erupting in the PNE Amphitheatre venue after the announcement.\n\nCanadian Police arrested seven people and estimated that thousands of dollars in damage was caused.\n\nFans had flocked to see Lil Baby, real name Dominique Armani Jones, who has collaborated with stars including Drake and Nicki Minaj.\n\nBut \"destructive concert-goers became hostile\" after the cancellation was announced, according to Vancouver PC Tanya Visintin.\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, she said \"several hundred people began fighting and destroying property\".\n\nBins and food kiosks were overturned and damaged, she said, and tables, fridges and tents knocked down and thrown.\n\n\"Several people climbed various fixtures including a tall lamp-post,\" she said.\n\nBottles and other objects were thrown at police after dozens of officers were brought in from around the city to tackle the violence, PC Visintin added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BREAKOUT FESTIVAL 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\nLil Baby later apologised to fans for his absence, writing on Instagram: \"I would like to start off by saying I truly apologise Vancouver, Canada, the Breakout Festival, and to everyone who was in attendance!\n\n\"I have been going so hard these past few months without any breaks that it finally caught up with me. And my body completely shut down.\n\n\"I owe you guys big time and will for sure make up for it soon.\"\n\nLil Uzi Vert, Polo G and Sofaygo also pulled out of the festival.\n\nCrescendo1, one of the companies organising the event, has since told fans they can claim partial refunds.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We do not condone violence or destruction of property and are utterly disappointed with the way some of our patrons acted at this year's event.\"\n\nLil Baby's third album, Only Me, is released next month.\n\nThe Drip Too Hard rapper has recently collaborated with DJ Khaled and Drake on track Staying Alive.\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.", "Valery Polyakov said his 14-month expedition was the equivalent of travelling to Mars and back\n\nA Russian cosmonaut who holds the record for the longest-ever trip to space has died aged 80.\n\nValery Polyakov spent 437 full days orbiting the Earth between 1994 and 1995 on the Mir space station.\n\nHe worked on experiments to see whether people could maintain their mental health if they were to make a long journey to Mars.\n\nTests found that there was no impairment of his cognitive function as a result of his 14-month expedition.\n\nPolyakov's death was announced by the Russian space agency, which used his honorary titles, including hero of the Soviet Union and pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR.\n\nThe cause of Polyakov's death was not disclosed.\n\nThe agency, Roscosmos, added in a Telegram post that Polyakov's research had helped to prove that the human body could handle flights well beyond Earth's orbit, into deep space.\n\nPolyakov was born in 1942 in Tula, a city to the south of the capital Moscow, qualifying first as a physician and then as a cosmonaut.\n\nHe was launched on his first mission in August 1988, spending eight months in orbit.\n\nIt was his flight six years later that earned Polyakov his record for the longest trip to space, which still stands to this day.\n\nPolyakov lived and worked on the Mir space station from 8 January 1994 to 22 March 1995, reportedly orbiting the Earth more than 7,000 times.\n\nHe later said that the duration of the trip was the equivalent of journeying to Mars and back.\n\nOn Polyakov's return, he is said to have declined an offer to be carried out of his capsule, which is standard practice as astronauts reacclimatise to gravity on Earth.\n\nInstead, he climbed out with the assistance of others.\n\nThe Mir space station was sent into orbit in 1986, first under the control of the Soviet Union and later Russia.\n\nDeployed during the Cold War, the 135-tonne (135,000kg) satellite was used with the cooperation of the Soviet Union and US, despite longstanding political tensions.\n\nIt proved instrumental in developing an understanding of how humans might be able to live and work in space, before being retired in 2001.", "A cell in a prison abandoned by the Russians in Izyum\n\nFor those held in the dank basement cells of a makeshift Russian prison in the Ukrainian city of Izyum, there was more than one type of torture. The occupiers had a menu of abuses.\n\nMykhailo Ivanovych, 67, says he experienced most of them.\n\nWARNING: You may find the following description distressing.\n\nSitting in a ward in the city's main hospital - which was badly damaged by shelling - the pensioner recounts the abuses he suffered: electrocution, beatings, broken bones and needles inserted beneath the skin.\n\nHis left arm is bandaged and in a sling. He is weary, but his voice is unwavering.\n\n\"They tortured me for 12 days,\" he tells us.\n\n\"They beat me everywhere. They broke my arm. One Russian was holding it and another one beat it with a pipe. They beat me to the point where I didn't feel anything. They used an electric current on my fingertips - how they burned.\"\n\nThen there were the needles pushed into his back.\n\n\"They were long, and they put them under my skin here and here,\" he says, gesturing to his shoulders. \"I was taken from there half-dead when our forces liberated this place.\"\n\nThat was on 11 September, when Ukrainian forces swept into the city, ending more than five months of Russian rule. During the occupation the Russians used the city as a launchpad for attacks in the eastern Donbas region, and as a key logistics base.\n\nMykhailo was detained along with others who the Russians suspected of sabotage. The prisoners were hooded, sharing the cramped conditions and the abuse.\n\n\"All of those held with me were tortured,\" he says. \"Sometimes they took someone from their cells two or even three times in a day. I saw someone being carried out. I think he was dead.\"\n\nMykhailo wears a cross around his neck over a striped T-shirt. I ask if he prayed during his time in the cells. \"Of course,\" he replies. \"I had to pray. Anyone would be praying there.\"\n\nThe torture took place in the police station in Izyum. When we enter it is in disarray, with some doors missing and windows blown out. Like much of Izyum it was shelled by the Russians before they took the city.\n\nDarkness closes in as we descend the stairs to two lower floors of cells. Most are small and bare, apart from grimy bedding and some discarded clothing.\n\nIn one cell someone has etched lines on the wall, recording the length of their captivity. The silence is broken by a Ukrainian soldier.\n\n\"It seems like all these walls are full of pain and suffering,\" he says.\n\nMykhailo's account of suffering electric shocks echoes other testimony we have heard recently in newly liberated areas - including from a former journalist called Maxim, who said he was held in the same cells.\n\n\"They attach electrodes and connect a current, and you begin to shake,\" he said. \"I was falling from the chair. The pain was too strong. It was pitch black. They tortured us in complete darkness. They had head lamps. I asked my cellmates how long I had been absent, and they told me 40 minutes. I think that you black out after 15 to 20 minutes.\"\n\nUkraine is keen to prove that the torture of civilians - a war crime - was systematic, not haphazard. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says \"10 torture chambers\" have been found in recent days in areas here in Kharkiv province retaken by Ukrainian forces.\n\nA short distance from the prison we find investigators at work, combing through a damaged office building used by the Russians as their command centre. We are allowed to enter, wearing protective coverings on our shoes, and face masks, so we don't disturb the evidence.\n\nA sign saying \"police\" in Russian still hangs over the door. Inside on a desk is a thumbed edition of a Russian daily newspaper.\n\nLead investigator Leonid Pustovit - wearing white protective overalls - has made a grim discovery. He opens a drawer to show us an axe bearing traces of what looks like blood.\n\n\"Our investigation will reveal whose blood it is,\" he tells us.\n\nHe has also found a watch-list kept by the Russians, with names of those thought to be supporting the Ukrainian government. \"They were called 'the ones with extremist views',\" he says. \"They brought them here and interrogated them. They were kept on a short leash.\"\n\nThis broken city is just beginning to tell its stories and reveal how many victims the Russians left behind.\n\nIn a pine forest on the edge of the city forensic teams are continuing to exhume human remains from more than 440 graves. The authorities say the dead are mostly civilians, but one grave contained the bodies of 17 soldiers, some with their hands bound and bearing signs of torture.\n\nUkraine is examining bodies found in a mass grave on the edge of Izyum\n\nThe regional prosecutor told us the Russians had killed almost all of those buried here - one way or another - including by shooting, shelling or air strikes.\n\nAs emergency workers carry away remains in a white body bag, Olena Kazabekhov looks on, caught between hope and dread. She has come in search of her father, Petro Vasylchyshyn, who served with Ukraine's 95th Airborne Battalion. The young woman is tearful, leaning on her husband Yurii for support.\n\n\"The last phone call we had was on 17th of April,\" he tells us. \"The next day they moved to the frontline, and many of his unit went missing. We know five were killed. Their bodies were found by another unit.\"\n\nTormented by unanswered questions, Yurii says they are almost envious of those who at least have remains to bury.\n\n\"We know families that were in the same situation as we are now, but they found the bodies, and they are - it's hard to describe - happier than we are, because at least they found them.\"\n\nOlena is desperate to find out what happened to her missing father\n\nSo far, the military remains unearthed in the forest are of soldiers from a different brigade to his father-in-law's, so he and Olena may have to search elsewhere. For others, the exhumations have already provided answers.\n\nOne widely published photo from the burial site showed a decayed hand with blue and yellow bands around the wrist - the colours of Ukraine's flag. A reddish mark was barely visible underneath.\n\nAccording to a statement on the Facebook page of Ukraine's 93rd Mechanised Brigade, they were the remains of a soldier called Serhiy Sova. When his wife Oksana saw the photo, she recognised the tattoo on his wrist.\n\nIzyum is now a city with deep scars. In every direction there are scorched and battered buildings. The streets are largely lifeless. It's as if residents who survived the shelling and occupation are still scared to come out.\n\nA handful gather in a sunlit square in the city centre to collect some aid being handed out from the back of a van - just small bags of bare essentials. Dasha, 25, is among them, with a lively six-year-old called Tim. She recounts the hardships of recent months, as he chases around the bushes.\n\n\"We cooked outside,\" she says. \"The fire truck brought water from the river, but we didn't have drinking water. We went looking for wells so we would have water to drink. Tim was scared to sleep alone. He twitched and had nightmares. The hardest thing was not knowing what tomorrow would bring.\"\n\nWe are still scared... there is no certain victory\n\nThe Russians may be gone, but she is still unsure what's ahead.\n\n\"We are still scared,\" she says. \"We don't know if we will be safe over the longer term. Military actions are still going on, and there is no certain victory. We're hoping and praying for a peaceful sky and for a bright future for our children.\"\n\nHaving regained so much territory so quickly, Ukraine now has to secure it. Driving around in recent days we have seen convoys of tanks and troops, rushing to plug any gaps, and have occasionally heard incoming fire.\n\nPresident Zelensky says it's not a lull, but the build-up to the battles to come. \"It's preparation for the next sequence,\" he says, \"because Ukraine must be free, all of it.\"\n\nDasha has a different phrase for the current situation. \"It's thin ice,\" she says.", "London observes a two-minute silence for the Queen at the end of her funeral.\n\nWho is in the main procession?", "The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby pays tribute to the Queen's life and service to the UK and Commonwealth.\n\nToday, the door swings shut on the Elizabethan era", "Joe Biden at the White House on 15 September\n\nPresident Joe Biden has declared the pandemic over in the US, even as the number of Americans who have died from Covid continues to rise.\n\n\"We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,\" said Mr Biden in a television interview.\n\nStatistics show that over 400 Americans on average are dying from the virus each day.\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said last week that the end of the pandemic was \"in sight\".\n\nIn an interview with CBS programme 60 Minutes aired on Sunday, Mr Biden said the situation was rapidly improving, even though a lot of work was being done to control the virus.\n\nThe interview - aired over the weekend - was partly filmed on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show, where the president gestured towards the crowds.\n\n\"If you notice, no-one's wearing masks,\" he said. \"Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape... I think it's changing.\"\n\nBut administration officials told US media on Monday that the comments did not signal a change in policy and there were no plans to lift the ongoing Covid-19 public health emergency.\n\nIn August, US officials extended the public health emergency, which has been in place since January 2020, through to 13 October.\n\nTo date, more than one million Americans have died from Covid. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - the CDC - says that Covid was the underlying cause in at least 90% of those deaths. In the remaining deaths, it was a contributing cause.\n\nData from Johns Hopkins University shows that the seven-day average of deaths currently stands at over 400, with more than 3,000 dead in the past week alone.\n\nIn January 2021, by comparison, more than 23,000 people were reported dead from the virus over a single week-long span. About 65% of the total US population is considered fully vaccinated.\n\nCertain federal vaccine mandates remain in place in the US - including on healthcare workers, military personnel and some non-US citizens entering the country by plane.\n\nTop Republicans criticised the president's remarks, with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeting: \"Biden now says 'the pandemic is over' as he's kicking tens of thousands of healthy soldiers out of the military with his COVID vaccine mandate.\"\n\nPublic health officials have expressed cautious optimism in recent weeks that the world is edging towards a pandemic recovery, but continue to urge people to be careful.\n\nOn Monday, Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged the situation had improved.\n\nBut in comments made at a Washington DC think tank, he said the daily death rate remained \"unacceptably high\".\n\n\"We are not where we need to be if we're going to be able to 'live with the virus',\" Dr Fauci said.\n\nHe also cautioned that new Covid-19 variants could still emerge, especially in the coming winter months.\n\nThe US recently authorised new vaccines that match the version of the Omicron variant currently dominant in the country, with federal health officials asking Americans to keep their jabs up-to-date.\n\nLast week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the world has \"never been in a better position to end the pandemic\".\n\n\"We are not there yet,\" he said. \"But the end is in sight.\"\n\nCovid-19 also continues to have a significant impact on the US economy, with the National Bureau of Economic Research reporting last week that Covid-related disease had slashed the US workforce by about 500,000 people.\n\nMr Biden said he believes that the pandemic has had a \"profound\" impact on the psyche of Americans.\n\n\"That has changed everything... people's attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of the nation, about the state of their communities,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been a very difficult time. Very difficult.\"\n\nMore than 6.5 million people have died since the beginning of the pandemic around the world. The US has had the highest death toll, followed by India and Brazil.", "The European Commission has urged countries across the bloc to cut their gas use by 15% from August to March amid fears Russia could halt supplies.\n\nIt says the target is voluntary but will become legally binding if Moscow turns off the taps this summer.\n\nThe key Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany has been offline for maintenance for 10 days and is due to be turned back on this Thursday.\n\nBut there are concerns Moscow will not follow through on its promise.\n\nAdding to the uncertainty, Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that it was not clear whether or in what condition a turbine from the pipeline would be returned in after repairs in Canada.\n\nThe Russian president said there was a risk the equipment would have to be switched off at \"some point\" and Nord Stream 1 would be shut down.\n\nRussia supplied Europe with 40% of its natural gas last year, with Germany the continent's largest importer in 2020, followed by Italy.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said a Europe-wide cut-off was now a \"likely scenario\".\n\n\"Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon,\" she said. \"Therefore, in any event, whether it's a partial, major cut-off of Russian gas or a total cut-off of Russian gas, Europe needs to be ready.\"\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine it has cut supplies to a number of countries which have rejected its demand for payment for gas in roubles, including Poland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland.\n\nIt has also been accused of reducing supplies to make it more difficult for EU countries to build up reserves ahead of winter.\n\nThe UK gets less than 5% of its gas from Russia, but its gas prices are affected by fluctuations in global markets.\n\nThe Commission said a full cut-off during winter could have a major impact on EU economies, reducing growth by up to 1.5%.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund last week warned it could plunge countries into recession, heightening an energy crisis that has sent consumer bills soaring.\n\nEuropean nations have been trying to build up gas storage ahead of winter in case Moscow further restricts supplies.\n\nThe proposed 15% reduction is compared with average consumption in the same period from 2016 to 2021.\n\nThe gas that is saved would be put into storage, Ms von der Leyen tweeted.\n\n\"This is a big ask for the whole of the EU - but it is necessary to protect us,\" she said.\n\nShe said that some member states are \"more vulnerable\" to gas supply disruption, and that EU states \"all need to be ready to share gas\".\n\nThe plan has hit resistance from Poland, which has filled its gas storage to 98% of capacity and does not feel the need to cut its use.\n\nOther countries have less stored - Hungary, for example, is at 47% of capacity.\n\nThe European Commission suggested measures governments could take to cut gas use, including compensating industries that use less and limiting heating and cooling temperatures in public buildings.\n\nGovernments should also decide the order in which they would force industries to shut down in the event of a supply emergency.\n\nHouseholds are classed as \"protected consumers\" under EU rules and would be shielded from such curbs.\n\nEU member states will vote on the Council's rationing plan at a meeting of energy ministers on 26 July.\n\nGermany has already been taking steps towards gas rationing. In June the country triggered the \"alarm\" stage of an emergency gas plan to deal with shortages.\n\nOn Monday the International Energy Agency (IEA) called on European countries to further reduce gas consumption, saying Russia's latest moves to restrict gas flows, along with other supply disruptions, are a \"red alert\" to the EU.\n\nFatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said that despite efforts to reduce reliance on Russian gas, it hasn't been enough to prevent Europe \"finding itself in an incredibly precarious position today\", adding that the next few months were \"critical\".", "Becky Godden was one of two women murdered by Christopher Halliwell\n\nSignificant opportunities to bring Becky Godden's killer to justice sooner were missed during a flawed murder investigation, a report says.\n\nWiltshire Police Chief Constable Kier Pritchard has been heavily criticised over the inquiry into double murderer Christopher Halliwell.\n\nAn Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) report said the investigation “was poorly supervised”.\n\nMr Pritchard said he had personally apologised to Miss Godden's family.\n\nWiltshire Police has also formally apologised to them, after the IOPC determined there was a \"fog of confusion\" over who was in charge of the investigation into her disappearance.\n\nKaren Edwards, Miss Godden's mother, said failings by officers investigating the murder of her daughter were \"unbelievable\".\n\nShe added she was \"elated\" with the outcome of the report and to have finally received an apology after years spent campaigning for justice.\n\nMs Edwards said: \"There has been such a failure within Wiltshire Police.\n\n\"That evidence they had in 2016 when he was convicted, they had in their hands in 2011 - they chose not to hand it up.\n\n\"The fact they sat on that evidence is just wrong.\"\n\nHalliwell, from Swindon, admitted murdering Miss Godden while being questioned about the murder of another young woman - Sian O'Callaghan - in 2011.\n\nHe then led police to where he had buried Miss Godden in January 2003.\n\nBut he could not be prosecuted because detectives failed to caution him or offer him access to a lawyer and a judge ruled the confession was inadmissible in court.\n\nChristopher Halliwell was finally convicted over Miss Godden's murder in 2016\n\nMr Pritchard was a detective chief superintendent at the time, with overall responsibility for all serious and major crime investigations at Wiltshire Police - although he was not the senior investigating officer for the Halliwell murders.\n\nThe IOPC said that between 2011 and 2014, the murder inquiry was poorly progressed and supervised, with no senior investigating officer handling it between detective Steve Fulcher stepping down in 2011 and Det Insp Matt Davey taking over in October 2012.\n\nIt added there were several lines of inquiry not properly followed, including soil found on a spade belonging to Halliwell in 2011 that was not forensically examined until 2014 which matched rare soil found where Miss Godden was found.\n\nHalliwell was eventually put on trial for her murder, and was convicted in 2016 - five years after he first told police about the location of Miss Godden's body.\n\nThe Becky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan murders put Wiltshire Police in the national spotlight.\n\nThere was the shock of course - local taxi driver Christopher Halliwell had killed two young women.\n\nBut the handling of the investigation also quickly became controversial, with questions raised over how his confessions were obtained.\n\nAnd today's report shows the force missed opportunities to convict Halliwell for Miss Godden's murder years earlier than they did.\n\nThe force's leadership acknowledge the shortcomings \"further compounded the terrible pain and loss\" endured by Miss Godden's family, and have apologised again.\n\nBut this report also adds further pressure on the Chief Constable Kier Pritchard, as we now know he has faced \"management action\" - a sort of disciplinary - as the IOPC has found \"there was a case to answer for misconduct\".\n\nHe says the shortcomings are a matter of \"personal regret\" and that he takes \"full responsibility\".\n\nBut add to this other severe criticisms raised in recent months when Her Majesty's Inspectorate placed Wiltshire into special measures, there is real pressure on the chief to show improvements fast.\n\nBecky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan were murdered by taxi driver Christopher Halliwell\n\nThe IOPC report was compiled in response to complaints from Miss Godden's mother Karen about Mr Pritchard and two officers who have since left the force.\n\nExamples of Wiltshire Police's failure to progress lines of inquiry prior to 2014 included:\n\nKier Pritchard has faced a form of disciplinary action as a result of the IOPC investigation\n\nThe IOPC ruled that if the various witness and forensic evidence had been thoroughly investigated and the Crown Prosecution Service had been made aware of outstanding lines of inquiry prior to a pre-trial hearing in 2012, then it might have led to a different judicial decision.\n\nIOPC regional director Catrin Evans said it had found \"serious failings\" in the way the force handled the murder investigation after the initial charges relating to Miss Godden's murder were dropped in 2012.\n\n\"In our view, the issues that arose stemmed from a combination of systemic weaknesses within the force at the time as well as individual shortcomings,\" she said.\n\n\"Our investigation indicated that no-one in Wiltshire Police took responsibility for ensuring that the murder inquiry progressed effectively.\"\n\nWiltshire Police said it had already acted on the IOPC recommendations, which suggested focusing on ensuring better strategic oversight and review of murder investigations, as well as an improved use of a major inquiry system.\n\nMr Pritchard said: \"As chief constable of the force, I fully accept the findings and recommendations outlined in today's report and I have had the opportunity to personally apologise to members of Becky's family.\n\n\"The murder investigation was a complex case with very unique circumstances. We always strove to deliver justice for Becky's family, further to the tragic and shocking loss of their much-loved daughter.\"\n\nWiltshire Police deputy chief constable Paul Mills said: \"We are sincerely and deeply sorry for the impact these avoidable delays in the investigation had on Becky's family and recognise these have further compounded the terrible pain and loss endured as result of the murder of their much-loved daughter.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader, the Kremlin has confirmed.\n\nSpokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Putin's work schedule would not permit him to attend the event on Saturday.\n\nHe said the Russian leader had paid his respects at the Moscow hospital where Gorbachev died on Tuesday, aged 91.\n\nGorbachev's reforms helped end the Cold War, but saw the demise of the Soviet Union, which Mr Putin has lamented.\n\nWarning: some readers may find the video below distressing.\n\nIn 2005, the Russian president said the break-up of the USSR was \"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] Century\".\n\nHowever, in his telegram of condolences to Gorbachev's family on Wednesday, Mr Putin struck a more conciliatory note, describing him as \"a politician and statesman who had a huge impact on the course of world history\".\n\nOn Thursday, Russian state television showed Mr Putin placing red roses beside Gorbachev's coffin in Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin lays flowers next to the body of Mikhail Gorbachev\n\n\"Unfortunately, the president's work schedule will not allow him to do this on 3 September, so he decided to do it today,\" Mr Peskov told reporters.\n\nGorbachev's funeral, which will be open to the public, will take place in Moscow's Hall of Columns.\n\nAfterwards, he will be buried at the city's Novodevichy cemetery, next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999.\n\nMr Peskov said Gorbachev's ceremony would have \"elements\" of a state funeral and that the state was helping to organise it.\n\nMr Putin will not be the only notable absentee from the funeral. Many of the foreign leaders who might have been expected to attend are currently barred from Russian soil, in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nTop politicians from the US, UK, EU, Japan and Canada are among those on the exclusion list, including US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as the two candidates vying to succeed him, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe Kremlin would say, what is all the fuss about? Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to Mikhail Gorbachev's family (in a brief telegram). He's also laid flowers at Gorbachev's open casket.\n\nBut, no, he won't be going to the funeral. The official reason: no space in his busy schedule. Diary full. That rather unconvincing explanation is fuelling speculation that, in reality, it's not that Putin has no time, but rather no desire to attend.\n\nIn other words, it's a snub. Why might that be? Well, for a start, to those in power in Russia today, Mikhail Gorbachev is viewed as having been a weak, indecisive leader who let a superpower - and Russia's global influence - slip away.\n\nWhat's more, President Putin has been busy dismantling Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy. Gorbachev opened up the country, granted freedoms to his people and sought peace and friendship with Western nations. That's not President Putin's thing at all. He's been taking freedoms away, supressing democratic institutions and embracing the idea of confrontation with the West.\n\nThat - along with the invasion of Ukraine - is keeping President Putin very busy. No wonder his diary is full.", "Russia produces more than 10 million barrels of oil a day\n\nSaudi Arabia has announced it will be cutting its production of crude oil by a million barrels a day to try to boost prices.\n\nOther members of the oil producers' group Opec+ agreed to keep their output levels unchanged, having made cuts of more than one million barrels a day last April.\n\nOil analysts do not expect the most recent cut to cause a big rise in world crude prices.\n\nOpec+ is a group of 23 oil-exporting countries which meets regularly to decide how much crude oil to sell on the world market.\n\nAt the core of this group are the 13 members of Opec (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), which are mainly Middle Eastern and African nations. Opec was formed in 1960 as a cartel, which aimed to fix the worldwide supply of oil and its price.\n\nOpec nations produce about 30% of the world's crude oil. Saudi Arabia is the biggest single oil supplier within the group, producing more than 10 million barrels a day.\n\nIn 2016, when oil prices were particularly low, Opec joined forces with 10 other oil producers to create Opec+.\n\nOne of the members of the expanded group is Russia, which also produces more than 10 million barrels a day.\n\nTogether, Opec+ countries produce about 40% of all the world's crude oil.\n\n\"Opec+ tailors supply and demand to balance the market,\" says Kate Dourian, of the Energy Institute. \"It keeps prices high by lowering supplies when the demand for oil slumps.\"\n\nThe organisation can also lower prices by putting more oil into the market.\n\nSaudi Arabia's voluntary cut of one million barrels a day comes into effect in July.\n\nIt follows a cut of 1.16 million barrels a day in April, which was voluntarily undertaken by eight members of Opec+, and a group-wide cut of two million barrels a day in October 2022.\n\nIt is thought that Saudi Arabia, which is currently chairing Opec+, needs to have the price of Brent crude rising to $80 (£65) a barrel or more to cover its government spending and import bill.\n\nIn 2020, the price of crude oil crashed because of a lack of buyers, as countries went into lockdown. Opec+ had to boost prices by cutting production dramatically - by more than nine million barrels per day.\n\nFollowing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the price of Brent crude soared to more than $130 a barrel. However, by March 2023 it had fallen back to little above $70 a barrel - a 15-month low.\n\nDavid Fyfe, of the oil industry research group Argus Media, says that the most recent production cut may force prices above the $80 a barrel mark, but says that they may not rise far beyond that because global demand for oil is weak.\n\n\"We are seeing a sharp slowdown in economic growth in developed countries, almost to the point of them going into recession,\" he says. \"And we don't think the demand for oil in China will increase a great deal in the next few months. So the market will not be that tight in the second half of the year.\"\n\nAfter Russia invaded Ukraine, EU countries stopped importing Russian oil transported by sea, and countries such as the US and UK stopped buying it altogether.\n\nRussia is now exporting more crude to countries such as India and China, which are not imposing the Western sanctions against Moscow.\n\nHowever, the G7 group of nations is trying to keep Russia's oil revenues low by imposing a price cap of $60 a barrel on the oil that it exports.", "Natalie says her dad did not deserve what has happened to his grave.\n\nThe family of a man whose grave is submerged in water say they will not give South Ayrshire Council permission to exhume his body.\n\nCaroline Sutherland and Natalie Campbell buried their dad, Norrie, at a new section of Ayr Cemetery in 2018.\n\nEarlier this year 126 families were told that graves of their loved ones had flooded due to drainage issues.\n\nThe council said all bodies would need to be exhumed for repair work. At least 20 families have not given permission.\n\nThe bodies would be stored at a facility at Prestwick Airport while the graves are drained.\n\nThey would then be placed in new coffins and reburied in their original plots.\n\nCaroline told BBC Scotland: \"We feel totally let down and we have no faith or confidence in anything that is happening.\n\n\"There's just no emotion, there was no care given. It's just been a case of, let's get this job done.\n\n\"We buried our dad over four years ago and it's starting the grieving process again.\"\n\nCaroline and Natalie picked the plot for their dad at Ayr Cemetery\n\nThe sisters said they have struggled to contact South Ayrshire Council and have \"no trust\" in the work due to take place.\n\nThey have refused to sign the council's permission document for Norrie's body to be exhumed.\n\nNatalie said: \"We've not had any official correspondence from South Ayrshire Council. It would be helpful if they would give us some reassurance.\n\n\"When we do contact them we're given the same generic response that everyone is getting.\"\n\n\"You hope after four years you'll be in a position where you're at peace that your dad is at peace, but it's just opened up old wounds, it's been completely raw.\"\n\nNorrie Kennedy had requested to be buried at Ayr Cemetery, just streets away from the home where the girls grew up.\n\nNatalie added: \"Although he said he wanted to be buried here, we chose the plot, and this has happened.\n\n\"He was a well loved man and he does not deserve this.\"\n\nIn May, South Ayrshire Council leader Martin Dowey told BBC Scotland's The Nine that he would make the families' wishes his priority and full compensation would be paid for reburials.\n\nThe council said it would take a \"number of months\" for restoration work to be completed.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We understand that this is an extremely distressing time for families and we are doing everything we can to support them.\n\n\"Families have been offered free specialist support from a bereavement charity and have had the opportunity to meet with the specialist contractor, Peter Mitchell, and council leader Martin Dowey.\n\n\"Councillor Dowey regularly writes to families to provide them with updates on the situation and will be contacting families in the near future with details of the testing and works to ensure there are no further water problems.\"\n\nThe council said investigations were also needed at Troon cemetery, where 49 graves are suspected to be flooded.\n\nIt said this would not begin until repairs at Ayr were complete.", "Members of the G7 have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in a bid to hit Moscow's ability to finance the war in Ukraine.\n\nFinance ministers said the cap on crude oil and petroleum products would also help reduce global energy prices. The cap will be set at a level based on a range of technical inputs.\n\n\"We will continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes,\" the G7 said.\n\nRussia said it would stop selling oil to countries that imposed price caps.\n\n\"Companies that impose a price cap will not be among the recipients of Russian oil,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nThe G7 (Group of Seven) consists of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. The group is an organisation of the world's seven largest \"advanced\" economies, which dominate global trade and the international financial system.\n\nAt their virtual meeting, the finance ministers said the oil price cap plan was \"specifically designed\" to reduce Russian revenues and its ability to \"fund its war of aggression\". They also said they wanted to minimise the damaging economic fallout of the conflict, \"especially on low and middle-income countries\".\n\nThe introduction of a price cap on Russian oil means countries that sign up to the policy will only be permitted to purchase Russian oil and petroleum products transported via sea that are sold at or below the price cap.\n\nIn the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine the price of oil soared and has remained at high levels, meaning Russia has increase its revenues from the fossil fuel despite its export volumes falling.\n\nThe EU plans to impose an embargo on Russian crude oil from 5 December. It will apply to crude shipped by tanker and most piped supplies.\n\nChina and India - major trading partners for Russia - may not follow G7 policy on Russian oil, analysts say. They have not joined the Western sanctions targeting Russia.\n\nUK Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi said the G7 were \"united against this barbaric aggression\", adding the price cap would \"curtail Putin's capacity to fund his war\".\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said a cap would also help fight inflation, which is on the rise in many of the world's economies.\n\nThe price cap helps achieve \"our dual goals of putting downward pressure on global energy prices while denying Putin revenue to fund his brutal war in Ukraine\", she said.\n\nThe G7 agreement to impose a cap on the price of Russian oil is certainly symbolic. How effective it is in practice will depend on the level of the cap and how it is enforced.\n\nEnergy prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine - and the revenues from oil sales have been helping to finance Vladimir Putin's aggression.\n\nSo cut off that financial lifeline, and waging war becomes much more difficult.\n\nIn fact, oil from Russia has been a lot cheaper than crude from other sources for months, due to a combination of official sanctions and a reluctance by some to trade in it.\n\nBut refiners in places like India and China have still been happy to buy it, and Russia's coffers have been filling up as a result.\n\nSo the price cap needs to be a lot lower than the level Russian oil is already trading at - and the enforcement mechanism needs to be absolutely watertight.\n\nThe devil will be in the detail - and the detail is something we don't yet have.", "There are plans in place to test the city's entire population\n\nChengdu has become the latest Chinese city to be locked down as Beijing continues to pursue its controversial \"zero-Covid\" policy.\n\nAround 21 million people have been ordered to stay indoors, with just one person per household allowed out for essential shopping.\n\nOn Thursday, the city recorded 157 new infections, including 51 asymptomatic.\n\nChina's Covid policies require cities to enter strict lockdowns - even if just a handful of cases are reported.\n\nHowever, Beijing's drive to ensure \"zero Covid\" has been accused of stifling economic growth, and has prompted rare public dissent from citizens.\n\nChengdu's residents, asked to stay at home from 18:00 local time (10:00 GMT) on Thursday, will all be tested over the coming days, but it was not clear when restrictions would be lifted.\n\nIn the meantime, people have been banned from entering or leaving Chengdu, the capital of the south-west Sichuan province, with only residents able to show evidence of a negative Covid test allowed out to buy necessities.\n\nState media also reports that the start of schools' autumn term has been postponed and flights have been grounded.\n\nHealth authorities labelled the situation \"extremely complex and severe\" and blamed the outbreak on mass gatherings during warm weather at a pair of swimming and entertainment venues.\n\nOther restrictions are currently in force elsewhere in China, including in Shenzhen in the south and Dalian in the north-east.\n\nThe country has deployed a range of city-specific Covid prevention measures after the initial wave of the virus hit Wuhan in 2019.\n\nChina is the world's last major economy attempting to entirely stamp out Covid outbreaks, claiming this is necessary to prevent wider surges of the virus which could overwhelm hospitals.\n\nThe country has officially recorded fewer than 15,000 deaths since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "Protesters stormed the president's house in July, amid fury and desperation over the economic crisis\n\nSri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled abroad after mass protests in July, has returned to the country.\n\nMr Rajapaksa had been staying in Thailand on a temporary visa and flew back home via Singapore.\n\nSome Sri Lankan ministers are reported to have met him at the airport.\n\nSri Lankans blame his government for the island's worst economic crisis in history. A collapse in foreign currency led to dire shortages of food and fuel.\n\nProtests began in April, following a sharp increase in food and fuel costs.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life and all communities took part in the largely peaceful protests demanding the resignation of Mr Rajapaksa and his elder brother Mahinda, the then prime minister who quit in May.\n\nMr Rajapaksa's departure ended a family dynasty that has dominated Sri Lanka's politics for the past two decades\n\nIn July thousands of people stormed his official residence, and the disgraced president then fled on a military plane first to the Maldives and then to Singapore, from where he sent in his resignation. That paved the way for veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe to become president.\n\nMr Rajapaksa's return is a sensitive issue for the new government which does not want more protests and will need to ensure his security.\n\n\"We are not opposed to the return of Mr Rajapaksa. Any Sri Lankan citizen can return to the country,\" Father Jeewantha Peiris, a prominent protest leader, told the BBC.\n\n\"People came to the streets because of the alleged corruption against his government. We don't have any personal enmity against him.\"\n\nOther protesters say they will oppose any attempt by Mr Rajapaksa to rejoin politics or the government.\n\n\"After he returns, we need to take legal action against him for the mistakes he committed as president and also file cases against his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa,\" another activist Rajeev Kanth told the BBC.\n\nSri Lankan media reports say the government has identified a house in central Colombo for Gotabaya Rajapaksa but it's not clear whether he will go straight there or to a secure military facility first.\n\nA defence ministry spokesman told the BBC that Mr Rajapaksa \"would be given security as a former president\".\n\nAfter Mr Wickremesinghe took over the presidency, rights groups accuse the government of carrying out a crackdown on protesters. Dozens have been detained by police in recent weeks, with most since released on bail.\n\nThree student union leaders, who led the protests, have been in detention under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act.\n\nProtesters accuse President Wickremesinghe of lacking legitimacy and public support and also of protecting the Rajapaksa family. The government says it's taking action only against those who are suspected of breaking the law.\n\nTroops destroyed the protest camp in front of the president's secretariat in Colombo in the third week of July. Protesters also left the Galle Face area on Colombo's sea front last month.\n\nLong queues for fuel - like this one in Colombo - have made normal life impossible for months\n\nIn the past few weeks, the government has streamlined fuel supplies with a pass - only registered vehicles with a QR code can buy fuel at petrol stations. But fuel is still in demand with queues outside some filling stations.\n\nKey food items are available in shops, but prices are high as inflation is hovering around 65%.\n\nEarlier this week the government reached a preliminary agreement with the IMF for a $2.9bn (£2.52bn) loan. It would be dependent on lots of conditions, including fiscal reforms and restructuring Sri Lanka's $51bn debt with its creditors.\n\nThe government also faces challenges in convincing people about privatising key public sector units as part of its efforts to boost revenue. Trade unions may strongly oppose any job losses as a result of privatisation.\n\nSri Lanka's opposition politicians say the situation is deceptively calm at the moment and if the fuel and food supplies are interrupted again then further protests cannot be ruled out in the coming months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Shot dead by Sri Lankan police while trying to get fuel", "An ex-New York City police officer who assaulted law enforcement officials during the 6 January riots has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\nThomas Webster, 56, was convicted in May on multiple charges, including assaulting police and violent and disorderly conduct.\n\nMore than 850 people have been charged over their involvement in the attack.\n\nBut the sentence handed down on Thursday is the longest imposed on anyone over their role in the riots.\n\nA federal jury in New York previously rejected Webster's argument that he had been acting in self-defence when he swung a metal flagpole at an officer and tackled another to the ground, holding him in a chokehold.\n\nIn pre-sentencing documents, the Marine Corps veteran disavowed former President Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen and included a letter of reference from a friend who blamed the Republican politician's \"despicable lies\" for inducing Webster's conduct.\n\nJurors accepted prosecutors' argument that Webster had \"spearheaded\" an attack on police lines and that he was responsible for \"disgracing a democracy that he once fought honourably to protect and serve\".\n\n\"Notwithstanding his background and training, Webster did not try to de-escalate the situation or leave the premises,\" the justice department said in court filings. \"Webster spent eight minutes elbowing his way through the densely packed crowd so that he could position himself at the front of the mob.\"\n\nThe court agreed to suspend the final 36 months of Webster's term in deference to his 25 years service as a police officer and soldier.\n\nThe sentencing comes as US law enforcement officials also detained Kellye SoRelle, a lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers group.\n\nMs SoRelle was indicted on four charges in connection with the 6 January attacks, including obstruction of justice.\n\nSeveral members of the group have pleaded guilty to criminal charges arising from the attack on the Capitol, where a number of Oath Keepers were seen entering the building in military style body armour.\n\nThe 43-year-old previously volunteered with Lawyers for Trump during efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.", "Friends and colleagues of Bill Turnbull have shared personal stories of the broadcaster who has died at the age of 66.\n\nNaga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt paid an emotional tribute as they announced the news on BBC Breakfast while former sofa colleagues Louise Minchin and Sian Williams reflected on first meetings with the BBC star.", "The FBI searched former President Donald Trump's home on 8 August\n\nFBI agents found dozens of empty folders marked as classified during a search of Donald Trump's Florida home last month, a court filing shows.\n\nThe document, made public by a Florida court, provides an inventory of the contents of 33 boxes recovered from the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate.\n\nIt also shows top secret files were recovered from his personal office.\n\nMr Trump, who is being investigated over his handling of classified records, denies wrongdoing.\n\nPrevious court filings have confirmed the ex-president held classified records in storage areas at Mar-a-Lago, but the document unsealed on Friday showed dozens of files were found in Mr Trump's office.\n\nAmong the files allegedly recovered from that room during the unprecedented 8 August search were:\n\nMore than 11,000 government documents in total were retrieved by the FBI from the Palm Beach estate, say investigators.\n\nUS presidents must transfer all of their documents and emails to the National Archives. The justice department is looking into whether Mr Trump improperly handled records by taking them from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office in January 2021.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Trump and his lawyers failed to provide relevant documents voluntarily, and \"likely concealed or removed\" records as part of an effort to obstruct the investigation.\n\nMr Trump has dismissed these accusations, arguing he had already declassified the documents that were in his possession. He has also argued that the files were kept securely in a storage room at Mar-a-Lago.\n\nBut the inventory unsealed on Friday showed FBI agents retrieved about 1,500 documents from his office as well as folders labelled with classified banners that were empty.\n\nThe court filing also confirms previous reports that many records were mixed with personal effects, including clothes, books and newspapers.\n\nTaylor Budowich, a spokesman for Mr Trump, said the unsealed document showed the government's actions were \"not some surgical, confined search and retrieval\" but \"a SMASH AND GRAB\".\n\nThe more detailed inventory of the classified material seized by the justice department in its Mar-a-Lago search doesn't shed much light on what exactly was in the documents.\n\nWhat it does reveal, however, is where they were located.\n\nOf the 18 Top Secret documents listed, seven were in Donald Trump's office, not in the estate's storage area, as were 17 of the 54 Secret documents.\n\nThis suggests that these highly classified items were not just gathering dust in boxes in the bowels of Mar-a-Lago, they were at the former president's fingertips - and that he may have had them accessible for a reason.\n\nThe government list does not go into further detail about where in the president's office these documents were located, although in a court filing earlier this week the justice department said three classified items were found in his office's desks.\n\nMr Trump has also publicly complained that the FBI accessed his safe, so that could be another possible location.\n\nThe inventory also shows that many classified documents, in the storage room and in Mr Trump's office, were intermixed with photographs, newspaper clippings, \"clothing/gift items\" and empty folders - underlying the apparently haphazard method of boxing and removing material in the final days the Trump presidency.\n\nSeparately, District Court Judge Aileen Cannon - who ordered the inventory to be unsealed - is expected to soon rule on a request by Mr Trump's legal team for an independent expert to review the seized documents.\n\nLawyers for the former president argue that the outside legal expert, known as a special master, is needed to determine whether the files are covered by executive privilege, which allows presidents to keep certain communications under wraps, or by attorney-client privilege.\n\nIn a filing on Wednesday, they claimed that, without neutral oversight, the justice department would \"impugn, leak, and publicise selective aspects\" of its investigation.\n\nThe department earlier opposed the move as unnecessary, claiming its review of the retrieved records was already complete. It also said the appointment could delay its investigation as the special master would likely need to obtain security clearance as well as authorisation from the intelligence agencies to view the materials.\n\nAt a hearing on Thursday, Judge Cannon indicated that she may grant Mr Trump's request.", "Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was president from 2007 until 2015\n\nCristina Fernández de Kirchner has held a lot of titles in her two decades at the top of Argentina's politics: the country's first elected female leader, former first lady, and now vice-president.\n\nBut for many outside the country, the shocking footage of her ducking as a loaded gun came within inches of her face in September 2022 may have been their first introduction to the left-leaning politician.\n\nFor others, it could be fact that she has become Argentina's first vice-president to be convicted of a crime while in office.\n\nIn December 2022, a court found her guilty of awarding public contracts worth $1bn (£820m) to a family friend and sentenced her to six years in jail.\n\nDespite this latest setback, she remains a popular figure with many in the South American nation, who turned out to show their support after the verdict was made public.\n\nShe is expected to appeal against the verdict, which she described as a smear campaign aimed at removing her from office.\n\nAnd while she ruled out running for a post in the 2023 election - even though the lifelong ban on holding public office she was handed by the judges will not come into force until all appeals are exhausted - few are expecting her go quietly.\n\nCristina, as the majority of Argentines call her, was born on 19 February 1953 in La Plata, the capital of the province of Buenos Aires, where she went on to study law.\n\nShe married Néstor Kirchner, whom she met at university, in 1975. A year later the couple went to live in his home region, the southern province of Santa Cruz.\n\nAt the end of the 1980s she embarked on her political career - first as a member of the Santa Cruz legislative body before being elected to the national Chamber of Deputies. Meanwhile, her husband rose through the ranks of the Peronist political movement.\n\nIn 1991, Mr Kirchner was elected governor of Santa Cruz. He won two more terms, while Ms Fernández de Kirchner backed him from her position as local and later national lawmaker.\n\nWhen Mr Kirchner took office as president in 2003 - in the midst of one of the worst economic and social crises in the country - a similar pattern emerged.\n\nBy then Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was a senator with her own political weight in Congress, where she actively supported her husband's policies that included boosting social spending.\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner cemented her political position in the congressional elections of 2005.\n\nMs Fernandéz de Kirchner with her husband Néstor in 2007\n\nShe won in the province of Buenos Aires by beating her main rival Hilda González, the wife of former President Eduardo Duhalde (2002-2003).\n\nDuring Mr Kirchner's administration there was almost no decision taken in which she did not have a say, her influence exceeding that of an ordinary lawmaker.\n\nWhen Mr Kirchner decided not to run for a second term in office, he threw his weight behind his wife, who promptly won the presidential election.\n\nOccupying the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada, in her own right, Fernández de Kirchner broadly continued her husband's policies.\n\nThere were further moves to address human rights abuses of the past. Argentina also became the first country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriages.\n\nUnder her, Argentina renewed contacts with the International Monetary Fund after years of hostility and moved to renew negotiations over paying Argentina's debts to the Paris Club of lender nations.\n\nI have the honour to be the first woman to be re-elected in the country. What more could I want?\n\nCristina Fernández de Kirchner has in the past been compared to Eva Perón, Argentina's legendary first lady who formed a formidable ruling partnership with her husband Juan Domingo Perón in the late 1940s and early 50s.\n\nBut Evita was never elected. Fernández de Kirchner, by contrast, was the country's first elected female president.\n\nShe was also the first woman to be re-elected to the top job. \"What more could I want,\" she told supporters after winning for a second time in 2011.\n\nIn October 2013 - two years after her re-election and three years after the death of her husband Néstor Kirchner - she was forced to take a month off work because of her own ill-health, after being diagnosed with bleeding in the brain.\n\nHowever, she recovered from surgery and went on to serve another two years as president.\n\nIn the 2015 presidential election she was defeated by Mauricio Macri, who was then the centre-right mayor of Buenos Aires.\n\nIn 2019, centre-left Alberto Fernández was elected as Argentina's president and named Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as his vice-president.\n\nBut allegations of corruption relating to her tenure as president came back to haunt her during her time as vice-president.\n\nIn late August 2022, crowds began to gather outside her home in Buenos Aires in a show of support as prosecutors sought a 12-year sentence.\n\nThen, on 1 September, a man appeared from the crowd and attempted to fire a loaded gun into Ms Fernández de Kirchner's face.\n\n\"Cristina is still alive because, for some reason yet to be confirmed, the gun ... did not fire,\" President Alberto Fernández said in a televised address hours later.\n\nThe motive for the alleged assassination attempt was not immediately clear. Four suspects have since been charged in connection with the incident.\n\nArgentines rallied behind her after the attack. Thousands took to the streets to denounce political violence, with some shouting \"we're all Cristina\".\n\nFirmly back in the public eye, she was being mooted as a presidential candidate for the next election, due to be held in October 2023.\n\nBut in December 2022, the long-winded corruption trial against her finally wrapped up. A court in Buenos Aires sentenced her to six years in prison and banned her from holding political office for life.\n\nTrue to her combative style, she went on the counter-offensive, accusing the court of acting like a \"mafia\".\n\nShe is expected to appeal against the verdict and will not be barred from office or go to jail while she holds political office and until all appeals are exhausted.\n\nBut to the surprise of those who had expected her to run for the senate or even for the presidency in the 2023 election, she declared that \"I won't be a candidate for anything, nor president, not senator, my name won't be on any ballot\".\n\nHowever, for now she remains vice-president and also a key figure in her party who is expected to play an influential role in the run-up to the 2023 election, even if it is more behind the scenes than most had anticipated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Long queues have formed outside water distribution centres as temperatures rise above 90F (32C)\n\nMore than a million bottles of water have been handed out in less than a day to people in Jackson, Mississippi due to a long-running water supply issue.\n\nNearly 200,000 people in the state's capital have been unable to use tap water for five days after flooding disabled a water treatment centre.\n\nOfficials say progress is being made to restore the supply as the Labor Day holiday weekend approaches.\n\nBut locals say relief is desperately needed due to the sweltering heat.\n\nBoth Mississippi National Guard troops - who have handed out 1.1m bottles of water in 24 hours - and an army of local volunteers have been helping to get water to people who are unable to drink tap water, bathe or flush toilets.\n\n\"It's been awful going without water,\" Shirley Barnes told the BBC as she queued for more bottles on Friday. \"It's been a horrific experience.\"\n\n\"Trying to do your normal routines, that's been the hardest. Trying to boil water. Washing your face, taking your bath, cooking. It's like you living back in the caveman days.\"\n\n\"I never thought I would be in this predicament, but here we are,\" she added.\n\nShirley Barnes said the problems with the city's water supply had been \"a horrific experience\"\n\nDebbie Upchurch, a local church volunteer, has been bringing bottled water to Jackson to distribute to locals.\n\nHer daughter, a teacher in the community, has not been able to hold classes in-person this week and has been teaching online instead.\n\n\"Right now they can't meet for class because there's no water to cook with or [for] the restrooms,\" she said. \"Sometimes that's the only meal they have, is what they have at breakfast and lunch at the schools.\"\n\nFirst Lieutenant Roman Ramirez from the Mississippi National Guard told the BBC that his site was staffed with 44 soldiers who had distributed around 80,000 bottles by midday on Friday.\n\n\"There's a lot of emotion for the citizens here, but our job is just to show up and help where we can - give as much water as we can,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lieutenant Roman Ramirez told the BBC his troops were giving out water as fast as they could\n\nJackson resident Ryan Bell lives opposite the state fairground, where bottled water is being distributed.\n\n\"Everyone is going through this crisis, everyone in the city of Jackson, we're all in this together,\" he said.\n\nEven before the flooding that caused the supply problem, some residents in this majority black city have not had reliable access to tap water.\n\n\"It's been an ongoing issue,\" said Mr Bell, who runs a local construction company.\n\n\"We do have an ageing infrastructure being an older city. All we ask for really is help, support, understanding and prayers for the people of Jackson.\"\n\nA state of emergency has been declared by President Joe Biden.\n\nSome residents do not even have enough water pressure to flush toilets, and are having to use portaloos that have popped up around the city including outside the statehouse building.\n\nMeanwhile, long queues have formed outside water distribution centres as temperatures rise above 90F (32C).\n\nJackson's mayor said on Friday that progress was being made to restore the plant back to normal operations, but there was still no timetable for how long the issues would likely last.\n\nHomes and businesses near to the plant have had their water pressure restored, but buildings further away still have weak or no water pressure.\n\nAs the water pressure increases, officials warn that it could cause pipes to rupture across the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where water is so dirty 'we shower with mouths shut'\n• None 'No water to drink, fight fires or flush toilets'", "The red deer stag stopped as the snow intensified in Richmond Park\n\nAn eight-year-old boy who snapped a stunning shot of a deer in the snow in a London park has scooped a top photography award.\n\nJoshua Cox was just six years old when he captured the majestic animal in Richmond Park last January with a camera he had received for Christmas.\n\n\"He almost looked like he was having a snow shower,\" Joshua said.\n\nIt has been highly commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.\n\nJoshua started using a toy camera as a toddler and progressed to a compact camera not long after taking the photo while in lockdown.\n\nIt had just started to snow when the youngster and his father Julian Cox, who is also a wildlife photographer, arrived in the park.\n\nDescribing the moment they came across the red deer stag, Joshua, from west London, said: \"We were in a blizzard and I saw some snow stags going into the woods and we followed them.\n\n\"We got quite close but were a good distance away. Luckily we were not disturbing them much.\"\n\nJoshua started taking photographs when he was three years old\n\nHis dad Julian said his son was the only UK young photographer in this year's competition\n\nHis father added: \"Joshua has been interested in wildlife from a very young age, from three, and it's really about going on wildlife adventures together and sharing with him what beautiful nature we have here in the British isles. If that inspires him to take photographs that's great.\n\n\"Joshua only takes photographs when he wants to, when the inspiration takes him and usually when it does he ends up taking better pictures than his dad.\n\n\"I'm very proud of Josh and very happy for him.\"\n\nAnd the budding photographer's top tips for a great wildlife shot?\n\n\"If you spot an animal then just wait for it to look into the camera, make sure it focusses and then press the shutter,\" he said.\n\nJoshua took this picture of a rook roost at dusk at the age of seven\n\nRichmond Park is home to herds of red and fallow deer which have been roaming freely since 1637, the Natural History Museum, which runs the competition, said.\n\nThe grazing deer help to manage the landscape of the park.\n\nThe snow stag shot is highly commended in the 10-years-and-under category of the contest, which is in its 58th year and has become one of the most prestigious of its kind.\n\nThe winning images, including the prestigious Grand Title Award and Young Grand Title Award, will be announced on 14 October.\n• None Is this ape really cuddling a pet mongoose?\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\nSupporters of Donald Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" (Maga) agenda are a threat to democracy, President Joe Biden has said.\n\n\"Maga forces are determined to take this country backwards,\" he said in a primetime speech in Pennsylvania.\n\nTop Republican Kevin McCarthy gave his own address, saying Mr Biden had \"severely wounded America's soul\".\n\nThe duelling speeches come two months before midterm elections, which will decide the power balance in Washington.\n\nThe Democratic president delivered his speech on Thursday night from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the US Declaration of Independence was signed. He picked up his 2020 campaign theme of restoring the \"soul of America\".\n\nHe said he was not condemning all 74 million Americans who voted for Mr Trump two years ago. \"Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, are Maga Republicans,\" he said.\n\n\"But there's no question,\" Mr Biden continued, \"that the Republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.\"\n\nMr Biden said Trump supporters thought of the mob who stormed the US Capitol last year as patriots rather than insurrectionists.\n\n\"For a long time,\" he continued, \"we told ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it's not. We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. Each and every one of us.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Trump posted a defence of his Maga slogan and said his rival had \"threatened America\".\n\nThroughout Mr Biden's speech someone was heard heckling and sounding a bullhorn, according to a BBC reporter at the scene.\n\nMr Biden addressed the disruption twice, saying the second time: \"They're entitled to be outrageous. This is a democracy.\"\n\nThe president, who came into office pledging to unite the country, has recently sharpened his rhetoric against supporters of Mr Trump.\n\nLast week Mr Biden equated what he called \"extreme\" Republicans with \"semi-fascism\".\n\nMr McCarthy, who is Republican minority leader in the US House of Representatives, spoke shortly beforehand from Mr Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\nThe California congressman said the president \"has chosen to divide, demean, and disparage his fellow Americans\".\n\n\"Why? Simply because they disagree with his policies. That is not leadership.\"\n\nHe called on Mr Biden to \"apologise for slandering tens of millions of Americans as fascists\".\n\nThe top Republican said the Biden presidency had saddled America with soaring inflation, open borders, Covid school shutdowns that damaged children's learning, the \"botched\" withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the deadliest national crime wave in two decades.\n\n\"In the past two years,\" he said, \"Joe Biden has launched an assault on the soul of America, on its people, on its laws, on its most sacred values. He has launched an assault on our democracy. His policies have severely wounded America's soul, diminished America's spirit and betrayed America's trust.\"\n\nMr Trump added his own criticism of Mr Biden's speech in a post on his Truth Social platform.\n\n\"If he doesn't want to Make America Great Again, which through words, action, and thought, he doesn't, then he certainly should not be representing the United States of America,\" he wrote.\n\nFor the first time in nearly a year, the president's political fortunes appear to be on an upswing. His approval ratings have rebounded from truly abysmal to merely bad.\n\nWhat's more, Mr Biden's personal struggles don't seem to be translating into ballot box poison for Democrats. Time and time again in recent months, Democrats have over-performed in head-to-head matchups with Republicans.\n\nMr Biden has frequently been a bystander to this reversal of fortune - because of his recent Covid infection and the inherent limits of presidential power - but taking credit for good news out of one's control has never stopped a politician before.\n\nThursday's speech is as much about setting the conditions to get credit if things continue to go well as it is to highlight the threats to American democracy or to frame the debate for the home-stretch midterm campaigns.\n\nAnd if things go bad once again, he was going to get the blame anyway.\n\nBut voters the BBC heard from in the small town of Newfoundland, 120 miles (190km) north of where President Biden spoke, did not sound worried about a purported threat to democracy.\n\nThe price of petrol was the main concern for Americans at the county fair there. Several voters directly contrasted the economy under President Trump with the situation now.\n\nBut another self-described lifelong Republican said he would never vote for Mr Trump or any of the candidates he has endorsed.\n\nMr Trump's name will not be on any ballots in November, but his presence is inescapable.\n\nHe will be headlining a rally in the Scranton area this weekend. Several of the Republican candidates in this state won their nominations thanks to the former president's support.", "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\nAndy Murray's hopes of reaching the last 16 of a major for the first time since 2017 were crushed by Italy's Matteo Berrettini at the US Open.\n\nMurray, 35, paid the price for a slow start as he lost 6-4 6-4 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 against the 13th seed.\n\nFellow Briton Jack Draper is also out after having to retire injured from his match against Russia's Karen Khachanov.\n\nDraper, 20, levelled at one-set all, and served for the third set, but had to stop when trailing 6-5.\n\nMurray and Draper were among the four British men to reach the third round at Flushing Meadows, setting a new record for the nation at the US Open.\n\nBritish number one Cameron Norrie, seeded seventh, and 20th seed Dan Evans make up the quartet and play their last-32 matches on Saturday.\n• None Wimbledon runner-up Jabeur into New York last 16 for first time\n\n'He served well, I didn't - that was the difference'\n\nAfter being hampered by a catalogue of niggles following major hip surgery in 2019, 35-year-old Murray won back-to-back matches at Flushing Meadows to reach the third round of a major for only the second time since his comeback.\n\nThat set up a tough test for the Scot, who feared he would not be able to play again after the career-threatening operation, against the powerful Berrettini.\n\nOn a bright New York afternoon, Murray struggled with his serve in the opening two sets - landing 42% of his first serves and losing three of five break points - and the constant pressure proved too much against someone of Berrettini's quality.\n\n\"I served pretty poorly for a large part of the match, which hurt me a lot. It's always tough down one end at that time of day [because of the sun],\" said three-time major champion Murray.\n\n\"From one end it is understandable, but I just couldn't find any rhythm on serve.\"\n\nBerrettini, who reached the 2019 semi-finals, tested Murray's movement by employing the drop shot in the first set and the tactic proved successful as the 26-year-old Italian broke for a 4-3 lead.\n\nThere had been little between the pair but a double fault on break point cost Murray dear. That gave the confidence and impetus to Berrettini to close out the set, sealing it with a hold to love completed by a unstoppable forehand winner.\n\nA second double fault came at another inopportune time for Murray, creating a break point in the first game of the second set which Berrettini took with another forehand winner after a long rally.\n\nMurray, now ranked 51st in the world, quickly fought back as Berrettini could not consolidate, but in the ninth game produced another double fault on a break point which allowed Berrettini to serve out for a commanding lead.\n\n\"He served extremely well, got loads of free points on his serve. I didn't. That was the difference,\" said Murray.\n\nMurray pleased with physical condition in New York\n\nIf anyone could fight back from two sets down, it would be former world number one Murray.\n\nMurray had done that on 10 previous occasions in his career, but a low first-serve percentage continued to cause him trouble at the start of the third set.\n\nMurray had to save five break points across his opening three service games, showing more of his trademark fight to keep the set on serve and then seeing off three more break points at 5-5.\n\nMurray's resistance was rewarded by clawing a set back with a superb tie-break, but saw what had been a tight fourth set quickly swing away from him.\n\nAfter being unable to take a break point for a 4-3 lead, a poor service next game by the Briton - starting with an ill-judged drop shot for 0-15, then followed by a volley into the net and a weak backhand from the baseline - enabled Berrettini to close out victory.\n\nThat brought an end to Murray's run, 10 years on from his breakthrough major win in New York.\n\n\"I thought physically I did well, considering coming in I wasn't feeling great,\" said Murray, who had been suffering cramps earlier in the North American hard-court swing.\n\n\"But physically I did well in all the matches, which was good.\"\n\nAt the other generational end of British men's tennis, 20-year-old Draper was aiming to further enhance his burgeoning reputation in his first appearance at this stage of a major.\n\nDraper, playing in the main draw of an overseas Grand Slam tournament for the first time, earned an impressive win over Finland's Emil Ruusuvuori in the first round and topped that by taking the scalp of Canadian sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime.\n\nHis hopes of earning another notable win, this time against former world number eight Khachanov, were cruelly ruined by a hamstring injury.\n\n\"I've had problems with it before and maybe this time it was just a lot of tennis I've played in the last seven weeks maybe just caught up a little bit on me,\" said Draper.\n\n\"I went out to a wide ball and I just felt a twinge. I feel like when you strain something, and getting worse, there is just no going back from that really.\"\n\nDraper is set to move into the world's top 50 next week after an impressive breakthrough season and again demonstrated the problems he can cause seasoned opponents.\n\nKhachanov, seeded 27th, dominated the first set with his big serving as Draper struggled with his own first-serve percentage.\n\nBut he showed his fight and mentality to win the second set from a break down and led 5-2 in the third as 26-year-old Khachanov's mood clouded.\n\nBy that point Draper had already showed signs of the leg injury, needing a medical time-out after the fifth game, before the issue worsened.\n\nNow struggling to push off on serve, Draper hit a double fault at break point when he served for the set at 5-4 and produced three more on his way to being broken for 6-5.\n\nAt the changeover he sat with his head in his hands and decided he had no option other than to quit after a brief chat with the physio.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThat was the 16th match of Jack Draper's North American tour, which has been the longest of his life.\n\nIt was also his 56th match of the year, and for all the frustration at a hamstring problem cropping up in the third round of a Grand Slam match he looked very capable of winning, he knows his conditioning has improved dramatically over the past couple of years.\n\nDraper was outside the world's top 250 at the start of the year: he will make his debut in the top 50 when the post-US Open list is published.\n\nAndy Murray is moving closer to the top 40, and also thinks he has solved his recent cramping issues.\n\nHe believes it was caused by a lack of hydration, and says he has been taking a minimum of an extra half litre of sodium solution on board every hour during this US Open.\n• None Steve Coogan chats to Nihal Arthanayake about British humour and cancel culture\n• None 'Policies we improvised became law within years' The creative force behind Alan Partridge talks about his cultural influences", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Memories of broadcaster Bill Turnbull, who has died at the age of 66\n\nBroadcaster Bill Turnbull has died at the age of 66, his representatives have confirmed.\n\nTurnbull hosted BBC Breakfast for 15 years, in both London and later Salford, and also fronted Songs of Praise and game show Think Tank.\n\nHis family said: \"Bill will be remembered by many as a remarkable broadcaster who brought warmth and humour into people's homes\".\n\nIn 2018, he announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.\n\nAfter leaving the BBC in 2016, he joined Classic FM, and continued presenting shows on the network until recently.\n\nHis family added: \"Following a challenging and committed fight against prostate cancer, Bill passed away peacefully at his home in Suffolk surrounded by his family on Wednesday, 31 August.\"\n\nThey said he received his diagnosis in 2017, and praised his \"outstanding medical care\" from the Royal Marsden and Ipswich Hospitals, St Elizabeth Hospice and his GP.\n\nTurnbull pictured in 2010 with BBC Breakfast co-hosts (L-R) Sian Williams, Susanna Reid and Charlie Stayt\n\n\"He was resolutely positive and was hugely buoyed by the support he received from friends, colleagues and messages from people wishing him luck.\n\n\"It was a great comfort to Bill that so many more men are now testing earlier for this disease,\" they said, calling him a \"wonderful husband and father to his three children\" and a devoted Wycombe Wanderers fan and \"an ever-aspiring beekeeper\".\n\nTurnbull was a favourite with viewers on BBC Breakfast thanks to his gentle presenting style, which was well suited to early morning broadcasting.\n\nDuring his time on the show, he worked alongside Sian Williams, Susanna Reid, Kate Silverton, Natasha Kaplinsky and Louise Minchin.\n\nHis former colleagues Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt, who were presenting Thursday's programme, paid an emotional tribute just after the news was announced.\n\nTurnbull presented BBC Breakfast for 15 years, and later moved to radio station Classic FM\n\nMunchetty said: \"As a team we are in shock this morning. He cared so much about this programme and the audience. I did my first ever shift with him on Breakfast.\"\n\n\"His energy was amazing. He came into this programme and threw everything at it. He was funny; he was a brilliant journalist. He loved this programme and he loved serving you, the audience,\" she said.\n\nStayt added that Turnbull \"didn't take himself too seriously\".\n\nThe programme's editor Richard Frediani confirmed on Thursday that Friday's Breakfast would be \"a celebration of Bill's life on and off-screen\". He noted: \"Bill Turnbull loved our viewers and our viewers loved 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. Skip twitter post by Richard Frediani 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 his last BBC Breakfast show, Turnbull himself talked about some of the moments he remembered most.\n\n\"I remember nearly getting into a fight with a ventriloquist's dummy named Bob,\" he said.\n\n\"Seriously it nearly came to blows, although that was more me than him.\"\n\nHe added: \"And there was a moment where I actually wore a sweater made from dog hair with a bow on the front. It was alright but it was very, very warm and I just couldn't get the stuff off me for weeks afterwards.\"\n\nWilliams told the BBC he \"mentored a lot of young journalists and a lot of people in the industry... and that was very important to him\", adding he had \"very high standards\".\n\nShe spoke of their relationship, saying: \"We never bickered... in 30 years of friendship\", and said she would remember them \"laughing so much we couldn't really keep control of our faces... and then we realised we were on television - we laughed a lot\".\n\nMinchin described him as \"a brilliant journalist\", adding \"most of all he was great fun\".\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 Louise Minchin 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\nBBC Breakfast's sport presenter Mike Bushell also paid a glowing tribute to his \"dear friend\" and \"mentor\" with the \"incredible talent\".\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 Mike Bushell 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\nReid, now on ITV's Good Morning Britain, added: \"I feel lucky to have worked with him, and he taught me everything. But above all, he was devoted to his family and I am heartbroken for them.\"\n\nAnother former Breakfast colleague, Channel 4 presenter Steph McGovern, posted she was \"absolutely gutted\", and said: \"I learnt so much from him. And we had some cracking arguments about how you should pronounce words like 'poor'. We all loved him.\"\n\nChannel 5 news presenter Dan Walker said it had been \"an honour\" to replace Turnbull on the Breakfast sofa, saying: \"He was full of brilliant advice and it was clear just how loved he was by his colleagues and the audience,\" while Breakfast presenter Jon Kay called Turnbull \"an absolute gent\".\n\nKaren Hardy paid an emotional tribute to her former Strictly dance partner\n\nTurnbull appeared as a contestant on an early series of Strictly Come Dancing, finishing in sixth place with his partner Karen Hardy.\n\nHardy, who was in New Zealand, cried as she paid tribute to her friend, calling Turnbull \"such a gentleman, such a mentor\".\n\nShe said meeting him was \"life-changing\" - he was her first partner on Strictly - and \"he made TV magical, he told me what it was about\", she said, adding he would help critique her appearances on Breakfast.\n\n\"If he wasn't on it, I knew he'd be watching...\" she said, adding he would text her with tips including how to sit and speak clearly for the cameras.\n\nTurnbull met the Queen and Prince Philip in 2015 at an awards reception at Buckingham Palace\n\nBBC Director-General Tim Davie called Turnbull \"a much-loved and respected broadcaster and journalist - not just by viewers but by all those lucky enough to have worked with him\".\n\n\"He always struck the right tone, no matter what the story. Warm, wise, professional and caring, he will be much missed by us all,\" he said.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries described \"an incredibly sad loss of a broadcasting legend\", praising his \"special charm and wit\" and his tireless work to raise awareness about prostate cancer.\n\nBBC Radio 4's Today programme presenter Nick Robinson described Turnbull as \"a very, very dear friend and an extraordinary broadcaster.\"\n\n\"There was a warmth to his broadcasting which people who watch Breakfast television every day knew,\" he said. \"But perhaps what they forgot was what a bloody good journalist he was. This was a man who'd been a correspondent in Washington, who travelled 30 countries. He'd been in Moscow, he'd covered wars, he'd reported on the troubles in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nHe added: \"And that combination of a razor-sharp intellect, wit, humour and humanity, came out every day when he was on Breakfast. It came out every day when he was a reporter on this programme. And listeners to Classic FM will have heard him present beautifully as well his love of music.\"\n\nRobinson also recalled how Turnbull and his wife [Sarah] had met on the Today programme, where they had worked.\n\nBroadcaster and writer Monty Don called Turnbull \"a thoroughly decent, good man\", adding: \"We shared an enthusiasm for bees and were both patrons of Bees for Development charity.\"\n\nPrior to working on Breakfast, Turnbull also worked as a reporter on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC News 24, as the news channel was then known.\n\nIn recent years, Turnbull guest presented episodes of The One Show and reunited with Reid for several editions of ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nAfter his cancer diagnosis was made public, he fronted a documentary for Channel 4 called Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive, in which he explored the use of cannabis oil for medicinal purposes.\n\nProstate Cancer UK said that after Turnbull announced he had the illness in March 2018, their specialist nurses experienced their \"busiest day on record\" and they saw a huge rise in web traffic of men looking for information and support.\n\nIn November 2017, Turnbull took part in a celebrity edition of The Great British Bake Off - which was in aid of a charity, Stand Up to Cancer. He found out about his prostate cancer during filming.\n\nHe said inspiring men to get tested for the illness by publicly revealing his own diagnosis was the \"one useful thing\" he had done in his life, admitting he was \"cross with myself\" for the pride he had felt at not visiting a GP in four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We explain what warning signs to look out for", "A UK ticket-holder has won Friday's £110m EuroMillions jackpot, it has been confirmed.\n\nIf the winner is a single ticket-holder, it would make them richer than Harry Styles and Gary Barlow, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nOnly 15 UK players have won a jackpot of more than £100m, making this win one of the country's biggest.\n\nFriday's winning numbers were 7, 12, 13, 20 and 45, with 3 and 12 selected for the Lucky Star numbers.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said it was a \"fabulous night\".\n\n\"Players are urged to check their tickets and to give us a call if they think they are tonight's lucky winner,\" he said.\n\nMore than £30m is generated every week from the National Lottery for causes across the UK, Mr Carter added.\n\n\"This supports everything from local projects making a difference where you live, to our nations' athletes at the recent Commonwealth Games,\" he said.\n\nIn July, a UK ticket-holder became the biggest National Lottery winner of all time with a record-breaking £195m..\n\nThe EuroMillions game is played in nine countries.\n\nJoe and Jess Thwaite scooped £184m on the EuroMillions in May", "A third person has died this week in Argentina from an unexplained type of pneumonia that has affected nine people in total so far.\n\nAll of the cases centre around a private medical clinic in northwestern Tucuman province.\n\nAuthorities say they have ruled out Covid and common types of flu but are continuing other infection checks.\n\nTests on the local water supply and air conditioners are also being done in the hunt for the cause.\n\nThe third victim was a 70-year-old woman who had been admitted to the clinic for a surgical procedure.\n\nDoctors believe she may have been \"patient zero\" for the respiratory illness. The others who have fallen ill with the lung condition were medical staff at the centre.\n\nTheir close contacts are under follow-up but none have developed symptoms to date.\n\nThe mystery disease claimed its first victim among workers at the clinic on Monday and a second two days later. Both, like the 70-year-old woman, had other underlying health conditions.\n\nThe first six patients started showing symptoms between August 18 and 23.\n\nTucuman health minister Luis Medina Ruiz said on Wednesday the patients were struck with \"a severe respiratory condition with bilateral pneumonia...very similar to Covid\".\n\nHector Sale, president of the Tucuman provincial medical college, told local reporters: \"We are not dealing with a disease that causes person-to-person transmission\" as no cases have been identified among close contacts of any of the patients.\n\nThe Pan American Health Organization is monitoring the situation along with the Argentina health authorities.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, told the BBC that at this stage, it was \"pretty much impossible\" to say what the impact might be.\n\n\"These things happen from time to time. Often they just fizzle out, but not always.\n\n\"Sometimes they cause a substantial local outbreak or something even bigger.\"\n\nHe said experts should have more answers within days thanks to the rapid speed that checks and tests can give results.\n\nProf Beate Kampmann from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said: \"It is too early to comment on whether this represents a threat to a wider population or remains restricted to the institution, or whether it might be caused by a new pathogen or one we already know about.\"\n\nProf Sir Peter Horby from Oxford University said there were echoes of how the Covid outbreak began with infections in healthcare workers involving severe pneumonia.\n\nBut he added: \"People shouldn't be overly alarmed. There are other potential explanations.\n\n\"At the moment I'm not overly concerned but I'll be watching it like a Hawk.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is under Russian occupation\n\nUN nuclear experts have made their first inspection of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine and are to maintain a presence there.\n\nInternational Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said the \"plant and physical integrity of the plant\" had been \"violated several times\".\n\nThe inspectors were accompanied to the plant by Russian soldiers after a risky journey delayed by shelling.\n\nRussia and Ukraine accused each other of trying to sabotage the mission.\n\nZaporizhzhia, in southern Ukraine, is Europe's largest nuclear plant. It was occupied by Russia soon after it invaded Ukraine in February.\n\nUkrainian staff who continue to operate the plant say Russian troops have used it as a military base and that workers are in effect held at gunpoint.\n\n\"We are not going anywhere. The IAEA is now there, it is at the plant and it is not moving - it's going to stay there,\" Mr Grossi said, once he had crossed back into Ukrainian-held territory.\n\nBut he did not specify how many people would be staying and for how long.\n\nRussia's Interfax news agency reported that around eight to 12 inspectors would stay on, while Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom said five inspectors would stay.\n\nThe inspectors hope to assess the state of the plant and talk to Ukrainian workers under Russian control.\n\nMr Grossi said that battles taking place near the plant were \"not going to stop\" the inspection.\n\n\"There were moments where fire was obvious, heavy machine gun, artillery mortars, at two or three times [it was] really very concerning, I would say, for all of us,\" he said.\n\nThe IAEA's former chief inspector Olli Heinonen has told the BBC that if interviews do take place, workers are unlikely to be as \"open as they would like to be\" over the risks to the safety of themselves and their families.\n\nDuring his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he hoped the inspectors would \"draw objective conclusions,\" but lamented the absence of international journalists among the delegation.\n\n\"We have clear evidence that Russia did a lot of cynical things to deceive the mission,\" he added. \"The occupiers forced people to lie to the IAEA representatives - to hand over some papers, sign something, say something.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Zelensky's chief of staff accused Russia of trying to \"wreck\" the mission by shelling the nearby town of Enerhodar, which is under Moscow's control, and the facility.\n\n\"Criminals must be stopped,\" Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram, accusing Russia of acting like a \"terrorist state\".\n\nRussia refuted this, stating that 60 Ukrainian \"saboteurs\" who attempted to recapture the plant by crossing the river on Thursday morning were killed.\n\nThe EU is giving more than five million anti-radiation tablets to Ukraine, as fears grow of an accident at the plant.\n\nWhile recent fighting in the area has caused some damage to the plant, so far there has not been any recorded increase in radiation levels in the area.", "As we've been reporting, European leaders have cast doubt on Russia's stated reasons for keeping the Nord Stream 1 pipeline closed.\n\nNow Siemens Energy - the German firm that has assisted with maintenance of the Nord Stream pipeline - has told Reuters that oil leaks do not normally impact the operation of the turbine.\n\n\"Such leaks do not normally affect the operation of a turbine and can be sealed on site. It is a routine procedure within the scope of maintenance work,\" the company said.\n\n\"In the past, too, the occurrence of this type of leak has not led to a shutdown of operations.\n\n\"Irrespective of this, we have already pointed out several times that there are sufficient other turbines available at the Portovaya compressor station for Nord Stream 1 to operate.\"", "Boris Johnson has said he did not deliberately mislead MPs over Partygate\n\nAn inquiry into whether Boris Johnson misled MPs over Partygate is \"unfair\" and \"fundamentally flawed\", a lawyer hired by the government has said.\n\nA Commons committee is investigating what the outgoing prime minister told Parliament about Covid-rule breaking.\n\nMr Johnson could be suspended from Parliament or even lose his seat if they rule against him.\n\nThe government's legal advice strongly criticises the process but it cannot halt the inquiry.\n\nMr Johnson is due to step down as prime minister on Tuesday, a day after the winner of the Tory leadership race is announced. Voting in the contest closes at 17:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe Commons Privileges Committee is investigating whether he obstructed the Commons by telling it that pandemic rules had been followed during lockdown events in No 10 that since led to Covid fines.\n\nThe soon-to-be-ex PM could be hauled before the committee in the autumn to account for what he previously told MPs.\n\nLast month, the committee decided it would not have to prove Mr Johnson deliberately misled MPs to show he committed a \"contempt of Parliament\" by obstructing its work.\n\nIt made the decision after taking advice from a parliamentary official, who said intent was \"not relevant\" to deciding whether Mr Johnson broke the rules.\n\nBut Lord Pannick, the top lawyer hired by the government to examine the committee's approach, said the inquiry needs to establish \"that Mr Johnson intended to mislead the House [of Commons] - that is that he knew that what he told the House was incorrect\".\n\nIn his legal advice, the independent crossbench peer warns that \"the threat of contempt proceedings for unintentional mistakes would have a seriously chilling effect\" on MPs.\n\nLord Pannick says the committee's approach is inconsistent with past cases where intent was taken into account and the process would be deemed \"unlawful\" if it was tested in a court.\n\nHe criticises the committee for taking evidence anonymously and said Mr Johnson should be told the detail of the case against him.\n\nThe committee's own lawyer, former judge Sir Ernest Ryder, has previously defended this, saying potential witnesses may not be prepared to give evidence if their identity is made public.\n\nA spokesperson for the committee said it would respond to Lord Pannick's arguments in due course.\n\nAs with so much when it comes to Boris Johnson, what people make of the conflicting opinions from lawyers is likely to depend on what they think of the man himself.\n\nHis supporters are likely to see Lord Pannick's contribution as \"evidence\" that the inquiry is a witchhunt stacked against Mr Johnson.\n\nHis detractors are likely to view it as an attempt to interfere with parliamentary process which suggests lessons have not been learned from the Owen Paterson saga.\n\nUltimately, legal opinions are just that: opinion.\n\nThis is about the procedures of the House of Commons and it is up to the committee to decide the terms.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant - who chairs the Privileges Committee but is not taking part in the inquiry - suggested it was \"very odd\" the Cabinet Office had commissioned advice \"on behalf of a private individual, namely the prime minister\".\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme, Mr Bryant argued that ministers who unintentionally mislead or get a fact wrong \"have a perfect opportunity to go through the House of Commons processes for correcting the record\".\n\n\"The question for the Privileges Committee is simple: did he [Boris Johnson] mislead the house, and if he misled the house... is that a contempt of Parliament because he did not correct the record swiftly enough?\"\n\nLabour's Thangam Debbonaire suggested the government was \"playing fast and loose with the rules\" while the Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine said: \"The government must fess up to the cost of this legal advice and stop expecting the taxpayers to pick up the tab for Conservative sleaze.\"\n\nParliament voted to launch the inquiry in April, after a series of revelations about events held in and around Downing Street while Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nAn official investigation later concluded rules had been broken and a police inquiry led to 83 people, including Mr Johnson himself, being fined.\n\nThe prime minister has admitted that previous statements to Parliament - in which he insisted all rules had been followed - had since been proved incorrect, but he believed them to be true at the time.", "The UK would be paying \"billions\" of pounds less for its energy, if it had stuck with plans to reduce fossil fuel use, an energy boss has said.\n\nGreg Jackson, chief executive of Octopus energy, told the BBC there should be a concerted push now.\n\nThe same \"sense of urgency\" should be applied to the switch to green energy, as there was for finding a Covid vaccine, he said.\n\nThe government said it had delivered a 500% increase in renewables since 2010.\n\n\"Without the clean energy we have deployed over the past decade, bills would be even higher today,\" a spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said.\n\nThere were already plans to invest further in renewables, BEIS said.\n\nIn 2013, the coalition government led by David Cameron made a series of changes, including cutting back support for energy efficiency and later ended subsidies for onshore wind.\n\n\"If we hadn't done that, energy bills this year would be billions of pounds lower than they are,\" Mr Jackson told the Big Green Money Show on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's short term behaviour that has left us even more exposed than we need to be.\"\n\nOctopus Energy generates electricity from renewable sources, including wind and solar and supplies energy to three million UK customers.\n\nA report earlier this year by energy analysis site Carbon Brief said bills in the UK were nearly £2.5bn higher than they would have been if climate policies had not been scrapped over the past decade.\n\n\"We now need to get on with it, and going green will not only help prevent the catastrophic climate change we see already changing weather patterns, but will also drive energy costs down,\" Mr Jackson said.\n\nMr Jackson said he believed the process of creating new renewables could be speeded up significantly.\n\nThis is because it was the planning, consent and connection to the grid that took several years, while the engineering of a new wind turbine could be done in a year.\n\n\"In the pandemic we took that normal fifteen year process for producing and licensing a vaccine and we did it in a year.\n\n\"If we were to act with the same sense of urgency, we could let communities who want it have access to cheap energy quickly enough to make a difference,\" he said.\n\nSome customers who have signed up to green energy suppliers have questioned why their bills aren't already lower than the typical bill, when the cost of generating electricity through renewables is lower than using fossil fuels.\n\nBut the price of electricity is currently determined for the whole market by the cost of gas because it is the most expensive form of generation.\n\nMr Jackson said if the UK moved towards a situation where renewables provided the bulk of energy needs and gas was \"a gap filler\", then the link between the gas and electricity prices could be addressed.\n\nHowever, it would take several years, before increased renewable generation had an impact on prices for consumers, according to energy analyst David Cox.\n\n\"It's a bit of a dream,\" he said. \"To increase wind power, which is the only one you could build quickly, is five to 10 years away before you have a significant contribution.\n\n\"That's assuming you can get the parts and the steel, and the cost of that is going to go through the roof because of the cost of gas.\"\n\nSubsidising energy efficiency measures, such as home insulation, would be a faster way to reduce gas use and bring down bills, Mr Cox said.\n\nEnergy prices have become an urgent political issue in the Conservative leadership race.\n\nThe frontrunner, Liz Truss, has pledged to suspend the green levy on energy bills, which in the past funded investment in renewable energy. On Tuesday she hinted she would look at providing further support to businesses and households with soaring energy costs.\n\nHowever, unlike her rival Rishi Sunak, she has ruled out energy rationing.\n\nMr Sunak has pledged to scrap VAT on household energy for one year and has promised more money to help with bills.\n\nA BEIS spokesperson said: \"Since 2010, we have delivered a 500% increase in the amount of renewable energy capacity connected to the grid - more than any other government in British history.\"\n\n\"To build on this progress, the government recent secured an additional 11GW of clean power in July's renewable auction, and we plan to go even further by driving £100billion of private sector investment in clean energy this decade.\"", "Dangerous e-bike chargers were found on sale on Amazon and eBay, according to consumer safety charity Electrical Safety First (ESF).\n\nThe charity said online shopping sites Wish.com and AliExpress were also selling the chargers, which can cause risk of fire and electric shock.\n\nIt said all chargers investigated failed to meet UK safety standards and they have since been removed from sale.\n\nAll four sites said they had safety procedures in place.\n\nThe chargers are used to power the lithium-ion batteries which are used by e-bikes.\n\nMost were predominantly advertised as accessories for e-bikes, but the listings for some suggested that they can be used to charge e-scooters and hoverboards.\n\nMartyn Allen, ESF technical director, said that the chargers that were found \"should never have been available for sale to UK shoppers\".\n\n\"The lack of vital regulation needed to ensure online marketplaces are responsible for the safety of goods sold via their platforms is contributing significantly to dangerous products entering people's homes,\" he said.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade has issued a warning after an increase in fires caused by e-bikes - although there is no claim faulty chargers are to blame.\n\nOne blaze in Southwark, which was linked to an e-bike, resulted in 70 firefighters having to attend the scene.\n\nThe charity looked at the mains plugs in the charging devices and said that all were so visually substandard that no test purchasing was necessary.\n\nESF said all of the chargers failed to meet the UK plug standard, with most appearing not to have a fuse - a situation which has the potential to cause a serious fire.\n\nThe investigation also found the plugs advertised appeared to be smaller in size than the UK standard, increasing the risk of electric shock if a consumer came into contact with live plug pins.\n\nIt said the danger of incorrect plugs means they have not been \"adequately tested\" which means other things can be wrong with them.\n\nIt found nearly 60 listings for the chargers across the four marketplaces, with the most appearing on eBay, which had 21.\n\nEach of Amazon and Wish.com had 13, while there were 12 listed on AliExpress.\n\nA spokesperson for eBay said the company takes consumer safety seriously and, along with using its security teams, it works closely with stakeholders to keep unsafe products off the site.\n\nSpokespeople for AliExpress and Wish.com said merchants must comply with its policies, while Wish said it has asked the merchants selling the products for further compliance documentation.\n\nAmazon said it has measures in place to prevent suspicious products from being listed and monitors products sold for safety concerns.", "Rail workers will hold fresh strikes in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the RMT union has said.\n\nIt said 40,000 of its members who work at Network Rail and 14 train companies will walk out on 15 and 17 September.\n\nThe first day of these strikes coincides with a walkout by train drivers at 12 rail companies.\n\nThe Aslef union said the action by 9,000 of its members will be the biggest strike drivers have taken part in so far.\n\nThe RMT walkout follows six previous days of strike action by its members across June, July and August.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said union members had \"no choice\" but to continue striking.\n\n\"[The track operator] Network Rail and the train operating companies have shown little interest this past few weeks in offering our members anything new in order for us to be able to come to a negotiated settlement,\" he said.\n\n\"We will continue to negotiate in good faith, but the employers and government need to understand our industrial campaign will continue for as long as it takes.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"Yet again, union leaders are choosing self-defeating, co-ordinated strike action over constructive talks, not only disrupting the lives of millions who rely on these services but jeopardising the future of the railways and their own members' livelihoods.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said reforms proposed by the rail operators were essential to modernise the service and the strikes \"will not change this\".\n\nAndrew Haines, chief executive of Network Rail, said it wanted to give staff a decent pay rise and was doing everything it could to find a breakthrough in talks.\n\nHe said: \"Our latest offer of a two-year 8% pay rise, with heavily discounted travel and a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies, is affordable from within our own budgets, but the RMT remains unwilling to give its members the chance to vote on it despite knowing that members at another union overwhelmingly accepted a similar deal.\"\n\nSteve Montgomery, chairman of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, urged the RMT to call off the strikes.\n\nHe said the walk outs were \"cynically timed to cause maximum disruption to the very passengers the industry depends on for its recovery\".\n\nHe added: \"We absolutely want to give our people a pay rise and we know they are facing a squeeze - but the RMT must recognise that with revenue consistently at 20% below pre-Covid levels, the only solution lies in long-overdue reforms that will put the industry on a sustainable footing and improve services for passengers.\"\n\nIf these latest train strikes go ahead, RMT members will have taken part in eight days of national-scale strike action within three months.\n\nThursday 15 September will be the first to coincide with a strike by train drivers in another union, Aslef.\n\nThat could mean more extensive disruption than earlier national strikes, but it's too early to say for sure. Judging by previous occasions, timetables won't be available until much nearer the time.\n\nNegotiations between the RMT and the rail industry have continued, and more are expected. But it's obvious not enough progress has yet been made to prevent more industrial action.\n\nAt the moment, it's not clear how the deadlock will be broken.\n\nWalkouts on 15 September will disrupt travel to the women's international T20 cricket match between England and India at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol.\n\nMeanwhile, strike action on 17 September will hit music fans travelling to see Gary Barlow perform in London and George Ezra in Manchester.\n\nThere are also Premier League football matches between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester City, Brighton and Hove Albion and Crystal Palace, Newcastle United and Bournemouth, and Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City.\n\nAnd cricket team Kent Spitfires will take on Lancashire Lightning in the final of the Royal London Cup in Nottingham.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman ran into her home in Liverpool\n\nPolice in Liverpool have made more than 30 arrests in 24 hours as they crack down on organised crime after the fatal shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel.\n\nMerseyside Police said it had made 32 arrests, carried out 66 stop and searches, executed 11 warrants and seized eight vehicles.\n\nIt comes after nine-year-old Olivia was shot dead in her own home in Dovecot a week ago.\n\nA total of 202 people have now been arrested in the crackdown on gangs.\n\nTwo men arrested on suspicion of Olivia's murder were bailed on Saturday.\n\nThe schoolgirl was fatally shot after a gunman chased a man - both of whom had no links to her family - into her home.\n\nHer mother, Cheryl, 46, was injured as she tried to the shut the door but the attacker fired more shots.\n\nIan Byrne, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby, told BBC North West Today that her killing had been \"horrendous and senseless\".\n\nHe added: \"Everyone's heart goes out to the family.\"\n\nAshley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey were also killed in August\n\nOlivia was one of four people who were killed in a week on Merseyside.\n\nSam Rimmer, 22, was shot in Dingle on 16 August while Ashley Dale, 28, was found with gunshot wounds in the back garden of her Old Swan home in the early hours of 21 August.\n\nKaren Dempsey, 55, died in hospital after being stabbed in a pub car park in Kirkby a day later.\n\nThe latest arrests were part of Operation Miller, the force's effort to tackle organised crime in the area.\n\nA 31-year-old man from Old Swan was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and criminal property.\n\nHe was held after officers found a lock knife before discovering more than £9,000 in cash, a quantity of white powder and cannabis when they searched his home.\n\nA 33-year-old man from Dovecot was arrested following a search where he was allegedly found to be in possession of a Rolex watch believed to have been stolen.\n\nTwo men, aged 18 and 22 from Wavertree and Speke respectively, were arrested on suspicion of aggravated unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving, possession of a bladed article and assaulting police.\n\nOlivia's death is the third fatal shooting in Liverpool in recently\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said organised crime groups were \"blighting the lives of decent, law-abiding members of the community\".\n\nOfficers have also been deployed on major routes in and out of the city targeting people involved in organised crime.\n\nOn Friday, the government said it would allocate £500,000 to counter crime and provide mental health support following the rise in violence.\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.", "Schools and early years centres in 11 council areas will close if the three-day strike goes ahead\n\nUnions are hopeful a deal can be agreed to avoid further strike action after the first minister intervened in the pay dispute.\n\nNicola Sturgeon hosted talks on Thursday in a bid to stop school and nursery closures and another round of bin strikes next week.\n\nCouncil leaders are now meeting to discuss how to proceed.\n\nThere is said to be cautious optimism that the talks are heading towards an agreement being reached.\n\nHundreds of schools and early years centres in 11 local authority areas across Scotland are due to close for three days next week when non-teaching staff walk out.\n\nAnother round of strikes by refuse workers is also due to be held in 19 council areas between and 6 and 13 September\n\nJohanna Baxter, head of local government for Unison - which has 13,000 members from schools and early years centres preparing to strike next week - said they had not yet received a revised offer from councils but were more optimistic that an agreement was moving closer.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme she said: \"A lot can happen in the space of 24 hours so I'm not going to count my chickens before they hatch, but certainly I think there was a willingness on all sides to make movement.\n\n\"I certainly hope that leaders will move a step in our direction so that we have something that will put more money in the pockets of unison members across the country.\"\n\nAny new deal would have to go to members to be approved and an offer on Monday could be too late to avert strike action in schools, she said.\n\n\"I would certainly hope that would focus the minds of everybody involved in trying to secure a resolution,\" Ms Baxter added.\n\n\"I think the meeting [of Cosla and council leaders] is really pivotal and clearly we would convene the committees of each of our trade unions in order to make decisions as soon as any revised offer came through.\"\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 Glasgow GMB 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\nOther union sources said the 11-hour talks at St Andrew's House in Edinburgh with Ms Sturgeon on Thursday had been positive and the discussions were moving in the right direction.\n\nA spokesman for GMB Scotland said: \"We believe progress has been made and would hope last night's negotiations will result in a fresh offer that can be put to our local government committee for review.\"\n\nThere is cautious optimism this morning that the council pay dispute is coming towards a resolution.\n\nCouncil leaders from across the country are discussing the situation this morning.\n\nAfter that, unions expect to receive a new pay offer.\n\nOne big question will be just what the new pay offer will mean in practice. Will the special cost of living payments be replaced by larger rises in salaries?\n\nOnce a new pay offer has been made each union will discuss its response.\n\nThe hope would be that the offer will at least be sufficiently good that it leads to the suspension of next weeks action while members vote on whether to accept it.\n\nBut some within the unions say that if meaningful talks like yesterday's and those last week had taken place some time ago, the bin strikes could have been avoided.\n\nNicola Sturgeon intervened in the pay dispute between unions and Cosla\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Detailed negotiations took place on Thursday afternoon and carried on late into the night.\n\n\"We are grateful to all parties and would encourage all sides to continue to seek a fair and sustainable settlement.\"\n\nUnite, the GMB and Unison had rejected an increased pay offer earlier this week.\n\nCosla said at the time it was disappointed that unions had turned down a deal that was at the \"absolute extremes\" of affordability, while Ms Sturgeon warned there was no \"bottomless pit\" of money to pay for an improved offer.\n\nThe first wave of strikes began in Edinburgh on 18 August\n\nThe unions are seeking an agreement similar to the one made to council workers in England - which included a £1,925 flat rate pay increase.\n\nCosla's £1,925 offer matched the deal for council workers in England - but only part of this payment would be consolidated into staff salaries. The rest would be given as one-off cost of living payments.\n\nUnions said this meant lower-paid staff would not benefit as much as those on higher wages.\n\nThe bin strikes began in Edinburgh on 18 August after unions rejected an initial pay offer equivalent to a 3.5% increase.\n\nThe action then escalated last week when workers at a further 20 local authorities walked out despite a revised 5% offer.\n\nThis walkout ended on Thursday, with a second wave of strikes due to begin.\n\nThe Scottish government has given an additional £140m to councils to help fund a pay deal for council staff.\n\nIt has also offered a further £200m over two years to provide the cost-of-living payments to workers earning below £39,000.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there was no more money for further pay increases as government finances were \"finite\".", "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\nSerena and Venus Williams' doubles return proved shortlived as they fell to a first-round defeat at the US Open.\n\nTeaming up for the first time since 2018, and probably the last time, they lost 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 to Czechs Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova.\n\nTogether, the American greats have won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles.\n\nSerena Williams, 40, is due to retire after the tournament, while the future plans of elder sister Venus, at 42, remain unknown.\n\nSerena plays Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round of the women's singles on Friday, but Venus was knocked out in the first round.\n\nOpening the night session on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday, the sisters failed to convert two set points on their opponents' serve at 5-4, with break points having earlier gone begging for both pairs.\n\nHradecka and Noskova edged the ensuing tie-break on their first set point, with 37-year-old Hradecka wrapping up proceedings with a powerful backhand down the line.\n\nShe and Noskova, 20 years her junior, went on to dominate the second set, sealing an early break. They soon held double break point for 4-0 but Noskova couldn't convert from close to the net in a slice of luck for the Williams sisters, who went on to hold and end a five-game losing streak.\n\nThey went on to break back but it proved in vain as Hradecka and Noskova broke their serve again on their second match point.\n\nThe Williams sisters remain the most recent women's doubles team to hold all four major doubles titles at once with wins at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2009, followed by triumphs at the Australian Open and French Open in 2010.\n\nThe last of their Grand Slam doubles titles together came at Wimbledon in 2016, more than 17 years after their first at Roland Garros in 1999, while they also have three Olympic doubles golds.\n\nVenus Williams returned to action for the hard-court swing, appearing in Cincinnati, Toronto and Washington, after nearly a year off following a leg injury, and was awarded a wildcard for the US Open. She is currently ranked 1,504th in the world in the singles, while Serena is 605th.\n\nThey have a combined 30 Grand Slam singles titles, 23 of which belong to Serena.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "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.", "Voting has closed in the Conservative leadership contest to decide who will replace Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nThe two contenders, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, will find out which of them has won the ballot of Tory members at 12.30 BST on Monday.\n\nThe winner will be formally appointed prime minister on Tuesday by the Queen.\n\nThey will then begin appointing ministers to their new cabinet.\n\nMr Johnson, who led the Tories to a landslide victory at the 2019 election, will remain in office until the transfer of power is complete.\n\nThe fractious campaign to replace him has seen the candidates regularly attack each other's policies as well as the Tories' record in government.\n\nMs Truss, the foreign secretary, is the clear favourite to win, according to polls of Tory members. She has promised to deliver billions of pounds in tax cuts in an emergency Budget if she wins power.\n\nFormer Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he would cut VAT on energy bills for a year, but permanent tax cuts should wait until inflation goes down.\n\nWith the cap on domestic energy prices set to soar in the autumn, what to do about rising living costs has dominated the contest in recent weeks.\n\nBoth candidates have come under pressure to spell out how they would protect households from the rises, as well as give help to businesses, which are not covered by the price cap.\n\nMr Johnson left big spending decisions to his successor after his resignation in July, leading opposition parties to accuse the government of paralysis.\n\nMs Truss has said she would reverse April's rise to National Insurance and cut green levies on energy bills to help households with costs. She has signalled she would provide more support on top of this, but has offered no details.\n\nMr Sunak has said he would make further payments to pensioners and the low-paid over winter, on top of the payments they are already due to receive.\n\nRishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy (c) cheered him on at a campaign hustings in London\n\nThe contest began in mid-July, when Mr Johnson was forced out by a ministerial revolt over a string of scandals.\n\nThe original field of 11 contenders was whittled down to two in a series of Tory MP ballots, with the final two going into a run-off to be decided by the membership, which stands at around 160,000.\n\nAlthough Mr Sunak had the most support among Tory MPs, opinion polls have suggested Ms Truss enjoys more support among party members.\n\nAs the campaign drew to a close, Mr Sunak thanked his supporters and said he had \"loved every second\" of his \"six weeks on the road\".\n\nMs Truss also thanked volunteers on her campaign, and said if she is elected she would \"do everything in my power to make sure our great nation succeeds\".\n\nIn a break with tradition, the winner will travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland to be appointed by the Queen, rather than at Buckingham Palace.\n\nShe has been suffering from mobility issues and it is understood the change was made to prevent the need for any last-minute rearrangements.", "Singer-songwriter Feist has walked away from her support slot on Arcade Fire's world tour, after the band's frontman was accused of sexual misconduct.\n\nFour people have accused Win Butler of behaving inappropriately, with allegations including forceful touching and unwanted, sexual text messages.\n\nThe allegations, which Butler denies, emerged on Saturday, shortly before the first date of the band's world tour.\n\nFeist, who played the first two dates, says she has now decided to \"go home\".\n\n\"The best way to take care of my band and crew and my family is to distance myself from this tour [but] not this conversation,\" she added.\n\nThe allegations against Butler emerged in an investigation by music publication Pitchfork.\n\nThe three women, and one gender-fluid person, accused the singer of taking advantage of his fame and their fandom during incidents that occurred between 2015 and 2020, when Butler was aged between 34 and 39.\n\nIn two statements to Pitchfork, Butler denied all allegations, saying that sexual interactions he had with the four people were consensual, but apologised \"to anyone who I have hurt with my behaviour\".\n\nWriting on social media, Feist said she had learned of the allegations against Butler at the same time as everyone else.\n\n\"I read the same headline you did,\" said the singer, whose full name is Leslie Feist.\n\n\"We didn't have any time to prepare for what was coming, let alone a chance to decide not to fly across the ocean into the belly of this situation.\n\n\"This has been incredibly difficult for me and I can only imagine how much more difficult it's been for the people who came forward.\n\n\"More than anything I wish healing to those involved.\"\n\nAbout 14,000 people watched the opening night of the Arcade Fire tour in Dublin\n\nFeist, who has received multiple Grammy nominations for albums such as The Reminder and Metals, explained that the allegations, which have not resulted in police action, had presented her with an ethical dilemma.\n\n\"To stay on tour would symbolise I was either defending or ignoring the harm caused by Win Butler and to leave would imply I was the judge and jury,\" she wrote.\n\nOn the opening dates of Arcade Fire's tour in Dublin, she instead donated her proceeds to the local chapter of Women's Aid, which helps victims of domestic abuse.\n\nHowever, she then went on to explain her decision to pull out.\n\n\"The last two nights on stage, my songs made this decision for me,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Hearing them through this lens was incongruous with what I've worked to clarify for myself through my whole career. I've always written songs to name my own subtle difficulties, aspire to my best self and claim responsibility when I need to.\n\n\"And I'm claiming my responsibility now and going home.\"\n\nYou can read her full statement below.\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 Feist 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\nArcade Fire have faced calls to scrap their tour, but have so far continued to play, with dates in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and London scheduled for the coming week.\n\nUS musician Beck, who is due to support the group on the North American leg of the tour, has yet to respond to the situation.\n\nMeanwhile, Butler's wife and fellow Arcade Fire member Régine Chassagne released a statement in defence of Butler.\n\n\"I know what is in his heart, and I know he has never, and would never, touch a woman without her consent and I am certain he never did,\" she said.\n\n\"He has lost his way and he has found his way back. I love him and love the life we have created together.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dame Cressida Dick was the first woman to hold the role of commissioner\n\nDame Cressida Dick \"felt intimidated\" into stepping down as Metropolitan Police commissioner after an ultimatum from Sadiq Khan, according to a review.\n\nShe quit in February when the mayor of London said he had lost confidence in her leadership.\n\nSir Tom Winsor's report into the handling of Dame Cressida's exit found that Mr Khan did not follow \"due process\" when he withdrew his support.\n\nThe mayor said the review was \"clearly biased\" and \"ignores the facts\".\n\nIn February, the Home Secretary Priti Patel asked Sir Tom - the then-chief inspector of constabulary - to look at the circumstances surrounding Dame Cressida's resignation.\n\nSir Tom's published findings noted that the mayor's actions were \"not in accordance with the relevant legislation\".\n\nDame Cressida said the report had found Mr Khan \"did not follow due process and at times his behaviour was oppressive, unreasonable, entirely unacceptable and unfair\".\n\nThe former commissioner previously said she had to resign after Mr Khan made it clear he had no confidence in her leadership.\n\nIt followed cases of sexism and misogyny among some Met officers.\n\nDame Cressida, the first woman to lead the UK's biggest police force, also faced criticism over the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer last year, and a series of other scandals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his 116-page report, Sir Tom said the mayor had given the commissioner \"an ultimatum\" to attend a meeting where she would have to convince him about her plans for the force, otherwise he would release a statement \"making it clear that he no longer had trust and confidence\" and would begin the \"statutory process\" to remove her.\n\n\"When the commissioner did not attend that meeting, the mayor's chief of staff reiterated the mayor's position and gave her less than one hour to decide what to do.\"\n\nHe said she was \"intimidated by this process into stepping aside\", and \"the commissioner felt that, in the interests of Londoners and the Metropolitan Police, she had to 'step aside', as a prelude to her eventual resignation\".\n\nDisturbing messages between officers, based mostly at Charing Cross, were published days before Dame Cressida Dick resigned\n\nThe report found that City Hall had given Dame Cressida 30 minutes to make a decision.\n\nSir Tom also noted that hours before Dame Cressida announced her resignation, communications between the mayor's chief of staff and the Met Police chief of corporate services were \"unjustifiably politically brutal\".\n\n\"For any public servant - least of all one so senior and long-serving - to be given under an hour to decide whether to resign or to challenge the mayor's position was entirely unacceptable.\"\n\nHe described the timetable \"imposed\" on the commissioner as \"wholly arbitrary\", adding there had been \"no explanation why the commissioner's position had to be publicly resolved in such a short space of time\", giving her little time to consult with others.\n\n\"The mayor was entirely incapable in interview of explaining why he believed he had to make a public statement on the commissioner's position on the evening of the 10 February, 2022.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Tom said in his opinion the mayor and the Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime's (Mopac) actions were \"oppressive\" and \"unreasonable\".\n\n\"The pressure to resign was considerable, and it succeeded,\" he added.\n\nIn June - months after Dame Cressida quit - the Met was placed into an advanced stage of monitoring, in what the home secretary described as \"special measures\".\n\nMs Patel said it was clear to her the Met Police was falling short in getting \"the basics right\".\n\nOn the face of it the criticisms of London's mayor Sadiq Khan in this review are devastating.\n\nSir Tom Winsor says the mayor had effectively \"constructively dismissed\" the most senior police officer in the UK.\n\nHe wrote that his staff had been \"unjustifiably politically brutal\", that they had imposed a \"wholly arbitrary\" timetable, and there could be \"no justification\" for the mayor's \"unfair\" conduct or his \"oppressive and unreasonable treatment\" of Dame Cressida Dick.\n\nSadiq Khan has sought to undermine the review's damage to him by claiming Sir Tom has a history of supporting Conservative Party politicians and policies and is \"clearly biased\"\n\nIt is worth remembering that the reputation of Dame Cressida and the force she was leading were at a very low point in February.\n\nBut what is at stake here is whether it should be possible for a politician - either in a fit of pique or for entirely justifiable reasons - to just get rid of a police chief by threatening to publicly undermine them.\n\nSir Tom has clearly concluded that Parliament has put procedures in place and these should be followed. He says that politicians should have to pay a high political price for circumventing that process as happened on 10 February.\n\nResponding to Sir Tom's report Mr Khan said: \"On the former commissioner's watch, trust in the police fell to record lows following a litany of terrible scandals.\n\n\"What happened was simple - I lost confidence in the former commissioner's ability to make the changes needed and she then chose to stand aside.\n\n\"Londoners elected me to hold the Met commissioner to account and that's exactly what I have done.\n\n\"I make absolutely no apology for demanding better for London and for putting the interests of the city I love first. I will continue working with the new commissioner to reduce crime and to rebuild trust and confidence in the police.\"\n\nThe Met's handling of a vigil following the murder of Sarah Everard was widely criticsed\n\nThe circumstances of Dame Cressida's departure were similar to one of her predecessors Sir Ian Blair - who resigned as Met commissioner in 2008 when the then-mayor, Boris Johnson, said he had lost confidence in his leadership.\n\nIn a statement Dame Cressida said: \"I regret this report was necessary but I hope it will help create a sounder foundation for my successors.\n\n\"At all times I sought to uphold the law and act ethically and with goodwill, professionalism, openness and trust.\n\n\"I fully respect the need for democratic oversight of policing. It is also important that politicians respect due process and do not break the rules.\n\n\"I hope this report is an opportunity for others to reflect on how City Hall functions and is held to account.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"He has never been afraid to speak truth to power and he upholds the highest standards of integrity when it comes to reporting the facts.\n\n\"He was hired to deliver a report on the facts surrounding the departure of the commissioner and he has done just that.\"\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. Lisa Megginson says she hopes her implant will show that medical devices can cause harm\n\nLisa Megginson had her transvaginal mesh tape surgically removed in April after years of health problems and now she has taken the unusual step of donating it to a museum.\n\nThe 51-year-old said she was \"overwhelmed\" to see the removed mesh on display among glass jars containing human specimens dating back to the 18th Century at the Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh.\n\n\"This is fantastic to see but it's a horror story to me,\" said Lisa, from Kinross.\n\n\"That little 25cm piece of plastic has devastated my life and my family's lives,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not just like it's removed and you're ok, I have still got a surgical journey to go on and you never recover.\"\n\nThe Surgeons' Hall Museums has not taken any new human remain specimens since the 1990s, but decided to make an exception to highlight what it calls a \"significant period in women's health\".\n\nMesh implants had been used to treat conditions some women suffer after childbirth, such as incontinence and prolapse.\n\nBut its use was stopped in Scotland after hundreds of women were left with painful, life-changing side effects.\n\nThe NHS has currently paused the technique in the UK unless no other option is suitable.\n\nThere is still not a clear idea of how many women experience complications, but there have been serious questions surrounding the introduction and promotion of the procedure.\n\nLisa approached the museum ahead of her surgery to see if it could form part of their collection.\n\nThe museum said the mesh display highlights what it calls a \"significant period in women's health\"\n\n\"I just thought - it can't just be they can take the mesh out of me and that's it,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hate to think it's just somewhere on a shelf in a lab or it was disposed of. I thought somebody needs to see the explanted mesh.\n\n\"You know women will request their medical records and they will get a photograph but it's not as powerful as physically seeing it.\"\n\nThe Surgeons' Hall have put the mesh on display in the Wohl Pathology museum.\n\n\"We haven't accepted a new human tissue specimen in about 20 years because the collections have changed in their use,\" said Louise Wilkie, curator of the museum.\n\n\"However we have made this exception for Lisa because it's such a unique specimen, it represents a significant period in the history of medicine and allows us to tell that story, without the specimen we can't really tell the story.\n\n\"I think this is the first time in the museum's history that we've had a specimen donated directly from a patient and what that allows us to do is tell a much more personal narrative.\"\n\nThe mesh is made of polypropylene, a type of plastic\n\nLisa had the mesh implanted in 2006. It was tension-free vaginal tape (TVT), a type of mesh used for stress urinary incontinence (SUI).\n\nShe had initially gone to the doctor about an over-active bladder but was advised that because she had four children she did have some SUI and the mesh would help.\n\n\"Obviously you trust these clinicians, you listen to these clinicians and I kept being told it was gold standard, so you think - this must be the best thing,\" she said.\n\nLisa said she suffered a series of health problems but things got worse in 2017.\n\n\"I'd fallen off a chair in my office and I felt an almighty tear in my pelvis and within two weeks of that happening I lost all of my body hair,\" she said.\n\nMedics have never made a link between the mesh and her hair loss.\n\nLisa said she suffered a series of health problems\n\n\"It was hard because that's when I lost myself,\" Lisa said.\n\n\"That's probably when a good bit of me died.\n\n\"Not only did I not feel like myself, I now didn't look like myself, so that was very hard and it still is.\"\n\nIt was only when she saw a television report on the 'Sling the Mesh' campaign the following year that she realised many other women were also suffering complications.\n\nShe was referred for treatment in 2018 but waited more than three years to have the mesh removed at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, where she took the unusual step of choosing to have the surgery awake.\n\nLisa said: \"It was a trust thing, it was a need to know and it was a closure thing, there were so many elements to it. But what I should add - it's not for the faint-hearted.\"\n\nLisa (front right) with campaigners staging a protest outside the New Victoria Hospital in Glasgow\n\nLisa now advocates for others affected by mesh complications and is campaigning for women to get the treatment of their choice more quickly.\n\n\"I want to be there for other women, because a lot of women have been there for me and I want to continue the fight because there are still so many things that need to be done,\" she said.\n\nIn the meantime, she hopes her mesh will raise awareness.\n\n\"Seeing my mesh here in the museum, I hope it empowers people,\" she said.\n\n\"I hope clinicians come in and have a look at it. I hope researchers can use it as well, because that's important.\n\n\"Researchers need to come in and have a look and read through a medical file and see what happened, where did things go wrong.\n\n\"It's just one of those things - a medical device can go seriously wrong and have horrific effects on the human body.\"", "The donations have been shared equally between seven charities linked with Princess Diana\n\nThe BBC has given £1.42m from the sales of the 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana to charity.\n\nThe interview was subject to an investigation that found reporter Martin Bashir used fake documents to gain access to the late royal.\n\nThe BBC shared the funds equally between seven charities linked to Diana and said it was \"the right and appropriate course of action\".\n\nIt said the donations come from its commercial revenue not the licence fee.\n\nThe funds have been given to Centrepoint, English National Ballet, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSH), The Leprosy Mission, National Aids Trust, The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and The Diana Award.\n\nThe first six charities listed are those with which the princess remained involved at the time of her death and The Diana Award was created in her memory.\n\nThe broadcaster said: \"The BBC had indicated its intention to donate to charity the sales proceeds derived from the 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\n\"The BBC has now done so. Given the findings of Lord Dyson, we think this is the right and appropriate course of action.\"\n\nPrincess Diana was a patron of Great Ormond Street Hospital and visited patients and staff regularly\n\nA spokesperson from GOSH said the funds would be \"hugely beneficial\" in helping seriously ill children who are being treated at the London hospital.\n\nThe BBC has previously apologised after a report last year found Mr Bashir acted in \"a deceitful way\" to obtain the interview.\n\nThe report by Lord Dyson concluded that the interview had been procured using fake documents and said the BBC fell short of \"high standards of integrity and transparency\".\n\nThe interview - viewed by more than 22 million people in the UK at the time - was described by commentators in 1995 as a \"bombshell\" that destroyed the image of a \"contented, caring and united\" Royal Family.\n\nIn July, BBC director-general Tim Davie vowed to \"never\" again broadcast clips from the interview.\n\nHe said: \"Now we know about the shocking way that the interview was obtained, I have decided that the BBC will never show the programme again, nor will we license it in whole or part to other broadcasters.\n\n\"I would urge others to exercise similar restraint.\"\n\nThe 25th anniversary of Diana's death in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris was marked on Wednesday.\n\nThousands of mourners paid tribute to the princess by gathering at her former residence, Kensington Palace in London.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman ran into her home in Liverpool\n\nA police officer \"scooped\" up Olivia Pratt-Korbel and ran with her to try and save her life after she was shot at her home, an inquest has heard.\n\nOlivia was fatally shot as her mother tried to stop a gunman entering her Liverpool home on 22 August.\n\nLiverpool senior coroner Andre Rebello told Gerard Majella Courthouse that responding officers rushed to try to save the nine-year-old's life.\n\nHe said a PC pressed his hand on her wound as he carried her to hospital.\n\nMr Rebello, who also dealt with the death of 11-year-old Rhys Jones after he was shot in the city in 2007, spoke of his shock as he opened the inquest into Olivia's death.\n\nHe said it was \"quite shocking that society has not changed for the better\".\n\n\"It is shocking that a nine-year-old little girl, with a full life in front of her, is shot anywhere, but to be shot in her own home, in the safety of her home, is heinous and unforgiving,\" he said.\n\nOlivia was fatally shot and her mother was injured after a gunman chased a man into her home in Dovecot at about 22:00 BST.\n\nNeither of the men had any links to her family.\n\nMr Rebello said armed response officers found Olivia with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\n\"Police officers scooped and ran with Olivia to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car,\" he said.\n\nFloral tributes have been left to Olivia close to the scene of the shooting\n\nHe said she arrived at the hospital's main entrance at approximately 22:15 \"in the arms of a police officer\".\n\n\"The officer had covered the wound to her chest with his hand and she was noted to have a weak heart, which had stopped prior to her arrival in hospital,\" he said.\n\nHe said medical teams met Olivia as she arrived and a major trauma call was put out.\n\nThe nine-year-old then received cardiac massage and a rapid blood transfusion, but at 23:15, she had no cardiac output, the coroner said.\n\nTen minutes later, \"after extensive efforts by all involved, the decision was made to stop resuscitation and Olivia was confirmed as having died,\" he added.\n\nOlivia was rushed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car, her inquest was told\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of her death was a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nThe inquest heard Olivia was born in Liverpool to mother Cheryl Korbel, a support worker, and father John Francis Pratt, a mechanic.\n\nThe coroner said Olivia's death would \"not just affect her immediate family and friends, but also school communities, church communities, not just in the Knotty Ash and Dovecot areas of Liverpool, but the whole city, Merseyside, and I know right across this country people are shocked by Olivia's death\".\n\n\"I understand Merseyside Police would be very grateful for anyone with any information who could bring some knowledge to the circumstances in which Olivia came by her death, no matter how insignificant that information may be,\" he added.\n\nAdjourning the inquest to 4 January, he released Olivia's body to her family for burial.\n\nMr Rebello also opened the inquests into the deaths of 28-year-old council worker Ashley Dale and Sam Rimmer, a 22-year-old mechanic, at the courthouse.\n\nMr Rimmer was shot in Dingle on 16 August, while Ms Dale was found with gunshot wounds in the back garden of her Old Swan home in the early hours of 21 August.\n\nHe told Ms Dale's inquest that she was not believed to have been the intended target of the shooting and the door of her home \"had been forced\", with her being found lying unresponsive by officers close to her mobile phone and several bullet casings in her back garden.\n\nHe said until someone was \"apprehended\" and the process of law was applied to \"this most heinous tragedy\", her family would \"struggle with a very difficult bereavement journey\".\n\nMr Rimmer was shot on 16 August, while Ms Dale was found with gunshot wounds five days later\n\nMr Rimmer's inquest was told he and his \"associates\" had been chased by four males on electric bikes, who had discharged firearms \"numerous times\".\n\nThe 22-year-old died in hospital a short time later.\n\nMr Rebello said it \"goes without saying\" that Mr Rimmer \"appears to have been murdered, and clearly somebody out there has information... and I would encourage anyone with any knowledge to provide it\".\n\nHe added that it was \"difficult enough to deal with bereavement from natural causes, but when the death is from such a heinous, unnecessary act, a family and bereaved relatives clearly need some progress... to find at least some degree of closure\".\n\nA 36-year-old man from Huyton and a 33-year-old from Dovecot were arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in connection with Olivia's death a few days after she was shot and have been released on bail.\n\nA 25-year-old man from Liverpool arrested on suspicion of Ms Dale's murder has been conditionally bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nFour men arrested on suspicion of Mr Rimmer's murder have also been bailed.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCCTV footage of the gunman fleeing after the fatal shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel has been released.\n\nMerseyside Police revealed the shooter used two guns in the attack that killed the nine-year-old.\n\nOlivia was hit in the chest as her mother Cheryl Korbel tried to stop the gunman from entering their home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August.\n\nMs Korbel was also injured, as was convicted drug dealer Joseph Nee, who was the intended target of the attack.\n\nSpeaking as the footage was released, Det Ch Supt Mark Kameen warned those who were \"shielding\" the culprit that officers would do \"everything legitimately possible\" to bring them to justice.\n\n\"It is beyond comprehension how anyone can protect a person who is responsible for killing a nine-year-old little girl,\" he added.\n\nOlivia died after being shot as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of her home\n\nIn a press conference earlier, Det Ch Supt Kameen issued a direct plea to those who may have been asked to hide or dispose of the guns.\n\n\"I understand you may be frightened of contacting us, but I want you to do the right thing for Olivia and tell us where they are right now,\" he said.\n\n\"If you are hiding the guns and you have no intention of telling us, then I place you in the same category as the vile man responsible for the [killing].\n\n\"And we will hunt you too.\"\n\nHe said the gunman was wearing a black padded jacket, a black balaclava with a peak and black gloves, and he was described as about 5ft 7in (1.7m), with a slim build.\n\n\"This is the man we are hunting for - we need to know where he went that night or did you see him in the area?\" he said.\n\n\"He is toxic to our communities and if you are protecting him, he is toxic to you and your family.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said the investigation had made \"significant progress\"\n\nHe said the video had been released because people may recognise what the gunman was wearing when he \"callously ran away from Olivia's house\".\n\n\"This footage shows the gunman running along Finch Lane away from Kingsheath Avenue,\" he added.\n\n\"You then see him turn right into Berryford Road and go out of sight.\n\n\"We know he is climbing into and through people's gardens to avoid being seen.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Kameen said police were also releasing footage of a man who was in the area at the time of the shooting who they wanted to trace.\n\n\"I'm interested in speaking to him as he may have information that is important to the inquiry by virtue of the fact he was in the area at the right time,\" he said.\n\nPolice have asked a man who was in the area at the time of the shooting to get in touch\n\nTen days on from Olivia's death, a collection of flowers, balloons and messages have continued to grow near the scene.\n\nEarlier, Ms Korbel, who is still receiving treatment for her injuries, and other family members visited the site to read the tributes left in the schoolgirl's memory.\n\nDuring the opening of Olivia's inquest on Tuesday, Liverpool Senior Coroner Andre Rebello said armed response officers found her with a gunshot wound to her chest.\n\nHe said a police officer had \"scooped\" up Olivia and ran with her to try to save her life, pressing his hand on her wound as she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the back of a police car.\n\nHowever, despite the efforts of medical teams, she was pronounced dead at about 23:25 BST.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of her death was a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nAdjourning the inquest to 4 January, the coroner released Olivia's body to her family for burial.\n\nA 36-year-old man from Huyton and a 33-year-old from Dovecot were arrested on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder in relation to Olivia's death in the days after the shooting and have since been released on bail.\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 Queen and Prince Charles at the Braemar Highland Games in 2019\n\nThe Queen will miss the Braemar Gathering on Saturday, the popular Highland Games event which she attends most years.\n\nIt is understood the decision has been taken for the comfort of the Queen who has been suffering from mobility problems since last year.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch is currently staying at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire as she does every summer.\n\nPrince Charles is still scheduled to attend the Braemar Games.\n\nHe will join spectators for the gathering which attracts crowds from the across the globe who watch competitors take part in the caber toss, hammer throw, and tug-o-war.\n\nIn another break from tradition, it was announced earlier this week that the Queen will appoint the new prime minister on Tuesday at her Scottish retreat for the first time in her reign.\n\nDuring her 70 years on the throne, the Queen has always had an audience with her new prime minister at Buckingham Palace in London.\n\nBut Boris Johnson, who will tender his resignation, and the new Conservative Party leader - either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak - will make the 1,000-mile round trip to Balmoral Castle instead.\n\nIt is understood that the decision was taken to provide certainty for the new prime minister's diary.\n\nThe Queen has attended the Braemar Games throughout her 70-year reign. This picture is from 1953\n\nThe monarch has been taking her traditional summer break in Scotland with family and guests. She usually stays at the estate from August to October.\n\nAs well as ongoing mobility issues in recent months, the Queen had Covid in February this year.\n\nIn the past seven months, Buckingham Palace has tended to confirm the Queen's attendance at public engagements on the day, depending on how she is feeling.\n\nDuring this time she has missed some high-profile engagements, including the State Opening of Parliament, the Platinum Jubilee Concert and the commemorative Derby.\n• None Queen to stay at Balmoral to appoint new PM", "Russia's main gas pipeline to Europe will not reopen as planned on Saturday, adding to concerns about energy supplies this winter.\n\nState energy firm Gazprom said it found a leak on Nord Stream 1, meaning it could be closed indefinitely.\n\nThe pipeline, which runs to Germany, has been shut for three days for what Gazprom described as maintenance work.\n\nEurope accused Russia of using its gas supplies to blackmail Europe amid the Ukraine conflict, which Moscow denies.\n\nEnergy prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine and scarce supplies could push up costs even further.\n\nThere are growing fears families in the EU will be unable to afford the cost of heating this winter.\n\nThe UK could also be affected. Although not reliant on Nord Stream 1 for its gas, the pipeline suspension could drive the cost of wholesale gas up further, which has been behind the spiralling rise in the energy price cap.\n\nFaisal Islam, the BBC's economics editor, described the indefinite closure of Nord Stream 1 as a very serious development, noting that Russia had kept supplies into Europe flowing even at the height of the Cold War.\n\nThe stand-off with Russia has forced countries to fill their own gas supplies, with Germany's stores increasing from less than half in June to 84% full today.\n\nAs a result, international gas prices have fallen in the past week, but remain high by normal standards.\n\nEurope is attempting to wean itself off Russian energy in an effort to reduce Moscow's ability to finance the war, but the transition may not come quickly enough.\n\nEU Council President Charles Michel said Russia's move was \"sadly no surprise\".\n\n\"Use of gas as a weapon will not change the resolve of the EU. We will accelerate our path towards energy independence. Our duty is to protect our citizens and support the freedom of Ukraine,\" he tweeted.\n\nMoscow denies using energy supplies as an economic weapon against Western countries supporting Ukraine.\n\nIt has blamed the sanctions for holding up routine maintenance of Nord Stream 1, but the EU says this is a pretext.\n\nGermany's network regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, said the country was now better prepared for Russian gas supplies to cease, but it urged citizens and companies to cut consumption.\n\nGazprom's announcement came shortly after the G7 nations agreed to cap the price of Russian oil in support of Ukraine.\n\nThe G7 (Group of Seven) consists of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.\n\nTheir introduction of a price cap means countries that sign up to the policy will be permitted to purchase only Russian oil and petroleum products transported via sea that are sold at or below the price cap.\n\nHowever, Russia says it will not export to countries that participate in the cap.\n\nThe gas pipeline stretches from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany and can carry up to 170 million cubic metres of gas a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG, whose majority shareholder is Gazprom.\n\nGermany had also previously supported the construction of a parallel pipeline - Nord Stream 2 - but the project was halted after Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nGazprom said the fault had been detected at the Portovaya compressor station, with the inspection carried out alongside workers from Siemens, the German firm that maintains the turbine.\n\nIt said that fixing of oil leaks in key engines was only possible in specialised workshops, which had been hindered by Western sanctions.\n\nHowever, Siemens itself said: \"Such leaks do not normally affect the operation of a turbine and can be sealed on site. It is a routine procedure within the scope of maintenance work.\"\n\nThis is not the first time since the invasion that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been closed.\n\nIn July, Gazprom cut off supplies completely for 10 days, citing \"a maintenance break\". It restarted again 10 days later, but at a much reduced level.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the Swiss capital Bern, an economist and energy analyst, Cornelia Meyer, said the gas shutdown would have a major impact on employment and prices.\n\n\"That really has huge ramifications for gas in Europe which is about four times more expensive than it was a year ago and this cost of living crisis will really soar because it's not just gas,\" she said. \"Gas becomes fertiliser and it's used in many industrial processes, so that will affect jobs, and it will affect costs.\"\n\nThis is no coincidence. Russia's state-controlled gas giant announced an indefinite extension to a three-day maintenance halt to flows of gas through the continent's key energy artery, hours after leading western finance ministers vowed to escalate sanctions on Russian oil.\n\nGazprom's official reason is that an oil leak has been found and the pipeline cannot work without German imports of technology, which are now subject to sanctions.\n\nFew observers believe, however, that this is anything other than an attempt essentially to blackmail Europe over supplies.\n\nThis is a very serious development. Even during the height of the Cold War, Russia kept supplies of its gas flowing into Europe.\n\nThis cut-off though - and the pointed attempt by Gazprom to blame the German energy giant Siemens for the malfunction - is the culmination of decades of dysfunction in the energy relationship between Russia and Germany.", "Huge crowds of people gathered at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on Friday to protest against the attack\n\nThousands of supporters of Argentina's vice-president have rallied to denounce political violence, after she narrowly survived an assassination attempt.\n\n\"We are all Cristina,\" chanted crowds in the capital Buenos Aires, referring to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.\n\nThe 69-year-old escaped unharmed on Thursday evening after a gunman's weapon jammed as he aimed at her.\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner has not spoken publicly about it yet, but waved to supporters as she left home on Friday.\n\nArgentina's President Alberto Fernández declared Friday a national holiday to allow Argentines time to \"express themselves in defence of life, democracy and in solidarity with the vice-president\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of flag waving supporters descended on the capital's historic Plaza de Mayo, next to the presidential offices.\n\n\"Thank God and the Virgin that the bullet didn't come out,\" 58-year-old teacher Santiago Bianco told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"For us, the possibility that something like that could happen to Cristina is unthinkable,\" said Claudia, 37, who declined to provide her surname. \"We were saved last night from something terrible that we can't even comprehend,\" she added.\n\nA career politician and a divisive figure, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was Argentina's president from 2007 to 2015, and its first lady for four years before that. She has been the vice president since 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gun jams as it's aimed at Argentina's vice-president\n\nFootage shows the moment she found herself face-to-face with the loaded weapon.\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner was outside her home in Buenos Aires, surrounded by a mob of supporters who back her in her fight against corruption charges.\n\nAs she greets them, the gun can be seen emerging from the crowd. She initially appears confused by what is going on, ducking down to retrieve an object dropped on the floor.\n\nVideo's from other angles show people in the crowd appearing to try to block her from the suspected gunman, who came within inches of the politician.\n\nPresident Fernández has revealed the gun was loaded with five bullets, but failed to fire when triggered.\n\nPolice named the suspect as 35-year-old Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, Brazilian-born but with an Argentine mother, who has lived in Argentina since he came to the country as a child in 1993. He had previously been arrested in 2021 while carrying a 35cm knife.\n\nPictures of him taken from his social media posts and published on Argentine news websites depicted him with tattoos associated with neo-Nazi groups.\n\nAfter searching his apartment, police seized two boxes containing 100 bullets, according to investigators quoted by La Nación newspaper.\n\nAuthorities are working to establish a motive for the attack on the left-leaning politician.\n\nIt took place against a backdrop of a severe economic slump driven by sky-high inflation - it hit 71% in July - and the disintegrating value of the peso currency.\n\nCristina Fernández de Kirchner waves to supporters as she leaves her home on Friday, escorted by security agents\n\nPresident Fernández said the attempt on Ms Fernández de Kirchner's life was one of the \"most serious\" incidents since the country returned to democracy in 1983.\n\nCrowds of people have been gathering outside her home in Buenos Aires for the past few nights in a show of support, as she fights charges of defrauding the state and being involved in a scheme to divert public funds while she was president.\n\nIf convicted at trial, prosecutors have asked that she face 12 years in prison and a lifetime ban from politics.\n\nHowever, Ms Fernández de Kirchner is the Senate president and so enjoys parliamentary immunity. She would not be imprisoned unless her sentence was ratified by the country's Supreme Court, or she loses her Senate seat at the next elections at the end of 2023.\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner has faced numerous other corruption trials following her time as president. The verdict of this trial is expected to take some months.", "The US has agreed to sell $1.1bn (£955m) in weaponry to Taiwan, provoking anger from China.\n\nThe proposed deal includes a radar system to track incoming strikes and anti-ship and anti-air missiles.\n\nIt comes after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month became the most senior US official in 25 years to visit Taipei.\n\nThe Chinese embassy in Washington called on the US to revoke the deal or face \"counter-measures\".\n\nSpokesman Liu Pengyu said the deal \"severely jeopardises\" relations between Washington and Beijing.\n\n\"China will resolutely take legitimate and necessary counter-measures in light of the development of the situation,\" he added.\n\nBeijing sees the self-ruled island as a part of its territory and insists it should be unified with the mainland, by force if necessary.\n\nIt launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan last month, following the American delegation's visit.\n\nThe US arms sale agreed on Friday still needs to be voted on by the strongly pro-Taiwan US Congress.\n\nThe package includes a $655m radar warning system and $355m for 60 Harpoon missiles, which are capable of sinking ships.\n\nIt includes $85.6m for Sidewinder surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles, according to the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of State said the deal was \"essential for Taiwan's security\", and called on Beijing \"to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue\".\n\n\"These proposed sales are routine cases to support Taiwan's continuing efforts to modernise its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Pentagon last month created a task force to help streamline the sale of American weaponry to foreign allies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.\n\nUS lawmakers say that orders placed by Taiwan years ago have gone unfulfilled. Among the backlog are Harpoon and Stinger missiles, which have been sent to Ukraine instead, according to Defense News.\n\nIn another move likely to irk Beijing, the Biden administration said it would keep in place for now billions of dollars in tariffs on Chinese imports that were enacted during the Trump administration.\n\nThe US Trade Representative's office said it had received requests to maintain the 2018-19 duties from businesses and other interested parties.\n\nUS officials had been considering revoking the tariffs, citing the need to ease inflation.\n\nOn Friday, meanwhile, President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve $13.7bn in emergency funding for Ukraine, amid the ongoing war with Russia.\n\nThe Pentagon said last week that total US military aid to Ukraine had already topped $13bn.", "Elections are about choices. When elections go poorly for presidents, the choice becomes a referendum on their performance in office - one often decided in the negative.\n\nJoe Biden made the short flight from Washington to Philadelphia on Thursday to try to reframe this November's mid-term election choice as not about him, but about choosing between democratic freedoms and \"Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans\".\n\n\"Maga Republicans do not respect the Constitution,\" said Mr Biden. \"They do not believe in the rule of law... and they're working right now as I speak, in state after state, to give power to decide elections in America, to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.\"\n\nEarlier on Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Mr Biden's speech was not going to be political.\n\nBut it was decidedly political.\n\nAlthough Mr Biden noted he was not criticising \"mainstream Republicans\", who he said he can work with, he added that their party is currently \"dominated, driven, intimidated by Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans\".\n\nHe said that these Republicans view the mob that attacked the Capitol on 6 January \"not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots\". It was a line that took on particular potency given Mr Trump's comments earlier in the day that he would consider pardoning and apologising to those charged in the 6 January Capitol attack.\n\nIn addition, Mr Biden made sure early in his speech to mention abortion rights - an issue that has been driving Democratic voter engagement and turnout since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v Wade protections.\n\n\"Maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,\" he said.\n\nMr Biden also made a point to tick through his list of recent legislative accomplishments - on infrastructure investment, gun-control, prescription drug pricing and climate change.\n\n\"We're proving in America no matter how long, the road to progress does come,\" he said - and as far as progress on Democratic priorities, that progress may have come just in time for the president.\n\nThis isn't the first time Mr Biden has delivered a speech near Independence Hall in Philadelphia.\n\nOn 13 July, 2021, the president made the short trek up to Philadelphia to deliver remarks condemning Donald Trump's \"Big Lie\" claims of 2020 election fraud. At the time, he called for the passage of a new federal voting rights law - legislation that was ultimately blocked by Republicans in the US Senate.\n\nFrom a political stagecraft standpoint, the scenery for Mr Biden on Thursday night couldn't have been more picturesque in person. It was a mild September evening in Philadelphia. The president's lectern was set in a tree-dotted park, with a fully lit Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, as the backdrop. A Marine band playing patriotic tunes off to one side.\n\nAt precisely 20:00 local time, the bell at the top of the hall rang. On its final stroke, the band struck up Hail to the Chief, and Joe and Jill Biden emerged from the building, now illuminated in red-and blue, and walked down a spotlight strewn red carpet to the stage.\n\nOn television, however, the mood came across a bit differently. The close focus of the camera meant the president was only framed in the dark red portions of the building. It made it look as though he were delivering his speech from the gates of hell - a mood only accentuated by the darker moments of his text.\n\nHis voice a bit hoarse - perhaps still rough from his recent bout with Covid-19 - the president flashed some anger as he denounced Maga Republicans who \"embrace anger\", \"thrive on chaos\" and \"live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies\".\n\nThere's an internet meme among Democrats about Mr Biden as \"dark Brandon\", vanquishing his political enemies without mercy. The visuals of this speech, intentional or not, will only feed those flames.\n\nThe urban Philadelphia setting also came with a price, however. Perhaps a block away, one of the Maga faithful blasted a bullhorn siren and chanted \"Let's go Brandon\" and obscenities directed at the president.\n\nThe heckling was so noticeable that on two occasions, the president paused in his speech. The second time he said they had a right to be \"outrageous\", but: \"Good manners is nothing they've ever suffered from.\"\n\nThis is Mr Biden's second trip to Philadelphia in three days. He was in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday and will be heading to Pittsburgh for a Labor Day parade on Monday.\n\nWhy the focus on Pennsylvania? It's Mr Biden's original home state, of course. It was also the key battleground state that put him over the top in the 2020 presidential race - and will certainly be pivotal for Mr Biden if he runs for re-election in 2024.\n\nThere are more immediate concerns for the Democrats in the state, however.\n\nBoth the governorship, three House seats and a US Senate seat - currently held by a Republican - are considered toss-ups in November's mid-term elections. Control of both chambers of Congress could come down to how Pennsylvanians vote in just over two months.\n\nAn anti-Biden protester outside Mr Biden's previous speech in the state earlier this week\n\nThe timing of Mr Biden's speech is not coincidental. It comes on the eve of the Labour Day holiday in the US, which even in this era of perpetual politics is viewed as the kick-off to the home stretch of campaigning before a November election.\n\nThere's more to it than that, however. For the first time in nearly a year, the president's political fortunes appear to be on an upswing. His approval ratings, which declined precipitously following an inflationary spike that began last summer and the chaotic US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, have rebounded from truly abysmal to merely bad. Bad is not good, but it's in the neighbourhood of past presidents, like Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who went on to win re-election two years later.\n\nThe RealClearPolitics poll average of Mr Biden's job-approval polls, which first crossed over into net disapproval last August and reached a peak of negative 20.7% on 21 July, now stands at 42% approval.\n\nWhat's more, Mr Biden's personal struggles don't seem to be translating into ballot box poison for Democrats. On Wednesday, a Democrat won Alaska's seat in the US House of Representatives for the first time in 50 years. Last week, a Democrat won a House special election in a New York district considered a toss-up. Time and time again in recent months, Democrats have over-performed in head-to-head matchups with Republicans - a stark contrast from last November, when Republicans won the governorship and statehouse in liberal-leaning Virginia and came close to toppling the incumbent governor in reliably blue New Jersey.\n\nThe salience of abortion as an issue motivating the Democratic base could be part of the reason, as are inflation numbers and petrol prices that have been trending down and a string of Democratic legislative successes - on the environment, gun control and lowering drug prices - after months of deadlock. Student debt relief could also end up factoring in, although it's too early to see evidence of that.\n\nMr Biden has frequently been a bystander to this reversal of fortune - because of his Covid infection and the inherent limits of presidential power - but taking credit for good news out of one's control has never stopped a politician before. Thursday's speech is as much about setting the conditions to get credit if things continue to go well as it is to highlight the threats to American democracy or to frame the debate for the home-stretch mid-term campaigns.\n\nAnd if things go bad once again, he was going to get the blame anyway.", "The average temperature in England this summer was 17.1C\n\nEngland has had its joint hottest summer on record, the Met Office says.\n\nProvisional figures show the summer of 2022 - covering June, July and August - had an average temperature of 17.1C.\n\nThis year's summer tied with 2018 for the warmest, according to records stretching back to 1884.\n\nIt means four of the five warmest summers on record have happened since 2003, as the effects of climate change are felt on the nation's summer temperatures, the Met Office said.\n\nThis year's summer included the record-breaking heat in July when temperatures in the UK exceeded 40C for the first time as part of a widespread heatwave.\n\nHot and dry conditions have dried up rivers, damaged crops and fuelled wildfires, as well as leaving much of England in drought. For both England and the UK as a whole, it has been the driest year so far since 1976, according to the UK meteorological service's provisional data.\n\nFor England, 2022 has also seen the sixth driest summer since records began in 1836.\n\nOverall, the UK saw just 62% of its average summer rainfall.\n\nDr Mark McCarthy, from the National Climate Information Centre, said: \"For many this summer's record-breaking heat in July - where temperatures reached 40.3°C at Coningsby in Lincolnshire - will be the season's most memorable aspect.\n\n\"However, for England to achieve its joint warmest summer takes more than extreme heat over a couple of days, so we shouldn't forget that we experienced some persistently warm and hot spells through June and August too.\"\n\nFor the UK overall, 2022 was provisionally the fourth warmest summer.\n\nIt was also the eighth warmest summer for both Scotland and Wales and the 12th warmest for Northern Ireland.\n\nThis summer has also been the driest year so far for both the UK and England since 1976, according to provisional figures\n\nDr McCarthy added: \"The average temperature for January to August for the UK in 2022 has been 10.51°C, making this year so far warmer than the previous record of 10.2°C in 2014.\n\n\"It is too early to speculate on how the year overall will finish, but the persistent warm conditions are certainly notable and have certainly been made more likely by climate change.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Met Office said it was not uncommon for provisional figures to change slightly after verification. He added average temperature data was used to make the hottest joint summer declaration as it was a robust measure taking into account day and night temperatures.", "Barely a day goes by without more headlines and heartfelt radio phone-ins about how much more we are going to have to pay for our heating this winter.\n\nBut what if your bills are not even limited by the soaring energy price cap and could rise even higher as temperatures plummet?\n\nThat is the situation for a small but significant number of people who are locked into communal heating agreements where they live.\n\nOona Shah, 22, is already making preparations for the winter months ahead - and that means spending less time in the shower each day.\n\nThe recent graduate lives in north London in a building that relies on communal heating supplies. Her energy bills are not covered by the price cap, the maximum amount energy firms can charge most domestic customers, hence the quick-fire showers.\n\nOona Shah is bracing for an expensive winter in her flat - where the heating costs will not be limited by the energy cap\n\nResidents on communal heating, or heat networks, are not covered by Ofgem's energy price cap - because they are not buying their gas directly from one of the energy companies that Ofgem regulates. They are classed as commercial systems - despite often being within residential buildings.\n\nHeat networks work as a communal boiler. Hot water is pumped directly to people's homes from a communal source, which can often be found miles away from its final destination. Some homes have individual meters, while others do not.\n\nThey are often used in apartment blocks, but also in clusters of social housing. Sometimes it is managed by a third party company, but sometimes by landlords themselves. They naturally seek to pass on the costs to the tenants as wholesale gas prices rocket up - but there is no rule on how they impose these price increases.\n\nRetiree Paul Bolding is already feeling the effect, even as autumn creeps in. The bills for his London home - which uses heat networks - have already risen by 350%.\n\nThe flat Paul owns is one of roughly 65 apartments in his development, all of which are supplied with heat from a combined heat and power plant machine in a plant room in the building, he tells BBC News.\n\nThe hot water from this communal heating system is then distributed across each flat, but each household has its own meter that records the heat used and bills residents.\n\nIn June, Paul says, prices increased from 8.2p per kWh to 36.42 per kWh (plus VAT). He presumes these prices will last a year but as it is not regulated by Ofgem, he fears there is nothing to prevent a further raise. For comparison, the price cap set by Ofgem will be 15p per kWh for gas from October.\n\nPaul says he is mainly frustrated by the lack of transparency and regulation to protect people from \"unscrupulous operators\" and ensure all energy bills are capped amid rising wholesale gas prices.\n\nPaul Bolding says the whole process is \"pretty opaque\"\n\nThe lack of security of a price cap, even one that is being raised quite dramatically in the coming months, is something that Oona says she finds \"very worrying\" as she budgets for paying her bills.\n\nAs well as the short showers, she is making other small changes to her day-to-day routine, to make savings on other bills. These include switching off unnecessary lights and running her washing machine on cold water, to cut back on her electricity charges.\n\n\"London is so expensive already,\" she says, \"it will be hard to justify staying long-term\".\n\nIt is not just those on the lowest incomes who are frustrated by the apparent price-cap loophole.\n\nOver the last couple of years, a large number of ultra-luxury developments, as well as more affordable and local authority homes, have opted to rely on it as it was seen as a government-backed - and cost-effective - solution.\n\nSome found that the arrangement meant they were paying less for their gas than other domestic users.\n\nThat is because developers who built such properties could negotiate their own, often more cost-effective, deals directly with wholesale gas suppliers.\n\nJust last year, the government said heat networks were \"an essential technology for cutting carbon emissions in a cost-effective way while reducing bills and tackling fuel poverty\".\n\nIt also went on to pledge £19m to boost funding and investment on heat networks across the country.\n\nBut on Thursday, the National Housing Federation (NHF) urged ministers to take urgent action about the situation with gas prices that has developed since.\n\nThe NHF's Kate Henderson told the BBC the majority of residents on heat networks live in social housing and an estimated 72% of those living in social housing are over 55.\n\nMs Henderson called for the government and energy companies to work together to find a solution to protect vulnerable residents who will not be able to afford \"extortionate bills\".\n\nSome bills are expected to jump by as much as 500% this winter, and residents have already noticed their bills rising during the warmer months, Ms Henderson said.\n\nThe government said it was aiming to help all people affected by higher energy bills.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We know people are worried about rising energy bills, which is why we have confirmed further funding equivalent to the £400 Energy Bills Support Scheme will be available for those not already covered - including a small minority of those using heat networks.\"\n\nParliament is also currently assessing a new Energy Bill, which could increase regulation for heat networks.\n\nThe proposed legislation would give Ofgem powers to investigate and take action when consumers on heat network agreements appear to be paying \"disproportionate\" amounts.\n\nThat is something that Stephen Knight, director at Heat Trust, is particularly keen to see. His organisation provides independent regulatory advice in the sector, and he warns that even if the government takes that action it will not help people this winter.\n\nHe explained any benefits of the proposed bill would not be felt by heat networks consumers for another couple of years. \"In the meantime, we have this massive energy crisis where gas prices have gone through the roof.\"\n\nAccording to data from the Department for Energy, an estimated 476,951 consumers rely on heat networks for their energy source. But Mr Knight says the number of consumers is likely to be much higher, as these statistics were collated seven years ago.\n\nThe energy price cap, set by Ofgem every three months, applies to domestic supply agreements in England, Wales and Scotland, and will be £3,549 for a typical household from October. Businesses, including restaurants, have called for the cap to be extended to commercial supplies.\n\nFind out why food prices are also on the rise.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only).", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman ran into her home\n\nFeelings of \"devastation and horror\" run deep in an area of Liverpool where nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed, a reverend has said.\n\nIt has been one week since Olivia was fatally shot after a gunman chased a man - both of whom had no links to her family - into her home in Dovecot.\n\nRev Peter Smith said more people had since attended the church of the Holy Spirit, Dovecot, to pray for Olivia.\n\nHe added that the people of Liverpool \"will never get over this\".\n\nMeanwhile floral tributes continue to build in Kingsheath Avenue, where Olivia was shot.\n\nOlivia's mother was injured as she tried to the shut the door, but the attacker fired more shots at the man he had pursued.\n\nPolice appealed for further information about a black Audi Q3 that was seen leaving Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, after the shooting on 22 August.\n\nThe vehicle is believed to be the same car used to take intended target Joseph Nee, 35, to hospital.\n\nRev Peter Smith said the feeling in the community was one of \"devastation, shock and horror\"\n\nRev Smith told BBC North West Tonight that the people of Liverpool \"will never get over this and would never forget this\".\n\n\"But, people will get on with their daily lives and are just trying to get back to normal, whatever normal is in the wake of something as horrific as this,\" he said.\n\n\"The feeling in the community is still one of devastation, shock and horror.\"\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\nRev Smith said he believed the shooting had \"touched people globally, not just locally\".\n\n\"We had a few more visitors yesterday in church who travelled in to say a few prayers for Olivia and her family,\" he added.\n\nAshley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey were also killed this August\n\nThe nine-year-old was one of four people who were killed in just a week in Merseyside, amid a recent rise in 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\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.", "Jonathan Edwards was cautioned by police in 2020 for assaulting his wife\n\nA former Plaid Cymru MP who assaulted his wife has urged party members to question the way his case was handled.\n\nJonathan Edwards, cautioned by police for the assault in 2020, also accused party leader Adam Price of making a \"spiteful\" statement about him.\n\nPlaid said it was concentrating on moving forward.\n\nLast month it told Mr Edwards he could resume sitting as one of its MPs in Westminster, but that decision was criticised by some within the party.\n\nIt was also criticised by his wife, Emma Edwards, who said allowing Mr Edwards to join Plaid's group in the House of Commons sent a message \"that survivors of domestic abuse don't matter\".\n\nThe decision to allow him to return as a Plaid MP followed legal advice that overturned an earlier decision which barred him from returning.\n\nSoon after, Mr Edwards announced he would remain an independent MP and party leader Mr Price said he should quit the party.\n\nThe two politicians represent the same constituency, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr.\n\nMr Edwards has now written to Plaid organisers in the seat, raising questions he said should be put to the party's national bosses.\n\nThey include asking: \"Why did the leader release his spiteful statement immediately after I stated that I did not want to re-join the party's Westminster group, even though there was an agreement that a personal statement from me would offer an honourable path?\"\n\nHe asked whether local members would be allowed to see the legal advice the party received about his case.\n\nA Plaid spokesman said: \"Plaid Cymru is focused on moving forward positively, in unity, for the benefit of the party and the residents of Carmarthenshire.\"\n\nMr Edwards has said he will regret his actions on the day of the assault \"to the end of my life\".\n\nDetails of the incident at the MP's family home are unknown.\n\nMr Edwards and his wife are getting divorced.", "Last updated on .From the section Nottm Forest\n\nNottingham Forest have broken the British record for most signings in a single transfer window after an unprecedented summer of deals.\n\nThe newly promoted Premier League side signed three players on Thursday to take their total to 21.\n\nThe signed centre-back Willy Boly from Wolves, defender Loic Bade from Rennes and winger Josh Bowler from Blackpool.\n\nHowever, Forest's hopes of bringing in 28-year-old Belgium striker Michy Batshuayi from Chelsea fell through.\n• None All your Forest news and fan views in one place\n\nBatshuayi, who joined the Blues in 2016 and has had five loan spells at other clubs, is out of contract at the end of the season.\n\nNevertheless, Forest have surpassed the previous British record of 19 signings, held jointly by Dundee United in the summer of 2000 and Livingston in 2001, according to football website Transfermarkt.\n\nThe English record was previously held by Crystal Palace in the summer of 2013, with 17 signings. The Eagles added another five players to their squad in the winter transfer window to take their total for that season to 22.\n\nWhy have Forest signed so many players?\n\nManager Steve Cooper needed to strengthen the squad, having lost several key players from the side that won the Championship play-off final.\n\nFive left on free transfers, while first-choice goalkeeper Brice Samba joined Lens after rejecting a new contract.\n\nDjed Spence, James Garner, Philip Zinckernagel, Max Lowe and Keinan Davis - who were all at the City Ground on loan - have either returned to their parent clubs or joined other sides.\n\nForest have spent big on several players including attacking midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White from Wolves for £25m, striker Taiwo Awoniyi from FC Union Berlin and defender Neco Williams from Liverpool for £18m apiece, and forward Emmanuel Dennis from Watford for £13m.\n\nThey have also brought in midfielder Orel Mangala and centre-back Moussa Niakhate from Bundesliga clubs Stuttgart and Mainz respectively, along with right-back Giulian Biancone and central midfielder Remo Freuler.\n\nForest have remarkably brought in three left-backs - Renan Lodi on loan from Atletico Madrid, plus Omar Richards from Bayern Munich and Harry Toffolo from Huddersfield. They also signed central midfielder Lewis O'Brien from the Championship side.\n\nThree free transfers were made - Jesse Lingard, Cheikhou Kouyate and Wayne Hennessey - while goalkeeper Dean Henderson arrived on loan from Manchester United.\n\nBrandon Aguilera and Hwang Ui-jo were also signed permanently but immediately sent on loan, to LD Alajuelense and Olympiakos respectively.\n\nOn Thursday's transfer deadline day, Ivory Coast defender Boly was Forest's 19th signing. The left-footed centre-back, who can play in a back three or four, has signed a two-year deal.\n\nBoly, 31, failed to turn up for Wolves' game against Newcastle on Sunday, despite being included in the matchday squad, as he pushed for the move to the City Ground.\n\n\"I'm very excited to have a new adventure with this club,\" said Boly.\n\n\"I spoke to Morgan Gibbs-White [former team-mate at Wolves] before I came and I'd seen the spirit of the team and he said I'd love it because it is a big club - the fans and everyone wants to go in the same direction.\n\n\"I watched the game against Tottenham and the spirit of the team really impressed me. I was listening to the fans in that game and they were unbelievable.\"\n• None All the latest updates, deals & reaction from deadline day\n• None Round-up of all the deadline day signings\n• None Transfer deadline day: 'He took all the training balls home' - when players want to leave\n\nBoly spent four years at Wolves, making 147 appearances in all competitions.\n\nForest, who are playing in the Premier League for the first time in 23 years, have taken four points from their first five games, but were thrashed 6-0 at Manchester City on Wednesday.\n\nThe result means they have conceded 11 goals overall and Cooper clearly wanted further defensive reinforcements.\n\nBoly will be available for Forest's game against fellow promoted side Bournemouth on Saturday (15:00 BST).\n\nThe record-setting 20th signing was Bowler, in a deal believed to be worth about £4m.\n\nThe 23-year-old, who has scored two goals in seven Championship games this season, has immediately been sent on a season-long loan to Greek side Olympiakos.\n\nBowler signed for Blackpool in June 2021 and scored seven league goals.\n\nArrival number 21 was Rennes defender Bade on loan, with an option for a permanent deal.\n\n'Forest will be seriously scaring people'\n\nSo, after a complete rebuild of the squad, just how will Cooper and his side fare?\n\n\"Forest will be fine that is for sure. They have done fantastic business. Sometimes you can buy too many players but Forest have brought in the right players,\" said former Crystal Palace striker Clinton Morrison.\n\nJamie Carragher said strengthening in the market \"does not guarantee anything\" but there will be a \"real fear for other clubs\".\n\nThe former Liverpool and England defender added: \"Forest are bringing players off the bench who cost £40m - they have real strength in depth and it will be a big worry for teams who expect promoted teams to go down.\n\n\"I think Forest will be seriously scaring people.\"\n\nAnd ex-Forest striker Robert Earnshaw said: \"They needed to build a squad that represents them in the Premier League. I think they are doing it right. Will they stay up? I think so.\"\n• None Our coverage of Nottingham Forest 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 Forest - go straight to all the best content", "Molly Russell saw thousands of harmful images on social media\n\nA coroner has ruled that tech giant Meta must send a senior executive from the US to give evidence at the inquest into the death of Molly Russell.\n\nThe 14-year-old killed herself in 2017 after seeing graphic images of self-harm and suicide on Instagram and Pinterest.\n\nMeta, which owns Instagram, argued at a pre-inquest review that evidence should be given via video link from America.\n\nThe inquest is due to begin at North London Coroner's Court on 19 September.\n\nCaoilfhionn Gallagher QC, counsel for Meta, said head of health and wellbeing policy Elizabeth Lagone would require \"significant travel and time in London\" to attend in person.\n\nInstead she said Ms Lagone would be prepared to start her evidence at 05:00 in the morning US time to coincide with hearings beginning at 10:00 in London.\n\nPinterest also argued one of its executives could not travel to London due to an important business meeting.\n\nGlobal head of community operations Jud Hoffman was also said to be concerned about Covid and the need to protect his elderly parents.\n\nBut Oliver Sanders QC, barrister for the Russell family, said the request to give evidence remotely was \"disrespectful to the family and disrespectful to the court\".\n\nHe continued \"what we have here is two Irish corporations who have chosen to field witnesses based in the US\".\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Walker ruled against the tech companies and ordered their witnesses appear in court in person to give evidence.\n\nMr Sanders then requested that Meta reveal more information about material the company had redacted.\n\nHe said that the names of accounts containing harmful material which had been suggested to Molly by Instagram's algorithm had not been provided by Meta.\n\nHe told the court the family, from Harrow, north-west London, found it very difficult to understand how it could send material \"unilaterally to a child but cannot send it to the family or coroner after her death\".\n\nMeta replied it had a legal duty under English and US law to protect privacy and was concerned about the \"potential identification of vulnerable Instagram users\".\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.", "Matthew Henderson, 23, is happy some of his loans will be forgiven but says more could be done\n\nA White House decision to cancel up to $10,000 (£8,500) in student loan debt is drawing mixed reactions across the US.\n\nWhen Matthew Henderson graduated from Loyola University, he had limited his borrowing as much as possible.\n\nKeen to pay off the roughly $20,000 he owed the federal government for his three-year programme, he began looking for work.\n\nBut it was May 2020, a pandemic was raging and nobody was hiring.\n\nThe political science and history major opted to further his education with a master's in legal studies from Washington University in St Louis. It's a decision that has cost him dearly.\n\n\"Even though it was only an accelerated one-year programme, it still cost about $60,000, which was pretty much funded entirely through student loans,\" he said.\n\n\"I suddenly went from a potentially payable amount to an exorbitant amount of debt.\"\n\nMr Henderson, 23, is among the one in five Americans - or roughly 45 million people - who hold student loans. Together they owe the government a combined total of $1.6tn in debt and interest payments, according to the Federal Reserve.\n\nAs debts have ballooned, student advocacy groups have begged for relief. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced he will wipe out up to $10,000 per borrower for those who earn less than $125,000 each year.\n\nFor Mr Henderson, the move is \"a great step, but I'm not certain it's the best he [Biden] could have done\".\n\n\"I hoped to see him forgive up to $50,000,\" he concedes, nodding to more ambitious Democratic Party proposals turned down by the president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Indiana native argues the government is quick to \"bail out\" corporations, as it did in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and more recently during the pandemic, but is reluctant to invest in its citizens.\n\n\"At some point, we have to invest in the future of the US workforce and the youth of America,\" he said.\n\nBut, with more than half of all student borrowers currently owing $20,000 or less, and about a third owing under $10,000, the White House's actions do come as a major source of relief to some.\n\nBessy Clarke, 30, has made monthly payments on her $30,000 in loans - but high interest rates have left her \"barely making a dent\" in her debt load.\n\n\"It's very defeating to pay monthly and still see no progress on my balance,\" said the tech industry worker from New Orleans, Louisiana.\n\nBessy Clarke, 30, is glad one-third of her debt will be wiped out by the White House's plan\n\nCancelling a portion of her loans is a necessary step in the right direction, she claims.\n\n\"Student loans have been the biggest burden on millennials and will be for the following generations as well. It prevents people my age from saving for a house or saving for retirement.\"\n\nBoth he and his wife are still paying down college loans, as they raise their first child.\n\n\"It requires us to have two jobs - and put her in day-care,\" the 32-year-old said. \"If we didn't have the loans, it's much more likely one of us could work part-time.\"\n\nMr Wright was the first in his family to attend college. He claims he was so naïve about the experience that he paid for his first semester with the cash he had saved up from a summer job.\n\n\"That was the trope handed down from all the baby boomers,\" he said. \"Work hard and pay it off.\"\n\nWhile glad that a significant portion of his loans are to be forgiven, he warns it's simply \"putting a band-aid over a larger issue\".\n\n\"The fact that the government is so willing to lend money to students who are going to expensive institutions, where the price has gone up so drastically - that hasn't been addressed at all.\"\n\nNicholas Nolan Judd, a 20-year-old from Aiken, South Carolina, attends college at the University of Glasgow, a decision he made in large part to avoid taking out loans.\n\nWith access to a partial scholarship and tuition benefits, he said, \"we did all the numbers and it was actually way cheaper to go overseas to a well-ranked university than the state schools.\"\n\n\"When I tell [my peers] that, at a US university of about the same calibre, I'd be paying $70,000 [per year], their jaws drop every single time,\" he noted.\n\nNicholas Nolan Judd, 20, decided to attend the University of Glasgow in part to avoid taking out US student loans\n\nAccording to him, while British universities remain focused on the academic experience, the American model has \"more of a 'college culture' focus, with large football stadiums and other accessories\".\n\nForgiving loans therefore is \"like throwing money onto a fire that's burning,\" Mr Judd said. \"The money is not going to solve the actual crisis, which is over-inflated tuition costs.\"\n\nSome critics of the debt cancellation plan say it is merely a politically expedient move to appease voters on the left ahead of November's midterm elections.\n\n\"The best way to win someone's vote is to give them a handout,\" Dominic Bashford, 25, told the BBC.\n\nAfter graduating from Bowling Green State University in 2019, he accumulated about $22,000 in debt.\n\nBut Mr Bashford, who describes himself as a libertarian, views debt as a form of servitude, so he started planning early on how to \"break free\" from the government.\n\nIn addition to his job at a brokerage firm in the grocery industry, he worked weekends delivering pizza for Domino's and cut nearly every major cost in his life.\n\n\"I sacrificed my social life and creature comforts, and I really lived like a miser,\" he said.\n\nMr Bashford planned to pay off what he owed within five years. Instead his plan saw him do it in two years, making his final payment last August.\n\nHe believes the move to forgive loans serves as a disincentive for responsible behaviour.\n\n\"Just like how it is immoral for taxpayers to be forced to pay for corporations' bad financial decision making, it's immoral for taxpayers to be forced to pay for individuals' bad financial planning,\" he said.\n\nWithout solving the root causes of the debt crisis, he added, \"in 10 years' time, we're going to be back in the same position that we're in now\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPundit Gary Neville is to be referred to the Attorney General for a social media post he made during his ex-Manchester United team-mate Ryan Giggs' domestic violence trial.\n\nThe judge in the case, Hilary Manley, has referred it as a possible case of contempt of court.\n\nThe jury in Giggs' trial was discharged on Wednesday after failing to reach verdicts on any of the three charges.\n\nGiggs, who resigned as Wales manager in June, also denied a charge of coercive or controlling behaviour towards Ms Greville, and denied assaulting Ms Greville's sister Emma, 26.\n\nAny retrial will not take place until at least 5 June 2023, the judge said.\n\nNeville's agent Di Law told the Daily Mail that the 47-year-old Sky Sports pundit was \"absolutely adamant\" that the post was referring to the Glazer family's ownership of Manchester United and not the Giggs trial.\n\nContempt of court law prohibits publishing any information that creates a \"substantial risk\" of serious prejudice to a trial - including on social media. It is a criminal offence, punishable by a fine or up to two years in prison.\n\nThe judge referred to the post by Neville on Wednesday.\n\nJudge Manley said: \"Given the author is a person with a high public profile and his social media account has 1.5 million followers, it could be seen to be an attempt to influence ongoing criminal proceedings and could be contempt of court.\n\n\"Accordingly, I am referring the matter to the office of the Attorney General for the consideration of a potential prosecution.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office said: \"Contempt of court is a serious matter and the Attorney General will review any allegations brought to her carefully. We have not yet received a referral.\"\n\nDuring the trial the lawyer acting for the prosecution said a social media post \"by a member of the public who has a direct connection with this case\" had been brought to his attention.\n\nHe added: \"This may be a matter that requires immediate action, so far as that individual is concerned.\"\n\nThe lawyer defending Giggs, Chris Daw QC, wanted to make it \"crystal clear\" the defendant did not have anything to do with the Instagram post.\n\nJudge Manley allowed the trial to go ahead after deliberation and as there was no indication that any jury member had seen the post.\n\nThe former Manchester United footballer had been on trial for four weeks. The Crown Prosecution Service has a week to decide whether to pursue a retrial.\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", "Ballymena man Robert Templeton, 36, has been jailed for a year\n\nA man who admitted having an \"Aladdin's cave\" of weapons and bomb components in his home has been jailed for a year.\n\nRobert James Templeton, 36, had pleaded guilty to having explosive substances and ammunition under suspicious circumstances.\n\nA court previously heard he was preparing for an economic breakdown.\n\nOn Friday he was told he will spend a further 12 months on licence and will be subject to Violent Offences Prevention for five years.\n\nTempleton, of Shancoole in Ballymena, County Antrim, had also pleaded guilty to attempting to convert an item into a firearm, importing a friction-lock baton, possessing a stun gun and possessing documents likely to be of use to a person \"committing or preparing an act of terrorism\".\n\nAll the offences were committed between 12 March 2015 and 5 July 2019.\n\nBelfast Crown Court heard that on 5 July 2019 police searched his \"cluttered and dishevelled'' home and uncovered gunpowder, chemicals and fertilisers, fuses, fireworks, ball bearings, nuts and washers, metal pipes and tools along with ammunition and instruction manuals in how to make improvised bombs and firearms.\n\nOfficers also uncovered a catapult, large swords including a Samurai sword, a crossbow and bolts and a \"significant quantity\" of food.\n\nA book entitled US Army Improvised Munitions Handbook was found in the master bedroom which had a lock on the outside of the door.\n\nOther documents seized included one entitled The Zip Gun... the simplest of improvised firearms.\n\nThe prosecution described it as an \"Aladdin's cave\" of weaponry and bomb components and told Judge Patricia Smyth it was accepted that Templeton had all the materials as a result of his \"compulsive purchasing for the purposes of making improvised explosive devices and there was no concerted effort by him to put those items together. So there is a hoarding element to this case\".\n\nDuring police interviews, Templeton initially refused to answer and instead gave a prepared statement, in which he claimed he was \"interested in making pyrotechnics and rockets,\" that his wife had nothing to do with it, that he had the various tools and pipes to make a block-cutting machine, and denied being associated with any paramilitary organisation or the instigation or preparation of any terrorist acts.\n\nHe later offered up what he said were \"innocent explanations\" for the items, revealing that he believed in \"prepping ideology\" where devotees gather items and prepare for such instances as economic and social breakdown.\n\nSentencing Templeton, Judge Smyth said he had not been holding the explosives and ammunition for a terrorist purpose or on behalf of a terrorist organisation.\n\nShe said Templeton had deliberately acquired the explosives and components with the intention of making devices which had the capacity to be lethal.\n\n\"However, they were not for the purposes of targeting any specific individual or premises, rather to build and thereby satisfy his unhealthy interest in such devices,'' she said.\n\nDespite acquiring all the component parts, Judge Smyth said Templeton had not in fact constructed any viable devices and he had \"no link whatsoever to a terrorist organisation\".\n\nA pre-sentence report by the Probation Service said Templeton's behaviour appeared to have been motivated by a \"descent into a bunker mentality of prepping for a much feared and anticipated collapse of social order and the need to take steps to be able to survive such a catastrophic event''.", "Ross McLaren took this photo at Portencross, saying: \"They may be hated by most people, but you can't deny jellyfish are incredible to see from underwater. There's only one here, the \"second\" is actually a reflection on the surface of the water.\"", "Jane Fonda said she will be undergoing six months of chemotherapy.\n\nActress Jane Fonda has revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer and is having chemotherapy.\n\nIn a post to her 1.9m Instagram followers, the 84-year-old said she has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.\n\nFonda described it as \"a very treatable cancer... so I feel very lucky\".\n\nThe Hollywood icon used her post to highlight the state of healthcare in the US and said she will continue with her climate activism.\n\nShe wrote she felt \"lucky because I have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments.\n\n\"I realize, and it's painful, that I am privileged in this.\n\n\"Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don't have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right.\"\n\nNon-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a less common cancer which develops in the lymphatic system - the vast network of vessels and glands in the body.\n\nFonda wrote that she will undergo six months of chemotherapy but \"will not let any of this interfere with my climate activism\".\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, becoming famous for starring in films including Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist. In the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Fonda has been arrested at protests - but it hasn't stopped her activism\n\nMore recently she became a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn her post Fonda said her diagnosis has highlighted the importance of community to her.\n\n\"Cancer is a teacher and I'm paying attention to the lessons it holds for me.\n\n\"One thing it's shown me already is the importance of community.\n\n\"Of growing and deepening one's community so that we are not alone. And the cancer, along with my age - almost 85 - definitely teaches the importance of adapting to new realities.\n\n\"We're living through the most consequential time in human history because what we do or don't do right now will determine what kind of future there will be and I will not allow cancer to keep me from doing all I can.\"\n\nEnding her post, Fonda highlighted November's midterm elections - in which all seats in the US House of Representatives and just over one-third of those in the Senate, are up for grabs.\n\n\"The midterms are looming, and they are beyond consequential so you can count on me to be right there together with you as we grow our army of climate champions,\" she wrote.", "From now on the water from this shower at an outdoor pool in Hanover will only be cold\n\nThe German city of Hanover has turned off the heating and switched to cold showers in all public buildings because of the Russian gas crisis.\n\nIt's the first big city to turn off the hot water after Russia dramatically reduced Germany's gas supply.\n\nGermans have been told to expect sweeping gas reduction measures and extra charges on their energy bills.\n\nAnd the EU has agreed to lower demand for Russian gas this winter by 15%.\n\nIn a bid to save energy, Germany's northern city of Hanover has decided hot water will no longer be available for hand washing in public buildings, or in showers at swimming pools, sports halls and gyms.\n\nPublic fountains are also being switched off to save energy, and there will be no night-time lights on major buildings such as the town hall and museums.\n\nMayor Belit Onay said the goal was to reduce the city's energy consumption by 15% in reaction to an \"imminent gas shortage\" which posed a significant challenge for big cities.\n\nThe rules apply to heating, too. Public buildings will not have any heating from April to the end of September each year, with room temperatures limited to a maximum of 20C for the rest of the year - with some exemptions.\n\nThe city is also banning portable air conditioners, heaters and radiators.\n\nThe policy is in line with announcements from Berlin last week, as Germany races to build up its reserves ahead of the winter. Other cities - such as Augsburg in Bavaria - have already introduced their own measures such as turning off public fountains.\n\nThe 15% reduction target in Hanover matches the EU-wide goal to reduce reliance on Russian gas.\n\nAnd on Thursday, Germany confirmed that a planned gas surcharge on customers could be much higher than previously expected, to try to ensure energy companies do not go bankrupt in the coming months. \"We can't say yet how much gas will cost in November, but the bitter news is it's definitely a few hundred euros per household,\" said Economy Minister Robert Habeck.\n\nSome reports said the levy could cost families an extra €500 (£420) a year.\n\nGermany has long relied on Russian gas for its energy needs but has recently accused Russia of restricting the flow in retaliation for EU sanctions over the war in Ukraine - something Russia denies.\n\nRussian gas supplies now account for about a quarter of the nation's needs, compared with more than half before the war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Liz Truss posed for official shots in a tank whilst visiting British troops in Estonia last year\n\nTory leadership hopeful Liz Truss would have to raise taxes or make cuts elsewhere to meet her spending pledges on defence, a think tank has said.\n\nIn a report, the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) said her commitment to spend 3% of national income on defence by 2030 would cost an extra £157bn.\n\nThis would be the biggest increase since the 1950s, it said.\n\nIt added there has been little attempt to prepare the public for the \"sacrifices\" involved in meeting it.\n\nThe UK currently spends just over 2% a year on defence. Outgoing PM Boris Johnson argues it is 2.3% including support for Ukraine.\n\nThe 2020 spending review allocated an additional £16bn to defence spending over four years.\n\nForeign Secretary Ms Truss is the pollsters' favourite to win the Tory leadership race ahead of Rishi Sunak, with the winner announced on Monday.\n\nIn its report, Rusi calculates that, accounting for increased inflation, she would have to increase defence spending by 60% in real terms to meet her spending pledge if she wins power.\n\nIts author, Prof Malcolm Chalmers, wrote that funding this through taxes would require income tax to go up by 5p in the pound, or the standard VAT rate to go up from 20% to 25%.\n\nAlternatively, he said funding the increase through savings would require \"significant\" cuts to public services or other departments.\n\nOf these two options, increasing taxes was most likely, he added, given the \"difficulties involved\" in finding big enough savings elsewhere.\n\nIn contrast to spending increases on the NHS and social care, he said, there had been \"very little attempt to ready the British public for the sacrifices that will be needed for a similar level of increase for defence\".\n\nHe estimated that meeting the 3% target would likely require Ms Truss to boost troop numbers, currently due to fall to 72,500 by 2025, by 25-30%.\n\nThe report added that making sure the extra money is not \"eaten up by increased inefficiencies\" would require boosting industrial capacities.\n\nIt warned that more British pilots, nuclear engineers, aircraft and shipyards would be needed to ensure spending could increase enough towards the end of the decade to meet the pledge.\n\nHowever, it added that given the UK's \"relatively small manufacturing sector,\" the government might also have to buy more equipment from abroad to meet the target on time.\n\nMs Truss has said she will meet her defence pledge by delivering a new fleet of submarines and more investment in cyber and space technology.\n\nShe has also pledged to review the size of the armed forces, and update last year's UK foreign policy review with a renewed focus on Russia and China.\n\nShe has pledged around £30bn in tax cuts if she wins power, and has ruled out introducing new taxes if she enters Downing Street.", "The bulk carrier was run aground by authorities to prevent it sinking and causing a larger environmental crisis\n\nSalvage teams have rushed to pump fuel off a grounded ship after it collided with a gas tanker off Gibraltar and began leaking into the sea.\n\nAuthorities said there had been a significant leak from the OS 35 on Thursday and conservationists fear major ecological damage.\n\nChief Minister Fabian Picardo described the next 48 hours as crucial.\n\nBy Friday afternoon, the British overseas territory said all the ship's 250 tonnes of diesel had been removed.\n\nThey were now starting to remove 215 tonnes of heavy fuel oil.\n\nThe chief minister said it was the most polluting fuel on board: \"I am very concerned about a potential spill and will not be relaxed until the vessel is entirely removed.\"\n\nMarine biologist Lewis Stagnetto, from the Nautilus Project, said the smell of fuel was tangible outside the harbour on Gibraltar's western shoreline on Friday.\n\nAcross the Spanish border, north of the Rock, the mayor of La Línea de la Concepción said oil had begun to reach the town's beaches, but it had come from the ship's machinery rather than its tanks.\n\nNo-one was hurt when the bulk carrier collided late on Monday with the tanker Adam LNG, which was carrying liquefied natural gas.\n\nAlthough the OS 35 was damaged, Gibraltar authorities said the ship continued to leave the Bay of Gibraltar, heading for the Strait of Gibraltar which connects the Mediterranean with the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nAt that point, the captain indicated he was taking on water. Gibraltar officials said they decided to run the carrier aground, semi-submerged, to prevent it from sinking. Port authorities tried to repair the hull but it broke in two and by Wednesday some of the fuel had begun to leak into the sea from the tank's vents.\n\nThe captain is understood to have been arrested.\n\nAlthough the ship was beached on the east side of the Rock off Catalan Bay, conservationists said the oil had seeped around the southernmost tip of the Rock towards its western shore, on the Bay of Gibraltar.\n\n\"Everyone's feeling quite shell-shocked at the moment,\" said Mr Stagnetto. Gibraltar's NGOs were looking for all types of animals that might have been affected, from limpets to seabirds such as cormorants, he added.\n\n\"The biggest problem with oil spills is that everyone focuses on the black stuff, but this is diesel flowing out. We did see some heavy fuel in little patches but overall the fuel is diesel. As it becomes more viscous it infects all animals and pollutes the ecosystem.\"\n\nBooms have been deployed to contain the oil leak and a Spanish marine rescue crew has helped Gibraltar authorities use skimmers to recover the oil from the surface.\n\nThe chief minister said on Friday that the amounts of oil that had hit the shore, although regrettable, were fairly minor: \"We are hopeful that a full clean-up can be achieved.\"\n\nSpanish authorities were placed on alert and patrols were sent to coastal areas to monitor possible pollution in what is called the Bay of Algeciras in Spain.\n\nFuel oil can be seen streaming south from the stricken bulk carrier", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA remarkable summer transfer window closed on Thursday with a number of new spending records set - including the most expensive ever deadline-day signing in Manchester United's £82m purchase of Antony.\n\nThat deal helped set a new Premier League spending record of about £1.9bn - smashing the previous record of £1.4bn in 2017 - and dwarfing the rest of Europe.\n\nNine of the 20 top-flight clubs spent in excess of £100m as total expenditure bounced back after two seasons of Covid-impacted decline.\n• None Premier League clubs spending more than Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A and the German Bundesliga combined\n• None Chelsea spending more in one window than any other club in Premier League history\n• None Nottingham Forest signing more players in one summer than any other British club in history\n\nThe combined outlay of the 20 clubs during the window, which was open from 10 June until 1 September, was 67% higher than the previous summer's total of £1.1bn.\n\nAccording to financial services firm Deloitte, the 2022-23 season already has the highest transfer spend since the two-window season began - exceeding the previous record of £1.86bn, set in 2017-18, by 3%. And that is before the January transfer window has even opened.\n\nSome of Deloitte's other key findings from the window include:\n• None Gross spending across all of Europe's 'big five' leagues - Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 - increased by 52% to £3.88bn\n• None Premier League clubs were responsible for 49% of that spending, the highest proportion since summer 2008 and nearly three times that of the second-biggest spenders Serie A (£646m)\n• None Premier League clubs' net transfer spend surpassed £1bn for the first time ever\n• None Premier League clubs signed 169 players, compared to 148 in summer 2021 and 132 in summer 2020\n• None The proportion of players being signed for a fee increased to 66% in summer 2022 from 45% in summer 2021\n• None Championship clubs' gross spend more than doubled on the previous summer to £86m but was still some way off pre-Covid levels (2017-19 three-year average: £169.4m)\n\nTim Bridge, lead partner in Deloitte's Sports Business Group, said: \"The record level of spending during this transfer window is a clear indication of Premier League clubs' confidence, as fans return to stadia and a new broadcast cycle begins.\n\nHowever, Bridge told BBC Radio 4 that top-flight clubs will not be \"cost-of-living proof\" amid uncertainty surrounding the UK economy.\n\n\"Whilst we talk about football being recession-proof, it won't be cost of living proof by any stretch of the imagination,\" said Bridge. \"It's going to be incredibly expensive for clubs and organisations to put matches on and to really work hard to keep attracting fans and keep ensuring that they have the opportunity to engage.\n\n\"What we have to do is think about the responsibility that the industry has, in general, around financial sustainability. Ensuring that the clubs are there for the long term and recognising their real community asset status.\n\n\"We must step forward through this cost-of-living crisis and ensure that the football clubs continue to play what is a fantastic role above and beyond these headline numbers.\"\n• None Recap of deadline day as it happened\n• None Can Arthur rediscover his 'magic' at Liverpool\n• None Leeds, then Nice, then nobody... Dieng's busy day\n\nWhat were the deadline-day signings?\n\nFourteen of the 20 Premier League clubs made at least one new signing on deadline day. Highlights include:\n\nManchester City bolstered their defence with the signing of Switzerland international Manuel Akanji from Borussia Dortmund on a five-year deal.\n\nAs well as signing Antony, Manchester United completed a season-long loan deal for Newcastle goalkeeper Martin Dubravka.\n\nEverton signed a couple of midfielders, with Senegal international Idrissa Gueye rejoining the Toffees from Paris St-Germain, and James Garner moving from Manchester United.\n\nLiverpool also added a midfielder to their squad, with Brazil international Arthur Melo joining on a season-long loan from Juventus.\n\nLeicester signed Belgium centre-back Wout Faes from French club Reims on a five-year deal to replace Wesley Fofana, who joined Chelsea for about £70m on Wednesday.\n\nNottingham Forest signed three players to make it 21 new faces this summer, with defender Loic Bade the last to arrive - on loan from Rennes.\n\nFulham had a busy deadline day, bringing in four players including former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Willian.\n\nChelsea announced the final two deals of the night, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joining from Barcelona on a two-year deal, and Switzerland midfielder Denis Zakaria joining on a season-long loan from Juventus.\n• None All the deadline-day deals in one place\n• None Get all the latest news and analysis about your Premier League club sent directly to you\n\nWhat were the big transfers of the summer?\n\nIt was the start of a new era at Chelsea this summer with Todd Boehly taking over the club from Roman Abramovich, and the American billionaire certainly made his presence felt. The Blues spent more money in a single window than any club in Premier League history.\n\nAccording to football website Transfermarkt, more than £250m went on the likes of Raheem Sterling, Marc Cucurella, Kalidou Koulibaly and Pierre Emerick Aubameyang. As well as being a Premier League record, it is the second-highest summer spend by any club in the world after Real Madrid (£292m) in 2019.\n\nManchester United broke their own spending record to sit second on the Premier League list.\n\nThey brought in the likes of Casemiro, Christian Eriksen and Lisandro Martinez over the summer, with their deadline-day capture of Antony taking their total spending up to about £214m - the fourth-highest summer spend by a Premier League club.\n\nIt was also a summer of strikers as a number of goalscorers made big-money moves including Erling Haaland to Manchester City, Darwin Nunez to Liverpool, Gabriel Jesus to Arsenal, Gianluca Scamacca to West Ham and Alexander Isak to Newcastle - the latter two being club-record deals.\n\nNottingham Forest are back in the Premier League for the first time since 1999, and judging by their summer shopping they are determined to stay there.\n\nSteve Cooper's side have embarked on an extraordinary spending spree, signing an incredible 21 new players for £145m - breaking the British record for most recruits in a single season.\n\nAccording to Transfermarkt, the previous English record was the 17 players Crystal Palace signed in the summer of 2013. The British record was previously held by Livingston and Dundee United, who signed 19 players apiece in 2001 and 2000 respectively.\n\nIt could have been 22 new faces for Forest, too, but a late move to sign Belgium striker Michy Batshuayi from Chelsea fell through.\n\nThe pressure that money can bring\n\nWith such lavish sums being spent across the division, the pressure has been cranked up on those clubs who may not be willing or able to pay such exorbitant fees.\n\nScott Parker lamented that his Bournemouth side were \"ill-equipped\" for the Premier League after their 9-0 thrashing by Liverpool last weekend.\n\nOwner Maxim Demin responded by sacking him two days later, saying: \"We must also show belief in and respect for one another.\"\n\nLeicester have also had a quiet window, bringing in just two players and letting a number of established stars leave - including goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel and key defender Fofana, who made it clear he wanted to leave the club for several weeks before eventually completing his move to Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe Foxes have also started badly on the pitch and were booed by their own fans after Thursday's 1-0 home defeat by Manchester United left them bottom of the table.\n\nLike Parker, Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers publicly expressed frustration at his club's lack of transfer activity, though perhaps not in quite as explicit terms as the former Cherries boss.\n\n\"I understand the fans' frustration. They see all their rivals getting players in and we're not getting any,\" he said after the defeat by United.\n\n\"To watch clubs in the top five leagues add players and we haven't been able to do that has been difficult. We needed help and we haven't been able to do that.\n\n\"With the greatest respect, we have not had the help in the market this team needed.\"\n• None Rodgers says Leicester 'not the same club' after Man Utd loss and transfer woe\n\nThe ones that got away\n• None Gossip: Ronaldo, Douglas Luiz and the deals that didn't happen\n\nThough Premier League spending reached record levels, there were still a number of deals that did not materialise.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo wanted to leave Manchester United this summer just 12 months after returning to the club from Juventus but the Portugal forward remains at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Red Devils also agreed a £63.5m deal with Barcelona for Frenkie de Jong but a dispute between the Spanish club and the Netherlands midfielder eventually scuppered the move after a pursuit that lasted much of the window.\n\nEverton winger Anthony Gordon was subject of a £45m bid from Chelsea but the Toffees did not want to sell the England Under-21 international and eventually managed to keep him.\n\nArsenal made a late move to sign Aston Villa midfielder Douglas Luiz but saw two bids, the latter worth £23m, turned down by the Midlands club.\n\nBut perhaps the most unusual non-transfer story of deadline day was Bamba Dieng.\n\nLeeds were so confident of landing the Marseille forward chairman Andrea Radrizzani tweeted that the club were set to \"welcome\" him to Elland Road.\n\nBut with the 22-year-old at the airport poised to head to the UK from France, Marseille's Ligue 1 rivals Nice moved in to hijack the deal.\n\nYet, there's more.\n\nWith a 9m euro move seemingly imminent, Dieng suffered a minor problem with the medical and the deal was off.\n\nAs Radrizzani later tweeted: \"Part of the madness of deadline day.\"\n\nWho had the best transfer window? Rank the teams from best to worst in terms of their summer business\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 launch of Nasa's new Artemis I Moon rocket is facing a potentially lengthy delay after a second postponement.\n\nControllers tried and failed again on Saturday to get the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle to lift off. They were thwarted by a fuel leak.\n\nEngineers now want to inspect the rocket, and any repairs may need to happen in the workshop rather than on the launch pad.\n\nThe whole process is certain to lead to a setback of several weeks.\n\nIt means we may not see a third launch attempt before mid-October at the earliest.\n\nThe SLS is the most powerful rocket ever developed by the US space agency, and is designed to send astronauts and their equipment back to the Moon after an absence of 50 years.\n\nMuch of the enormous thrust comes from burning almost three million litres of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen in four big engines on the vehicle's underside.\n\nBut when controllers sent the command early on Saturday morning to fill the rocket's hydrogen tank, an alarm went off, indicating there was a leak.\n\nThe problem was traced to the connection where the hydrogen was being pumped into the vehicle.\n\nControllers tried a number of fixes, including allowing the hardware to warm up for short periods to reset the seal, but they were not successful.\n\nThe Artemis I mission is uncrewed, but Nasa's Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said the rocket's future role in human spaceflight meant extreme care was still required in its operation.\n\n\"This is an incredibly hard business. This is an initial test flight of this vehicle. As was said: we're going to fly when we're ready. And as part of this initial test flight, we're learning the vehicle; we're learning how to operate the vehicle,\" he told reporters.\n\nHis boss, Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson, agreed: \"I look at this as a part of our space programme, of which safety is the top of the list.\"\n\nBill Nelson and his Artemis managers are adamant SLS will not launch until it is ready\n\nThe leaky seal on the SLS could conceivably be fixed on the launch pad. But there are batteries in the termination system used to destroy the rocket in the event of a wayward launch that will require recertification beyond this coming week, and this can only be done in the workshop.\n\nRolling the vehicle back to the engineering building makes a third lift-off attempt before mid-October unlikely.\n\n\"In order to test our batteries, change out the batteries, we have to roll back,\" said Jim Free, Nasa's associate administrator for exploration systems development.\n\nSaturday's attempt to despatch the SLS rocket had been scheduled for the start of a two-hour window beginning at 14:17 local time (19:17 BST; 18:17 GMT).\n\nThe 100m-tall vehicle's objective is to hurl a human-rated capsule, called Orion, in the direction of the Moon, something that hasn't happened since Project Apollo ended in 1972.\n\nNasa had first tried to launch the rocket on Monday. That attempt was waved off when controllers couldn't be sure the four big engines at the base of the core-stage were at the correct operating temperature.\n\nFrustratingly, subsequent analysis indicated that a sensor was almost certainly outputting inaccurate readings. The power units, in all probability, were in absolutely the right condition to go fly.\n\nWhen the SLS does get away, it is sure to be a spectacular sight.\n\n\"It's gonna be 'shuttle on steroids',\" said Doug Hurley, who was the pilot on the very last shuttle mission in 2011.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former astronaut Doug Hurley: \"We're building on safe, capable designs\"\n\nThe former astronaut now works for Northrop Grumman who make the big white solid boosters on the sides of the SLS.\n\n\"What I always thought was the coolest thing about shuttle launches was you saw it lift off and it was well clear of the tower before you heard anything, and then it was even a little longer before you felt it,\" he explained.\n\n\"Thrust to weight-wise, SLS is pretty close to what shuttle was. Apollo's Saturn V rocket was drastically different. I never saw it in person but it lumbered clear of the pad. For shuttle, it seemed like it was clear in an instant, almost as soon as the boosters were lit. SLS should be the same,\" he told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: The upper-stage of the rocket will put the Orion capsule on a path to the Moon", "Leonid Radvinsky was paid $284m (£246m) in dividends in 2021 and another $233m (£201m) since November.\n\nMeanwhile, OnlyFans' two million content creators made nearly $4bn (£3.47bn) in 2021, the company has revealed.\n\nThe platform, which is known for hosting adult content, saw a spike in users during the pandemic.\n\nIt reported pre-tax profits of $433m last year, up from $61m in 2020.\n\nHowever, OnlyFans has faced criticism for not doing enough to prevent under-age individuals selling explicit content.\n\nThe company said it was continually improving its approach to safety and content moderation.\n\nFounded in 2016, OnlyFans has 220 million users and more than two million creators worldwide.\n\nIn 2021 it saw a 128% increase in the number of fans using the platform compared to the previous year, and a 34% rise in the number of creators.\n\nOverall, creator earnings were more than double what they were the previous year.\n\nOnlyFans takes a 20% commission on all payments made to its content creators.\n\nChief executive Amrapali Gan said: \"We are empowering creators to monetise their content and have real control over it.\"\n\n\"We will continue to invest in the creator economy by enhancing safety, developing original OFTV [the firm's free streaming platform] content, and continuing to grow our community of creators and fans,\" she added.\n\nAmrapali Gan took over as chief executive in December\n\nThe site offers a platform for musicians, fitness trainers and celebrities to charge their followers for exclusive tips and visual content.\n\nBut it is best known for allowing content creators, including porn stars and sex workers, to charge for sexually explicit photographs and videos.\n\nLast year the company announced that all sexually explicit content would be blocked from the platform, following pressure from banking partners.\n\nBut following a backlash from its users, OnlyFans suspended the policy change a week later.\n\nIn 2021, a BBC News investigation found children had used fake IDs to set up accounts on the site.\n\nFollowing the report, the children's commissioner for England said OnlyFans needed to do more to stop under-age individuals selling explicit images on the platform.\n\nIn response to the investigation, OnlyFans said it had closed the accounts and flagged and refunded all active subscriptions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gun jams as it's aimed at Argentina's vice-president\n\nArgentina's vice-president has narrowly avoided assassination after a gunman's weapon jammed as he aimed at her.\n\nFootage shows the moment Cristina Fernández de Kirchner found herself face-to-face with the loaded weapon.\n\nThe former president was outside her home, surrounded by a mob of supporters who back her in her fight against corruption charges.\n\nPolice said the gunman, identified as a 35-year-old Brazilian man, had been taken into custody.\n\nThey are attempting to establish a motive for the attack on the left-leaning politician, who was Argentina's president from 2007 to 2015, and its first lady for four years before that.\n\nPresident Alberto Fernández revealed the gun was loaded with five bullets, but failed to fire when triggered.\n\nVideo circulating on social media shows the gun emerging from the crowd as Ms Fernández de Kirchner approaches. She initially appears confused by what is going on, ducking down to retrieve an object dropped on the floor.\n\nIn another video, people in the crowd appear to try to block Ms Fernández de Kirchner from the suspected gunman, who came within inches of her.\n\nThe crowd has been gathering outside her home for the last few nights in a show of support as she fights charges of defrauding the state and being involved in a scheme to divert public funds while she was president.\n\nA police spokesperson earlier told Reuters news agency that a weapon was found a few metres from the scene after the man had been arrested.\n\nPolice named the suspect as Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, Brazilian-born but with an Argentine mother, who has lived in Argentina since he came to the country as a child in 1993. He had previously been arrested in 2021 while carrying a 35cm knife.\n\nPictures of him taken from his social media posts and published on Argentine newspaper websites depicted him with tattoos associated with neo-Nazi groups.\n\nAfter searching his apartment, police seized two boxes containing 100 bullets, according to investigators quoted by La Nación newspaper.\n\nLa Nación also reported that Pope Francis had telephoned Ms Fernández de Kirchner and had a \"brief and cordial\" conversation with her.\n\nThe Argentine-born Pope, who has received the vice-president several times at the Vatican, also sent her a telegram in which he expressed \"solidarity and closeness\" with her.\n\nHe added that he was praying for \"social harmony and respect for democratic values\" to prevail in his native country.\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\nAddressing the nation late on Thursday night, President Fernández - who worked as chief-of-staff to both Ms Fernández de Kirchner and her husband during their tenures - said: \"Cristina remains alive because, for a reason not yet technically confirmed, the gun, which contained five bullets, did not fire.\"\n\nHe went on to condemn the attacker and said the attempt on Ms Fernández de Kirchner's life was one of the \"most serious\" incidents since the country returned to democracy in 1983.\n\n\"We can disagree, we can have deep disagreements, but hate speech cannot take place because it breeds violence and there is no chance of violence coexisting with democracy,\" President Fernández said, declaring a national holiday on Friday to allow Argentines time to \"express themselves in defence of life, democracy and in solidarity with our vice president\".\n\n\"When hate and violence prevail over debate, societies are destroyed and situations like these arise: attempted assassination,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nCristina Fernández de Kirchner was president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner has yet to make any comment.\n\nShe is accused of defrauding the state and of fraudulently awarding public works contracts in her stronghold in Patagonia while she was president between 2007 and 2015.\n\nIf convicted at trial, prosecutors have asked that the ex-president face 12 years in prison and a lifetime ban from politics.\n\nHowever, Ms Fernández de Kirchner is the Senate president and so enjoys parliamentary immunity. She would not be imprisoned unless her sentence was ratified by the country's Supreme Court, or she loses her Senate seat at the next elections at the end of 2023.\n\nMs Fernández de Kirchner has faced numerous other corruption trials following her time as president. The verdict of this trial is expected to take some months.\n\nPolice officers stand guard as forensics work is carried out following the attempted shooting", "Biden speaking in Kentucky after the Senate passed the spending package\n\nA day after the marathon voting session that saw his climate change bill passed by the Senate, President Joe Biden was off to Kentucky to meet people affected by flooding.\n\nThe state has been hit by a deluge that has toppled homes into rivers, left dozens dead and many more missing - the kind of event that will become more likely as a result of climate change.\n\nFor the president, it was a chance to cement his administration's ownership of a landmark piece of legislation on one of the most important issues of our time.\n\nAnd yet, despite a heartfelt speech aimed at those gathered around him whose lives had just been turned upside down, he never quite hit his mark.\n\nSure, he listed his achievements, including last year's infrastructure bill and the help to reduce the cost of healthcare.\n\nBut he somehow glossed over his towering $370bn climate change action plan.\n\nChannelling at times more quantity-surveyor than president, he spoke of digging trenches in which both water pipes and high-speed internet cables could be simultaneously laid.\n\nThe gap between achievement and rhetoric was not lost on Ron Christie, a political strategist and former special assistant to President George W Bush.\n\n\"I thought to myself, what is he talking about?\" Mr Christie told the BBC. \"If you're going to take a victory lap, at least have the presence of mind to talk more specifically and adroitly about what's in this legislation, as opposed to just sort of mumbling through it.\"\n\n\"And this is coming from a guy who has known and likes Joe Biden,\" he added.\n\nIt's a point that highlights the paradox of this presidency.\n\nA man whose administration can point to significant legislative successes on some of the thorniest issues - infrastructure spending, gun control and now climate - doesn't seem to be able to get the credit.\n\nThe polls show him to be one of most unpopular presidents in history at this point in the election cycle.\n\nMonths after he put his signature to that infrastructure bill - unlocking half a trillion dollars for new roads, bridges and broadband - only 24% of Americans surveyed knew that it had been passed into law.\n\nMight this climate bill - with its $370bn dollars of incentives for electric cars and green energy production - also pass the electorate by?\n\n\"We simply don't know how voters will respond to this bill yet,\" says Casey Burgat, from the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.\n\n\"Often it's hard for everyday voters to immediately feel the tangible impact of bills, even with big, important pieces of legislation.\n\n\"Plus, we have months until the midterms, so the good feelings resulting from this win may completely wear off by then.\"\n\nSome of the headlines certainly suggest that Mr Biden may have now passed the low point of his presidency and could be on the brink of clawing back his approval ratings.\n\nDespite being the oldest US president in history you can't help but notice - in a political landscape long marked by paralysis and partisan deadlock - that he's getting things done.\n\nMiles Coleman, from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, thinks that the president is doing what he set out to do.\n\n\"After the chaos of the Trump administration, part of Biden's pitch to voters during the 2020 election was that he'd be able to restore a sense of competency to government,\" he said.\n\n\"If Biden goes ahead with his plan to run again in 2024, this bill will underscore his image as a president who's been able to deliver on his priorities.\"\n\nThe danger is, competency can be a bit, well, boring compared to what came before.\n\nWhile some voters may well have craved a return to normality after Trump, normality doesn't get noticed quite so much.\n\nCompare, for example, the former president's musings on climate change.\n\n\"They say the noise causes cancer,\" Donald Trump said in a reference to wind farms during a 2019 speech, adding for good measure a loud whirring sound and moving his hand in a circular motion.\n\n\"And it's like a graveyard for birds,\" he went on.\n\nIt was hardly a policy. It had little basis in fact - at least the cancer part of it didn't.\n\nBut compared to President Biden's attempt to sell a complex and hard-won package of concrete measures that actually might go some way to limiting global temperature rises, it's a far more memorable soundbite.\n\nDemocrats are undoubtedly buoyed by the climate result. 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